{"id":7729,"date":"2010-03-05T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:59:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:59:32","slug":"video-colbert-mocks-okeefe-breitbarts-acorn-pimp-hoax-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7729","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Colbert ‘Deceptively Edits’ Interview to Mock O’Keefe, Breitbart ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, the Brooklyn D.A. concluded a five-month investigation of the Brooklyn ACORN videos, finding “no criminality.” Following the release of the findings, Rupert Murdoch’s own New York Post<\/i>, of all places, reported it this way<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ACORN set up by vidiots: DA<\/b><\/p>\n

The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a “heavily edited” splice job that only made it appear as though the organization’s workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage<\/b>, sources said yesterday.
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\nMany of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said.<\/b><\/div>\n

Using similar language, the New York Daily News<\/i> reported<\/a> a law enforcement source as noting: “They edited the tape to meet their agenda<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/i>, the so-called “paper of record,” while reporting that the DA found no criminality<\/a>, offered no such coverage of the DA’s office explaining that the videos were deceptively and misleading edited and promoted as if they revealed something they actually didn’t<\/a>. The language used by Times<\/i> reporter Andy Newman even appears to defy the paper’s own Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s recommendation — as he shared it with me via email personally<\/a> — to “avoid language that says or suggests that O’Keefe was dressed as a pimp when he captured the ACORN employees on camera.” (More specific details on that in my post from yesterday<\/a><\/i>.)<\/p>\n

In the meantime, as the Times<\/i> continues to fail, last night Stephen Colbert mocked the entire ACORN “pimp” hoax as we’ve been revealing it over the last several weeks and, along with it, James O’Keefe, Andrew Breitbart, Fox “News” — and, yes, indirectly, the New York Times<\/i> — by sharing his own “exclusive,” damning, and heavily-edited video interview…<\/p>\n

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Related:<\/i> Yesterday ACORN launched a campaign to fight back and “Demand Accountability”<\/a> from the Times<\/i> and the other media outlets that have grotesquely misreported this story and have still failed to correct their damagingly inaccurate coverage. More on that campaign and how you can add your voice to it, right here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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