James O'Keefe's New Story About the 47 Percent Video Is Totally False There's no scoop here.

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Source: motherjones.com

James O'Keefe is at it again. The conservative video maker often accused of selective editing and once arrested and convicted for an undercover caper at a senator's office, has released a new series of videos targeting a few Democratic and progressive organizers. His operatives pretended to be interested in funding Democratic political activities and secretly recorded the Democratic activists; the videos O'Keefe released have become a cause célèbre for conservatives, including Donald Trump, who claim they show Ds engaged in dirty tricks. Of course, there are questions about the editing of the tapes. And on Wednesday night, O'Keefe released another hidden-camera video showing one of these Democratic activists talking about the Mitt Romney 47 percent story I broke in 2012. The supposed scoop: The video of Romney dismissing half the nation as irresponsible freeloaders was somehow the result of covert Democratic machinations. The truth: It wasn't.

This O'Keefe video featured Scott Foval, who was the national field director of Americans United For Change, a progressive organization, until an earlier O'Keefe video led to his firing. Talking about bird-dogging—a common practice in which political groups send people to campaign events for candidates they oppose to ask questions or protest—Foval noted that Democratic bird-doggers "negotiated to get that lawyer in in Florida who recorded the 47 percent." "Wait," the covert O'Keefe comrade said, "I thought that was a bartender." And as the world knows now, it was a bartender named Scott Prouty who had recorded that Romney fundraiser in Boca Raton and eventually shared the video with Mother Jones after I tracked him down.



Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/james-okeefe-scott-foval-new-47-percent-story-false

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O'keefe needs to spend some time in the big house for the crap he pushes.

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1. and the hits keep coming for this POS

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/watch-james-okeefe-hypes-up-literal-revolt-of-infuriated-internet-users-if-trump-loses/

He comes from the school of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove

I hope Karma bites O'Keefe in the ass. No one is more deserving

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2. Even the media stays away from him

This is just candy for the deplorable base just like trump's rhetoric

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5. Why is this fucker not in jail for impersonating phone company workers?

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6. I mean really - why should this bogus video be any different from the rest?

The guy is a criminal and a liar. Nothing has changed, he's completely untrustworthy.

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8. greedy

Sounds like O'Keefe got a bit greedy with this video, since Foval's claim re: the "47%" video demonstrates the guy talks out his behind, trying to inflate his importance. In including this clip, it undercuts anything else Foval says.