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To: tejek who wrote (548071)	2/4/2010 7:56:17 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1575517

Why do liberals lie? O'Keefe vs. Max Blumenthal: How the Left Distorts, Invents and Lies Posted by Larry O'Connor Feb 3rd 2010 at 6:43 pm in Featured Story, Print Journalism, liberal media, media bias \| Comments (288) 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 Jared Taylor and National Review’s homophobe extraordinaire John Derbyshire. It was originally supposed to be held at the building of the conservative activist organization Leadership Institute until it was forced to move to another location….. There was also a photographer there, and lo and behold this picture has surfaced of a now familiar face attending the forum - James O’Keefe. O’Keefe was manning a table at a forum of suit-and-tie Nazis. A DC area photographer snapped a photo of O’Keefe as he maintained a literature table near the panelists. okeefe The photograph that One People’s Project shows as its proof (above) is cropped and just shows O’Keefe from the shoulders up. It doesn’t show that he is sitting at all, let alone at a table, let alone “manning” the table at the event apparently hosted by the Robert Taft Club. Max Blumenthal — son of Clinton apparatchik “Sid Vicious” Blumenthal — at Salon.com picked up on the story and extrapolated even more: According to One People’s Project founder Daryle Jenkins, O’Keefe was manning the literature table at the gathering that brought together anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism. But Salon wasn’t happy with the headshot that OPP ran, so they cropped his face and photoshopped him in a white suit (surprised it wasn’t a hood and robe): salonokeefe Within an hour or so the Village Voice got really creative on its media blog and added a little more to the mix: James O’Keefe, the videographer famous for taking down ACORN (and infamous for trying to take down Senator Landrieu), organized a speaking forum for white supremacists, and was even photographed manning the event’s merchandise table. That’s right, we’ve gone from O’Keefe attending the event to O’Keefe manning a literature table to O’Keefe organizing the entire event! This is what the Left does. This is how they do it. We would think that Mr. Blumenthal at Salon or Stephen Thrasher at the Village Voice, as responsible reporters, might have called Mr. O’Keefe to get his response to the allegations made in an obscure blog. But no. Instead they ran the story and (in the case of the Voice) actually added new and juicy lies to the myth. Well, here at Big Journalism we think it’s a good idea to actually seek the truth. So we spoke with James O’Keefe today. This is what he tells us: 1. He was not “manning a table” at the event 2. He was not involved with the organization or operations of the event. 3. He attended the event with many of his Leadership Institute co-workers since it was right across the street from their building in Arlington, Va., and it was organized by other LI associates. 4. The organizer who is being called a “White Supremacist” is half Jewish and half Korean. [ Damn, they;re not making white supremacists like they used to ... LOL ] 5. One of the panelist was an African-American named Kevin Martin. 6. The event was forced to move to a Georgetown University building in Arlington, not at a cross-burning. We know all this because we called Mr. O’Keefe and asked him. Which is more than other media outlets have done. We also spoke with Daryle Jenkins of One People’s Project, the man who started this entire legend. We asked if he had a photograph that actually showed O’Keefe “manning the table” as has been reported, and he said that this cropped photo was all they had. His claim that Mr. O’Keefe “manned” the table of literature is based on eye-witnesses who were at the event. We are supposed to believe that four years after the fact these eyewitnesses remember O’Keefe being there, remember what he was doing, and even remember what was on the table in front of him. Mr. Jenkins only produced the name of one witness: David Weigel who, at the time was a reporter with Reason Magazine. We called Mr. Weigel and he denied ever telling Mr. Jenkins that Mr. O’Keefe was “manning the table.” Indeed, he has already gone on record denying he said that. Here is the story they actually have: James O’Keefe attended a forum years ago that dealt with race and politics. The forum was located at a Georgetown University building (that’s right, a 21-year-old man attended an event on a college campus). The forum had as one of its three speakers a controversial figure, Jared Taylor, with a track record of making racist statements. He was being debated by two other people including Mr. Martin (taking issue with the racist figure). Mr. Taylor has also appeared with Phil Donohue, Queen Latifa and Paula Zahn on their TV shows to debate race. Are the audience members of the Donohue show racist for sitting and watching that debate? [ Damn, Donohue, Zahn and Queen Latifa are all white racists too! ] Honestly, that isn’t much of a story. But… you put Mr. O’Keefe at a table full of racist literature and you say that he was manning the table. And you say you have a picture proving it. And you make it sound like he was one of the organizers of this event. And you call the event a “White Supremacist Conference”. Well… now you’ve got a story. Only problem: It’s all a lie. ..... I heard that Daryle Jenkins hates women and regularly frequents brothels That's what someone said. Must be true. Right? Report Reply ...... And Democrat Senator Robert Byrd used to burn crosses on his constituents' lawns before breaking into their houses and raping the children. Just ask some people or something. There's even a sketch in a notebook somewhere that proves it. True story. Shiori 62p · 21 hours ago Fortunately, the true believers of the left are a dieing breed, and never really had credibility to begin with. What a laugh riot. Their lies have always been a hoot, but they're getting worse at it - who thought it could be possible? This will be on Olbermann tonight as proven, unequivocal fact. Keep it coming losers - your feet must be full of bullet wounds. Report ...... Go to their website--you'll see the hateful, blatantly false BS they are peddling...doesn't take a genius to see they are radical, insane leftist loons. ..... The O'Keefe picture is transparently Photoshopped. However... The video of BO's pastor damning America wasn't Photoshopped. The picture of Bill Ayers standing on the American flag in an alley wasn't Photoshopped. Sound like he has radical associations. ...... snoooooozn 51p · 21 hours ago Here is how lefties get their stories. 1) Some stoned blogger in his mom's basement makes up a story, or hears it from his aunt Ethel, and posts it on the internet. 2) The trolls at MediaMatters , HuffPo, and Kos etc. find the blog ang write a story on it citing the author as an anonomous source. 3) The other leftie sites then pick up the story and exagerate, extrapolate, etc. 4) The MSM then jump on the story because of the buzz at the aforementioned sites and write a headline story using the other sites as sources. 5) Lather, rinse, repeat.

To: tejek who wrote (548071)	2/5/2010 7:08:22 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575517

You dropped that O'Keefe is racist story like a hot potato, I see. Good idea. The Wheels Come Off for Salon and Blumenthal as Weigel Issues ‘Clarification’ of O’Keefe Event Posted by Frank Ross Feb 5th 2010 at 10:05 am in Featured Story, First Amendment, New Media, Racism, media bias \| Comments (72) 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 blog posts that James O’Keefe once helped organize a “racist conference,” has now “clarified” his remarks and guess what? Your story just fell apart. Read it and weep: Clarification — and Mea Culpa — on James O’Keefe and ‘Race and Conservatism’ On Wednesday, I wrote a post reacting to Max Blumenthal’s story “James O’Keefe’s Race Problem” and was too quick with a description of the August 30, 2006 Robert Taft Club event on “race and conservatism.” Specifically, I wrote this: “A zoomed-in headshot of James O’Keefe (after the jump), then working for the Leadership Institute, survived, although it cropped out the table he was sitting at, covered in controversial literature.” In a later post, I walked this back: While I’d been at the event, it was Isis, a photographer/investigator for the One People’s Project, who told me that her photo was actually a picture of O’Keefe at a table of controversial literature. But several e-mailers and commenters have pointed out that my first post appeared to endorse Blumenthal’s whole story. I want to quickly walk through that story and point out the parts that, based on my experience at the event and interviews with Isis and event organizer Marcus Epstein, were not true. photo-in-context There follows five points of material error in Blumenthal’s story and in the original post at the “anti-racist” website, One People’ s Project (whose site is adorned with the old Soviet Union colors of red and gold, and features a Soviet-style logo). Among the revelations: O’Keefe has denied any role in planning the event, and Epstein has backed him up. In an interview yesterday, Isis told me: “I don’t believe O’Keefe planned the event.” Weigel goes on to say: I stand by the rest of my description of the event in my original post. But later that day, as Breitbart started pushing back against the story, I wrote: “I’m curious to see what Breitbart goes after — I was at the 2006 event that leads Blumenthal’s story andcan confirm all the details about it.” That was sloppy phrasing — I meant that I could confirm all the stuff I’d already written. I had no idea that One People’s Project had told Breitbart’s reporter that I could confirm the facts as presented by them. They should stand by their own story — and they really, really need to produce a full photo of O’Keefe at the event. Now the indispensable Patterico (Patrick Frey) has joined the fray. In a post this morning, Patterico dissects Weigel’s mea culpa and adds: Weigel is far from conservative — but he does appear to me to be an honest writer. Now, according to the logic of the left, the fact that Weigel was at the event means he is a racist and you can’t believe anything he says. Right? But assuming you don’t subscribe to that loony “logic,” you might pay some attention to what Weigel has to say. Max Blumenthal’s story has completely fallen apart. It is time for Salon to issue a lengthy and detailed retraction. You can read our request for retractions here. Over to you Joan and Max. bigjournalism.com