In James Gordon Meek’s article “ACORN prankster, James O’Keefe, arrested for incident at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office” of January 26th, 2010, Mr Meek twice referred to an attempt to “bug” Sen. Landrieu by James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists in New Orleans:
-The ACORN gotcha guy got popped by the FBI Tuesday on charges of bugging a Democratic senator’s office phones.
-As the bogus hardhats tried to bug an office phone, O’Keefe raised a cell phone “in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel,” the FBI said.
There are no allegations of any attempt to “bug” or wiretap Sen. Landrieu in the FBI affidavit, and a law enforcement official has conceded that the four men were not attempting to wiretap or intercept calls. Furthermore, legal representation for the accused has gone on record stating there were no intentions to wiretap.
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Once the lie gets started…
I am very glad the Alpaca is here…SOMEONE needs to be searching the world's written media and fact-checking them at all times…
I'd turn up this particular division of Big Journalism…get a few more alpacas in there…and fact-check ALL of the written media stories I possibly could…then run a weekly recap like "The Pork Report": http://biggovernment.com/author/porkreport/ on Government spending…with the; who blew the story, the what was incorrect, and the when the error was corrected…
Keep chewing, Retracto…keep chewing…
James Gordon Meek tweets using @meekwire. Send him a link to this story (http://bit.ly/cLgXrE) and ask him if he's issuing a correction. Copy @BigJournalism when you do so. Do it now.
Here is my tweet from LoudCitizen:
@meekwire, Will you issue a retraction to your O'Keefe slander, per the @BigJournalism story at http://bit.ly/cLgXrE?
Revised my tweet to Meek, to include a tiny link to his story as well…
@meekwire, Will u issue a retraction to your O'Keefe slander (http://bit.ly/abw6S9), per the @BigJournalism story at http://bit.ly/cLgXrE?
I am concerned for Refracto – if they are trying to keep up with the misrepresentation of facts by the MSMedia, that they will have no more luck than LUCY on the chocolate candy assembly line.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q
Check out Errol Louis' column in the Daily News today for more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/lo...
Retracto is actually doing something very valuable with all of these posts (besides standing up for the facts and for proper journalism).
Retracto's exposing how fast bad reporting and leftwing lynch-mob journalism travels around the mainstream press before the facts even get their shoes on. That is, when a conservative is in the crosshairs.
uh oh, the obozo justice dept lost another one against the real Americans
so the stupid cop at harvaaad, black panthers, innocent acorn foe and scott brown all nail obozo where he lives
obozo is having a tough 4 months – so America is have a great 4 months
obozo loses = America wins
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OBAMA LIAR start a new one everyday………….. and his media covers it and makes it the liberal's idea of truth
! Not bad of a job for quadraped….. :0)
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The story has not been corrected. Here is my latest tweet to James Gordon Meek:
@meekwire: Still no retraction of your lies about O'Keefe, Mr. Meek? What kind of journalist are you? [See
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