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Blaze Scrutiny of NPR Expose Videos Draws Extensive Media Reaction

We first posted an in-depth look at the NPR sting video on Thursday, when our Scott Baker and Pam Key asked whether the raw video revealed questionable editing tactics. Then Thursday evening, Key posted a six-minute montage showing enlightening sections cut from the now-infamous, edited video.

Our videos — sometimes referenced together, sometimes not — have been getting some viral attention. A good number of news and journalism sites have been referencing our analysis as they debate the ethics of the NPR video and the role and parameters of undercover journalism.

Business Insider writer Glynnis MacNicol noticed our “investigation is drawing applause from some unlikely quarters.”

Take the New York Times, for example. On Friday evening, Times writer Peter Catapano posted a lengthy piece aggregating the best commentary regarding the undercover video, and featuring diverging views regarding its ethics. It seems the article was incomplete without mentioning our piece:

As several readers have pointed out, Pam Key, a producer at Glenn Beck’s Web site, The Blaze, examines unedited video to determine whether the version that O’Keefe released was edited deceptively.

About an hour later, NYT editor Patrick LaForge tweeted the following:

Blaze Scrutiny of NPR Expose Videos Draws Extensive Media Reaction

Palafo seems to hint at one of the most common reactions: bewilderment over why, out of all the sites out there, we were one of the only ones to take the time to comb through the video and ask tough questions.

“It‘s either depressing or sort of wonderful that Glenn Beck’s The Blaze was the one to catch some really serious, dishonest lily-gilding in the NPR sting,” Politico’s Ben Smith writes on his blog from Friday, adding a mild mea culpa: “I regret having, even in what I thought was a cautious way, picked up the story.”

Mediaite’s Jon Bershad expressed his astonishment as “interesting” [emphasis added]:

While the content of the article is certainly interesting enough, the fact that The Blaze wrote it up is even more interesting. Who would have guessed when Glenn Beck announced that he was starting a news site, that that site would be the only ones to spend this much time in the defense of an NPR executive? Sure, any site that seems to have a set ideology may have a couple posts with a differing opinion and, yes, James O’Keefe isn’t exactly an untouchable figure in Conservative politics, but the clear amount of effort that The Blaze obviously expended on this project sets it apart. [...]

TIME Magazine’s James Poniewozik gave The Blaze “kudos” for taking the time to focus on the raw video while Mother Jones Editor — yes, Mother Jones — Clara Jeffery sent her compliments out via the Twittersphere:

Blaze Scrutiny of NPR Expose Videos Draws Extensive Media Reaction

Columbia Journalism Review writer Joel Meares looked at the merits of our pieces: “It gets to the point about taking caution with these kinds of videos…,” he wrote after mentioning some of the edits we questioned, adding, “A surprising analysis from a surprising source. Well done, Blaze:”

Blaze Scrutiny of NPR Expose Videos Draws Extensive Media Reaction

Then there’s NPR.

Meares spent time with NPR’s ombudsman — its in-house critic — Alicia Shepard on Friday. Shepard has been justifiably quite critical of the undercover video central figure, now-former NPR fundraising executive Ron Schiller. She found our article to be “a good piece of reporting [she] had happened upon this week” (Meares’s words). On Friday night, Shepard let her Twitter followers know it:

Blaze Scrutiny of NPR Expose Videos Draws Extensive Media Reaction

She also appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday to talk about the issues we raised:

Others at NPR have noticed, too. For example, news blogger Mark Memmott devoted an entire post on NPR‘s website to our O’Keefe analysis. He, wisely, did not see our analysis as a basis for trying to exonerate Schiller.

“As NPR’s David Folkenflik says on Weekend Edition Sunday, conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck‘s website The Blaze has done some judging and concluded that O’Keefe did make some misleading edits,” he says in a Sunday article.

But the most important sentence in Memmott’s piece may be this: “O‘Keefe’s edits do not entirely wipe away the nature of some things Schiller said.”

(An NPR “All Things Considered” interview to air Monday will feature Baker discussing this issue.)

And that may be the best way to summarize our analysis and the reaction to it. The editing and emphasis in the expose deserve scrutiny. But there were also plenty of seemingly indefensible things said in the video. The Poynter Institute’s Steve Myers says, “The Blaze story identifies several important differences that color viewers’ perception of what happened.” But Myers — as with our post — does not see flaws in the O’Keefe video as reason to wipe the slate clean for the NPR executives involved.

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  • Rob@AmPre
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:11am

    I would be nice if you folks would pull your heads out of Beck’s ass. He isn’t the one posting articles here. The credit for this story belongs with Pam Key, who has done this for a long time and has long worked with Scott Baker who is a partner in this site. I appreciate what Glenn does, but give credit where it is due.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:11am

      The buck stops at Beck. His genius is knowing who to hire.

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    • Akira Gomi
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:57am

      Don’t be a dip, it’s Becks leadership and inspiration that has caused his greatness. Glen Beck is a shadow and likeness of Samuel the Laminite on the top of the wall. So fire away with your arrows and stones..

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  • projectvxn
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:30am

    You‘d think after the Shirley Sherrod episode that some people would have gotten the hint that Glenn isn’t just an opportunist or “crazy”.

    They blamed him for that anyway. Now this.

    It won’t be very long before they start having to walk back all the accusations of Beck being a racist, an “Islamophobe”, an “hate monger” and every other nasty thing that they have called the guy since he moved over to Fox.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:24am

      They won’t walk them back, they will just pretend they didn’t happen in combination with we were reporting the facts we had at the time……Walking things back shows respect,I do not believe they are quite there yet.
      This is one skirmish the truth won. The outcome didn’t change, I think that may be the most important point (for me anyways) because literally these people are still reprehensible. The Blaze got the big ugly serial killer a fair trial, he still gets the death penalty, but the trial was sound. Just my humble opinion.

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  • GetUpOnTheWheel
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:10am

    What’s amazing is that almost NO ONE does their full homework in the MSM. They sit around and pontificate, and angle, and spin whatever modicum of facts (or non facts) they may have at their disposal. They look at most things through their skewed lens and templates. They are so about themselves and their narrow views and their place in the heirarchy. And here, The Blaze did the hard work by combing through the video and provided a factual and contextual analysis. This is what used to be called journalism (and research) Congrats to the Blaze, but at the same time it just highlights what we already knew about the MSM.

    And congrats to Glenn even though at this point I’m sure he could care less about MSM praise.

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  • Contrarian51
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:03am

    It’s been so long since those in the MSM have done what The Blaze did, i.e. what used to be s.o.p. otherwise known as their job, it now astounds them when someone does. You can almost hear them in their conference rooms: “Wow, I didn’t think anybody did that any more.”

    That said, I’d like to see The Blaze go back and comb through the full audio of the “because we have power” guy because I still find the excerpt being exploited on that to be out of context and misleading.

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  • HippoNips
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:57am

    Non-sense!! Blazes’ 8 points about the video was total non-sense.
    Each one of the editing issues were pointless. Either the item didn’t alter the outcome or was a mere camera glitch ,(deemed tricky by your resident “expert” who has only illustrated childrens books)

    Blaze is trying to build a name for itself with the left and I suggest it’s for their own benefit not their readers

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  • WhiteGryphon
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:49am

    Isn’t this what Newspaper suppose to do? Get to the truth no matter where it leads! … Let the chips fall where they may!…… the Truth has NO Agenda!!!!!!!!!

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  • Psychic_Warrior
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:46am

    The reaction is so extensive because most media doesn’t engage in journalism and instead regurgitates whatever they are spoon feed.

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  • idrathermisstotheright
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:39am

    Here’s the big deal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfmvwxxgHM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:39am

    no matter how Okeefe edited, he still could not change what NPR said, and it was STILL anti-American . defund NPR, totally.

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    • Psychic_Warrior
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:53am

      Have you seen those that do not believe in evolution quote Darwin to make it seem like he is arguing against it? How about truthers that use a edited description of the plane hitting the Pentagon to make it seem like he said it was a missile?

      Quoting out of context is one type of fallacy often used to set up a straw man.

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  • I-HATE-THE-WORD-DISENFRANCHISE
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:38am

    npr still sucks and shouldn’t receive any fed $$. Anyone involved with the Tea Pary knows its all about our nation and founders. I was @ 8/28 and felt like I was amoung some of our nations greatest people. For someone like the npr guy to call the Tea Party racist is like saying npr is a news broadcaster and that just doesn’t make any since.

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  • thomasisrandom
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:34am

    Wait a minute… I thought Glenn Beck was a conspiracy theorist? o_O

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    • Jabber
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:41pm

      Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I‘m sure he’s working on evidence that O’Keefe is taking money from the film makers union, who is connected to the 12th Imam, which is connected to the thigh bone. :P I personally don’t want the progressives viewing Glenn as sane. Their bleating and whining and finger pointing makes them easier to keep track of.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:32am

    As Glenn Beck says – “The Truth has no agenda”. I’d like to add that it also has nothing to do with politics. NPR rejects ANYTHING that isn’t politically correct in their far-left cocoon, and that is the number one reason why they shouldn’t be publicly funded.

    Really, why should anyone who doesn’t agree with their far-left politics, have their tax dollars supporting them? Let those who support their views support them.

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  • TucsonTerpFan
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:29am

    Contrary to what Howie and CNN report, Fox covered the fake phone caller to the Wisc. Gov.

    You can’t get past the fact, NPR is a left leaning and left dominated origanization. Why they continue to say different is beyond reason, and no, they should not get federal funding.

    NPR gets enough now from rich liberals and liberal origanization. Can you say: George Soros.

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:28am

    The truth always sets you free.

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  • Large Eagle
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:27am

    @ Soquel By The Creek
    California Soquel?

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  • DRSAVAGE24
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:23am

    One concern I have always had with Glenn is his pandering to liberals. Of course the liberal media will give his site credit for critical reporting of other conservatives. They love when we cut each other down. I don’t buy into his “we’re all Americans” mumbo jumbo. If you’re a liberal, then you don’t respect the Constitution. Period. He‘s always trying to create a moral equivalence between left and right when it’s right that is on the side of freedom and our Constitution and it’s the left that is constantly trying to destroy both.

    Fine, seek out the truth, that’s great. But in the end, what is The Blaze really telling us? Did they do their expose of O’Keefe to show us that NPR is NOT heavily biased to the left? Does anything change if the video was edited? The guy still called tea partiers racists, did he not? So I have to ask, why waste the time determining how the video was edited when it’s clear as day what the guy from NPR said? Why stick your neck out to cut down a conservative journalist when it doesn’t change the story, which is the utter leftist bias of NPR?

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    • Chase
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:47am

      I ditto DrSavage24. What did you get out of all that time and effort? Some cudo’s from the lefties?! Wow!

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    • Anne G
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:16am

      Because that’s the way Glenn rolls! The Whole Truth, and nothing but The Truth.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:53am

      Truth and integrity matter. If you put them behind your agenda, even if your agenda is right and true, you are corrupting yourself. If you allow for the truth to be twisted how can you be trusted?

      You say the message doesn’t change. How would we know that unless we examined the evidence.

      As for taking down a fellow conservative, have you never heard the Scripture, “Judgement begins with the house of the LORD”?

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:25am

      All I know is….“the truth and nothing but the truth” should be told. And we, the readers, should make our own minds up……….that said…………..Don’t give one taxpayer red cent to NPR.

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    • Shrugged
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:40am

      Great point – and I agree with one exception. You need to recognize the unintelligent, gullible general public. NPR and other lib sties know if they punch one hole in the story, the rest of the facts deflate with it. A strategic block of the punch, and the whole thing hits them between the eyes. You have to make the punch hurt if we are to take on this bully.

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    • Extremepatriot
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:29pm

      DrSavage24, Im with you. I dont think this is the time for conservatives to be atacking other conservatives. NPR is evil They are part of the liberal-socialist-communist conspirasy that is taking over America. We should atack them anyway we can with any weapon we can find weather its a low blow or truth full or not. Like when Churchil let Russia join the Allies against Hitler.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:26pm

      DrSavage-

      “Fine, seek out the truth, that’s great. But in the end, what is The Blaze really telling us? Did they do their expose of O’Keefe to show us that NPR is NOT heavily biased to the left? Does anything change if the video was edited? The guy still called tea partiers racists, did he not? So I have to ask, why waste the time determining how the video was edited when it’s clear as day what the guy from NPR said? Why stick your neck out to cut down a conservative journalist when it doesn’t change the story, which is the utter leftist bias of NPR?”

      Because, like Glenn said on air today-O’Keefe should be held to honest standards even if he is on “our side”. His questionable editing puts a shadow over EVERY video taken by a “conservative” whether they edit things out or not. If we don‘t hold our OWN side’s feet to the fire, we are hypocrite’s if we demand that the OTHER side does. Sinking to their level would make the BLAZE heavily biased to THE RIGHT.

      And if the worst thing you think the O’Keefe video exposed was what the NPR guy thinks about Tea Party people-you need to watch it again.

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  • Dale
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:22am

    Glenn quotes Jefferson, “Question with boldness…”. He does it any the MEDIA is amazed that he does the job they should be doing. Perhaps this is the beginning of a renewed journalism – if I may borrow the phrase: ‘fair and balanced’. This expose will undoubtedly bolster Glenn’s standing as an honest man. His critics may be a little less enthusiastic in dismissing his claims. Well done, Glenn and the Blaze.

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  • Soquel by the Creek
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:20am

    The truth has no agenda.

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:16am

    It was an honest assessment of the O’Keefe vidio of NPR, and it does say a lot about the integrity of “the blaze” that they ran the article. Well done.
    Integrity is an irreplaceable and integral part of living a life worth living, once given away it is almost impossible to regain.
    What can make any man worthy of note is to live such a life, not an easy task in any era.
    Watch the other hand, there is a lot afoot in our good earth these days that distract.

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  • Tank
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:03am

    Way to go Blaze, If the libs actually read the articles on this site, rather than just speculate, they would see that this is not something new.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:14am

      As many have already stated the truth is out there, but mostly here at the Blaze. Sad for the most part the left can’t bring themselves to see the truth about other stories on the blaze, but then that would require individual thought not collective angst.

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  • Tertius G Himmelreich
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:03am

    Hmm… interesting story indeed. Even before this, however, I felt like they should be unfunded. What’s the need? With the internet, news papers, TV stations, & radio, it’s an unnecessary public expense. I’d much rather my money go in to SSI (though I have thoughts on that too) which is at least somewhat needed.

    http://tghimmelreich.wordpress.com/

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:19am

      I feel the same way about media the way I feel about health care, that because it costs something for the people who make a living doing it, it’s not a right.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:00am

    smells fishy to me….since when has anyone in the msm ever agreed with glen ….

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:12am

      Nielsen ratings

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:06am

      since when has anyone in the msm ever agreed with glen ….
      ————–
      They agree about O‘Keefe’s punching ,
      but NOT about Foxy Piven’s punching .
      Hmmmmm( wink wink)

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  • Madcat151
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:59am

    Id rather have the truth .
    And if Glenn and his people have the truth of this, Fine by me

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:50am

      Agreed, the truth no matter how good or bad matters, not the “spin” put upon it.

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    • bobodu
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:25am

      Glenn didn’t seem too worried about the “truth” when he was gloating and broadcasting the edited video….

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    • Jabber
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:13pm

      Bobudo-

      Glenn was on vacation last week.

      Scott Baker asked for the “raw video” so The Blaze could verify it, and when they discovered the discrepancies, Baker called Beck on vacation and told him what they had discovered. Beck told him to tell the truth. Yes. The Glenn Beck who hates NPR and the Glenn Beck who shares conservative viewpoints with O’ Keefe.

      Just knots your knickers doesn’t it?

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:56am

    Rewards of due diligence.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:00am

      MSM … puzzled by someone who seeks out the truth? Imagine that.

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    • Large Eagle
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:25am

      The truth has no agenda
      Beck seems to instill integrity in his team

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:28am

      Lets see.
      NYT, Ben Smith of JourNOlist , Mediaite, TIME, Mother Jones, Columbia Journalism ( haha) Review, CNN and NPR piling on with praises on something which claim to prove O’Keefe wrong NOT based on what those NPR execs actually said or did not say
      but based on what ‘someone’ thought they must have meant.
      Good for you !!
      I‘m sure all these fine upstanding journolists and media persons and networks have never dealt with O’Keefe before …nope, no history there

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:38am

      Congrats to Glenn, Scott,Pam and “The Blaze Staff” it will be good for all outlets to see what honest and unbiased reporting looks like. After all that was the main purpose of “The Blaze” since we could not get the truth straight up without leaning left.“The Blaze” also provides stories not covered by other outlets especially if it shows Conservatives in a good light. Thanks for giving us an honest place to get our news.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:49am

      Even now we can see the Blaze has earned the respect of its advesaries, not the fact it will matter very much, yet the Blaze staff has shown what true journalism and integrity is about. Thr rest have forgotten in the race for agenda and fame, the truth is what matters, period.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:01am

      With all the positive MSM attention and the consequent flood of sponsors to come, we won’t have to blog for free anymore. ;)

      Well done, The Blaze!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:09am

      I guess since The Blaze is now a “real” news site, Obama and Soros will have to give them an interview.

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    • USAMama
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:14am

      I’m not surprised they congratulate this story which shows a conservative taking someone out of context to fit an agenda, I‘m not convinced they’ve seen the light. When they pick up one of the 5,000 equally thorough and fair stories of the left smearing and lying by chopping up videos and taking them out of context to fit an agenda I’ll feel better. Not holding my breath.

      Good job to The Blaze though, if nothing else maybe this will get peole to check out the site and educate themselves on what true journalism looks like!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:29am

      Glenn Beck lives his life in a “program of rigorous honesty.” His life depends upon it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:34am

      Since The Blaze is now a recognized news site, and a legitimate one at that, perhaps he can now interview Obama and get to the bottom of some of the things he installed his red phone for on his TV program and gave the number to the White House to call him if they had a problem with any of his information.

      WAY TO GO, GLENN BECK!
      WE <3 GLENN BECK!!!

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    • Templar Knight
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:36am

      The truth has no agenda which leaves the media puzzled.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:36am

      @Showtime and A Doctors Labor

      While having Obama interviewed by Glenn would be fabulous, and hilarious to see the look on Mr Obamas face as he got caught in lie after lie, do not count on it happening. I feel the attacks on the sight and Glenn by Soros and his cronies are going to escalate much worse, pray everyone for the safety of Glenn and his family, the Blaze staff, and for the workers of Fox News as well.

      The doors of hell may be about to open upon them soon.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:06am

      @Templar Knight
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:36am
      The truth has no agenda which leaves the media puzzled.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      The truth has no agenda, which leaves the media out in left field with its agenda.

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:08am

      Okay. First Japan’s earthquake and not libs are praising The Blaze. The world truly is coming to an end. I’ll be in my bunker…

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:34am

      First a major earthquake and now Hell has frozen over.

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    • wildjoker5
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:43am

      And everything the blaze says about the left is always “false” in their eyes. When will they learn that Glenn tries to be fair for both sides because it is NOT a black and white issue.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:22am

      Liberals hate the thought of their official government mouthpiece being defunded.

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    • Clive
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:12am

      i remember reading it last week thinking “man, this is really good”. i think the thing is, most people would expect beck to be one-sided on it, and jump to defend okeefe, or promote his videos (like hannity)… anyway, it was nice to see such thoughtful analysis, it shows that right wingers aren’t blind supporters. way to go blaze.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:43am

      I’ll give credit where credit is due, and the Blaze did a great job on this one.

      But when you’re all finished patting yourselves on the back, go to the “search” field at the top of the page and type in “NPR video.” The Blaze did 10 or 15, stories on the video, mostly uncritical of the video. More interesting are the posts, one of which gushed, “Thank you James! You are my hero.”

      This guy shouldn‘t be anyone’s hero. Remember his failed attempt to get a CNN reporter on his “love boat” with all the sex toys? Pretty easy to imagine how he would edit the video of the “dumb blond” (his description) and ruined her career. The guy is nothing more than a sleaze, who is funded by equally sleazy people.

      On the one hand, I am surprised that no other organization looked deeper into this. But on the other hand, not so much. O’Keefe has absolutely zero credibility. He’s not a hero and not a journalist. He is a convicted criminal.

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    • abc
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 11:50am

      Now if only they’d stop censoring people blogging on their site and start putting real guests with opposing points of view on the show, perhaps they’d regain the half of their viewership that quit watching Beck early last year…

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Come on, you’re surprised that the lamestream media finally agrees with The Blaze and Beck? Get real. It is only because what was reported coincides with the lefty viewpoint and makes it look like the conservatives were at fault in the NPR scandal. Of course, those on the left would gladly praise anyone that bashes the right. Wish the lamestream media would be more willing to bash their own lies, but that would mean taking their heads out of the sand.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:06pm

      “Who would have guessed when Glenn Beck announced that he was starting a news site, that that site would be the only ones to spend this much time in the defense of an NPR executive?”

      It is not defense of the NPR executive. It is defense of the truth.

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:36pm

      the liberal left crying fowl at this? LOL, when only lies spew forth from their decadent shows – this Is the pot calling the kettle black now isn’t it, and no surprise here! progressiveism is a disease, and liberals are the amoebas that spread it…duh!

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:52pm

      Glenn fully understands that credibility is everything. And now, because of this, more people will give more credibility to everything Beck has exposed in the past, and will continue to expose. GO BECK! The force is with you!

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    • Jabber
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:36pm

      JZS said:

      “The guy is nothing more than a sleaze, who is funded by equally sleazy people.”

      Who exactly is funding him? Do you have receipts? He told Hannity last week that this latest expose’ went on his personal credit card and he asked for legal advice/help from anyone who would like to get involved. Doesn‘t sound like he’s got ANY funding at all, but since you have more credibility than he does, I’ll look for your report on who is funding him. (After all that patting yourself on the back I can hardly wait.)

      “On the one hand, I am surprised that no other organization looked deeper into this. But on the other hand, not so much. O’Keefe has absolutely zero credibility. He’s not a hero and not a journalist. He is a convicted criminal.”

      O’ Keefe is a kid. A zealous, driven, activist kid. His actions aren’t always wise, or well thought out. Hopefully he’ll outgrow that as he matures. Don’t we all? But his videos expose the truth (and he should leave them alone editing wise) and he’s putting himself at great legal risk doing what he does. No one with a brain sees him as a journalist. He’s also not my hero. But he IS doing what no one else can or WILL do, and I am grateful for his efforts.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:20am

      Posted on March 13, 2011 at 7:47pm
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/ The surprise comes from willingness for a Blaze editor to NOT gloss over the obvious “tactic” of creative editing to paint a picture. O’Keefe and Breitbart have shown their cards. Kudos to Scott for being willing to call this out.

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    • glennbeckisstooopid
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 9:11am

      Too bad they didn’t seek the truth on the edited acorn video, or the edited planned parenthood video, or the edited Shirley Sharrod video. BTW I noticed it wasn’t Glenn who sussed this out but his replacement. Oh well I‘m sure the next video that James O’keefe makes will undergo the same scrutiny that this one did. Good job Blaze, maybe there is hope for you yet. Some of the people here not so much.

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