Beck, Hannity silent on O'Keefe's arrest
January 26, 2010 10:16 pm ET by Brian Frederick
Although they repeatedly promoted ACORN videos made by filmmaker James O'Keefe on their shows and complained about the lack of media coverage of the videos, neither Glenn Beck nor Sean Hannity mentioned O'Keefe's arrest Monday for an alleged plot to interfere with* Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone. Fox News has reported on the story, but neither Beck nor Hannity had any comment on it.
No, they'll call it like they see it.
If that's calling it like they see it to Fox, they may want to visit their optometrist.
Really? They see it as Breitbart and his website are a criminal enterprise? Or that only works with ACORN. I would love to hear them and their defenders (you) squirm your way past than one.
I'm happy he's finally been busted. I applaud law enforcement for catching this criminal.
They will start talking about it when they have figured out how to spin it.
Then, just because that same guy who the right wing media have been defending as an honest journalist gets busted on several felony charges in a feeble attempt to create a phony story to top his ACORN attack, and that same media pretends it didn't happen, MMFA gets all, like, crazy by mentioning it.
It's so totally hard to understand !
I guess you didn't get the memo?
Don't worry, you've joined a long but illustrious crowd that includes one of the featured bloggers here that willfully or blindly ignore facts!
And despite telling my Republican friends this before the election, they still try to hold me to some imagined claim I made that Obama would be a completely radical change from Bush (it was actually they who were saying this).
I'm also not too happy about Obama extending no bid contracts to campaign donors, even if it's a tiny fraction of the amount he blasted Bush for.
Sorry, I know the Fox-loving trolls wanted to derail the topic from their hero O'Keefe, but I just wanted to point out how weak their "MMFA is ignoring a completely unrelated item" schtick is.
I beg to differ. If O'Keefe had not been involved this would be a pretty small story at this time. It is precicely because of O'Keefe's arrest that makes it a big story immediately. He is a right wing media celebrity who has had more face-time on FoxNews than Senator Landrieu. Thirty-five Republican congressmen co-sponsored a House Resolution praising O'Keefe for his service to "the American people" with his ACORN videos. O'Keefe had attained "hero" status.
I read the first 69 comments about this story at Hotair.com and 90 percent of them expressed degrees of serious embarrassment and/or dissappointment that O'Keefe had crossed a line of legality that was indefensible.
Some might say O'Keefe got "too big for his britches". I am wondering that perhaps the "britches" that conservative media put him into were just too big for O'Keefe.
After all, the break-in at the DNC's Watergate headquarters wasn't originally seen as a "BIG" story, but I think, if you were listening in history class, that original belief was found to be wrong. I remember it very well.
Clearly. I mean, why would it be a big story when guys allegedly dress up in costumes and enter a Senator's office for the purpose of wire-tapping? Not a big deal at all. Certainly not a big deal like wearing a pimp costume and playing a prank on an ACORN office. Your pathetic partisanship is showing.
I would love to hear the right-wingers here explain to me why Breitbart and biggovernment.com are not a criminal enterprise the way they claimed ACORN was. Please...take your time.
An omission of factual information like this furthers the conservative agenda. They pushed the stories from O'Keefe which made ACORN look bad and their failure to cover this story is an omission which also furthers that agenda.
Pat: "Possibly discredits everything else they were doing"
Stu: "I'm very interested slash concerned" (using his typical hefty dose of sarcasm on "slash")
(pardon the cross post from another comment)
From diamonds;
That's why the headline isn't "Fox silent on O'Keefe's arrest". This isn't that difficult.
But keep apologizing for Beck and O'Keefe. That crazy trolley has more elbow room every day.
They reported on all there was to report about, it totaled about a two minute story. It isn't like there was 20 minutes of video to show or pages of documents to sift through. I fail to see what sort of point MMfA is trying to prove.
It's about the contrast between Fox ( Beck and Hannity among the worst offenders) spending countless hours reporting on O'Keefe's ACORN scam as if it was an important story from a credible journalist, and a few minutes reporting on the exposure as their source as a dishonest criminal.
O'Keefe was their primary source for one of their most prominently-featured propaganda pieces, trying to portray ACORN as a corrupt organization, and constantly trying to connect the organization to the president in their never-ending crusade to smear him by any means possible.
This point can only be difficult to see for those who are still under the impression that Fox is a news organization.
Fox exaggerated the credibility of this prankster nitwit, so now they are pretending said nitwit's most recent abortive attempt at fame never happened. Move along, nothing to see here. But of course they'll drag out the "pimp" footage when they need to splatter ACORN's guts against the wall during another faux save our democracy from the poor people story.
Randy
And that's MMFA's aim, to stop futhering of the conservative agenda by dishonest means, like omission of relevant info.
So, you're 100% wrong, MagCynic. On this occasion and virtually every other occasion too.
Sorry, but your retort is a major fail.
... Pleeeeaaassssse ?
You'd like that, wouldn't you ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9PILmocMA
Whether any paper trail exists or not, you have to know that the entire Right wing engine was behind this. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Beck and/or Hannity played a role, which is precisely why they're keeping their mouths shut for the time being.
Media Matters, if I were you I would put the pedal to the metal on this one--this was no prank. This was worse than Watergate--this was Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Parliament. This was a private citizen entering the halls of government in order to capture audio of a US Senator so thathe could destroy her on Television, of course with the help of right wing media. If this crap continues, it's going to be anarchy and fascism from here on out.
*crickets*
And, the Facts-From-Ass crowd needs some time to get their spin machine for apologies up to speed. It's kinda dusty, needs a lube job and it's powered by a 1948 Singer sewing machine motor with a frayed power cord.
Remember too, when it comes to conservatives caught with their pants around their ankles, the first four steps in the FOX NEWS response process are:
- Duck
- Dodge
- Bob
- Weave
They've just begun Duck.