This douche is still at, even after being outed as the fraud he is.

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/index.html?hpt=T2

Manipulating/editing ACORN video footage, attempting to wiretap a Senators office and now this.
People have lost their jobs, an organization lost funding after being wrongfully accused (ACORN was later cleared, but the damage was done), tax payer money has been wasted and now he's trying to embarrass a reporter he doesn't like so he can discredit CNN. He should be fucking locked up.

9/29/2010 2:11:48 PM

What a little shit. The reporter handled the situation very well.

Quote :

"He should be fucking locked up."

No, but the news should stop giving him attention.

9/29/2010 2:20:40 PM

actually yes he should be locked up

if a righteous .45 round doesn't get him first

9/29/2010 2:21:31 PM

I really really hope this style of setting people up and then "catching them" doesn't become the new normal for "activists" (on either side of the aisle)


god help our country if it does.

9/29/2010 2:50:38 PM

second amendment remedies, people

second amendment remedies...

9/29/2010 3:16:28 PM

I do think he did a service doing the Acorn thing, but he seems like a one trick pony as well as a huge DB.

9/29/2010 4:42:57 PM

^ Via fraud.

He's the non-funny neo-con Johnny Knoxville.

9/29/2010 6:24:12 PM

Quote :

"I do think he did a service doing the Acorn thing"

translation: FUCK THE POOR

9/29/2010 7:00:35 PM

Quote :

"My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I've been approached by CNN for an interview where I know what their angle is: they want to portray me and my friends as crazies, as non-journalists, as unprofessional and likely as homophobes, racists or bigots of some sort.... "Instead, I've decided to have a little fun. Instead of giving her a serious interview, I'm going to punk CNN. Abbie 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."

Who are you? Sean fucking Connery?

9/29/2010 9:03:35 PM

the media certainly have spread lies about him, like that he's a decent human being

9/29/2010 9:13:02 PM

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"I'm going to seduce her"

I think this guy needs to invest in a mirror.

9/29/2010 10:45:57 PM

^hahaha that is what I was thinking the whole time. Unless he wanted to video himself getting rejected.

9/29/2010 11:23:48 PM

Liberal circle jerk ITT

This dude is a little pissant, but lets get real. He is no different from the Yes Men, Dick Tuck, Michael Moore, or any other ideologue with an axe to grind and no qualms about tricking people to make them look bad. Well, maybe he's a little dumber and less successful. He is batting about .250 right now on his prank and ambush attempts. But nevertheless, the reason this guy really chafes your ass is because he is a conservative prankster.

And he helped expose ACORN for exactly what they are, a corrupt political machine masquerading as a nonprofit. ACORN's problems started long before O'Keefe ever made or edited any videos. Lets call a spade a spade.

[Edited on September 30, 2010 at 12:15 AM. Reason : 2]

9/30/2010 12:13:55 AM

ACORN may have had its issues (like with homeless guys stealing from the organization by filing a bunch of fake voter registration forms, and also some embezzlement by high-ranking officials), but it genuinely assisted the poor, and it's not like the Yes Men or Michael Moore actually took down any organizations for the entrenchment of the powerful with bald-faced lies and deceptive video editing (then again I hoped Moore would provide that final push to Bush back in 2004...)

9/30/2010 12:17:29 AM

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009300018

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"A search of Fox's primetime shows and this morning's Fox & Friends showed no mentions of the O'Keefe scandal (to be fair, Fox's sort-of comedy, sort-of news show Red Eye did cover the story, at 3 AM). It's not as if Fox has no idea who O'Keefe is, they obsessed for months over his ACORN videos..."

9/30/2010 11:36:49 PM

OH NOESSS

he strikes again!!

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/15/okeefe-video-smears-teacher/

[Edited on November 15, 2010 at 4:28 PM. Reason : welcome to the new status quo of "journalism?"]

11/15/2010 4:27:20 PM

^ seems like Libel.

11/15/2010 4:56:39 PM

Quote :

"SECOND AMENDMENT REMEDIES"

11/15/2010 8:01:00 PM

Why don't some folks on the left do this to conservatives? Wait, is it because conservatives do it to themselves all too easily?

11/15/2010 8:22:12 PM

but the rethugs get away with it

remember kidz, IOKIYAR

11/15/2010 8:39:06 PM

There are some really nice hidden cameras on ebay now. Watches, buttons, pens, all that render good SD video to a 16GB memory card.

11/15/2010 10:01:52 PM

^^^ Paladino sent an email mocking black people that said "run nigger run" and he was the Tea Party favorite.

I don't think normal standards of mockery work on Conservatives, they embrace idiocy.

11/15/2010 10:29:24 PM

TTT, B.

3/8/2011 7:09:36 PM

as far as I'm concerned, you're the bump king

also

OH, HE BACK

DOUCHING IT UP

3/8/2011 7:11:14 PM

yep. nothing says "douche" like getting people to state their honest feelings and how they operate.

3/8/2011 8:50:27 PM

Reading this thread again, it's pretty funny just how much this guy pisses off liberals.

Again, this guy is no different from the multitude of pranksters and "film advocates" on the left. Everyone in politics uses deceit, editing and dirty tricks to make their opponents look bad. Funny, I didn't hear anywhere near this much hate for the radio host that called into Scott Walker's office pretending to be David Koch.

[Edited on March 8, 2011 at 9:10 PM. Reason : 2]

3/8/2011 9:07:54 PM

Well at least now I don't have to watch Faux and Fiends in the morning as I already know what they'll be talking about the entire time.....

3/8/2011 9:08:58 PM

i hate this guy

3/9/2011 2:00:40 PM

i don't like the dude's agenda either but he's a very successful troll

3/9/2011 3:32:01 PM

I'm not sure why NPR thought that forcing top executives out over this would help their federal funding case.

3/9/2011 10:31:55 PM

"We've done nothing wrong...let's fire everyone just to be sure!"

3/9/2011 11:17:28 PM

Quote :

"RIGHTEOUS .45 ROUND"

[Edited on March 10, 2011 at 7:29 AM. Reason : ya dig? sho nuff

3/10/2011 7:28:52 AM

Quote :

"Funny, I didn't hear anywhere near this much hate for the radio host that called into Scott Walker's office pretending to be David Koch."

That guy called up, said "This is David" then let the governor do all the talking. Recorded the whole thing and posted it unedited and let Walker's words speak for himself.


How does that compare to editing a 2 hour video down to 11 minutes and specifically cutting out key context to make it seem like the NPR exec was saying different things than he was?

One of them is deceit, one of them is letting someone string themself up by their own petard

[Edited on March 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM. Reason : .]

3/15/2011 3:58:57 PM

^obvs. only means anything in the media if it helps conservatives

3/15/2011 8:44:01 PM

this is hilarious. sets up a "sting" where a canadian citizen tries to buy a shirt or some other campaign swag at a clinton event. when told she can't the o'keefe "hybrid source/journalist" buys it for her and then takes the cash in return. he's trying to sell it as the campaign taking foreign contributions and proof that it breaks laws.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/clintons-accusers-are-running-out-of-ammunition/2015/09/01/ea43091e-50e6-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html

9/2/2015 4:43:50 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/politics/ashley-biden-diary-project-veritas-guilty.html

Quote :

"Florida Pair Pleads Guilty in Theft of Biden’s Daughter’s Diary Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander admitted to participating in a conspiracy in which Ashley Biden’s diary ended up in the hands of the conservative group Project Veritas near the end of the 2020 campaign."

Quote :

"But prosecutors said the two at one point disclosed to a Project Veritas operative that Ms. Biden had stored more items at the Florida house, and that they returned to the house to steal them at the operative’s request. "

shoutout to everyone on this board who fell for any of their bullshit in years past

[Edited on August 25, 2022 at 2:02 PM. Reason : .]

8/25/2022 2:00:10 PM

But what about Brett O'Keefe?

8/25/2022 6:33:42 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/politics/james-okeefe-project-veritas.html

Quote :

"James O’Keefe Is Removed as Project Veritas’ Leader"

2/20/2023 1:57:13 PM

The James O'Keefe worship in these replies is unreal.

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1627743289033240576

2/21/2023 12:09:07 AM

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/project-veritas-long-island-lgbtq-teachers_n_64592f67e4b018d846b86e8c?map

Quote :

" How Project Veritas Is Advancing The Anti-LGBTQ Agenda In Schools Educators in New York are facing backlash after videos released by Project Veritas showed them discussing their approach to diversity, equity and inclusion"

5/9/2023 12:36:10 PM

Quote :

"“I think I said this before, but people don’t give up power, you have to take it from them. … You stop hiring those types of people,” Casamento says, apparently referring to conservatives. “We created a whole rubric for hiring in light of DEI.” “It’s all secret,” he continues. “So, I would rank them [conservatives] so low [in their interview process] that their score couldn’t possibly raise them up to the level of moving on.” He also shared that, as an out gay man, “My sexual identity was always a part of my work because I believe in making connections with kids.” Casamento did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment about the video."

So is bringing discriminatory hiring practices to light a bad thing?

5/9/2023 1:45:25 PM

one would think you’d stop treating these as legitimate investigative journalism after being burned for well over a decade now

you have no idea what the context of the conversation was, which is pretty fucking important

also, do you think more teachers who are aligned with Moms for Liberty should be hired, because fairness?

5/9/2023 2:51:27 PM

Absolutely not. But hiring based on political affiliation should get anyone fired, no matter what.
That's a slippery slope.

And I'm not really sure how that one excerpt I pulled from the article could really be taken out of context. It's a bit self-contained.

5/9/2023 3:39:51 PM

so if any kind of background check turns up any allegiance towards Moms for Liberty/LibsOfTikTok/Oath Keepers, etc. they should be hired and if not, the person hiring should be fired?

contexts matters because that kind of qualifier could have been brought up before anything else was said about conservatives

[Edited on May 9, 2023 at 4:32 PM. Reason : .]

5/9/2023 4:20:16 PM

Quote :

"So is bringing discriminatory hiring practices to light a bad thing?"

Political affiliation isn't a fucking protected class. Don't equate your shit with real shit please.
Learn something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

Quote :

"But hiring based on political affiliation should get anyone fired, no matter what."

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 says otherwise.

5/9/2023 11:53:05 PM

Quote :

"That's a slippery slope."

Feeling the need to bookend your point with "that's a slippery slope" means your point fucking sucks.

lol - message_search.aspx?type=posts&searchstring=slippery&username=rjrumfel&usertype=match&sortby=date&sortorder=descending&page=

[Edited on May 10, 2023 at 12:16 AM. Reason : ]

5/9/2023 11:56:59 PM

In Florida a parent group got a superintendent candidate removed bc he was registered Democrat

[Edited on May 10, 2023 at 9:16 AM. Reason : Mom's for liberty, probably ]

5/10/2023 9:15:25 AM