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Title: It's ACORN redux: Did Breitbart mislead on purpose, or was he duped?
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URL Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007200044
Published: Jul 20, 2010
Author: Eric Boehlert
Post Date: 2010-07-20 14:09:17 by go65
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Views: 6450
Comments: 14
You'll recall when the ACORN pimp hoax unraveled earlier this year, Breitbart suddenly claimed ignorance. Despite the fact that he'd used his Washington Times column in 2009 to push the phony pimp angle hard, this winter Breitbart wanted everyone to know he actually had no idea what was on the heavily-edited ACORN tapes and that James O'Keefe had mislead him into thinking he'd walked into ACORN offices dressed as a pimp. So despite the fact that Breitbart had championed the ACORN tapes for months and personally vouched for their contents (he'd told "the truth"), when the hoax crumbled Breitbart changed his tune and claimed he didn't know what was on the discredited ACORN tapes because, oops, he'd been duped. I'm guessing we're going to see a replay, now that Breitbart's one-day-old NAACP gotcha video has already been revealed as bogus. Meaning, in his presentation of a heavily-edited video featuring Shirley Sherrod, then-USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development and a speech she gave at an NAACP event this year, Breitbart claimed the story she told about helping a "white farmer" reflected her "federal duties" as an Obama administration official. But as Media Matters noted today, that's false, which means the entire premise of the gotcha video is false. (The "white farmer" story took place nearly two decades ago.) So, I'll ask again: Did Breitbart honestly not know the facts regarding the heavily-edited video he posted yesterday, which is how he ended up defending the ACORN hoax. Or did he knowingly push the phony NAACP story, which is what a lot of people think was his role in the ACORN hoax. UPDATED: Why doesn't Breitbart take care of two lingering problem at once and release the full Sherrod/NAACP video as well as the unedited ACORN clips? Or maybe his reputation couldn't survive a document dump like that.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
I thought that there was something else he had done that was similar. Thanks...
So have the people who voted for Odingo! Unless of course they support double digit unemployment, oil belching into the GOM, housing starts down, economy in shambles, Kagan as a SC nominee, Afghanistan war, lies about Guantanamo, etc., etc., etc. Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
Who do you believe, your own eyes & ears or a washed out race whore?
Sherrods a RACIST, and she got caught BRAGGING BOUT IT. Maybe the New Black Panthers will give her a job as a receptionist....
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
O Fucking NO. This was a Breitbart Vid? LMFAO EVERYONE"S gonna get egg ALL OVER their face on this one. Wrongful Termination. $5 million. Easy. 8D BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ACORN vindicated!!!!!! ANYONE here remeber that one? This story smelled from the moment I hit it. Too fucking funny. Anyone who picked this up and pushed it is now dead in the water.
Not Interested in Breitbart's Latest Scam For those who have asked, no, I'm not particularly interested in Andrew Breitbart's latest, deceptively-edited video scam campaign which, shamefully, the Obama Administration and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack fell for before bothering to view the whole video. We did what we did earlier this year --- exposing Breitbart's ACORN scam in extraordinary detail and for months on end --- in hopes that the rest of the media would not fall for such scams again in the future. Clearly, the entirety of the corporate MSM has yet to fully learn the lesson. (e.g., see this piece on Washington Post's ombudsman falling for Fox/Breitbart's ridiculous "New Black Panther Party" non-scandal, non-story over the weekend and WaPo's embarrassing coverage of the Sherrod incident tonight --- even after the hoax has been exposed --- where they waited until the 15th graf(!) to note the video was deceptively edited!) Obviously, the Obama Administration hasn't learned its lesson at all, as witnessed by the firing of Shirley Sherrod without any due-diligence But it's nice to see that, this time, it took many in the media just 24 hours or so before catching on to Breitbart's hoax... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....Catching breath.....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH 8D
Hardly.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
See how quick I can get the sources up? # ACORN Vindicated of Wrongdoing by the Congressional Watchdog ... Jun 14, 2010 ... An independent investigation by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and the Attorney General of California vindicated ACORN of any ... www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/15-7 - Cached ACORN gets 'vindicated' by GAO, but remains in decline - The ... Jun 20, 2010 ... not misuse more than $40 million in taxpayer funds. but its release comes as the group is preparing to shutter its doors. thehill.com/.../104357-acorn-gets-vindicated-by-gao-but-remains-in-decline - Cached ACORN Vindicated - Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Jun 21, 2010 ... It's nice to see that the GAO has totally vindicated ACORN, but it is too late. ACORN lost all their federal funding and their fundraising ... www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/6/21/03636/0035 - Cached
Sorry, they are a massive criminal organization, one that actually promoted kiddie prostitution. Anyone that thinks they are 'vindicated'...well, I wonder whats to be found on your hard drive...
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
Again, the source will be nice. Until then, well, see Vilsack apologizes to USDA black woman for details. 8D
And british petroleum is a massive criminal organization.
Mcclown, when are the millions going to be evacuated from the GOM? How about that "peak oil" thingy and the millions that you predicted are going to die as a dirrect result of Obama's oil catastrophe?
He's more impressed with his comments than I am.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#2. To: go65 (#0)
oops, he'd been duped.
#3. To: go65 (#0)
#4. To: go65 (#0)
#5. To: war (#1)
#6. To: Badeye (#4)
#7. To: All (#6)
#8. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
ACORN vindicated!!!!!!
#9. To: Badeye, All (#8)
ACORN vindicated!!!!!!
#10. To: mcgowanjm (#9)
#11. To: Badeye (#10)
Sorry, they are a massive criminal organization, one that actually promoted kiddie prostitution
#12. To: Badeye (#10)
#13. To: mcgowanjm, Badeye (#12)
And british petroleum is a massive criminal organization.
#14. To: Ibluafartsky (#13)
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