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Must Read: The Breitbart Betrayals

Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:28:51 pm
Chris Lehmann really captures the essential creepiness of Breitbart "News" in this piece for The Baffler: The Breitbart Betrayals. The abject failure of a news organization to back up one of its own reporters was so shocking—and so poisonous to the already shaky morale of the Breitbart newsroom—that few paused ...

The Huge Right Wing Anti-Choice Fake Outrage of the Day

Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:31:37 pm
Well, there's another bogus, heavily edited James O'Keefe-style propaganda video being frantically circulated all over the right wing media and blogs, attacking Planned Parenthood. Yes, again. I'm not going to embed this deceptive video, but here's a link to it at YouTube if you really think you need to see it. ...

Right Wing Deception Goes Big in Israel Gaza Conflict

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:49:56 am
Well, we see it at home with false Breitbart posts and a host of other places (anyone remember the false pieces on ACORN?). NOW, in an effort to drive a wedge between Jewish American voters, 70% of whom voted for President Obama in 2012 we have this nightmare: Reporter Oren Nahari ...

James O'Keefe Settles on $100,000 Payment to Smeared ACORN Employee

Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:53:46 pm
Juan Carlos Vera is the former ACORN employee who was recorded illegally without his consent by James O'Keefe for those infamous Andrew Breitbart-funded "sting" videos, purportedly giving O'Keefe and Hannah Giles advice on how to bring teenage girls into the US from Mexico. Vera was fired in the hysteria that ...

How Acorn Infiltrated the White House in 1950

Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:25:33 am
A wingnut fairy tale It was a dark time in U.S. History. The cold war was heating up and delusional sheeple voters had kept a tyrannical socialist from Independence in power as President. Truman stole the election from Dewey with a secret organization not yet named Acorn... and he even proposed ...

Norquist Predicts a 'Tea Party Second Wave,' #Breitbart Commenters Want 'Armed Insurrection'

Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:16:39 pm
Today at Breitbart.com we learn that we're about to face yet another tsunami of old white people ranting about tyranny, dressing up like Lipton's boxes and Revolutionary War soldiers, and demanding to see Obama's birth certificate, because hold on your tricorne hats... Grover Norquist says a New, Larger 'Tea Party ...

Breaking: Voter Fraud Scheme Discovered!

Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:06:26 am
Breaking news today, as a conspiracy to commit voter fraud has been uncovered! At last, real evidence that the Republican Party's claims of widespread voter fraud are not just hallucinations! So which evil scheming liberal group is responsible? Is it the dreaded ACORN? Well, actually, it's the Republican National Committee. WASHINGTON ...

Iowa GOP Releases Platform, Goes Full Metal Wingnut

Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:43:22 pm
Text of the Platform here First off, they decide to disregard any Supreme Court decisions they disagree with: We disagree with Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton as 'settled law.' Under the Tenth amendment, these Supreme Court decisions have no authority over the states. They're on board with nullification: We ...

Deposition Reveals: Breitbart Paid O'Keefe $65K for the ACORN Video

Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:21:58 pm
[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 ...

Wingnut Week in Review: Breitbart.com's Epic Fail

Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:07:21 pm
When Andrew Breitbart passed away, the editors and bloggers who made his "Big" sites what they are today swore a blood oath to carry on his legacy of devastating BOMBSHELL stings, and their inept fumbling attempts to do so have produced a classic week of wingnut comedy. Feeding the Media When he ...

Yet Another Right Wing ACORN Freak-Out

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:03:14 pm
Yes, the undead boogeyman ACORN has been resurrected, to terrify and enrage the wingnutosphere yet again.

Pamela Geller Associate John Jay Calls for Mass Murder, Then Feels Abandoned

Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:00:33 pm
Yea, verily. The End Times approach-eth. LGF linked at ThinkProgress: Pam Geller Linked Anti-Muslim Activist Calls For Mass Murder Of Congressmen, Muslims, Liberals And Journalists (Updated). Pamela Geller's business associate John Jay has a pretty hilarious rant about me at his site, too: summer patriot, winter soldier: start the revolution ... apparently things ...

Government Accountability Office Finds No Evidence to Support Breitbart and O'Keefe's Attack on ACORN

Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:14:50 pm
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 ...

Outrage! Charles Johnson Won't Apologize!

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:06:10 pm
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: ...

Breitbart Smear Targets Will Always Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt

Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:12:41 am
Joan Walsh makes an excellent point about the "Weinergate" idiocy -- even if it turns out that Rep. Weiner did send that penis picture that has driven right wing blogs into a frothing frenzy, there's one lesson that should not be learned: Lessons I won't learn from Weinergate. However, there ...

The GOP's Push to Destroy Planned Parenthood Isn't Going Away

Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:48:08 am
At the very last minute, the Republican Party backed down on holding the budget hostage to destroy Planned Parenthood. But the attacks against the nation's largest provider of women's health services are not going to stop; in fact, you can expect right wingers to get even more vicious and dishonest. ...

James O'Keefe Goes After Another Right Wing Target: NPR

Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:05:16 am
ACORN sting film editor and admitted felon James O’Keefe is at it again, with a video that catches an NPR fundraiser, Ron Schiller (who has left NPR already), in the act of telling the truth. Notice that this time, O'Keefe's actors posed as scary Muslims, of course; his pattern of ...

Glenn Beck: Nazis, Commies, ACORN, and the Muslim Brotherhood

Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:16:47 am
Here's Glenn Beck at his craziest, in a rant from his radio show that exposes the secret influences behind the Egyptian protests: Nazis, Communists, the color red, and ACORN. Video

Another Andrew Breitbart Edited Tape?

Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:13:00 am
Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site is promoting another outrageous outrage today, claiming that reporters for Alaska TV station KTVA were caught on tape plotting to damage Joe Miller's campaign. After Breitbart's smear campaigns against ACORN and Shirley Sherrod using edited and out of context recordings, what are the odds that this ...

Breitbart Throws O'Keefe Under the Bus

Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:30:49 pm
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 ...

James O'Keefe's Creepy Attempted Seduction of a CNN Reporter

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:32:26 am
James O'Keefe, the fake pimp from the infamous heavily edited ACORN sting videos, is in the news again today for trying to stage an incredibly moronic and stalkerish "fake seduction" of CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau, by luring her onto a boat filled with condoms, lubricants, sex toys and Viagra. The ...

Conason: Time to Reopen Breitbart's ACORN Fraud

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39:39 pm
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, ...

Resigned USDA Official: Breitbart's Video Was a Lie

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:21:04 am
Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official forced to resign after Andrew Breitbart posted a video of her giving a speech to the NAACP, is telling her story to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — and Breitbart has, once again, railroaded an innocent person with an edited and highly misleading video: Resigned USDA official ...

O'Keefe Editing Again

Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:44:00 am
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 ...

James O'Keefe Pleads Guilty

Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:19:11 pm
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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