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NY Post sources: Answers on ACORN tapes "were taken out of context"

March 04, 2010 5:20 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From a March 2 article in the New York Post titled "ACORN set up by vidiots: DA":

The NY Post is owned by News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News Channel.

Previously

Daily News law enforcement source: O'Keefe and Giles "edited the tape to meet their agenda"

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    • Author by Midnight Kevin (March 04, 2010 5:33 pm ET)
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      Didn't need a news article to come to this conclusion... anyone with half a brain could have figured out the tapes were nothing but worthless propaganda...
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    • Author by Dradeeus (March 04, 2010 5:49 pm ET)
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      It still infuriates me that the government, even democrats, were preemptively judging ACORN.
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      • Author by phredicles (March 04, 2010 6:13 pm ET)
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        It's certainly never been hard to stampede Democrats into appeasing right-wingers.

        What I want to know is whether there will be criminal charges (or civil motions, at least) for these attempts to incriminate and defame people.
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    • Author by newzhound (March 04, 2010 6:49 pm ET)
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      I hope the governments that wasted tens of thousands of dollars on this worthless matter will bill the idiots who made the videoes.

      And I hope ACORN sues them into penury.

      I'm sure Sheer "Am i An Idiot?" InSannity will cover this new development in great detail...between advertisements for his new "book," of course.
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    • Author by RKAllen (March 04, 2010 7:29 pm ET)
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      Okay... so a Rupert Murdoch paper is now running with the story that the ACORN tapes are bunk. Will his networks? Will his on air talents? O'Reilly? Beck? Hannity?

      Is there going to be an offer of apology from this network, members of congress, or anyone else who reported this completely bogus and debunked story that resulted in terribly damaging repercussions for an organization that was totally undeserving?

      If this is the "new journalism" then no one is safe. If we can't get legitimate goods on ya, then we are going to break you trying to defend yourself against false attacks that we never intend to retract until the damage is done.
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    • Author by steeve (March 04, 2010 8:27 pm ET)
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      A big fat "duh" for this, except for the people who wondered why we were more concerned with O'Keefe's pimp outfit than with what ACORN did. Those people learned something.
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