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Beck and Hannity: How Many Deaths Linked to ACORN? How About Blackwater? Email Print

The hypocrisy goes on and on and on when it comes to right wing Fox propaganda zealots Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

With so much focus being registered on ACORN by Rupert Murdoch's dynamic duo it should be asked:  How many deaths have been caused by ACORN?  How much federal funding has ACORN received?  How about directing those same questions regarding Blackwater, Halliburton, and Kellogg, Brown, and Root?

Eric Burns, president of Media Matters, on September 24 delivered a release revealing the results of that organization's effort to uncover answers to those foregoing questions.  The results speak volumes.  

On Beck and Hannity's programs combined ACORN was mentioned 1,502 times between May 8, 2006 and September 18, 2009.  As Eric Burns noted, "Remember that ACORN has not been charged with any wrongdoing.  Not only that, but the organization has been awarded just $53 million in federal funding over the past 15 years -- an average of $3.5 million per year."

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Abramoff Probe Exposes Another Bribery-Colored Coincidence for Bob Ney to Explain Email Print

Here's what a recent Newsweek story says about Congressman Bob Ney's (R-OH) most recent bribery-colored coincidence:

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