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Friday, February 10th, 2012

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Breitbart, Live Action post controversial Planned Parenthood video in shadow of Congressional abortion debate

By | 02.01.11 | 1:38 pm

A new conservative activist hidden-camera video dropped on the internet Tuesday as part of a multi-state effort to catch Planned Parenthood staff on tape offering assistance to men running a child prostitution ring. The immediate aim of the video and its wide distribution is to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding. The larger aim is to blow wind into the sails of the dramatic anti-abortion legislation the new Republican-controlled Congress has introduced that seeks to radically limit funding for abortions in cases of rape, end private insurance policies that provide abortion coverage and defund organizations that provide abortions, like Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation but also one the largest non-abortion reproductive and sexual health care providers coast to coast.

Wednesday Links: Gardner gives Barton back his BP cash

By | 07.21.10 | 1:27 pm

Fourth-District GOP Congressional candidate Cory Gardner this quarter returned $1000 to Joe Barton, the Texas representative who invests (unwisely) with BP and who apologized to the oil giant for the government’s demand that it set aside billions to…

Weigel before he was the guy who resigned from the Washington Post

By | 06.28.10 | 3:55 pm

Reporter Dave Weigel, who has covered the conservative political movement for years, resigned from the Washington Post last week after a writer at Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller rounded up emails Weigel wrote to a journalism listserv and presented…

Calif. Attorney General: ACORN committed no criminal acts

By | 04.02.10 | 11:43 am

The California attorney general’s office yesterday found the anti-poverty organization ACORN guilty of no criminal acts. The investigation, which came to the same conclusion as one announced by the New York A.G. last month, was spurred by videos…

Breitbart offers $10,000 to Lewis for evidence tea partiers called out ‘n-word’

By | 03.26.10 | 9:09 am

My story today focuses on the pushback from conservatives who have issued apologies for some far-out behavior by a few activists last weekend. Andrew Breitbart goes further than anyone I quoted. Breitbart, like Gary Bauer, accuses Reps. John…

O’Keefe and Breitbart prep sting targeting Detroit Free Press

By | 03.11.10 | 4:28 pm

Writing at Wired, Noah Schactman reports an upcoming O’Keefe-Breitbart sting operation. This one targets an Obama tax credit program run through state offices of Housing and Urban Development. O’Keefe reportedly visited offices in Detroit and suggested ways to defraud…

Tea Party Convention marks coming out for a movement

By | 02.08.10 | 11:20 am

NASHVILLE — In the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips didn’t do much talking to the media. The founder of Tea Party Nation, the chief organizer of the conference alongside his wife Shelley, was buffeted by attacks from Tea Party activists who accused him of staging a costly, “elite” convention, and dirtying the reputation of the movement by paying Sarah Palin $100,000 to speak there. On January 14, Tea Party Nation put out word that only five conservative media outlets would get full access to the convention. On January 30, they issued an email to their internal list pushing back against “baseless accusations and criticism” from angry Tea Party activists.

Phone-tamperer O’Keefe’s bad week gets worse: Judge rules ACORN defunding unconstitutional

By | 01.29.10 | 10:33 am

James O’Keefe has admitted spearheading a misguided “phone-tampering” operation at Sen. Mary Landieu’s office in New Orleans this week. “As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other…

Upside-down Watergate: O’Keefe was always the break-in phone-tapper, not the journalist

By | 01.27.10 | 4:07 pm

No one knows what a journalist is anymore and maybe that’s good. But when thirty-one lawmakers on one side of the aisle in Congress decide to commend someone for “journalism,” then it’s abundantly clear the person being commended is…

Conservatives edge away from anti-ACORN filmmaker caught in wiretap scandal

By | 01.27.10 | 8:54 am

On Monday morning, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, both age 24, dressed up as telephone company workers and walked into the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). Inside the office, waiting for them, was James O’Keefe, the 25-year-old conservative activist who posed as a pimp in 2009 for a series of undercover videos that badly damaged the national community organization ACORN. As Basel and Flanagan clumsily worked on the phones, O’Keefe was recording them for a reason that remains unknown. When the “repairmen” and accomplices were asked for ID, they gave themselves up and were arrested.