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For Some Reason, the Koch Boyz Increase Security at Latest Super-Secret Seminar
You're welcome! PLUS: Jack Abramoff -- yes, that Jack Abramoff -- tries on a new hat as muckraking anti-lobbyist blogger!
'In Vendors We Trust':
Indiana's New Election Motto?
Apparently, for Early Voting in the Hoosier State, there is no such thing as a secret ballot. Even worse, they entrust e-voting vendors with the password to discard them!
w/ Brad & Desi
TODAY: The Winter That Wasn't; Extreme weather & higher insurance rates; WSJ denier smackdown; Even the Saudis believe; PLUS: 'House' arrest for fracking filmmaker...
Previous GNRs: 1/31/12 - 1/26/12 - Archives...
VIDEO: Brad on Hartmann TV Discussing Exclusive on VA's Investigation of Gingrich Fraud
PLUS: Additional coverage of our story from around the blogosphere...
EXCLUSIVE: VIRGINIA AG INVESTIGATING GINGRICH CAMP FOR ELECTION FRAUD
The BRAD BLOG confirms criminal probe 'underway' into '1,500 fraudulent signatures' submitted for VA's GOP Primary ballot...
OFFICIAL: 'DEAD VOTERS' IN SC NOT ACTUALLY DEAD
South Carolina's chief election official says claims by state AG and Fox 'News' of 953 'dead voters' are, um, 'greatly exaggerated'...
Tasered in D.C.; Kettled in Oakland; Police State Occupied USA Continues
Even journalists now being arrested, as Big Government Tyranny-fearing 'Tea Party' still fails to give a damn...
Mitt Romney is 'Gordon Gekko'
Ernest Canning on 'Wealth vs. Democracy and the 2012 Presidential Campaign', as unrestrained 'capitalism' trumps democracy this year more than ever before...
OH's Republican SoS: Scrap the Entire 'Election Reform' Bill
John Husted raises hackles of fellow state Republicans again, calls for controversial new law to be thrown out entirely, rather than face voter referendum...
THE BRAD BLOG'S RECOMMENDED #OWS 'DEMAND'
All citizens 18+ get to vote. Period. And on hand-counted paper ballots...
VIDEO: 'Rise of the Tea Bags'
Brad interviews American patriots...
'Democracy's Gold Standard'
Hand-marked, hand-counted ballots...
Brad's Upcoming Appearances
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The Secret Koch Brothers Tapes...
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 'Terror Tools' Spy Plot...
Wisconsin 2011 Supreme Court Election Debacle...
It Isn't Journalism: Woeful MSM Coverage of Wisconsin's Supreme Court Election 'Recount'
Corporate media fails to tell story of massive irregularities, e-vote failures...
Japan Quake/Tsunami/Nuke Emergency...
6/4/11: Fukushima Radiation at Highest Level Since Crisis Began
Germany announces plan to dismantle all nukes by 2022...
5/12/11: TEPCO Admits Unit 1 Reactor 'Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed
Radiation believed leaking through hole in bottom of containment vessel...
3/30/11: AUDIO: Brad on KPFK w/ Fukushima News and More...
Joined by the lovely Desi Doyen of the Green News Report...
3/29/11: 'Maximum Alert': Crisis Continues, TEPCO Prez Hospitalized
PLUS: A glimpse at living conditions for the heroic plant workers...
3/29/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Japan Fallout
Fukushima's nuke disaster leads to political shift in Germany; Congressional concerns about US nuke evacuation plans...
3/27/11: TEPCO 'Very Sorry': Radiation Spikes, Work Remains Perilous
Plant operator apologizes, again; AP reports they 'all but disregarded 3,000 years of geological history' in designing safe-guards'...
3/25/11: 'Grave And Serious': More Comparison to Chernobyl Levels
Rupture feared; Workers contaminated; New evacs 'recommended'...
PLUS: German study uses French data to corroborate findings from Austrian, U.S. scientists, suggesting Fukushima disaster should be reclassified as 'level 7' accident, on par with Chernobyl...
3/25/11: Brad on 'Randi Rhodes Show' on Disaster, US 'Fallout'
Breaking developments and speculation on the supposed 'nuclear renaissance' previously scheduled for the US...
3/24/11: 'Step at a Time & a Few More Steps': Disturbing New Science
Stabilization continues, as new data suggests 50% of radioactive cesium released by Chernobyl already released by Daiichi's reactors...
3/24/11: 'Green News Report'- Special Coverage: Japan Disaster
Death toll rising; Tap water warning lifted in Tokyo, spreading elsewhere; Radiation hospitalizes workers; Support for nukes drops in US; PLUS: Struggling to maintaining tradition amidst disaster...
3/23/11: Brad's KPFK Intvw w/ VOA's Steve Herman in Tokyo
'Neutron beams', water 'panic', black smoke and the public responses from TEPCO, the government and the people of Japan, LIVE from Tokyo...
3/23/11: Setbacks: Black Smoke, Evacuations, Tokyo Tap Water
'Panic' reported as stores run dry of bottled water after government says iodine in metropolitan water unsafe for infants...
3/22/11: 'Razor-Thin Margins', Positive Progress at Fukushima
Control room re-opened as some power returns, workers attempt to restore cooling systems; U.S. NRC offers mixed signals...
3/22/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Nuclear Crisis
Fukushima on edge; Japan's wind farms to the rescue; New US nuke reviews; PLUS: Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...
3/20/11: 'Closer to Bringing Situation Under Control': Sun & Mon
Stabilization precarious; UPDATED: Gray smoke forces evacuation...
3/19/11: Some Reactors 'Stabilized' as War Breaks Out Elsewhere
PLUS: Radiation detected in food, water; New Gulf oil slick discovered; War protesters arrested; Slow news week continues...
3/18/11: 'Renewed Nuclear Chain Reaction Feared': Friday Fukushima
Spent fuel rod danger; Fallout detected in S. California; Wind 'saving Japan's ass'; Coulter: Radiation 'good for you'; PM's office tweets...
3/17/11: Brad Interviews Palast: TEPCO Plans for New Nukes in TX
Govt fraud investigator on "bankrupt, corrupt, criminal" nuke companies...
3/17/11: 'Green News Report' - Special Coverage: Crisis in Japan
Compounding natural, humanitarian and spiraling nuclear disasters - desperate measures to hold off a nightmare...
3/17/11: VIDEO: Close-up Aerial Footage of Crippled Plant
TEPCO offers most detailed view yet of ravaged Fukushima reactors...
3/16/11: Desperation: Helicopters Drop Water On Hot Nuke Reactors
Def Minister: 'We could not delay further'; Four risky drops on Unit 3; Water said in Unit 4 fuel pool; Water cannon trucks next | VIDEO...
3/16/11: Dozens of Countries, Not U.S., Tell Citizens to Leave Tokyo
UK, Germany, France more worried than us. Who ya gonna believe?...
3/15/11: SMOKE BILLOWS FROM FUKUSHIMA'S REACTOR 3
Workers evacuated as radiation levels rose quickly; Govt's chief spokesperson says smoke believed to be radioactive steam...
3/15/11: 'Green News Report': Japan on Brink of Nuclear Disaster
Natural, humanitarian and now man-made disaster, as 50 nuclear plant workers stand in the way of nuclear meltdown...
3/14/11: PM: RADIATION DANGER, EVACS WIDENED, 'STAY CALM'
Explosions at Reactors 2 & 4; Fuels Rods at Unit 2 'Half Exposed';
All but 50 workers evacuated from plant...
3/13/11: EXPLOSION AT FUKUSHIMA'S NUKE REACTOR UNIT 3
U.S. 7th Fleet repositioned after exposure to radioactive cloud
Sunday live blogging 2nd EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/13/11: VIDEO: From Within the Tsunami, a Town Engulfed
Watch as a town disappears in minutes...
3/12/11: EXPLOSION ROCKS FUKUSHIMA NUKE REACTOR UNIT 1
Cooling System Fails at Unit 3 | Govt: 'Partial Meltdown' Under Way Saturday day, night live blog following 1st EXPLOSION at Fukushima...
3/11/11: NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES AT 5 REACTORS
Friday day, night live blog until EXPLOSION at Fukushima reactor...
3/11/11: 'Big Government Tyranny' Saved Countless Lives
Strict building codes in Japan likely impossible now here...
3/11/11: 8.9 QUAKE, TSUNAMI STRIKES JAPAN - VIDEO
Unprecedented disaster strikes, towns washed away in seconds...
WikiLeaks / Julian Assange...
More Special Coverages Pages...

SPECIAL COVERAGE: O'Keefe / Breitbart's ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax Revealed

Links to The BRAD BLOG's extensive, in-depth coverage of the James O'Keefe / Hannah Giles / Andrew Breitbart ACORN "Pimp" Hoax, as reported in excruciating detail over many months in 2010 and beyond, as the scam was revealed and undone piece by piece.

(For coverage of the GOP's anti-ACORN jihad/"voter fraud" scam of 2008, see our Special Coverage page here.)

• 9/3/11: Breitbart May be Pulled into ACORN-Related San Diego Lawsuit Against O'Keefe, Giles
• 5/27/11: Judge Rejects O'Keefe's '1st Amnd' Defense in ACORN Worker Lawsuit
• 2/25/11: ACORN Scammer Giles Tosses Fellow Scammer O'Keefe 'Under Bus'
• 9/29/10: O'Keefe's CNN 'Sex' Scam May Violate MD's Felony Wiretap Laws
• 8/30/10: NYTimes New Public Editor, Meet NYTimes' Old ACORN Problem
• 7/13/10: 'Crimes Caught on ACORN Tapes! O'Keefe's!' Maddow Covers Lawsuit
• 7/12/10: Former ACORN Employee Files Suit Against O'Keefe and Giles
• 6/13/10: NYT Public Editor, 'Weasel' Pens Farewell Column
• 6/3/10: FAIR Echoes Our Critique of ABC, Stephanopoulos Fail
• 6/1/10: ABC's Stephanopoulos Quotes Discredted NYT w/ O'Keefe/Breitbart
• 5/27/10: FBI: Details on O'Keefe's 'Wiretap Plot'
• 5/26/10: O'Keefe Pleads Guilty in New Orleans
• 5/20/10: O'Keefe Dressed Down by Judge, Allowed to Avoid Trial
• 4/26/10: 'Loser' O'Keefe 'Celebrated' in Song
• 4/15/10: What? No Pulitzer Prize for Dirty Tricks?!
• 4/14/10: AP: Breitbart's Newest Video Deception
• 4/8/10: Duplicate Anti-ACORN 'Editorials' Astroturfed in Rightwing Papers
• 4/7/10: Brad Interviews ACORN CEO Lewis
• 4/7/10: Maddow Airs Unedited 'Pimp' Tapes: 'Firestorm Pure Manure'
• 4/6/10: NYT's ACORN 'Pimp' Finally Goes Missing?
• 4/5/10: Maddow Video: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax 'Triumph of Fake Politics'
• 4/2/10: McClatchy/SacBee Corrects Cvrge of ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax (Hint: NYT!)
• 4/1/11: CA AG: VIDS 'SEVERELY EDITED', SHOW 'NO VIOLATION OF LAW'
• 3/30/10: 'Yes Men': O'Keefe, Breitbart 'Sad, Pathetic, Assholes'
• 3/29/10: Superstar GOP Atty Gets O'Keefe Felony Rap Reduced
• 3/26/10: AUDIO: Brad on S.F. Public Radio's 'Friday Media Roundtable'
• 3/26/10: GritTV: NYT's Belated Correction 'Way, Way, WAY Too Late'
• 3/24/10: VIDEO: Brad on Russian TV re: ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax, NYT Fail
• 3/23/11: No, NYT, O'Keefe Didn't 'Pose as a Pimp' Either
• 3/22/11: NYT PARTIALLY CORRECTS ACORN 'PIMP' MISREPORTS
• 3/22/10: It's About the Democracy & the Media, Stupid
• 3/22/10: GOP 'Mission Accomplished: ACORN to Close Doors
• 3/20/11: NYT'S HOYT ADMITS: 'TIMES WAS WRONG, I WAS WRONG'
• 3/15/10: More Media Condemnation for NYT 'Pimp' Hoax Coverage, Excuses
• 3/11/10: Media Watchdog FAIR Slams NYT Coverage as 'Wildly Misleading'
• 3/12/10: VIDEO: 'The Times Botched the Story': Author on 'DN!'
• 3/10/10: Another Legal Victory: Judge Finds Funding Ban 'Unconstitutional'
• 3/10/10: Real Targets of GOP ACORN Smears: Truth, American Democracy
• 3/8/10: Take Note NYT!: How to 'Edit Video to Meet Your Agenda'
• 3/7/10: Vote Fraudster Ann Coulter Jumps Into 'Pimp' Hoax Lying Game
• 3/5/10: VIDEO: Stephen Colbert Mocks ACORN 'Pimp' Hoax
• 3/4/10: ACORN STRIKES BACK! Demands 'Accountability' from NYT, Others
• 3/3/10: Transcripts Show O'Keefe & Giles 'Buried the Truth'
• 3/2/10: Toon Depicts NYT Editor 'as Weasel' for ACORN Emails
• 3/1/10: NY D.A.: 'No Criminality' in 'Highly Edited' ACORN Videos
• 3/1/10: VIDEO: Breitbart Says 'Had No Idea' About 'Pimp' Hoax
• 2/26/10: NYT Exec Editor in '05: 'Fact-checking is our responsibility'
• 2/24/10: NYT's Public Editor Accuses BRAD BLOG of 'Political Agenda'
• 2/23/10: Exclusive: NYT Public Editor's Remarkable 'Pimp' Hoax Emails
• 2/22/10: Giles Confirms on Video: 'He Wasn't Dressed Like a Pimp'
• 2/21/10: Breitbart 'Apologizes' for 'Apparent' ACORN 'Pimp' Lie
• 2/19/10: Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story a Lie
• 2/17/10: Breitbart Lied About 'Pimp' Claim in Own News Column
• 2/15/10: Group Demands NYTimes Retract O'Keefe 'Pimp' Reports
• 2/15/10: Breitbart Contradicts Self on O'Keefe Salary
• 2/11/10: Rightwing Blogger Attacks Our Coverage, Shoots Self Instead
• 2/10/10: ACORN Reacts to Times Editor Emails: 'Troubling, Disturbing'
• 2/10/10: Follow-Up, Quick Summary of NYT's O'Keefe Story FAIL
• 2/8/10: Exclusive: NYT Editor on False O'Keefe 'Pimp' Stories
• 2/4/10: Race Obsessions of O'Keefe; Twitter Tantrum of Breitbart
• 2/1/10: Questions for Breitbart, AP Investigates, NYTimes Fawns
• 1/30/10: O'Keefe/Breitbart Have Lame Story, Sticking to It
• 1/28/10: VIDEO: 'Orly Taitz' Andy Self-Destructs on MSNBC
• 1/27/10: Breitbart is a Criminal, According to Breitbart's Logic
• 1/27/10: ACORN Defund Bill 'Unconstitutional' After GOP Scam
• 1/26/10: Anti-ACORN Videographer Arrested at Senator's Office


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