Go James, continue to uncover the collusion and corruption in today’s media; it isn’t hard, and it needs to be done. 

The public already understands how biased and inaccurate the media is, they see the coverups and story spiking they do at the behest of this WH.  One more story showing collusion and/or corruption is just one more nail in the coffin of a profession that used to be respected.

Alas, no more.

The only people that don’t dig deep enough are the idiots who believe anything O’Keefe reports, like his piece on ACORN that three state Attorneys General (including some Republicans) investigated only to find that O’Keefe had heavily edited conversations and misled viewers and that ACORN employees had done nothing wrong. By then, of course, Congress had already folded to the political pressure drummed up and cut ACORN funding so it was almost a moot point. And, of course, none of the right-wing media reported on the separate investigations because they want their viewers to think O’Keefe reported the truth. 

I’d like to give O’Keefe the benefit of the doubt and think that one day this kid will grow up and quit being such a self-satisfied, lying dick but I doubt that he will. He clearly is someone who has no problem lying to get what he wants. He’s definitely not a real journalist by any means. 

Tommy just demonstrated the inverse.  

The irony is that the people who LOVE and defend what this guy does are the same people who attack Michael Moore for his tactics and partisanship. The key difference is that Moore doesn’t pretend that he’s a journalist. 

The irony is that the people who LOVE and defend what this guy does are the same people who attack Michael Moore for his tactics and partisanship. The key difference is that Moore doesn’t pretend that he’s a journalist. 

The fact that he offers a paraphrase to Sam that is not in fact a paraphrase… and does so with such unmitigated pleasure demonstrates that he cares little for the skills or standards of the trade… he’s into this for self titillation.  

Yep, James O’Keefe, he distorts, we deride.

How dare Sam Stein seduce sources with booze!  Doesn’t he know that what rape boats are for?

Project Veritas, an ultraconservative organization run by James O’Keefe,
manufactured a story designed to discredit the Economic Policy
Institute, the latest in a series of attacks on progressive
organizations. EPI has a long, accomplished history of publishing
reliable, credible economic studies.

Memo to EPI communications director Jodi Franklin: Progressive organizations don’t produce reliable, credible economic studies. The truth has no agenda, let alone a progressive one.

Tommy Christopher is interested in this case because he does exactly the same as what he accuses O’Keefe of, “O’Keefe defended his false assertion”, which is putting the wrong words in people’s mouths and in our heads. That is not to say I disagree with O’Keefe.

“that use hidden video cameras and contrived situations to discredit individuals and institutions with whom he disagrees”

This is different from what CBS does with 60 minutes how? I love how Mediaite is always going for the “defend liberals” angle. This story should have been about what O’keefe exposed, but of course its alla bout discrediting Okeefe instead.

James O’Keefe = Jayson Blair

Scott Harshbarger, former MA DA and ACORN’s self appointed investigator:

“They said what they said. There’s no way to make this look good.”

http://tinyurl.com/yfoq3dp

Full audio and transcripts were released AT THE SAME time as the edited packages. The idiots who don’t dig deep enough, which was about a quarter of an inch, includes you.

Yeah exactly. TC does exactly this on a regular basis. He is a Democrat activist out to discredit opposition to Democrats. 

Yoo hoo! http://www.acorn.org/node/712

What’s a rape boat? Do tell.

This is different from what CBS does with 60 minutes how?

Because, SHUT UP!!!

/racist, felon, rapist! grumble…grumble…grumble.

Upton Sinclair. Seymour Hersh. James O’Keefe. Keeping true journalism alive.

It’s a wild guess, but I’m going to say that your idea that the media is greatly “biased and inaccurate” is entirely based on what people on right-wing radio and Fox news tell you. So you’re getting this notion from a group that wears their bias on their sleeves, and yet you believe them. 

Here’s some background on O’Keefe’s “accomplishments.” This first story was published by a News Corp paper, so it’s owned by the same group as Fox News: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/acorn_set_up_by_vidiots_da_x16IroTf4AsXCI19nttFLL

This is from a press release from the Californian DOJ: “Evidence obtained by Brown tells a somewhat different story, however, as reflected in three videotapes made at ACORN locations in California. One ACORN worker in San Diego called the cops. Another ACORN worker in San Bernardino caught on to the scheme and played along with it, claiming among other things that she had murdered her abusive husband. Her two former husbands are alive and well, the Attorney General’s report noted. At the beginning and end of the Internet videos, O’Keefe was dressed as a 1970s Superfly pimp, but in his actual taped sessions with ACORN workers, he was dressed in a shirt and tie, presented himself as a law student, and said he planned to use the prostitution proceeds to run for Congress. He never claimed he was a pimp. 

“The evidence illustrates,” Brown said, “that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor.” 
And here’s some background on the GAO said: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-06-14/politics/congress.acorn_1_community-organizing-group-acorn-acorn-housing-corporation-disband?_s=PM:POLITICS

The fact that the Journolist Scandal did not end the careers of the liberals on the list says all you need to know about the ethics , or lack of ethics of this group . They claim to be objective reporters , and are anything but that .
 
There is , no doubt ,  a more secretive and insidious cabal working furiously to discredit , demean , belittle and destroy any Rep candidate who would dare to depose Obama , while sweeping Obama’s many failures and scandals under the rug .

http://www.debatepolitics.com/bias-media/77498-list-known-members-left-wing-now-defunct-journolist-listserv.html

But is Tommy’s reporting ever an “attack”? Heavens no, it’s always a truthy public service!

Fact: James O’Keefe is a real journalist and has
proven time after time how phony that the causes and sources of the left are
corrupt in everything they shovel on their minions of epic failures!

“Through those attacks we re-tooled and re-organized. Then again came the right-wing media blitz. This time of edited videos that misrepresented our mission, and consequently misled the public. The pressure and cost of defending ourselves in multiple investigations as a result of the falsified videos has eroded our organization. As a result we will be filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy by close of business today.”

Glad you have a little joy in your life Pablo.  Cheers.

Salon.com Monday, Oct 4, 2010:
James O’Keefe defends “sex boat” prank by saying it wouldn’t have been that grossBut that’s ancient history, so we should all forget how creepy he is and embrace his brave fight against the scum of the world:  low income family organizations, public radio execs, and census workers.  He’s great.  He’s going to be the next..I’m sorry, I can’t think of any famous pervert journalists off the top of my head.  Marv Albert?  That British guy from CNN caught with his pants down in Central Park?

One ACORN worker in San Diego called the cops.

That would be Juan Carlos Vera who, days later, called his brother-in-law the cop after realizing that he wasn’t going to be able to buy a the piece of Hannah’s ass he was trying to procure on the video and that he had been set up. Hey, did Governor Moonbeam mention why ACORN fired him if he did just the right thing?

http://tinyurl.com/m4g9sw

You seem to think that “digging deep enough” means waiting for the official spin and then parroting that.

I’m sorry I’ve having a hard time caring about this story maybe because I don’t care about O’Keefe or really don’t care about Sam Stein.

To the contrary, Moore chases people about with television cameras exactly as journalists do.  Anyone who watches a Michael Moore film would say he pretends he’s a journalist for the entire feature-length film, which is edited and arranged to suit Moore’s intended message.  By contrast, O’Keefe dumps a lot of raw material.  When you see Michael Moore’s 20 year filmography of feature-length productions and compare them to what piss-ant O’Keefe has done, it becomes clear that the far right is a few decades behind in the genre.

More than Bertha Lewis, yup. And that is just the way I like it. I don’t like happy communists.

You said “rape boat”. Where’s the rape boat? I don’t see anything about rape.

Wait, were you lying?

Fact: When you have to look closely at demarodent causes
you always find dung spread across a wide swatch!

Fact: If you think that O’Keefe distorts it’s because he made you look clearly at what is really being done by lefties and you saw it as it happens!

NPR fired employees over “distortions”? You should let them know.

After Breitbart’s main henchman James O’Keefe smeared ACORN, one of the victims filed suit. He was a ACORN employee in California who played along to get all the information he could. After O’Keefe and his partner in crime left, he immediately contacted legal authorities. When the tapes were made public on FAUX News, he was fired. At no time did Breitbart or O’Keefe contact him seeking a comment prior to publication. Instead they simply smeared him and this fact was never corrected on any of Breitbart’s web sites. He filed suit against O’Keefe for violation of California’s privacy laws. O’Keefe filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings, citing the First Amendment. The federal judge assigned to the case overruled this motion. Recently, the federal magistrate who handles pre-trial motions, other than motions to dismiss, ruled O’Keefe must produce all correspondence between himself and Breitbart. Obviously, if there is a link, Breitbart will be added to the suit. O’Keefe was ordered to produce these documents on October 23rd, so it will not be very long until this is public. The final irony for all the wingnuts out there who revere O’Keefe is under the Federal Rules of Evidence, you can impeach a witness for convictions of criminal behavior involving dishonesty. Since O’Keefe was convicted of entry into a federal building under false pretenses, this conviction should be able to be entered into evidence. I realize the wheels of justice do turn slowly at times, but this is going to be fun to see these individuals squirm.

O’Keefe and Hannah Giles ( daughter of the brilliant Doug Giles ) took on the long entrenched corrupt organization where Obama got his start .
And put them out of business .
Well done .

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Memogate… nuff said. And those involved in Memogate are still working in the media and defending their tactics. So…:P

Nice…Pablo bringing a little “Fox Nation” to Mediaite… 

Your gig is far more offensive to sense Steve.  

Technically speaking, the professor was correct.  A policy institute will never publish research that has findings that disagree with its objectives.  However, if a policy intstitute does publish favorable research, the research must stand the test of scientific scrutiny.  By contrast, when an academic receives a grant and conducts research, the research will be published provided it does not run contrary to the academic’s interests, regardless of the funder’s interests.  If a professor takes industry funding and produces earth-shattering results that make him or her appear stellar but harms the funder, the work will be published.  If a professor conducts research on his or her own and produces results that are contrary to what they wish to be known for, the research will lose priority compared to everything else and never be completed.

Fact: That’s one thing libbies do best next to the race card is tie up court time with piles and piles of do do in the attempt to silence and control!

The irony is that the people who LOVE and defend what this guy (Moore) does are
the same people who attack James O’Keefe for his tactics and
partisanship. The key difference is that O’Keefe doesn’t pretend that he’s
a documentary film maker.

PS… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film

See the part where it says “non-fiction”?

What is with the left and “rape” all of a sudden? It’s like they discovered a new word on their toilet paper and are going to use it to death.

How is it that recognition of O’Keefe’s failing translates to defense of others in your mind?  Just trying to change the subject?  Expect critics to summarize the encyclopedia of prior offenses by others?  Lots of attacks on Tommy here but very little in the way of addressing his specific critique.  

One year ago, James O’Keefe planned to get CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau alone on a boat with pornography and sex paraphernalia. 

I understand that for some people, this might just sound like a good time or prank.  But for normal people, this looks like a rape kit on a boat. 

rape kit + boat = rape boat

I blame Tommy for a lot. But I have to say he is a stickler about this kind of stuff. It’s one of the reasons I read his work. I don’t think you’ll find an instance where he mis-quoted someone. He will twist facts and accounts of event to fit a liberal agenda. But he has never mis-quoted someone or failed to ID himself as a reporter to a person he’s questioning.

Don’t forget 20/20.

Jason Blair stole other peoples work and made up events that never existed in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_blair

Not a good analogy in this case.

Your not the only one seems like one friend upset about a cheap article about a friend and now has taken two days to defend him. And Tommy going out and drinking with people you interview isn’t something you should be proud about just makes you look unprofessional.

Excuse me. But would you please specifically list all areas where my post is factually incorrect. I will be waiting patiently.

I think you’re just confused by this particular use of the word rape. Let me put it in a context you might better understand. Republicans have been raping the coffers of America to give tax cuts to the wealthy for decades. Does that help?

I point out inconsistency’s in peoples arguments, juxtapositions, hypocrisy, and double standards here. It a hobby of mine. As far as a “defense” it isn’t. It’s to show that other (much more respected) members of the MSM have done far worse. I can come up with many more examples if you like? 60 minutes and 20/20 live in this sort of stuff as their stick-in-trade. And if you look below I vigorously defend Tommy.

What “rape kit”? I don’t see anything reported about a rape kit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_kit

I don’t see any reporting on what Wiki is describing above?

I think you’re just confused by this particular use of the word rape.
Let me put it in a context you might better understand. Democrats have
been raping the coffers of America to give tax cuts to the unions/special interests for
decades. Does that help?

Yes it does… thanks.

You know, I am having a very difficult time in deciding what my costume will be for Halloween. I know I want to go as James O’Keefe, but I do not know what to wear. I am torn between wearing an orange jump suit to match his mug shot or buying a captains hat from a marina and stuffing a bag full of “toys”. Really, really tough decision, isn’t it?

Tommy, your interviewing style reeks of unprofessionalism.Not that I didn’t know that already.
 You as the interviewer should always pose the question with “some people say” or pick a person other than yourself as the accuser. You show that you’re biased and the questions lose all value.

I’ve never seen Moore describe himself as a journalist and I’ve never seen him seriously presented as such by anyone. 

But my original point remains intact: they both cherry pick their information, gather data based on a preconceived narrative and present a distorted version of reality. These are all the objections that I hear raised about him repeatedly from the right. But those same people hypocritically give O’Keefe a pass for the exact same chicanery. 

as part of the media, okeefe should help shape public opinion by deciding what news is important to report

If you’re suggesting that both sides can be hypocritical, you won’t get an argument from me. But I’m willing to say that Moore’s tactics and presentation can be highly suspect. Let’s see how many on the right are willing to do the same with O’Keefe, who is, after all, the subject of this story. 

He should also let Vivian Schiller know that she resigned over distortions. But you’d think these “Journalists” would know better.

hehehehehe at the stupitity of you wingnuts…you hobbits will defend ANYTHING….id say the right wing pundits and people like okeefe take advantage of your ignorance…its a cakewalk to bullshit u dumbasses…no wonder beck, orielly and limbaugh are multimillionairs and you all are just broke and dumber than a fence post….hehehehehehehee…..dipwads

Sorry, I don’t have any Fox Nation to bring. Nice pointless non-sequitur, though.

Fact: A small burp would register as a crime in
California federal court so what are the facts that you are blindly pushing.
Even the clowns in California when pooled as a jury will find  in the end that O’Keefe will found innocent
and it was a joke to try to silence and control the message!
hahahahahahahaahaa………………………

I’m sorry, I’m not aware of the term used to describe a group of items used to rape.  Is it rape toolkit?  Rape starter kit? 

Semantics aside, James O’Keefe had planned to corner a female reporter alone on a boat with pornography and sex paraphernalia.  If you want to defend the guy, I think that says a lot about you.

 i dont like the paraphrasing either, but chris matthews and rachel maddows are the king and queen of doing it, so what is good for the goose is good for the gander

Someone’s been raping your brain with idiocy.

Fact: Typical lib all the masses are uneducated and this is why in the end you find yourself alone again in mom and dad’s basement!

Anyone who believes a word that James O’Keefe says already made up their minds a long time ago and no amount of evidence will change that as demonstrated by the fact that they believe a word that comes out of O’Keefe’s mouth. He’s just another soulless media whore who will say and do anything to get on television irrespective of whether it is accurate or true

Dude, buy a paragraph break and get back to us when there’s a judgment.

Yeah, that only happens in every suit ever!

“I saw the video and what the professor said to you was not what you asked Sam Stein, the professor said to you that Sam Stein goes out at night drinking with sources, and you put some booze in people and suddenly the stories flow. You asked Sam if he gets his sources drunk, those aren’t the same thing, are they?”

The actual quote: “he goes out drinking at night with people. that’s real reality, not virtual reality.  you get some booze in people and suddenly the stories flow.”

“you get some booze in people and suddenly the stories flow.” sorry, but there’s no other way to interpret those comments unless you are splitting hairs so finely, desperate to defend your buddy. I would also say that was clearly the meaning of the professors comments. 

I think if Sam were *innocent* he would have replied that he goes out drinking with sources because he knows when they are are drunk, they spill, but he doesn’t *get them drunk*. He didn’t. 

TC acknowledged going out drinking with sources is like breathing. Sam didn’t seem to think so, in his denial. I find it VERY hard to believe that journos never buy drinks for sources.

Fact: Why not go as yourself and go as a liberal in
Chaps! As it’s understood on libs favorite news outlet you will just have to
lean forward and get the treats!

Your answer lies at 3:15.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPqmJynQPU

I’m not aware of a term for tools used to commit rape. I think they’re generally called weapons. All of which has nothing to do with you trying to invent some rape plot that clearly did not exist, which you’re doing because you’re a lying sack of shit.

I think we’re done with this.

So your argument isn’t with me then….. ;)

Wild guess is right:

A Measure of Media Bias, a study that not only found media bias, they rated think tanks, EPI rated 82.0, the Heritage Foundation scored 20.0 in contrast.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm

Obama used EPI as a reference last April, the speech when Biden fell asleep.  Obama cited information EPI borrowed from a Berkley study done by Thomas Pikitty and Paris-Jourdan Saez. 

“In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90% of all workers in America declined.  The top 1% saw their incomes rise….”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/obamas-deficit-speech-transcript/237274/

Well, according to another economist, Stephen Rose, Phd, it’s not true and he goes on to explain how Pikitty and Saez arrived at their inaccurate conclusion, by omitting sources of income, not taxable income and social security.

http://stats.org/stories/2008/myth_income_decline_aug22_08.html

This is nothing but a James, vs Goliath and that old giant’s longknives are coming out…in force.

I know you constantly obfuscate the facts which show you are a total idiot. However, want everyone to see exactly how stupid you are. Before Jimmy Boy turned over the taps to the California legal authorities, they entered into a legal agreement to waive criminal charges. After the legal authorities reviewed the tapes, they stated the tapes had been altered to “fit an agenda” and there probably was a criminal violation of their privacy statutes. So who is blind? 

Fact: If this is your idea of a “real journalist” you’re even more demented than you sound:

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2009/09/14/news/photos_stories/Cropped/hannah_giles–300×300.jpg

Calm down, there is no need to lose your cool.  What are you so flustered about?

If it’s because you are a conservative and like it when he goes after liberal organizations, I get it.  But does it make sense to ignore whatever creepy things he does so he can continue posting videos of an NPR exec bad mouthing The Tea Party? 

There are probably plenty of young respectable conservative investigative reporters in America today.  Don’t feel like you have to stick up for this schmuck.

Not a good analogy in terms of their crimes, but certainly a fair comparison of their ethics. 

Really. In every lawsuit the court overrules the defendants motion to dismiss?  HMMM. Then will you please explain to me why the Republican mantra is every lawsuit filed is frivolous. I know this will be over your head, but you are attempting to have it both ways. You must be a Romney supporter or perhaps you support Herman Cain’s position on abortion.

Glad you see that you agree that this creep is no journalist. We’re in agreement then.

At least Moore is man enough to do what he does….no gimmicks to set up somebody to get dirt on them. If you have to set somebody up to get a story, how truthful is that story really?

Don’t you think Tommy’s more a spork than a long knife?

What makes you think Ive lost my cool? I’m stating simple, objectively observable facts. You’re lying and spinning.

We’ve hit the bottom line. We’re done here.

How about asking some real questions, and not simply trying to protect your buddy Sam.  

I’m trying to give Tommy the benefit of the doubt here, but when I see James’  video, I see a Rutgers professor admitting he kills academic research studies that don’t result in the outcomes his project’s purchaser.   That’s academic fraud and if widespread, means all academic research is meaningless.

That’s huge. Academic research has no meaning if only the ‘right outcomes’ see the light of day.    

“Every” is a bit of hyperbole, but motions for summary judgment are absolutely ordinary and usually fail. The same goes for criminal trials when the prosecution rests its case. The defense asks for summary dismissal. It would be malpractice not to.

I don’t recall any Republican ever saying that every lawsuit is frivolous. Could you provide some quotes of Republicans repeating this “mantra”?

Why do you proggies lie so damned much? When you have to lie, it’s because the truth doesn’t help you. That’s because you’re wrong.

How’s your government cheese supply, moocher?

O’Keefe dumped a lot raw data of the lengthy lunch with the PBS fundraisers. You can compare his edits with the larger context to determine its accuracy.

I’ve never see out-takes of anything Michael Moore has included in his feature-length, multiplex documentaries. And the key feature of Moore’s style is approaching people with a camera and microphone and asking questions as they run away, just like investigative reporters have done for decades.

But look at the larger points O’Keefe asserts– PBS has a liberal bent; a reporter loosens up sources with alcohol; a think-tank refuses to publish contrary results. None are really earth-shattering conclusions.

The Acorn and Planned Parenthood stories were informative too, because the politics of our day would never permit anyone to raise those points without substantial evidence. O’Keefe’s planned targeting of a CNN reporter was mistaken though and it’s good he didn’t succeed at it. And they never caught the fifth man in bugging team that opened Sen. Landreiu’s phone closet, so he narrowly escaped federal charges there.

Journalist… not in my opinion. Gadfly… gonzo-journalist… maybe.

Anyone who disbelieves everything he says has already made up their mind and they’re not considering any evidence. Rational people analyze the evidence, they don’t just flip through their Rolodex of BAD BAD BAD people.

Projection is a well established progressive trait.

Cops do it everyday, as do cheating spouses, the FBI,  CIA, our government, teachers, Bosses at work… Maybe you live in a bubble somewhere

Stein didn’t say that he never buys drinks for sources.

Tommy splitting microscopic hairs to defend his side?

I’m SHOCKED! Shocked, I say!

and he’s obviously failed miserably at that

Tommy, this is not an interview.  You didn’t like what James said about your buddy, Sam, and you called James to put your questions on mediaite.   This post has no journalistic value, and belongs on your twitter feed, not on mediate.  

Why don’t you call Al Gore and find out why he thinks its okay for the government to loan his venture company a half a BILLION bucks for a luxury electric sports car built in finland.  Has everything mediaite should love.  A media company owner, Al Gore (Current TV), crony capitalism at its worst (former VP and presidential candidate), and no JOBS for a US investment.

in your opinion, which is fine

seems kind of obvious, doesn’t it? 

You’ve made so many false assertions that I wish I had time to take them all apart. 

But at least one of them begs to dismantled, which is your farcical claim that O’Keefe has somehow revealed that “PBS has a liberal bent.” How exactly did he do this? He got ONE person — not even a top executive — to make a disparaging comment about some Republicans. (And when you listen to the entire recording, you find that O’Keefe’s edited audio conveys a very different and more sinister tone.) 

But how is one employee making a comment proof of an entire institution’s bias? 

And if we apply your standard of proof, then we can easily deduct that the Tea Party is racist and nutty.

O’Keefe is a low rent merchant of truthiness. 

the first two guys, sure.  

you obviously haven’t bothered to uncover what his peers think of his “work”

you do realize that his how all research is valued, right?

o’keefe’s “research” has been utterly eviscerated by his peers, time and time again.

it’s not my opinion, it’s the opinion of his peers.  

that doesn’t mean all academic research is meaningless

Got it. A history of distorting the evidence should be no bulwark to journalistic cerdibility just as a history of removing the wrong organ should not prevent surgeons from particiapting in future operations.

yeah, NPR is ohhhhhh so liberal:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/torture_memo_john_yoo_bush.html

or jay bybee:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103582533

some peers validate your opinion, others dont so…….

Frankly, I don’t know why it’s big news that a journalist might flatter, and otherwise ingratiate themselves to someone in order to get information.  Including buying someone drinks.

That’s not a news flash, I’d think.

What Prof Keefe did IS unethical, but that’s going to be lost in some diversion over whether O’Keefe precisely quoted Stein’s friend.

Whether it’s Tommy’s brouhaha about someone contacting under-aged girls in the Weiner scandal or a focus on Pres. Obama doing some  perpetual and brilliant  “rope-a-dope” whenever the president is forced to belie his own words (his stated inability to produce a birth certificate long form, his supposed reasons for his jobs address scheduling), the side-story will always loom larger than what initiated it.

Tell it to ACORN, and Viv Schiller and Planned Parenthood, etc…

That might cut short an opportunity to take on criticism of the president made at some conservative blog.

no, that’s not how it works, cjd.

have you studied in a university, cjd?

what about graduate school?

A History of Distorting The Evidence would be a great alternate title for this.

pablo, 

none of those “investigations” were take seriously by ANYONE except rabid, frothing
at the mouth malkinites.  

like they always say, the crime is worse than the cover up. Had Sam just said, when first asked, “Yea, I go out drinking with sources, and buy them drinks sometimes, but I don’t get them falling down drunk, or anything. I just know that buying drinks for sources sometimes helps to get scoop…” or something like that, O’Keefe wouldn’t have had a story.

His flat denial, and the subsequent number of stories *covering* for him on Meidiate is what made it a (lame) *scandal*. 

But you’re right, the real story is Keefe.

I KNEW that O’Queef was a convicted felon. Tell me again why he has any credibility whatsoever?

But at least one of them begs to dismantled, which is your farcical
claim that O’Keefe has somehow revealed that “PBS has a liberal bent.”
How exactly did he do this?

He mentioned Juan Williams.

I think sarainitaly once showed some video that may make that very last endorsement of yours suspect.

Like they desperately tried to bury the ACORN story in a diversion into whether O’Keefe wore the pimp get up into their offices. That was one of Jerry Brown’s noted “distortions”. Another being the scumbag in San Diego debunked above.

And how is that a reply to anything that I said? I’m not on the other team. I hate all of you equally.

This is only part one, but if your criticism is the focus on Sam, direct it at O’Keefe. He’s the one who called his piece “To Catch A Journalist.”

 if your criticism is the focus on Sam, direct it at O’Keefe. He’s the one who called his piece “To Catch A Journalist.”

I don’t know how worked up I can get over Stein lying about not having plied sources with drinks. It’s just so superfluous to anything. If I was a journalist, I might flirt my head off with someone in order to get info if that’s what it took.  I’d probably downplay that a bit if asked about it later too.

James O’Keefe.  Did he intern at The Star or the National Enquirer? 

If you are going to do “gotcha” journalism, you need to stick to using exact quotes, not interpretations.  Otherwise you might mistake flying pie plates for Unidentified Flying Objects…..

Complete the thought.

O’Keefe is a sociopath, a tool and a useful idiot.  He should also be in federal prison for having pulled his schtick on a US Senator.  As it is, he’s skirting the terms of his probation.  He’s also trying to raise money by not, ya know, actually doing any real work for it.

He was originally charged with a felony, but he did not have any wire tapping equipment on him. So they plead it down to entering a federal building under false pretenses, which is a misdemeanor. He receive 3 years of federal probation. I bet he made his parents proud.

Prove you can read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/business/media/a-grass-roots-newscast-gives-a-voice-to-struggles.html?_r=1

NPR does not have a “liberal bent.”  It is, in fact, just another corporate tool.  Get a clue before you dig yourself any deeper into your own misconceptions.

Really? Living in mom and dad’s basement? Oh, you must mean Jimmy “Boy” O’Keefe because he has been living with his mommy and daddy for years. ROTFLMFAO at you stupid hypocrites. Tell me, how does it feel to get owned?

FEEL MY RAGE!!!

James O’Keefe is a scumbag.

Well, that doesn’t mean that you’re not doing your usual splitting of hairs and making mountains out molehills  in order to put the focus on the messenger.

But yeah, I agree that O’Keefe’s goods on Stein are paltry at best.

I seem to remember some surreptitious recording in a PUMA office in which he was pretending to just be one of the gang while he was actually doing exactly what O’Keefe and Co. do.

The “wiretapping equipment” referred to was his iPhone. As for entering a Federal building under false pretenses, Congress should be on 3 years probation.

I think that academic who agreed to kill a story was the more important part of the video. The Sam Stein thing seemed like a distraction.

Our criticism isn’t just on the focus on Stein, but on YOUR particular way of defending him and of making it the issue.  

If you merely said (what we have said) that plying sources with drinks isn’t new, or particularly shocking, or even unethical, it would be different.

So Congress didn’t defund ACORN, and it didn’t go bankrupt? Viv Schiller didn’t resign as CEO of NPR? Ron Schiller didn’t resign?

Or they’re all rabid, frothing at the moth Malkinites? Which is it?

Reality bites, huh darla?

It is the same sort of reply to your point that your reply is to mine. By design.

BTW, I don’t hate you, I pity you.

That title is a big fat lie! Stein is not a journalist.

Yup. It looks like something Tommy would write. O’Keefe is slipping.

Nah, you just ignored what I said to bring up the very ridiculous Bernie Goldberg for absolutely no reason other than to deflect from the fact that you’re defending a shameless liar.

I don’t know if Mediaite should place too much value on the direction of a story based on a headline from another site…. 

There have been quite a few misleading whoppers on here. 

Tell it to the judge. After he was sentenced, Jimmy Boy had a few choice words to say about the judge. He is as stupid as you are because if he violates his probation, he goes back in front of the same judge. HMMMM I have a proposition for you. Do you want to bet whether the judge will remember what Jimmy Boy said?

Yeah.  It’s reasonable to argue that O’Keefe has little if anything that suggests that Stein is somehow unethical in his practice of journalism.

However, we aren’t going to get anything that straight forward.  This is now going to be ginned up drama about  the difference between getting booze in some people from boozing them up.

Yeah.  It’s reasonable to argue that O’Keefe has little if anything that suggests that Stein is somehow unethical in his practice of journalism.

However, we aren’t going to get anything that straight forward.  This is now going to be ginned up drama about  the difference between getting booze in some people from boozing them up.

Yeah we may never again see the dizzying heights of pretending he was a pimp. We can only hope that this is just a temporary blip and he’ll soon be back lying to the world dressed as a giant bee.

Yeah, I think there’s a lot of irony to be found in a journalist who has operated under alternate identities then making an issue out of a journalist plying someone with drinks for info, 

I would very much like to see that…..

The better question for O’Keefe to ask would have been: “Do you use information given by your source while they’re drunk as material for your stories?” If Stein denied it then, people would be more inclined to see the problem. O’Keefe’s wording in his gotcha moment with Stein is part of the problem. But I still think the issue is worth looking into (even though if subjects are getting drunk in the presence of a reporter, they have equal blame).

What makes you think he’s going to violate probation?

False equivalence. Who at “60 Minutes” or “20/20″ has done half the stuff that O’Keefe has pulled? Posing as a pimp? Tampering with a senator’s phone lines? This is, as you said, gonzo journalism.

If you’re trying to make a case for higher education, you’re doing more harm than good.

Did you read the report you cited on media bias? They use 50 as politically neutral – 0 is most conservative, and 100 is most liberal. And EPI got an 80.3, not 82. So Heritage is -30 and EPI is +30.3 – they have the same amount of bias. (And I seriously call into question their methodology – apparently Drudge Report is liberal at 60, and Wall Street Journal is the most liberal organization in the country at 85).

I’m curious though, why did you omit the report’s scaling from your post? Did you do it on purpose to make EPI seem 4x more biased then Heritage?

Was she going to “rape” herself with a sex toy? Gawd, you’re a dummy, patsy.

nope

I say just dress as you normally do and go as a dildo.

O’Keefe, Briebart mouthpiece.

So are you paid to say all this stupid shit, or does it just come naturally?  O’Keefe is a useful idiot, and that’s all he is.  He wouldn’t know actual real “journalism” if it came up and bit him on the ass.

yeah pablo…, That would be Juan Carlos Vera who is now suing OKeefe and Giles in court, despite the lame dodges that an evil SOB like OKeefe is trying to ply. 

Again, find yourself a quarter, and go buy yourself a clue… while you are at it, try and scrounge up some moral backbone and something resembling honesty.   A certain person by the name of Izzy Santa might be able to help you. 

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/09/27/40086.htm

Toodles Pabs… I dont know if you are getting paid to truncate your own intelligence for a lowlife like OKeefe, but clearly you enjoy it. 

Another thing just occurred to me – d’uh. “To catch a journalist” isn’t about Stein, it isn’t about EPI. It’s about a bunch of journalists, and what they will do for a story and/or their bias on a story. The series is “To Catch a Journalist”.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-james-okeefe-defends-tactics-used-to-discredit-rutgers-professor/#comment-343960315

And congress.

Nope, not omitting anything, I sourced it and included Heritage as a comparison because the swing was approximately the same.  The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is conservative, unlike the bulk of the rest of it, I doubt liberal congressmen are citing the editorials on the floor of the House and Senate.   Articles linked by Drudge is what it is, he doesn’t write them, his site serves as a link to lots of news sources, apparently lib members of Congress read the site.

yes, reading your remarks is exactly like having my brain raped by idiocy. The difference is yours was either born ignorant or you fell a lot as a child.

This rodent should be put to sleep.

Congratulations on your sixth grade humor. I bet your next joke will involve passing gas.

Poor Tina. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

O’Keefe looks like the love child of George Harrison and Ron Paul. This might be why he may have a personality disorder.

More violent rhetoric from our fun loving hypocritical lefties.

As usual. In this job, I get most of my criticism from people who can’t articulate a single disagreement with anything I’ve written.

So, I should be less honest? Mmmkay.

A noteworthy point, is that a plurality of the comments made here today, are made by Conservatives who are questioning the credibility and veracity of O’keefe.  Which is indicative of Conservative introspection and overall desire for honesty and integrity?

Moreover, were the roles reversed and this was a perceived Liberal faux pas, all we would read was nonsense and defending the indefensible…  Ouch!

In fact, I am considering going back a day or two, and changing a comment I made on the subject, meaning, making an apology. (note: I admit to being confused by this issue and/or event)

Purveyor

It is sad when scum like O’Keefe and Breitbart are taken so seriously, but just look at all the self righteous pinheads here popping out their holes to applaud them, for what?

Dung must have come out your big head when it exploded

Question for you and all those who get so worked up about the alleged bias of Mr. Christopher: why bother reading it if makes you all so nuts? You’re all a little insane this way. I read the relentless complaints and whining and think to myself, dude, move on. Life is too short to keep exposing yourself to something that makes you gnash your teeth. Are there no other websites on the internet that pander to your biases? 

 but the good news about what we do at Project Veritas is that we provide recordings of things so you can make up your own decisions about things. So that you can make up your own decisions

Interesting choice of words and he repeated them trice.  ”make up your own decisions”.  I’m absolutely sure he has no idea what he is saying with that choice.  But it’s probably the only time he is being honest … without even realizing it.

And thank you Tommy for your tenacious questions on integrity. It’s extremely important.

That the most disturbing part in all this.  The right seems incapable of noticing.

Hey look I see a shiny object over there.  Please, please look over there.  Nothing to see here.

You really have no allegiance to integrity do you?

Hey look!  I’m still pointing to a shiny object over there.  Please focus over there for me.  There’s still nothing to see here.

You’re getting facts mixed up with your beliefs – and so is O’Keefe.

I think he was joking. :)

So Congress didn’t defund ACORN, and it didn’t go bankrupt?

Of course they did.  The Republicans in Congress don’t care anymore about honesty and integrity than O’Keefe does.  In both cases they only concern themselves with results.

Most journalists wouldn’t which is precisely how we got an unvetted president.

 What is your criteria? Catching political agencies doing absolutely criminal things with taxpayer money, or filming it and destroying an excellent source of income for Democrats? Would you say Wikileaks founder is also a scumbag?

Your conviction falls short of compensating for your lack of integrity.

No, actually.  It seems like a lie you’ve made up.

 Not journalist. An older term works best here. “Muck-Raker”. Something your avatar, Teddy, knew something about.

He got ONE person — not even a top executive — to make a disparaging comment about some Republicans.

Not to mention that one person happens to be a Republican.

  Er, no, he is hardly manly. Scurrilously editing clips to make others sound like imbeciles is hardly the sign of unmitigated bravery. He defends unions at the same time he refuses to use them, argues capitalism is vile while suing various companies for millions from distributing his films. He is a hypocrite of the first sort.

 Your tinfoil tiara, perhaps?

You would say: “objective reporting” and O’Keefe in the same post. Pick someone who’s just a little better than those they wish to attack!

How many criminal “charges” were filled? Who supports this spin clown other than the “teas” to try to damage the democrats.

Great work, Tommy. Classic reporting. That O’Keefe goof is a menace; even Breitbart’s backed off him which should say it all.

Oh this weasly loser again.  What a complete piece of human garbage.  He is living proof that being republican does not mean being conservative or having integrity.  This little weasel and Breibart would make one cute couple.

 Against Wikileaks? At least 22 so far, against the soldier responsible for the leaks. I am not a “Tea” but I do think our governments’ only hope of correction is sunlight.

what lie? please explain. 

 And a waist is a terrible thing to mind…

Wrong. Here’s an idea.  How about listening to a REAL journalist interview the target of O’Keefe’s dirty trick this time around?  Nothing like going to the source.  Interview begins after the intro.

http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/mp3/bbreifing_2011_10_17a_Lawrence%20Mishel.mp3

Actually, he should be put in federal prison for violating the terms of his probation.  It was a mistake not to have thrown him in jail when the federal judge had the chance.

Here’s a better idea:  Why don’t you listen to a REAL journalist interview the target of O’Keefe’s latest jagoff exercise?  Interview starts after the intro, probably 90 seconds +- in.

http://ianmasters.com/sites/default/files/mp3/bbreifing_2011_10_17a_Lawrence%20Mishel.mp3

O’Keefe is a sociopath and a whore.  He’s for sale to whomever will pay him to do his schtick.  He should have been thrown in jail when the federal judge had the chance to do so.  On the other hand, if he keeps up these stupid distractions, he may end up violating his probation, in which case he’ll be remanded anyway.  He can do a video called “O’Keefe decides to be Wife for the day.”  Comedy.

Tommy, unlike pointless hacks like yourself, O’Keefe is a real journalist.  I guess that’s why you have great difficulty understanding.  JO admits his agenda, but you don’t.  I consider that unethical.  It’s kind of like professors who offer to gin up studies.

O’Keefe didn’t misquote anyone.  He didn’t even attribute the paraphrase.  It wasn’t a quote and he didn’t say it was.  It was an allegation.  This article is nothing more than ludicrous semantics and an obvious attempt by Tommy to grab hold of the James O’Keefe bandwagon.  Pathetic.

O’Keefe didn’t misquote anyone.  He didn’t even attribute the paraphrase.  It wasn’t a quote and he didn’t say it was.  It was an allegation.  This article is nothing more than ludicrous semantics and an obvious attempt by Tommy to grab hold of the James O’Keefe bandwagon.  Pathetic.

I think you’re describing one of your wet dreams.  Did he stick a cigar in her, Sally?  Sex doesn’t matter, REMEMBER?

No, they did tag the soldier (22 under same indictment?) I mean the “acorn” spin. In the end it was just some edits!

Are you fucking insane?  What you are describing is Moore’s modus operendi(along with “creative” editing).  And in response to your question, in Moore’s case,  not truthful at all.

Your entire premise was stupid,  Tommy.  That about sums it up.

What O’Keefe said was identical in meaning.  Perhaps you don’t know what a paraphrase is.  Try wikipedia. Or just remain silent. Remember what Mark Twain said.

Exposing the pedophile pimp abettors at ACORN was pretty scummy.  No wait… that was a good thing.  You have strange and disturbing sympathies, my friend.

It clearly was not identical. You coupled an intellectual error with the primitive impulse of insult… They combine with amazing frequency these days. Cheers!

Have you ever heard of punctuation?  You make no “sense”.  Though I see exGOPman will like just about anything.

I see the leftie lackwits like your comment.  12voltman…not the sharpest tool in the shed.  Yeah, tool. Its called sarcasm.

Do you prize insult so highly that it is the only tool you employ? You lack Grace.

You’re talking out your ass. Umm…I guess that about covers it.

Biased does not alway’s mean honest.

Awwwww. Whatsa matter Tommy? Stein is a Soetoro propagandist just like you. Are you afraid O’Keefe is coming after you next?

hahahahhahahahahahaha!!! you’re ridiculous!

You remember wrong. Never recorded surreptitiously, was always identified as a journalist. They were also filming me, for crying out loud. 

I guess his video recordings were getting facts mixed up with beliefs as well.
 
Liberal Answer:  EDITING…..HE LIES THROUGH EDITING!!!!!!!LIAR LIAR LIAR!!!!!!

See it was a four-man team that went to bug Landieu’s office, but the fourth man wasn’t a man and didn’t get nabbed.  O’Keefe and the other two were successful at gaining access to and opening the Senator’s phone closet, but then the fourth person, who carried the tools, bugs, and the skill to install them, felt the heat.  It’s just like in that 1995 Pacino-Di Niro film “Heat.”  If anything happens that makes you feel not 100%, then drop everything and go immediately.  O’Keefe and the others were nabbed.  The fourth team member exited without a trace.

The people who are supposed “conservatives” (I refuse to believe that the human refuse that reacts in a fascist  choir are actual conservatives) ignore the facts. O’Keefe MADE UP the quote he used to try to ensnare Sam Stein.

The so-called “conservatives” are so intellectually corrupt and cowardly that they cannot even admit facts that are clearly in evidence. In any other time, a comic buffoon like James O’Keefe would be publishing a mimeographed neighborhood news sheet while living in his parent’s basement.

It is too bad these idiots do not believe in God. They are full of lies and their lies corrupt the Public Square.

How old are you…? Ten???? ‘Soetoro’ ….. Perhaps your parents never divorced and you went by your step-dads’ name….??? It happens in lots of blended families…. So what’s your point anyway…?

O’Keefe and his sad little ‘Project bs’ are just desperate and starved for attention…… He has learned all the wrong lessons, and no one bothered to teach him the right ones……

I think they already are…

I’m a conservative and conservatives are constantly called racist by the left wing media.  I don’t like that. I don’t have a racist bone in my body. I feel slandered. It is not right, it is not fair and it is corrupt. So what do we do?
I’m just greatful we have someone out their like James O’keefe who is out to expose the truth.
If you don’t like his sting tactics, then too bad. The point is to get the truth and expose the corrupt left.
Nise try going after O’keefe, but you failed!!!

In Arizona, a republican judge was killed when Giffords got shot by a lunatic. The left blamed the tea party. The left blamed Sarah Palin! What?
Now the left are praising the OWS protesters who are actually getting arrested!

DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT CORRUPTION!

James O’keefe has you beat on morals, values, and principles 10-1.

You’re a good Little Eichmann.  So indoctrinated BEYOND stupid you base everything on allegiance.

BIAS!  PANDERING BIAS!

Do you have any idea how stupid you are?  Obviously not.

When did David Spade start trying to be an investigative journalist?

If this is your idea of uncovering the collusion and corruption in media, you are absolutely bonkers.  This little jerk is such a want to be, he is failure personified with his undercover (!) outfits and illegal breaking and entering.  You are suffering from self delusion.

Did he wear one of his pimp costumes for this one, what a joke.

Right wingers have so few successes, they have to make them up and use old comments and buzz words to stir up a frenzy (not).  I feel sorry for them, it must be frustrating to be so wrong.

Why would a professor say that?  I doubt he actually did say that.  If he did, where is the tape?