Media Fraud – Just A Cup Of Coffee My Ass

This latest example of mainstream media fraud comes from St. Louis, and features coverage of the so called “Coffee Party”.

The following clip is only 2 minutes long, so watch all of it, and then look at the images below to understand why this video is nothing short of media prostitution for their progressive cause.

This report attempts to paint a picture of a moderate, open minded movement in the process of conducting early, friendly gatherings.

:25 – Brewing yes, but steamed? Well, not if they can help it.

:45 – Leaders of this group say civility is their first priority

:55 – We’re not looking to balance extremes. When we sit down for a cup of coffee, we’re not at each other’s throats.

1:37 – Organizers say they are just volunteers, and invite those with different opinions to join their effort to swallow their pride in the interest of progress.

1:44 – [Organizer] I don’t particularly think it is useful to sit at a table with only people who see things the way I do.

But context is everything, and this report ignores some glaring facts which betray the lies being pushed in this story.

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Tags: astroturf, astroturfing, Coffee Party, media bias, Media Malpractice
Posted Mar 8th 2010 at 6:18 am in Media Criticism, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party | 85526107 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/03/08/media-fraud-just-a-cup-of-coffee-my-ass/Media+Fraud+-+Just+A+Cup+Of+Coffee+My+Ass2010-03-08+14%3A18%3A11Andrew++Marcus

Eye (Don’t) Witness News – The Lech Walesa Story

Last week, Nobel Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, traveled to Chicago to endorse a political candidate for governor of Illinois.

Who he endorsed doesn’t matter.  The fact that he is here endorsing anyone at all should be considered newsworthy.

Unfortunately for Chicago residents, and the Polish community specifically, if you get your news from the city’s local television stations, you might not have even known that he was in town, let alone that he attended a Tea Party, and endorsed Adam Andrzejewski for governor.

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Tags: ABC News, adam andrzejewski, Chicago, Lech Walesa, media bias
Posted Feb 2nd 2010 at 9:17 am in Uncategorized | 6848648 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/amarcus/2010/02/02/eye-dont-witness-news-the-lech-walesa-story/Eye+%28Don%27t%29+Witness+News+-+The+Lech+Walesa+Story2010-02-02+17%3A17%3A31Andrew++Marcus

Once Again, James O’Keefe Strips Away the MSM’s Mask of Neutrality, Revealing the Bias Below

This past week marked one of the strangest periods of my life.  And yes, the arrest of my friend and colleague James O’Keefe had a lot to do with it. James found himself, once again, in the middle of a raging media battle all because he wanted to shine a little light on public corruption.  Let me tell you something, he certainly rang in the New Year with this one.  As James said:

My goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions…

Target: Mary Landrieu. Why: she’s been taking legal “bribes” in the form of the “Louisiana Purchase” in exchange for her vote on Sen. Harry Reid’s healthcare bill, and ignoring phone calls from her outraged constituents.  Bold, dirty, rude politics at its finest.

Putting his head down, and plowing ahead, James was off to New Orleans working on a new project.  A project that would hopefully raise questions, demand answers, and spur people to action. (more…)

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Tags: bias, corruption, Galileo, Harry Reid, health care
Posted Feb 2nd 2010 at 7:12 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal | 68294454 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/hgiles/2010/02/02/once-again-james-okeefe-strips-away-the-msms-mask-of-neutrality-revealing-the-bias-below/Once+Again%2C+James+O%27Keefe+Strips+Away+the+MSM%27s+Mask+of+Neutrality%2C+Revealing+the+Bias+Below2010-02-02+15%3A12%3A12Hannah+Giles

U.S. Attorney Steps Down From O’Keefe Case

From FoxNews:

The same day the man who first published James O’Keefe’s explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to his defense Monday, claiming the conservative filmmaker “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney” while the prosecutor made his case to the media, the U.S. attorney involved stepped down.

O’Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney’s office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday.

Hours later, Jim Letten, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, recused himself from the case.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, bugging, James O'Keefe, Jim Letten, Mary Landrieu
Posted Feb 1st 2010 at 6:45 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 68254240 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/02/01/u-s-attorney-steps-down-from-okeefe-case/U.S.+Attorney+Steps+Down+From+O%27Keefe+Case2010-02-02+02%3A45%3A24Publius

Possible O’Keefe Explanation: He Was an ACORN ‘Secret Shopper’

The recent statement published on Big Government by James O’Keefe and the existence of videotape showing the full project intended for Senator Landrieu’s office should put an end to the irresponsible chatter about Watergate Jr. or any other slanderous attacks of wiretapping by the “objective journalists” of the mainstream media.

We’re not naïve enough to believe the attacks will stop, but there is something to be said about holding your fire until you have some clue about what’s going on. The Washington Post and other outlets have been forced to walk back their outrageous statements of wiretapping and apologize for their accusations of seeking to destroy a phone system of the federal government. As amusing as it’s been to see O’Keefe’s antics demonstrate media bias, there is the concern about an obscure portion of the United States Code about misrepresenting yourself to gain access to a federal facility.

According to O’Keefe, videotape of the event will fully exonerate him. If we take that at face value, then all that is left is the charge of misrepresentation to gain access to a federal office. This may be the cause of some squirming by the four young men, because the federal government and
its officers do not like to be trifled with, and the ability to bring punishment to US citizens for minor offenses isn’t limited to smoking a joint without the benefit of having a judge as a blood relative.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn missouri lawsuit, Bertha Lewis, Big Media, James O'Keefe
Posted Feb 1st 2010 at 5:31 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, Politics | 67786340 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/02/01/possible-okeefe-explanation-he-was-an-acorn-secret-shopper/Possible+O%27Keefe+Explanation%3A+He+Was+an+ACORN+%27Secret+Shopper%27+2010-02-01+13%3A31%3A06Capitol++Confidential

‘RedEye’ Robot Theatre With MSNBC’s David Shuster

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Tags: David Shuster, Fox News, media bias, Media Matters, MSNBC
Posted Jan 30th 2010 at 12:41 pm in Media Criticism | 6733858 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/ggutfeld/2010/01/30/redeye-robot-theatre-with-msnbcs-david-shuster/%E2%80%98RedEye%E2%80%99+Robot+Theatre+With+MSNBC%E2%80%99s+David+Shuster2010-01-30+20%3A41%3A44Greg+Gutfeld

Obama: A Republican Plant?

Many of us had no idea the Republican Party had it in them, but to devise and implement such a plan was ingenious. Think about it; party leadership acting totally inept while a charismatic young Democrat presidential candidate captures the imagination of the normally lethargic youth vote, captures the senior vote, women, and even sends a thrill up the leg of the media.

And within a few short months after attaining the presidency, he conducts himself in a manner (personally and in office) that had not only invigorated his political opponents, but has them so energized they take to the streets and even march on The Capitol (more than once). One would have to conclude Barack Hussein Obama is either the most politically clueless president ever, or… is really a stealth Republican destroying the Democrat Party from within.

Is Barack Obama a Republican plant?

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Tags: auto bailouts, Barack Obama, Big Media, cap-and-trade, climate change
Posted Dec 22nd 2009 at 5:29 am in Featured Story, Obama, Politics | 46746160 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bparks/2009/12/22/obama-a-republican-plant/Obama%3A+A+Republican+Plant%3F2009-12-22+13%3A29%3A31Bob+Parks

AP Whitewashes My Public Statement on Whitewashed ACORN Investigation

Pete Yost of the Associated Press asked for my comment regarding the findings of the ACORN “internal investigation.”  Here is what I emailed him:

ACORN is a corrupt and criminal organization, and anyone with open eyes can see this. Yet SEIU’s Andy Stern and left wing puppetmaster John Podesta, of the Soros-funded radical leftist think-tank, the Center for American Progress, chose to architect a whitewashed ‘internal investigation’ by a Democrat Party hack from Massachusetts, and have put immense efforts into launching a two-pronged propaganda  campaign and legal assault against the filmmakers of the ‘pimp and  prostitute’ exposé and the story’s publisher. BigGovernment.com  continues to expose ACORN’s illegal activity and has helped to  illuminate how corrupt organizations like ACORN, SEIU and HCAN are coordinating the efforts to shove radical health care reform down an unwilling  majority of Americans throats.

Here is the sole excerpt from the above statement chosen for the article:

The report is “a whitewashed ‘internal investigation’ by a Democrat Party hack from Massachusetts,” said conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart, who is being sued by ACORN along with James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute and her boyfriend in the videos. Breitbart posted the videos on his Web site.

I wanted the BigGovernment.com readers to see that’s it’s not just the internal investigators who are whitewashing the magnitude of the ACORN scandal, it’s the mainstream media writ large.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, Andrew Breitbart, Associated Press, Center for American Progress
Posted Dec 7th 2009 at 1:19 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism | 4220670 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/12/07/ap-whitewashes-my-public-statement-on-whitewashed-acorn-investigation/AP+Whitewashes+My+Public+Statement+on+Whitewashed+ACORN+Investigation2009-12-07+20%3A19%3A03Andrew+Breitbart

Thanks for Paying Attention Big Journalism

In response to the Columbia Journalism Review’s accusing me of “blackmailing” the Attorney General of the United States, I must take notice that the mainstream media as a journalistic establishment IS paying attention to the ongoing ACORN scandal.  Good.  I thought so.

What the Columbia Journalism Review is doing is very similar to what Media Matters is doing: protecting the Democrat-Media Complex, the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media.  This ACORN investigation has been going on for two months and Hannah, James, and I have proven to be truth-tellers every step of the way, while the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now has been proven time and again to be liars.

Yet instead of engaging the real, newsworthy issues of ACORN’s possible corruption, malfeasance and illegal behavior, the CJR, like its more overtly political online counterpart Media Matters, and indeed every other MSM outlet, has been sitting it out on the sidelines, waiting – rooting – for Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe and me to make a mistake.  In fact, my appearance Thursday night is the only time in which the media has introduced itself into this ongoing narrative: proof that it’s paying attention and taking sides.

Neither, by the way, has the CJR challenged James Rainey, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, who has consistently shaded his coverage favorably toward ACORN since we first broke the story back in September, evincing little interest in the truth but instead muttering about the standards of the Society of Professional Journalists (take link, be sure to read the comments).  “But the Society of Professional Journalists has set a standard that deception should be used only when every other reporting approach has been exhausted and only then in certain cases, most notably to reveal a severe social problem or to prevent people from being harmed.” (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Attorney General Holder, Census, Columbia Journalism Review, Democrat-Media Complex
Posted Nov 21st 2009 at 7:16 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism | 34894241 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/11/21/thanks-for-paying-attention/Thanks+for+Paying+Attention+Big+Journalism2009-11-21+14%3A16%3A22Andrew+Breitbart

Florida Journalist Speaks His Own ‘Truth’ to Those Out of Power

Some items need little comment. The email below, from a reporter of the Key News in Florida, speaks volumes about the mainstream media’s outlook on the political issues of the day. It is hard to know where to begin in dissecting this e-mail. Our personal favorite is the sense that, because Obama’s policies are so “needed” by the country, we can’t possibly brook any dissent. Journalists have been laid-off across the country, because of the media’s broken business model. Surely, the Key News can recruit a less-biased reporter. We have reached out to Mr. Guerra for his version of events. No comment yet, but we will keep you posted if we hear anything.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Florida news, Key News, media bias, Rep. Connie Mack
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 9:15 am in Culture, Exclusives, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 19806704 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2009/10/23/journalist-speaks-his-own-truth-to-those-out-of-power/Florida+Journalist+Speaks+His+Own+%27Truth%27+to+Those+Out+of+Power2009-10-23+16%3A15%3A33Capitol++Confidential

Obama’s America- the Gordon Brown years?

The 2008 election campaign filled me with an eerie sense of déjà vu, as I suspect it did many British people living in America. The hysterical reception accorded Barack Obama was strongly reminiscent of the frothing enthusiasm for Tony Blair in 1997.

 Obama had a more inspiring biography than Tony Blair of course and did sincerity better; nevertheless there were many parallels. Both were relatively young, charismatic men who insistently repeated stirring but vague mantras about change and a coming new era to an exhausted  electorate craving a break with the recent past. Both surrounded themselves with pop stars and other glamorous types, in an attempt to identify with everything that was young and progressive and hip. Of course, this being America, Obama operated on a much grander, messianic scale: Blair never implied that his victory might lower the earth’s water levels for example, and nor did anybody ever faint at his rallies as if he were a faith healer. However when Blair won the election the sympathetic Guardian newspaper did get rather overheated: I recall an article in which the atmosphere in the UK was compared to the relief felt at the end of World War II, thus equating the hapless John Major with Adolph Hitler. That total absence of proportion will sound familiar to anyone who has flicked through the People’s Temple style newsletter that is Newsweek or spent a few minutes watching the risible MSNBC. (In the Guardian’s defence however, none of its writers were ever so feeble-minded as to compare Blair to God.)

Anyway, during the election campaign I would say to those who asked for my thoughts on the Obama phenomenon that perhaps it wasn’t wise for so many people to allow themselves to be so carried away. Obama was only a man; worse still a politician; and even worse- not a very experienced one. I would then suggest that many Americans were setting themselves up for a massive disappointment: that the impossible expectations that Obama and his devotees had aroused would ultimately lead to profound disillusionment, leaving people even more cynical and embittered than if they had never been thus misled. Tony Blair’s career in Britain offered a shining example of this process in action. My listeners would then change the subject and never mention Obama to me again. I understood: they wanted to believe, they were protecting their faith.

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Tags: Barack Obama, health care, health care reform, media bias, MSNBC
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 9:30 am in Congress, Obama, Politics, Uncategorized | 1388228 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dkalder/2009/10/07/america-the-gordon-brown-years/Obama%27s+America-+the+Gordon+Brown+years%3F2009-10-07+16%3A30%3A05Daniel+Kalder

NY Times Editor: Paper Was Too Slow to Cover ACORN Scandal

From New York Times Public Editor Clary Hoyt:

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands of unpaid organizations promoting the 2010 census, had become “a distraction.”

Clark Hoyt

What the article didn’t say — but what followers of Fox News and conservative commentators already knew — was that a video sting had caught Acorn workers counseling a bogus prostitute and pimp on how to set up a brothel staffed by under-age girls, avoid detection and cheat on taxes. The young woman in streetwalker’s clothes and her companion were actually undercover conservative activists with a hidden camera.

It was an intriguing story: employees of a controversial outfit, long criticized by Republicans as corrupt, appearing to engage in outrageous, if not illegal, behavior. An Acorn worker in Baltimore was shown telling the “prostitute” that she could describe herself to tax authorities as an “independent artist” and claim 15-year-old prostitutes, supposedly illegal immigrants, as dependents. (more…)

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Tags: 2010 Census, ACORN, acorn scandal, BigGovernment.com, Bretha Lewis
Posted Sep 27th 2009 at 12:26 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism | 9362114 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/27/ny-times-public-editor-discusses-papers-slow-reflexes-on-acorn-scandal/NY+Times+Editor%3A+Paper+Was+Too+Slow+to+Cover+ACORN+Scandal2009-09-27+07%3A26%3A16Publius

ACORN Internal Investigator’s Website Downplays Scandal, Attacks Messengers

From Center for American Progress:

John Podesta, Obama transition team co-chair and President of Center for American Progress (the group helped launch Media Matters in 2004). Podesta is a member of the ACORN Advisory Council.

…Hysterical Fox News commentators have blown this story up like a hot air balloon, and much of the rest of the media appear to believe that what Fox says goes. Andrew Alexander complains that “traditional news outlets like The Post simply don’t pay enough attention to conservative media or viewpoints.” But writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Rick Perlstein responds: “Why would a newspaper like the The Post be training its investigative focus on ACORN now? Whether you think ill or well of ACORN, they’re a very marginal group in the grand scheme of things and about as tied to the White House as the PTA.”

This right-wing stunt proved such powerful catnip to mainstream media bigfeet that amazingly, George Stephanopoulos thought it worth discussing with the President of the United States during a rare one-on-one interview opportunity. The president quite understandably explained that that he wasn’t following the story very closely, and that the country was dealing with more serious problems right now. (U.S. grants to ACORN, already suspended, account for literally 52 seconds of annual U.S. government spending, according to one careful estimate.) Stephanopoulos had nothing else to say. As though he were correcting himself, he continued, “Afghanistan is a serious problem facing the country right now.” Oh, yeah, Afghanistan…. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN scand, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Center for American Progress
Posted Sep 24th 2009 at 11:47 am in ACORN, Media Criticism, Politics | 805870 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/24/acorn-internal-investigators-website-downplays-scandal-attacks-messengers/ACORN+Internal+Investigator%E2%80%99s+Website+Downplays+Scandal%2C+Attacks+Messengers+2009-09-24+18%3A47%3A16Publius

Is Breitbart More Powerful than ACORN?

“[Breitbart] is a very powerful person, in a lot of ways he might be more powerful than ACORN.”

Columbia Journalism Review Q and A with Liberal Historian Rick Perlstein on ACORN:

As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van Jones and the community organizing group ACORN have shown, even under a Democratic White House and Congress, the conservative media have an ability to place a story on the national agenda. Those episodes have also prompted some mainstream media outlets to examine their own practices. A recent column by Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander reported that the paper’s executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, pressed his staff for more ACORN coverage; Brauchli was also quoted expressing the concern “that we are not well-enough informed about conservative issues. It’s particularly a problem in a town so dominated by Democrats and the Democratic point of view.”

This relationship between “conservative issues” and national issues more broadly is one that’s been of interest for some time to Rick Perlstein, the author of Nixonland and Before the Storm. A leading liberal historian of the conservative movement, Perlstein’s work has won respect from some leading conservatives; writing for CJR, he once praised the late journalist Paul Cowan for his sensitivity to the “dignity and value” of conservative subcultures. But Perlstein has also chastised the media, in the pages of the Post, for being too sensitive to conservative criticisms…. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Andrew Breitbart, Andy Alexande
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 2:14 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism, Politics | 747045 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/23/is-breitbart-more-powerful-than-acorn/Is+Breitbart+More+Powerful+than+ACORN%3F2009-09-23+21%3A14%3A12Publius

CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS: New York Times Corrects ACORN Article

From the New York Times:

NATIONAL

An article on Saturday about James E. O’Keefe III, the conservative activist who caught on videotape compromising statements by workers at the community organizing group Acorn, included incorrect information from Liz Farkas, an acquaintance of Mr. O’Keefe’s, who spoke in an interview about having read a transcript of one of his earlier projects. The transcript was of an encounter with a nurse at the University of California at Los Angeles; it was not of a nurse at Planned Parenthood. (Go to Article)

View correction here.

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Tags: ACORN, James E. O'Keefe, Liz Farkas, media bias, New York Times
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 11:19 am in ACORN, Media Criticism, News | 725818 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/23/new-yor-times-corrects-acorn-article/CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%3A+New+York+Times+Corrects+ACORN+Article2009-09-23+18%3A19%3A38Publius

CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS: Washington Post Corrects ACORN Article

From the Washington Post:

– A Sept. 18 Page One article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a conservative journalist targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos partly because its voter-registration drives bring Latinos and African Americans to the polls. Although ACORN registers people mostly from those groups, the maker of the videos, James E. O’Keefe, did not specifically mention them.

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Tags: ACORN, James E. O'Keefe, media bias, race, racism
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 10:56 am in ACORN, Media Criticism, News | 723017 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/23/corrections-corrections-corrections-washington-post-corrects-acorn-article/CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%3A+Washington+Post+Corrects+ACORN+Article2009-09-23+17%3A56%3A02Publius

CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONS: Associated Press Corrects ACORN Article

From the Associated Press:

Correction: ACORN’s Troubles
By The Associated Press (AP) – 20 hours ago
WASHINGTON — In a Sept. 19 story about the community organizing group ACORN, The Associated Press, based on an account in The Washington Post, erroneously quoted a conservative journalist saying he targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos because its voter-registration drives bring minority voters to the polls.

The Washington Post on Tuesday printed a correction about the quote. Although ACORN registers people mostly from those groups, the maker of the videos, James E. O’Keefe, did not specifically mention minorities, the newspaper said.

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Posted Sep 23rd 2009 at 10:41 am in Media Criticism, News | 705817 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/23/corrections-corrections-corrections-associated-press-corrects-acorn-article/CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%2C+CORRECTIONS%3A+Associated+Press+Corrects+ACORN+Article2009-09-23+17%3A41%3A55Publius

Planting the Seeds: The Politicized Art Behind the ACORN Plan

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.

They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned.

When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.

I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand. (more…)

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Tags: ABC, ACORN, acorn scandal, Bertha Lewis, Brian Williams
Posted Sep 20th 2009 at 7:08 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 5858303 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2009/09/20/planting-the-seeds-the-politicized-art-behind-the-acorn-plan/Planting+the+Seeds%3A+The+Politicized+Art+Behind+the+ACORN+Plan2009-09-21+02%3A08%3A32Andrew+Breitbart

ACORN Scandal in The Washington Post: Ready…Aim…Scrub!

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Tags: ACORN, acorn prostitute video, acorn scandal, Bob Woodward, Daily Show
Posted Sep 18th 2009 at 12:40 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism | 5018120 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mflynn/2009/09/18/acorn-scandal-in-the-washington-post-ready-aim-scrub/ACORN+Scandal+in+The+Washington+Post%3A+Ready...Aim...Scrub%212009-09-18+19%3A40%3A00Maura+Flynn