• The return of O’Keefe’s gotcha journalism: Conservative activist James O’Keefe, widely know for his undercover videos made at the expense of ACORN and NPR, unveiled his latest video today claiming to expose Medicaid fraud. Any discussion of O’Keefe’s work needs, we think, to be couched in an acknowledgement that he has virtually no credibility on these things; his ACORN videos were duplicitously edited (then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown found no evidence of criminal behavior on ACORN’s part) as was his tape of NPR fundraising exec Ron Schiller. Basically, he deserves even less than the benefit of the doubt (don’t forget this disgusting hoax attempt as well), and as such we urge everybody to wait a few days for the full context of his video to emerge. source

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