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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 12:07 PM Sep 2015

Reporters Scoff At James O'Keefe's Big New 'Scoop' To Destroy Hillary

James O'Keefe promised a new undercover video campaign that would expose "illegal activity conducted by high-level employees within Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign." Tuesday, he released the first video, produced by his group Project Veritas Action.

His group's big scoop?

That a Canadian citizen spent $75 on Hillary swag at Clinton's June campaign kickoff event.

Reporters at the press conference O'Keefe held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to unveil the latest "gotcha" could not contain their disdain.

"Is this a joke?" one reporter asked O'Keefe.

In the five-minute video, a Project Veritas member approached the booth at the event on New York's Roosevelt Island alongside an apparent Canadian citizen, who Project Veritas says it did not know but was in line with by "pure happenstance."

....

When grilled by reporters there, O'Keefe admitted that he did not know the identity of the Canadian, that the campaign contribution made by the Canadian woman was actually $30-$40, and that Project Veritas also likely violated the law.

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"These are not amateurs. We have a sort of seal team 6" O'Keefe says of his undercover "journalists"

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LOL
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Reporters Scoff At James O'Keefe's Big New 'Scoop' To Destroy Hillary (Original Post) Capt. Obvious Sep 2015 OP
What a vile little man. Fawke Em Sep 2015 #1
I was going to suggest you add a sarcasm smiley,I was sure sufrommich Sep 2015 #2
O'Keefe's "journalist" broke the law. immoderate Sep 2015 #3
that's great. he is such a repulsive pig. cali Sep 2015 #4
Pathetic... msrizzo Sep 2015 #5
So they not only broke election law themselves, but also gave the Clinton campaign an extra 40 bucks arcane1 Sep 2015 #6
LOL, more like "Shill Team 6". eppur_se_muova Sep 2015 #7
How the hell did he get to hold a press conference at the National Press club? Raine1967 Sep 2015 #8
Anybody can rent a room there leftynyc Sep 2015 #18
EVERYTHING from the Right is taken seriously by the MSM.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #19
Please, somebody buy him a sheep to take his attention off politics. Hoppy Sep 2015 #9
Yet journalists are not asking the very same questions of the PP smear wholly manufactured by clones of O'Keefe? Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #10
What an unbelievable douchebag. Why anyone takes ANY of his videos seriously is beyond me. nt SunSeeker Sep 2015 #11
Doesn't Citizens United permit foreign contributions Ilsa Sep 2015 #12
they are more like seal team sucks Motown_Johnny Sep 2015 #13
We're like Seal Team 6 but with seals Capt. Obvious Sep 2015 #15
Seal Team Sucks, rather. CanonRay Sep 2015 #14
This is the kind of "seal team" O'Keefe is on jmowreader Sep 2015 #16
Fits with his "nose for journalism and keeping his eye on the ball". Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #20
I wonder if this Canadian Citizen is being compensated in some way by Project Veritas UCmeNdc Sep 2015 #17
SOMEONE REMOVED THE TAGS FROM THESE MATTRESSES Warren DeMontague Sep 2015 #21
So I buy some swag, then give it to someone else. Once it's mine, it's mine. hedgehog Sep 2015 #22
Proof positive that real journalism is dead d_legendary1 Sep 2015 #23

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
2. I was going to suggest you add a sarcasm smiley,I was sure
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 12:16 PM
Sep 2015

the link was going to one of those "fake but funny" Onion ripoff sites.


Oy.

eppur_se_muova

(36,246 posts)
7. LOL, more like "Shill Team 6".
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 12:39 PM
Sep 2015

No, they are not amateurs -- most amateurs are capable people, these clowns are not.

Apologies to clowns.

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
8. How the hell did he get to hold a press conference at the National Press club?
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 12:50 PM
Sep 2015

I seriously don't understand that, to begin with.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
19. EVERYTHING from the Right is taken seriously by the MSM....
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 04:15 PM
Sep 2015

They're all itching to "catapult the propaganda".

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. Yet journalists are not asking the very same questions of the PP smear wholly manufactured by clones of O'Keefe?
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 02:44 PM
Sep 2015

Ilsa

(61,687 posts)
12. Doesn't Citizens United permit foreign contributions
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 02:56 PM
Sep 2015

anyway, through a loophole or something?

O'Keefe is pathetic.

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
17. I wonder if this Canadian Citizen is being compensated in some way by Project Veritas
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 03:41 PM
Sep 2015

to break the law?


Did they pay for their transportation or hotel rooms?

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
22. So I buy some swag, then give it to someone else. Once it's mine, it's mine.
Tue Sep 1, 2015, 04:29 PM
Sep 2015

I'd like to see O'Keefe cover some of the straw purchasers supplying guns to people who can't legally buy them!

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