By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--June 28, 2011
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That wasn't the lesson of the ACORN videos at all. After a long battle, the Times admitted that much of its coverage of the Breitbart/James O'Keefe videos was misleading. The paper told readers that O'Keefe actually went into ACORN offices dressed in a ridiculous "pimp" get-up. He did not.Whether O'Keefe was dressed up as a stereotypical pimp (the videos show him entering ACORN offices in regular clothes) is a tedious red herring. The videos clearly show ACORN employees going out of their way to provide advice on how to break the law. Period. Not surprisingly, Hart's fake media watchdog employer is bought and paid for by the Left. FAIR is funded by a mixture of left-of-center and extreme left grant makers. Since 2000 the Tides Foundation has given FAIR $81,844. Tides founder Drummond Pike is the gentleman who paid around $700,000 in hush money to try to keep the million dollar embezzlement scandal at ACORN under wraps. Pike is also treasurer of George Soros's Democracy Alliance, a group of radical billionaires who want to turn America into Greece. Other donors to FAIR include the Ford Foundation ($400,000 since 2001), Glaser Progress Foundation ($20,000 in 2001), Schumann Center for Media and Democracy Inc. ($815,000 since 2003), Funding Exchange Inc. ($30,000 since 2003), and the Ithaca, N.Y.-based Park Foundation Inc. ($50,000 since 2005). Needless to say, FAIR isn't fair.
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