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Breitbart's Big Government doesn't understand what "ignored" means

December 18, 2009 5:26 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

Throwing itself a year-end pity party, Breitbart's site Big Government lists all the hugely important right-wing 'news' stories that the press "ignored" this year. And sitting at No. 2 is "ACORN," which is curious because when you do a search of Nexis and look for news stories that had multiple mentions of ACORN since Big Government's hidden video camera story broke in September, you discover that there have been more than 5,000 news reports on ACORN this year 

So in the world of Breitbart's Big Government, the media "ignored" the ACORN story by covering it more than 5,000 times.

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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (December 18, 2009 5:57 pm ET)
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      So in the world of Breitbart's Big Government, the media "ignored" the ACORN story by covering it more than 5,000 times.

      Well of course, Mr. Boehlert! When you fail to make Breitbart's ACORN claim the lead story in every broadcast and publication, you're clearly ignoring it...
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (December 18, 2009 6:41 pm ET)
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      So in the world of Breitbart's Big Government, the media "ignored" the ACORN story by covering it more than 5,000 times.

      No I think he feels "ignored" because he didn't get a Pulitzer for the story.

      Of course, I don't think they award Pulitzers for hack jobs that aren't based in reality.



      Do they????
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