O'Keefe tried to scam the Washington Post with bogus Roy Moore story

[Gothmog]

O'Keefe is pure scum https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?pushid=5a1c860fb0a05c1d0000005d&tidr=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.0db517c6fa22

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.

James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas who was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during a previous sting, declined to answer questions about the woman outside the Project Veritas office, a storefront in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on Monday morning shortly after the woman walked inside.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Much like someone tried to scam Maddow. nt

[gratuitous]

2. O'Keefe declined to comment?

THAT right there, boys and girls, is a NEWS story!

Not to mention a tacit admission of guilt that yet another bungling attempt to derail the truth has itself jumped the tracks. Can someone explain to me, again, why any media outlet gives this lying little shit the time of day?

[FarPoint]

3. How does this asshole make a living?

We all have bills to pay...how does he do it being such a worthless punk? Who employees him and why?

[klook]

5. He's gotten funds from the Trump "Foundation," among others,

as reported by Think Progress.

[FarPoint]

6. Well...

That fits....

[BoneyardDem]

8. *this* could be the developng story

I hope WaPo publishes this back story...it would be awesome

[PunkinPi]

29. Project Veritas is scamming using the Amazon Smile program...

it's a program where you can give to charities and non-profits every time you shop on Amazon.

Link to tweet

[Corgigal]

4. He thought he could troll the Washington Post?

They been around longer then you've been alive. Evidence , it's a thing.

[Nevernose]

7. Not for the Huffington Post

Different Posts have different standards of evidence.

[spanone]

9. what's the saying?...'rust never sleeps'

they never quit

[lame54]

10. Thanks O'Keefe for...

Verifying the accuracy of the original story

[Gothmog]

11. Congrats to James OKeefe for proving that Washington Post story was well researched

Link to tweet

[Denzil_DC]

12. If O'Keefe's up his old tricks, lest we forget, what's sauce for the goose ...

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent

Lusby, Maryland (CNN) -- A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.

James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.

The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.

"I never intended to become part of the story," Boudreau said. "But things suddenly took a very strange turn."

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/index.html

James O’Keefe defends “sex boat” prank by saying it wouldn’t have been that gross

Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe hasn't done much worth crowing about since he took down ACORN with misleadingly edited secret videotapes. He was feted as a right-wing celebrity. He got arrested for trying to sneak into a senator's office under false pretenses. And then he had his attempted prank of a CNN reporter backfire when the reporter backed out after discovering that he planned to lure her onto a boat and "seduce" her. O'Keefe has responded, finally, to this last embarrassment. Unsurprisingly, he has no regrets, and the liberal media is the real guilty party.

O'Keefe's defense -- posted, of course, on Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" -- rests on us believing that the prank-outlining document obtained by CNN was a draft that O'Keefe did not plan on actually following. He says ideas for stunts are sent to him all the time (like a fancy Hollywood producer!) and sometimes he approves of the idea behind a prank without endorsing everything about it.

https://www.salon.com/2010/10/04/james_okeefe_sex_boat_post/

James O'Keefe's Panty-Stealing 'Rape Barn' Sex Scandal

It's a right-wing rabble-rouser showdown! Jazz-handed pimp impersonator James O'Keefe is at "#WAR" with a former Project Veritas colleague who is now blogging an O'Keefe tell-all involving stolen panties, drugged beers, a "rape barn," "taped intimate moments," a $20K pay-off, and barbs about "black welfare queens." James O'Keefe has graduated from creepy seductions to a full-blown sex scandal.

Harvard grad student Nadia Naffe recently filed a criminal harassment complaint against James. Citing insufficient evidence, a judge dismissed the case. Now Nadia is on a scorched earth cyber rampage. "If he wants a fight, bring it on. This is #WAR," she tweeted last night, after retweeting outraged utterances from an unofficial Rubio4President account about James' "rape barn." On her personal blog, she is currently on part two of a sprawling anti-O'Keefe opus.

Nadia says she worked with James on his painful "To Catch a Journalist" series, during which he made racially charged romantic overtures. Weeks later, she agreed to stay in a "renovated barn" on his parents' property while working on another project. She then republishes a 1500-word email she apparently sent to James and the Project Veritas board after the rape barn weekend:

...

After Nadia sent the rape barn email, she says James published a response on Project Veritas' website, then deleted it. Nadia writes that it contained images of documents from James' legal battle with Isabel Santa, the former Project Veritas member who warned CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau about James' plan to trap and sexually humiliate her on a "love boat." Apparently Project Veritas fired Isabel after the ordeal; her lawyer argued that this treatment could qualify as "wrongful termination, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, harassment, negligence, conspiracy and detrimental reliance," and ended up with a $20,000 settlement.

http://gawker.com/5895560/james-okeefes-panty-stealing-rape-barn-sex-and-racism-scandal

[Kingofalldems]

13. This needs to be a major story tonight.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Kick and rec

[Achilleaze]

15. republican scum support lies and Fake news.

disgusting

[Gothmog]

31. James O'Keefe is the Inspector Clouseau of undercover investigators.

Link to tweet

[Kingofalldems]

16. Eric Garland on O'Keefe:

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

26. This would be fun to watch

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. So if I am a family member of a Moore victim, O'Keefe is by definition

running interference for the person who raped my family member.

Or abused, whatever legal word is necessary here.

I wish a Moore victim family member could have a word with this O'Keefe fellow.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. I swear the term "Stupid Watergate" applies to all of these assholes. nt

[Gothmog]

18. James O'Keefe tries to 'sting' the Washington Post with fake Roy Moore victimgets stung himself

DK is covering this story https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/27/1718960/-James-O-Keefe-tries-to-sting-the-Washington-Post-with-fake-Roy-Moore-victim-gets-stung-himself

The only real question remaining is which Republican “strategist” hired this slimeball to add his mucus trail to the already disgusting mess of the Republican Senate race in Alabama. Bannon seems like a good bet.

The lie from the Project Veritas crew was such a blatant attempt at deception, that the Washington Post has decided to both report what were considered “off the record” comments and the name of the person involved.

After [Jaime T. Phillips] was seen entering the Project Veritas office, The Post made the unusual decision to report her previous off-the-record comments.

Congratulations, Jaime T. Phillips. The lie didn’t work, but that won’t stop Fox from finding some way to report this like you’re a hero and pull out a contributor chair.

[Nevernose]

19. Shit like this is why Im so suspicious of Frankens accusers

The first one turned out to be a right wing radio show person and lied about what happened.

The second one turned out to be a Trump voter.

Both of them coordinated their stories with the self-proclaimed king of dirty tricks, Roger Stone, and Sean Hannity.

The third and fourth accusers approached a reporter at a blogging site (unlike Moore’s accusers, whom the WaPo sought out). He then published their allegations uncritically and with no corroboration.

The WaPo demonstrates how an actual news organization deals with these things, with both this person and Moore’s accusers. Due diligence.

You’d have to be absolutely crazy not to be deeply suspicious of Franken’s anonymous accusers.

[Ligyron]

20. Franken is playing this exactly right.

All their dirty laundry will eventually be exposed - sadly, to the detriment of actual sexual assault victims everywhere.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Trump's donation to Veritas

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

22. WP should have sent her to Mitch McConnell or FOX news

[anneboleyn]

23. So...Project Veritas supports pedophiles? So much for their holier than thou bullshit

[gademocrat7]

24. OKeefe should be in prison.

He is a menance to society.

[Takket]

25. just read this...............

First off... Project Veritas should be STRIPPED of its tax exempt status. They are not a charity.

Second: These people are SCUM. They are out there hoping to find an overzealous reporter willing to say they want moore out too so they can "prove" that the media supports "the left". All so they can support the candidacy of a child abuser. These people are the lowest of the low. DISGUSTING

[grantcart]

28. They followed her, lol.

[Gothmog]

30. A botched sting with a phony Roy Moore "accuser" was supposed to discredit the media.

Link to tweet

[RoccoRyg]

32. Poor little James

He had one big hit in 2009 and it's been downhill ever since because everyone's on to him.

I still wonder what he planned to do to that female reporter he tried to imprison on his boat.

http://gawker.com/5651120/james-okeefe-tried-to-trap-hot-blonde-reporter-in-palace-of-pleasure

[Kajun Gal]

33. This guy needs to keep on walking

off the edge of the world! Crazy dude. If anyone believes him they are nuts themselves!

[Denzil_DC]

34. O'Keef's quickly released some supposedly face-saving video from the Sting of Fail:

Link to tweet

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII

[Embedded video]

BREAKING: @washingtonpost National Security Correspondent on WaPo company culture: "They definitely don't like Trump…" #ProjectVeritas

Link to tweet

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII

[Embedded video]

.@washingtonpost National Security Reporter @DanLamothe: “Woah, I work for that place?” in Reference to Biased Editorial Section

The great gotcha so far is that in hidden-camera footage in the office, a Post reporter explains the difference between the paper's news function and its editorial opinion one.

The replies on those tweets are full of people ripping O'Keefe for thinking he has some sort of scoop rather than providing evidence of the distinction between news and opinion, and asking him pointed questions about his tax return and sources of funding.

Meanwhile, Project Veritas is all excited because it's currently trending:

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Project Veritas
✔
@Project_Veritas

Look at that, we're trending! Will the truth-suppressers "fix" that when we release our #AmericanPravda @washingtonpost videos? @jack?

A horde of heartless replies are pointing out that this is because they're the great laughing stock of the moment.

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[tanyev]

35. Project Veryfalse never fails to find a new low.

Much like our ersatz president.

[doodsaq]

36. Busted

O'Keefe is a national loser.