Media Matters and the Huffington Post have tried to expose a supposed conflict of interest for journalist Nina Easton’s coverage of the shameful tactics used by SEIU this past weekend as they stormed the home of a Bank of America executive. In doing so, they uncritically repeated a complete and total lie spewed out by SEIU’s propaganda machine.

In yesterday’s post exposing the propaganda efforts from MMFA and HuffPo, where they carried water for SEIU blogger-goon John Vandeventer, we seem to have downplayed how completely and totally deceitful and misleading their “reporting” really was.

If you recall, SEIU thugs invaded a quiet suburban neighborhood on Sunday afternoon and protested on the lawn and private property of Bank of America executive Greg Baer. Fortune magazine journalist Easton happened to be Baer’s neighbor and the ruckus was so obnoxious that it woke her two-year-old child from a nap.

She reported on the event in Fortune and noted that SEIU is currently in an effort to organize the bank tellers at B of A. She also revealed that SEIU owes B of A millions of dollars and today, our own Liberty Chick fleshes that story out even more… $90 million more!

SEIU’s blogger-goon Vandeventner then wrote an embarrassing and shameless piece of agitprop, suggesting Easton’s real motivation was to do her husband’s bidding in protecting one of his PR firm’s clients, Business Roundtable, who counts the B of A CEO as one of its 150 members. The big embarrassment is that this claim was picked up by HuffPo and MMFA, who then dutifully joined the attack on Easton, a spectacle worthy of the good old days when Pravda would go after malcontents at the bidding of Uncle Joe.

Now that we’ve had a day to ask a question or two, we can now reveal how utterly and totally these hacks have failed.

Yes, Easton’s husband is Russ Schriefer and yes, he owns a PR firm, The Stevens & Schriefer Group (SSG). That is about all they got right. The Business Roundtable, the “conflict of interest” that HuffPo and MMFA use to try and intimidate Nina Easton (and any other reporter who dare criticize SEIU and their thuggish tactics) has not been a client of SSG in over a decade. It took one email to confirm this fact.

But HuffPo and MMFA couldn’t go that extra step. There was a real journalist’s integrity to besmirch. They have their priorities. And clearly, neither truth nor context are among them.

Isn’t it time for other reporters to start peeling back at this relationship between SEIU and MMFA? And shouldn’t we start to hear more voices critical of the union’s actions in disrupting a neighborhood and intimidating the teenage child of Mr. Baer, who was home alone while these people stormed the front of his house?

Or, by carrying water for the union, are MMFA and HuffPo signaling to us that it is now OK for Tea Parties to organize on the front porches of Eric Boehlert, John Podesta and Arianna Huffington?