…and media hypocrisy:
Conservative journalist James O’Keefe has said the treatment the tape received starkly contrasts to what he got after his famous sting operations, including soliciting advice as a fake pimp from the voter-registration group ACORN, posing as an Islamist donor to NPR, and having a 22-year-old assistant obtain attorney general Eric Holder’s ballot at a Washington, D.C., polling place to prove how easy voter fraud can be.
“I think that there’s definitely been a double standard amongst professional journalists here because they’ve been pretty much raking Project Veritas [his company] over the coals for about three years,” O’Keefe told Yahoo News.
“There are no questions about whether it [the video of Romney] was dubbed or doctored, whether there are criminal, potentially state crimes committed in the course of taking that camera around, whether somebody left the camera there and walked away.”
O’Keefe noted that — unlike his videos — the source of the Romney tape remains anonymous and that “in the full raw video, the video starts apparently in the middle of the speech. . . . Journalists have to learn to be consistent. If they want to create these rules, they have to abide by them.”
Unfortunately, apparently they don’t. Of course, media hypocrisy and double standards is an evergreen topic in general.
Hmm, I came here expecting magical underwear. Not that kind of tape apparently.
The (R) vote in November may be motivated more by the fury against the Mainstream Media than enthusiasm for Romney.
Why would people be questioning the tape when the man on the tape held a press conference and confirmed the substance of the tape?
Because he asked for the whole tape to be released, and it then turned out to have a missing piece…?
Not to mention the fact that it may have been an illegal taping?
Well, the linked article is about the lack of standards by the media in what videographers they deam require full videos and any sort of questioning about accuracy, legality, and ethics.
The subject of the interview linked received overwhelmingly negative and hostile press treatment for exposing negative aspects about Democrats and their activist groups. He was even arrested and many people on the left wanted him thrown in prison.
So why not apply the same standards to the anonymous Democrat operative that secretly filmed Romney? Where is the accountability and transparency for Democrat political operatives? Who paid for this operative to get into the event?
But that’s diiifferent, Wodun!
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“Because he asked for the whole tape to be released, and it then turned out to have a missing piece…?”
Calling Shirley Sherrod. Except that didn’t bother you then.
The whole Shirley Sherrod tape was released. Sorry, troll.
Is anything Romney is recorded saying on that tape really scandalous if you’re not already in the tank for the incumbent?
There is a yahoo finance online poll that shows 75% of people agree with Romney’s statement. So, I guess the only real scandalous part is that Romney said something that most people understand and agree with. Unlike with Pres. Empty Chair who says something and people go, “OMG did he really just say that?” and the press comes swooping in to tell us all that what Obama says versus what he means is just too complex and sophisticated for you mush brained simpletons to understand. Now, write a nonsensical word on your hand and pledge allegiance to dear leader like a good little comrade.