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boguspotus

(286 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 09:53 PM Feb 2017

Conservative provocateur targets CNN with secret recordings

Source: CNN

O'Keefe said in a telephone interview with CNN on Wednesday that he has "a few hundred hours" of "secretly recorded material" from inside the network. "We're calling it CNN Leaks," he said, drawing inspiration from WikiLeaks' document dumps.

He said "part one" would be published Thursday at about 10 a.m. ET. "This is all legally recorded information," he said, declining to be more specific.
O'Keefe, who uses undercover stings to trap his targets, has a reputation for shady tactics and exaggerated statements.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/22/media/james-okeefe-cnn/



So what edited crap will he have to offer tomorrow?
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Conservative provocateur targets CNN with secret recordings (Original Post) boguspotus Feb 2017 OP
It will be maliciously distorted. CNN should sue his ass ten feet underground. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2017 #1
Just picture O'Keefe sneaking around the playground with a bag of candy and his raincoa keithbvadu2 Feb 2017 #2
CNN can afford very high power lawyers.... he better watch his ass groundloop Feb 2017 #3
He is going to show edited footage to CNN and will get humiliated on air. Rex Feb 2017 #4
Like government, the press deserves deliberative freedom bucolic_frolic Feb 2017 #5
that'll go about as well as the last CNN misadventure of O'Queef: musette_sf Feb 2017 #6
Whenever I read his name in the news, PatSeg Feb 2017 #7
O'Keefe Scarsdale Feb 2017 #13
"Ridiculous" PatSeg Feb 2017 #16
A real job stamping license plates? lagomorph777 Feb 2017 #18
He has more imagination PatSeg Feb 2017 #19
"You can't buy publicity like that. " McCamy Taylor Feb 2017 #8
Nasty little homunculus. ChazInAz Feb 2017 #9
Secretly recorded yet legally recorded. Hmmm. They_Live Feb 2017 #10
I will cheer the day O'Keefe goes over the line and has to go to jail for a few years. nt cstanleytech Feb 2017 #11
He went over the line a long time ago BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #12
Yes I am well aware of that but like I said I will cheer when he goes over the line and "has" to go cstanleytech Feb 2017 #23
True but BumRushDaShow Feb 2017 #28
This little fucker is feeling his oats, now that Milo has been knocked off bullwinkle428 Feb 2017 #14
I love the smell of deceptively edited video in the morning. nt Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #15
So what's he going to say.. cannabis_flower Feb 2017 #17
Well O'Keefe, it is tomorrow! PatSeg Feb 2017 #20
What he does in the Shadows! Read his Wikipedia biography about ties to Trump bronxiteforever Feb 2017 #21
It's 11 am on the East Coast and a quick click of the channels shows no "breaking news" from O'Keefe Hekate Feb 2017 #22
Link to Part 1 Beaverhausen Feb 2017 #24
Read some of the comments so far: boguspotus Feb 2017 #25
It looks like he just dumped a massive file and is asking readers to listen for him! Vinnie From Indy Feb 2017 #26
He has recordings from 2009. Vinnie From Indy Feb 2017 #27

keithbvadu2

(36,819 posts)
2. Just picture O'Keefe sneaking around the playground with a bag of candy and his raincoa
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 09:56 PM
Feb 2017

Just picture O'Keefe sneaking around the playground with a bag of candy and his raincoat.

He has already shown himself to be a flashy dresser.

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
3. CNN can afford very high power lawyers.... he better watch his ass
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:07 PM
Feb 2017

I hope they sue the shit out of him, there's no doubt whatsoever that anything he releases will be doctored and taken out of context.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. He is going to show edited footage to CNN and will get humiliated on air.
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:08 PM
Feb 2017

This will be great! I might have to pay attention to this one, CNN is NOT ACORN...he is going to get his asses handed to him! They will make this loser pay out the nose.

I guess Slimeball O'Keefe needs to pay his rent and since he has no real life skills...lol...

bucolic_frolic

(43,174 posts)
5. Like government, the press deserves deliberative freedom
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 10:13 PM
Feb 2017

policy and journalism involve a crucible for ideas before the final product is cast

Taking it all out of context yields some distorted motives

PatSeg

(47,491 posts)
7. Whenever I read his name in the news,
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 11:00 PM
Feb 2017

I am amazed that he is still at his deceptive games. I would have thought by now, he would have gotten a real job.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
13. O'Keefe
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 09:24 AM
Feb 2017

He is the male equivalent of Sarah PayMe. Just when you think they are seeing the light, that their 15 minutes are over, they show up AGAIN. This clown was the one who dressed in what he thought was pimp clothing. He looked ridiculous. I thought then, and still think, he is a brick short of a load. He is a homely dude, also, hard not to spot him when he shows up anywhere.

PatSeg

(47,491 posts)
16. "Ridiculous"
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 10:23 AM
Feb 2017

certainly sums him up. That pimp outfit looked like a Halloween costume and his behavior in his videos look like he's filming a "You're on Candid Camera" episode. I agree, there is something wrong with the guy.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
18. A real job stamping license plates?
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 10:56 AM
Feb 2017

That's likely his next career move, after this blunder. CNN surely is on to his game.

BumRushDaShow

(129,068 posts)
12. He went over the line a long time ago
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 07:36 AM
Feb 2017
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012604145.html

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/05/james_okeefe_and_friends_plead.html

And in the above case, the dripping irony (given what is going on now) was this -

<...>

Mr. O’Keefe has said they were in the office because of reports that Ms. Landrieu’s constituents had trouble reaching her office during the health care debate, though a spokesman for the senator said that her voice mail and that of several other senators were jammed at the time by an unusually high volume of calls.

<...>

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/us/politics/27landrieu.html

cstanleytech

(26,293 posts)
23. Yes I am well aware of that but like I said I will cheer when he goes over the line and "has" to go
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 12:16 PM
Feb 2017

to jail for a few years rather than get what he got in that case which if I recall was a rather insulting sentence of parole which was not even a slap on the wrist.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
14. This little fucker is feeling his oats, now that Milo has been knocked off
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 09:58 AM
Feb 2017

his perch. O'Keefe is thinking he's back to being #1 RW shit-stirrer.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)
21. What he does in the Shadows! Read his Wikipedia biography about ties to Trump
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 11:57 AM
Feb 2017

"Much of the funding for Project Veritas ( his pet project) comes from anonymous donations through Donors Trust, a conservative, American nonprofit donor-advised fund, which according to its promotional materials, says that it will "keep your charitable giving private, especially gifts funding sensitive or controversial issues."Notable donors include the Trump Foundation, which, in May 2015, donated $10,000.[30][31]
Plus Brietbart ties.


So he is funded by anonymous sources and Trump. Any Russian donors in that organization?- we will never know because he provides a covert arrangement.

Attack the press in the attempted nazification of the USA. Resist this creature!!!!!!

Hekate

(90,712 posts)
22. It's 11 am on the East Coast and a quick click of the channels shows no "breaking news" from O'Keefe
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 12:10 PM
Feb 2017

Breaking news? More like breaking wind.

Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
26. It looks like he just dumped a massive file and is asking readers to listen for him!
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 01:28 PM
Feb 2017

People commenting say they can't hear much of anything or the files won't load.

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