# "ACORN did absolutely nothing wrong" no longer true

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**Created:** [April 6, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-no-longer-true/577467 "2011-04-06T23:23:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-no-longer-true/577467/87 "2011-04-07T01:40:18Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
>
> Can’t point to a single instance of that with me, Chuckles. I have readily admitted both error and ignorance on these boards more times than I care to count.

Challenge accepted:

> [@Justices Kagan and Scalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justices-kagan-and-scalia/567368/43):
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> Scalia, who based his opinion on textualism, not originalism.

(A bit of arguing back and forth on whether Scalia is a textualist or originalist)

> [@Justices Kagan and Scalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justices-kagan-and-scalia/567368/60):
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> It seems Scalia himself thinks he is an Originalist:
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> > [@](#):
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> > _Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the following remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2005._
> > 
> > \<snip\>
> > 
> > I am one of a small number of judges, small number of anybody — judges, professors, lawyers — who are known as originalists. Our manner of interpreting the Constitution is to begin with the text, and to give that text the meaning that it bore when it was adopted by the people.
> > 
> > SOURCE: [http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/guest\_commentary/scalia-constitutional-speech.htm](http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/guest_commentary/scalia-constitutional-speech.htm)

So, the man himself thinks he is an Originalist. I think we can safely say he knows what he means here.

Did you admit your mistake?

Nope.

This wasn’t even all that long ago and you continued in the thread a fair bit longer too so didn’t miss it (I even pointed it out again to someone else claiming he was a textualist).

So spare me your righteousness.

Oh, and in the spirit of this thread:

“BRICKER is willing to admit he is wrong” no longer true

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