James O’Keefe’s Latest Victim: A Hero NJ Teacher
I’m loath to even spend time on this jerk, particularly as I’m busy working on a couple of deadlines about things and people that actually matter. But I’ve got to take just a moment to flag the details on the latest victim of convicted federal criminal and Rightwing creep James O’Keefe and his employer/pimp/propagandist Andrew […]
Alive & Well: Republican War on Democracy 2010
We’ve seen a lot of insane, hyperbolic Rightwing scare emails in our time. But the one posted at the end of this article, signed by the appropriately named Gary G. Kreep, Esq., Executive Director of a group calling themselves the United States Justice Foundation (USJF), warning that ACORN is “Still alive and ready to steal […]
Connecticut Election Commission Finds ‘Insufficient Evidence’ in Ann Coulter Voter Fraud Case But Ignored Key Evidence, Erred in Investigation
The Connecticut State Election Commission announced this morning in Hartford that “it cannot make a full and fair determination of the allegations” against Ann Coulter who was alleged to have committed voter fraud twice in the state by voting illegally from her residence in New York City while being registered at her parents home in […]
Ann Coulter to Face Vote on Voter Fraud Charges in CT by State Elections Enforcement Commission
Will Ann Coulter finally be held accountable for having committed voter fraud? We may find out on October 14th when the matter will come up at a public hearing by Connecticut’s State Elections Commission after an extraordinarily long two-year delay since the complaints about her allegedly illegal absentee votes in 2002 and 2004 were filed. […]
WaPo Author FINALLY Corrects Inaccurate O’Keefe/ACORN ‘Pimp’ Misreport
It took nearly a week of The BRAD BLOG bitching, moaning, emailing, complaining, and tweeting to the Washington Post, its ombudsman, and, of course, the author of the story, Alexandra Petri, who had blatantly misreported, twice in the same article at Dana Milbank’s “Rough Sketch” blog, the long-ago debunked myth that Rightwing con-man and dirty […]
WaPo STILL Misreporting O’Keefe/ACORN Story: He ‘Dressed Up as a Pimp to Interview ACORN’
Alexandra Petri writing on Dana Milbank’s “Rough Sketch” blog at Washington Post: It was a “punk” set-up by James O’Keefe, the same guy who famously dressed up as a pimp to interview members of ACORN… … Remember, he dressed up as a pimp to interview members of ACORN. For chrissakes, you’re the WASHINGTON POST! Get […]
Latest O’Keefe/CNN Scam Appears to Include Felony Violation of MD Wiretap Laws. Again.
Convicted federal criminal and Rightwing dirty-trickster James O’Keefe appears to have flagrantly run afoul of the rule of law yet again. This time, he appears to have violated and/or conspired to violate Maryland’s Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. It would not be the first instance of him having done so. The apparent violation(s) of state […]
On ‘Life & Death of American Journalism’ Panel This Sunday at West Hollywood Book Fair
If you’re anywhere near the L.A. area, I’d be delighted if you came by to say hello this Sunday at the 9th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair. I’ll be on a panel discussing “The Death & Life of American Journalism,” along with fellow journalists Jason Leopold, Marc Cooper, Bill Carter, and Kathleen Sharp. I’m told […]
Houston Voting Machine Fire Update and Shouting ‘Voter Fraud’ in a Crowded Midterm Election
Thousands of borrowed e-voting machines made by Austin-based Hart Intercivic have begun arriving in Harris County (Houston), TX, this week in the wake of last month’s massive warehouse fire which destroyed all 10,000 of the county’s 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems in advance of early voting for the mid-term elections. Some 3,000 […]
New York Times’ New Public Editor, Meet New York Times’ Old ACORN Problem
On Saturday, Arthur S. Brisbane, the New York Times‘ new Public Editor, filed his debut column. He takes his difficult post following the reign of the former Public Editor Clark Hoyt, the disastrous ‘weasel’ (cartoonist Tom Tomorrow’s infamous depiction, not ours, though we have no quibble) whose contract ended last June. In the first column […]
ACORN Slayer David Vitter: Hypocrisy on Parade
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning “I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvey, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people out of power, that the wealth is distributed […]
Roadkill: Greene Indicted; ACORN Re-Defunded; O’Keefe Self De-Moralized; Miller Comes Out
A number of noteworthy news items occurred yesterday while I was on the hot, hot, hot Midwestern road for the entirety of the day. These are several among those items… Greene Indicted on Obscenity Charges South Carolina’s mystery Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate (the one whose election “victory” is only explicable through malfeasance or […]
Letterman Calls Breitbart an ‘Asshole’
[As noted, I’m on the road this month, so blogging has been catch as catch can for me while on the roll. Have had terrible net access from the road of late. So apologies for the lateness of this one — and others I’ve been trying, but failing, to log over last day or three, […]
Exclusive: ACORN Murders Old Ladies & Children! (Just Hoping AP Will Run a Puff Profile on Us Too!)
The news this summer has largely focused on an unstoppable, slimy, toxic, oozing gusher polluting our nation. That, and on the BP oil disaster. As to the unstoppable, slimy, toxic, oozing gusher, the Associated Press has continued in the recent tradition of its failed corporate media brethren by gracing Rightwing propagandist Andrew Breitbart with yet […]
‘Racial Pro Firing’: Colbert is Right, Obama & Media Still Wrong (See: ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax)
We missed this originally on Monday while on the road (where we still are, driving through the blistering hot TX panhandle today, God save us), but it’s still worth watching today in case you missed it. Looks like Obama needs to fire Hillary Clinton, according to Colbert, just as Obama fired Shirley Sherrod and just […]