The Continuing Deflation of Little Green Footballs

Chuck Johnson is at it again. He must be out on a weekend pass. I was compelled to answer the Little Green Monster after I saw him go after James O’Keefe with that same tired wet noodle of a charge he has leveled at so many, calling him a white nationalist. Johnson claimed in an LGF post that “according to a group called ‘One People’s Project,’ ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled ‘Race and Conservatism.’”

Sounds terrible, right? Sure, until you get the facts that Johnson doesn’t tell you. When it became clear that it wasn’t a “white nationalist conference,” Johnson tried to slither out of responsibility for his words by saying in a new post: “It’s very clear that I attributed the ‘white nationalist conference’ claim to One People’s Project; that’s what the words ‘according to’ mean.”

Busted! As if it weren’t obvious that in his original post, he was approving of and endorsing what One People’s Project said. But this is typical of Johnson’s weaselly hit-and-run smear tactics.

Meanwhile, Larry O’Connor at Big Journalism uncovered the truth about O’Keefe’s supposed participation in this conference:

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Tags: Ann Coulter, Barrett Brown, Big Journalism, Charles Johnson, CPAC
Posted Feb 5th 2010 at 3:51 pm in Media Criticism, News, Politics | 70674128 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/02/05/the-continuing-deflation-of-little-green-footballs/The+Continuing+Deflation+of+Little+Green+Footballs2010-02-05+23%3A51%3A51Pamela+Geller