Tag: James O’Keefe

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

Our friends, the really important and incredibly influential Senior Fellows at Media Matters for America, are projecting again. And, as usual, they are misleading their readership, which largely consists of the interns at the Maddow, Schultz and Olbermann shows. They

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

In the New Jersey Star-Ledger Continuous News Desk post “James O’Keefe, three others plead guilty in New Orleans senator phone prank” of May 26th, 2010, the writer says that James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists attempted to “wiretap” the

Even in defeat, the hacks and non-entities at Media Matters — led by the embarrassingly humorless head hack, Eric Boehlert– just can’t write a story about James O’Keefe without letting their bias and contempt for him get in the way

James O’Keefe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor today for his guerrilla-reporting stunt last January in the New Orleans offices of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. The charge that he has admitted to, “entering federal property under false pretenses,” is a far

UPDATE: O’Keefe promises more undercover investigations. Full update after the jump. NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of entering federal

It’s glorious to see government mouthpieces extend the benefit of the doubt to someone mired in a court case when that someone plays for their team. Case in point: David Kernell, son of Tennessee Rep. Mike Kernell, who stands charged

Rachel Maddow, whose special on Timothy McVeigh airs on MSNBC tonight, is quite the investigative reporter. Not long ago, she obtained explosive evidence of James O’Keefe’s wardrobe fraud, and she has unleashed it on both of her viewers. Thanks to

Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) has announced their annual awards for investigative journalism. I’m sure you’ve already guessed the winner in the “On-line” category. Of course, it was a tough call for them. The competition was stiff: Big Hollywood’s expose

FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE OF ENTERING FEDERAL PROPERTY UNDER FALSE PRETENSES NEW ORLEANS, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Joseph Basel, age 24, Stan Dai, age 24, Robert Flanagan, age 24, and James O’Keefe, age 25, were charged in a

If all goes as planned, on April 1, America will wave farewell to a very large and overtly corrupt organization. News came out yesterday that ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – is shutting down on

Yeah, yeah, I know: you’re all broke up about it: [youtube VJ8xf4hBn6I&feature nolink] Well, try to control yourselves. After all, there are hordes of bloggers — OK, a couple — who staked their reputations on the idiotic “gotcha” of whether

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

That’s a sadder-but wiser David Shuster you see in the following teaser video on “media bias” from Mediaite, responding to off-camera questions from someone named Tommy “We Got Him” Christopher. Watch in amazement as a chastened Shuster dodges, weaves, and

A post entitled “Can Alinsky’s Tactics Work on the Right? Should They?” by Christian Hartsock in Big Journalism, along with local battles between ultra- conservatives and other conservatives over using Alinsky’s tactics to further the cause, brings to light that

The religiously pro-abortion New York Times recently gave needed, though less than straightforward coverage to the pro-life outreach, only recently successful, to black women regarding abortion. The issue, long neglected by the MSM, is significant: Although blacks make up only

James O’Keefe has to be destroyed in some way. And the best way you can attack an effective conservative in America today is to call him a racist. In the past year the tactic has been used against Rush Limbaugh,