The New York Times continues to prop up serial media hoaxer James O'Keefe
I think this story should concern all of us Democrats. Stay alert--we never know when or who's campaign these smuts will attack next.
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Sun Sep 06, 2015 at 11:01 AM PDT
The New York Times continues to prop up serial media hoaxer James O'Keefe
If there is never a price to be paid for dishonesty, then our politics are going to remain dishonest. That much is clear as conservative serial video faker James O'Keefe and his group continue to get coverage for their "gotcha" footage of non-conservatives they don't like doing "things" they later edit to make look corrupt or illegal. O'Keefe has been continually exposed as doing just that, and has settled lawsuits over it, and was convicted of criminal activity in one particular attempt to do it. And yet it's been a long time since I've seen a piece as slavishly gullible as the latest New York Times piece on his supposed efforts. It was originally titled "James O’Keefe, a political sleuth, to stalk campaigns for wrongdoing," but was soon changed to an only slightly less dishonest headline. Nonetheless, if you didn't already know that the aforementioned James O'Keefe was (1) a conservative ideologue who (2) was widely and commonly known for faking stories in an effort to sabotage the names of his political opponents, you weren't going to learn it from the New York Times.
Presidential campaigns were put on notice on Tuesday that the stakes will be higher in this election cycle as Project Veritas Action, a research team that uses undercover investigators, warned that it was stepping up its stalking.
There are several problems in that solitary sentence. For starters, it's difficult to call them a "research" team, since they do almost no meaningful research. Next, "undercover investigations" is a bit much since, as we have discussed, what they do is not investigate so much as fabricate. As one example, recall the time O'Keefe and his team attempted to bring Democratic campaign material into a nonprofit Colorado get-out-the-vote group so that he could release footage of the group supposedly "coordinating" with that campaign. That's not an "investigation," that's faking a story outright. There are no mitigating circumstances there, and if the editors of the New York Times or any other paper still abide attaching the label "researcher" or "investigator" or "journalist" to a group that has been caught in such fabrications repeatedly then perhaps readers should be treating the New York Times' own journalism with more skepticism.
Finally, presidential campaigns aren't "on notice" that O'Keefe is stalking them. James O'Keefe's group has an easily looked-up track record: It is funded by conservatives, it is promoted by conservatives, it is staffed by conservatives, and it exclusively targets groups perceived to be election-time enemies of conservatives. There's only one presidential campaign he's stalking, and that's whoever the current Democratic frontrunner is. The Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and-so-on-and-so-on campaigns have not a damn thing to worry about, and you and I and they and the New York Times, I would hope, all know this.
In fact, the word "conservative" does not appear anywhere in the New York Times story. Keep reading for more............
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Still perpetrating hoaxes for the conservative cause.
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