‘The Times Botched the Story,’ Author Says About ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax on ‘Democracy Now!’
“This reporting was done by not just the right-wing press, but every one of the mainstream press, and I’m talking about…the New York Times,” said John Atlas, author of the new book Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Group on this morning’s Democracy Now!. “And there’s a whole movement […]
ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Comment of the Moment…
From BRAD BLOG commenter “Billy” as posted in response to our breaking coverage Wednesday night of the Congressional legislation to defund ACORN in the wake of the “pimp” hoax videos, having been declared in federal court to have been an unconstitutional bill of attainder… COMMENT #11 [Permalink] … Billy said on 3/11/2010 @ 7:18 am […]
Media Watchdog FAIR Finds NYT Was ‘Duped’ in ‘Wildly Misleading’ Coverage of ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax
The New York Times “was duped” and “refuses to own up to mistakes in the paper’s coverage” of the now-infamous ACORN “pimp” hoax video tapes published by partisan Rightwing activists James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart. That coverage, according to a devastating, no-holds barred, well-documented action alert issued today by the decades-old media watchdog […]
Breaking: Another ACORN Court Victory; Federal Judge Strikes Down Funding Ban as Unconstitutional
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “The government has offered no…unique reason to treat ACORN differently from other contractors accused of serious misconduct or to bar ACORN from federal funding without either a judicial trial or an administrative process applicable to all government contractors.” That was the finding in the judgment [PDF] issued late today […]
The Real Targets of the ACORN Smear Campaigns: Verifiable Truth, American Democracy
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.†– Mark Twain “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke In a society increasingly dominated by dictatorial and […]
Rightwing ‘Hot Air’ Blogger Ed Morrissey Misreports ‘Indictments Against ACORN’
[UPDATED TWICE: Good news! Morrissey quickly corrected his report after we notified him of the incorrect coverage. Bad news! His correction was also incorrect. SECOND UPDATE: Morrissey has copped to his second error as well, and has finally corrected appropriately. Details on all, at bottom of this article. -BF] Once again, the accurate reporting of […]
How to ‘Edit Videotape to Meet Your Agenda’
Much more soon on Rightwing propagandist Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe’s quickly unraveling ACORN “Pimp” Hoax, just how much of a hoax it really was, how the media and Democrats shamefully failed their due diligence in reporting and/or acting on it, and coverage of a lot of new commentary on it all that has been […]
Voter Fraud Queen Ann Coulter Joins the ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Lying Game
Given her own history of documented voter fraud felonies, you’d think Ann Coulter would want to stay away from the whole ACORN issue (particularly since there is no evidence that, unlike her, they’ve ever committed any). But Coulter just can’t help herself, I guess, as evidenced by her column last week, dutifully reprinted by “Andrew […]
VIDEO: Colbert ‘Deceptively Edits’ Interview to Mock O’Keefe, Breitbart ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Videos
Earlier this week, the Brooklyn D.A. concluded a five-month investigation of the Brooklyn ACORN videos, finding “no criminality.” Following the release of the findings, Rupert Murdoch’s own New York Post, of all places, reported it this way: ACORN set up by vidiots: DA The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group […]
ACORN Strikes Back! ‘Accountability’ Campaign Demands Media Corrections for ‘Pimp’ Hoax Stories
Following on our weeks-long coverage here at The BRAD BLOG, and at other sites who’ve similarly jumped in demanding accountability from the New York Times, ACORN itself is now launching a “Letter to the Editor” campaign to “Demand Accountability” from the paper for their repeated misreporting of the James O’Keefe/Andrew Breitbart ACORN “pimp” hoax. An […]
O’Keefe, Giles, and Breitbart ‘Buried the Truth’ About Their ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Video Tapes
It’s not particularly worth my time, or anybody’s time (unless they are involved in suing or pressing charges against the GOP hoaxsters), to get into the detailed weeds on how the ACORN “pimp” hoax videos were doctored to show something other than what they really were, in comparison to what the text transcripts (which may […]
‘Tom Tomorrow’ Covers ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax, Depicts NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt as a Weasel
This from a panel of today’s Tom Tomorrow strip, titled “Too Much Crazy,” depicting New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt “as a weasel”… Much more crazy in the full strip. The quote in the above panel is taken from the mindblowing emails Hoyt sent to me recently, as one of his reasons for not […]
NY D.A. Clears Brooklyn ACORN: ‘No Criminality’
Via Ben Smith at Politico: ACORN cleared in Brooklyn: ‘No criminality’ Kings County, New York District Attorney Joe Hynes put out a statement just now: On Sept. 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees. The three had been secretly videotaped by two people posing as […]
VIDEO: ‘Andy Breitbart Explains It All For You’ – An Exclusive Interview, Disturbing Admissions, and Manic Responses to the ACORN Video ‘Pimp’ Hoax
– Guest Blogged by Mike Stark of StarkReports.com I recently attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C., with video camera in hand, to report on the attendees. I was particularly interested in interviewing James O’Keefe, the miscreant (and accused felon) responsible for the ACORN video media hoax that The BRAD BLOG has been […]
More Devastating Response to NYT’s Outrageous Hypocrisy in Refusing to Correct Inaccurate ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Coverage
The ‘rave reviews’ just keep pouring in for the massive fails by New York Times Senior Editor for Standards Greg Brock and Public Editor (what they call their ombudsman) Clark Hoyt to recommend corrections for the repeated misreporting of the ACORN video “pimp” hoax. At least one of them is absolutely devastating in highlighting both […]