This from the BVoAF*:

James O’Keefe’s Race Problem

Uh oh. According to a group called “One People’s Project,” ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled “Race and Conservatism.” James O’Keefe’s race problem.

Well, golly. This one’s easy, because Larry O’Conner @ Breitbart’s new Big Journalism did all the work.

It seems BVoAF is simply falling hook, line, and sinker for a hatchet job by some unknown extreme left wing group named One People’s Project (seriously!). They claim:

(In 2006) ..there was this white supremacist forum that we had called attention to and eventually attended that featured American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor and National Review’s homophobe extraordinaire John Derbyshire. It was originally supposed to be held at the building of the conservative activist organization Leadership Institute until it was forced to move to another location…..

There was also a photographer there, and lo and behold this picture has surfaced of a now familiar face attending the forum – James O’Keefe.

O’Keefe was manning a table at a forum of suit-and-tie Nazis.

A DC area photographer snapped a photo of O’Keefe as he maintained a literature table near the panelists.

Got that? I won’t repeat O’Connor’s dissection (please read the link), but I’ll quote his summary:

Here is the story they actually have:

James O’Keefe attended a forum years ago that dealt with race and politics.  The forum was located at a Georgetown University building (that’s right, a 21-year-old man attended an event on a college campus).  The forum had as one of its three speakers a controversial figure, Jared Taylor, with a track record of making racist statements.  He was being debated by two other people including Mr. Martin (taking issue with the racist figure).  Mr. Taylor has also appeared with Phil Donohue, Queen Latifa and Paula Zahn on their TV shows to debate race.  Are the audience members of the Donohue show racist for sitting and watching that debate?

Honestly, that isn’t much of a story.  But… you put Mr. O’Keefe at a table full of racist literature and you say that he was manning the table.  And you say you have a picture proving it.  And you make it sound like he was one of the organizers of this event.  And you call the event a “White Supremacist Conference”.  Well… now you’ve got a story.

Only problem:  It’s all a lie.

Here’s the story from the horse’s mouth:

1. He was not “manning a table” at the event
2. He was not involved with the organization or operations of the event.
3. He attended the event with many of his Leadership Institute co-workers since it was right across the street from their building in Arlington, Va., and it was organized by other LI associates.
4. The organizer who is being called a “White Supremacist” is half Jewish and half Korean.
5. One of the panelist was an African-American named Kevin Martin.
6. The event was forced to move to a Georgetown University building in Arlington, not at a cross-burning.

Aside from that, it’s all true. Not to be outdone, BVoAF comes up with this update:

Dave Weigel confirms the report by One People’s Project.

Whoever TF that is. His story basically quotes the OPP story, and then jumps off to the Max Blumenthal piece in Salon, which O’Connor also refuted.

So BV0AF is 0 for 3. And aside from Salon, there are all obscure uber-lefty sites. Salon is a more well-known uber-lefty site. WTF is up with that?

*From the Dee piece in the NYT: Blog Version of Animal Farm

Also See: The War Against O’Keefe, Breitbart, et al

Also: Correction Request: Max Blumenthal, Salon.com

Ready to say “uncle” Chucky?

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