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James O'Keefe Pays Out To Just One Victim Of His Acorn Video Deception
By Bertha Lewis
Source: The Guardian
Monday, March 18, 2013
In this season of redemption, I am reminded of a saying my grandmother had for those who were deceitful, who lied or committed bad acts. Anytime we heard a story of something someone had done to harm another, she would say:
"God don't like ugly and the devil is a liar."
More than three years ago, a man named James O'Keefe, paid by rightwing media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, produced deceptively edited videos. The recordings were used to help launchwww.BigGovernment.com. With Breitbart's help, the release of these videos set off a spiral of mainstream media attention that began with Fox News and the rightwing echo chamber and ended with the closure of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) – an organization that since 1970 had served millions of Americans in dire need of housing, social and community justice.
From www.BigGovernment.com, Fox News took these videos and aired them as fact. Shortly thereafter, other mainstream media outlets also aired them – astonishingly failing to do due diligence, thus also failing to protect my friend and colleague Juan Carlos Vera, as well as Acorn itself.
"God don't like ugly and the devil is a liar."
More than three years ago, a man named James O'Keefe, paid by rightwing media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, produced deceptively edited videos. The recordings were used to help launchwww.BigGovernment.com. With Breitbart's help, the release of these videos set off a spiral of mainstream media attention that began with Fox News and the rightwing echo chamber and ended with the closure of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) – an organization that since 1970 had served millions of Americans in dire need of housing, social and community justice.
From www.BigGovernment.com, Fox News took these videos and aired them as fact. Shortly thereafter, other mainstream media outlets also aired them – astonishingly failing to do due diligence, thus also failing to protect my friend and colleague Juan Carlos Vera, as well as Acorn itself.
http://www.zcommunications.org/james-okeefe-pays-out-to-just-one-victim-of-his-acorn-video-deception-by-bertha-lewis
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