James O’Keefe vs. Max Blumenthal: How the Left Distorts, Invents and Lies
Posted by Larry O'Connor of BigJournalism.com
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...
(DP: You simply must read the entire piece to see how the title is an exact description of how the left creates propaganda out of whole cloth)
http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/02/03/james-okeefe-vs-max-blumenthal-how-the-left-distorts-invents-and-lies/
(Here's the tag end):
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?
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.
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