Can any lawyers here speak to just how much information could potentially be made public via discovery? There seems to be a lot of popular mythology around the discovery process, and I'd like to know what the reality is. This could be seriously interesting, no doubt.

Wait, if BigGovernment.com is posting about her denial with this specific headline, I have to imagine that Bertha Lewis's claim is... probably... maybe... er, provably false? Will love to see how many old-media talking heads let her make the claim without challenge.

RyanPaul made a fantastic point, and it got me thinking... someone could set up a glorious direct sting of the MSM in the wake of this.

1) Create a short series of videos of actors playing NRA officials advising people how to buy, sell and transport guns illegally.

2) Find a convincing frontman to leak those videos through some left-wing organizations like MoveOn, ACORN themselves, or directly to old media (less accurately known as "MSM") outlets. With luck, you could get a real liberal frontman with street cred to do this on a bet*.

3) Wait for the old media to pick it up. Do nothing to deny the story; do everything to make them think we're afraid of it. Let NRA folks in on the act. Get them to temporarily issue only the fuzzy, guilty-sounding kind of denials that get the opposition salivating.

4) Measure the duration and prominence of the coverage by each outlet. As the story gains steam, release a couple more damning videos. Lather, rinse, repeat.

5) Have the NRA exec initially act publicity-shy & evade contact with the big media outlets. When they think he's at his weakest, have him offer an interview to the first big outlet who will agree to show it live or unredacted.

6) Reveal the scam during his interview. Publish the rest of the footage, complete with actors' admissions.

7) Publish charts & graphs with quantifiable comparisons of the coverage. Demand that this be rectified with a set of sweeping amendments to proposed Fairness Doctrine regulations, and that Karl Rove be appointed to the Fairness Czar position, with broad regulatory powers under the FCC.

8) Go have a field day on left-leaning message boards.

kthxbye!

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* You bet that the coverage will be astoundingly lopsided, provided he vouches for the videos when the old media comes looking for one of their own to back them up. If you're wrong, you will buy him or her beers for a year or a ticket to Cuba if the per-video coverage amount & prominence averages anywhere from -100% to +10% of ACORN's scandals across a predefined list of TV and print outlets.