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Moreover, when the Times botched the ACORN story, as Hoyt now concedes, it acted as an unwitting co-conspirator with Fox News, Glenn Beck and the rest of the right wing echo chamber in scapegoating an organization that helps the working poor facing hard times to stay in their homes, make a living wage, and vote.

Peter Dreier: Why ACORN Fell: The Times , Lies, and Videotape Peter Dreier 2010

Think about that – the people to whom we have handed over responsibility for educating our children are engaged in scapegoating, offering bread-and-circus diversions while the children under their care see their life chances slipping away.

'Manifesto' should be resignation letter Valerie Strauss 2010

By engaging in scapegoating, you have played into the hands of corporate America and the elitists who have you on a puppet-string …

Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 12, 2010 2010

Holier than thou scapegoating is also part of news reporting and is not simply confined to the U.S.

Oh No! A Scary, Horrible Tiger Is Gonna Eat ME! « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2007

And to suggest that the MSM is being manipulated by terrorists is simply the ultimate in scapegoating ever to be mentioned.

Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’ 2006

Caught in the scapegoating is a saturated solar manufacturing sector that is struggling to stay afloat as prices for PV panels drop and renewable tax credits run out at the end of the year.

Shifra Mincer: AOL Energy Week In Review Shifra Mincer 2011

Saying all muslims are a certain way is called scapegoating and hitler did it to the jews with much success.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

Republicans accuse Dems of "scapegoating," and Politico is right that a key Dem talking point is to pin the blame for Dem travails directly on all this undisclosed spending.

Are Dems really scapegoating outside groups? Greg Sargent 2010

Meanwhile, the Blackstone Group, which manages billions of dollars of state and local public pension money, issued a statement seemingly out of the blue last Wednesday opposing the "scapegoating" of "public employees."

Rich Trumka's Haka Dance 2011

The subprime mortgage crisis offers textbook examples of racial 'scapegoating' and factual distortions ..

Emma Coleman Jordan: Individual Responsibility, Subprime Mortgages and Race by Nicholas Austin 2009