James O’Keefe pays ex-ACORN employee $100,000 settlement over faked tapes

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No, really: Conservatives consider this serious journalism. I s–t you not. It’s not exactly a satisfying coda to the last half-decade of conservative frothing about ACORN, the group apparently responsible for everything from Ohio voting patterns to the black helicopters that circle Rep. Louie Gohmert’s head each night, but at least it’s something: head tape-faker… Read more »

AP Pays Tribute to ‘Master Communicator’ and ‘Fine Baseball Player’ Hugo Chavez

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Frank Bajak of the AP lionized Venezuelan autocrat and "fighter" Hugo Chavez minutes after his death on Tuesday, playing up in the second sentence of his item how the "former paratroop commander and fiery populist…outsmarted his rivals time and again." Bajak later hyped Chavez as a "master communicator and savvy political strategist." read more Source:… Read more »