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 Government” website, which made its name last year by publishing the phony ACORN “Pimp” Hoax videos hasn’t found time to even mention last week’s criminal indictments of top Blackwater officials, despite the company receiving BILLIONS in federal tax-payer dollars — versus the millions ($3.5m/year on average) that ACORN received over the last 15 years.
It’s as if Breitbart and his Tea Bag Boyz don’t actually care about corruption of federal tax-payer dollars. Hell, they don’t even seem to care about actual prostitution — even CHILD prostitution — rings being run on the Government dime, since Blackwater is also fighting two different court cases in which former employees allege the company did exactly that, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, with their BILLIONS in federal tax dollars. Yet still not a peep about that either on any of Andy’s websites. Go figure.
If the objective is to oppress and distress brown people — to deny basic rights and freedoms to non-whites — I think the hypocrisy charge in unwarranted.
Giving Blackwater a pass in Iraq and Afghanistan, though not equivalent, is certainly consistent with giving James O’Keefe a pass in the United States. It’s simply what Breitbart does for a living.
Not only will Andrew Breitbart ignore the Blackwater story, but if he were to somehow obtain videos showing Blackwater mercenaries raping brown children, he would refuse to release the unedited videos and would instead produce heavily edited outtakes in hopes of demonizing the victims…
Just like he did when he somehow obtained videos showing James O’Keefe raping ACORN. It’s simply what Breitbart does for a living.
Hey Brad, don’t leave out the allegations that they had former employees who were going to testify against them murdered.
http://washingtonindependent.com/53781/did-blackwater-xe-founder-have-people-killed
Another example of a corporation receiving government handouts while doing illegal activities:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYl-ii10XLVrDJ3N876S8W35CwMQD9F6TG080
So the prez Gary Jackson gets busted along with 4 other vp types…..but Eric Prince gets a powder? He must have the same lawyers as the NOLA buggerers.
But Brad…
All Blackwater did was steal millions (no wait, sorry, that was BILLIONS) of dollars, commit crimes, and ruin the reputation of the United States by killing innocent civilians in an illegal occupation.
ACRON, on the other hand, was committing the high crime of helping POOR people and registering poor voters. The Corporate Powers that Be needed to put a stop to THAT kind of dangerous behaviour at all costs.
Where’s patterico and crew’s outrage over actual prostitution and misuse of taxpayer money here?
Disgusting , innit…
Bob Ross – Has Blackwater been convicted of anything outside your fevered brain?
Brad – Grade school post. I could easily criticize you for not covering scads of lefty corruption on this blog. You have an agenda which drives the stories you cover, just as Breitbart.
Hey there duhrocks, YOU BETCHA just like your fearmongering cheer leaders! NOT.
Make that duh rock.
I cherish Billy’s posts. I drink them in slow so as not to waste a tasty drop of word.
Your #1 is just delicious, today, Billy.
What about this?:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9F4F8MO0&show_article=1
“Feds indict former Blackwater president, 4 others”
Dated April 16, 7:35pm.
#8 Daley. Well if that’s the measure for you it didn’t stop you guys from commenting on ACORN. Who wasn’t convicted as an organization and yet you guys went on and on about morals and integrity and corruption but meanwhile no peep about Blackwater.
DaleyRocks @ 8 asked:
Bob spoke to this, so I’ll let him and you scrap it out, as it compares to ACORN. But I’ll just toss in that Blackwater, though they were able to get off the hook in the U.S., is likely to be brought up on charges for the murder of 17 civilians at Nissour Square in Iraq. The killings earned them a ticket out of town from Iraq.
So, “convicted” there, yet? No. Believed to be responsible for the deaths of 17 civilians? Yes.
But, then again, they didn’t have an employee fill out an extra voter registration form because they believed they needed to to keep their minimum wage job to feed their family.
I’ll bite. Though I’ve spoken somewhat to this point already, when the NYTimes suggested the same thing (apparently, you agree with that Liberal MSM outlet NYT), but what is my “agenda” and what is Andy’s? Thanks in advance for your answers!
Dissillusioned @ 12:
That is Andy Breitbart’s AP feed. He pays for, and posts whatever AP puts out, essentially. That’s the site (Breitbart.com) that he used to get rich by linking to himself from DrudgeReport.com where he used to work.
That site funds all the political “Big” sites of his. None of those sites give a damn about government corruption like Blackwater, etc. They care only about their Republican political agenda. Period.
Well, OF COURSE Andy wont say anything about this… he’d loose to many of his pals and benefactors.
The fact is, the attack on ACORN had nothing to do with paper-thin concerns about corruption. It was just a poor proxy for Obama, and Breitbart was hoping that by detonating ACORN he could blow up the administration.
Corruption is no real concern for Andy, James or Hoe-Bag Hannah. If it were, they would have been all over the Jamie Lee Jones case (which involved REAL kidanpping, rape, torture etc…) a LONG time ago.
For all that, Breitbart is still trying to save face after his shameless attempt to pass off false evidence of what happened during the period when Lewis etc… were walking past the Tea Baggers. He knows he’s been caught, yet again, in a calculated lie… I wonder if embarassment, or some other genuine human emotion, is finally working its way through his lumpy wide head.
But dont misunderstand… I am sure the boobs at BigGov are planning a new campaign of slander before the election… and yes, it will be as false, pieced-together and totally misleading as anything else they put out- but I am sure they will try to pass of another slur of damaging lies again.
http://pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/?id=8671
In your own back yard ~
(excerpt)
Taking the podium at the March 24 dinner, Breitbart — rated the 21st most influential US conservate by the British newspaper Daily Telegraph and the subject of an extensive Time magazine profile — addressed what he sees as the
over in America.
This is a puff-piece by:
“Carl Kozlowski is an unpaid film critic and blogger for Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site.
He does not interact with Breitbart in any direct fashion.”
… except when he’s “interact”-ing with Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood site.” This puff-piece is so bad it leaves a prophylactic saccharine taste in your mouth.
Anyway Brad, you may want to ask Kevin Uhrich (PW editor) for enough fair-and-balanced space to let Pasadena’s conservative element really know about the criminal conspiracies that Breitbart is currently embroiled in.
DanD