"We will never hear James O'Keefe's name as a credible source ever again."

[johnfunk]

Daryle Lamont Jenkins on the exposure of James O'Keefe as a racist fellow traveler:

I have to say that this has been the most enjoyable week for us in a long while. The truth of the matter is One People's Project can stand by our story. The spin from our more conservative brethren is only a butt-covering attempt to avoid dealing with one simple fact: James O'Keefe attended a white racist forum that was organized by the Robert A. Taft Club, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center once termed an extremist organization and whose founder Marcus Epstein has been associated with racist groups and individuals and was arrested for a racist physical attack nine months after the forum. The forum itself generated controversy well before it even took place, enough to say that if you attended it, you were either a reporter, a supporter, or someone who was going to have a whole hell of a lot of explaining to do.

The most interesting thing about this is while the attacks have been leveled mostly at Max Blumenthal and David Weigel, OPP and myself merely gets mentioned as the source. We have seen no such attacks. We have had a few phone calls from bloggers and other reporters, but that has been it. Even more curious, I can't even tell you if it was Larry O'Connor Andrew Breitbart, this Alpaca thing or who from that crowd called us the other day to confirm our source because they didn't want to say who they were!

Minor corrections by Max Blumenthal aside, Andrew Breitbart not only failed to advance the defense of his minion James "Boyfriend of ex-hooker Pimp Videos" O'Keefe, but just helped make it more apparent that the self-styled "investigative reporter" should dump the Mack Daddy costume for a simple, tasteful white hood and sheet.

[sharesunited]

1. How would you account for the "rehabilitation" of Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy?

[johnfunk]

2. Rehabilitated by their fellow travelers

Both are unredeemed, opportunistic crooks.

[gratuitous]

3. In a slightly more just world, that would be true

But as currently constituted, I have yet to see the circumstance that disqualifies practically any source from the conservawhacko right. Whether it's being consistently wrong, caught actively lying, busted from a job in disgrace, or narrowly missing a jail sentence, conservatives seem to command the best platforms and the most uncritical hearing of their looniest views. James O’Keefe will undoubtedly provide “cable catnip,” being a “colorful,” “controversial” guest with a “unique” viewpoint. Unique, that is, for all the people in the country who don’t have access to Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, any Fox broadcast or cable channel, or the Washington Post.

Credibility has nothing to do with conservawhackos, and James O'Keefe is right at home with them.

[fascisthunter]

4. so it takes THAT much huh?

yet we liberals are still fucking locked out of the political system and the media... I've had it up to here with the double standards and bullshit lies eminating from corporate American and that neo-fascist political party, the GOP. As for the Tea Baggers... right wing knuckle heads who have been brainwashed.