TYT: Glenn Beck's 'The Blaze' Exposes O'Keefe NPR Smear

[ejbr]

Run time: 06:44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LhTLMRu-6U   Posted on YouTube: March 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: March 14, 2011 By DU Member: ejbr Views on DU: 1953

 
Will wonders never cease. I still think O'Keefe should have gotten time for his antics with Landrau in Louisiana.

[The Wielding Truth]

1. THank you so much for posting this. O'Keefe is totally untrustworthy.

[Crowman1979]

2. You know your nothing when you extreme right-wing and even Glenn Beck despises you.

[DirkGently]

3. Here's a link to text of the same (?) debunking. Site still manages to take a poke at liberals who

"clean house" before "realizing they've been punked." Depends on which liberals are doing the "house cleaning" I guess:

http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979138267

[20score]

4. K&R

[Blacksheep214]

5. The Lie is on Page One

The correction is by the obits.

Mission accomplished once again thanks to the lazy bastards in the media who refuse to do any leg work or fact checking.

Fool me once, we won't get fooled again!

Wanna bet?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. If I may offer an expalnation...

If you think about it for a few minutes, the reasons for Beck throwing O'Keefe under the bus like this become less baffling:

1) Any Beck-watcher (not to be confused with a Beck viewer) can tell you he's in trouble at Fox. His audience has fallen off drastically as only the fringiest fundie right-wingers continue to buy in to his conspiracy theories. He may be attempting regain some credibility in an attempt to claw his way back toward the Center Far Right. How better to do that than by calling out a fellow zero-credibility right winger? Especially since someone was bound to notice that this was an O'Keeffe tape sooner or later, right? So look- now Glenn Beck is suddenly seeming to have a bit more journalistic integrity, right?

1a) An alternative possibility is that- as previously noted- Glenn Beck is in trouble at Fox. This could have been a desperation move to win back a piece of his audience, or it could be that his sources tell him that the jig is already up and his pink slip is imminent. This could be a parting 'fuck you' to Fox, who is once again running with the O'Keeffe football.

2) I happened to see a piece in the Atlantic which mentioned that The Blaze is run by a guy named Scott Baker, who was co-founder and former editor of Breitbart.tv. So the guy who most likely greenlighted the expose' used to work for Breitbart. Sort of the same relationship Breitbart had with Arianna Huffington, and listen to how he talks about her these days.

I bet Breitbart's a real dream to work for... I wonder how many other ex-employees he's got who would just love to have an opportunity like this fall into their laps...

So that's my take. Hope everybody feels enlightened now.

[democracy1st]

7. What boggles the mind is why did they resign?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. It's what liberals do

I don't understand it either. We've all heard about Roger Ailes' memos to the staff telling them how to report things, and you don't see him resigning. Yet when it's revealed that a liberal has an opinion it's a big scandal. If you were to ask me, the big scandal would have been if he had accepted the check.

[VidGardnr]

9. Wonders will never cease.