NBC Still Doesn't Know About O'Keefe's ACORN Hoax
03/15/2011 by Peter HartFrom Wednesday's NBC Nightly News (3/9/11), courtesy of reporter Lisa Myers:
We last saw O'Keefe wearing a fur coat and playing a pimp when he managed to take down the liberal group ACORN.
No we didn't.
As should be well-known by now, O'Keefe used footage of himself wearing a "pimp" costume in his ACORN videos--but didn't wear the ridiculous costume during his "undercover stings." Media accounts acted as though he did, though--it took a lot of effort to get the New York Times to finally admit its errors on this count.
If reporters don't know these facts, they're bound to get fooled by O'Keefe again.
Tags: ACORN, James O'Keefe, Lisa Myers
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March 15th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Peter, I wouldn't say the corpress was "fooled" by O'Keefe. When you make no attempt to verify the authenticity of these videos until after the damage has been done, and give them wide exposure, rather than exposing them as propaganda, that seems more a matter of wilful ignorance, at best, and complicity at worst, doesn't it?
And, of course, O'Keefe didn't take down anyone on his own, did he? The reactionary media made these cause celebres, and their "liberal" counterpart went right along with them, didn't they?
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