Rachel Maddow on Climate-gate and Acorn-gate

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Maddow debunks much bull being floated about.  She says much of what we have heard about all sorts of scandals are mostly ‘bull pucky.  She lambastes the ‘unmooring of facts from politics’ and decries the ‘triumph of fake politics.’

What ever became of the thousands of data entries in England that were supposedly contrived? You know, the ones disproving climate change theories? The British Parliament investigated and found no falsified information.  

Acorn has shut down (imagine that with no money).   However, the California AG got unedited information and it seems that much of the truth lay on the editing floor.  Gov. Schwarzenegger apparently became unhinged over the pimp stories morning, noon and night so he called on his AG to investigate. It seems there was much ado over nothing, but mission accomplished.  I understand the politics of personal destruction.  One doesn’t even have to leave Prince William County to witness them.

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What is a Progressive Radical?

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According to the Washington Post article, The $1,300 Mission to Fell ACORN, James O’Keefe (pimp player)and Hannah Giles (hooker player) did not even know each other personally when they hatched the plan to nail ACORN. They had exchanged emails and talked on Facebook. Giles was studying journalism from a conservative point of view at Young America’s Foundation and had done a study on O’Keefe’s sting on Planned Parenthood. O’Keefe III describes himself as a progressive radical. Now what the hell is that? Is that a new name for Tea Partier?  O’Keefe’s work can be found at the Big govt website.

According to MSNBC :

Though O’Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans.

“Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization,” he said. “No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find.”

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