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Now welcome to the Best of Left Podcast with clips today from On the Media,

The Rachel Maddo Show, The Colbert Report, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The Daily Show,

The Mother Jones Podcast, and Ring of Fire.

This week, the House voted to deny the federally funded group ACORN any more money.

ACORN staffers have been fired in the group, which provides assistance to low-income families,

is now conducting its own internal investigation.

All prompted by a sting conducted by two young activists, James O'Keefe,

playing a pimp, and Hannah Giles posing as a prostitute,

who taped ACORN workers offering advice on how to cheat the system in five different cities.

Their incriminating videos were posted on the conservative website biggovernment.com.

Let me make sure there's a code for it, okay?

A code for prostitution?

Okay, let's see what we got here.

Performance bar, independent bars.

You can be dead.

The Daily Show's John Stewart had harsh words for the mainstream media.

You're telling me that two kids from the cast of high school musical three

can break this story with a video camera and their grandmother's chinchilla coat,

and you got nothing?

So what is the role of the mainstream media here?

They didn't break the story, but they could contextualize it,

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