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Live Action's edited video attack on Planned Parenthood

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You'd think the public and the press would be more skeptical of right-wing video muckraking after the hatchet job that was done on Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, and after judges reviewed the unedited video evidence against ACORN and found the group had done nothing illegal. Sherrod was forced to resign her USDA job, and ACORN was widely discredited, thanks to heavily and misleadingly edited videos were circulated by conservative activists on the Internet. And now here we go again.

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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