Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Breitbart of Climate Change?

by A Siegel

Let's face facts: Andrew Breitbart has been incredibly effective at damaging American society and undermining progressive infrastructure.

With material that legal investigations, reviews by traditional journalism institutions, and other inspections have shown to be "severely edited" material utterly misrepresenting actual events, Breitbart provided the ammunition that enabled the takedown of an organization (ACORN) that had helped -- quite literally -- 100,000s of people (if not more) but had the sinful reality that it had helped educate lower-income Americans about their rights and mobilize them to vote.  Sadly, many politicians who had benefited from ACORN's mobilization efforts and/or had constituents whose lives had been improved due to ACORN activity jumped on the bandwagon to attack ACORN based on Breitbart's "severely edited" videos -- and the damage, defunding, was done before the evidence exonerating ACORN was in. So much for innocent until proven guilty part ...



continued at Daily Kos...