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Article: ACORN video creates new conservative star; Breitbart wins following Web sites provide outlet to the right
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- The Washington Post
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- October 31, 2009
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Andrew Breitbart blew into Washington recently for what amounted
to a victory lap.
The Internet entrepreneur spent last week soaking up accolades
from conservatives for having offered guidance to the two twenty-
somethings who posed as a pimp and prostitute and took a hidden
camera into several ACORN offices. The pair filmed workers from the
national liberal community group appearing to aid them as they
inquired about starting a brothel -- a move that has put ACORN on
the defensive and made the activists, James O'Keefe and Hannah
Giles, instant conservative heroes.
But in the end it's Breitbart who may be the biggest winner.
It was the 40-year-old Breitbart who masterminded the strategy ...