{"id":7441,"date":"2009-09-29T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2009-11-23T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T20:39:50","slug":"maddow-continues-report-on-gops-acorn-witch-hunt-the-phony-voter-fraud-charges-at-heart-of-the-us-attorney-purge-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7441","title":{"rendered":"Maddow Continues Report on GOP&#8217;s ACORN Witch-Hunt: The Phony &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; Charges at Heart of the U.S. Attorney Purge Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RachelMaddow_TruthAboutAcornLies_092809.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow continued her series last night, on the &#8220;purely political smear campaign&#8221; which ACORN has faced since registering nearly 2 million <i>legal<\/i> voters over the last decade. In the third installment of her continuing series, she focused on the ACORN smears over non-existent &#8220;voter fraud,&#8221; which were at the heart of the U.S. Attorney scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Before being joined by former Republican U.S. Attorney from New Mexico David Iglesias &#8212; fired by the Bush White House because he refused to bring fraudulent voter fraud cases against Democrats, as we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4276\">covered in exclusive detail in March of 2007<\/a> &#8212; Maddow notes accurately: &#8220;No accusation has ever been substantiated that anyone ever registered by ACORN ever voted fraudulently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added astutely: &#8220;The Bush White House viewed voter fraud as the mother of all wedge issues. It&#8217;s paying its dividends today, and remarkably, Democrats are playing right along with it.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33064799#33064799\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Maddow&#8217;s excellent previous reports in this series are here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7435\"><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/a>: The truth about the extraordinary GOP lies and media failure concerning ACORN.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7437\"><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/a>: The hypocrisy (and unconstitutionality) of defunding ACORN while groups like Halliburton and Blackwater, which committed actual crimes, like murder and real fraud, still receive more federal funding in a day than ACORN has in its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>This is all much like watching a broadcast news version replay of the last 5 years here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a>. And we&#8217;re lovin&#8217; it. Thank you again, Rachel! Please keep it up! As &#8220;Annie&#8221; said in <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/i>: &#8220;&#8216;Bout time one of you lunkheads said it!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow continued her series last night, on the &#8220;purely political smear campaign&#8221; which ACORN has faced since registering nearly 2 million legal voters over the last decade. In the third installment of her continuing series, she focused on the ACORN smears over non-existent &#8220;voter fraud,&#8221; which were at the heart of the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,393,91,405,223,106,33,441],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-acvr","category-bush-legacy","category-dept-of-justice","category-election-fraud","category-msnbc","category-rachel-maddow","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}