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Related: About this forumReporters 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 Clintons 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."
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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
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.
....
"These are not amateurs. We have a sort of seal team 6" O'Keefe says of his undercover "journalists"
....
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
So they not only broke election law themselves, but also gave the Clinton campaign an extra 40 bucks
arcane1
Sep 2015
#6
How the hell did he get to hold a press conference at the National Press club?
Raine1967
Sep 2015
#8
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
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)1. What a vile little man.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)2. I was going to suggest you add a sarcasm smiley,I was sure
the link was going to one of those "fake but funny" Onion ripoff sites.
Oy.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. O'Keefe's "journalist" broke the law.
--imm
cali
(114,904 posts)4. that's great. he is such a repulsive pig.
Link?
msrizzo
(796 posts)5. Pathetic...
...but also par for the course.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)6. So they not only broke election law themselves, but also gave the Clinton campaign an extra 40 bucks
eppur_se_muova
(36,276 posts)7. LOL, more like "Shill Team 6".
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?
I seriously don't understand that, to begin with.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)18. Anybody can rent a room there
It's not like they have to be invited to do so.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)19. EVERYTHING from the Right is taken seriously by the MSM....
They're all itching to "catapult the propaganda".
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)9. Please, somebody buy him a sheep to take his attention off politics.
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?
SunSeeker
(51,617 posts)11. What an unbelievable douchebag. Why anyone takes ANY of his videos seriously is beyond me. nt
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)12. Doesn't Citizens United permit foreign contributions
anyway, through a loophole or something?
O'Keefe is pathetic.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)13. they are more like seal team sucks
Isn't there a slander lawsuit somewhere with his name on it?
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)15. We're like Seal Team 6 but with seals
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)14. Seal Team Sucks, rather.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)16. This is the kind of "seal team" O'Keefe is on
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)20. Fits with his "nose for journalism and keeping his eye on the ball".
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)17. I wonder if this Canadian Citizen is being compensated in some way by Project Veritas
to break the law?
Did they pay for their transportation or hotel rooms?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)21. SOMEONE REMOVED THE TAGS FROM THESE MATTRESSES
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)22. So I buy some swag, then give it to someone else. Once it's mine, it's mine.
I'd like to see O'Keefe cover some of the straw purchasers supplying guns to people who can't legally buy them!
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)23. Proof positive that real journalism is dead
and infotainment is the new Walter Cronkite.