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</font></div><div><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/10/12/james-okeefes-anti-clinton-october-surprise-shows-hes-still-hack-not-journalist/213783"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/10/12/james-okeefes-anti-clinton-october-surprise-shows-hes-still-hack-not-journalist/213783</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="item-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 30px 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce8b94c8-b9b5-68d2-8b79-8db9c16a31f5" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Self-described “guerilla journalist” James O’Keefe is threatening a “big release” of “behind close doors” video footage he claims will target </span>Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But media shouldn’t buy O’Keefe’s “reporting.” Since 2009, he has repeatedly pushed misleading and doctored “undercover” videos and embarrassed himself while attempting to launch sting operations targeting government agencies, media outlets, and liberal organizations and institutions.</font></p></div><div class="item-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce8b94c8-b9b5-c7ed-abd0-f48370c9a5f7" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right-Wing Video Artist James O’Keefe Is Teasing A “Big Release” Of Video Targeting The Clinton Campaign</font></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe And His Group, Project Veritas, Purport To “Investigate And Expose” Corruption, Primarily With Undercover Video Footage. </span>Conservative “journalist and writer” James O’Keefe runs Project Veritas, a nonprofit that claims to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society.” [ProjectVeritas.com, accessed <a href="http://projectveritas.com/about/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a>, <a href="http://projectveritas.com/bio/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce8b94c8-b9b5-c7ed-abd0-f48370c9a5f7" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">O’Keefe Says He Will Drop “Atomic Bombs” Of “Video Behind Close Doors” In The Coming Weeks That </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Target Hillary Clinton’s Campaign</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In recent days, O’Keefe has tweeted about a “big release” next week, with “smaller releases throughout the country, video behind close (sic) doors” this week, focused on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign:</span></font></p><div class="media_embed" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" data-tweet-id="784878333809090560" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="direction: ltr; background: 0px 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4; white-space: initial; position: relative;"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/784878333809090560" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-tweet-id="784878333809090560" id="twitter-widget-0" lang="en" data-twitter-event-id="3" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; border: 0px; border-radius: 4px; max-width: 520px;"><article class="MediaCard
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Smaller releases throughout the country, video behind close doors, will likely start this week.</font></p><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="margin-top: 3.2px;"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2016-10-08T22:09:11+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/784878333809090560" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">3:09 PM - 8 Oct 2016</font></a></div><ul class="Tweet-actions" data-scribe="component:actions" role="menu" aria-label="Tweet actions" style="margin: 8.4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="Tweet-action" style="display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--reply web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=784878333809090560" data-scribe="element:reply" style="background-color: transparent; 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If hidden camera sex talk is fair game, then let’s play inside <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton" class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" data-mentioned-user-id="1339835893" data-scribe="element:mention" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;"><span class="PrettyLink-prefix">@</span><span class="PrettyLink-value">HillaryClinton</span></a> campaign tomorrow.</font></p><div class="Tweet-metadata dateline" style="margin-top: 3.2px;"><a class="u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink" data-datetime="2016-10-11T17:33:44+0000" data-scribe="element:full_timestamp" href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/785896176558153728" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: inherit; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">10:33 AM - 11 Oct 2016</font></a></div><ul class="Tweet-actions" data-scribe="component:actions" role="menu" aria-label="Tweet actions" style="margin: 8.4px 0px 0px; 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margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce8b94c8-b9b5-c7ed-abd0-f48370c9a5f7" style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Twitter, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/784878333809090560" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/8/16</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/785586566710304769" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/10/16</a>; <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/785896176558153728" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/11/16</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Project Veritas Released Heavily Edited Footage Of Florida Democratic Party Staffers Who They</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Claim Are “Clinton Staffers,” Compared Their Comments To Trump’s Sexual Assault Video. </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Project Veritas released a video purporting to show "the 'misogynistic' nature of the Hillary Clinton campaign and its organizers, who joke about sexually harassing women and committing voter fraud on the campaign." The six-and-a-half-minute video features heavily edited undercover footage of two field organizers with the Florida Democratic Party -- not the Clinton presidential campaign -- making out-of-context statements about "acceptable conduct" on "this campaign" and about "the ballots." The only context provided to viewers about the discussions is provided by Project Veritas text, not by video. O’Keefe repeatedly compares the out-of-context footage of low-level field staffers to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s 2005 hot mic comments describing sexual assault. All three staffers shown by name in the video identify themselves on their LinkedIn accounts as field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party, not the Clinton campaign. A search of the Federal Election Commission database returned no results indicating any of the three staffers have been paid directly by the Clinton campaign in 2015 or 2016. [ProjectVeritas.com, accessed</span><a href="http://projectveritasaction.com/video/caught-camera-clinton-staffer-says-i-could-grab-her-ass-and-not-get-fired-ripping-ballots" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> 10/12/16</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; LinkedIn, accessed </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/wylie-mao-b3a98038" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trevor-lafauci-9665b898?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=bVjw&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A347861598%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1476287768138%2Ctas%3Atrevor%20lafa" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hodges-683980115?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=UR7i&locale=en_US&srchid=1341498981476287805747&srchindex=3&srchtotal=23&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A1341498981476287805747%2CVSRPtargetId%3A483149763%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; Federal Election Commission, accessed </span><a href="https://beta.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction_period=2016&recipient_name=lafauci&recipient_name=mao&recipient_name=mark+hodges&recipient_name=trevor+lafauci&recipient_name=wylie+mao&min_date=01%2F01%2F2015&max_date=10%2F12%2F2016" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/12/16</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><img alt="" src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2016/06/23/okeefe1.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 645px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" /></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe’s “Guerilla Journalism” Career Has Been Plagued With Inaccuracies And Embarrassments</font></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">O’Keefe </span>Accidentally Revealed Plans To Infiltrate Philanthropist’s Organization On Targeted Employee’s Voicemail.</span> In March, O’Keefe accidentally detailed plans to send an “undercover” operative to secretly infiltrate the liberal philanthropist George Soros’ Open Society Foundations in a voicemail message for an Open Society employee. After calling the employee and posing as a “Hungarian-American who represents a, uh, foundation,” O’Keefe held “a meeting about how to perpetrate an elaborate sting on Soros,” unaware that his phone was still connected to the employee’s voicemail. Investigative journalist Jane Mayer detailed in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker</em> that O’Keefe also inadvertently recorded himself narrating his attempts to access the employee’s LinkedIn page before realizing the individual would receive a notification he had viewed her profile. O’Keefe later acknowledged the botched attempt, saying, “some of us just forget to hang up the phone.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/05/20/stinging-himself-latest-embarrassment-conservative-media-darling-james-okeefe/210520" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/20/16</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe And Associates Trolled College Campuses Dressed As The Constitution, “Didn’t Make Much Of A Splash.” </span>In the fall of 2015, Project Veritas released a video purporting to show officials at several colleges and universities “literally shredding” a copy of the Constitution in response to an undercover actor posing as a student upset by the document. The video also featured footage of O’Keefe, dressed in a Constitution costume with a tricorn hat and gloves, attempting to engage with students walking through the campuses as <b>he asked female students for their phone numbers. </b>In response, officials from several of the schools criticized O’Keefe’s attempts at “shoddy journalism,” and noted that the administrators featured in the videos were attempting to do their jobs by assisting a student who appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis. Media writer and Vassar College professor Hua Hsu described O’Keefe’s stunt on his own campus, and its lackluster results, for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker</em>:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Earlier this year, James O’Keefe, the conservative activist famous for his hidden-camera exposés, visited Vassar College dressed in costume as the Constitution. Vassar, where I teach, is one of those campuses that seems to typify, for some, how wacky and permissive higher education has become—a readymade specimen for those seeking to depict the twenty-first-century American college at its most insular and navel-gazing. O’Keefe hoped to do this by handing out pocket-sized Constitutions outside the campus’ busiest building. One of his operatives, posing as a student, would then coax an administrator into destroying this replica of our nation’s founding document. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A video edited down from the day’s footage shows an officer of the college awkwardly humoring the faux student, who is pitch-perfect in her recitation of how the offensively retrograde Constitution had “triggered” and traumatized her, helpfully suggesting that the officer use a nearby shredder.</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In a year when college campuses were particularly visible as hotbeds of political activity, O’Keefe’s stunt didn’t make much of a splash. The administrator in the clip seems confused and skeptical, like an actress flubbing her lines, while the real-life Vassar kids caught on camera look mildly inconvenienced rather than incensed. [</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Oberlin Review</em>, <a href="http://oberlinreview.org/9030/news/right-wing-activist-poses-as-student-secretly-films-professors/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/6/15</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Cornell Sun</em>, <a href="http://cornellsun.com/2015/11/10/c-u-responds-to-latest-veritas-video/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/10/15</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Vassar Miscellany News</em>, <a href="http://miscellanynews.org/2015/11/11/news/video-attacks-vc-student-services/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/11/15</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker</em>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-year-of-the-imaginary-college-student" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">12/31/15</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;">img</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Reporter Asked, “Is This A Joke?” As O’Keefe Targeted Clinton Campaign For Selling T-Shirts. </span>In a September sting operation, O’Keefe baselessly accused Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign of money laundering after releasing a video in which an undercover operative with Project Veritas purchased a campaign T-shirt on behalf of a Canadian attending a campaign event. The money laundering accusation was widely ridiculed by political reporters, with one journalist reportedly asking O’Keefe at a press conference promoting the video, “Is this a joke?” O’Keefe later reportedly admitted that his group likely broke the law by facilitating the $30 to $40 purchase. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/01/james-okeefe-targets-clinton-campaign-for-legal/205295" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/1/15</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; Talking Points Memo, </span><a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/james-okeefe-hillary-video" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/1/15</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">After Osama Bin Laden Border Crossing Stunt, Even Fox News Suggested O’Keefe “Give It A Rest.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2014, O’Keefe released a video in which he purportedly crossed the Rio Grande River while wearing an Osama Bin Laden costume, a stunt meant to suggest that terrorists could easily enter the U.S. at the Mexican border. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gawker immediately debunked the video in a post titled, “James O’Keefe Is Getting Desperate as Hell, Part MCMXVII,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” pointing to evidence O’Keefe grossly misrepresented the area he repeatedly crossed in his video. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even Fox News host Eric Bolling couldn’t defend O’Keefe’s antics, saying the video was “not helpful,” and that O’Keefe ought to “give it a rest.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/08/11/fox-news-host-isnt-amused-by-okeefes-osama-bin/200385" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/11/14</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; Gawker, </span><a href="http://gawker.com/james-okeefe-is-getting-desperate-as-hell-part-mcmxvii-1619338668?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/11/14</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">]</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;">[img bin laden mask]</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s Attempt At A Bombshell Hollywood Fracking Video Ended With A Target Using His Own Secret Recording To Expose O’Keefe. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In May 2014, O’Keefe released a video he said exposed “the darker side of how a lot of the feel-good environmentalist propaganda gets funded by international interests who jeopardize national security.” In the video, a Project Veritas actor posed as “Muhammed,” an oil tycoon from the Middle East who attempted to fund a documentary project on the harms of fracking. O’Keefe suggested that, based on an instance in which two filmmakers appeared to accept the funding, his tactics had “exposed the truth about the dark funding behind Hollywood’s anti-fracking messaging machine.” O’Keefe even “debuted” the edited video at “a ‘premiere’ in Cannes, France.” </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> found that O’Keefe’s claims were refuted by unedited footage O’Keefe himself released, and one target of Project Veritas</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, film director Josh Fox, revealed his own secret recordings of their interactions that “caught” O’Keefe “in total deception,“ </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"willfully portray[ing] it in the wrong light” with heavy editing. The director shared his own revealing recordings on MSNBC’s </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;">All In</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, where host Chris Hayes introduced the segment on “disgraced right-wing operative professional troll” O’Keefe:</span></font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">CHRIS HAYES (HOST): People who plead guilty week continued on </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Kelly File</em> last night, fresh off the heels of the blockbuster interview with Dinesh D’Souza, who recently pled guilty to campaign finance law violation, was James O’Keefe, the disgraced right-wing operative professional troll who has pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering federal property under false pretenses. On Fox News last night, O’Keefe was pushing his latest trolling enterprise in which he plays gotcha with environmentalists who are hypocritical because, well to be honest, I didn’t care enough to read about it. But it’s a James O’Keefe bombshell. You just wait a day for it to be debunked. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/21/the-deceptive-edits-in-james-okeefes-fracking-h/199414" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/21/14;</a> The Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/22/inside-a-hollywood-hit-job-how-james-o-keefe-tried-and-tried-to-sting-his-latest-victim.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/22/14;</a><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/21/the-deceptive-edits-in-james-okeefes-fracking-h/199414" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" />MSNBC.com, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/james-okeefes-latest-bogus-claim-busted-263774275727" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/22/14</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s Battleground Texas Video Declared “Little More Than A Canard And Political Disinformation” By State Investigation.</span> </span>In February 2014, Project Veritas released a video purporting to show employees of the progressive voter registration group Battleground Texas using “potentially illegal methods to change elections.” Outraged Republican state officials pushed for an investigation into the video, ultimately resulting in two Texas special prosecutors disparaging O’Keefe’s tactics and the video itself. The special prosecutors concluded their investigation by asking that complaints against Battleground Texas be dismissed, calling the Veritas video “little more than a canard and political disinformation.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/07/texas-special-prosecutors-james-okeefe-video-a/198786" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/7/14</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe “Confronted” Lawmaker About Nonexistent Language In “Race Hustler” Voting Rights Legislation.</span> </span>In a March 2014 video, O’Keefe bizarrely attempted to “ambush” Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) about his bipartisan bill designed to reaffirm civil rights protections in the Voting Rights Act. After dancing to a New Order song while wearing camouflage, O’Keefe attempted to confront Sensenbrenner at several Wisconsin town hall meetings for so-called “racialist language” in his bill that “excludes whites,” which Sensenbrenner correctly noted the bill does not, in fact, do. Media reporter Dave Weigel described the bizarre video’s “strange” focus at Slate:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[K]udos to James O'Keefe for going undercover, in hunting gear for some reason, and posing as a constituent. It's just confusing what he decided to do when he got in the room. O'Keefe insists that Sensenbrenner's attempt to restore some version of voting rights law pre-clearance is de facto racist.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no mention of the "Voting Rights Act" in the intro. It's called "a part of federal law that gives Eric Holder the power to approve election law in 16 states," and Sensenbrenner's amendment is called "legislation to give Eric Holder back power over state elections."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the room, asking questions, O'Keefe does use the law's name. He asks Sensenbrenner whether it's true that the bill "removes white people from the protections of the Voting Rights Act." Sensenbrenner says it isn't -- a red buzzer goes off. We're directed to language in Sec. III, subsection 4 of the bill, which defines "the term 'minority' as used throughout.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is strange. That's not the bill's only mention of race -- it's a pretty trivial one, actually.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But most people who covered the bill have been over this already. O'Keefe's claims just don't wash. [Slate, </span><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/03/05/james_o_keefe_says_a_new_voting_rights_bill_is_racist_against_whites.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/5/14</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/05/james-okeefe-and-nro-just-straight-up-confused/198357" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/5/14</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">O’Keefe Forced To Pay $100,000 And Publicly Apologize In Settlement Related To Sham 2010 ACORN Exposé.</span> </span>In March 2013, O’Keefe and conservative activist Hannah Giles settled a 2010 lawsuit after one of the videos they released in a series on the now-defunct group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which fraudulently portrayed the role of a former ACORN employee, resulted in the employee’s termination. In the video, the employee was shown appearing to aid undercover actors in criminal activity, but an analysis of the heavily edited video revealed the employee had actually called the police immediately following the secretly recorded interaction. Pursuant to the court-approved deal, O’Keefe and Giles had to pay the employee a collective $150,000, and O’Keefe issued a public apology claiming he was unaware the employee had notified authorities. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/07/report-james-okeefe-to-pay-100k-settlement-to-f/192958" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/7/13</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s New York Union Boss “Gotcha” Attempt Just Showed Local Officials Trying To Be “Courteous” In An Absurd, O’Keefe-Manufactured Situation.</span> </span>In July 2012, Project Veritas released a video it claimed showed elected officials and union leaders in New York state helping undercover actors secure funding for a business “that literally does nothing but dig holes and then put the dirt back.” The raw footage of the video revealed that the officials featured in the video did not express support for the fake company or offer to help the actors find funding at all, but rather politely questioned the actors posing as their constituents about their clearly made-up operation. The officials later clarified they had assumed at the time that the discussion “must be a scam” but had “tried to be courteous.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/18/james-okeefe-fails-to-find-a-scandal-union-and/187215" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/18/12</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;">[img erath ---?]</p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s “Voter Fraud” Video Showed “Dead” Voter Later Found To Be Very Much Alive, “Non-Citizens” Who Were Actually Citizens.</span> </span>A May 2012 video O’Keefe claimed showed voter fraud in North Carolina, including “ballots being offered out in the name of the dead” and “non-citizens voting," was found to have edited out some important facts -- the “dead” voter from the video was not actually dead, and the “non-citizen” in the video had become a U.S. citizen decades earlier. Upon viewing the raw footage from the “voter fraud” video, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em> found that O’Keefe had edited out an important exchange in which the undercover operative clarified he was actually seeking the ballot of the deceased man’s living son, who was registered to vote at the same address and shared his late father’s name. ThinkProgress similarly debunked O’Keefe’s claims of “non-citizens” voting in the video, noting that “a simple Nexis search” of one man’s name showed that he and his wife were naturalized citizens, and that a second man, who was reportedly harassed with anonymous phone calls about his citizenship prior to the video, had become a naturalized citizen the previous year. ThinkProgress concluded that “the one instance in the video where O’Keefe purports to show that a non-citizen had actually voted, in fact shows that a citizen voted.” [ThinkProgress, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/15/484462/james-o-keefe-voter-fraud-north-carolina/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/15/12</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/16/485008/james-o-keefe-second-citizen/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/16/12</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/16/james-okeefes-dead-nc-voter-isnt-dead/184866" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/16/12</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Yet Another “Voter Fraud” Video Failed To Show Any Actual Voter Fraud; It “Just Shows How Limited O’Keefe’s Talents Are.”</span> </span>Over the course of several months in 2012, Project Veritas released videos O’Keefe claimed proved “widespread voter fraud” in several states and the District of Columbia. As several media outlets quickly pointed out in response to one of the videos in which an undercover actor appears to obtain a ballot posing as former Attorney General Eric Holder, the heavily edited videos do not, in fact, show any instances of voter fraud or voting at all. Instead, the videos showed actors almost committing a crime by attempting to falsely claim ballots, and illustrated how difficult it would be to commit actual voter fraud. As politics writer Alex Koppelman explained in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker </em>(emphasis added):</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O’Keefe and his supporters think that he’s scored big today. See, not long ago, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized laws that require people wishing to vote to bring photo I.D. with them; he called those laws “a solution in search of a problem,” and said “there is no statistical proof that vote fraud is a big concern in this country.” So one of O’Keefe’s colleagues—a white man who looks considerably younger than the Attorney General—went to went to Holder’s polling place for the recent primary in Washington, D.C., and claimed to be Holder. The punch line, of course, is that he was given no trouble, and welcomed to vote. (He never went through with it and actually committed the voter fraud, presumably because someone’s giving them legal advice not to.)</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s a cute little trick, and a lot of people on the right have gotten a nice little laugh at Eric Holder’s expense today. The Drudge Report has led with it all day. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">But it doesn’t prove anything—actually, if anything, it shows just how limited O’Keefe’s talents are, and how un-ambitious is the vision espoused by the right’s new investigative journalists and those who publish them.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">[Ben] Shapiro and O’Keefe and the rest don’t know when voter fraud takes place, if indeed it does, because they don’t do the work necessary to find out. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe may be lionized as an investigative journalist, but he’s not one, and he never has been. He takes the easy, flashy way out: his videos don’t prove that malfeasance is happening; they prove that it could, maybe. (Taking the same trick and repeating it over and over again, which is basically what O’Keefe did with this latest video, part of a series of such work, doesn’t help.)</span> [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/01/11/okeefe-video-doesnt-show-dead-people-vote-in-nh/186039" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/11/12</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/01/11/the-flaws-in-the-okeefe-voter-fraud-scheme/186040" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/11/12</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/01/12/election-officials-experts-okeefe-implicated-in/186076" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/12/12</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/04/09/okeefes-video-on-eric-holders-ballot-still-not/185858" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/9/12</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/04/16/stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-before-new-okee/184359" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/16/12</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New Yorker</em>, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-okeefe-still-hasnt-found-his-voter-fraud" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">4/9/12</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s “Pointless” “To Catch A Journalist” Series Was Roundly Mocked By Experts. </span>In a video series titled “To Catch a Journalist,” O’Keefe attempted to show journalists engaging in questionable or biased journalistic practices. Instead, a range of highly respected reporters and journalism experts immediately mocked his heavily edited videos. Even the Project Veritas website noted that the first video in the series had drawn criticism from “the media elite” and “a Pulitzer Prize winning professor from Columbia’s Journalism School.” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post</em>’s Erik Wemple dismissed the first video as a “gotcha attempt” and “fishing expedition” against Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein. Reporter Jack Schafer wrote for Reuters, “The only thing O’Keefe has accomplished with this ‘To Catch a Journalist’ expose is to prove that Stein is a conventional journalist,” adding that the video “ends up making Stein look normal and O’Keefe slightly tetched.” The Poynter Institute’s Steve Myers discredited the second video in the series, noting it was “heavily edited” and pointing out that the video, which was supposed to target <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New York Times</em>, did not feature any <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Times</em>employees or journalists at all. The Atlantic Wire concluded that O’Keefe “burns his own straw man” in the video. A <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Forbes</em> reporter declared the series “a dumb idea,” condemning “the lameness of O’Keefe’s results,” “the dubiousness of his method,” and “the pointlessness of the enterprise itself.” In a later, also failed attempt, O’Keefe was reportedly filmed and then dismissed by an unfazed Columbia University journalism professor, who said O’Keefe also couldn’t figure out how to use the door to exit the professor’s office, writing, “Turns out they were pulling the door instead of pushing it.” As Gawker summarized:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">James O'Keefe has been lurking in journalism school hallways across the country in pursuit of his latest bombshell series "To Catch a Journalist." So far, he's blown the lid off the story that some college professors like Barack Obama and that sometimes journalists drink alcohol and use bad words. [</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Washington Post</em>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/james-okeefe-whiffing-with-his-gotcha-attempt-on-sam-stein/2011/10/24/gIQALzPzCM_blog.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/24/11</a>; Project Veritas, <a href="http://projectveritas.com/2011/10/27/to-catch-a-journalist-part-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/27/11</a>; Poynter, <a href="http://www.poynter.org/2011/james-okeefe-takes-aim-at-clay-shirky-jay-rosen/151180/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/27/11</a>; The Atlantic Wire, <a href="http://www.thewire.com/business/2011/10/james-okeefe-burns-his-own-strawman-new-video/44227/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/27/11</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Forbes</em>, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/10/28/why-james-okeefes-war-on-journalists-is-stupid/#1c31c3552aa5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/28/11</a>; Gawker, <a href="http://gawker.com/5858254/watch-james-okeefe-get-laughed-at-by-his-ambush-victims" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/10/11]</a></font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Medicaid Fraud” Videos Actually Just Showed Medicaid Workers Doing Their Jobs.</span> </span>A series of heavily edited videos that O’Keefe said proved “widespread Medicaid fraud” in fact depicted no instances of fraud, but did show footage of Medicaid workers in Ohio, Indiana, and Maine correctly following Medicaid application procedures. The processes partially shown in O’Keefe’s videos, in which workers advise undercover actors about the rules and limitations for Medicaid eligibility and help them to accurately fill out applications, were the first in many steps necessary before any type of fraud could have been committed. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/18/despite-okeefes-claims-new-video-doesnt-show-wi/182489" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/18/11</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/26/okeefes-latest-sting-is-a-fraud/183258" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/26/11</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/08/11/james-okeefes-medicaid-sting-is-still-a-fraud/181027" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/11/11</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Even Glenn Beck's Website Discredited O'Keefe's “Bad Reality Show” NPR Video.</span> </span>O’Keefe released a video in March 2011 that claimed to show two NPR executives making controversial remarks to two people posing as members of a "Muslim Brotherhood front group,” including statements alleging that members of the Tea Party were racist. Even Glenn Beck’s website TheBlaze concluded that the video was a smear. As <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Time</em>magazine reported:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the video, NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller and a colleague met with two members of a fictional Muslim group dangling a $5 million donation. Prodded by the "donors," Schiller said liberals "might be more educated" than conservatives, described Republicans as "anti-intellectual" and said the GOP had been "hijacked" by the "racist" Tea Party.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or did he? After the tape became national news, and after NPR hastily sacrificed its CEO to appease critics, a video editor at the Blaze — a website founded by Fox News host Glenn Beck — compared the edited sting video and the two-hour original, also posted online.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schiller did say some bad things, the Blaze found. But the short video took them out of context, like a bad reality show, and made them sound worse. It transposed remarks from a different part of the meeting to make it seem as if Schiller were amused by the group's "goal" of spreading Shari'a law. It left examples of his complimenting Republicans on the cutting-room floor.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">And that Tea Party quote? Schiller was, for at least part of it, describing the views of some Republican friends. Somehow — oops! — O'Keefe left that bit out. </span>[<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Time</em>, <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2059608,00.html#ixzz1TJuDWO9P" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/17/11</a>; The Blaze, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/03/10/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/10/11</a>;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/03/10/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/03/08/deacutejagrave-vu-james-okeefe-releases-yet-ano/177343" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/8/11</a><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/03/10/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">, </a><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/03/14/did-npr-exec-really-call-tea-partiers-racist/177533" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/14/11]</a></font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">A CNN Reporter Detailed O’Keefe’s Botched Plan To Demonstrate Media “Hypocrisy” By “Faux Seducing” Her With A Boat Full Of Sexual “Props.”</span> </span>In September 2010, then-CNN investigative correspondent Abbie Boudreau described how O’Keefe had attempted a “failed punk” on her by staging what a former colleague of O’Keefe’s called a “bizarre sexual conversation” on a boat filled with sex toys. The “punk” was halted when the former employee of Project Veritas alerted Boudreau, who later obtained a document detailing the various “props” O’Keefe had requested for the stunt. According to an internal script, the plan was to have O’Keefe introduce the resulting footage by explaining that the reporter who was doing an investigative piece on conservative activists “has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I'm going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she'll get seduced on camera and you'll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath.” As reported by CNN’s Scott Zamost:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The plans appeared so outlandish and so juvenile in tone, I questioned whether it was part of a second attempted punk," Boudreau said.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in a phone conversation, [Project Veritas employee Izzy] Santa confirmed the document was authentic. Listed under "equipment needed," is "hidden cams on the boat," and a "tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine."</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Among the props listed were a "condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs" and a blindfold. [CNN.com, </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/29/10</a>, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/blogarchive/siu.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/29/our-documentary-takes-a-strange-detour/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/29/10</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ABC Used O’Keefe’s Own Footage To Contradict Him On Live Television.</span> </span>In a video posted on the late Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com in June 2010, O'Keefe stated that he had been hired as a U.S. Census worker and attended two days of training. He said, "What I found were census supervisors systematically encouraging employees to falsify information on their timesheets." The video includes clips of census employees who, according to O'Keefe, "didn't seem to have a problem with the discrepancy" of the hours recorded on his timesheet versus the hours he claimed to have worked. O'Keefe omitted a clip that was later aired by ABC during a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Good Morning America</em> interview with O’Keefe and Breitbart that showed a census supervisor emphasizing the importance of accurately reporting on miles driven by census enumerators. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/06/01/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage/165566" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/1/10</a>; ABCNews.com,<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/06/01/surprise-okeefe-edits-out-inconvenient-footage/165566" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </a><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/james-okeefe-acorn-census-10794087" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/1/10</a>]</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">O’Keefe Pleaded Guilty To Misdemeanor C</span>riminal Charge Of Entering Senate Office Under False Pretenses.</span> In January 2010, O’Keefe and three associates were arrested on criminal misdemeanor charges stemming from a botched attempt to tamper with the phones at the New Orleans office of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). In May, the group pleaded guilty and O’Keefe faced probation, a fine, and community service for his illegal antics. As <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Times-Picayune </em>reported:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 1em !important;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan each to two years probation, a fine of $1,500 and 75 hours of community service during their first year of probation.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 543px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em; margin-top: 0px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;">James O'Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service. [</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Times-Picayune</em>, <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/05/james_okeefe_and_friends_plead.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/26/10</a>; <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/01/29/media-matters-not-so-breitbart-and-the-story-of/159812" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/29/10</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-fcea42de-7e0b-0c87-8358-e90354ace46b" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">O’Keefe’s Heavily Edited ACORN “Pimp” Hoax Videos Were Investigated And Widely Discredited.</span></span>O’Keefe’s brand of performance activism first made national headlines in 2009, with the release of several heavily edited videos that O’Keefe said showed staff from the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) engaging in criminal behavior. In the videos, O’Keefe and an associate are portrayed as if they had dressed as a “pimp” and a “prostitute” attempting to elicit help from ACORN staff in eight offices across several cities in supposedly setting up a child prostitution ring. It was later discovered that, among other misrepresentations in the edited videos, O’Keefe and his associate were not, in fact, dressed flamboyantly during their secretly recorded meetings at ACORN offices, and the audio of ACORN workers was muted and edited. An independent investigation, state-led investigations in California and New York, and a federal investigation through the Government Accountability Office all found no evidence of illegal activity from ACORN staff, and a Congressional Research Service report found no instances of ACORN violating the terms of its federal funding, but it did note that O’Keefe and his associates may have violated state bans on secret recording in California and Maryland. The California attorney general concluded that O’Keefe had engaged in “highly selective editing of reality.” An ACORN employee who was terminated because of the videos subsequently sued O’Keefe and his associate Hannah Giles, and O’Keefe had to settle the case and issue a public apology. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/10/21/in-heavily-edited-video-rebuttal-okeefe-does-no/155983" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/21/09</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/12/08/investigation-confirms-no-evidence-of-illegal-a/157859" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">12/8/09</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/02/17/james-okeefe-and-the-myth-of-the-acorn-pimp/160485" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/17/10</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/07/21/big-falsehoods-an-updated-guide-to-andrew-breit/168051#2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/21/10</a>, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/07/report-james-okeefe-to-pay-100k-settlement-to-f/192958" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/7/13</a>; CNN.com, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/14/congress.acorn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/14/10</a>]</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jamesOKfe715</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> just when you think he's gone:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7/15 planned parenthood body par scam inspired by? worked with?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/14/1402287/-The-Center-for-Medical-Progress-s-bogus-hitjob-on-Planned-Parenthood#</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Live Action 2011 wannabe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">vitter rep</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For those of you who can't get enough of all the turmoil at NPR, here's an unedited 46-minute interview with James O'Keefe III. O'Keefe's hidden camera video of a lunch between two NPR fundraisers and a faux Muslim group managed to do more damage to NPR than O'Keefe ever could have envisioned.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's the tease:In this interview, On the Media hostBob Garfield asks O'Keefe about his tactics. O'Keefe occasionally gets angry at Garfield's questions, claiming that when some in the media question his tactics, they are "obfuscating" real issues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If James O'Keefe is staging guerrilla theater to expose hypocrisy and hate, a la Sasha Baron Cohen of Borat fame, maybe that's no big deal. But O'Keefe claims to be acting in the tradition of undercover investigative muckrakers. Bob asks James O'Keefe about misleading editing, distorted quotes, and how much untruth he is entitled to in his quest for veritas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe points out repeatedly that even revelations that his NPR video sting was heavily edited don't change the outcome: former NPR chief fundraiser Ron Schiller said some egregious things. (Ron Schiller has acknowledged this.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe calls himself a citizen journalist, but respected journalists do not selectively edit to make a political point.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe could have played it straight and skipped the selective editing. But that would have reduced the impact of what he clearly wanted to do: Make NPR look as bad as possible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dave Davies, of Philadelphia station WHYY, has a thoughtful piecethat speaks to the speed with which stories break. He also wonders if NPR had had more time to digest the full two-hour video, if they might have reacted differently.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the way, O'Keefe is asking supporters to help him defer the $50,000 cost of making the NPR sting video.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.npr.org/sections/ombudsman/2011/03/24/134808849/on-the-media-interviews-james-okeefe-iii</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OMFG:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The role Sea Change plays as a member of the Billionaire’s Club is deeply troubling,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">especially in light of recent revelations that environmental activists, many of whom are clearly</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">benefiting from this extreme “dark money,” do not have any moral qualms over where their</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">money comes from – so long as it supports the far-left cause.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">416</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[CODE for ISLAM]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This sentiment was captured by</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a recently released investigative video that revealed Hollywood producers of far-left</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">environmental films were eager to accept Middle Eastern money to produce an anti-fracking</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">video. Notably, in speaking with a man believed to represent rich Middle Eastern oil interests</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">opposed to American energy independence through fracking, one producer said:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">416 Project Veritas, Full Un edited raw video, exclusive release by Project Veritas, available at YouTube.com,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6HZ5VLmyes&list=UUL9PlYkRD3Q-RZca6CCnPKw (last visited July 29,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">65</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not the first major project that we’ve had funded through a funding source</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">which you know, for various reasons – we didn’t disclose. It would have been</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">very unwise for everybody to understand the dynamics of that funding. So we </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">know how tricky it is…. It’s money, so in that sense we have no moral issue. OKEEFE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I also wanted to point out that last week we broke the story that notorious media-for-hire hatchet man James O'Keefe (remember ACORN?) appeared to be working hand in hand with Wisconsin Club for Growth's Eric O'Keefe in attacking Wisconsin Republicans who were not working in lockstep with Governor Walker. Last year, James released a video of an inebriated Wisconsin Senate President Mike Ellis, which forced him out of office. CMD exclusively revealed that the Koch-tied dark money guru Eric O'Keefe gave James O'Keefe $50,000, presumably for the hit on Ellis who was a quiet critic of the extreme Walker agenda.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12714/eric-okeefe-james-okeefe-mike-ellis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">moderation:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4.3.5 Video (ACORN)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just as the Internet initially made everyone publishers, it is now making us all a potential television station. Video has become omnipresent because of cell phones. It has a visceral seeing-is-believing power, even though we commonly understand that editing (selection and juxtaposition) can alter meaning a great deal. It has had a dampening effect on politicians’ pronouncements at even semi-public events, since some offhand remarks can become persisting damaging sound bites. The ability of videos to go viral increases their effect (Posting them on popular blog greatly increases possibility of going viral. For example, Andrew Breitbart endorsed his protégé James O'Keefe's videos attacking (and in fact quickly destroying) ACORN, a longstanding and successful grassroots organization that was particularly effective at registering poor people to vote (1.3 million in the 2008 election). O'Keefe was the recipient of funding from the Scaife-funded Collegiate Network to start a conservative college newspaper (see incubators 4.3). In addition, he participated in training others at the Leadership Institute (Rove, Norquist, Abramoff are alums), but was kicked out for endangering its putative non-political tax status (See 5.4).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe (and an accomplice, Hannah Giles, whose father is a political evangelical minister) appeared to have dressed up in absurd Superfly pimp outfit and purported to elicit advice from ACORN on how to engage in prostitution, which they surreptitiously videotaped and then misleadingly edited. In fact O'Keefe dressed in normal attire and asked for assistance in getting his girlfriend OUT of prostitution, which he received. An ACORN staffer reported the incident to the police, but to no avail. A House resolution to honor the "fact-finding reporting" done by Giles and O'Keefe, the "government watchdogs" was introduced by Texas Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) for the "exemplary actions" of the young conservatives, who "are owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States" (Olson). The videos led to a vote in the House that de-funded and thus destroyed ACORN.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe created another misleadingly edited video of Shirley Sherrod, head of the Department of Agriculture's rural development office in Georgia which led to her forced resignation, although her speech made the exact opposite point regarding racism of the edited version. (O'Keefe was subsequently convicted for attempting to bug the offices of Rep. Mary Landrieu, defended by a very expensive Federalist Society lawyer who normally defends corporate malfeasance).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A more recent O’Keefe effort led to the resignation of two senior National Public Radio officials before the tape was shown to be heavily edited and thus distorted (as in previous instances). The tape was not just condensed (six separate statements that funding could not affect editorial content were left out), but statements were rearranged in sequence, and laughter was spliced in where none actually occurred, significantly affecting the meaning). But again, because of the compressed news cycle, and the echo chamber’s lack of correctives, the damage is quickly done and almost never remedied. [gasland etc fails?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Analysis: During political campaigns, politicians (particularly those who are more progressive) have discovered that failing to respond to attacks, however absurd, is damaging. Thus, "War Rooms" are set up for quick response. This may be in part because the 24/7 news cycle, and the voracious appetite for sensation by media. Campaigns, and thus war rooms, are now perennial, which short-circuits deliberation. Not content with building its own “mirror” versions, the conservatives have tried to defund and discredit what little infrastructure the Left has (e.g., non-commercial and thus independent public broadcasting, ACORN, Public Interest Research Groups, and even "card-carrying member[s] of the ACLU"). None of this is an accident, [ nor a conspiracy theory, since] and the plan has been laid out explicitly by Norquist and others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon stories:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.salon.com/topic/james_okeefe/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/james-okeefe-voter-fraud-video_n_1524146.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Further doubt is being cast on conservative activist James O'Keefe's latest undercover video after a ThinkProgress report finds that another of the film's alleged fraudulent voters is actually a U.S. citizen who is eligible to vote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe and his Project Veritas group have been on a mission to uncover the supposed perils of voter fraud in an effort to make a case for voter ID laws. Critics have claimed that such legislation is a hysterical reaction to an incredibly rare problem that would end up denying thousands of eligible Americans the right to vote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In their latest offering, O'Keefe's team heads to North Carolina, where, as in earlierproductions, they go undercover to suggest that non-citizens and the dead are empowered to vote because individuals don't need to present photo identification in order to receive their ballots.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ThinkProgress, which earlier reported that one of the supposed non-citizens in the video actually became a citizen decades ago, now finds that the film's second subject is also a naturalized U.S. citizen. From ThinkProgress:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, [William] Romero’s family told ThinkProgress he became a naturalized citizen in early 2011. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s more, Romero’s family told ThinkProgress that they had began receiving harassing telephone calls two weeks before the incident in the video asking if Romero was a citizen. They confirmed to the caller -- it’s unclear whether they were speaking with O’Keefe himself or another individual -- that Romero is indeed a citizen. Nevertheless, O’Keefe proceeded to ambush the family at their home and publish this video claiming he’s not a citizen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond these issues, the supposed proof of a "dead voter" ploy was already beendebunked earlier this week. It turned out that O'Keefe's video had been edited to remove an interaction between a poll worker and Veritas "investigator" indicating that Michael Bolton -- the deceased voter in question -- had been survived by his son, Michael Bolton, Jr. In the raw footage, the election official asks if the man asking for the deceased Bolton's ballot is Michael Bolton, Jr., who is registered at the same address.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, none of this is to say that the electoral system in North Carolina is flawless. As the Tar Heel State's WRAL reports:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified 12 non-citizens who had improperly voted in a North Carolina election. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That's 12 out of 6.3 million registered voters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRAL also reports that dead voters cast votes all the time, primarily when somebody casts a mail-in or in-person absentee ballot and then dies before Election Day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gasland director Josh Fox recently found himself in a game of “Gotcha.” That is, until he turned the tables back around on the man who tried entrapping him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative activist James O’Keefe had loads of fun in recent years staging scams and releasing audio and video recordings of notable people who were supposedly caught in compromising or contradictory situations. He thought he had the perfect plan for Fox—an over-the-phone offer to fund a future project with so much oil money that even an environmentalist like Fox wouldn’t pass it up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, a listen to the recording lets you know just how poorly O’Keefe thought this thing out. He also didn’t anticipate that Fox would recording the conversation as well. That was perfect for exposing how O’Keefe edited the chat to give people the perception that Fox was a sellout.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes captures it all and lets Fox explain why he also recorded the odd conversation: </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox reveals that representatives for O’Keefe’s fictitious financier had been sending emails for six months. He knew he was already involved in a “web of deception,” so hitting the record button once he received some phone time made a lot of sense.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You do a brilliant job of setting that up, and it’s a laughing matter when you actually have the tape,” Fox told Hayes, “but let’s say I didn’t have it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why did I record this? I recorded it because it looked shady, it looked like a scam, it looked like entrapment.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">——–</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/25/gasland-josh-fox-james-okeefe-entrapment/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://wonkette.com/549868/you-are-not-going-to-believe-this-but-james-okeefes-hollywood-sting-may-have-been-deceptively-edited</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 23, 2014 |</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative videographer James O’Keefe tried to make a big splash at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this week, debuting a 20-minute video that he claims exposes hypocrisy among notable documentary filmmakers and Hollywood activists. But the film ended up backfiring on O’Keefe as one of his targets,Gasland director Josh Fox, recorded his end of a phone conversation with O’Keefe’s cohorts, and exposed deceptive editing by O’Keefe.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe also secretly recorded and filmed environmentalists Josh and Rebecca Tickell and their friends, actors Ed Begley, Jr., and Mariel Hemingway, trying to trap them into accepting financing for an anti-fracking film from Middle East oil interests.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But while the Tickell’s might have taken the bait from O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, Fox was wary of the group that contacted him several months back and made his own secret recording. Fox claims that he’s become careful with his contacts, as he’s frequently a target of the energy industry since the debut of his landmark 2010 documentary.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest O’Keefe saga began in December 2013, when Fox said that a large number of emails from a group called Beacon International began to arrive in his inbox. The organization claimed to be an overseas consortium interested in funding an anti-fracking film. Smelling a rat, Fox took to Google. All he could find was a hastily slapped-together site that “basically looked like a joke site up up overnight.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recognizing that he was likely being scammed, Fox began to ignore the emails. But Beacon International was persistent, even visiting Fox’s New York City apartment, where they left their calling cards in his mailbox and on his door.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox was even more suspicious at this point, and he decided to engage into the suspicious filmmakers. With a fellow filmmaker in the room, Fox made the call, recording the conversation from his end. In the recording Fox gave The Daily Beast, he asks a representative from Beacon International the names of the individuals the group represents. But the person on the other end of the phone, “Brandon Turner” would only tell Fox that they were from Europe and the Middle East. At this, Fox balked, repeatedly explaining to Turner that he wouldn’t participate in a project if he didn’t know the names of the individuals funding it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the recording Fox says: “We don’t know much about your company…I would need to have more transparency than you’re giving me right now to feel comfortable with doing that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox concluded that his contact with Beacon International was just a scam and didn’t give it much of a thought after that…until this week when James O’Keefe debuted his latest sting video at Cannes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toward the end of O’Keefe’s video, Fox is recorded as saying: “Obviously there are projects that we are working on ahead of time, that we’re working on now, that do sound like they would be interesting to your clients.” But Fox’s worries about Beacon International’s lack of transparency had been cut from the audio clip.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We have them caught in total deception,” Fox told The Daily Beast. “This phone call reveals exactly how they work. They willfully portray it in the wrong light. They edit it so it sounds like you said something that you didn’t. Luckily I had the full tape.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe is a conservative activist who infamously produced audio and video recordings of staged encounters with public figures and workers in a variety of organizations, purportedly showing abusive or illegal behavior. He first gained national attention by recording ACORN workers supposedly aiding a couple (himself and a colleague pretending to be a pimp and a prostitute) in criminal planning in 2009. While the video footage virtually destroyed ACORN, California prosecutors later found that O’Keefe selectively and heavily edited the raw footage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe has receives monetary support from conservative media and interest groups to produce videos where he ‘punks’ individuals and organizations considered liberal. In 2009 Andrew Breitbart paid the activist to produce videos for BigGovernment.com. In June 2010 O’Keefe formed a 501(c)(3) organization, dubbed Project Veritas with the stated mission to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite his tactics, O’Keefe’s productions are praised by conservative pundits like Weekly Standard Editor Fred Barnes, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe’s activities have generated legal trouble for him. He was arrested and sentenced to three years’ probation for his involvement in a break-in and attempted wiretap at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in 2010.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In this latest sting operation, O’Keefe claims to have been inspired by the 2012 film Promised Land, where an anti-fracking activist was actually an operative for the energy companies trying to buy land rights from a small, rural community. The film was financed, in part, by an organization partially owned by the United Arab Emirates government.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Fox didn’t take the bait, Brandon Turner dangled it in front of the Tickells, producers of the documentary,Fuel, a few months later. The Tickells are currently working on a documentary on hydraulic fracturing. The duo, however, were less suspicious of Turner and appeared grateful to have found possible funding for a film that they felt was very important.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turner told the Tickells that his client — who wished to remain a silent parter — was from the Middle East and was heavily steeped in oil energy interests. The Tickells then participated in a series of follow-up conversations. The recordings portray the couple as promising to keep the identity of their new-found funding source a secret.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’re confident that we can keep this zip-locked, you know tight, tight, air-tight forever,” Josh Tickell says in one recording. “Money to us…It’s money…we have no moral issue…But we know how a lot of people that would be necessary to pull this off, they would have issue.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Tickells now claim that they were trapped and prodded into responses by Turner, although Josh Tickell admits they were gullible. “We flat out deny any implication of impropriety,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turner asked the Tickells to participate in another meeting two other men at the Beverly Hills Hotel. One of the men was “Muhammad,” who Turner identified as the son of Beacon International’s funding source. The Tickells brought their friends Begley and Hemingway for support. In the meeting, Muhammad complains that fracking and energy efficiency in America are a threat to Middle Eastern oil interests.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toward the end of the meeting, the Tickells say they started to get worried, but instead of going with their instincts they continued to talk to Beacon International.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to the O’Keefe video, Begley and Hemingway have both released statements insisting that they attended the meeting solely to help their friends get financing for their film. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Begley even insisted that hearing problems kept him from understanding much of what Muhammad was saying and that his agreeable demeanor shown on tape was just him being polite.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Tickells have contacted the FBI and local authorities wondering if O’Keefe broke any laws by recording their conversations, considering that they signed a non-disclosure agreement presented by Beacon International.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For his part, Fox says that he’s disappointed in the Tickell’s behavior. However, Fox points out that the real villain in this Hollywood drama is O’Keefe.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch Josh Fox on Chris Hayes below:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/08/27/james_o_keefe_and_jim_letten_project_veritas_provocateur_accuses_former.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Times-Picayune has a nice recap of “journalist provocateur” James O’Keefe’s latest stunt. It’s not nearly as ambitious as his Planned Parenthood, ACORN, or NPR sting operations, but it’s far more entertaining, if you ask me. In it, O’Keefe’s Project Veritas crew confronts former U.S. Attorney and current Tulane Law School assistant dean Jim Letten on the Tulane campus. O’Keefe blames Letten for his 2010 prosecution for entering Mary Landrieu’s offices under false pretenses (Letten recused himself from the case, which was ultimately settled with a guilty plea), and attempts to give Letten a copy of his new book.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Times-Picayune’s photo caption team sums up the clip’s highlights better than I ever could:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video shows an agitated Letten accusing O'Keefe of "terrorizing" the former U.S. attorney's wife at their home, of harassing him and trespassing on the Tulane campus. He called O'Keefe a coward and a spud and referred to O'Keefe and his companions as hobbits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hobbit stuff, which is quite excellent, starts around the 36-second mark, and the footage of Letten losing his temper goes on for another two and a half minutes before police detain O’Keefe and his crew. Also very funny, at the four-minute mark O’Keefe accuses Letten of engaging in “minor assault” for grabbing the book from him and then tossing it back at him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This kind of thing is clearly more personal vendetta than investigative journalism, but it provides an embarrassing portrait of Letten losing his cool. And as a stunt in book publicity cooking, Letten played right into O’Keefe’s hands—the clip has 66,000 views and has inspired numerous sucker bloggers (guilty!) to write about it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tulane has issued an order banning O’Keefe from the campus, but this is clearly a mission accomplished for Project Veritas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Destroyed by court order: The footage of a Landrieu staffer admitting the senator’s office had no problem with their phones</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">POSTED AT 1:12 PM ON MAY 29, 2010 BY PATTERICO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/29/destroyed-by-court-order-the-footage-of-a-landrieu-staffer-admitting-the-senators-office-had-no-problem-with-their-phones/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I recently reported that the judge in James O’Keefe’s criminal case ordered the destruction of the footage of James O’Keefe’s entry into Senator Mary Landrieu’s offices. O’Keefe has confirmed on Twitter that the Government returned his recording equipment, but deleted the footage from inside Sen. Landrieu’s offices. The AP is now catching up to the story:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative activist-videographer James O’Keefe said video he shot of conversations with staffers of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu was deleted when his cell phone was returned after he and three others pleaded guilty to charges in a caper he orchestrated at the Democrat’s New Orleans office.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said Saturday that U.S. Magistrate Daniel Knowles III ordered the footage removed. O’Keefe made the claim Friday in a posting on his Twitter social networking site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What the AP overlooks, however, is what the destroyed footage would have revealed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I recently published court documents in which the Government admitted that a member of Landrieu’s staff had told O’Keefe’s companions, on tape, that there had been no problem with Senator Landrieu’s phones:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of Senator Landrieu’s staff members (WITNESS 1) told BASEL and FLANAGAN that she did not report any phone problems and that the office was not experiencing any issues with the phone system.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’m interested in the First Amendment implications of a court ordering the destruction of a copyrighted work with possible political relevance — with no apparent statutory authority, plea agreement provision, or national security concern to justify it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I know of no justification for the destruction of the taped footage. A defendant’s property can be forfeited under certain circumstances — if he commits a felony. O’Keefe pled to a misdemeanor. Surrendering the footage was not part of the plea agreement, which you can readhere. Nor is there any national security issue in play; O’Keefe has confirmed to me that he and his companions accessed only the public reception area of Landrieu’s office.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the footage was potentially exculpatory evidence in O’Keefe’s criminal case, and as such should have been turned over immediately after his arrest. The Government has admitted, in court documents signed by the Government lawyer, that O’Keefe’s intent was “not to actually tamper with the phone system, or to commit any other felony” but rather “to orchestrate a conversation about phone calls to the Senator’s staff and capture the conversation on video.” This means that the tape recording made by O’Keefe was exculpatory evidence, which would have helped him prove the lack of intent that the Government eventually admitted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The First Amendment would prohibit the judge from returning the footage to O’Keefe, and then ordering him not to publish it. Yet he managed to accomplish the same thing in ordering its destruction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, the public will never learn what was on that footage, including what it revealed about the weakness of the Government’s charges against O’Keefe — and possibly about Sen. Landrieu’s having dissembled about the state of her “jammed” phone lines.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What possible justification is there for destroying such evidence?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">selectively enforced shield law</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">North Jersey Media Gp</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Col School of J</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NJ Star Ledger jennifer borg print full trans </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">evin whitmer ed in ch Bergen Record</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jay Rosen nyu</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gavin McInnes vice mag street carnage 41 king</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ironic racist http://gawker.com/5358130/vice-vs-street-carnage-hipster-medias-battle-produces-draconian-non+competes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NO evid destroyed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">j christian adams Election law ctr http://www.electionlawcenter.com/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We include detailed information like the server IP Address which is 208.109.80.14. 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Adams".[12]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December 2007, Columbia, South Carolina newspaper The State reported that Adams called on increased oversight of the South Carolina Supreme Court in response to a controversy over the court reversing the grades of 20 who failed the bar exam.[8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Justice Department Civil Rights Division[edit source | editbeta]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under the George W. Bush administration hired Adams in 2005.[13] In 2008, Adams was one of three federal attorneys probing Lake Park, Florida for possible bias against African-Americans being elected to town commission.[14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December 2009, Adams's supervisor and Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates stepped down as chief of the voting division in December 2009 amid controversy over his objections to the dropping of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.[13] Coates' testimony before the United States Civil Rights Commission supported Adams' allegations,[15] and the Commission's report that found "a cover-up of a possible racial double standard in law enforcement in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice," and, detailing "a year of DOJ’s intransigence and baseless refusals to comply with our subpoenas," that "the Department of Justice is unquestionably hostile to any serious investigation of these allegations."[16] In May 2010, Adams resigned from the Justice Department.[17]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Post-Justice Department career[edit source | editbeta]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After leaving the Justice Department, Adams became counsel for the Election Law Center and a contributor to the center's blog. Additionally, he became a contributor to Pajamas Media.[5] On June 28, 2010, The Washington Times published a guest commentary by Adams in which Adams accused the Justice Department of racial bias by dropping the New Black Panthers case.[18] Subsequently, Adams accused Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of lying under oath in investigative hearings before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.[5] On July 6, 2010, Adams testified before the Commission on Civil Rights that the Justice Department's decision was driven by racial bias against white Americans.[19]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries in Virginia, Adams represented candidate Michele Bachmann in a multi-candidate lawsuit to add Bachmann and others to the primary ballot in Virginia.[20] Bachmann and the other candidates lost the lawsuit.[21]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bibliography[edit source | editbeta]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adams, J. Christian (2011), Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing,ISBN 1596982772</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also[edit source | editbeta]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christopher Coates</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References[edit source | editbeta]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ a b "John Christian Adams". Avvo. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Markon, Jerry; Thompson, Krissah (October 23, 2010). "Dispute over New Black Panthers case causes deep divisions". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 7, 2012. "Adams, 42, was assigned as the lead lawyer."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ "Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case". FOXNews.com. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-07-06.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Turner, Channing. "Adams: ‘Lawless’ Civil Rights Division Dismissed Black Panther Case". Mainjustice.com. Retrieved 2010-07-06.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ a b c Gazarik, Richard (July 2, 2010). "Lawyer bashes Obama officials over Philadelphia voter-intimidation case". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ "The Justice Department and the New Black Panthers Voting Rights Controversy". Federalist Society. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ "John Christian Adams search". South Carolina Bar. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ a b Brundrett, Rick (December 2, 2007). "Supreme Court not off the hook". The State (Columbia, South Carolina). Archived from the original on December 4, 2007.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ McCaslin, John (February 26, 2001). "Inside the beltway". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on March 3, 2001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ McCaslin, John (July 26, 2001). "Inside the beltway". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on July 30, 2001.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ McCaslin, John (July 30, 2001). "Inside the beltway". The Washington Times.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Gathright, Alan (June 8, 2003). "No-fly list ensnares innocent travelers". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 20, 2003.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ a b Reilly, Ryan J. "Voting Section Chief Out Amid Controversy – Main Justice". Mainjustice.com. Retrieved 2010-07-06.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Dubocq, Tom (July 20, 2008). "Feds probe possible racial bias in Lake Park voting". Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on September 4, 2008.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Foster, Daniel (September 24, 2010). "Coates Testifies at Civil Rights Commission". The Corner. National Review Online. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Race Neutral Enforcement of the Law? The U.S. Department of Justice and the New Black Panther Party Litigation: An Interim Report, US Commission of Civil Rights, December 3, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Reilly, Ryan J. (May 18, 2010). "DOJ lawyer who brought Black Panthers case resigns". Main Justice. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Adams, J. Christian (June 28, 2010). "Inside the Black Panther case". Washington Times. p. B1.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Savage, Charlie (July 7, 2010). "Racial Motive Alleged in a Justice Dept. Decision". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Higgins, Tim; Millard, Mike (January 6, 2012). "Virginia’s Cuccinelli Opposes Changes to March Primary Rules". Bloomberg News. Retrieved July 8, 2012.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">^ Kumar, Anita (January 13, 2012). "Perry, Gingrich lose lawsuit to get on Virginia primary ballot". The Washington Post. 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Bush Administration personnel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People from Alexandria, Virginia</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">South Carolina lawyers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States Department of Justice officials</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University of South Carolina School of Law alumni</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virginia lawyers</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virginia Republicans</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">West Virginia University alumni</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tpm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conservative video maker James O'Keefe has turned his cameras on the former federal prosecutor whose office brought charges against him and his accomplices in the phone-tampering of a Democratic U.S. senator.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a video released by O'Keefe's Project Veritas on Monday, former U.S. Attorney James Letten can be seen shouting at O'Keefe and his colleagues. Letten can also be seen filming O'Keefe with his own smart phone. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"You went to my house, you terrorized my wife, you're violating federal law, you're trespassing, you're a nasty little cowardly spud," Letten says in the video. "All of you, you're hobbits. You are less than I can ever tell you. You are scum. Do you understand?" </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video also shows O'Keefe going to Letten's house and speaking with his wife.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Letten recused himself from O'Keefe's phone-tampering case in 2010[won't say why?]. With the cameras rolling, O'Keefe tried to hand Letten a copy of his book, "Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy." Letten then throws the book back at O'Keefe, an act O'Keefe lables a "minor assault in front of police." This is an O'Keefe video, so the usual caveats and grains of salt apply. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Letten resigned his position as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana in late 2012, amid a scandal about anonymous online commenting by high-ranking prosecutors in his office. He is currently an assistant dean at Tulane University Law School. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cops Blame James O'Keefe for Sinking Investigation into His Voter ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/...james-okeefe...voter-fraud.../61660/? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jan 31, 2013 - There's no publicity in the follow-up. Conservative activist James O'Keefeearned praise for secretly taping Virginia Rep. Jim Moran's son ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There's no publicity in the follow-up. Conservative activist James O'Keefe earned praise for secretly taping Virginia Rep. Jim Moran's son Patrick seemingly giving advice on how to commit voter fraud in October, but three months later law enforcement has closed their investigation because, they say, O'Keefe wouldn't cooperate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick Moran resigned from his Democratic dad's campaign immediately following the video's release and cops, as well as commentators who generally don't cheer on O'Keefe's stunts, took it seriously enough to open a criminal investigation. Arlington County police spokesman Dustin Sternbeck told ArlingtonPatch's Jason Spencer that both of the Morans cooperated with the investigators. But what they really needed to make a case was the full, raw video, and O'Keefe wouldn't hand it over. "Who knows what else could be on the video? Our detective wanted to request those two things, and that party failed to comply," Sternbeck told Patch. "We want the full version. That's our job, to do a thorough investigation. And that's a huge piece of the process right there." Update: Sternbeck tells The Atlantic Wire the lead detective spoke to O'Keefe on several occasions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the Moran tape, the Project Veritas reporter asks Patrick how to get around voter ID laws with a list of 100 inactive voters. Moran explains, "There will be a lot of voter protection... So, if they just have — you know just the utility bill or bank statement — bank statement would obviously be tough — but, they can fake a utility bill with ease.... You have to forge it."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October, Patrick Moran released a statement told Politico, "…[A]t no point have I, or will I ever endorse any sort of illegal or unethical behavior. At no point did I take this person seriously. He struck me as being unstable and joking, and for only that reason did I humor him. In hindsight, I should have immediately walked away, making it clear that there is no place in the electoral process for even the suggestion of illegal behavior, joking or not."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why wouldn't O'Keefe turn over his video? He's faced criticism for selectively editing his undercover video in the past. O'Keefe and his Project Veritas gained famed for his 2009 undercover video that showed ACORN employees appearing to give advice to people dressed in a ridiculous pimp costume on how to smuggle teen prostitutes and evade. It was later revealed to be edited -- O'Keefe didn't dress as a pimp for the interviews. The tapes killed ACORN. O'Keefe's NPR sting, in which Project Veritas pretended to be Muslim Brotherhood members interested in donating to public radio in a meeting with NPR executives, was edited to make it sound like an NPR executive laughed at the advocacy of sharia law.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe wasn't protecting whoever taped Moran. Virginia is a one-party consent state, meaning only one participant in a conversation has to consent for it to be taped. The videographer could not face charges. So why not turn over the tape? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update: O'Keefe emails this statement: "The video and the subsequent actions of both Patrick Moran and Congressman Moran speak for themselves. What we saw on the video was so obviously damning and inappropriate that Pat Moran immediately resigned, and his father's office released a statement saying that what he had done was wrong. I don't need to make any comment beyond that."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> New James O'Keefe video implicates sitting Dem congressman, son ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">twitchy.com/2012/10/24/james-okeefe-teases-another-bombshell-video/? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 24, 2012 - James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 24, 2012. O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas has uncovered instances of voter fraud across the ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> James O'Keefe Scams Voter Fraud and Voter ID Laws Into Existence ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.thenation.com › Blogs › Voting Rights Watch ? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Brentin Mock - in 384 Google+ circles </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 31, 2012 - The influence of scam artist James O'Keefe on pro-voter ID legislators lately has been jarring.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe Voter Fraud Video Further Debunked - Huffington Post </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.huffingtonpost.com/.../james-okeefe-voter-fraud-video_n_152414...? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">May 17, 2012 - Further doubt is being cast on conservative activist James O'Keefe's latest undercover video after a ThinkProgress report finds that another of ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> A 'gotcha' for James O'Keefe, but exactly what did he get? - Los ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">articles.latimes.com/.../la-ol-okeefe-patrick-moran-voter-fraud-2012102...? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct 24, 2012 - The video, O'Keefe says, "takes an unprecedented inside view of voter fraud in the United States, something that many claim doesn't even exist ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> O'Keefe's Latest: Voter Fraud Investigation Lands On Eric Holder's ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/04/09/Okeefe-Holder? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 9, 2012 - O'Keefe Voter Fraud Investigation: Young Man Offered Holder's Ballot ... to Breitbart.com, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas demonstrates to the ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Surprise! Tables turned in vote-fraud case - WND </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.wnd.com/2013/06/surprise-tables-turned-in-vote-fraud-case/? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jun 17, 2013 - Undercover video investigator James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has turned... to indict him for a video sting that exposed vote fraud in the state.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> O'Keefe Voter Fraud Investigation: Young Man Offered Holder's Ballot </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/.../DC-Polling-Place-Holder-Ballot? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Apr 8, 2012 - In a shocking new video, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas ... O'Keefe Voter Fraud Investigation: Young Man Offered Holder's Ballot ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> James O'Keefe's Latest Failure To Demonstrate "Widespread Voter ... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mediamatters.org/blog/2012/10/10/james-okeefes-latest...to.../190533? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe's Latest Failure To Demonstrate "Widespread Voter Fraud". Blog › ›› October 10, 2012 7:33 PM EDT ››› JUSTIN BERRIER & JEREMY HOLDEN ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> James O'Keefe's Project Veritas </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.theprojectveritas.org/? </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe Settles Meritless Lawsuit: “This is the Cost of Exposing the Truth” ... waste,fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in ...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bossie doctored audio tapes re clintons; both leadership alums</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative activist James O'Keefe plotted a potential voter fraud sting of the Service Employees International Union in 2010 in Massachusetts — a sting that, had it been carried out, could have been funded by Rick Santorum patron Foster Friess. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The plot is elaborated on and eventually ruled out in an email chain started by conservative writer John Fund, who emailed Republican National Lawyers Association executive director Michael Thielen that the union was "contracting for buses on election day."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If you're black or brown they'll rope you in and take you to the polls, registration can be worked out," Fund wrote, per his "Boston source." His email was forwarded on to others, forming the basis for the plans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The email exchange, parts of which may be missing, is below. Read from the bottom. The last email is from James O'Keefe to associates Stan Dai and Nadia Naffe, who later filed harassment charges against O'Keefe.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Others on the thread include Heather Higgins, the founder of the conservative Independent Women's Voice and the late Andrew Breitbart.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Naffe told BuzzFeed she flew to Boston to investigate, but that they never uncovered anything of interest and the project fizzled.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: "James E. O'Keefe III" Date: January 13, 2010 12:21:54 PM EST To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxx@aol.com Subject: Fwd: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Your thoughts Nadia?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Heather Higgins Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Subject: Re: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?... To: Steve Friess , James O'Keefe xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, Andrew Breitbart Cc: Foster Friess</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrew and James, I'm forwarding what could be a very clever idea from Steve Friess in response to the intel below from John Fund re SEIU's intentions in Tuesday's election in MA. Don't know what it would cost, but you all should talk.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Warmest regards -Heather Higgins</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Steve Friess wrote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wouldn't it be great if a "ACORN sting video" could be produced about these busses?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dad - maybe bounce this off Breitbart?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some black /Latina conservatives could be wired for video, and get picked up on one of these busses, and show what goes on. My guess -they are offering cash, (which I am pretty sure is illegal), and I also would wager that at least some of these busses are making more than one stop with the same people - ie getting them to vote twice -though I don't know the mechanics of that.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps some private detective types would be needed to help track down the busses, and a block or two ahead of them to drop our cameramen off...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Too much to dream? Imagine pulling this off - legal / image problems for SEIU would be a good thing... think there's upside to this?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brietbart would know, and Fund would know - 'if we catch them doing X, it could mean Y' - I just don't know what the stakes are...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Heather Higgins wrote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Foster --See below from John Fund re SEIU -Acorn is in MA as well. It would be hugely helpful if you would assist with our non-glamorous but highly effective GOTV effort. If you could possibly let me know today, that would be helpful to our planning. This is such a great opportunity for making trouble in the best sort of way - I hope you can help us really capitalize on it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many thanks, Heather</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-------- Original Message --------Subject: FW: John Batchelor From: "Fund, John" Date: Tue, January 12, 2010 8:25 am To: 'Michael Thielen'</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tip from Boston source (normally reliable)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seiu contracting for buses on election day and heading to roxbury, mattapan, roslindale and jamaica plain. If you're black or brown they'll rope you in and take you to the polls, registration can be worked out.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the next installment, O'Keefe, who appears to have contacted Fund at this point, starts setting up</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: "James E. O'Keefe III" > Date: January 13, 2010 4:16:14 PM EST> To: "mikeroman.com" > Subject: Re: ACORN videos / seiu / election>> what time zone are you in. I'm assuming you mean 8Est. That works.> I'm 201-637-0564>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM, mikeroman.com wrote:>>>> Have time to talk around 8?>>>>>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:41 PM, James E. O'Keefe III wrote:>>>> > Mike,>> >>> > Got your info from John Fund.>> > I was the producer of the ACORN Videos>> > Would like to know whereabouts of the busses in Boston SEIU, et al are using in order to bus people in to vote in the Tuesday special election.>> > Thinking about sending some undercover folks up there.>> >>> > James</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then O'Keefe proposed sending Nadia Naffe up to Boston:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: "James E. O'Keefe III"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Date: January 14, 2010 11:10:49 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To: xxxxxxx@aol.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cc: Stan Dai</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subject: Boston</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nadia,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We're willing to book you a plane ticket to Boston to get some footage from the SEIU busses.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joe will be joining you taking care of logistics/equipment--- but i'll be in new orleans causing trouble.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">im confident your training will take you far.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interested in making some more video history?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A couple days later, O'Keefe has booked travel for Naffe, who was to do the operation. This email included an Orbitz booking confirmation:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: "James E. O'Keefe III" > Date: January 15, 2010 2:46:09 PM EST> To: nknaffe@aol.com, Stan Dai , Joe Basel > Subject: Fwd: Travel Document - Boston 1/18/10>> Nadia,>> here's what I could come up with- one stop but its along the way - no 12 hour flights, more like 4-5 hour flight.> leaving tampa mon at noon> leaving boston wed at 2pm so you can sleep.>> keep in mind Wed morning is for additional work - if the polls are continuing if its close..>> I'll also get you a hotel room for the mon night - Joe is flying in overnight from San Francisco and arrives at 6:30am.>> Joe will be picking you up shortly thereafter. But you will have to wake up around 7 on tuesday - your country needs you.>> More details to follow.> James</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also set up a place for her and Joe Basel, one of the men later arrested with him after the Senator Landrieu affair, to stay in Boston (Naffe and Basel are copied on the email):</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: "James E. O'Keefe III"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Date: January 16, 2010 10:59:14 PM EST</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To: Amy Contrada</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cc: xxxxxx@aol.com, Joe Basel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subject: Boston election day,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amy,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two of my collegues are coming to Boston to infilrate the SEIU on election day. One of them is a female.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Would you be able to put them her up Monday night?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video from the trip, if it was ever made, was never published.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I believe there was discussion of doing something but O'Keefe's office will tell you nothing was done," said Fund, reached by email.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is a classic example of someone trying to breath life into a three-year old dead horse," said Fund.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said that other reporters had contacted him about it in the past and that some "pointed out the email thread looked truncated and edited." .</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reached by email, Naffe said the emails were authentic: "Fund and Steve Friess, the son of billionaire Foster Friess, introduced the idea to O'keefe that SEIU would fraudulently register anyone with brown skin to vote."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"James flew me out to Boston to find the SEIU busses, just days after that email was sent," Naffe said. She claimed that "Congressman Steve King from Iowa was waiting at the hotel when we arrived to take us to dinner. He gave us a pep talk about illegal voting."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"O'keefe has the footage, though I'm doubtful he would share any of it. Since, he was arrested a week later in New Orleans while attempting to wire tap Senator Mary Landrieu," Naffe said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe didn't respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update: Fund emailed to say that he thinks his original email was altered: "I maintain the email was edited to take out the fact I was referring to what someone told me might be happening and that I was asking a source (whom I have quoted in the past) if they had heard anything about it."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also wished to clarify that he did not personally tip O'Keefe to the busing. That has been reflected above.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meet James O'Keefe at AFP Citizen Journalist Training Sept. 12 and 13</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 20, 2012</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We’re proud to be partnering with the Franklin Center and James O’Keefe (Of exposing ACORN fame) for an exciting two-part event on Sept. 12th and 13th.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The two-part event is FREE but we do need you to register by CLICKING HERE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Citizen Watchdog Training- Omaha</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday and Thursday, September 12-13, 6:00pm to 9pm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Prosperity- Nebraska Omaha Volunteer Center</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13216 Cottner Street </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Omaha, NE 68137</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nebraska and our nation are in a fiscal crisis. You’ve heard the egregious examples of waste, fraud, and abuse on a daily basis. We can no longer afford to sit by and wait for the government or mainstream media to fully inform the public about what’s going on behind closed doors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The time has come to stand up and take action. Click here to register for this exciting event.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Please join us at 6:00 pm on Wednesday and Thursday evening, September 12-13, at the AFP- Nebraska Omaha Volunteer Center to learn how you can get involved to hold our elected officials accountable and set this country on a better path for future generations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We’ll be joined by some of the nation’s leading experts in information activism and investigative reporting. Join us to hear from leaders such as James O’Keefe (the famed whistle-blower of ACORN and president of Project Veritas).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the training you will learn:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-How to use investigative reporting tools and skills</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-How to enhance state transparency with open records laws</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-How to hold elected officials accountable through social media</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-How to be a video activist</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Together, we can begin the hard, but important job of taking back America. We hope to see you there!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, the activist filmmaker who achieved sudden fame for a series of undercover videos recording ACORN workers, has repeatedly said that he is "absolutely independent" and received no outside funding to make his films.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the Voice has learned that O'Keefe, in fact, has had heavyweight conservative backers who funded the young filmmaker as recently as a few months before his ACORN films were made.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ACORN videos are actually just the latest of several films O'Keefe has produced and uploaded to YouTube. An earlier film posted in February, "Taxpayers Clearing House" featured nonwhite, working class people being duped by O'Keefe, who led them to believe they had won money in a sweepstakes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That video was produced with the help of a grant -- said to be about $30,000 [Thiel's spokesman says closer to $10,000 -- see update] -- from Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook -- an investment which made him a billionaire. Thiel is one of Silicon Valley's more interesting figures: a gay man (according to Gawker's "Valleywag") who has railed against the evils of "multiculturalism." He lives in San Francisco and today runs a hedge fund.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe is now well known as the young man who dressed up as a pimp with a colleague, Townhall.com blogger Hannah Giles, who was dressed like a prostitute. The pair traveled around the country, seeking advice from ACORN workers about how to hide prostitution money for tax purposes. At five of the offices they visited, ACORN workers gave such advice while O'Keefe's hidden camera was rolling. The videos have cost ACORN the support of Congress, the U.S. Census and the White House, and the organization stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in government grants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe, meanwhile, has repeatedly claimed to be financially independent. In an interview with the New York Post shortly after the ACORN videos hit the Internet, O'Keefe claimed to be "absolutely independent." Giles said she had "drained my entire savings" to spend the summer making the undercover videos. O'Keefe estimated his budget at $1,300, and said that Giles had paid for her own plane ticket to California. The couple said they lived off of Power Bars and Subway sandwiches for two months.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But O'Keefe turns out to have a substantial history of being funded by conservative figures.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February, a video called "Taxpayers Clearing House" was posted to YouTube. In it, O'Keefe and others drive around in a van with a logo on the side that looks like the "Publishers Clearing House" vehicle known for showing up and surprising sweepstakes winners with oversized checks. In O'Keefe's video, working class Blacks are shown jumping up and down in excitement - until they learn that O'Keefe is actually delivering a bill for $28,000, their share of the federal banks bailout.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe told a friend, Liz Farkas, that he had approached Thiel with the idea for the video, and had walked away with "approximately $30,000" to produce it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Farkas told the New York Times this week that she and O'Keefe, who met at Rutgers University, clashed over publishing incomplete transcripts from another sting involving an abortion provider.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through a representative, Peter Thiel confirmed that he had funded "Taxpayers Clearing House" through a "small-government group," but denied having any involvement with the ACORN videos. The representative says Thiel first learned of the new O'Keefe videos after they hit the Internet, and having "watched them on YouTube...he shares the view that taxpayer money should not promote human trafficking."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thiel, who co-runs the Founders Fund, is a hedge fund manager, web entrepreneur and venture capitalist worth $1.2 billion. Fortune magazine referred to him as the "don" of "the Pay Pal Mafia." Thiel is also co-author of The Diversity Myth: 'Multiculturalism' and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford. He was also co-founding editor of the conservative Stanford Review and was a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal circle that has included Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Is the new consciousness about race, gender, and sexual preference really the antidote to America's problems or a cause of them?" Thiel's book asks in its introduction. Another representative quote: "Multiculturalists like thinking of themselves as victims far too much to want to end their victimization. They need their imaginary oppressors to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">give their lives meaning."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thiel's book does not spare homosexuality. "Much [homosexual] behavior is being conducted in public, for the express purpose of shocking and offending others. The shock is then called 'homophobia' and is used as evidence of the oppression and victimization of homosexuals." The book (published in 1995) argues against Stanford instituting domestic partner benefits, complaining "even in purely economic terms, the costs are substantial...The end result is something of a random scrambling of people into "relationships," all claiming the right to live off of everyone else."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though Thiel denies directly funding O'Keefe's latest videos, Thiel may have made them financially possible anyway. O'Keefe has, in the past, used support from one project to fuel another.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe is a former member of the Leadership Institute, the conservative think tank that has turned out such graduates as Bush strategist Karl Rove, Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, and "Talon News" fake White House blogger Jeff Gannon (real name: James Dale Guckert). The Institute has been involved in setting up conservative newspapers at colleges across the country, and gave O'Keefe a $500 "Balance in Media" grant to begin the Rutgers Centurion in 2005.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On his personal blog (quoted at Daily Kos, O'Keefe has taken the original link down), O'Keefe thanks "LI" for a $4,000 monitor to help him make his movies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the same way O'Keefe used equipment from the Leadership Institute to make his future films, he may have made use of Thiel's cash infusion for future projects, too. The "Taxpayers Clearing House" video that Thiel's money made possible was posted just a few months before O'Keefe and Giles set off on their summer adventure. The multiple ACORN videos were shot and produced over the course of more than two months, in San Diego, San Bernardino, Brooklyn, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. (plus an unknown number of other cities, like Philadelphia, where O'Keefe attempted to shoot but the sting failed).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe declined to be interviewed by phone for this article, and did not respond to e-mailed questions. But he has not publicly explained how the help he's received from either the Leadership Institute or from Peter Thiel has influenced his filmmaking -- or how they may have made a summer traveling around the country for undercover stings possible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE: Thiel's spokesman, James O'Neill, disputes Farkas' estimate of $30,000, saying that Thiel's contribution was only "about $10,000."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">extensive coverage: http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?tag=james-okeefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe’s new video excrement has received attention only on the most disreputable outlets such as WorldNetDaily and the Daily Caller. And from the looks of it, that’s even more attention than it deserves. His circle of propagandists is apparently shrinking. Neither Fox News nor his mentor Breitbart has posted the video or even a story announcing it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video itself is ten minutes of mind-numbing boredom as O’Keefe’s flunkies accost people with appeals to put a stupid sign on their lawns. As usual, it was heavily edited to disparage the ambushees and O’Keefe inserted a lame, studio-produced introduction wherein he falsely asserts that gun safety advocates want to “take all guns from everyone,” a policy that no one has proposed. His ludicrous and unsupported conclusion was that “We didn’t find any members of the media with the strength of their convictions.” But that would only be true if any of his victims had ever expressed a conviction to favor the message on his infantile signs – which they did not.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, O’Keefe’s flunkies may have committed yet another crime on behalf of his crusade to debase journalism. When approached by an officer from the Washington, D.C. police department outside of the home of Attorney General Eric Holder, they told him that they were from a gun control organization. Of course, they were not and the organization they claimed to represent does not exist. That may constitute giving false testimony to a law enforcement representative who was investigating a complaint, or even worse, obstruction of justice.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe is a serial offender. In addition to his conviction for unlawful actions taken in the office of a United States senator (for which he is still on probation), he has broken election laws and invaded the privacy of people from whom he had not acquired consent to record. He even tried to entrap a CNN reporter in a perverse sting on his “Love Boat.” This latest violation of the law ought to be prosecuted as well and, at the very least, his probation should be revoked. Now that would be justice.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Borat of right-wing pseudo-journalism has just released the latest in his attempts to so thoroughly discredit himself that his mother would be ashamed to take his calls. James O’Keefe, a convicted criminal, has been trying to prove that voter fraud in America is at crisis proportions. But the only thing he has succeeded in proving is that he himself is a recidivist perpetrator of attempted fraud that ultimately fails. And he has never rebutted the studies that show that voter fraud is almost non-existent in this country.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe’s latest insipidness is a video that purports to show that non-citizens are voting in North Carolina elections. His evidence is a non-citizen named Zbigniew Gorzkowski. The only problem, as ThinkProgess discovered, is that Gorzkowski is, in fact, a citizen and has been for about thirty years. When O’Keefe’s henchman tried to ambush Gorzkowski, he immediately smelled the deceit and repeatedly asked the henchman who he was representing. O’Keefe’s henchman not only evaded the question, at one point he blatantly lied, misrepresenting himself as being associated with an “agency” that implies some official authority.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Constitution Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing this week that illustrated just how far from reality the advocates of photo IDs, and other methods of suppressing votes, will go to peddle their phony message that voter fraud is rampant in America and must be stopped by enacting legislation that disenfranchises legitimate voters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first indication that these hearings were an outright sham was the inclusion of a video by the notoriously dishonest crockumentary maker, James O’Keefe. O’Keefe is best known for producing videos that have been deliberately edited to give false impressions that advance his political agenda. His antics include plying teachers with alcohol in order to embarrass them, and attempting to seduce a CNN reporter aboard his “Love Boat.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is presently on probation for crimes committed in the federal offices of a United States senator where he unlawfully impersonated a telephone repairman. (And, according to a recent appearance on the Christian Broadcast Network, he is now officially the Breitbart videographer, a role the late Andrew Breitbart had never permitted).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voter ID Laws Take Center Stage at House Judiciary Hearing</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted By Elizabeth Murphy On April 18, 2012 @ 1:56 pm In News | Comments Disabled</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The controversial video showing a man almost fraudulently accepting a ballot as</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attorney General Eric Holder got more airtime Wednesday at a House Judiciary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department’s voting rights enforcement track</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">record.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, made by conservative activist James O’Keefe, prompted some</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">committee members to question the attorney general’s handling of voting cases.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said he is “shocked the attorney general hasn’t offered a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">meaningful response to this.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On hand for the Republican-led House</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judiciary subcommittee on</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Constitution hearing </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> was former</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting Section lawyer J. Christian</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adams, who has been a vocal critic </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[4]of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Holder since his dramatic departure </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">from the Justice Department in 2010.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adams was critical of Holder’s decision to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">partially dismiss a voter intimidation civil</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lawsuit against the New Black Panther</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party and members — a racially charged</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">case Adams helped initiate </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. But many</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">veterans of the Civil Rights Division said</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the George W. Bush administration’s</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Voting Section took on a highly politicized</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">agenda </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> in choosing cases.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his prepared testimony </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">, Adams went on the attack against the Obama</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">administration’s Voting Section, saying there is a false perception that it has “more</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">vigorously protected minority voting rights” than the previous administration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What is lacking is not money, but a willingness to enforce all voting laws in an</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">evenhanded and efficient fashion,” Adams said in the testimony. “This unwillingness is</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">all the more troubling in the context of the caustic and wicked political attacks on the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">good work of Voting Section employees and political appointees during the Bush</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">administration.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adams also said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez’s criticisms of the past</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">administration’s Voting Section, given what he believes to be a poor enforcement track</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">record over the past three years, “pai...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/04/18/voter-id-laws-take-center-stage-at-house-judiciary-hearing/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Stossel (Fox News): “Let’s stop saying everyone should vote.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matthew Vadum: Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rush Limbaugh: “If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation): “If you’re not a property owner, I’m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Doocy (Fox News): “With 47% of Americans not paying taxes – 47% – should those who don’t pay be allowed to vote?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omg busts a move/moon walks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"try to make us racists" </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVLDCPtVQw&feature=player_embedded#!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yaf interview on journalism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rLX5350NR0&feature=related</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AIM's Benjamin Johnson sits down with James O'Keefe for some hard hitting dance moves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">investigate gov't fraud; drunken teacher, muslim bro; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check out VICTICRAT featuring James O'keefe :</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPqmJynQPU</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Directed by Christian Hartsock. Produced by Eric Elder. Performed by James O'Keefe and Anthony Dini. Starring: Dori Russell, Amy Bissonnette, Stacy Fratelli, Jacqueline Gage, Renee Reres, Vanessa Ross, Jessica Lynne Smith, Nick Gust, Shaughn Adeleye, Brian Lloyd, Eric Johnson, Ethan Czahor, Tara Ketterer, Ryan Sorba. Associate Producer: Alvaro Day. First Assistant Director: Adam Weinberg. Director of Photography: Andrew Hrera. Lightly Edited by: Victor Shklyar. Production Designer: Rae Deslich. Costume Designer: Jacquelynn Nicolle Remery. Set Photographers: Andrew Kim, Brandon Williams. EPK/DIT: Robert Deltour. Steadicam Operator: Aaron Smith. First Assistant Camera: Casey Todd. Sound Mixer: Phillip Bladh. Gaffer: Brody Culbertson. Best Boy: Ronnie Gotch. Set Dressers: Vinny Chance, Caroline Louis. Caterer: Chris Holm. Production Assistants: Alexander Haberbush, Gabriella Hoffman, Kelly Steele. Special Thanks: Daniel Smith, The City of Pasadena. POV PICTURES. DIONYSUS PRODUCTIONS. THE PROJECT VERITAS.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EricElder@povpictures.net Christian@DionysusProductions.net. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pal blog features alan keyes Christian Hartsock, 24, is a director, screenwriter, producer and political columnist and activist. He earned his B.A. in Film and Video Production from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara and currently produces, directs, and writes films including the music video for Guns 'N Roses' "Sorry," as well as the conservative rap music video Victicrat and the short film Sycophant which he wrote and directed, as well as the award-winning feature film The Lives of Better Men which he produced.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hartsock directed the undercover investigation video Teachers Unions Gone Wild which exposed sleaze and corruption in the New Jersey Education Association, earning the accolades of Governor Chris Christie, video 404] produced B-roll for James O'Keefe's and Hannah Giles' investigation videos that brought down ACORN, exposed anti-Americanism at the UN Climate Summit in Cancun [petiton http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TzZ_Zcp4PwY ; CFACT: hard to tells b/c of bad audio, but seems to restrict US GDP /by 6% over ten years if refuse to comply w/ kyoto] and continues to work on investigative journalism videos. He's traveled to Iraq with Move America Forward to document the Iraq war and was profiled in CNN's documentary Right on the Edge a documentary about young conservative activists hosted by Abbie Boudreau. He currently writes for several news and commentary websites, including Big Government and Big Journalism, and is Editor-in-Chief of Political Vanguard.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His commentary has been discussed on Fox News' Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, and has landed him as a guest on several TV and radio talk shows over the years. He was born in Oakland, California in 1986 and currently resides in Los Angeles. Christian@DionysusProductions.net</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tancredo blog; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New O’Keefe Video: Union Bosses Admit Taxpayer-Funded Green Jobs Are “Bullshit”…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lie: claim they have gotten grants (what's with the wigs?) logic: guy complains 270 page applic turned down, yet other claim is that $ given to anyone for anything (note light bulb swap bad, black ppl) VJ</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All 4 men were welcomed as rock stars at last week's CPAC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activist James O'Keefe was among four people arrested Monday, Jan.… (Ghanbari/AP )</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACORN prankster, James O'Keefe, arrested for incident at Senator Mary Landrieu's office</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON - The ACORN gotcha guy got popped by the FBI Tuesday on charges of bugging a Democratic senator's office phones.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe became a darling of the right and a favorite of Fox News' Glenn Beck last year for undercover videos he made of ACORN activists giving him tax advice on running an underage call girl ring.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Monday, O'Keefe and three pals were nabbed in the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in a New Orleans federal building, where he was recording buddies fiddling with her phones, the FBI charged.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The men were arrested by U.S. marshals for "interfering with the office's telephone system," after they asked to gain access to Landrieu's phone switch closet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each faces a maximum of 10years in prison and $250,000 in fines for "entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony," federal prosecutors said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Besides O'Keefe, Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan - son of the top federal prosecutor in Shreveport, La., - were apprehended for "falsely and fraudulently representing that they were employees of a telephone company," said an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Basel and Flanagan were dressed in denim with reflective vests, hardhats, tool belts and lights in Landrieu's office, FBI Agent Steven Rayes said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe and Dai "aided and abetted" the other men "in the execution of the plan," he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the bogus hardhats tried to bug an office phone, O'Keefe raised a cell phone "in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel," the FBI said. "Neither individual is a telephone repair man."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe, Dai and Basel were freed last night on $10,000 bond. O'Keefe said "veritas," the Latin word for truth, as he walked out. Landrieu declined comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Media Matters' Eric Hananoki noted, O'Keefe's three alleged accomplices -- Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan, and Stan Dai -- are right-wing activists as well. Basel was the founder of a conservative campus publication at the University of Minnesota-Morris, which, like the campus publication started by O'Keefe at Rutgers University, received funding from the conservative Leadership Institute's "Balance in Media" grant. Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana William Flanagan, reportedly works at the conservative Pelican Institute in New Orleans, just half a block from Landrieu's office. Dai received $5,000 from the right-wing Phillips Foundation's Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program. Additionally, during his time as a campus conservative, Dai reportedly co-wrote "a satirical work entitled The Penis Monologues, apparently a takeoff on the Vagina Monologues."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part I: My Time as an Accomplice to Convicted Criminal James O’keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">she was sued by o? retaliated against info request</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://nadianaffe.com/part-i-my-time-as-an-accomplice-to-convicted-criminal-james-okeefe-2/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">study showed voter more likely to be hit by lightning than comit fraud</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, the right-wing prankster who became famous for a doctored video that led to the downfall of ACORN, recently coordinated a stunt to obtain ballots in the New Hampshire primary using the names of dead people.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His goal was to prove that strict voter ID laws are necessary. However, what he and his associates did was illegal:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hamline University law professor David Schultz told TPM that there’s “no doubt” that O’Keefe’s investigators violated the law.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In either case, if they were intentionally going in and trying to fraudulently obtain a ballot, they violated the law,” Schultz said. “So right off the bat, what they did violated the law.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe and his co-conspirators were also incredibly insensitive:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Activist filmmaker James O’Keefe secretly recorded video showing his operative using Roger Groux’s name and address to obtain a Republican ballot at Manchester polls Tuesday. The U.S. Navy veteran died Dec. 31 at an assisted living home. His family held funeral services Monday, his widow said. “Oh my God, I know what he would say, ‘Call the cops, call the police,’ ” Rachel Groux said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe has made a living using lies to ruin the lives of others. Now he should be investigated for a repulsive, open-and-shut case of voter fraud.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/05/james_okeefe_and_friends_plead.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service. [st bernard parish jail</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lila Rose is a conservative activist and anti-abortion videographer whose work is promoted by Andrew Breitbart. Her goals are to undermine organizations that provide legal abortions and de-fund Planned Parenthood. She is president of the anti-abortion group Live Action. Rose likened herself to Martin Luther King, Jr. in a CNN documentary called "Right on the Edge." At the November, 2009 Value Voters Summit, she said that as long as abortions are legal, they should be "done in the public square," thus disgusting people into action. And then "we might hear angels singing as we ponder the glory of conception." [1][2][3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hide]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 Colleague of James O'Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 Sourcewatch resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 External resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Contact</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colleague of James O'Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lila Rose is a colleague of conservative activist James O'Keefe. As a UCLA freshman in autumn of 2006, she and O'Keefe came up with the idea of infiltrating clinics. Rose and O'Keefe, both told the Los Angeles Times that they were inspired by the work of Mark Crutcher, a Texas antiabortion activist who in 2002 taped fake calls to hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics around the country featuring women posing as pregnant minors.[4]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2006 Rose has carried out undercover "sting" visits at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis. She makes hidden camera videos as she and a friend pose as abortion-seeking young teens who have been impregnated by older men. Rose's videos are then edited down to about boiled five minutes, and are enhanced with portentous music and fast cuts to heighten the drama. Rose them posts the videos on her website, LiveAction.org, and on YouTube.[5]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sourcewatch resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Americans for Prosperity</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">summary of ploys:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/james-okeefe-andrew-breitbart-videos</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Do We Keep Falling For O'Keefe's Smear Jobs?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It took days for someone to factcheck the NPR "sting"—and then the job fell to Glenn Beck's (!!) site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another Phony Planned Parenthood Sting</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whom do you believe? The head of Planned Parenthood or a James O'Keefe-inspired provocateur promoting a new stunt?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart's Latest</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe Might Have Been On To Something</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shirley Sherrod Update</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our summer race war continues...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mojo dirty tricks coming: http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2011/04/fact-free-nation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pimps, Lies, and Videotapes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inside Andrew Breitbart's and James O'Keefe's right-wing video fantasy factory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—By Dave Gilson</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">| Thu Mar. 31, 201</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ever since ACORN was taken down by a bad pimp costume and a hidden camera, right-wing media mogul Andrew Breitbart and provocateur James O'Keefe have discovered that by the time their work is exposed as disingenuously edited hit jobs, the damage is done, and their brand has been boosted. As Breitbart told the AP, "I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard. And it's a very good business model." Read the editors' note, "Why Do We Keep Falling for </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe's Smear Jobs?" here. Below, their stings to date.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Community organizers helping an outrageously dressed pimp with "child prostitution, human trafficking and tax evasion."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe didn’t wear a pimp costume in ACORN offices; ACORN later cleared of criminal wrongdoing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted videos and gave them to Fox News;took credit: "I'm the guy that brought down ACORN."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACORN lost federal funds, went bankrupt.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attempted "probe" of the senator’s phones to see if she was ignoring calls about Obamacare.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Video seized whenFBI arrested O'Keefe (PDF) for impersonating a phone-</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">company worker.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disavowed any connection, butadmitted O'Keefe was on his payroll at the time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe sentenced to 3 years probation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Falsified timesheets"costing taxpayers an estimated $10,000,000."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Full video exposedsloppiness, not massive corruption.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted videos.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Black USDA officialboasting of racism at an NAACP event.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">True, pro-racial- harmony messageof Sherrod's speech.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted video one week after NAACP criticized tea party’s racial politics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sherrod fired andnow suing Breitbart.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe tries to lure Boudreau on a yachtfor a "counter-seduction satire."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Plan failed when female colleague of O'Keefe warned Boudreau.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Called O'Keefe’s plan "patently gross and offensive."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PP staffers helping pimp with child sex trafficking.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PP staffers alerted the Feds to impostor.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Promoted videos by Lila Rose, an O'Keefe protégé.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One PP staffer fired; no charges against PP.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NPR fundraisers caught wooing Muslim donors, slagging tea partiers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NPR exec says he's a disaffected GOPer and quotes others like him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Didn't post video, butpraised O'Keefe’s tactics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two NPR executives axed, NPR federal funding in jeopardy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe cronies get ballots by posing as recently deceased voters, showing "the integrity of the elections process is severely comprised."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oops—asking for a ballot using a false name is a crime, even if you don't cast a vote.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not involved, butdefended O'Keefe on Twitter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecutors could pursue state and federal voter fraud charges.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://motherjones.com/media/2011/03/james-okeefe-npr-sting-mohammed-nabbous</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Do We Keep Falling For O'Keefe's Smear Jobs?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It took days for someone to factcheck the NPR "sting"—and then the job fell to Glenn Beck's (!!) site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery | Mon Mar. 28, 2011 </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is the Editors' note from our upcoming issue on political lies and smears. See a handy chart of some of the latest here [1].</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To the list of journalism's greatest disgraces, let us now add James O'Keefe. O'Keefe calls himself an investigative reporter, though as far as we can tell the only group of journalists he has anything in common with are habitual fabricators like Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, and Janet Cooke.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that's not the scandal we're talking about. The real scandal is that—even though by the time he posted a "sting" [2] of a top NPR fundraiser, O'Keefe was notorious for creating deceptive video smear jobs (ACORN? Hello?)—the media repeated the allegations uncritically. Let's review.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe's "scoop" debuted March 8 on the conservative Daily Caller [3]. Edited down from a 2-hour conversation, the 12-minute clip purports to show NPR head fundraiser Ron Schiller wooing fake prospective donors who claimed to be part of a group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. To curry favor, Schiller slags tea partiers, calling them xenophobic and racist; he also says NPR could get by without federal funding.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans in Congress were already gearing up to defund NPR, but even that timing doesn't seem to have raised red flags with the media. The story was breathlessly repeated by such mainstream reporters as Ben Smith of Politico [4], Dave Weigel of Slate [5], James Poniewozik of Time [6], and many others. Did they mention that O'Keefe had doctored tapes before? Sometimes. Did that cause them to hold off before passing on his sizzle reel? No.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Within 36 hours, NPR had dumped both Ron Schiller and its successful CEO, Vivian Schiller (no relation). Twenty-two NPR journalists, from Robert Siegel to Nina Totenberg, signed a letter expressing outrage [7] at the "appalling" comments. Twenty-two journalists assumed that a tape made by a known tape-doctorer accurately represented the comments of their co-worker. Scott Simon of Weekend Edition piled on, tweeting [8], "Conduct of NPR execs is disgusting. They dishonor a name built by great journalists."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It wasn't until March 10 that an article on Glenn Beck's (!!) site [9], the Blaze, reviewed the full tape [10] (which O'Keefe had posted online—guessing, correctly, that reporters wouldn't bother to watch it) and found massive deceptive editing. Schiller, it turned out, prefaced his comments by saying he was proud of having been raised a Republican; in saying tea partiers were racist, he was paraphrasing other GOPers; a laughing "That's what they said?" referring to a restaurant was moved to suggest that he was making light of the fake group's commitment to sharia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the time the Blaze's critique made its way around the internet, though, half the press corps—including many media critics—was headed to the SXSW convention in Austin, and the other half was busy with disasters in Japan and uprisings in the Middle East. Weigel and Smith posted detailed mea [11] culpas [12] (Smith later said he'd been "slipshod"); Poniewozik followed up [13], as did USA Today [14] and The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan [15], but otherwise the major media failed to correct the record until after the defunding vote.*</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why was this? Simple: A good lie is by definition a hot story—crafted and timed to hit an urgent issue at just the right moment—and in a 24/7 news cycle, that presents a compelling incentive to reporters: "Let's be brutally honest," Weigel told NPR [16] when it finally got around to forensics six days later. "The rush is to get traffic and to get the people of your organization booked on shows to talk about it. [That] leads you to not do the rigor and fact-checking that you do in other situations." And by the time you do, everyone's moved on.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now let's contrast the O'Keefe saga with the story of another "citizen journalist" with a video camera: Mohammed "Mo" Nabbous [17], a 28-year-old engineer in Benghazi, Libya. In February, Mo joined the uprising against Muammar Qaddafi [18]; but instead of taking up weapons, he grabbed his cellphone and started broadcasting. Day after day, he live-streamed [19] everything from phone interviews to footage he'd gathered around town, becoming a key resource for many of theother [20] journalists [17] covering [21] the rebellion. Watching him was a visceral experience—this smart, funny, Oxford-accented guy who looked like he hadn't slept in two months, pointing his camera at burning power plants [22]. Like O'Keefe's videos, Mo's work was "underground," but there the similarity ends: Mo didn't conceal what he was doing, despite the obvious risks. His reporting was uncut, unvarnished, and unfiltered by anything except his own anger and hope, and it was clear watching him work that he wanted the truth, wherever that took him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On March 19, the day after Qaddafi had declared a cease-fire, Mo heard explosions. People said tanks were advancing on Benghazi. But Mo didn't want to just pass that along; he went out to report [23]. He recorded himself as he rode around on the back of a pickup—you can hear [24] minute after minute of the thud of artillery shells, the crack of machine guns, Mo's rapid-fire voice in English and Arabic. Then, suddenly, silence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mo's widow [25], who is expecting their first child, released the tape a few hours later.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That's journalism. The other stuff is hackery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*On March 22, New York Times media columnist David Carr detailed [26] the flaws in the initial reports. Yet as recently as March 25, Times editor Bill Keller, in an essay [27] devoted entirely to factchecking (and scolding the rest of the media for prioritizing speed over accuracy), characterized the incident as one where O’Keefe (who's not actually in the video) posed as a donor to "entrap a foolish NPR executive into disclosing his scorn for Republicans and the Tea Party."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Source URL: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2011/03/james-okeefe-npr-sting-mohammed-nabbous</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Links:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[1] http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/james-okeefe-andrew-breitbart-videos</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[2] http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/03/npr-james-okeefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[3] http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/npr-executives-caught-on-tape-bashing-conservatives-and-tea-party-touting-liberals/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[4] http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Undercover_video_and_fundraising.html?showall</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[5] http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/08/james-o-keefe-versus-npr.aspx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[6] http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/03/08/npr-exec-pranked-calls-tea-party-racist/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[7] http://www.mediaite.com/online/npr-journalists-send-open-letter-stating-theyre-appalled-by-sting-video-content/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[8] http://twitter.com/#!/nprscottsimon/status/46000156230946816</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[9] http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[10] http://www.theprojectveritas.org/nprjudge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[11] http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Aggregation_and_trust_in_the_NPR_sting.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[12] http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/11/the-npr-stin-s-racist-tea-party-comment-was-taken-out-of-context.aspx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[13] http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/03/13/the-twisty-bent-truth-of-the-npr-sting-video/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[14] http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20110317/video17_st.art.htm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[15] http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/03/putting-the-msm-to-shame.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[16] http://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134543668/Key-Elements-Of-NPRs-Gotcha-Video-Misleading</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[17] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134770586/remembering-mo-nabbous-the-face-of-libyan-citizen-journalism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[18] http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/whats-happening-libya-explained</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[19] http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[20] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8C3CT9u_s</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[21] http://www.twitter.com/acarvin</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[22] http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2011/s3167970.htm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[23] http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb/video?clipId=flv_bf24ebcf-b375-4d5b-aa6a-318fc8c746fc</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[24] http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb/video?clipId=pla_413c69cd-9914-493e-a77d-7e22c7c019c8&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[25] http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb/video?clipId=pla_9745ec21-c64d-440f-abe7-a412e7db456d</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[26] http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/rerunning-the-james-okeefe-npr-tape/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[27] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/magazine/mag-27lede-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see also erik o'keefe:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The top two board directors at the Sam Adams Alliance include two figures with deep ties to Koch-funded programs: Eric O’Keefe, who previously served in Koch’s Institute for Humane Studies and the Club For Growth; and Joseph Lehman, a former communications VP at Koch’s Cato Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">-----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When James O’Keefe applied for a grant to fund a conservative newspaper at Rutgers University, he appealed to people like Sarah Longwell. As the senior program officer at the Collegiate Network, she toured campuses across America to help conservative and libertarian students start newspapers or keep their publications running. She “read basically every conservative college paper,” and got to know the sort of people attracted to the unpaid work of right-leaning campus muckraking.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You always knew when you met a James O’Keefe,” Longwell told TWI. “When I watch the television, and watch him say things like ‘the truth will set you free,’ I think: there’s a certain type of person who’s so obsessed with being in-your-face contrarian, and being famous for it, that he does it without thinking of the consequences. I certainly met people like him in other places.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Few conservative activists went on to achieve the fame O’Keefe did for the 2009 sting he pulled with fellow activist Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute inside ACORN offices, and secretly taping the advice they received. In the week since O’Keefe and three colleagues were arrested for apparently tampering with phones in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), national reporters have trained their eyes on organizations like the Collegiate Network and the Leadership Institute. The CN also gave a grant to the Patriot (George Washington University) and The Counterweight (University of Minnesota-Morris), where O’Keefe’s accomplices Stan Dai and Joseph Basel, respectively, had worked in college. The Leadership Institute employed O’Keefe for a year to train conservative activists; while there, he formed a friendship with Ben Wetmore, another veteran campus conservative who put up the four activists at his home before the Landrieu escapade. But any attempt to make them the faces of conservative college journalism, argued Longwell, would be off-base.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“From what he’s said and what he’s doing, O’Keefe strikes me as an ideologue,” said Longwell. “To use him to define conservative campus journalism is silly.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Longwell has gained some perspective on this. In 2005, she left the Intercollegiate Studies Institute–the umbrella organization that runs CN–for Berman and Company, a free-market public relations firm in Washington that aggravates liberals with dogged, smart-alecky campaigns against their causes. Also joining Berman was Justin Wilson, once the editor of CN’s paper at the University of Michigan, then another program director at CN. Both later worked with Bret Jacobson, formerly the editor of the CN’s paper at the University of Oregon. (Before she came to CN, Longwell worked at a CN paper at Kenyon College.) In the years since, all three of them helped out with a punchy campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act–legislation that would make it easier for workers to form unions–at Berman’s Center on Union Facts. That campaign included ads that portrayed union organizers as thugs and undercover videos–conducted with more subtlety than O’Keefe, who would pose in costume–that captured union strategists shifting their strategy. One measure of how successful Berman and Company was at frustrating Democrats came when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) angrily ripped up one of the firm’s anti-EFCA newspaper ads in front of a cheering crowd of union workers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to activists who spoke with TWI, the experience of campus conservatives who went on to Berman is more representative of the movement’s investment in college journalism than the trials of James O’Keefe, Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Ben Wetmore. It’s the sort of work that the three latter activists were doing until last week, using their training and connections to become players in the intelligence industry or in conservative activism. For the Leadership Institute, the Collegiate Network, and the National Journalism Center run by Young Americans for Freedom–just three of the conservative training organizations that have operated for more than a generation–the Landrieu debacle was a distraction from a project that had been going quite well. Conservative activists and journalists who’ve come out of those training programs have had a larger, but quieter, impact than O’Keefe. (Disclosure: I edited a CN paper, The Northwestern Chronicle, from 2002 to 2004, and I held a CN fellowship at USA Today from 2004 through 2005.) They’re well-funded–ISI, CN’s parent organization received, $8.3 million in contributions in 2009–and while they don’t release the names of donors, their trustees include American Spectator publisher Al Regnery (ISI), Heritage Foundation president Ed Fuelner (ISI), and GOP strategist Frank Donatelli (LI).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Every two years or so, somebody writes a story about how conservatives on college campuses have suddenly discovered journalism,” said John J. Miller, an editor at National Review who came there from the same conservative UM paper as Berman’s Justin Wilson, and who hires summer interns from the CN roster. “Still, if you took people under the age of 40 or 45, right-of-center journalists–however you want to categorize them–a lot of them came from these conservative campus newspapers.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While O’Keefe’s experience with the Leadership Institute has received more attention than his CN grant–and more than the internship Hannah Giles had at the National Journalism Center–the path from campus conservative journalism to D.C. influence is reliable. Before Marc Thiessen wrote speeches for George W. Bush, he was editor-in-chief of the Vassar Spectator. Before the Chamber of Commerce’s James Gelfand was tripped up for an email asking if it was possible to fund a study that would discredit health care reform, he was an editor at the Northwestern Chronicle. They place yearlong fellows at Roll Call, The Hill, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, and USA Today. Last year, the CN’s program expanded to the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina. John McCormack scored a Collegiate Network internship with Miller on the strength of his work with the GW Patriot–the same paper that produced Stan Dai. From there he got the CN fellowship at The Weekly Standard, and was hired full-time after his fellowship ended. In October 2009 and January 2010, he shifted the momentum of elections in New York’s 23rd congressional district and in Massachusetts by hounding candidates who were blowing off his questions, prompting them to overreact–and suffer from the ugly headlines that resulted.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This doesn’t take much money. The Leadership Institute’s contribution to college papers consists of Balance in Media Grants–once $500, recently raised to $750–to offset the cost of the first issue of a new publication. The Collegiate Network gives out annual grants up to several thousand dollars based on a number of factors, including frequency and quality of publications, and pays stipends for its media fellowships. Media organizations who hire CN fellows are pleased by the results, and not bothered by the O’Keefe story.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve been quite happy with our CN fellows over the years,” said John Siniff, executive forum editor at USA Today. “Does the O’Keefe story change the way I think about interns from the CN? No.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the months after O’Keefe’s ACORN story, he was embraced by the conservative journalism network. He gave a short, well-received speech to the annual Collegiate Network conference, held last year in San Antonio. The Leadership Institute trumpeted O’Keefe’s experience with the group. Since the Landrieu debacle, the praise has mellowed but not disappeared.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There was a fairly universal celebration that he gave ACORN a black eye,” said Steven Sutton, who manages the college journalism program for LI. “I don’t think it marks a milestone or launch date — we’re not going to be having James O’Keefe Day dinners to mark the day that he busted ACORN.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This kind of ‘stunt’ journalism requires skill, like an acrobat,” said Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author whose work at the Dartmouth Review in the early 1980s set the tone for decades of conservative campus journalism. “It’s pretty easy to fall off the ropes if you’re stupid about it. The ACORN story ‘worked,’ because the masquerade proved a point about ACORN, but trying to tap a senator’s phones–well, there’s a point where you are breaking the law, and no one is above the law.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among conservatives, there’s a consensus that the work of campus journalists, and the connections that the network can give them, won’t be touched by O’Keefe’s scandal. Berman’s David Martosko–who attended Dartmouth with D’Souza, but did not work for the Review–told TWI that campus conservative papers continue to produce smart “contrarians” with exactly the reporting skills and sense of humor that Berman needs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“For every James O’Keefe,” said Sarah Longwell, “there are 50 serious journalists coming out of these programs.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001270043</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://mediamatters.org/blog/200912150025</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart confirms he was duped by O'Keefe and the ACORN pimp hoax</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 02, 2010 5:40 am ET</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It turns out that Andrew Breitbart didn't actually know what was on the ACORN tapes when he helped launch them on his website last year, and used the videos to fuel his oddly personal crusade against the low-income advocacy organization.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That's right -- Breitbart didn't know what was on the tapes. Take a few seconds to let the implications of that confession sink in, and what it means to Breitbart's already dented credibility.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recall that for months Breitbart personally vouched for the ACORN videos, braying loudly that they could not be ignored and that they represented the unvarnished truth. Breitbart claimed he had told "the truth" every step of the way about the controversial ACORN clips and bragged that "[t]hroughout the ACORN story I applied my conscience to the material."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But now it turns out that Breitbart was fooled by the ACORN pimp hoax and mistakenly assumed, after watching deceptively edited clips from his protégé James O'Keefe, that O'Keefe strolled into ACORN offices wearing the outlandish pimp outfit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now Breitbart, the chief promoter of the ACORN sting, claims he "didn't know" the truth about the tapes. Although he's quick to insist it doesn't really matter anyway.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And yes, that sound you hear is Breitbart throwing O'Keefe under the bus. Because it's O'Keefe who Breitbart now blames for the "discrepancy" regarding the pimp hoax. It's O'Keefe, who Breitbart once touted as a should-be Pulitzer Prize winner, who created the false impression that he walked into ACORN offices last summer dressed as a garish pimp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a video interview posted Monday at Crooks and Liars, Stark Reports, as well as The Brad Blog, Breitbart, filmed by blogger Mike Stark at the recent CPAC convention, claims he did not know the facts about O'Keefe's pimp outfit. (See video below.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Essentially, Breitbart claims he was duped like everyone else who saw the ACORN clips created by O'Keefe. He was duped because at the outset, the misleading clips contain cut-away shots filmed outdoors, which feature O'Keefe decked out in the cane-fur-sunglasses pimp costume. (Breitbart deceptively refers to the dressed-as-pimp section as the "title sequence" of the videos, but it's really much more than that.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It appears that many viewers just assumed O'Keefe wore the get-up while he surreptitiously filmed the ACORN workers who ignited a scandal when they gave O'Keefe and his pretend prostitute girlfriend, Hannah Giles, tax advice on how to run a brothel.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The dressed-as-a-pimp storyline was one Breitbart, O'Keefe, and others eagerly pushed last fall. And it was one the press quickly embraced. (In truth, O'Keefe was often dressed rather conservatively -- slacks and dress shirt -- when he talked to ACORN staffers, and he often presented himself as a law school student and an aspiring politician trying to rescue his prostitute girlfriend from her abusive pimp.) The outlandish costume was used as a prop to both mislead viewers, and to make ACORN staffers look like idiots for not being able to spot the obvious ruse.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But it was all a hoax. And for weeks now, ever since the trick was highlighted by blogger Brad Friedman, Breitbart has been wrestling with the glaring contradiction and struggling to explain his own role in the hoax. He's been straining to explain why, for instance, in a September 21 column in The Washington Times, Breitbart specifically claimed O'Keefe had been "dressed as a pimp" while receiving tax advice from ACORN workers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That claim was categorically false.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He's been laboring to explain why he never sought a single correction last year when an avalanche of news outlets erroneously reported O'Keefe was dressed as a pimp inside ACORN offices.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And he's been struggling to explain why, in light of the pimp hoax, he refuses to release all of the unedited ACORN tapes so we can see what other discrepancies might pop up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least now, thanks to Stark, we finally have Breitbart's unequivocal admission: It was all O'Keefe's fault.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From the Stark interview [emphasis added; full transcript here]:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hello to anyone that thinks that I was misleading. I did not know that there was a discrepancy between the title sequence -- I didn't think it was significant. I saw the videos. I read the transcripts to make sure that there was continuity, and my only mistake -- and I've admitted it to Brad, I've admitted it, now that I now know about it -- is that there is a title sequence and it doesn't reflect what he was wearing when he was in there. But he still represented himself as a pimp.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the interview, Breitbart also stressed that because O'Keefe is an "independent film producer," Breitbart couldn't "tell him what to put on these things." And to make his point clear, when Stark pressed further about the hoax, Breitbart responded, "Your problem is with James."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart may have tried to shift the blame, but the admission was a devastating one. After all, he's the guy who won't stop bragging about how he's going to reinvent online journalism, and how he and his conservative activists are going to shame the liberal media with relentless fact-checking. Yet it turns out that for the biggest story of his career, Breitbart didn't even know what was on the ACORN tapes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only did Breitbart clearly fail Journalism 101 in this case, but the way he's refused to publicly accept responsibility for the blunder represents another body blow to his credibility. To date, Breitbart has made no effort to correct the record on his site, which helped launch the ACORN sting. Which means that, to date, Breitbart's sycophantic readers have not been told that, oh, by the way, that whole dressed-as-a-pimp thing was bogus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With that in mind, what journalist would take seriously the next undercover video sting Breitbart might sponsor, when we find out that for the all-important ACORN caper he didn't even know what was on the tapes until observers pointed out a glaring discrepancy?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, should we believe Breitbart's pimp spin? Tough to say. It probably represents his only way out of this mess. If Breitbart actually confessed that he knew the pimp costume story was a fake, and that not only did he do nothing to try to stop the misinformation last year but actively helped to spread the hoax, then I think his credibility would be permanently demolished. At that point even mainstream journalists, who tend to turn a blind eye to Breitbart's mendacity, would have to acknowledge he is nothing more than a partisan propagandist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, searching for a face-saving move, it appears Breitbart has opted for Plan B: Blame the young "independent film producer" O'Keefe, who brought the videos to Breitbart, complete with the misleading pimp costumes shots already embedded. (Does Breitbart really expect people to believe that he never had a single conversation with O'Keefe about the pimp outfit prior to the release of the videos?)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem with Breitbart's alibi (i.e. it's O'Keefe's fault!) is that it means Breitbart has copped to the fact that he didn't know what was on the tapes that he relentlessly hyped and used as a weapon in his oddly unhinged attack on ACORN, an underfunded and somewhat adrift nonprofit that advocates for poor people. (In one disturbed dispatch from a pro-ACORN rally last year, Breitbart attacked the attendees as "common street thugs, the dregs of society.")</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His new song and dance (literally -- see the 6:40 mark in the video below) is that none of this matters because it's irrelevant whether O'Keefe was dressed flamboyantly inside the ACORN offices. It's true, as I've stated many times, that the costume question does not negate what was captured on the ACORN videos. But the hoax certainly does matter in terms of the larger ACORN attack and how the press embraced it. Breitbart knows it, and that's why he's been so slow to clear up the confusion. (And it's why he seemed so eager last year to spread the confusion.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the blogger Digby recently explained:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the less than obvious reason this is a big deal is that the pimp and ho costumes were a send-up of over-the-top racial stereotypes that both reinforced some very ugly notions about the African American community, but more importantly, made these ACORN workers look as though they were so dumb they shouldn't be allowed to cross the street, much less handle tax dollars. And this was done for a reason.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The pimp hoax is not some footnote that can just be dismissed. The glaring blunder goes to the heart of Breitbart's credibility as a wannabe journalist. The lie was absolutely central to the rollout of last year's ACORN attack campaign. And now, six months later, Breitbart claims he didn't know the first thing about the hoax because, truth be told, he didn't even know what was on the ACORN tapes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://mediamatters.org/columns/201003020001</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/andrew-breitbarts-nixonian-okeefe-ratfk</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe and his crew are only following in the footsteps of the worst of the worst. They are funded by a right wing outfit called The Leadership Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Founded in 1979 by veteran Republican activist Morton Blackwell, the Leadership Institute has worked with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove and Grover Norquist. The group raked in $6.6 million in 2008, according to its most recent publicly available IRS filings, which doesn’t list donors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What we teach is to use creative and imaginative ways to make your points, to reveal what we think is political correctness run amuck, liberal hypocrisy and double standards” on left-leaning college campuses, said Sutton, who supervised O’Keefe at the institute until O’Keefe was asked to leave because his investigative work could interfere with the Institute’s Internal Revenue Service standing...read on</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Poor James is ordered to stay at mommy and daddy's house to keep him out of trouble.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, the 25-year-old conservative filmmaker who was arrested this week in connection with a plot to tamper with phone lines in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, is out of jail on $10,000 bond, Talking Points Memo reports. The judge ordered O'Keefe to live with his parents until a preliminary hearing set for Feb. 13.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And notice the high powered lawyer O'Keefe immediately received. He's backed by big conservative money.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Madigan, O'Keefe's lawyer, said Wednesday that his client was not trying to wiretap or interfere with Landrieu's phones, but he would not explain why O'Keefe was there. He also would not say whether O'Keefe was working for someone or was on his own.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The truth will come out," said Madigan, a Washington lawyer who represented Sen. Howard Baker, the Republican who famously asked during the Watergate investigation, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/02/03/james_okeefe_white_nationalists</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe's race problem</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Max Blumenthal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe, photographed at a white nationalist conference by One People's Project.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This story has been corrected since it was originally published.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(This article has been corrected since publication.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and three associates planned to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines. Once upon a time, right-wing pundits hailed the 25-year-old O’Keefe as a creative genius and model of journalistic ethics. Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe, called him one of the all-time “great journalists” and said he deserved a Pulitzer for his undercover ACORN video. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared he should have earned a “congressional medal.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His right-wing admirers don't seem to mind that O’Keefe's short but storied career has been defined by a series of political stunts shot through with racial resentment. Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O'Keefe at a 2006 conference on "Race and Conservatism" that featured leading white nationalists. The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People's Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O'Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing. O'Keefe's fellow young conservative provocateur Marcus Epstein organized the event, which gave anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism an opportunity to share their grievances and plans to make inroads in the GOP.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One People's Project covered the event at the time, sending a freelance photographer to document the gathering. Project director Daryle Jenkins told O'Keefe manned a literature table filled with tracts from the white supremacist right, including two pseudo-academic publications that have called blacks and Latinos genetically inferior to whites: American Renaissance and the Occidental Quarterly. The leading speaker was Jared Taylor, founder of the white nationalist group American Renaissance. "We can say for certain that James O'Keefe was at the 2006 meeting with Jared Taylor. He has absolutely no way of denying that," Jenkins said. O'Keefe's attorney did not respond to a request for comment on his client's role in the conference.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Subsequent to publication, freelance photographer Isis told Salon she saw O'Keefe helping with the event and believed he staffed the literature table, but her only photograph of O'Keefe was cropped so that the literature table isn't evident. "He was helping Marcus Epstein in the execution of the event," the photographer recalls. "O’Keefe was involved the same way you would be involved if you went to a party and you put out the cups and stocked the cooler.”]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe's racial issues can be seen in many of his prior stunts The notorious ACORN videos highlighted images of himself dressed as a pimp, deceptively edited through hidden camera footage as he baited African-American office workers into making statements that could be perceived as incriminating. There were also lesser-known but equally inflammatory spectacles like the “affirmative action bake sale” O’Keefe and his conservative comrades held when they were students at Rutgers University. During the event, O’Keefe stood at a table in the center of campus offering baked goods at reduced prices to Latinos and African-Americans while whites were forced to pay exorbitant amounts. (Native Americans, he announced, would eat free.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By O’Keefe’s own account, his racial troubles became acute when he entered the multicultural atmosphere of Rutgers University’s dormitory system. In an online diary that has since been scrubbed from the Web (but not before being captured on Daily Kos), he wrote that he was forced to live on an all-black dormitory floor after refusing to live with the gay roommate he was initially assigned. O’Keefe claimed his next roommate was “an Indian midget ... who smelled like shit.” The roommate left, however, and was replaced by “a greek kid.” The new roommate complained to a residential administrator that O’Keefe had called his neighbors “niggers,” prompting the school to expel him from the dorm. He rejected the accusation as a “complete lie,” writing, “I was lead out of the room crying and screaming at him and my situation, no friends, no one one [sic] to talk to, forced to go in front of a black man, Dean Tolbert, to defend myself and help explain that I did not call anyone any names.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following year, despite this record, O’Keefe secured a dream job in the conservative movement, employed by the Leadership Institute, a Northern Virginia-based outfit that serves as the movement’s most prolific youth training operation. There, O’Keefe met Marcus Epstein, a fellow ideologue who as editor of a conservative publication at the College of William and Mary assailed Martin Luther King Jr. for “philandering and plagiarism” and challenged his patriotism and Christianity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 2006 Epstein planned an event that would wed his extreme views on race with his ambitions. Epstein invited white nationalist Jared Taylor and homophobic white-grievance peddler John Derbyshire of the National Review to speak at the Leadership Institute’s Northern Virginia headquarters, at a mock symposium called “Race and Conservatism.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a post on the white supremacist Web site Stormfront, Taylor and Derbyshire debated "the role of race in policy decisions and the racial future of the Republican party."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the Southern Poverty Law Center denounced Taylor’s participation in the event, sparking damaging publicity for the Institute, Epstein shifted it across the street, where he played host under the auspices of a “traditionalist” group he founded called the Robert A. Taft Club. O’Keefe joined him after the last-minute move. A speaker from the right-wing black front group Project 21, led by white conservative David Almasi, was added at the last minute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to One People's Project, which dispatched an undercover reporter to the event, about 40 people attended the event, including several white supremacists. They included Michael Hart, a Jewish astrophysicist and advocate of racially partitioning the U.S., who once clashed with David Duke at a conference over the Ku Klux Klan leader's anti-Semitism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event’s headline speaker, Jared Taylor, is the publisher of one of the white supremacist movement’s foremost journals, American Renaissance, which seeks to apply an academic gloss to the racialist screeds contained on its pages. According to a report on the conference published in Taylor's magazine, Taylor argued that a taboo against discussing the alleged criminal behavior and lower intelligence of blacks and Latinos twisted political discourse, and he advocated a strong white nationalism to counter it. Derbyshire denounced “this whole rickety apparatus of affirmative action, discrimination lawsuits, corporate shakedowns, profiling protests and 'speech codes.'” But the National Review editor expressed doubt that a sufficiently large white nationalist movement could be mustered to do much about it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Epstein and O'Keefe moved on from the "Race and Conservatism" conference to better things. After graduating from the Leadership Institute, Epstein held jobs as executive director of both former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo’s Team America PAC and Pat Buchanan’s American Cause. He also started a group called Youth for Western Civilization that dedicated itself to “defending the West on campus.” An essay featured on the group’s Web site complaining that “largely Jewish intellectual elites have utterly transformed American social and political discourse” suggested that Epstein’s outfit was only his latest attempt to push white nationalism and anti-Semitism into the conservative mainstream.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Epstein’s career unraveled in June 2009, when a violent racial assault he committed two years earlier was disclosed. According to a court affidavit, Epstein had karate-chopped a random African-American woman in the face and called her a “nigger” during a drunken late-night romp bar-hopping on Washington’s M Street in 2007, leading to his arrest by an off-duty Secret Service agent. He signed a plea bargain requiring him to attend alcohol rehabilitation courses and donate $1,000 to the United Negro College Fund as a token of his contrition.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, O’Keefe lost his job at the Leadership Institute in 2007 after a prank call he made to an Ohio-based Planned Parenthood clinic. During the call, O’Keefe offered a donation to the clinic on the condition that it would be earmarked to pay for aborting African-American fetuses. “Because there's definitely way too many black people in Ohio,” O’Keefe remarked to the receptionist. “So, I'm just trying to do my part.” Leadership Institute founder Morton Blackwell said O'Keefe's stunts went beyond the right-wing group's standards. “He wanted to do sting operations that would affect legislation; he made some calls which have been covered in the news media to Planned Parenthood," Blackwell told the New York Times. "That was beyond the scope of what we had hired him to do. We are an educational organization. We are not an activist organization.” Blackwell told O'Keefe he had to choose between his job and his activism, "and he said he was committed to the activism," according to the Times.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe’s termination by the Leadership Institute hardly ended his career as a conservative activist. Right-wing online publicist Andrew Breitbart, hearing of the merry prankster’s exploits, hired him to carry out the ACORN operation that would make him famous. Since his arrest, however, some of O’Keefe’s former associates are scrambling to save face. "I am shocked by the reports of this behavior,” declared O’Keefe’s collaborator on the ACORN operation, Hannah Giles. (Giles had tarted up as a prostitute for the stunt.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O’Keefe has now hired a defense attorney and is waging a high publicity battle against charges that could land him in prison for nearly a year. Some of his old allies, like Breitbart, remain in his corner. Fox News' Sean Hannity hosted O'Keefe for a sympathetic sitdown Feb. 1, where the young right-winger played victim, claiming he was being persecuted by "flat-out slandering" and "journalistic malpractice."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Max Blumenthal is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. More Max Blumenthal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">unrelated? maybe not by blood, but</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric O'Keefe is chairman and CEO of the Sam Adams Alliance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under his leadership, the Sam Adams Alliance (SAM) has established some of the most active and respected organizations in the freedom movement. Most recently, SAM set up American Majority to train potential candidates and campaign organizers and the Franklin Center, which helps train and place investigative journalists in non-profit organizations. The alliance also launched Judgepedia, Ballotpedia, and Sunshine Review, Wikipedia-style websites which have had more than 19 million page views for their 128,000 pages of politically important information. To help Americans understand and support free-market-based principles and policies, SAM will continue to raise awareness for the cause of liberty and to build capacity in marketing and public relations for like-minded organizations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric also works closely with grassroots advocates such as Americans for Prosperity and with the State Policy Network to promote transparency and accountability in state and local governments. He serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Humane Studies, the Center for Competitive Politics, and Wisconsin Club for Growth.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He authored the book Who Rules America, which won praise from Milton Friedman, and hosts a new podcast series, Engaging Democracy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When not promoting political reform, Eric is a private investor residing in rural Wisconsin with his wife Leslie Graves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki: </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric O'Keefe is the Chairman and CEO of the Sam Adams Alliance. O'Keefe also serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Humane Studies, the Center for Competitive Politics and Wisconsin Club for Growth. Before working for the Alliance, O'Keefe was the President of Americans for Limited Terms from 1996 to 2000. In 2002, Americans for Limited Terms changed its name to Americans for Limited Government. O'Keefe served on its board until 2007.[14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Crooks and Liars</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tuesday June 5, 2012 04:00 pm</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe's Best Friends Network</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By karoli</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">enlarge</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe has some high-rolling donors. I always wondered who was behind his bogus efforts to smear people with edited video, and now I have a better idea.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lately, the right wing blogosphere has been eating each other alive while desperately trying to smear a couple of left wing bloggers for reasons I don't fully understand. That story is one that reads like a bad spy novel, and not worth trying to sort out. But James O'Keefe's ongoing difficulties with women, and especially women he hires? That's worth looking at more carefully.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just to refresh memories, O'Keefe hatched a couple of "projects" that were intended to smear journalists. One was his "To Catch a Journalist" media trap game, and the other was his incredibly stupid effort to entrap CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau by "seducing" her. The full plan, which is even worse than originally reported, is here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One thing that O'Keefe demonstrates over and over again is that he should be nowhere near women. He seems to be prone to sexual and sexist behavior while around them. For these two plans, he recruited two different women. The first, who was supposed to be a part of the Boudreau scam, was Izzy (Isabel) Santa, who is the one who stopped the ridiculous scenario from continuing by tipping Boudreau off to what O'Keefe had planned for her. In October, 2010 Santa's attorney demanded that Project Veritas pay off her contract. Subsequent to that, a settlement agreement was drafted where Project Veritas agreed to pay Santa $20,000 as a final settlement and agreement between them. An unsigned copy of that settlement agreement is posted online, and I don't know whether it was the final version or not.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's what I do know. Part of that agreement was to hold harmless all parties affected. The list of affected parties is in the image above, and includes the following people: Francisco Gonzalez, Greg Walker, Colin Sharky and Maureen Wagner as members of the board, former and past. Consultants, donors and fundraisers to Project Veritas include Kate Doner, Eric O'Keefe, and Denis Calabrese. Who are these people who consulted, donated or fundraised for James O'Keefe?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kate Doner:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sourcewatch:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doner Fundraising established by Kate Doner in 2003 in Austin Texas, is a fundraising and event services company "that partners with issue based non-profits, coalitions, corporations, and professional associations" and Republican candidates.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although listed on the site of the State Policy Network and its current newsletter as its event planning consultant, there is no website corresponding to the domain. Her colleague, Elizabeth James, who lists her phone number as the same as Doner Fundraising, has an email address affiliated with Quorum Public Affairs, another Austin strategic public affairs company helping businesses to influence goverment and regulatory policies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A biographical note states that "Doner received her Bachelor’s of Arts from Hillsdale College in Michigan with a double degree in Political Science and History. She is a native of Michigan, has lived in Texas since 1993."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She served as Director of Finance for the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 2003.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[...]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She managed the Austin fundraising for Texas Representative Joe Nixon in his race for the Texas Senate in 2005. Nixon of Houston chaired the Texas House Civil Practices Committee and was described by Texans for Lawsuit Reform in 2003, in The Advocate as "our one true friend" there and a courageous lawyer." In a news release, Nixon described Doner as "known throughout the state as an Austin fundraising powerhouse....Her client list reads like the who's who of Texas' best known Republican and conservative causes."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doner's comments on tort reform appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of James Madison Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her former husband, John Doner operates John Doner & Associates. His Austin-based firm provides marketing services and consulting for political campaigns, political action committees, grassroots initiatives, and associations since 1989.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Denis Calabrese</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Denis Calabrese is one of the founding members of the lobbying firm Patriot Group, a board member of the Sam Adams Alliance, and affiliated with American Majority. He was also Dick Armey's Chief of Staff. That would be former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, who is now Chairman of Freedomworks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Calabrese is also President of the Arnold Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by billionaire Enron trader and hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife Laura. The Arnold Foundation is dedicated to funding education deforms around the country.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric O'Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eric O'Keefe is Chairman and CEO of the Sam Adams Alliance and sits on the board of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, Institute for Humane Studies, Center for Competitive Politics, and the Health Care Compact. All of these are Koch-related and/or funded entities. O'Keefe also is connected to Joe Ricketts and Houston building billionaire Leo Linbeck III.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is how pissant liars like O'Keefe get any traction at all. They get some funding from billionaires whose single focus is on taking over the whole damn country, work with a compliant corporate media to amplify without any actual verification what O'Keefe does, and so he gets to keep doing it over and over and over.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I want to extend a particular thanks to Nadia Naffe for her contributions to my research for this post. She is in the process of being slandered viciously by the right wing blogosphere and twitterati because she dared to call James O'Keefe out for his effort to smear Professor Charles Seife and it appears, Jay Rosen. She writes:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick Frey [Patterico] may have believed that posting my Social Security Number and medical records online to his blog, in retaliation, would intimidate and stop me from telling the truth about O’keefe, chill my First Amendment rights and dissuade me from coming forward to report a crime committed in his jurisdiction. Though, what he has accomplished is precisely the opposite.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These two civil servants, both deputy district attorney’s in Los Angles County, in the past were able to bully and harass private individuals, with impunity. But their patent on intimidation and retribution expired when they came to me. The Frey’s are the poster children for the type of rampant corruption Carmen Trutanich, Alan Jackson and Danette Myers have each spoken out against.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is also what they do. When they're afraid of being exposed, they just chew up and try to destroy any person who might dare to tell the truth about them. Whatever Nadia Naffe's story is, she posted actual filings and pleadings online which confirm the story she's telling about James O'Keefe, and it's not pretty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Courage, Nadia.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--------</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patterico’s Prattling Puppets</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">byStranded WindFollow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Email 4 Comments / 4 New</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> I’ve been covering the activities of John Patrick Frey aka @Patterico for a while now. This guy has been deeply involved in Weinergate, either running the actual operation, or at the very least clearly visible in public leading the charge on muddying the waters and attempting to intimidate anyone who wants to get to the bottom of what really happened</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This sort of thing would draw the eye no matter who was involved given that the target was a U.S. Congressman. Frey, a Deputy District Attorney in Los Angeles County, continued to push the Reid sock puppet family long after they’d been roundly debunked. This smacks of cover up; someone in his position ought to be used to sorting out complex cases. He’s either utterly incompetent to do his job as a Deputy D.A. or he is complicit in the Weinergate scheme</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Since I’ve taken up reporting on this I’ve had all sorts of curious customers poking around in my digital shadow and today one of them might have just slipped a bit …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> First, I had to give away my big 2,600 follower Twitter account. Again. This happens every time I get into a tussle – gotta disappear myself until the heat is off. @NealRauhauser still comes to another account that lands on UberSocial in my Blackberry. A few dozen trusted sets of hands and eyes keep the wheels turning while I am “away”, with a couple of them running my big account. I get weird follower requests, take this one from @wittier, for example. This is some guy named Ken Danieli, I am told, and I’m uncertain what his role is in the overall scheme, but there he is, wanting to be buddies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> I got a burst of enthusiasm over my Facebook presence, but this one was most comical. Why is James O’Keefe’s video producer guy wanting to be my friend? Do they really not get there are a bunch of people reading Google Alerts on them on a daily basis? I guess not …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> They were talking about how I was involved in the Sony hack (NOT!) and I actually got a rather sad, battered Sony security guy nosing around my LinkedIn profile. We talked a bit and I sent him away with a “call me if I can help”. As regular readers will recall, I’m A Hacker, but I’m an old hacker, and we have a natural career path into security work if we survive youthful enthusiasm without any serious marks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Oh, and we’ve got some socks here, too. Specifically The Scyphers Murder and plkimin turned up after the fact, only talking in my diaries, and only then when my diaries are Patterico focused. That’s about all I need to see … how about you? Oh, and my latest doppelganger on Twitter is quite clever with an extra L where they think it won’t be noticed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> I’ve been pondering who the two local socks might be. The universe of real people is pretty small. John Patrick Frey himself. Seth L. Allen of South Easton, MA, who was found out after he bothered one of the Velvet Revolution guys last year. Maybe it’s Mike Stack aka @goatsred but he hardly seems swift enough for the level of writing the socks here display, and he seems a bit bewildered by the happenings. I am prepared to believe he and the rest of Born Free Crew were victimized by …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> The only one I can’t put a real name to: @dwp6776, the mysterious “Dan Wolfe” that knew so much about Weiner. Lee Stranahan got an IP on this guy in Arizona and that jibes with my information – that he’s employed at the Bayside Café in Lake Havasu, AZ. I wasn’t going to put that out, but after what was revealed today I guess I’m OK with people having a more accurate fix than a 32,768 block of IP addresses centered around Phoenix</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> My money is on Wolfe being behind the @PeterPavel1 troll, which I paddled in Patterico’s Personal Pipsqueak. It’s interesting how this little tidbit leaked. Someone watches @ronbryn and provides me with a daily write up of any interesting happenings. @dwp6776 had permitted him to follow, but Ron announced he was going to stop due to all the hackers he saw Wolfe following.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> So they’re desperate for some way to get me off them, and they’re not smart enough or scary enough to chase me away on their own, so the @PeterPavel1 troll resorts to talking to the various hacking superpowers: right wing anti-jihadist @th3j35t3r, anarcho-syndicalist @AnonymousIRC, and anarchist @AnonymouSabu. They’ve struck out swinging, failing to interest any of these groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> And Wolfe makes sense as the one doing this – taking up a persona, slipping into an existing group on Twitter, attempting to fit in, and then steering them toward a certain goal. The very same thing he did with Born Free Crew.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> So that’s a possible explanation. If you have the skill to see purposeful distractions as they’re presented, the mental filter needed to ignore the noise they put out, and the patience to just stand around and wait for people to make mistakes, sooner or later those who can’t shut up will reveal everything you wanted to know</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This is an incredibly dangerous situation for them.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Instead of having the initiative in the action, a small, soft target like a troubled Congressman, and an ideologically friendly online discussion group like Born Free Crew to help, the only houses on the block they have left to try are: a right wing collective that does almost nothing but international work, an aggressive anarchist group that just yanked NATO’s tail, and an anarcho-syndicalist group that would be diametrically opposed to everything Frey and those around him represent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> One of those groups will incinerate them on principle, one will disembowel them just to hear the screams, and the one that might be inclined to help is probably not going to do so for several reasons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> This isn’t over, not by a long shot. ACORN is in ruins, a popular Democratic Congressman’s career is over, and another rat from the same nest that brought forth Patterico is gnawing on the Medicaid strand of our tattered safety net. The principles of karma tell us that bad behavior begets bad results.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> And you can almost feel those consequences blowing in the wind …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">blog; </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I hope you won’t be offended by the foul language in our latest investigation because every American should watch this video RIGHT NOW.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’m sure you’ll be as outraged as I was to learn that New York State and the U.S. Department of Energy have been WASTING your tax dollars on fake “Green Jobs” for union workers – to the tune of $112 million.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How do I know? A union boss told me.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Click here to watch him LAUGH about using your tax dollars to dig ditches and fill them in again!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I wish I was exaggerating, but I’m not.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas investigators recently asked several top officials at the Laborers’ International Union (LIUNA) to help us secure funding for a fake company that literally does nothing but dig holes and then put the dirt back.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And guess what? THEY LOVED THE IDEA!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They even bragged about doing the same thing at their own job sites!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It almost is exactly the same as where we were with Green Jobs, Green New York,” said LIUNA Director John Hutchings. “Between us, a lot of it is bullsh–.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His partner Anthony Tocci explained, “You just wanna get the money. We can figure out the other stuff.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Click here to see what else they said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is some of the most flagrant waste, fraud and corruption I’ve ever seen, and we’ve exposed it on a scale that will shock you — $112 million for Green Jobs, Green New York alone!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But even though these fake-work boondoggles are funded with your taxes, no one in Washington seems to care where the money goes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maybe that’s because our investigators were also told:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’re good with [Senator Kirsten] Gillibrand and [Senator Chuck] Schumer…they’ll support it.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">No wonder these union bosses are getting away with fraud. They have friends in some pretty high places!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is there anything these people won’t do?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One thing’s for sure, they won’t stop on their own. That’s why we need to get informed and fight back.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can start by watching this APPALLING new footage and then forwarding it to your friends and family so they can see the ugly facts for themselves.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This footage isn’t pretty, but it’s our job to dig up the truth, no matter how deep it’s buried. Thanks for everything you do.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Click here to watch the video</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=======</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Report: James O'Keefe To Pay $100K Settlement To Former ACORN Employee</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Blog ››› March 7, 2013 4:39 PM EST ››› SIMON MALOY </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to court documents obtained by Wonkette, conservative activist James O'Keefe has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed against him by Juan Carlos Vera, a former employee of ACORN. Vera filed the suit against O'Keefe in 2010, alleging O'Keefe had illegally taped their conversation at an ACORN office in California as part of his fraudulent "exposé" of the community activist group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vera was one of the ACORN employees portrayed in O'Keefe's videos as offering assistance in setting up a nonexistent child prostitution ring. After his encounter with O'Keefe, Vera contacted the police to report "possible human smuggling," unaware that he had been duped. Vera claims he lost his job as a result of O'Keefe's deception after the conservative's video of their encounter was posted on a Breitbart website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the settlement documents obtained by Wonkette, O'Keefe has agreed to "pay Vera $100,000.00," and that "as part of this settlement O'Keefe states that at the time of the publication of the video of Juan Carlos Vera he was unaware of Vera's claims to have notified a police officer of the incident. O'Keefe regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the ACORN prostitution hoax fell apart, O'Keefe and his Project Veritas group released a series of heavily edited undercover sting videos attempting to document voter fraud, most of which collapsed under scrutiny, sometimes spectacularly so.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UPDATE:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a post at Salon, Brad Friedman reports that O'Keefe's ACORN video partner, Republican activist Hannah Giles, has agreed to pay Vera $50,000. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Network/Outlet</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breitbart.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Person</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O'Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">re npr: http://glennbeckreport.com/?s=james+o%27keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/amateur-hour-did-james-okeefe-target-media-</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That video is James O'Keefe describing his journalist "sting" project. In this specific case, he describes his "sting" investigating journalists for misinformation, bias and coverups, especially with respect to Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It makes one wonder whether Media Matters' Eric Boehlert was a target of O'Keefe's grand plan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Via Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post, a story of a bogus Verizon representative asking some very weird questions. Evidently this "Verizon employee" stopped by Boehlert's house to take a customer satisfaction survey. Verizon confirms they do not send people door to door for customer satisfaction surveys, however. After asking some fairly routine questions, it started to get weird.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"So he gets to the last questions, and he's really reading intently off of his clipboard, and he says something about making the kind of salary I do, working from home, something something about the 99 percenters," Boehlert said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The man claiming to be a Verizon representative finally asked his question. "After he mentioned my salary and that I work from home, all the bells went off, and this is not who this guy says he is.Therefore, I kind of lost track of the exact wording of the question, but it definitely was like very accusatory of me and I'm a hypocrite and how do I have this supposedly cushy job while I'm writing about real workers and the people of the 99 percent," said Boehlert.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"So there was this pause, and I said, 'You work for Verizon?' And he just sort of looks back at me and [says], 'Will you answer the question? Will you answer the question?' And I said, 'Can I see your Verizon ID?' And he wouldn't produce any Verizon ID, and I think he asked me another time to answer the question. And basically I just said, 'I'm done so you can leave now.'"</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My interaction with Eric Boehlert has been limited to Twitter, but my take on him is that he is not easily fooled, intimidated, or otherwise pushed around. And he wasn't here, either.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boehlert decided to follow him to obtain his license plate number. By now he had realized that the man was likely pulling a political stunt, and James O'Keefe's notorious "To Catch a Journalist" project came to mind as a possibility.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The only sort of comical part was he forget which way he was supposed to run in case I started following. He ended up sort of in the road, and he sort of turned left and then right," said Boehlert. "The last I saw him he was in a full sprint down my street running away from my house."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The police and Verizon were called. The only thing missing from this story is James O'Keefe's emphatic denial. There doesn't appear to be anything like that on the record, though Andrew Breitbart has categorically denied any involvement in this particular stunt.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to an instant message asking if he was responsible for the fake Verizon representative, Breitbart said no.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So what gives, James O'Keefe? Don't you think that as the director of an organization subsidized with taxpayer funds, you should step up and tell us whether you targeted Boehlert or not? A simple yes or no will do.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Steve MyersPublished Oct. 27, 2011 12:57 pmUpdated Oct. 28, 2011 8:50 am</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Veritas</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the second installment of his “To Catch a Journalist” series, James O’Keefe has produced a surreptitiously recorded, heavily edited video starring NYU professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen. In the video Shirky likens NPR’s program sponsorships to advertising and discusses news coverage of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, Occupy Wall Street and Michele Bachmann. O’Keefe claims the video shows Shirky and Rosen discussing “the New York Times’ strategy to support Occupy Wall Street, Obama’s 2008 election and their place within the ‘chardonnay swilling’ so-called media elite.” O’Keefe calls Shirky a New York Times consultant, but Eileen Murphy, vice president of corporate communications for The New York Times, says that’s not true. “We have looked into it and I can tell you he is not now and has never been a consultant to The New York Times,” she says. Rosen has only a bit part in which he follows up on Shirky’s statement that the people in the room are media elites by saying, “We are the 1 percent.” Other than a student referring to something that Times media reporter Brian Stelter said, no one from the Times is in the video.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you’re familiar with O’Keefe’s work and Shirky’s expansive talks, you know you can’t rely on a collage of 30-second clips to get the true meaning of Shirky’s comments. (O’Keefe says in the video that the full transcript is on his site, but if it’s there I can’t find it; I asked him on Twitter where it is.) For instance, O’Keefe claims the video shows the Times’ unwillingness to cover Bachmann, but Shirky says in the video that the Times was compelled to cover her campaign because the Iowa straw poll was considered important. When Shirky talks about Occupy Wall Street coverage, it’s impossible to know if he’s just commenting on the coverage as an outsider or — as O’Keefe claims — he’s discussing the Times’ strategy to help the protesters. (If the Times surreptitiously supported the protests by not covering them, I think the debate over liberal media bias looks like a Möbius strip: Whatever side you start on, you end up in the same place.) Rosen tweeted that he’d respond to the video later Thursday. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Update: Jay Rosen explains how someone posing as a prospective grad student taped a class and asked him how to get a tape of a tea party gathering to the Times. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reaction: NPR’s David Folkenflik: “So far looks an awful lot like ‘to catch a J school prof.’ ” ||</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Related: What James O’Keefe knows about media (and you should too) || </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier: Huffington Post’s Sam Stein first target of O’Keefe’s ‘To Catch a Journalist’ | James O’Keefe to New York Times reporter: ‘How can I be sure you’ll be objective and accurate?’</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">James O’Keefe Target Jay Rosen Seems ‘To Catch A Journalist’ Of His Own: James O’Keefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Tommy Christopher | 1:49 pm, October 28th, 2011</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Thursday, conservative undercover journalistJames O’Keefe released the second installment of his “To Catch A Journalist” series, a takeoff on Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” sting aimed at discrediting mainstream journalists. His first swing, atSam Stein, missed badly, and his second attempt, aimed at NYU Prof. Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky, brings the count to 2 and 0. Prof. Rosen, however,responded to O’Keefe’s attack with some revealing information about O’Keefe’s “investigation.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The second ”To Catch A Journalist” video, released yesterday, features hidden-cam clips of a classroom discussion by NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen and new media expert Clay Shirky, and although it contains lots of buzzy right-wing watchwords (like “The New York Times,” or “elites”), even out of context, the cumulative effect is of a fairly ordinary classroom discussion. It’s like an upskirt photo of someone in snowpants:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">link deleted</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The video is so baffling, I emailed O’Keefe yesterday to find out what he thought he had “caught” Rosen and Shirky doing. He didn’t respond to that question, but from the video, it appears that he thinks the “We are the 1%” bite is the money quote. (I also pointed out that he had published Prof. Rosen’s phone number in the video, and it’s still there today. Nice.) Rosen explains the easy-to-infercontext of that quote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Shirky says “we are the most elite…” and I follow it up with “we’re the one percent!” the discussion was about news consumption: journalism professors and students are at the extreme end in attention to news and willingness to pay for it. But you can feel O’Keefe salivating over those words as he splices them in. The implication he wants: we are your overlords!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his response last night, Professor Rosen echoed that criticism, saying “there’s not much to say because it’s so incoherent, context-less and, frankly, boring. As Erik Wemple of the Washington Postput it: ‘Just a couple of professors prattling on in not-so-fascinating ways about media and politics.’”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What Rosen does reveal, though, is that when O’Keefe called him to get comments on some quotes from the class, Rosen was able to discern who taped the class: a prospective student, pseudonymously dubbed “Lucas,” who was a guest in the class that day. As always, it turns out the devil is in the details that didn’t make it into O’Keefe’s video:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Lucas” had taped us, surreptitiously. Then he asked to meet with me. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was part of the sting. He said he wanted to become a political journalist: did I have any advice? I gave him several career paths he could follow. He asked me if being a politics major and a journalism minor would be a handicap. I said no. Then he let me in on something.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said he had a tape of a Tea Party gathering in which some ugly and extreme (the implication was racist) things were said. He said it was gruesome stuff. He wanted to know how he could get it to the media. To the New York Times. I said the New York Times wouldn’t be interested in something like that, and that he might try to contact Max Blumenthal of the Nation. He asked if I had any other advice for him. I said find a niche and start a blog. I gave him the examples of Ezra Klein, Dave Weigel and Nate Silver to show him that it was possible. I was trying to inspire him! “Lucas” thanked me and left. He had a strange smile on his face.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s understandable that O’Keefe would want to justify the $80 he spent on a hidden cam, and the time invested by his operative, but not only is this product embarrassing, it also manages to undercut O’Keefe’s credibility even more than it already has been. In the second part of our interview, O’Keefe defended a similar omission, but this is magnitudes more egregious. The pity is, he probably would have gotten more play if he had made “Lib Journo Prof Does The Honest Thing” his lede.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I asked O’Keefe if he planned on releasing the footage of Prof. Rosen’s meeting with the Project Veritas operative, and why he hadn’t done so. His response was mystifying:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Please follow up with Jay Rosen about the contested info regarding Clay Shirky and The New York Times. Jay Rosen, my trusted source, didn’t comment there.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I would talk to Professor Jay Rosen, my trusted source, to make sure he’s comfortable with the New York Times’s characterization of Shirky’s relationship with the NYT.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not to get into the weeds, but in the video, O’Keefe identifies Shirky as someone who “has done consulting work for The New York Times,” which Shirky and the paper dispute. I responded, “Okay, but what about what I asked you? Are you going to release that footage?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As yet, O’Keefe hasn’t responded.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=====</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oct. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">28</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yesterday I was the target of a “sting” operation by right wing trickster James O’Keefe. I will tell you what happened.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But first, here is the product of that sting, a real culture war artifact: To Catch a Journalist: New York Times, Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">video del </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It started with a request from a staff person at NYU to allow a prospective graduate student named “Lucas” to sit in on my class on October 17. This is something that happens 8-10 times a semester. Students want to know what they can expect if they come to study at NYU. I said yes because I always say yes. The class he wanted to observe is called “Digital Thinking.” That day I had scheduled a guest speaker: my colleague Clay Shirky. The students had read all of Shirky’s major writings about the transformation of journalism in the digital age and they were eager to ask him questions. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When I got to class, Lucas was already there. I welcomed him, introduced him to the class, and asked my students to be nice to him because he was thinking of coming to study at NYU. About 30 minutes later Clay showed up and we did what college professors do thousands of times a day at universities everywhere. We tell stories with ideas inside them and share how we think. We answer students’ questions and get them to share how they think. We try to complicate their picture of the world and inspire them to inquire further. This is the work of education. And this is what Clay and I did. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The next day I got a note from “Lucas.” It said: </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dear Professor Rosen,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thank you very much for the opportunity to sit in on your class. It was a treat to learn from Clay Shirky. I am leaving town on Friday. I was wondering if we could meet this week to discuss NYU, concentrations and a piece I am working on about Occupy Wall Street. Let me know what days and times work for you. I am pretty flexible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cordially,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I met with him two days later in my office. I will tell you what happened there in a moment. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Six days after that, on Oct. 26, the phone rang in my office. It was James O’Keefe. He said he wanted me to comment on something or other. I said there must be a context to this call, so what’s the context? And he began to read me quotes from the class session with Clay Shirky. It took me a few minutes to recognize that, yes, these were things that were said in class, so he obviously had a recording. Once I realized what he was up to I laughed at the absurdity of it and told him, “James, do whatever you want to do.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At first I was confused about how the tape got made. I asked each of my students if he or she had taped the class. They each said no. I believed them. Then one student remembered we had a guest that day and it all fell into place. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Lucas” had taped us, surreptitiously. Then he asked to meet with me. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was part of the sting. He said he wanted to become a political journalist: did I have any advice? I gave him several career paths he could follow. He asked me if being a politics major and a journalism minor would be a handicap. I said no. Then he let me in on something. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He said he had a tape of a Tea Party gathering in which some ugly and extreme (the implication was racist) things were said. He said it was gruesome stuff. He wanted to know how he could get it to the media. To the New York Times. I said the New York Times wouldn’t be interested in something like that, and that he might try to contact Max Blumenthal of the Nation. He asked if I had any other advice for him. I said find a niche and start a blog. I gave him the examples of Ezra Klein, Dave Weigel and Nate Silver to show him that it was possible. I was trying to inspire him! “Lucas” thanked me and left. He had a strange smile on his face. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I now realize he was scamming me and almost certainly taping me. The intended story line, worked out in advance, was lefty journalism professor jumps at the chance to assist with the discrediting of the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times. ”Lucas” was there to get me to say the words that, when diced and spliced, would sound like that. But it didn’t work. I told him the Times wouldn’t be interested. So no portion of that tape appears in O’Keefe’s video. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can see the similarity between this plot and the sting O’Keefe ran on NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller. Schiller was invited to compare notes with O’Keefe’s seemingly sympathetic operatives on how racist the Tea Party was. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About the tape O’Keefe mashed together from Clay Shirky’s words, and a few of my own, there’s not much to say because it’s so incoherent, context-less and, frankly, boring. As Erik Wemple of the Washington Post put it: “Just a couple of professors prattling on in not-so-fascinating ways about media and politics.” (For a different view, see Human Events: “exactly the sort of conversation that the most aggressive conservative critics of liberal media bias have nightmares about.”) </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A student asked Shirky why the early coverage of Occupy Wall Street was meager and condescending. His answer was to the student and in a way to the protestors themselves: “If you want Occupy Wall Street to succeed, you want them not to get press coverage in the beginning.” O’Keefe turns that into Shirky revealing “the New York Times‘ strategy to support Occupy Wall Street.” The way the tape is edited, the “you” in “you want them” sounds like it refers to Times journalists, and so not covering Occupy Wall Street is really a secret plan at the Times to support the protests. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Shirky says “we are the most elite…” and I follow it up with “we’re the one percent!” the discussion was about news consumption: journalism professors and students are at the extreme end in attention to news and willingness to pay for it. But you can feel O’Keefe salivating over those words as he splices them in. The implication he wants: we are your overlords! </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those are two examples, but why go on? If you see some scandal in the tape… good luck to you. What reasonable people will see is a lurid mess, which has meaning only within the taken-for-granted world of right wing culture war. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Occasionally I will hear someone exasperated at his tactics describe O’Keefe as a kind of terrorist. This is not wise and it’s not true. He doesn’t use violence; he’s an “entrapment journalist,” as Steve Myers of Poynter put it. But having been targeted, I can see one thing in his methods that is akin to terrorism. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As I said, when someone asks to sit it on my class, I say “come on in.” But my students are now shocked and angry that their learning environment has been invaded by a trickster like O’Keefe. I need to prevent that from happening again. But the only way I can do so is by closing my classroom to all outsiders, or by looking into the background, motivations and character of potential visitors, which is creepy and offensive. O’Keefe has struck at a pedagogical strength–the openness of my classroom–and changed it into a weakness. In that precise sense, and no other, he is like a terrorist. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You want to know what goes on in my classroom? Meet the real Clay Shirky. The one I had my students read. Here was their assignment. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We do not have class October 10. It’s a holiday: Columbus Day. It is alleged that he discovered America. Our next meeting will therefore be October 17. This I have designated Shirky Day. You are to absorb what Clay Shirky has to teach journalism and journalists. And so the readings are…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keynote speech: A Group is its Own Worst Enemy (2003)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interview with Columbia Journalism Review, Part One and Part Two. (2008)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog post: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable: (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog post: Rescuing the Reporters: (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog post: Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Essay: Not an upgrade, an upheaval (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Talk at Nieman Foundation: (watch the video, please.) (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog post: The Collapse of Complex Business Models (2010)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blog Post: Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic (2011)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YouTube: Interview with Jay Rosen (2009)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part One</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part Two</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part Three</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part Four</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Part Five</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Talk: The Cognitive Surplus (2010)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now that I think of it: I gave these links to “Lucas,” so he would get the most out of his visit. I doubt he read them. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Post-script, Dec, 2011:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Actual hate mail, one of hundreds I have received in the same vein, showing the effects of the video’s editing to produce fake outrage.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Hazelwood, 6detective4@gmail.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to: [me]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:09 AM</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve just listened to a recording of you as an elitist journalist, a one percent-er if you will. What you are Rosen, is a poor excuse of a journalist and a prime example of why journalism has sunk to the pit most of you now occupy. Your comments on the tape remind me of a “jerk” who has no good explanation for themselves and can only rely on “smart ass” remarks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oh for the days of Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite. You know, those journalist who the American people could trust. Not some snotty nose little boy who is just too full of himself.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oh, and, Merry Christmas!!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt 1/30/10</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/us/politics/31landrieu.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...The more you put yourself out there and you take those calculated risks,” he told the Web site CampusReform.org, which works to foster conservative activism on college campuses, “you’re actually going to get opportunities.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Just days later, Mr. O’Keefe, 25, took his own advice, but did not get quite the opportunity he expected.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He and three other men — including a 24-year-old associate, Joseph Basel, who was interviewed alongside Mr. O’Keefe by the Web site — were arrested and charged with a federal felony, accused of seeking to tamper with the office telephone system of Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. Two of them were impersonating repairmen in the senator’s New Orleans office and were caught after being asked for identification.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. O’Keefe said Friday that the four men had been trying to determine whether Ms. Landrieu was avoiding constituent complaints about the Senate health care bill after her phone system was jammed in December. (Her office said no calls had been intentionally avoided.) On reflection, he said in a statement, “I could have used a different approach to this investigation.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But that approach was precisely the kind that he and others have been perfecting for years, a kind of gonzo journalism or a conservative version of “Candid Camera.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those methods took root on college campuses in the latter half of George W. Bush’s presidency, fostered by a group of men and women in their late teens and early 20s with a taste for showmanship and a shared sense of political alienation — a sort of political reverse image of the left-wing Yippies of the 1960s. They studied leftist activism of years past as their prototype, looking to the tactics of Saul Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer who laid the framework for grass-roots activism in the ’60s, as well as those of gay rights and even Communist groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They held “affirmative action” bake sales with prices set based on the age and race of the buyer, posed as donors to Planned Parenthood seeking to contribute to the abortion of African-American fetuses only, and held a mock “Love Thy Prisoner” campaign to find American homes for Guantánamo inmates.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. O’Keefe made his biggest national splash last year when he trained his secret camera on counselors with the liberal community group Acorn — eliciting advice on financing a brothel on videos that would threaten to become Acorn’s undoing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He quickly became a cult hero among young conservatives who saw his work as groundbreaking and sought to emulate him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liberals have denounced his methods as dishonest, a form of entrapment, but national Republican leaders seized on them as revelatory, pressuring Congress into cutting Acorn’s financing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. O’Keefe produced his videos with a partner, Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute in them. Although he may be the most public face of this new approach, he is just one of a group of young conservatives who use political pranks and embarrassing recordings to upend what they view as overwhelming liberal biases on college campuses and in the culture at large.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Path to New Orleans</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the incident in New Orleans, several of the group’s central players came together. They had met through a small community of conservative college newspaper editors that is fostered by advocacy organizations supported by old Republican families like the Coorses and Scaifes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of those arrested was Stan Dai, 24, a former editor in chief of the irreverent GW Patriot at George Washington University, where he published an anti-feminist article lampooning the play “The Vagina Monologues.” His version was called “The Penis Monologues.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another was Mr. Basel, 24, the co-founder of a conservative publication at the University of Minnesota, Morris, that features headlines like “Third World Countries Need Sweatshops” and “I Hate Che Guevara T-Shirts.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fourth was Robert Flanagan, 24, who did not know the others before roughly two weeks ago, his lawyer said, when Mr. O’Keefe gave a speech for the Pelican Institute for Public Policy, a libertarian organization in New Orleans for which Mr. Flanagan works a few hours a week. Until then, Mr. Flanagan, a star athlete and son of a federal prosecutor, had not been known by friends to be particularly provocative in his conservatism, though he had been sharply critical of Ms. Landrieu on the institute’s blog.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And then there was Ben Wetmore, 28, who was not arrested but who allowed Mr. Dai, Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Basel to stay at his house in New Orleans this month. The authorities have not indicated that Mr. Wetmore, a Loyola law student, was connected to the incident at Ms. Landrieu’s office, but he has nonetheless played a vital role in Mr. O’Keefe’s career, as well as that of Mr. Basel and other activists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Wetmore helped introduce many of the activists to one another and inspired them through his take on attention-grabbing tactics. His often behind-the-scenes role was detailed in a trail he left on the Internet, as well as in several interviews.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Benjamin Wetmore: a mentor of mine; a genius,” Mr. O’Keefe said during an interview with The New York Times in September, after the Acorn videos were released. “He said, ‘Take on the politically correct crowd on campus, satirically.’ ”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. O’Keefe declined several interview requests, and Mr. Wetmore responded to an e-mail message by sending photographs of Jayson Blair, a reporter for The New York Times who resigned after admitting to plagiarism and fabrication. Mr. Dai, Mr. Basel and Mr. Flanagan could not be reached for comment. (The four men arrested were freed on bail, awaiting a pretrial hearing.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The partnership between Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Wetmore appears to have started in earnest in 2004.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a philosophy major at Rutgers University, Mr. O’Keefe came to believe that conservative-leaning students were being force-fed a diet of academic liberalism. As he put it at the time, they were “drowned in relativism, concepts of distributive justice and redistribution of wealth.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He and some friends started an alternative conservative publication called The Centurion with $500 from the conservative Leadership Institute’s Balance in Media grant program, which was overseen at the time by Mr. Wetmore. The institute, founded in 1979, is based in Arlington, Va., and is best known for training campus conservatives to influence public policy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before joining the institute, Mr. Wetmore had established his own bona fides as a college provocateur at American University. He drew national attention after being arrested by the campus police and accused of breaking a prohibition against recording Tipper Goreduring a speech she gave there in 2002 and refusing to surrender the tape.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The arrest became a cause célèbre for First Amendment advocates and showcased what would become a standard technique of Mr. Wetmore and his cohort: taping classes, lectures and other campus events in the hopes of catching professors and others in moments of excessive political correctness or other embarrassments. He made headlines again roughly two years later when American University’s president, Benjamin Ladner, unsuccessfully tried to stop Mr. Wetmore from running the Web site BenLadner.com, which was devoted to criticizing him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campus pranks have a long tradition, but Mr. O’Keefe and Mr. Wetmore were “among the early users of putting multimedia content online for the conservative cause,” said Ryan Nichols, a grass-roots conservative activist and former colleague of both men at the Leadership Institute. “In that sense, they were pioneering.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group’s other main tactic, which Mr. O’Keefe has said was inspired by “Rules for Radicals,” Mr. Alinsky’s manifesto for left-wing organizing, was to caricature liberal political and social values by carrying them to outlandish extremes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the Times interview last September, Mr. O’Keefe credited Mr. Wetmore with giving him the idea for one of his most talked-about video farces, which continues to draw attention on YouTube: a campaign to rid a dining hall of Lucky Charms cereal, because it was offensive to Irish students.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the video, Mr. O’Keefe quickly exhibited his absurdist improvisational style, telling a school official that the leprechaun on the cereal box appeared as “an Irish-American” who is “portrayed as a little green-cladded gnome or huckster.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Making Waves</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His first issue of The Centurion — with a mock New York Times front page with headlines like “Study Shows Mr. Bush Unfit for Presidency” — drew an immediate reaction, and a following.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Everyone was like: ‘Whoa, what is this? Oh my goodness,’ ” said Gregory W. Levitsky, a friend and colleague of Mr. O’Keefe at The Centurion. Anthony Gioia, another former Rutgers student, said he joined the newspaper after seeing that first issue.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Rutgers, like every university, is a very liberal institution, so we were a small group of friends trying to combat that atmosphere,” Mr. Gioia said. “The way we went about it was very provocative and made people take notice, and we won over a lot of people to our way of thinking.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Gioia recalled discussions of “Rules for Radicals” and visits to the paper by Mr. Wetmore, whose motto was “Don’t complain about the media — be the media.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if The Centurion delighted fellow conservatives, it frequently left campus liberals flabbergasted. When it published an opinion article titled “The Inequality of Black History Month,” a student, Whitney Pennington, wrote in The Rutgers Daily Targum, “Honestly, in responding to this article, I do not even know where to begin.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tabitha Rice, who was in the College Democrats at Rutgers and who had numerous run-ins with Mr. O’Keefe, described him as “insufferable.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He always would do something that would get a rise, but he always knows how to work the system,” she said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Around the same time, Mr. Wetmore wrote on his blog about a visit with another recipient of a Leadership Institute grant, Mr. Basel, who used the money to start his newspaper, The Counterweight.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among Mr. Basel’s stunts was one in which he put up posters all over his campus in Minnesota that said “End Racism & Sexism Now: Kill All White Males.” The posters prompted such an outcry that he was asked to speak at a campus forum, where, according to two students, he asked why everyone could not use racial epithets the way black rappers do. Many black students walked out.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“His methods were kind of to create an uproar,” said Nate Giles, a former president of the black student union at the university. “That’s what was abrasive, not his actual points.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After college, Mr. O’Keefe took a job with Mr. Wetmore at the Leadership Institute and began traveling the country to help students with their publications. He worked intensely, said Morton Blackwell, the institute’s founder, remaining dedicated to his own projects. But eventually the institute developed some discomfort with the approach.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He wanted to do sting operations that would affect legislation; he made some calls which have been covered in the news media to Planned Parenthood,” Mr. Blackwell said. “That was beyond the scope of what we had hired him to do. We are an educational organization. We are not an activist organization.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Blackwell said he offered Mr. O’Keefe the choice between pursuing activism or working for his organization, “and he said he was committed to the activism.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the end, Mr. O’Keefe’s Planned Parenthood campaign — in which some of the organization’s workers were recorded accepting donations from one of Mr. O’Keefe’s characters who said the money should go to abort only black fetuses — forced Planned Parenthood to apologize in multiple states, though officials also complained that some tapes were “heavily edited.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Old Tactics, New Goals</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The campaign caught the eye of Andrew Breitbart, a conservative Web publisher and a former editor of The Drudge Report. In an interview, he said he had admired the Planned Parenthood campaign but did not know who was behind it until Mr. O’Keefe approached him with the Acorn project.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Breitbart likened Mr. O’Keefe’s approach to that of Abbie Hoffman and Hunter S. Thompson. His business arrangement with Mr. O’Keefe to run the videos on his Big Government site is widely credited with giving them national exposure, and making Mr. O’Keefe a star of his movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By last fall, Mr. Wetmore seemed less involved in Mr. O’Keefe’s projects, apparently because he had moved to New Orleans to attend law school at Loyola University. Nonetheless, Mr. O’Keefe, Mr. Basel and Mr. Dai showed up in town a few months later.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. O’Keefe had been invited to speak at a Pelican Institute luncheon on Jan. 21. The invitation had come about, said the institute’s president, Kevin Kane, because the institute had done its own investigations of Acorn, albeit of the more traditional kind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The topic of the day was undercover video and new media, but Mr. O’Keefe made it clear to some who attended the luncheon that he had other, unspecified work to do in New Orleans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also at the luncheon was Mr. Flanagan, who had worked as an intern in the offices of several Republican members of Congress. He moved to New Orleans last year, putting in a few hours a week as a blogger for the Pelican Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Centofante, who was in a defense and strategic studies program with Mr. Flanagan at Missouri State University, said he received an e-mail message from Mr. Flanagan a couple of weeks ago.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“He said to me, ‘You know the guy O’Keefe who did the Acorn thing?’ ” Mr. Centofante said. “ ‘We’re working together on something kind of cool.’ ”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Things did not quite work out as planned.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporting was contributed by Cheryl Miller, Liz Robbins and Scott Shane.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Correction: March 23, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several articles since September about the troubles of the community organizing groupAcorn referred incorrectly or imprecisely to one aspect of videotaped encounters between Acorn workers and two conservative activists that contributed to the group’s problems.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the encounters, the activists posed as a prostitute and a pimp and discussed prostitution with the workers. But while footage shot away from the offices shows one activist, James O’Keefe, in a flamboyant pimp costume, there is no indication that he was wearing the costume while talking to the Acorn workers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The errors occurred in articles on Sept. 16 and Sept. 19, 2009, and on Jan. 31 of this year. Because of an editing error, the mistake was repeated in an article in some copies on Saturday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /></p></div>