NYT apologized for ACORN story, where are Doper apologies?

There are Dopers who ran with the anti-ACORN video that righty O’Keefe showed to the world. It was bullshit. He never went into any ACORN office dressed in that insulting garb. He wore a pair of Dockers and a dress shirt. Then he told them he was a law student trying to protect his hooker girlfriend from an aggressive pimp. He then collected enough tape so he could edit them in a way that made ACORN look bad. The righties on this board and FOx ran with this story in a blind rage. It was obviously blind. The pimp outfit was so absurd that it would only convince righty suburbanites living in gated communities. It was laughable. It was a lie. The NYT finally printed a detraction. We are waiting patiently for one from the Dopers who should have known better, but bought the story because it might hurt the left and the blacks. Shame on you.
Then a Federal Judge ruled the drying up of funds was a bill of Attainder. Which some board member insisted it was not. ACORN has been destroyed by lies . But at least the Times wrote an apology. I am waiting for the righties on this board to do as much.

It’s “retraction”.

I think you should do a little research, and quote some specific posts you want them to apologize for. I’m not getting that the clothes were that big a part of the story, but I didn’t participate much in those threads, so I could be wrong.

I hope you have great breath control.

That damn librul media again.

The clothes are beside the point.

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Don’t you know that it’s perfectly ok if Republicans/right-wingers/teabaggers lie to mislead and inflame people? It’s only wrong if Democrats/liberals do it.

Get with the program!

ACORN’s been totally blameless in every situation the assholes have tried to inflame. Wait, not tried. Did. ACORN’s history now, and the good works they did are forgotten, and there’s no one to pick up the slack. R/RW/T’s can rest easy, proud and smug in the knowledge that their racist lies did the job.

I am genuinely sorry for everything I said.

Well, this is interesting. Wired just ran a story in this month’s issue about Breitbart and O’Keefe and how the liberal media demonizes them and the ACORN thing was a big part of the story.

Then again, knowing Wired, they might have just known that the NYT was going to print a retraction and decided to print the story knowing it would get people reading.

Hell, I had a couple minutes. A little stroll down memory lane:

In fact, according to the article you linked to, the New York Times has not printed a retraction or correction or apology, and is defending that decision.

Oh, now I know what a “detraction” is. It’s when you don’t print a retraction.

It was a “correction,” rather than a “retraction.”

That’s just one of the NY Times’ weaselings. See the link above for more and more detailed analysis.

Found it:

Here is an article in NYT Op-Ed section:

The New York Times published an article wherein it was stated that President Obama wore a Nixon mask as he tore apart the living bodies of several babies before an alter of Moloch, and feasted upon their still beating hearts. We note that there is no evidence whatsoever that President Obama has ever worn a Nixon mask, or that he owns one. The Times regrets the error…

And from that Op-Ed piece, the real meat of the story stands:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7716 The Times apology was weak but came after the story I cited. Here is the Brad Blog arguing with the Times about what a bullshit story bit was. Nobody can actually back up anything the O’Keefe movie said. You would have to horribly slanted to accept the story when it first came out., but be living in mentally gated community of the mind not to be able to see the entire expose was a lie. The fact that O’Keefe got arrested for messing with a Democrat governors phone system is just more to show what he is. But i still think a Doper apology is in order.

Actually, no, none of it stands since O’Keefe has never turned over the full, unedited tapes, and since what he has submitted publicly has been proven to be tampered and falsified. the ACORN employees have said they thought the kid was joking and played along as part of the joke. The parts of the tapes whch would make it clear they thought it was a joke were edited out. Other parts of the tape show O’Keefe’s voice being overdubbed to make it appear as though the employees are responding to different questions than what he was actually asking.

Anyone who wants to seriously defend this garbage needs to pony up the full, unedited tapes or shut the fuck up. What the right did to ACORN was truly despicable, knowingly dishonest (all you righties know damned well it was a load of shit), and transparently racist.

I can’t wait for this O’Keefe tool to get handed a little single-serving packet of grape jelly on his first day in a federal penitentary and told exactly what he needs to do with it.

Sure, but the grisly connective tissue holding it together is slowly melting in the warm, moist, oven of truth, leaving a delicious pot of spicy, shredded news.

Wait, why are we still talking about O’Keefe? He’s been thrown to the wolves in the Louisiana penal system. Dr. Jack Cassell is your new hero, you should be devoting all your efforts towards defending him.

In fact, that story came before the retraction. The retraction did come.

Nope. The issue was giving advice to someone who was asking how to break the law. It doesn’t need any “connective tissue”.