{"id":7763,"date":"2010-03-24T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:33:11","slug":"my-appearance-on-russian-tv-to-discuss-acorn-pimp-hoax-us-tv-doesnt-seem-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7763","title":{"rendered":"My Appearance on Russian TV to Discuss ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax (U.S. TV Doesn’t Seem Interested)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appeared earlier this afternoon on RT<\/i> (formerly “Russia Today”), an English-language Russian news service seen in the U.S. and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Despite yesterday’s six-months-late admission<\/a> from the New York Times<\/i> that they were repeatedly bamboozled by the Rightwing con-artists who produced deceptively edited hit videos in order to take down ACORN (which they successfully did<\/a>), U.S. television — including those so-called “liberal” bastions like CNN and MSNBC — don’t seem to much care that the entire thing was a hoax from the jump. At least they’ve yet to cover it, while RT<\/i> has done so with at least three live hits over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Once again, RT<\/i> seems to have more interest in issues that actually effect Americans than American broadcast news outlets do. Here’s my choppy web-cam appearance earlier today.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, my colleague and friend David Swanson was also a guest on RT<\/i> to discuss the ACORN issue, as was nationally syndicated radio host Thom Hartmann. Both of those short segments are posted below and well worth watching…<\/p>\n

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Swanson:
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Hartmann:
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I appeared earlier this afternoon on RT (formerly “Russia Today”), an English-language Russian news service seen in the U.S. and elsewhere. Despite yesterday’s six-months-late admission from the New York Times that they were repeatedly bamboozled by the Rightwing con-artists who produced deceptively edited hit videos in order to take down ACORN (which they successfully did), […]<\/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":[192,393,448,19,169,14,449,188,33,148],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-cnn","category-dirty-tricks","category-fox-news","category-james-okeefe","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-msnbc","category-new-york-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}