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Defend America on Saturday, February 20, 2010 5:07:24 PM
Allahpundit at Hot Air has the details and the video:
Via Big Journalism.
I’m kicking myself for not having covered this at the time because most
of you won’t know the background before watching. Briefly, lefty smear
merchant Max Blumenthal dropped a hit piece on O’Keefe
at Salon a few weeks ago alleging that he had helped plan some sort of
white-supremacist conference in 2006, and even manned a table there at
which racist literature was being sold.
Minor problem one: It wasn’t a white-supremacist conference. It was
a debate on “Race and Conservatism” featuring a panel discussion
between mainstream conservatives and racist radicals. Among the
mainstreamers was Kevin Martin, a black conservative who spoke up
after the Salon piece was published to say that O’Keefe chatted with
him at the conference and “voiced personal support for me and my
positions. He also repudiated the radical elements in the room that
night.”
Minor problem two: Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent, the
alleged source for the detail about O’Keefe manning the table with
racist lit, also spoke up after Blumenthal’s piece hit to say that he
had no reason to believe O’Keefe had helped plan the event and had never claimed that O’Keefe manned a table there.
And those weren’t the only “minor problems.” The end result: Salon had to formally retract
the detail about O’Keefe planning the event, although as far as I know,
the fact that O’Keefe reportedly told Kevin Martin he was on his side
remains unreported.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/20/video-breitbart-goes-nuclear-on-salon-writer-at-cpac-for-smearing-james-okeefe-as-racist/