{"id":7783,"date":"2010-04-05T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2010-04-06T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:51:10","slug":"must-see-maddow-blasts-acorn-pimp-hoax-climategate-the-triumph-of-fake-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"MUST-SEE: Maddow Blasts ACORN ‘Pimp’ Hoax, ‘ClimateGate,’ ‘The Triumph of Fake Politics’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday night, responding to the CA AG’s finding<\/a> that the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax videos — as created and published by righwing con-artists James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart — were precisely the hoax we’d long described them as, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hit it out of the park<\/a>, detailing precisely the reason we’ve been focused on this point for so long: “The triumph of fake politics…The unmooring of politics from facts,” and the unforgivable truth that you’ve heard far more<\/i> about the partisan-driven hoax\/politics agenda in the media, than about the fact that that these things were all hoaxes.<\/p>\n

Maddow takes the opportunity to highlight not only the “triumph” of the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax, but of other successful GOP-played\/MSM-enabled scams such as “ClimateGate” (also near and dear to our hearts as we’ve covered that scam in great depth in our Green News Reports<\/a> for months, most recently on Thursday<\/a>), faked GOP outrage about recess appointments, health insurance reform, Miranda rights and civilian trials for accused terrorists, the stimulus bill, “death panels,” Obama’s birth certificate, supposed threats to the Second Amendment, armed IRS agents coming to get you, abuse of the census, Obama’s “plans” to ban sport fishing, et al<\/i>.<\/p>\n

These things are, as she declares in no uncertain terms, “all bull.” Yet, she adds, “there’s more bang for the political buck to make stuff up like this than to try to debate real problems in the real world. So just go with the bull”…<\/p>\n

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Our only complaint is that her indictment comes a month or two (at least) too late for victims of the GOP’s ACORN scam, and that, other than Fox “News,” she fails to call out the still-respected-but-shouldn’t-be enablers of the scams in the first place — in this case, for example, the still-misreporting New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you can’t watch the video above, or would just like to savor it and\/or quote any of the exceedingly-quotable text to your erstwhile inexorably-brainwashed, fully-hoaxed, teabagging wingnut friends and family members, the text transcript is posted here…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday night, responding to the CA AG’s finding that the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax videos — as created and published by righwing con-artists James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart — were precisely the hoax we’d long described them as, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hit it out of the park, detailing precisely the reason we’ve been […]<\/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":[192,393,448,21,169,200,407,449,188,179,441,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-california","category-dirty-tricks","category-environment","category-green-news","category-james-okeefe","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-movies","category-rachel-maddow","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}