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style="FONT-SIZE: 28px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #202020; TEXT-ALIGN: left; DISPLAY: block; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%">Credulous
Reporting of Deceptive Propaganda Made Planned
Parenthood Attack Inevitable</H1></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>James O’Keefe in the pimp
get-up he did not wear when he went in to smear ACORN.
(image: <STRONG>Fox News</STRONG>)</EM></P></DIV>
<P>The attack on Planned Parenthood was probably
inevitable after the right saw how well the attack on
ACORN was received.</P>
<P>ACORN, like Planned Parenthood, was at the top of the
right’s list of most-hated organizations, though in
ACORN’s case its chief sin was not helping women control
their own bodies but rather helping poor people vote.
ACORN was taken off the board by a series of deceptively
edited, cunningly marketed hidden-camera videos, shot by
right-wing prankster James O’Keefe (with Hannah Giles)
and marketed by <STRONG>BigGovernment.com</STRONG>‘s
Andrew Breitbart.</P>
<P>The story that the videos told about ACORN was
repeated uncritically by elite reporters like the
<STRONG>New York Times</STRONG>‘ Scott Shane (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=17aa575acc&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=17aa575acc&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>9/16/09</A>), :</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The undercover videos showed a scantily dressed
young woman, Hannah Giles, posing as a prostitute,
while a young man, James O’Keefe, played her pimp.
They visited ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington,
Brooklyn and San Bernardino, Calif., candidly
describing their illicit business and asking the
advice of ACORN workers. Among other questions, they
asked how to buy a house to use as a brothel employing
underage girls from El Salvador…. In the footage made
public—initially by a new website,
<STRONG>BigGovernment.com</STRONG>—ACORN employees
raised no objections to the criminal plans. Instead,
they eagerly counseled the couple on how to hide their
activities from the authorities, avoid taxes and make
the brothel scheme work.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>As became clear when the tapes (and accompanying
transcripts) were examined by more skeptical eyes,
O’Keefe and Giles did not go into ACORN’s offices in
outlandish costumes. They presented O’Keefe as a
concerned boyfriend trying to protect Giles from a
fictional abusive pimp. The “advice” they got on how to
evade taxes or set up brothels turned out to be the
product of selective editing. (See FAIR Action Alert, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=7a38bac17f&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=7a38bac17f&e=c9c3a92938">3/11/10</A>;
<STRONG>Extra!</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=dc56257ed4&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=dc56257ed4&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>4/10</A>.) In one instance, an ACORN
employee called police to report the pair’s suspicious
visit (<STRONG>FAIR Blog</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8f59fd2404&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8f59fd2404&e=c9c3a92938">7/23/10</A>).</P>
<P>But rather than criticizing O’Keefe and Breitbart for
perpetrating a hoax, leading corporate media
outlets suggested apologetically that they should
have done more to spotlight the misleading story.
<STRONG>New York Times</STRONG> public editor Clark Hoyt
(<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=d539999257&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=d539999257&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>9/27/09</A>) warned that if papers like
his miss such stories, they might “wind up looking
clueless or, worse, partisan.”</P>
<P>Centrist media critics endorsed the deceptive
project, with the <B>Columbia Journalism Review</B> (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=dddf4c7583&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=dddf4c7583&e=c9c3a92938">9/18/09</A>)
pronouncing, “ACORN got caught on candid camera, and
they got caught good.” The <STRONG>Washington
Post</STRONG>‘s Howard Kurtz (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=722a083e29&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=722a083e29&e=c9c3a92938">10/7/09</A>)
wrote that the videos “proved to be a legitimate story,”
while <B>Slate</B> media critic Jack Shafer (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=caa560f7da&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=caa560f7da&e=c9c3a92938">9/23/09</A>)
claimed that even “critics of Breitbart and the
filmmakers don’t really dispute the basic information
unearthed by the videos.”</P>
<P>“I have to give you credit for this,”
<STRONG>ABC</STRONG>‘s George Stephanopoulos told
Breitbart (<STRONG>This Week</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=11a1cc6e23&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=11a1cc6e23&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>6/1/10</A>); “on ACORN, you did expose
people doing things they shouldn’t do.”</P>
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<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>Shirley Sherrod, another
victim of the right-wing smear factory. (image:
<STRONG>CNN</STRONG>)</EM></P></DIV>
<P>With encouragement like that–not to mention that the
video attack succeeded in driving ACORN to <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=5e0f39d48c&e=c9c3a92938
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href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=5e0f39d48c&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>disband</A> in April 2010–it’s no wonder
that O’Keefe and Breitbart continued to use the same
unscrupulous techniques against the right’s enemies. In
July 2010, Breitbart released a tape of Agriculture
Department official Shirley Sherrod in which she seemed
to be boasting that she refused to help a white farmer
because of his race. When the full tape of Sherrod’s
talk came out, it turned out she was actually talking
about how she overcame her prejudices to help the farmer
and recognize that “there is no difference between us.”
But by that point, Sherrod had already been forced out
of her job (<STRONG>FAIR Blog</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=89a6615361&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=89a6615361&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>7/21/10</A>).</P>
<P>O’Keefe claimed another victim when he forced the
resignation of <STRONG>NPR</STRONG> CEO Vivian Schiller
after releasing a tape of an <STRONG>NPR</STRONG>
fundraiser meeting with a fake Muslim charity
(<STRONG>FAIR Blog</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2d7cd95e71&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=2d7cd95e71&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>3/11/11</A>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=acf6ffca90&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=acf6ffca90&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>3/14/11</A>). The tape as edited by
O’Keefe appeared to show the fundraiser making
light of Sharia law and asserting that the Republican
Party had been “hijacked” by the Tea Party—but an
analysis of the full tape found that “several key scenes
were edited misleadingly…. Several of the most
embarrassing moments were cobbled together or left out
context” (<STRONG>Time</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=e90024433d&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=e90024433d&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>3/13/11</A>).</P>
<P>Why did O’Keefe in this case post the full video when
it revealed his shenanigans? <STRONG>Time</STRONG>‘s
James Poniewozik had a revealing take:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>If O’Keefe hadn’t posted the source video, it would
have invited suspicion.</P>
<P>Instead he posted it and took the chance that most
people would watch the edited video (or just clips
from it on the news); that reporters, pressed for time
with a stack of other assignments, would cover the
edited video; that blogs (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b3a3d46c0f&e=c9c3a92938
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target=_blank>including, I will admit, this one</A>)
would link to those reports; and that by the time
anyone took the time to go over the full video, the
narrative would be established, the quotes stuck in
people’s minds and the ideological battle
won.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>As the resignation of <STRONG>NPR</STRONG>‘s boss
indicates, it was a chance well worth taking.</P>
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<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>David Daleiden, a friend of
James O’Keefe’s who used the same deceptive tactics to
go after Planned Parenthood. (image: <STRONG>Fox
News</STRONG>)</EM></P></DIV>
<P>Even more loathed on the right than ACORN or
<STRONG>NPR</STRONG>, of course, is Planned Parenthood,
and O’Keefe’s methods were naturally applied to going
after the reproductive health clinics. In fact, O’Keefe
targeted anti-Planned Parenthood before he targeted
ACORN—making <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c2f77358e6&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=c2f77358e6&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>undercover videos</A> at Planned
Parenthood clinics in 2007 and 2008 with one Lila Rose,
who went on to found a group called Life Force making <A
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href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=196606b2cb&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>similar videos</A> for a group called Live
Action. Live Action, in turn, was where David Daleiden,
who made the more recent Planned Parenthood videos under
the nameplate of the “Center for Medical Progress,”
learned his techniques. Daleiden calls O’Keefe a friend
(<STRONG>NPR</STRONG>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=af6c9fcdd4&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=af6c9fcdd4&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>7/22/15</A>).</P>
<P>Given the connection, it’s no surprise that the
Planned Parenthood videos used the same bag of tricks
that O’Keefe had employed to such success: <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b78aca74b7&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=b78aca74b7&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>deceptive editing</A>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8b00c7228c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=8b00c7228c&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>false framing</A>, <A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=26aad18ce7&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=26aad18ce7&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>misrepresented visuals</A>. And it’s also
not a surprise that corporate media—concerned about
seeming “clueless” but even more worried about appearing
“partisan”—gave plentiful newshole to Daleiden’s
claims, and to right-wing politicians who echoed him,
generally in a “he said/she said” format. As Janine
Jackson put it on <STRONG>CounterSpin</STRONG> (<A
title=http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=deecd2b99c&e=c9c3a92938
style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #336699"
href="http://fair.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c573daa3ad72f4a095505b58&id=deecd2b99c&e=c9c3a92938"
target=_blank>8/7/15</A>):</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>As long as reporters feel that they have to report
every politicians’ claim basically credulously, to
give weight and attention to baseless assertions
because they were in fact made by a person who’s
running for office, then there’s always a benefit to
saying the most inflammatory, distorted thing, because
even if it’s criticized, the journalists’ rule
requires still require going back to that person to
credulously entertain whatever cockamamie thing they
say next.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The most inflammatory, distorted thing you could say,
of course, is that Planned Parenthood is “selling baby
parts”—which the videos provided no evidence of, and in
fact edited out numerous instances where Planned
Parenthood representatives explain in no uncertain terms
that they can’t and don’t do that. Nevertheless, the
videos provoked a deluge of coverage revolving around
the question, “Does Planned Parenthood sell baby
parts?”—until, predictably enough, three people were
murdered in a Planned Parenthood clinic by someone
exclaiming “No more baby parts!”</P>
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<P class=wp-caption-text><EM>After Robert Dear allegedly
murdered three at a Planned Parenthood clinic, the
<STRONG>New York Times</STRONG> wrote that abortion
“fomented political passions on both the left and the
right.” (image: <STRONG>KVOR</STRONG>)</EM></P></DIV>
<P>In the aftermath of the killings, media still
couldn’t seem to get past the
on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand mindset to say that
Planned Parenthood had been targeted on the basis of
unfounded allegation. Thus <STRONG>Reuters</STRONG> (<A
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target=_blank>11/29/15</A>):</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Conservatives have accused Planned Parenthood, a
nonprofit that provides a range of health services,
including abortion, of illegally selling baby parts,
an accusation it has strenuously
denied.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Or you take the route of the <STRONG>New York
Times</STRONG> (<A
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target=_blank>11/27/15</A>), where the “selling baby
parts” lie was left out, leaving it entirely unclear why
Planned Parenthood was “criticized”:</P>
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<P>The shooting came at a time when Planned Parenthood
has been criticized because of surreptitious videos
made by anti-abortion groups of officials discussing
using fetal organs for research.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Then the <STRONG>Times</STRONG> (<A
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target=_blank>11/29/15</A>) can cast blame on both
sides–for “foment[ing] political passions”:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Congressional supporters and opponents of Planned
Parenthood were uncharacteristically subdued over the
weekend as they awaited more information about the
shooting…. But considering the extent to which Planned
Parenthood has fomented political passions on both the
left and the right in Washington, that restraint seems
unlikely to hold.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>In fact, there is blame to be shared for fomenting
murderous passions—not between reproductive health
clinics and those who smear them, but between the
right-wing propagandists who create the smears and their
corporate enablers who through credulous
pseudo-journalism transmute the smears into “news.”</P>
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