Tag: James O’Keefe

You know you’re having a bad day, Joan Walsh, when it’s just you and Max Blumenthal alone in a foxhole while you’re being overwhelmed by the truth. Because David Weigel, one of your sources for Blumenthal’s story and Max’s own

Yesterday the Village Voice published a piece “OPP: James O’Keefe, ACORN and Landrieu Stinger, Ran Racist Forum” which they erroneously claimed that James O’Keefe “organized a speaking forum for white supremacists.” This Village Voice released this update this afternoon: James

For Release: February 4, 2010 Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or (703) 568-4727 or dalmasi@nationalcenter.org or Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org Washington, DC – Kevin Martin of the black leadership group Project 21 and Amy Ridenour

In Max Blumenthal’s article “James O’Keefe’s race problem” for Salon.com of February 3, 2010, Mr. Blumenthal makes a number of unverifiable and provably false claims regarding James O’Keefe’s attendance at a 2006 conference called “Race and Conservatism.” Below are the

David Weigel at the Washington Independent interviewed Marcus Epstein, organizer of the “Race and Conservatism” event that has been labeled as a “Racist Forum.” He flatly denies allegations that have been made that James O’Keefe worked at the event or

The Left accusing James O’Keefe of being racist against blacks is the equivalent of accusing Oskar Schindler of being racist against Jews. Before O’Keefe became famous throughout the world for his undercover sting of ACORN, he was celebrated in the

**UPDATED** 2/3/10, 1:26 PM PST Max Blumenthal has called my post yesterday at Big Journalism “fact-challenged” and “riddled with falsehoods”. I found five assertions in the piece that I had lied. I will address them in order of their appearance:

It started with a blog post at something called One People’s Project, in which someone named Daryle Jenkins claimed: (In 2006) ..there was this white supremacist forum that we had called attention to and eventually attended that featured American Renaissance’s

From NPR’s “All Things Considered”: [audio: /files/2010/02/20100202_atc_17-3.mp3] Conservative Blogger Faces Criticism Over Protege, by DAVID FOLKENFLIK The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers. During a recent visit to his

From FoxNews.com: James O’Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney’s office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday. The same day the

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

In James Gordon Meek’s article “ACORN prankster, James O’Keefe, arrested for incident at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office” of January 26th, 2010, Mr Meek twice referred to an attempt to “bug” Sen. Landrieu by James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists

James O’Keefe still gets my vote for investigative journalist of the year. Teaming with Hannah Giles to expose illegal and immoral tactics deep in the ACORN shakedown operation was brilliant. Now, O’Keefe has one-upped himself with his exposure of an

In the article posted on the Huffington Post written by legal scholar Jonathan Turley, “James O’Keefe Tweets Info On Wiretapping Case, Violates Gag Order” of January 28th, 2010, the headline makes an unverifiable claim that James O’Keefe is in violation

In Megan McArdle’s piece “A Tape Too Far” of January 26th, 2010, Ms. McArdle repeatedly refers to an alleged wiretapping plot by James O’Keefe at the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu: James O’Keefe, the guy who did the ACORN sting,

There’s a concept, often applied to intelligence operations, called “mirror thinking.” This refers to the assumption that everyone else acts in the same way you would and is motivated by the same things that would motivate you. When the old

In your editorial “James O’Keefe’s Latest Caper” of January 26th, 2010, the incident involving James O’Keefe at Sen. Landrieu’s office earlier this week is referred to as a “bugging scandal,” which is likened to Watergate: Filmmaker James O’Keefe III is