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Scam artist James O’Keefe is back with a CNN “exposé” — and Republicans just can’t say no
Every O'Keefe video has turned out to be phony propaganda — but he tells Republicans what they want to hear
Acorn
In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and apologize to an Acorn worker who was fired over the fake video.
Planned Parenthood
Furthermore numerous investigations, including probes under the supervision of Republican governors like Florida’s Rick Scott, completely exonerated Planned Parenthood from any wrongdoing. States like Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Georgia, Indiana, Florida and Missouri, among others, found zero evidence that any clinics had illegally sold fetal tissue.
Once again, the facts were irrelevant.
CNN
And now we have this ridiculous CNN video in which a producer apparently says, “I just feel like they don’t really have it, but they want to keep digging. And so I think the president is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch-hunting me. Like you have no smoking gun; you have no real proof.”
The lengthy history of O’Keefe’s mendacity didn’t stop the Trump White House, via spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from plugging the video and treating it as legitimate journalism. That’s pretty rich coming from a White House that loves to criticize major press institutions like The New York Times as “fake news.” Sanders urged the entire nation to watch the video, and Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a link to O’Keefe’s scam. It’s also worth noting that the Donald Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to O’Keefe’s Project Veritas in 2015, when the Planned Parenthood videos were being hotly debated.
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Van Jones: James O’Keefe’s CNN video took me out of context
Van Jones says you shouldn't take James O'Keefe's "sting" video of him at face value
This was unconscionable when it was just O'keefe spreading the lies. But now that its the president of the United states, its downright frightening. RWs are complicit. They blindly believe O'Keefe's lies even though they KNOW they are lies. The believe trump's lies or they excuse them. I don't believe that will change.
The question is, how do we stop it?
Every O'Keefe video has turned out to be phony propaganda — but he tells Republicans what they want to hear
Acorn
In 2013, O’Keefe was ordered to pay $100,000 and apologize to an Acorn worker who was fired over the fake video.
Planned Parenthood
Furthermore numerous investigations, including probes under the supervision of Republican governors like Florida’s Rick Scott, completely exonerated Planned Parenthood from any wrongdoing. States like Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Georgia, Indiana, Florida and Missouri, among others, found zero evidence that any clinics had illegally sold fetal tissue.
Once again, the facts were irrelevant.
CNN
And now we have this ridiculous CNN video in which a producer apparently says, “I just feel like they don’t really have it, but they want to keep digging. And so I think the president is probably right to say, like, look, you are witch-hunting me. Like you have no smoking gun; you have no real proof.”
The lengthy history of O’Keefe’s mendacity didn’t stop the Trump White House, via spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from plugging the video and treating it as legitimate journalism. That’s pretty rich coming from a White House that loves to criticize major press institutions like The New York Times as “fake news.” Sanders urged the entire nation to watch the video, and Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a link to O’Keefe’s scam. It’s also worth noting that the Donald Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to O’Keefe’s Project Veritas in 2015, when the Planned Parenthood videos were being hotly debated.
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Van Jones: James O’Keefe’s CNN video took me out of context
Van Jones says you shouldn't take James O'Keefe's "sting" video of him at face value
This was unconscionable when it was just O'keefe spreading the lies. But now that its the president of the United states, its downright frightening. RWs are complicit. They blindly believe O'Keefe's lies even though they KNOW they are lies. The believe trump's lies or they excuse them. I don't believe that will change.
The question is, how do we stop it?
