BREAKING AP: Sherrod Plans to Sue Breitbart
From AP: Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask Sherrod to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video […]
SHOCK VIDEO!: Media Cheer, Cover Up Evidence of Andrew Breitbart’s Ties to, Love for Al-Qaeda!
“Why isn’t the media covering this story?” MoveOn.org demands to know. “Right-wing activist Andrew Breitbart has admitted — on tape — that he’s a terrorist-lover. So why isn’t the media covering it?,” they ask, getting their priorities right for the first time in a long time, and adding the option to “Sign our petition demanding […]
Netroots Nation: The Moose Answered as Many Questions as John Fund (Though Not as Many as Markos Moulitsas)
— Brad Friedman, from “Netroots Nation” in Las Vegas… They keep pulling me back in. Had planned some travel and time off beginning this week, but the good Jeanne Devon (aka “AKMuckraker” of The Mudflats) tricked me into talked me into stopping by Netroots Nation, being held in Vegas this week, on my way outta […]
Vilsack, WH Apologize to Sherrod, Offer New Job; Now How About Those Jobs Lost at ACORN?
Vilsack and the White House have issued apologies to Shirley Sherrod and asked her to take a new “unique” job at the USDA. I must hit the road (heading towards Vegas, where, yes, I plan to stop into Netroots Nation for the first time), so can’t offer more details on all of this for now. […]
Andy Breitbart, Pathological Liar, Race-Baiter, Undone
It’s a neat trick. Andrew Breitbart, the pathological liar, race-baiter, propagandist, and rabidly partisan dirty-trickster, posts a deceptively edited video (again), to which media and Democratic officials cowardly knee-jerk in reaction (again), before the video is ultimately discovered to have been a deceptively edited hoax. Then, rather than copping to having been a pathological liar, […]
Not Interested in Breitbart’s Latest Scam
For those who have asked, no, I’m not particularly interested in Andrew Breitbart’s latest, deceptively-edited video scam campaign which, shamefully, the Obama Administration and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack fell for before bothering to view the whole video. We did what we did earlier this year — exposing Breitbart’s ACORN scam in extraordinary detail and […]
WaPo Ombudsman Falls for ‘New Black Panther’ Non-Story, Fox’s Latest Trumped-Up ‘Outrage’
If you didn’t already know that the latest Fox “News” fake “outrage” about the jackass from the New Black Panther Party who was caught on video standing outside a Philadelphia polling place with a nightstick in 2008 was another predictably trumped-up Rightwing scam story, Jamison Foser will help you understand why that is. But as […]
Maddow: There WERE Crimes Caught on the Hoax ACORN Tapes! Crimes by O’Keefe and Giles!
Yesterday The BRAD BLOG covered the invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by former San Diego ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera against Rightwing activists and dirty tricksters James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles after they’d video-taped him secretly, in violation of California law. Last night, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC covered it, rather amusingly (and accurately), this way…
Former San Diego ACORN Employee Files Lawsuit Against Rightwing Activists O’Keefe and Giles
Rightwing dirty-trickster and convicted federal criminal James O’Keefe and his accomplice Hannah Giles are being sued for invasion of privacy by a San Diego ACORN worker. Juan Carlos Vera was fired by the 4-decade old anti-poverty, pro-democracy community organization after deceptively edited and secretly recorded video tapes of a meeting Vera had with O’Keefe and […]
Good Riddance, Clark Hoyt
New York Times’ woeful Public Editor/apologist Clark Hoyt ends his three-year term at the “paper of record” today with a column in which he tries to shape his own legacy as their (supposed) “readers’ representative.” There are, however, some 400,000 low and middle-income families across this nation, struggling to fight off, or emerge from, poverty […]
Maddow: Shameful Response of GOP to ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax v. Deadly BP Disaster
Once again, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show demonstrate the best news writing in the business. Hands down. Period. No contest. Last night, Maddow opened with a shameful side-by-side comparison of the aggressive action taken by Republicans last year to defund ACORN on the basis of secret video tapes which proved to be complete hoaxes, versus their […]
Media Watchdog FAIR Slams ABC, Stephanopoulos for Repeating NYT’s False ACORN ‘Pimp’ Coverage
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the decades-old media watchdog group whose condemnation of the NYTimes mis-reporting on the ACORN Pimp Hoax picked up on our detailed exposé here, and ultimately helped force the “paper of record” into a begrudging partial correction, has now picked up on our coverage earlier this week of ABC News’ […]
FBI: O’Keefe DID Plan a ‘Wiretap Plot’ to Secretly Record Employees of U.S. Senator
Remember the disingenuous snit fits that Rightwing con-man Andrew Breitbart and his Tea Bag Boyz were on about when the original reports broke of “a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans” by Republican dirty trickster James O’Keefe and his band of co-conspirators? They […]
O’Keefe & Fellow Conspirators Plead Guilty to Federal Crime, Sentenced With Slap on Wrist
As Republican dirty trickster, and now convicted federal criminal, James O’Keefe is neither Middle-Eastern nor a member of the Democratic Party, he was allowed to plead guilty to just a misdemeanor today for leading a conspiracy of criminals — one of whom happened to be the son of the acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana — […]
‘ACORN Pimp Hoax’ REDUX: Why the NYTimes Should Fire Clark Hoyt & Why They Won’t
Those who follow me on Twitter may already know that I’ve been referring there to the New York Times’ shameful coverage of the Richard Blumenthal situation as the paper’s “ACORN Pimp Hoax REDUX.” Their front page exposé last week suggested that Connecticut’s Attorney General — the leading Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate — was, […]