The MSM gets it wrong, again. This time about O’Keefe – he of the famed ACORN expose’ – and his efforts to investigate Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-Reid’s Back Pocket):
…American journalists once cheered for those among their own who were brave enough to risk jail in the quest of exposing corruption and malfeasance. Yet when O’Keefe and his band of whippersnapper journalists went undercover, disguised as telephone repairmen in the hopes of exposing Senator Landrieu’s denying her own constituents phone access to her, the MSM fell all over themselves denouncing the young men.
Rush to judgment? No. It was a stampede.
From MSNBC, CBS, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo and others came shrill, utterly false headlines about “attempted bugging” and the “new Watergate,” which are now being corrected or retracted with but a faint whisper. MSM “journalists” in high-and-mighty places haven’t had this much egg on their faces since their coffee-klatch therapy sessions over the misunderstood, “non-jihadist” Ft. Hood terror attack.
Bravo Mr. O’Keefe, honey!
Writing as a boomer conservative, who was in my youth a raging leftist, I know well the forces at work against you now, and can only salute your willingness to go to the mat to expose liberal corruption, wherever you find it. Although, as an old mom, I would discourage you from carrying through with, perhaps, not-thought-all-the-way-through plans in the future, I still must commend not only your intentions, but also your guts.
Though you may pay personal consequences for your actions in the Senator’s office, you have succeeded in bringing two important items to light.
One, you brought necessary scrutiny to the charge that Senator Landrieu may have been, on purpose, blocking phone calls from her own constituents. You learned firsthand, evidently, that her phone system was not unable to receive calls as she was apparently telling her constituents…
Second, you have demonstrated in full public view – once again – why the MSM is literally drowning itself in its own leftist ideology.
ACORN leaped upon this story when it broke – when the MSM was immediately trumpeting it as “Watergate II – as a means of rehabilitating itself. While the MSM, itself, was gleeful over the prospect of O’Keefe – who scooped all of them – getting in trouble. But the story seemed odd, right out the gate. Why bug Landrieu? What did he hope to find out? That Harry Reid was bribing her with taxpayer money in return for her Senate vote?
As the days have gone on since the story broke, it has become clear that it wasn’t some nefarious plot but, once again, just O’Keefe trying to get at truth the MSM refuses to uncover. Now, it could still be that O’Keefe violated a law – if so, then he’s going to have to pay the piper; there are no free rides on the right side of the aisle. But the most important thing is that Landrieu was broadcasting what appears to be a flat out lie, and the MSM never made a move to uncover it. It takes a gutsy, independent journalist to go where MSMers fear to tread.
So, if O’Keefe sets up a legal defense fund, I’ll donate to it. God bless this young man and best of luck in the future.
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