The Hollywood Liberal

O’Keefe is an admitted criminal

Breitbart and O’Keefe’s ACORN scam exposed no criminality

Breitbart and O’Keefe criticized for selective editing and manipulating video

O’Keefe’s video methods slammed by former employer

Breitbart and O’Keefe repeatedly misrepresented ACORN tapes

Breitbart threatened to release more tapes during election unless DOJ investigates ACORN

O’Keefe has received significant backing from right-wing funders

Breitbart’s “strategy”: Withhold evidence and “deprive” people of “information”

Breitbart’s “strategy” is to “deprive” people of the “information” needed to evaluate his allegations. A September 24 Washington Independent article about Breitbart’s release of the ACORN tapes wrote, “While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers.”

Breitbart backtracks on ACORN “criminality.” After Brooklyn prosecutors cleared ACORN, Breitbart stated, “They played that heavily edited tape but did not show the ACORN worker’s audio for legal reasons.” O’Keefe later wrote: “We muted the audio of the ACORN employees on the video released today due to ACORN’s legal attack upon us. We call upon ACORN to state publicly now that it has no objection to the public release of any its employees oral statements to us. If they are interested in the truth, why wouldn’t they do so?”

O’Keefe falsely claims he sought advice from DC ACORN on establishing brothel for “prostitution of a dozen underage girls.” In a voiceover at the beginning of his Washington, D.C., ACORN video — which was article reported that Liz Farkas, a college friend of O’Keefe’s while at Rutgers University, said she “grew disillusioned” after O’Keefe asked Farkas to help deceptively “edit the script” of a video involving a nurse at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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O’Keefe’s video methods slammed by former employer

Leadership Institute’s Sutton says O’Keefe’s tactics are “not something that we teach here.” According to a January 28 Politico appeared on Fox & Friends dressed as a pimp. Host Steve Doocy said that O’Keefe was “dressed exactly in the same outfit that he wore to these ACORN offices up and down the Eastern Seaboard” — a statement O’Keefe made no effort to correct. In fact, while the “title sequences” of the videos Breitbart promoted post, O’Keefe claimed that “Mr. Felix D. Harris of Los Angeles ACORN” was “the only employee in our nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation who would not assist us.” edition of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace said: “O’Keefe wants to set the record straight. He denies reports on left-wing blogs he got any money from conservative backers.” However, the Village Voice reported on September 22, 2009, that the spokesperson for conservative investor Peter Thiel acknowledged that Thiel had contributed “about $10,000” to an earlier video that O’Keefe released in February 2009. Thiel’s spokesperson denied that Thiel had “any involvement with the ACORN videos.”