**UPDATED** 2/3/10, 1:26 PM PST

Max Blumenthal has called my post yesterday at Big Journalism “fact-challenged” and “riddled with falsehoods”.

I found five assertions in the piece that I had lied.

I will address them in order of their appearance:

Assertion #1:  ”Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe and attempted to defend him by calling my reporting “FALSE,” has been undermined by O’Keefe himself. O’Keefe concedes my report was true — he was at the event. Breitbart has therefore been contradicted by O’Keefe.”

Response:  Neither Breitbart nor Big Journalism ever asserted that O’Keefe was not at the event.  The Blumenthal piece at salon.com asserts that O’Keefe was manning a table full of racist literature.  This implies he was working at the event or in some way connected with the event beyond being an audience member.  This is assertion is false, therefore, Blumenthal’s reporting was false. (more…)