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Matthews on ACORN video: Beck, others “know what they are doing because they are getting an audience from this”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 09/17/09 7:53 PM EDT

From the September 17 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

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Previously:

Matthews says that “the right wing and its allies on talk radio and on Fox TV have claimed another victim”: ACORN

Network news largely silent on Fox News' role in hyping, distorting ACORN story

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