[Link: www.10news.com...] SAN DIEGO -- Explosive new information obtained by 10News reveals for the first time the payout for an undercover video that helped bring down the group ACORN. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the role of pimp and prostitute in the video, were both deposed in a civil ...
Yes, the undead boogeyman ACORN has been resurrected, to terrify and enrage the wingnutosphere yet again.
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The Government Accountability Office released a report today showing that Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe got away with a gigantic hoax on the American public, resulting in the unjust demise of an organization that helped the poorest and most disenfranchised: GAO Finds Little to Support Congress' Abolition of ACORN. A ...
William Jacobson, one of the first wingnut bloggers to spread the ridiculous talking point that Sarah Palin got it exactly right with her absurd distortion of Paul Revere's ride, is now outraged -- outraged, I say! -- that I'm not going to apologize to Andrew Breitbart: Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Charles Johnson: ...
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James O'Keefe, alone in a friendless universe, abandoned even by Andrew Breitbart who profited the most from O'Keefe's "groundbreaking" work. Feel the pain of O'Keefe: O’Keefe Owes His Supporters an Explanation - Andrew Breitbart - Big Journalism. I proudly stood behind James O’Keefe on his groundbreaking ACORN investigation. I also ...
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Joe Conason asks if it’s time to reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right. Why, yes. Yes, it is. Real justice, as I suspect Sherrod would agree, also requires due process for Andrew Breitbart, the Internet impresario who framed her on his Big Government website. In these circumstances, ...
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ACORN sting filmmaker and admitted felon James O’Keefe is trying to peddle another undercover video, this time targeting another enemy of the right wing: the Census Bureau. And once again, he’s editing his videos to make census workers look as bad as possible. Video This is just pathetic. Not even Fox News is ...
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ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe and friends pleaded guilty today to illegally entering the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu in New Orleans. The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court ...
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If you didn’t see this segment of Rachel Maddow’s show a few days ago you really should watch it now, because it demonstrates, with specific examples, how those infamous ACORN sting videos were carefully edited to obscure the reality of what happened in those offices. I know there still quite a ...
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Rachel Maddow hits the nail on the head, with a segment about the two biggest fake news stories of this political silly season: “Climategate” and the ACORN sting videos. Maddow says politics has become “unmoored from facts,” and she’s right. The people who promote these nontroversies could not possibly care ...
Stephen Colbert takes a page from the Breitbart-O’Keefe school of journalism, and “interviews” Sean Hannity for a new job. [Video]
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In an interview with blogger Mike Stark (posted at Crooks and Liars, Brad Blog, and Stark Reports), Andrew Breitbart admits that when he released the James O’Keefe-Hannah Giles undercover ACORN sting videos, he “did not know” that O’Keefe never wore his outrageous pimp costume into an ACORN office — even ...
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Prosecutors in Brooklyn have cleared ACORN of any wrongdoing in their investigation into the O’Keefe-Giles ACORN sting videos. Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide ...
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In the very public ongoing battle between Andrew Breitbart and Max Blumenthal, Blumenthal has another article at Huffington Post on James O’Keefe and on some of the disturbing events at CPAC: Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and the Crazy Mob. While I was filming ...
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I’m privileged to announce that Andrew Breitbart has added me to his list of everyone in the world who must immediately bow before his might and retract, retract, retract: Retraction Requests: Charles Johnson, Big Journalism. Breitbart seems to believe I should retract my statement that the 2006 event titled “Race and ...
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The Andrew Breitbart-Max Blumenthal slugfest continues, as Blumenthal posts a short interview with “Isis,” the woman who took the photograph of Breitbart employee James O’Keefe at the “Race and Conservatism” event in 2006: Isis: O’Keefe “Was There,” Involved In “Execution”. I followed up with Isis. She told me in no ...
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Andrew Breitbart has turned his “Big Journalism” website into an amazingly lengthy tirade demanding “retractions” from practically every media organization in America, for writing about the Max Blumenthal-One People’s Project report that claimed ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed at a “white supremacist forum” in 2006. There have been some ...
Uh oh. According to a group called “One People’s Project,” ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled “Race and Conservatism.” James O’Keefe’s race problem. An activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race ...
Here’s MSNBC’s latest update on the case of James O’Keefe, arrested in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, featuring Andrew Breitbart defending himself and O’Keefe. [Video]
Conservative activist James O’Keefe, who posed as a pimp in the infamous ACORN sting videos, has been arrested in New Orleans in what appears to be an attempt to wiretap the office of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. Chris Good has details from the FBI affidavit: According to Rayes, O’Keefe and another ...
Bertha M. Lewis, CEO of the dreaded right wing boogeyman ACORN, is interviewed by Esquire’s John H. Richardson, and mentions Andrew Breitbart’s crazy accusation (that he finally retracted yesterday after leaving it hanging out there for 6 days): Acorn Group vs Fox News - Interview with Bertha Lewis of ACORN ...
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It took him six days to do it, but Andrew Breitbart has finally issued a lame semi-apology for his completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: UPDATE: White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor’s Log - Big Government. Of course, it ...
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Still no retraction at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog for their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched - Big Government. And no correction at Fox Nation ...
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Should we start taking bets on whether Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog is going to retract their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th? It’s been four days now, and still no correction: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In ...
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Here we go again. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog has a story on the release of another batch of White House visitor records, and they’ve found sinister evidence that Barack Obama is in cahoots with the dreaded demons of ACORN: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence ...
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