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We are all getting a kick out of the tribulations of phony journalist James O'Keefe, but let's not be so quick to make fun that we forget a few things.
O'Keefe was receiving salary from Andrew Breitbart, the founder of the site Big Government. That's the weirdo on the video above being interviewed (the video is painful. Someone needs to talk about punditry in Washington.)
You do remember Big Government, do you? That's the site behind the huge crop of lies against Obama appointee Kevin Jennings. From Media Matters comes a listing:
Blogger Hoft's smear campaign against Jennings. Writing for the website Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft has authored a series of factually dubious attacks on Department of Education staffer Kevin Jennings and the organization Jennings founded and previously led, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Hoft's Jennings posts — which he has labeled “Fistgate,” even though many of those allegations have little or nothing to do with the sexual practice of fisting — often draw upon the work of MassResistance, a Massachusetts based anti-gay organization that has been labeled a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even conservative commentator Dean Barnett has stated that the organization “verges on being a hate group.”
Breitbart eagerly embraced and promoted Hoft's false attacks on Jennings. Hoft's “Fistgate” attacks on Jennings and the GLSEN have been faithfully cross-posted on BigGovernment.com, and Breitbart himself has used Twitter to promote Hoft's work.
Breitbart.tv also smeared Jennings. An October 6, 2009, Breitbart.tv post grossly distorted comments Jennings made to a GLSEN audience in 2000 to claim he “criticize[d] schools for promoting heterosexuality.” In fact, in the audio files posted at Breitbart.tv, Jennings promoted a curriculum that demands “respect [for] every human being regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of gender identity, regardless of race or religion or any of the arbitrary distinctions we make among people,” and said that efforts to promote a specific sexual orientation through schools were ineffective.
O'Keefe went after ACORN and caused the organization considerable trouble. Just imagine what he could have tried with various national and statewide lgbt organizations.
It's a part of a huge picture of targeting us all via slander and innuendo. O'Keefe got over his head and got so stupid that he got caught.
I'm sure there are others waiting in the wings.
Just something to remember.
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definitely more waiting…in the wings. Chris Hayes gave a great analysis last night of how this whole thing is representative of the way Republicans are taught to run campaigns. They pump out little O’Keefes all the time.
Politicohas an interesting article regarding the 4 and various connections.
Tony Perkins/Family Research Cuoncil connection to this? Hmm…
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoi…
http://www.2theadvocate.com/ne…
I’ve met BreibartAbout a year or so ago we had a “Dustup” exchange on the Los Angeles Times’ “Opinion” blog.
He suffers from delusions of adequacy. And he’s in a World of Trouble thanks to this caper
Huffington“Matt Drudge introduced him to Arianna Huffington, when she was still a Republican,[6] and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a progressive, in creating her website.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A…
I will never, ever read Huffington Post again.
BreibartTV is also the site with that racist junk of Hank Williams Jr.It’s full of whacko birther folks commenting
e.g. Matt DrudgeSome of the most vicious and brutal attacks come from closeted gay men like Matt Drudge. Remember, Drudge spawned this Breitbart freak. There is something deeply evil about these psychos who obsess on destroying gays and lesbians through fanatical hate speech. Former gay porn actor Matt Sanchez is another example. He went on insane anti-gay rants all the time. Thankfully, he has disappeared from the media scene.
Reliving history!This is looking more and more like this is Watergate 2.0 and this little shit’s under the delusion he’s the second coming of G. Gordon Lilly!