Project Veritas founder vows more undercover operations: 'Being hated is a sign of respect'

[DonViejo]

James O’Keefe, head of Project Veritas, vows further undercover operations: ‘Being hated is a sign of respect’

By Joel Achenbach November 30 at 12:41 AM

DALLAS — James O’Keefe, the self-described “guerrilla journalist” who runs Project Veritas, spoke to students at Southern Methodist University here on Wednesday night, highlighting his organization’s undercover efforts to expose what it says is liberal bias in the media and defending the deceptive tactics that are its trademark.

O’Keefe spoke just days after it was revealed that one of his organization’s undercover operatives was attempting to plant a fake story with The Washington Post, and he made mention of the sting operation just briefly, portraying himself as a David battling the Goliath of the mainstream media and vowing to push ahead with his efforts. In that case, a woman named Jaime Phillips claimed to have had a sexual relationship with U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore when she was a teenager and tried to lure reporters into covering the false story; The Post instead revealed the ploy.

“The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly,” he said.

O’Keefe was invited by a campus organization, SMU Young Americans For Freedom, and about 100 people attended the speech in a student center theater as video and TV cameras lined the rear of the hall. There were no protests or disruptions.

“It’s been quite a week and I have a lot to say. So this should be very fun,” O’Keefe said. “We live in unbelievable times and investigative reporting doesn’t really happen very often anymore. Yes, we use disguise, yes, we go undercover, but sometimes it’s the only way to ferret out what people really believe — when nobody’s looking.”

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[PJMcK]

1. O'Keefe is deluded

His excuse for creating a false story to try to influence an election is unbelievable!

“The Washington Post seems to want a Nobel Prize for vetting a source correctly,” he said.

First, WaPo wins plenty of Pulitzer Prizes; there is no Nobel Prize for journalism. Their reporting is professional unlike O'Keefe's amateur bafoonishness.

Second, he excuses his deception by claiming he was testing WaPo's vetting and reporting. That's disingenuous dissembling taken to an extreme!

This man is demented and dangerous.

[mikeysnot]

2. How do you prove fake news exists?

By creating fake news!

[Initech]

3. So..... he's going to get owned by more news outlets?

Because you know, when you're in a hole, you want to keep digging.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Hating someone has nothing to do with respect.

Evil is the reason why people hate him.

[Scoopster]

5. Someone needs to monitor his & PV's activities

Preferably the FBI, but at the moment I would rather trust the work of REAL undercover journalists or a private investigator.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Being hated may be a sign you're a prick.

In O'Keefe's case, there is no doubt about it.

[MurrayDelph]

7. I think in his mind

He'd rather be known as "that fucking prick James O'Keefe" than "James Who?"



And if "Being hated is a sign of respect," my family really respected the Hell out of Hitler.