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Heather Brooke fought long and hard to break the story, but in the end the Telegraph obviously had deeper pockets. But you have to give the Telegraph credit for
by dtf 17y ago
Heather Brooke fought long and hard to break the story, but in the end the Telegraph obviously had deeper pockets. But you have to give the Telegraph credit for the way they reported it - Labour one week, Tories the next - with both parties receiving an individual public shaming, hence not being able to simply point fingers at each other like they usually do.
- hga 17y agoI got the impression it was even better than that, e.g. didn't David Cameron say some things that he quickly had to walk back when the 2nd shoe dropped? A bit like how the ACORN videos over here were carefully released so that generally at least one statement made after each quickly became "non-operative" as it's said over here.
- spamizbad 17y agoNot following the ACORN example: The district court tossed out their funding cut due to Bill of Attainder and the MA-AG cleared them, complaining that the unedited videos didn't support the claims illustrated in the edited videos. If the shoes dropped they found their way quickly back on ACORN's feet.
- hga 17y agoI'm referring entirely to the sequencing of revelations in these respective scandals. Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com first released one taken at the Baltimore office, followed by Washington, D.C. After the first or second, the head of ACORN said "Well, yes, but we threw them out of the office at A, B, New York City, etc." Then Breitbart released the one in NYC. Lather, rinse, repeat. (It's a bit misleading to say "the MA-AG cleared them", seeing as how that was the execrable (Amiraults) former MA-AG Scott Harshbarger, who was hired by ACORN for an "independent" inquiry.)