Category: ACORN

[UPDATED] Clay County, KY Election Officials Found Guilty of Election Fraud, Vote Buying

All eight defendants in Clay County, Kentucky’s election fraud trial have been found guilty today by a federal jury. Six of those eight were high-ranking election officials, including the county clerk, a circuit judge and the school superintendent. The conspirators were charged with having manipulated federal elections in 2002, 2004 and 2006 by buying and […]

My Appearance on Russian TV to Discuss ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax (U.S. TV Doesn’t Seem Interested)

I appeared earlier this afternoon on RT (formerly “Russia Today”), an English-language Russian news service seen in the U.S. and elsewhere. Despite yesterday’s six-months-late admission from the New York Times that they were repeatedly bamboozled by the Rightwing con-artists who produced deceptively edited hit videos in order to take down ACORN (which they successfully did), […]

No, NYT, O’Keefe Didn’t ‘Pose as a Pimp’ Either

Last night, the New York Times issued a pathetic “correction” in which the paper finally admitted it had gotten one very important element of the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax story wrong by reporting on at least four occasions that Rightwing activist James O’Keefe had dressed in his ridiculous 70s-era blaxploitation “pimp” get-up while secretly video-taping low-level […]

It’s About the Democracy and the Media, Stupid…

In case you were wondering if ACORN’s announcement today that they will soon be closing their doors will have any effect on my campaign to demand accountability from the people and institutions (e.g., the NYTimes, but many others as well) culpable in their demise, rest assured it will not — other than to serve as […]

BREAKING: ACORN Announces Intentions to ‘Bring Operations to a Close’

Just one day after the New York Time’s Public Editor Clark Hoyt finally admitted that both he and his paper were “wrong” in the way, for the last six months, they unskeptically and inaccurately covered the Rightwing hoaxsters who released doctored-up, heavily-overdubbed, secretly-taped hit videos targeting the national community organization ACORN, largely for their work […]

NYT PUBLIC EDITOR FINALLY ADMITS ACORN ‘PIMP’ HOAX REPORTING FAILURE: ‘TIMES WAS WRONG, I HAVE BEEN WRONG DEFENDING PAPER’

“The Times was wrong…and I have been wrong in defending the paper’s phrasing.” Even as the New York Times once again misreported the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax on its pages in a report on the community organization’s possible declaration of bankruptcy in Saturday’s paper, their Public Editor (ombudsman) Clark Hoyt finally admits in his column tonight, […]

Feds Finds Massive Fraud in Bush’s $150 Billion Iraq Reconstruction; Also Looking at Afghanistan

We missed this one recently (as did the tax-payer “watchdogs” “Andrew Breitbart Presents…Big Government” for some odd reason): Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions – involving banks, land deals, loan payments, casinos and even plastic surgery […]