Andrew Breitbart
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Andrew Breitbart was the conservative blogger who operated the web site, BigGovernment.com. Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne referred to him in a July 26, 2010 op-ed column as a "right-wing hit-man."[1] On March 1st, 2012 it was reported that Breitbart died of natural causes while walking near his home shortly after midnight.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag[2]
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Breitbart was also behind the coordinated release of heavily edited undercover videos that misrepresented the activities of the community group ACORN. Media Matters writes,
On September 10, 2009, conservative activist and videographer James O'Keefe posted an entry to BigGovernment.com in which he revealed that he and fellow activist Hannah Giles had posed as a pimp and prostitute at a Baltimore ACORN Housing office and secretly filmed their meetings with ACORN staffers. As O'Keefe wrote, their intention was to take "advantage of ACORN's regard for thug criminality by posing the most ridiculous criminal scenario we could think of and seeing if they would comply -- which they did without hesitation," the "scenario" being the "trafficking of young helpless girls and tax evasion." O'Keefe would later release similar recordings of their interactions with ACORN and ACORN Housing employees at several other ACORN offices nationwide. Breitbart authored a separate September 10 BigGovernment.com post "introducing" O'Keefe and making it clear that he and BigGovernment.com would play a central role in the distribution of O'Keefe and Giles' videos. But as Breitbart, O'Keefe, and Giles released and promoted the "heavily edited" videos, their allegations about ACORN and its employees were undermined by numerous falsehoods and distortions. Subsequent investigations revealed no pattern of intentional, illegal misconduct by ACORN, and no criminality by ACORN personnel. It did, however, find the videos had been heavily edited to cast ACORN in a negative light. [3]
Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal or Weinergate
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Sourcewatch resources
- James O'Keefe
- Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State
- Right-wing
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References
- ↑ E.J. Dionne Enough right-wing propaganda, July 26, 2010
- ↑ Lamar W. Hankins Freethought San Marcos: Race and transformation in America, San Marcos Mercury, July 26, 2010
- ↑ Media Matters "Nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation", July 21, 2010
