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February 4, 2010
Anatomy of a Left-Wing Smear
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at February 4, 2010 5:51 PM
Big Journalism has an interesting piece on how the left-wing media collaborated on a smear of ACORN-exposer James O'Keefe. To summarize:
1. A left-wing blogger accused O'Keefe of attending a meeting of people they labeled "white supremacists," and provided a suspiciously cropped photograph as "evidence."
2. Max Blumental at Salon (son of Democrat attack dog Sid "Vicious" Blumenthal) picked up the story and ran with it. The picture of O'Keefe was photoshopped into a white suit, and he was accused of running a table distributing racist and anti-semitic literature.
3. The Village Voice picked up the story an hour later, and promoted O'Keefe to "organizer" of the racist/anti-semitic event.
None of these sources asked James O'Keefe for verification, but Big Journalism did. And this is what O'Keefe told them.
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. 5. One of the panelists 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.
Oh, and the sweet frosting on the cupcake for me is, Obama's Amen Corner at the Blog That Hates My Guts fell for the smear hook, line, and sinker.
