Joe - you state that ACORN no longer exists. That is only partiality true. From your favorite source, Wikipedia -

"As part of a re-branding effort by ACORN leadership, ACORN International changed its name in 2010 to Community Organizations International.[107] As part of the effort by some chapters to stay afloat by severing ties with the national organization, California ACORN changed its name to Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment,[108] New York ACORN renamed itself New York Communities for Change,[9] and an offshoot of the ACORN organization called Acorn Housing changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America[109] yet has retained the same tax and employee identification numbers that it held under its former name.[110]"

As for your other statement about an understanding of the English language - I would like to inform you that "uniformed relative," should be spelled "uninformed relative". I guess on MSNBC, The Daily KOS and The Huffington Post proper spelling and grammer are not all that important.