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And as for Maddow...

She has nothing except the usual indignant screeching that is the typical response to these things. The few pathetic links to any objective evidence include the "investigation" of ACORN by Jerry Brown, and the "clearing" of the ClimateGate people by the House of Commons. What Maddows defines as "uninterested parties."

More on the Brown investigation here, which dealt only with the Southern California incidents. The investigation supposedly started October 1st. If you're interested, I can show you links on the 20,000 documents ACORN dumped in the following weeks prior to the investigation, or the audio of ACORN's David Langstein telling a group on October 15th that the California AG office had assured him that they would find against the filmmakers.

ACORN is not "dead." To avoid the damage, it's "reinventing" itself under new names with the same people and M.O., and sometimes working out of the same offices. One example is given in article on Brown's investigation. There are many others across the country, to date including Arkansas, Missouri, and New York. Obama spiked the Federal investigation, but Judicial Watch obtained DOJ documents using the Freedom of Information Act. There are links in that article.

As for ClimateGate, I suspect that the result of the House of Commons investigation was the first real news story on this subject that Maddow has even seen. The investigation consisted largely of one day of oral testimony. Newspapers in England, Germany, and elsewhere, unlike U.S. news sources, have been covering the breakdown of the system in detail for many weeks, and they did not arrive at so benign a conclusion. Yet, as far as the average liberal is concerned, judging by a quick scan of leftist web sources, the House of Commons investigation is the first and last word on the subject.

If you're interested, here's a pretty good article from Spiegel.

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