Au contraire. The conservataverse is full of them from Ted Cruz to Steven Miller…
1 Like
a guy with no conscience or ethics was asked to lecture at a Christian college
4 Likes
Also because they not only seem to escape consequences for their ratf***ing, they usually fail upward.
Think about the consequences if this ploy had worked. A man directed his subordinates to fake being rape victims to trick a newspaper into reporting it. If the Post had made a mistake, it would have effectively discredited all women that suffered sexual abuse for at least one-third of the country, as well as destroy the belief in credible media. His disgusting fraud would have been a massive victory for his movement – then think about what that says about their movement and its ultimate goals.
6 Likes
it also seemed like he was taking credit for papers vetting and fact checking - none of this had happened before he came on the scene apparantly.
4 Likes
His picture belongs in the dictionary next to “felonoius troll.”
3 Likes
must people on this site continue to try and take ted cruz’s title from him? no, he’s a runner up by all means, but not the most
1 Like
Truly…what a poor pathetic little worm. He was humiliated, caught out and mocked and yet HE believes he was attempting the moral high ground. Honest to God.
3 Likes
A pusillanimous blowhard of modest intellect with amoral standards and unconscionable methodology
4 Likes
“I don’t have an opinion on it honestly. I can’t speak intelligently about it. The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly. Our work is sort of changing human nature and making people cautious,” he said.
Ah, so you were helping the WP and other media? You’re dirty tricks and sometimes illegal actions are not done to benefit GOP maniacs, but to help the media become better! Right. Without you and your project, the WP would never have caught your hoaxer. Not because there wouldn’t have been a hoax in the first place but because your hoax taught them to fact check!
A trumpian level of credit-stealing, that.
1 Like
“The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly.”
Uh, exactly which Nobel Prize would that be? Physics, Chemistry or what?
1 Like
"I can’t speak intelligently . . . "
That’s the first honest statement O’Keefe has ever made.
And probably the last.
6 Likes
Then he would have said, “carry on” Buckley was described as an urbane front man for some of the most primitive and vicious emotions in the land.
9 Likes
Standard republican tactics. “The Post deserves no credit for so easily exposing the fact that we’re dishonest asswipes” without any sense that being a dishonest asswipe is a bad thing to be. Every is so used to the fact that republicans are rotten people that when they behave like rotten people there’s neither surprise nor outrage.
When instead that stipulation should be followed by “and therefore should be shunned by all decent people and never appear in the public political sphere again.”
4 Likes
Sort of like an arsonist saying “the fire department wants a prize for putting out a fire and correctly determining that it was arson.”
4 Likes
I don’t know which is the bigger takeaway from this story: the amateur attempt at infiltration, or the naivete of the media people who are caught by it.
3 Likes
If they were real cops, they would have caught me after the first break-in.
4 Likes
After graduating in 2006, O’Keefe was paid to set up magazines and newspapers on university campuses for the Leadership Institute, which recruits potential conservative public policy and media stars.
Right next to the picture of Dinesh D’Souza, another convicted felon whose undeserved celebrity was spawned by being the main product of the 1980s version of this effort, which resulted in Right Wing parallel newspapers and magazines at the Ivy League Schools and Stanford.
@donricardo I was recruited by YAF during Junior High School in Puerto Rico, where the proximity of Cuba’s revolution had created sort of a hot bed of anti-communist political hysteria because the Right Wing parents viewed some of the Jesuit scholastics on the faculty as anti Vietnam War Pinkos. Dana Rorherbacher was a folk music performer at the conventions of the successor organization to YAF.
7 Likes
I honestly don’t know for sure but in looking back I don’t recall any times when O’Keefe really exposed anything all that wrong. There was a lot of selective editing and exaggeration involved, but if anyone did more than deal politely but skeptically with people they thought were possibly kooks I don’t remember it.
5 Likes
Well, at least he said ONE thing that was true: “I can’t speak intelligently about it.”
2 Likes
The thing is he does not really seem to target people who really should be examined and exposed. Invariably, Veritas ends up making people very uncomfortable for doing the right thing. That is a distinction. It is the difference between best of intentions and not.
3 Likes