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Gross Failure of the Media

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

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How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?

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The 26 Percent Solution

Will Bunch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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If you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out the new poll just out on Obama and ACORN.

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"ACORN Facts" Craze Set Off By Poll That Found Most Republicans Think Obama Stole Election

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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A new Public Policy Polling survey finds. that 52% of all Republicans believe that the group ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Here's what people are saying about ACORN on Twitter.

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Justice Department Takes On Fraudster Defense Contractor

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

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Your "This Day In Government Contractor Abuses" comes via Spencer Ackerman, who flags this release from the U.S. Department of Justice: The United St...

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Computers, Records Seized At ACORN Offices In La.

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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NEW ORLEANS — State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged...

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Eight Reasons the Democrats lost Virginia & New Jersey--and How to Recover

Paul Loeb | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons -- and lessons for next time.

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All You Need to Know About the ACORN Scandal and Who Is Behind It

Mike Stark | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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You may remember Andrew Breitbart as the proprietor of BigGovernment.com, and, apparently, babysitter for juvenile delinquents James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the conservative, hidden-camera-wielding duo that went undercover to obtain footage of low-level ACORN staffers.

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A Pileup of Lawsuits Slams Atlantic Yards

Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

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Where are the charges of frivolity when it comes to Ratner's, Bloomberg's and Paterson's hardheaded goal of building the most expensive arena in history, in the middle of a recession and housing crisis?

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New ACORN Video: Undercover Videographers Release Tape Of Philly Visit

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Two conservative activists released a new undercover video targeting the community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday, an attempt ...

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Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.

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The Census and the GOP Latino Strategy: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Don't Count 'Em

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York

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Republican Senators have proposed to require all those who fill out census surveys to affirm their citizenship. That may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.

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'South Park' Skewers ACORN (VIDEO)

Posted 10.30.2009 | Comedy

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Last month, two ACORN employees were caught on tape advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about her profession in order to qualify ...

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Beth Butler Fired By ACORN; Director Of Louisiana ACORN Is Companion Of Founder Wade Rathke

The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...

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GOP Uses ACORN To Fight Bank Redlining Law

AP | SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN – ranging from charges of voter r...

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New Rule: Everyone Deserves Equal Rights

Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy

This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.

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Meet The Senators Who Voted Against The Franken Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being ...

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Rachel Maddow vs. "Dr. Evil": Smackdown over Rick Berman's Corporate Funding (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Berman has established a bevy of anti-reform "non-profit" websites that enable him to attack everything from ACORN to unions to MADD while defending trans-fats and a low minimum wage as good for the economy.

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Maddow, Bernie Sanders Highlight Contradictions In Congress Targeting ACORN (VIDEO)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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When Congress rushed to stop sending federal money to ACORN in the wake of the prostitution scandal involving a few of their employees, Republicans wr...

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ACORN: A Case of Selective Prosecution

David Jones | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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While the guerrilla theater video made for interesting TV, it does not accurately portray the work ACORN does. ACORN has a done a tremendous amount of good.

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ACORN is the New Dirty Word

Rinku Sen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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The attack on ACORN isn't about fighting corruption. If it was, then dozens of corporations with federal contracts far larger than ACORN's would be under investigation now.

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It's Not Just ACORN, Says Congressman Grayson

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

I talked with Congressman Alan Grayson in detail about his efforts to stop the government cash flow to contractors that cheat the government and overcharge the American taxpayers.

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Democrat Calls Republicans "Knuckle Dragging Neanderthals." Is Berlusconi One Too? You Bet!

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.

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ACORN To Stand Trial In Nevada Case

AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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LAS VEGAS — The political advocacy group ACORN and a former supervisor were ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that they illegally paid...

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The Lynching of ACORN

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Lost in all of the sensationalism and selective truths is that there has been no connection between ACORN and underage prostitution, until a kid walked in and started talking about it to anyone he could get to listen to him.

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GOP Cites ACORN Bill In Fundraising Pitch

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent out a fundraising e-mail Wednesday touting the GOP's Defund ACORN Act -- which was both deemed likely...

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