Discussion: Project Veritas Recruit Spent Months Trying To Infiltrate Washington Post

[lastroth]

@theod

For sure O’Keefe is getting paid every day.

I wonder large Jimmy is living on the donations of others?

[misterneutron]

@geofu54

I imagine in their mind they are fighting against Satan attacking them (or something like that).

Indeed. Most right-wingers harbor exaggerated fears about what the world is like, and that drives their political opinions. They’re all pants-wetters.

[the_loan_arranger]

@just_observing

I don’t know what goes wrong with the brain of hard core conservatives, but there is a defect of soul or spirit there I just can’t fathom.

It is a complete lack of empathy. Conservatives are completely unable to understand how other people may feel about something. This is why whenever a conservative tries to explain someone else’s motives he can only project his own. He/she only knows what they would do in such a situation and so can only project their own values and proclivities. Conservatism can be succinctly defined as an endless search for a perfect justification for selfishness.

[sanni]

Interesting article. Thanks.

[riverstreet]

Gentlemen, we have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic face puncher. We can build a robot arm which will hold the entire body of Donald Trump, Jr and bash him into the face of Martin Shkreli, Tom Cotton, or any other deserving target.

[tena]

Don’t forget Richard Spencer then. I think he’s made to be punched in the face.

[thunderclapnewman]

@clauscph

he steps on his own dick, each time he tries to be smart ?

No matter how often or how hard he tries, he will never, ever succeed.

[clauscph]

I was speaking metaforically, of course…

[boscobrown]

What about Hannity?

[dannydorko]

@sconosciuto

I know who #1 is. But is #2 O’Keefe or Martin Shkreli?

Let’s not forget Ted Cruz!

[brewhousebob]

@the_loan_arranger

Conservatism can be succinctly defined as an endless search for a perfect justification for selfishness.

I’ve never heard a better description. Thank you.

[tena]

It’s a paraphrase of a famous line by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith:

Conservatism is the latest in man’s endless search to justify his greed.

[fess]

@paulw

I’m sure that nothing done during this project could be construed as a tort or a crime. Oh, wait.

I keep hoping so. Is it true?

[misterneutron]

@fess

I keep hoping so. Is it true?

Depends. If Ms. Phillips made any attempt to induce someone to pay her, or to invest in her non-existent business, that’s easy - it’s fraud.

[cgd]

@the_loan_arranger

Conservatism can be succinctly defined as an endless search for a perfect justification for selfishness.

It’s a founding principle: Greed is good! It’s what capitalism is all about.

[the_loan_arranger]

@brewhousebob

I’ve never heard a better description. Thank you.

@tena is correct. It is shamelessly lifted from the remarks by John Kenneth Galbraith.

The quotation is:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
“Stop the Madness,” Interview with Rupert Cornwell, Toronto Globe and Mail (6 July 2002) (see http://wist.info/galbraith-john-kenneth/7463/ )

[fargo116]

Whoops. Wrong time period. It took O’Keefe and his minions nearly FOUR MONTHS to try and infiltrate the Washington Post and they went all in with Brenda Starr here.

[butlerknights]

What kind of “victory” is getting somebody at WAPO with (presumably) no inside knowledge of Mueller’s ongoing investigation to say that there is no conclusive proof that Trump colluded with Russia (yet)?

[baffie2]

Project Veritas…please take note…one down…Nixon…one to go…Trump. The WaPo is no neophyte, just saying.

[phillip]

To the tune of $320k/year, iirc.