O'Keefe's Racial Issues: It's All About HIS white privilege being offended

[Stephanie]

Retracto Round-Up: These Sites Ought to Correct the Record
Posted by Retracto, the Correction Alpaca Feb 5th 2010 at 10:37 pm in corrections/retractions | 19118Comments(14)http://bigjournalism.com/retracto/2...Correct+the+Record2010-02-06+06:37:31retracto
Whenever one respectable media outlet publishes lies, misinformation, and distortions, an inevitable consequence is that other sites pick up the bogus story, repeat the false or unproven facts, and attribute them to the original source. The original source is the tentpole, and if it’s broken, the entire edifice crumbles. Or does it?

Do the writers and publications who merely quoted from the original article have plausible deniability and are thus free from guilt when the truth is fleshed out? Are they are off the hook entirely? Just because these sources can shift blame, does it mean they aren’t responsible for what is published on their pages and site? If the information they publish is later proven to have no factual basis, retractions are still necessary.

All of the sites listed below point to Max Blumenthal’s Salon.com piece as a primary source. It would be excessive to hash out the individual errors in each because all have been thoroughly documented here in our retraction request to Salon:

the rest.
Retracto Round-Up: These Sites Ought to Correct the Record - Big Journalism

And SO WHAT? I don't hotice that there has been any posted (by you) move by Salon to retract, so have a nice day.

Just thought you might like to know, guess not.

 

[William Joyce]

James O'Keefe's race problem

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment [/FONT]

By Max Blumenthal

[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]Feb. 03, 2010 |[/FONT]

Photo by Isis/Salon composite
James O'Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People's Project.​

[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and three associates planned to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines. Once upon a time, right-wing pundits hailed the 25-year-old O’Keefe as a creative genius and model of journalistic ethics. Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe, called him one of the all-time “great journalists” and said he deserved a Pulitzer for his undercover ACORN video. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared he should have earned a “congressional medal.”[/FONT]




[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]James O'Keefe and his race issues - Salon.com[/FONT]

Awesome -- I love this kid!

By the way, AmRen '10 will be a blockbuster:

2010 AR Conference — Register now!

The bigger we get, the more they try to shut us down.

Guess what, y'all?

Some of us whites are growing balls.

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

The little prick is a TOTAL PSYCHO!! I would LOVE to meet him face to face. To call this self serving little prick a JOURNALIST is an insult to EVERY SINGLE seeker of TRUTH that has ever been. TRUE journalists seek TRUTH not a way to support their PRECONCEIVED notions of what is or is not true. He's at BEST a shock jock and at worst a guy who is guilty of a FEDERAL OFFENSE and I hope he does REAL jail time for what he did.

I always get a kick out of the part where "he is just a kid pulling a prank" is the justification.... I think that the "my calvin's are sooooooo hot bomber" is about the same age. I wonder if he will call O'Keefe as a defense/character witness, on the basis of "gee we are just very youthful pranksters trying to make a tiny point?"

O'Keefe seems to have been the perpetual loser for a long time, and has become, now, one of the far right's "useful idiots."

 

[Cold Fusion38]

And what EXACTLY would need to be retracted? The FACT that he was there? The FACT that he has shown that he can not handle being in close quarters with ANYONE of a different color, religion, sexual orientation? He is a scared little white boy trying to act tough it is actually REALLY PATHETIC!

 

[William Joyce]

TRUE journalists seek TRUTH not a way to support their PRECONCEIVED notions of what is or is not true.

Which makes for how many?

 

[Stephanie]

Is there any conservative the left doesn't have a HARDON for?

ok I know, stupid question.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

James O'Keefe's race problem

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment [/FONT]

By Max Blumenthal

[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]Feb. 03, 2010 |[/FONT]

Photo by Isis/Salon composite
James O'Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People's Project.​

[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and three associates planned to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines. Once upon a time, right-wing pundits hailed the 25-year-old O’Keefe as a creative genius and model of journalistic ethics. Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe, called him one of the all-time “great journalists” and said he deserved a Pulitzer for his undercover ACORN video. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared he should have earned a “congressional medal.”[/FONT]




[FONT=times new roman, times, serif]James O'Keefe and his race issues - Salon.com[/FONT]

Awesome -- I love this kid!

By the way, AmRen '10 will be a blockbuster:

2010 AR Conference — Register now!

The bigger we get, the more they try to shut us down.

Guess what, y'all?

Some of us whites are growing balls.

You are PROUD of this shit!!!??? Well I guess calling you a RACIST would just be a COMPLIMENT as far as you are concerned but you know what FUCK it........You are a sick twisted RACIST!!!!

 

[Xenophon]

Some of you really should learn how to read links, and stop trying to Palinize this kid:

Correction Request: Max Blumenthal, Salon.com - Big Journalism

The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People’s Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O’Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing.

The Leadership Institute did not “withdraw its backing,” nor had it “backed” the event to begin with. Mr. Blumenthal’s claim also does not stand up to reason. It is a leap on his behalf to claim that the event was too controversial for the “ultra-right Leadership Institute” (Blumenthal’s characterization), but not for Georgetown University (where the event was ultimately held) and for author John Derbyshire, whose work regularly appears in the pages of what is perhaps America’s conservative flagship publication, National Review.

From left: Marcus Epstein, Jared Taylor, Kevin Martin, and John Derbyshire at what Max Blumenthal dubbed “a white-nationalist confab”

Really, some of you are quite the assholes for constantly trying to smear people as racists.

Get over yourselves, it isn't about race.

 

[rightwinger]

You are PROUD of this shit!!!??? Well I guess calling you a RACIST would just be a COMPLIMENT as far as you are concerned but you know what FUCK it........You are a sick twisted RACIST!!!!

I guess you haven't read many posts from William Joyce

 

[Stephanie]

asking for a RETRACTION is the first step towards a LAWSUIT.

but carry on anyway.

 

[Cold Fusion38]

asking for a RETRACTION is the first step towards a LAWSUIT.

but carry on anyway.

I'm sure they are just QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS! LOL!

 

[Xenophon]

asking for a RETRACTION is the first step towards a LAWSUIT.

but carry on anyway.

I'm sure they are just QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS! LOL!

They should be, because its going to cost them a lot of money.

 

[Stephanie]

asking for a RETRACTION is the first step towards a LAWSUIT.

but carry on anyway.

I'm sure they are just QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS! LOL!

I'm talking about OTHERS who are running with story now, buckaroo. but if their boots ain't a shaking, then OH WELL..

 

[del]

he doesnt have racist friends

everybody has racist friends, you gibbering gabon.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Some of you really should learn how to read links, and stop trying to Palinize this kid:

Correction Request: Max Blumenthal, Salon.com - Big Journalism

The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People’s Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O’Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing.

The Leadership Institute did not “withdraw its backing,” nor had it “backed” the event to begin with. Mr. Blumenthal’s claim also does not stand up to reason. It is a leap on his behalf to claim that the event was too controversial for the “ultra-right Leadership Institute” (Blumenthal’s characterization), but not for Georgetown University (where the event was ultimately held) and for author John Derbyshire, whose work regularly appears in the pages of what is perhaps America’s conservative flagship publication, National Review.

From left: Marcus Epstein, Jared Taylor, Kevin Martin, and John Derbyshire at what Max Blumenthal dubbed “a white-nationalist confab”

Really, some of you are quite the assholes for constantly trying to smear people as racists.

Get over yourselves, it isn't about race.

So that's how you prove you're not a racist? By putting your arm around a black person? I guess that explains all those plantation owners who had sex with their slaves. They were just trying to prove they weren't racist!!

 

[Xenophon]

Some of you really should learn how to read links, and stop trying to Palinize this kid:

Correction Request: Max Blumenthal, Salon.com - Big Journalism

The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People’s Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O’Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing.

The Leadership Institute did not “withdraw its backing,” nor had it “backed” the event to begin with. Mr. Blumenthal’s claim also does not stand up to reason. It is a leap on his behalf to claim that the event was too controversial for the “ultra-right Leadership Institute” (Blumenthal’s characterization), but not for Georgetown University (where the event was ultimately held) and for author John Derbyshire, whose work regularly appears in the pages of what is perhaps America’s conservative flagship publication, National Review.

From left: Marcus Epstein, Jared Taylor, Kevin Martin, and John Derbyshire at what Max Blumenthal dubbed “a white-nationalist confab”

Really, some of you are quite the assholes for constantly trying to smear people as racists.

Get over yourselves, it isn't about race.

So that's how you prove you're not a racist? By putting your arm around a black person? I guess that explains all those plantation owners who had sex with their slaves. They were just trying to prove they weren't racist!!

You are such an idiot its laughable.

You see the kid in the picture?

No, but it shows jews and blacks at what salon claimed was a white racist confernece.

This forum thing appears to be a bit much for you, maybe you should stick to something more your speed, like coloring books.

 

[del]

Some of you really should learn how to read links, and stop trying to Palinize this kid:

Correction Request: Max Blumenthal, Salon.com - Big Journalism

From left: Marcus Epstein, Jared Taylor, Kevin Martin, and John Derbyshire at what Max Blumenthal dubbed “a white-nationalist confab”

Really, some of you are quite the assholes for constantly trying to smear people as racists.

Get over yourselves, it isn't about race.

So that's how you prove you're not a racist? By putting your arm around a black person? I guess that explains all those plantation owners who had sex with their slaves. They were just trying to prove they weren't racist!!

You are such an idiot its laughable.

You see the kid in the picture?

No, but it shows jews and blacks at what salon claimed was a white racist confernece.

This forum thing appears to be a bit much for you, maybe you should stick to something more your speed, like coloring books.

Highlights for Children Home

fun with a purpose.

 

[Shogun]

that o'keefe pic above looks photoshopped.

 

[Modbert]

that o'keefe pic above looks photoshopped.

You're right, I found the real picture.

 

[Contessa_Sharra]

that o'keefe pic above looks photoshopped.

did you read under the photo:

Photo by Isis/Salon composite
James O'Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People's Project.

One People's Project

Conservative propagandist Andrew Breitbart and others associated with the websites he produces, have come to the aid of fellow propagandist James O'Keefe by charging that the story of O'Keefe attending a white supremacist forum is false and defamatory, and attacking anyone who reports on the story. This defense comes even though an article appears on one of his websites where O'Keefe himself admits that he was indeed there.

According to an article posted on Breitbart's BigJournalism.com titled James O'Keefe vs. Max Blumenthal: How the Left Distorts, Invents and Lies, the author Larry O'Connor notes that they spoke with O'Keefe who told them that while he did not man the table at the forum or was involved in its organization, he still attended. "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," O'Connor wrote.



The article, which also attempts to whitewash white supremacist and forum panelist Jared Taylor of American Renaissance as merely someone "with a track record of making racist statements," makes other points, including how O'Keefe noted that "the organizer who is being called a "White Supremacist" is half Jewish and half Korean", "One of the panelist(s) was an African-American named Kevin Martin" and "The event was forced to move to a Georgetown University building in Arlington, not at a cross-burning."

The organizer in question was Robert Taft Club founder Marcus Epstein, who despite his lineage has a detailed history of working with white supremacists, and was the Executive Director of paleoconservative organizations run by Bay Buchanan and former Congressman Tom Tancredo. In 2007, Epstein was arrested for attacking an African American woman and calling her a racial slur while drunkenly walking in a Georgetown neighborhood. He later made an Alford plea and made restitutions and an apology to the victim to satisfy court obligations.

Kevin Martin of Project 21 was in truth a last-minute addition to the panel, and was added only after the forum generated controversy among anti-racist groups and activists. It is not known if he had participated in any other events organized by the Robert Taft Club.

For his part Breitbart chose to use his Twitter account to defend O'Keefe, who is still facing federal charges that he and three others attempted to interfere with the phone lines of Senator Mary Landrieu. "Watergate Jr® fails," he wrote in one tweet. "Now LEFT making FALSE, DEFAMATORY press charges alleging James OKeefe a racist." For much of the evening of Feb. 3, Breitbart made several Twitter postings attacking Max Blumenthal of Salon.com, David Weigel of the Washington Independent and others who have written about O'Keefe's participation in this event, and attempted to paint a parallel between O'Keefe participating in the forum and whites who have made inappropriate racial comments ironically in support of President Obama.

Breitbart repeatedly received tweets back at him however, from those who were critical of his defenses. "@daveweigel does NOT deny that he saw o'keefe at racist confab, yet you say he does. u=liar," wrote one poster named "robogreen", while "polderboy" suggests that "@andrewbreitbart is acting more and more like @JamesOKeefeIII's pimp."

O'Keefe was at the forum