http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7435By Brad Friedman on 9/25/2009 4:53PM
Maddow: 'The Truth About the Lies About ACORN'
'The more I look into the misleading nature of the charges ... the angrier I get!' --- Welcome aboard, Rachel!
New academic report details media lies, myths, media misinformation about voter registration, community group...
I was delighted (an understatement) to see Rachel Maddow on Thursday night jump into coverage of ACORN --- finally --- by highlighting so much of what we've been reporting here, sometimes completely alone, for years!
She details the facts about the GOP's long-waged phony war against the right's "most reliable trumped-up boogeyman" (using language akin to that in my recent article in the UK's Guardian on the recent rightwing hit job on ACORN and the Democrats' pathetic capitulation to it). Maddow goes on to note the corporate mainstream media's gullibility in "reporting" the wingnuts' out-and-out lies about the group while failing, miserably, for years, to note the truth.