Thursday, September 17, 2009

Speaking of not checking the facts ...

... (which I was, at the end of the last post), it's pretty instructive to see how quickly Fox News jumped all over the latest ACORN-related nonsense -- MURDER!!!1! -- based on nothing more than Drudge tool Andrew Breitbart's say-so.

If you're interested in another example of how wingnutosphere-generated smears find their way into the MSM, Media Matters has several posts unraveling this. Start here, note the quote from the ACORN employee in question at the end of this press release, and read a good analysis/opinion piece here.

(h/t: Twin, via email)

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