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WaPo Retracts Racism Charges Made By Darryl Fears & Carol Leonnig.
RedState.com ^ | September 22, 2009 | Moe Lane

Posted on 09/22/2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by khnyny

Darryl Fears & Carol Leonnig being the Washington reporters who did their level best to make their story about James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles racial:

Though O’Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans.

“Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization,” he said. “No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find.”

(Bolding mine) Well, guess who had to retract that passage by Darryl Fears & Carol Leonnig*?

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: acorn; hannahgiles; jamesokeefe; msm; okeefe; racism; washingtonpost; wp

1 posted on 09/22/2009 3:45:39 PM PDT by khnyny
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To: khnyny; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; youturn; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ...
ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


2 posted on 09/22/2009 3:46:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Here's the correction:

Correction to This Article
"This article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a conservative journalist targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos partly because its voter-registration drives bring Latinos and African Americans to the polls. Although ACORN registers people mostly from those groups, the maker of the videos, James E. O’Keefe, did not specifically mention them."

So....Darryl Fears, Carol Leonnig and the Washington Post LIED.
3 posted on 09/22/2009 3:49:21 PM PDT by khnyny (Obama gives new meaning to the term "familiarity breeds contempt")
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To: khnyny

Of course buried on the next to last page.


4 posted on 09/22/2009 3:58:18 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: khnyny

Sure glad we have responsible editors there to keep them from printing irresponsible, unreliable, inaccurate garbage.....

hh


5 posted on 09/22/2009 4:41:37 PM PDT by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: khnyny; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; cindy-true-supporter; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


6 posted on 09/25/2009 4:26:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: khnyny

WaPost lies, liberals cry.


7 posted on 09/25/2009 4:39:11 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: khnyny

“its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos....”

...and illegals, and babies, and dead people....


8 posted on 09/25/2009 7:33:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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