James O’Keefe Sues New Jersey Star-Ledger for Defamation
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 8:29 AM
Conservative investigative reporter James O’Keefe filed papers on Monday to sue the New Jersey Star-Ledger for defamation.
Project Veritas reported:
On New Hampshire Primary Day, Project Veritas, while violating no laws, exposed the ease in which voter fraud can occur in states lacking voter identification requirements.
Project Veritas’ work has been praised New Hampshire’s legislative leaders, yet the reaction also includes articles by large media organizations that stated false and defamatory statements and articles.
The New Jersey Star-Ledger editorial board reported O’Keefe “committed a felony by fraudulently obtaining a ballot in the name of another person; [broke] New Hampshire law by recording another person.” Additionally the Star-Ledger Editorial board wrote January 22nd, O’Keefe is “still on probation for trying to tap the phone of Sen. Mary Landrieu. The Star-Ledger had previously printed a retraction for this claim on November 3rd, 2010…
“It is my experience that demanding retractions from dishonorable people only leads to dishonorable retractions. Therefore, today I started a campaign to combat media organizations that state or repeat malicious lies about my work.”
The lawsuit filed this morning against the New Jersey Star Ledger seeks monetary damages and an injunction compelling them to print another retraction with language approved by the court.
UPDATE: MRC TV interviewed James about the lawsuit here.
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MaxTruth commented:
The young man has guts.
bear commented:
“republican” establishment (rinos), can you hear us now? No, of course not, but we expect our votes to come in LOUD and CLEAR.
Go get ‘em, Mr. O’Keefe.
NeoKong commented:
Don’t you just love the way some of these media flunkies will just print anything about someone they don’t like…?
Their description of Mr. O’Keefe sounds like they lifted it off the pages of the DailyKos or the HuffPo.
#1AMERICAN commented:
Kick some A$$ buddy….Fukk the lame-stream media and the demo-craps
Kip Allen commented:
Go for it, James. They’ll make the claim that you’re a public figure, which you probably are, and that you need to show malice or “careless or reckless disregard for the truth,” which you probably can, especially since they contradicted themselves on the probation claim.
Good luck to you and do what you can to keep this in the headlines!
valerie commented:
Make sure you have good counsel, and then go for it.
USMCdaughter1 commented:
James, this paper is notorious for inaccurate reporting and their liberal bias. Here in NJ we use it for puppy training paper not the truth.
tommy mc donnell commented:
the entire tea party could sue the star-ledger for the same thing.
bg commented:
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OT… related..
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tj commented:
If able, O’Keefe should ask the court to have the paper print the retraction in the same space as the original article. This should be strandard procedure. If the article was front page above the fold two columns wide.. then same for the retraction.
What good is a retraction on 1 inch of one column on page 43? No one can see it…
It needs to be in the same place within the newspaper.
He should also ask for something big.. like $10M to endow a chair for ethics in journalism.. like at Columbia… would love to have the left pay for something like that each time they do a hit job like this.
Tiburon commented:
O’Keefe may as well try to rob a bank with a plastic gun, just to see if it’s possible, and then
claim he is innocent of any crime because the gun was fake, and he did not obtain any money.
garrettc commented:
Not understanding your metaphore Tiburon. Please pass the decoder ring.
Tiburon commented:
#14 –
Here you go:
Attempting to commit crime is, in itself, a crime.
The fact that you were thwarted, does not negate that.
Though, according to O’Keefe, he and his team were succesful
in misrepresenting themselves as dead voters.
Estragon commented:
Good for him!
But he should be careful. Given the state of the newspaper biz today, if he wins and is awarded the whole company it could cause him to go broke very quickly.