Saturday, July 01, 2017 9:07:17 PM
The White House is now using James O’Keefe videos to attack the press
Zack Ford
LGBTQ Editor at ThinkProgress.org. Gay, Atheist, Pianist, Proud SJW. Contact me: zford@thinkprogress.org.
Jun 28
This particular attack on the press garnered a response.
CREDIT: MSNBC/screenshot
At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used a question from Breitbart News to attack the entire press corps. Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering asked about a specific story CNN retracted .. https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-cnn-retraction-6fffbc589fe6 , but in her response, Sanders accused CNN of being “repeatedly wrong” on other stories, and encouraged people to watch an unverified video ..
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This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has promoted O’Keefe’s videos. In a presidential debate last October, then-candidate Trump promoted some of his other videos purportedly showing Hillary Clinton supporters boasting how they were inciting violence against Trump supporters. Though Trump claimed these efforts were “started by her,” there is no evidence in any of the videos to suggest Clinton had any knowledge about the supposed schemes.
And Trump’s support for O’Keefe extends beyond simply promoting his videos. In 2015, the Trump Foundation made a $10,000 donation to Project Veritas. Besides the fact that O’Keefe selectively edits all of his undercover videos, he also has a financial motivation to try to help Trump.
O’Keefe can also thank his duplicitous antics for a criminal conviction. After a botched “sting” of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2010, he and three of his associates pleaded guilty to entering U.S. property under false pretenses. O’Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation, a fine of $1,500, and 100 hours of community service. He later also agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to an ACORN employee he secretly recorded in 2009.
Of the 17 minutes Sanders spent at the podium on Tuesday, she spent more than half of it criticizing the media, including the spiel in which she peddled O’Keefe’s video. All of the questions that provoked those criticisms came from conservative news outlets like Breitbart and Lifezette, while other outlets that were called upon asked policy questions.
Thanks to Adam Peck.
https://thinkprogress.org/sarah-huckabee-sanders-james-okeefe-c9829702d79f
See also:
Wrong, rooster. CNN respects the right of an employee to their own
personal opinion on things .. that's all the Bonifield episode illustrates ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132667498
Zack Ford
LGBTQ Editor at ThinkProgress.org. Gay, Atheist, Pianist, Proud SJW. Contact me: zford@thinkprogress.org.
Jun 28
This particular attack on the press garnered a response.
CREDIT: MSNBC/screenshot
At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used a question from Breitbart News to attack the entire press corps. Breitbart reporter Charlie Spiering asked about a specific story CNN retracted .. https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-cnn-retraction-6fffbc589fe6 , but in her response, Sanders accused CNN of being “repeatedly wrong” on other stories, and encouraged people to watch an unverified video ..
.. from James O’Keefe’s disreputable Project Veritas instead.
[...]
This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has promoted O’Keefe’s videos. In a presidential debate last October, then-candidate Trump promoted some of his other videos purportedly showing Hillary Clinton supporters boasting how they were inciting violence against Trump supporters. Though Trump claimed these efforts were “started by her,” there is no evidence in any of the videos to suggest Clinton had any knowledge about the supposed schemes.
And Trump’s support for O’Keefe extends beyond simply promoting his videos. In 2015, the Trump Foundation made a $10,000 donation to Project Veritas. Besides the fact that O’Keefe selectively edits all of his undercover videos, he also has a financial motivation to try to help Trump.
O’Keefe can also thank his duplicitous antics for a criminal conviction. After a botched “sting” of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2010, he and three of his associates pleaded guilty to entering U.S. property under false pretenses. O’Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation, a fine of $1,500, and 100 hours of community service. He later also agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to an ACORN employee he secretly recorded in 2009.
Of the 17 minutes Sanders spent at the podium on Tuesday, she spent more than half of it criticizing the media, including the spiel in which she peddled O’Keefe’s video. All of the questions that provoked those criticisms came from conservative news outlets like Breitbart and Lifezette, while other outlets that were called upon asked policy questions.
Thanks to Adam Peck.
https://thinkprogress.org/sarah-huckabee-sanders-james-okeefe-c9829702d79f
See also:
Wrong, rooster. CNN respects the right of an employee to their own
personal opinion on things .. that's all the Bonifield episode illustrates ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132667498
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