Back in 2014, right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe traveled to Colorado in a sad attempt to gin up controversy about mail ballot fraud that ended up backfiring in a karmic sort of fashion. Now O’Keefe and his “Project Veritas” organization are back in the news for trying (and failing) to create more “fake” news.
As the Washington Post explains:
A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.
The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.
But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.
Whoops! In a delicious bit of irony, the Post ended up with footage of O’Keefe repeatedly ducking questions about whether the woman in question — Jaime Phillips — was indeed an employee of Project Veritas, which of course served the general purpose of confirming that very allegation:
Phillips didn’t help her cause by apparently creating a Go Fund Me page last Spring announcing her employment at Project Veritas. Genius.
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This was sweet. And it shows how desperate they are, to generate a fake news story in order to persuade viewers that all mainstream news about Roy Moore is fake.
But that dog didn't hunt. Strike 3, James O'Keefe.
This doesn't prove or disprove anything. Project Veritas does a lot of good, not every attempt is going to succeed.
How is attemping to deceive journalists from a newspaper of record "doing good"? Especially when they try to help a pedophile win a Senate race.
Btw, ready to tell me the difference between a tax deduction and a tax credit, nutlid?
Moddy's definition of what's good follows the "elect Roy Moore; hell – Satan's better than a Democrat" philosophy. No evil is truly evil if it serves a perceived cause; no person doing evil is unforgiven if they will promote the "conservative" way.
Now that you mention it . . .
. . . they do have a lot in common with Drumpf’s Klanfolk buddies.
What good have they done, Moldy? Give us the score
The dullest tool in the bag.
Who? O'Keefe or Moddy?
Yep.
Did Roy Moore help in any way with this? He apparently knew O'Keefe was trying to discredit the Post before any of this was public.