Conservative media raise ACORN bogeyman to baselessly cast doubt on Franken's campaign victory

[Triana]

The Fox Nation, Gateway Pundit blog, and Mickey Kaus all highlighted a Minneapolis Star Tribune column to claim or suggest that ACORN stole the 2008 Minnesota Senate election for Sen. Al Franken (D). In fact, the column -- which Gateway Pundit and Kaus falsely claimed was a Star Tribune "report" or "story" -- did not contain a single allegation of a fraudulently cast vote, and the Minnesota Supreme Court stated that counsel for Franken's 2008 opponent, Norm Coleman, "confirmed at oral argument that Coleman makes no claim of fraud on the part of either voters or election officials."

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http://mediamatters.org/research/200909290013

I KNEW they would NOT stop at ACORN - the plan - as spelled out by Off The Rails (aka OTR) Bachmann - is to "defund the left" - they will spread their poisonous tentacles FAR and WIDE with this ACORN crap. Expect to continue to hear all sorts of rediculous-anus claims coming from the wingnuts on this - as is/was the plan.

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1. The truth means nothing to "them"

John Kerry was a real hero in Vietnam and got labeled as a coward.

75% of the Americans want a public health option

Al Gore won the 2000 election .... as did Kerry in 2004

Ken Blackwell & Katherine Harris really did election fraud

The total # of bad votes that got counted in Ohio in 2008 because of ACORN was zero.

There were no WMDs in Iraq.

Obama finished top of his class @ Harvard Law ..... Rush, Beck, and Hannity either flunked out or dropped out of college

and so on.

It is the Big Lie theory ..... just keep repeating it and after awhile some people will believe it.

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2. Of course they are

And by extension, on Obama's victory.

[Triana]

3. That's what I'm expecting next. I'm sure it's on the agenda. n/t