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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 04:40 PM
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Joe Conason: Now reopen Breitbart's ACORN fraud -- and get the story right
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/07/21/acorn

Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010 16:15 ET
Now reopen Breitbart's ACORN fraud -- and get the story right
Sherrod's case parallels deceptions used in that other big smear -- and offers a chance to restore lost standards
By Joe Conason

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Like the late Joe McCarthy, Breitbart smears both reflexively and with premeditation. And like McCarthy, he badly needs someone to show the public how he does his dirty work.

So here at last is an opportunity for the Times and all the other media outlets that aided and abetted the ACORN fraud to restore a minimum level of standards and honor. Investigate Breitbart, O’Keefe, Giles and the making and editing of the ACORN tapes without fear or favor -- then report the findings on page one.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 04:42 PM
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1. What a brilliant idea!!
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 04:47 PM
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2. I'm not holding my breath
but I hope a campaign like this can get rolling. Maybe we need an online petition to certain major news orgs: NYT, NBC, ABC, CBS, I dunno.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 04:51 PM
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3. K and R For Fox/Breitbart's good buddy
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 04:57 PM
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4. k & r
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 05:02 PM
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5. What Smearhart did is criminal....intentional crime of denigratimg
He shouold be sued and tried in court for damages and penal punishment as in JAIL TIME

a strong message must be sent to warn others from ruining innocent people
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-22-10 05:33 PM
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6. Damn Straight
The media treats each case as a unique first of it's kind experience when in fact we now see a pattern of video intentionally edited out of context for its propaganda value. What a bunch of shit. This fat slob is nothing more than a political stooge.

Maybe we should crash the Journo-List and let these overpaid unskilled news hacks know we are on to them.
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ProgressiveEconomist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-10 02:50 PM
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7. LINK:Unfortunately, you have to fight video with video. But Mike Stark has Breitbart himself on
Edited on Fri Jul-23-10 02:54 PM by ProgressiveEconomist
video, confessing that the ACORN pimp/'ho video Fox has shown a thousand times and still broadcasts regularly was a pure fabrication.

See it at Crooks and Liars.com:

http://crooksandliars.com/mike-stark/lost-cpac-breitbart-video-crazy-you-mis

or google +"lost CPAC video" for many mirrors on YouTube and elsewhere:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%2B%22lost+CPAC+video%22&btnG=Google+Search
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-10 03:58 PM
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8. I would love to see that happen. He destroyed a worthwhile agency
for what? There's a common theme with Mr. Breitbart and his allies, they only seem to go after organizations in the black community, and the M$M seem afraid to say that.
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