It's not unclear at all - ACORN came forward with this information almost contemporaneously and it was reported by other news networks who did their own research - it was in the CNN stories on the same subject. I mean this is pretty standard practice in news when you run a story to contact the subject for comment or reaction. Go to google, for example, and look up any AP story - it will usually have a comment, or a reaction or a "not available for comment" as a matter of standard practice. But Fox News wasn't following those procedures, because that's not what their objective was. What they did was air the equivalent of a photoshop and take it at face value. (and to argue that the trusting souls at FNC were duped by the evil Breitbart-O'Keefe duo is patently silly here) ACORN wasn't a subject - it was the enemy, to be taken down at all costs. (lots of this based on paranoid delusion, but that's another subject.)> The objective of their "news" side (with which they laughably claim is walled off from their "opinion" side- hahahhahahaha) is to create a meme for the opinion side to rant off of - and of course this opinion always coincides with advancing right wing tallking points, agendas and the like. It's nothing new, this isn't even the worst example, but it's blindingly obvious that that's what they do and that that's how they differ.
I'll join the choir and condemn Fox. Should congress be held to a higher standard? They're the ones who defunded ACORN, and, effectively bankrupted the organization.