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Fri Jan 15, 2016, 01:52 PM Jan 2016

Look who showed up on Alex Jones' show...

James O'Keefe.

'God's On Our Side': Alex Jones Hails Discredited Right Wing Activist James O'Keefe

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 1/15/2016 12:15 pm

James O’Keefe, the right-wing activist best known for his discredited attacks against the community service group ACORN, his failed attempt to break into then-Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office and recent laughable effort to manufacture a Hillary Clinton campaign finance scandal, is now directing his attacks at companies involved with Common Core, an academic standards effort with supporters and critics on both sides of the aisle. Naturally, O’Keefe found a receptive audience in Alex Jones, speaking with the InfoWars broadcaster yesterday about his latest set of “sting” videos. “We’re in a war,” Jones said, claiming that “the real battle for the republic” is in the homeland because “America is being taken down.” “God’s on our side,” he told O’Keefe. “There is Providence. George Washington talked about it. But we have to get on the field. But when we get on the field, everything we do turns to gold.” He continued to pour out praise of O’Keefe, praising the activist for trying to stop liberals from taking over the U.S. and turning it into a Third World nation. O’Keefe, who once likened his group’s activists to SEAL Team Six, said that while he wasn’t comparing himself to military service members, “I do think that people need to risk their lives domestically” to save America. He then insisted that he has been detained several times by the Department of Homeland Security and has gone “through hell doing this work.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gods-our-side-alex-jones-hails-discredited-right-wing-activist-james-okeefe#sthash.u8bG2iHS.dpuf

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Look who showed up on Alex Jones' show... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2016 OP
Most be a new O'Keef stunt on the Horizon. Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #1
According to the aritcle, he's going after Common Core. Archae Jan 2016 #3
Good luck on that Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #4
Oh, goodness. HuckleB Jan 2016 #2

Archae

(46,301 posts)
3. According to the aritcle, he's going after Common Core.
Fri Jan 15, 2016, 05:40 PM
Jan 2016

Most people, including me, aren't too sure what the hell Common Core is all about in the first place!

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