New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller: Some years ago, a colleague tried to sum up the essentials that set us apart from agenda-driven journalists of the right and the left. The first is that we believe in verification rather
by Patterico11 Apr 2011, 11:00 AM PST0
You may have read that there is strong evidence of voter fraud in Houston. Here’s what you may not have heard: the organization accused of shady behavior is linked to a former head of an Obama campaign office. She is
by Patterico28 Sep 2010, 10:29 PM PST0
The L.A. Times‘s James Rainey predictably seizes on the Sherrod story, in a futile attempt to rehabilitate his reputation after his mishandling of the ACORN story last year. If I told you that Rainey’s attempt at column is highly dishonest,
by Patterico27 Jul 2010, 4:02 AM PST0
Recently, Matt Welch and I utterly destroyed Eric Boehlert’s ridiculous claim that nobody at the L.A. Times was ever allowed to casually denigrate President Bush: And I don’t even have to do a Google search to know for a fact
by Patterico15 Jun 2010, 1:18 PM PST0
Yes, that is really the title of his post. You’d think one glance at one of my year-end reviews of the L.A. Times would somewhat dispel that notion. And it would . . . for honest people. But such a
by Patterico11 Jun 2010, 8:01 AM PST0
The following is a document that James O’Keefe sent to me last night and has authorized me to publish. It is O’Keefe’s version of events in New Orleans. I believe this is the first time anywhere that he has publicly
by Patterico29 May 2010, 9:40 AM PST0
The following is a document that James O’Keefe sent to me last night and has authorized me to publish. It is O’Keefe’s version of events in New Orleans. I believe this is the first time anywhere that he has publicly
by Patterico29 May 2010, 9:38 AM PST0
It’s a court document signed by the Assistant U.S. Attorney representing the Government: The document can be read in its entirety here. As I noted in a more detailed post below, the Government sought to bury this admission by omitting
by Patterico28 May 2010, 5:07 PM PST0
It’s a court document signed by the Assistant U.S. Attorney representing the Government: The document can be read in its entirety here. As I noted in a more detailed post below, the Government sought to bury this admission by omitting
by Patterico28 May 2010, 3:01 PM PST0
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana has filed a court document admitting that James O’Keefe did not intend to tamper with the phones at Mary Landrieu’s office, or commit any other felony. Oh — and the
by Patterico28 May 2010, 11:27 AM PST0
UPDATE after the jump. **** The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana has filed a court document admitting that James O’Keefe did not intend to tamper with the phones at Mary Landrieu’s office, or commit any other
by Patterico28 May 2010, 9:49 AM PST0
This is what libel looks like. New York Magazine has claimed: When we read this morning that ACORN-sting videographer James O’Keefe pleaded guilty today to attempting to tamper with the phones in Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu’s office, we wondered how
by Patterico26 May 2010, 6:06 PM PST0
Apparently Rachel Maddow has jumped on the pimp hoax bandwagon. Here is the beginning of Raw Story’s wildly misleading summary of Maddow’s wildly pointless diatribe: When conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles released tapes last fall purporting to show
by Patterico8 Apr 2010, 11:59 AM PST0
For once, the liars aren’t winning. For months now, Brad Friedman has engaged in a fundamentally dishonest campaign to save ACORN, by claiming that an inconsequential detail about James O’Keefe’s costume somehow erased the fact that ACORN employees sought to
by Patterico23 Mar 2010, 1:11 PM PST0
This post debunks several liberal myths about ACORN that have emerged in recent weeks — many from Eric Boehlert of Media Matters and Brad Friedman. POSING AS A PIMP AT ACORN Liberal Myth: James O’Keefe did not pretend to be
by Patterico2 Mar 2010, 5:32 PM PST0
**Update here: Boehlert responds… I am offering Eric Boehlert of Media Matters the easiest $100 he ever made. All he has to do to earn the $100: unequivocally state whether James O’Keefe pretended to be a pimp at ACORN offices.
by Patterico26 Feb 2010, 5:14 AM PST0
I was wondering how I had initially gotten the idea that James O’Keefe had been accused of trying to wiretap Mary Landrieu’s phones. After all, if you look at my original post — in which I mistakenly said O’Keefe had
by Patterico1 Feb 2010, 6:28 AM PST0
If you’re like me, you’re tired of being lied to. That’s what got me started in media criticism. I would read the Los Angeles Times every day and shout at the newspaper’s reporters and editors over my cornflakes. “This isn’t
by Patterico6 Jan 2010, 5:59 PM PST0
Big Hollywood today reveals the extensive proof that shows the White House used the National Endowment for the Arts to push a political agenda favorable to President Obama. But it gets worse: the Administration lied about it, and tried to
by Patterico21 Sep 2009, 1:00 PM PST0