Why, Oh, Why Don’t the Freepers Like Me?!
Last night, the far Righties over at FreeRepublic linked to my story yesterday on ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoaxster James O’Keefe being dressed down by a federal judge, before being given a free ride to avoid trial and personal accountability for attempting to tamper with the phones of Louisiana’s Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. As usual, all […]
Federal Judge Dresses Down O’Keefe, But Lets Him Avoid Trial for Tampering with Senator’s Phone
A federal judge gave a stern talking to this morning to the Rightwing dirty trickster James O’Keefe III and his three fellow conspirators — one of whom is the son of the Acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana — for their attempt to access the telephone system of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu in her New […]
NYTimes Fails to Disclose Group’s Ties to Drilling Industry in Downplaying Gulf Oil Disaster Fears
John M. Broder and Tom Zeller Jr. of The New York Times are kind enough today to offer a front page “News Analysis” which works very hard to offer “balance” on the Gulf oil rig gusher by downplaying concerns of an unprecedented ecological disaster noting “the Deepwater Horizon blowout is not unprecedented, nor is it […]
Brad Still Off the Grid, James O’Keefe III Still a Loser (And Now ‘Celebrated’ as Such in Song)
I’m still largely off the grid for the rest of the week, though I’ll be re-appearing briefly to guest host the Mike Malloy Show again this Thursday night from 6p-9p PT (9p-Mid ET). This time we’ll be BradCasting from San Francisco’s Green960, so I hope you’ll join us for that. (We’ll have a LIVE chat […]
Former Blackwater Chief Criminally Indicted, Breitbart Boys Hypocritically Uninterested…
I wonder why those who were so “outraged” about supposed ACORN corruption (even though it all turned out to be fabricated Rightwing fiction) are not outraged in the slightest about the latest alleged corruption of Blackwater which has now resulted in an actual federal indictment of its former President. Andrew Breitbart’s big big big “Big […]
Toto, We’re Not in Denial Anymore (But You Are)
Any remaining doubts about just how deeply detatched wingnuts are from Reality should pretty much be obliterated by this piece by Christian Toto at the far Rightwing website “Human Events.” I’m on the road today, so no time to offer details and/or direct rebuttal, but I suspect that, by now, BRAD BLOG readers should be […]
AP: Breitbart Deceptively Posted Wrong Video as ‘PROOF’ Tea Baggers Didn’t Hurl N-Word at Dems
Our old friend, the disgraced and disgraceful ACORN “Pimp” Hoax con-man Andrew Breitbart, is up to the same old tricks, according to AP. But this time they don’t seem to be going as well for him. In a deceptive effort to prove that Tea Baggers did not yell racial epithets at Democratic lawmakers during demonstrations […]
BofA Insider to Plead Guilty to Hacking ATMs
As we have long tried to get across to anyone who would listen, the greatest threat to “secure” computerized systems — such as the electronic voting systems, incredibly, still in use in all 50 states for this year’s crucial election cycle — comes from insiders. Late last week, another report, this one via ComputerWorld, underscored […]
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Rightwing Newspaper Chain Astroturfs Duplicate Anti-ACORN Editorials Across Several Papers
A reader alerted me this morning to these misleading, inaccurate, propaganda anti-ACORN “editorials”, duplicates of which have been appearing, unbylined, in a bunch of papers under different headlines. Before I was able to get to them, it looks like Muriel Kane at RAW STORY was able to jump on it. (Thankfully! Since I’ve been busy […]
Maddow Airs Unedited ACORN Videos: ‘Firestorm that Killed ACORN Was Fueled by Pure Manure’
(ED NOTE 4/9/10: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis was my guest on Wednesday night while I was guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show. My interview with her can now be heard here. – Brad) Finally, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow covers the actual phony ACORN tapes themselves by airing the newly release unedited versions, since CA AG Jerry […]
NYT Concedes They Were Wrong? Paper Loses ‘Pimp’ Language Entirely in Latest ACORN Report
(ED NOTE 4/9/10: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis was my guest on Wednesday night while I was guest hosting the Mike Malloy Show. My interview with her can now be heard here. – Brad) Yesterday, Peter Hart, of the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), flagged the New York Times’ latest ACORN-related report for […]
MUST-SEE: Maddow Blasts ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax, ‘ClimateGate,’ ‘The Triumph of Fake Politics’
On Friday night, responding to the CA AG’s finding that the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax videos — as created and published by righwing con-artists James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart — were precisely the hoax we’d long described them as, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hit it out of the park, detailing precisely the reason we’ve been […]
McClatchy/SacBee Misreport O’Keefe ‘Pimp’ Claim in Story About LACK of O’Keefe ‘Pimp’ Claim
Is it really this hard for anybody in the corporate media — the folks who actually get paid to do this job — to get this story right?? From McClatchy/Sacramento Bee’s much-linked coverage on yesterday’s finding by the CA AG that ACORN workers in California, as seen in James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart’s “severely edited” […]
CA A.G. FINDS ‘NO VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL LAW’ IN ‘SEVERELY EDITED’ ACORN ‘PIMP’ VIDEOS; RELEASES RAW TAPES FOR FIRST TIME
Echoing the recent report of the Kings County, NY, District Attorney who completed a five-month probe finding “no criminality” seen in video tapes secretly taken of low-level ACORN and ACORN Housing workers last year in New York, California’s Attorney General has now reached a similar conclusion regarding videos recorded in three different cities in the […]