MEGAcuck James O'Keefe gets BLACKED by Washington Post Reporters
MEGAcuck James O'Keefe gets BLACKED by Washington Post Reporters
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Hunter Watson
I don't understand this O'Keefe case. He is saying WaPo is scared of something.
John Johnson
Why the fuck are you saying O'keefe got blacked? And why the fuck are linking to an article which requires a subscription. Don't forget to sage.
Jose Davis
A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.
In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.
The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.
Jordan Nguyen
But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.
James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas who was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during a previous sting, declined to answer questions about the woman outside the Project Veritas office, a storefront in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on Monday morning shortly after the woman walked inside.
“I am not doing an interview right now, so I’m not going to say a word,” O’Keefe said.
In a follow-up interview, O’Keefe declined to answer repeated questions about whether the woman was employed at Project Veritas. He also did not respond when asked if he was working with Moore, former White House adviser and Moore supporter Stephen K. Bannon, or Republican strategists.
The group’s efforts illustrate the lengths to which activists have gone to try to discredit media outlets for reporting on allegations from multiple women that Moore pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his early 30s. Moore has denied that he did anything improper.
A spokesman for Moore’s campaign did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
Bentley Wright
The woman who approached Post reporters, Jaime T. Phillips, did not respond to calls to her cellphone Monday morning. Her car remained in the Project Veritas parking lot for more than an hour.
After Phillips was observed entering the Project Veritas office, The Post made the unusual decision to report her previous off-the-record comments.
“We always honor ‘off-the-record’ agreements when they’re entered into in good faith,” said Martin Baron, The Post’s executive editor. “But this so-called off-the-record conversation was the essence of a scheme to deceive and embarrass us. The intent by Project Veritas clearly was to publicize the conversation if we fell for the trap. Because of our customary journalistic rigor, we weren’t fooled, and we can’t honor an ‘off-the-record’ agreement that was solicited in maliciously bad faith.”
Phillips’s arrival at the Project Veritas office capped a weeks-long effort that began only hours after The Post published an article on Nov. 9 that included allegations that Moore once initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old named Leigh Corfman.
Thomas Miller
Post reporter Beth Reinhard, who co-wrote the article about Corfman, received a cryptic email early the next morning.
“Roy Moore in Alabama ... I might know something but I need to keep myself safe. How do we do this?” the apparent tipster wrote under an account with the name “Lindsay James.”
The email’s subject line was “Roy Moore in AL.” The sender’s email address included “rolltide,” the rallying cry of the University of Alabama’s sports teams, which are nicknamed the Crimson Tide.
Reinhard sent an email asking if the person was willing to talk off the record.
“Not sure if I trust the phone,” came the reply. “Can we just stick to email?”
“I need to be confident that you can protect me before I will tell all,” the person wrote in a subsequent email. “I have stuff I’ve been hiding for a long time but maybe it should stay that way.”
The tipster’s email came amid counterattacks by Moore supporters aimed at The Post and its reporters.
That same day, Gateway Pundit, a conservative site, spread a false story from a Twitter account, @umpire43, that said, “A family friend in Alabama just told my wife that a WAPO reporter named Beth offer her 1000$ to accuse Roy Moore.” The Twitter account, which has a history of spreading misinformation, has since been deleted.
Hudson Davis
The Post, like many other news organizations, has a strict policy against paying people for information and did not do so in its coverage of Moore.
On Nov. 14, a pastor in Alabama said he received a voice mail from a man falsely claiming to be a Post reporter and seeking women “willing to make damaging remarks” about Moore for money. No one associated with The Post made any such call.
In the days that followed the purported tipster’s initial emails, Reinhard communicated with the woman through an encrypted text messaging service and spoke by phone with the person to set up a meeting. When the woman suggested a meeting in New York, Reinhard told her she would have to know more about her story and her background. The woman offered that her real name was Jaime Phillips.
Phillips said she lived in New York but would be in the D.C. area during Thanksgiving week and suggested meeting Tuesday in a shopping mall in Tysons Corner, Va. “I’m planning to do some shopping there so I’ll find a good place to meet before you get there,” Phillips wrote in a message sent via Signal, the encrypted messaging service.
When Reinhard suggested bringing another reporter, Phillips wrote, “I’m not really comfortable with anyone else being there this time.”
Reinhard arrived to find Phillips, wearing a brown leather jacket and with long red hair, already seated in a booth in the restaurant.
The 41-year-old said she had been abused as a child, Reinhard said. Her family had moved often. She said she moved in with an aunt in the Talladega area of Alabama and started attending a church youth group when she met Moore in 1992, the year he became a county judge. She said she was 15. She said they started a “secret” sexual relationship.
“I knew it wasn’t right, but I didn’t care,” she said.
Ryan Evans
She said that she got pregnant, that Moore talked her into an abortion, and that he drove her to Mississippi to get it.
In the interview, she told Reinhard that she was so upset she couldn’t finish her salad.
Phillips said she had started thinking about coming forward after the allegations about Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein surfaced. Then she said she saw the news about Moore flashing across the television screen while in a break room at her job at a company called NFM Lending in Westchester County, N.Y., Reinhard said.
Phillips also repeatedly asked the reporter to guarantee her that Moore would lose the election if she came forward. Reinhard told her in a subsequent text message that she could not predict what the impact would be. Reinhard said she also explained to Phillips that her claims would have to be fact-checked. Additionally, Reinhard asked her for documents that would corroborate or support her story.
Later that day, Phillips told Reinhard that she felt “anxiety & negative energy after our meeting,” text messages show. “You just didn’t convince me that I should come forward,” she wrote.
Reinhard replied, “I’m so sorry but I want to be straight with you about the fact-checking process and the fact that we can’t guarantee what will happen as a result of another story.”
Phillips was not satisfied. On Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, she suggested meeting with another Post reporter, Stephanie McCrummen, who co-wrote the initial article about Corfman. “I’d rather go to another paper than talk to you again,” Phillips told Reinhard.
David Evans
Back at the newsroom, Reinhard became concerned about elements of Phillips’s story. Phillips had said she lived in Alabama only for a summer while a teenager; but the cellphone number Phillips provided had an Alabama area code. Reinhard called NFM Lending in Westchester County, but they said a person named Jaime Phillips did not work there.
Alice Crites, a Post researcher who was looking into Phillips’s background, found the document that strongly reinforced the reporters’ suspicions: a Web page for a fundraising campaign by someone with the same name. It was on the website GoFundMe.com under the name Jaime Phillips.
“I’m moving to New York!” the May 29 appeal said. “I’ve accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM. I’ll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement. I was laid off from my mortgage job a few months ago and came across the opportunity to change my career path.”
In a March posting on its Facebook page, Project Veritas said it was seeking 12 new “undercover reporters,” though the organization’s operatives use methods that are eschewed by mainstream journalists, such as misrepresenting themselves.
A posting for the “journalist” job on the Project Veritas website that month warned that the job “is not a role for the faint of heart.”
The job’s listed goal: “To adopt an alias persona, gain access to an identified person of interest and persuade that person to reveal information.”
It also listed tasks that the job applicant should be able to master, including: “Learning a script,” “Preparing a background story to support your role,” “Gaining an appointment or access to the target of the investigation,” and “Operating concealed recording equipment.”
Angel Wood
Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.
O’Keefe’s criminal record has caused the charity problems in some states. Mississippi and Utah stripped the group of a license to raise money in those states because it failed to disclose O’Keefe’s conviction on state applications, records show.
Also working at Veritas is former television producer Robert J. Halderman, who was sentenced to six months in jail in 2010 after he was accused of trying to blackmail late-night host David Letterman. Halderman was with O’Keefe outside the Project Veritas offices Monday as a reporter tried to ask about Phillips’s role with the organization.
Because Jaime Phillips is a relatively common name, it wasn’t a certainty that the GoFundMe page that Crites found was created by was the same woman who approached The Post. But there was another telling detail, in addition to the name. One of two donations listed on the page was from a person whose name that matched her daughter’s, according to public records.
McCrummen agreed to meet Phillips that afternoon.
Phillips suggested meeting somewhere in Alexandria, Va., saying she was shopping in the area. Post videographers accompanied McCrummen, who brought a printout of the fundraising page to the interview.
Again, Phillips had arrived early and was waiting for McCrummen, her purse resting on the table. When McCrummen put her purse near Phillips’s purse to block a possible camera, Phillips moved hers.
The Post videographers sat separately, unnoticed, at an adjacent table.
Phillips said she didn’t want to get into the details of what she had said happened between her and Moore.
Aiden Brooks
She said she wanted McCrummen to assure her that the article would result in Moore’s defeat, according to a recording. McCrummen instead asked her about her story regarding Moore.
Phillips complained that President Trump had endorsed Moore.
“So my whole thing is, like, I want him to be completely taken out of the race ... ” she said. “And I really expected that was going to happen, and now it’s not. So, I don’t know what you think about that.”
McCrummen asked Phillips to verify her identity with a photo identification. Phillips provided a Georgia driver’s license.
McCrummen then asked her about the GoFundMe page.
“We have a process of doing background, checking backgrounds and this kind of thing, so I wanted to ask you about one thing,” McCrummen said, pulling out a copy of the page and reading from it. “So I just wanted to ask you if you could explain this, and I also wanted to let you know, Jaime, that this is being recorded and video recorded.”
“Okay,” Phillips said. “Um, yeah, I was looking to take a job last summer in New York, but it fell through,” Phillips said. “Yeah, it was going to be with the Daily Caller, but it ended up falling through, so I wasn’t able to do it.”
When asked who at the Daily Caller interviewed her, Phillips said, “Kathy,” pausing before adding the last name, “Johnson.”
Paul Conner, executive editor of the Daily Caller, said Monday that no one with the name Kathy Johnson works for the publication and that he has no record of having personally interviewed Phillips. Conner later said in email that he had asked other top editors at the Daily Caller and the affiliated Daily Caller News Foundation about Phillips.
“None of us has interviewed a woman by the name Jaime Phillips,” Conner wrote.
Nathan Butler
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Isaac Thompson
At the Alexandria restaurant on Wednesday, Phillips also told The Post that she had not been in contact with the Moore campaign. As the interview ended, Phillips told McCrummen she was not recording the conversation.
“I think I probably just want to cancel and not go through with it at this point,” Phillips said at Souvlaki Bar shortly before ending the interview.
“I’m not going to answer any more questions,” she said. “I think I’m just going to go.”
She picked up her coat and bag, returned her drink to the front counter and left the restaurant.
By 7 p.m. the message on the GoFundMe page was gone, replaced by a new one.
“Campaign is complete and no longer active,” it read.
>>There you go poorfags
Tyler Rogers
And then, of course, Project Veritas proceeds to self own
William Sanchez
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Oliver Wood
Who's funding Project Veritas?
Brody Clark
Remember to sage
Cameron Jackson
ITT leftist pretends that Wapo hasn't run unverified accusations as proof and that O'keefe running a sting operation is somehow the ethical problem.
Dominic Peterson
Sounds like O'Keefe was adhering to normal journalism ethical standards. I like seeing media outlets fight like this.
David Peterson
>Trying to plant FAKE NEWS in order to call out FAKE NEWS
>ethical
Kayden Myers
It's almost like if it fits the narrative they run the story with little to no verification.
Xavier Jenkins
She doesn't work for him. She was probably a distraction. O'Keefe probably teleported behind them.
He's doing long term infiltrations now.
Maybe he had the janitor bug WaPo and he's gonna release tapes of them colluding against Moore.
This would be perfect around December 5th... a week before election. It would cause a panic.
Evan Evans
But Gloria can bring provably false accusations forward and refuse to have the evidence analyzed by an expert.
Truly Wapo is a bastion of journalistic ethics.
Ian Walker
his reporter brought the same amount of evidence as the others did kek
Wyatt Cooper
>all other project veritas gets completely ignored by msm
>this story will have legs like usain bolt
Brody Lewis
Seeing Gloria Allred on TV is a dead giveaway that it's a smear job.
Bentley Phillips
it sounds like his sting got busted and he's trying to spin it that he really won
Dominic Gutierrez
Trump donated 10,000 USD back in the day.
Anthony Butler
SAGE AND REPORT, OP IS CIANIGGER JEFF BEZOS LOVER
Brayden Mitchell
I'd bet anything WaPo ends up looking like retards after this
Jack Hill
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Cooper Hernandez
>Washington post has integrity guys i swear!
KYS faggot.
Wyatt King
>sperg out that a video is """"""""fake"""""""" before it comes out
Funny how you can't see damage control when it slams into your face at 150mph
Luke Murphy
>tries to prove WaPo has not journalisitc standards
>ends up proving the exact opposite
o i am laffin
Liam Ortiz
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Ryder Lopez
>that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations
lmao journalists do that all the fucking time.
Didn't NYT do some huge scoop where they infiltrated evil nazis a while ago?
Sebastian Jackson
This just proves that the Washington Post doesn't publish bullshit and the accusers' stories had been thoroughly verified.
O'Keefe ended up nuking Moore.
Ethan Ward
Look at this fuckin newfag shill
Brandon Rodriguez
No one is going to talk about this in two days.
Andrew Myers
This. They have the shills here out in full force with a preprepared narrative. Painfully obvious they're getting exposed and are doing damage control.
William Cook
Triggered? This is not your safe space, boy.
Carson Harris
Im gonna need a QRD
Benjamin Clark
Fake and gay.
Caleb Mitchell
Just like O'Keefe's videos.
Brody Diaz
You aren't even using those memes properly. Where did you hear about this place, new user?
Lincoln Lewis
Just a few moments ago, special prosecutor Robert Mueller announced that his investigation of Donald Trump had produced "enormous, incontrovertible and disturbing evidence" that the soon to be former presidential candidate committed treason by colluding with Russia to steal November's election from should be President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
At a press conference, Mueller teary eyed said it's his recommendation that the department of Justice indict Trump as a traitor - a crime that, if proven in court, has drastic consequences and that he be detained at Gitmo a prison Trump has proposed to keep open
"Hillary Clinton's staggering 3 million-vote victory at the ballot box ensured that Trump's brazen attempt to contravene American democracy and betray his fellow citizens were ultimately unsuccessful. But our independent investigation of Trump's ties to Putin has produced conclusive proof that Trump worked with an enemy of America, and his campaign actively called on Russian agents to commit crimes against his rival, including hacking her emails. This will be a day that lives in infamy"
At one point, Mueller referred to Trump as "the greatest traitor since Benedict Arnold and the Rosenbergs" Chants of "Lock Him Up" and "Donald Trump has got to go" could be heard from outside the White House.
Paul Ryan has apologized to Clinton for both violating her Constitutional rights and abusing the powers of his office and violating her rights in the course of investigating her emails in communications with Congress and subsequently passed out to the applause of his congressional colleges .
The White House has not responded to requests for comment, but sources have said it is in chaos and furniture is being thrown.
Jaxon Lee
archive that shit nigger
David King
WaPo gonna look stupid again that's why they're trying to get in front of it. Can't wait to see how fucking stupid they look.
Jonathan Miller
Stop crying in the thread about your hurt butt, you little bitches. You're pathetic.
Brody Thompson
It will have a lasting impact since it provides more reasons for further employees to resign and more people to un-endorse.
Isaac Perez
Stay mad faggit
Jace Allen
No one is going to talk about this in two days.
Chase Scott
WaPo looks great in this story as it shows they're not simply out to get Moore. PV and O'Keefe keep digging themselves deeper, his new video makes him look even worse. Anybody who unironically believe these guys are mouth breathing retards.
Oliver Reyes
It will push more people to the other side because it further validates the big problem that Moore. That is going to follow him all the way to election day, guaranteed.
Cameron Cook
ITT: Retards ignore that O'Keefe / Veritas only validated the Washington Post's process of vetting stories in their failed attempt to fool them.
Angel Martinez
No one is going to talk about this in two days.
Jacob Hill
Fuck off washington post shill.
Joshua Miller
People will talk about Moore being a fucking pedo with more confidence in two days, and in three days, all the way to election day.
You fucked up, O'Keefe. You really fucked up.
Juan Jackson
O'Queef hired some dumb cunt who used to be an unemployed mortgage processor before she got the job as an "underground journalist" to feed a flimsy fake story actual reporter saw through immediately.
This woman is a fucking amateur, trying to press the WaPo reporter into saying he or she is out to get Moore and make them promise her story is going to get Moore unelected. Not only can a reporter not promise that, reporters know not to blatantly show their biases especially with someone they only met once before.
tl;dr -- O'Queef hired some ditsy retard to do what CIA/Mossad is supposed to do, and it failed spectacularly.
Cooper Hall
Watch this syrup nigger
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Xavier Torres
No one is going to talk about this in two days.
Noah Long
Is this the new version of "you're getting sleepy" shill?
Leo Thomas
You fucked up, O'Keefe. You really fucked up. You validated the accusations which will make Moore lose!
Lincoln Johnson
No one is going to talk about this in 1 day and 23 hours.
Gavin Bailey
Yeah O'Keefe really is a try-hard douche.
William Allen
Here's WaPo employee saying the (((higher ups))) try to educate rather than report
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Fuck WaPopl
Matthew Parker
More people will just be going "Oh yeah, he's a pedophile, I'm not voting for him"
You fucked up, O'Keefe. You should kill yourself.
Justin Robinson
lmao he secretly recorded some guy talking about the difference between reporting an editorial board, what a great scoop. This video shows that the news division and the editorial board at the Washington Post do not work together, which is how it’s supposed to be. Dumbass O'Keefe makes the Post look good for the second time today. Great job.
Lucas Russell
No one is going to talk about this in 1 day and 23 hours.
Easton Stewart
But, most retards who follow him on Twitter don't know how newspapers work.
William Morris
>Project Veritas
Nathan Ross
He's specifically distinguishing reporting from editorial, dumbass.
Ayden Nelson
>a person familiar with the matter is quoted as saying
Logan Turner
WaPo published her story and included her as an accuser anyway!
Xavier Sanders
When is the Moore election? It's still better to have a pedo in office than a Democrat (the few children VS many children ruination argument)
Ethan Brown
He relies on stupidity because he is stupid.
>PV """exposed""" a Washington Post reporter explaining the difference between a newspaper's reporting and the editorial board. What a scoop! Those leftists really are corrupt!
O'Keefe is such a joke lmao
Brandon Anderson
What people are gonna talk about with confidence till election day because of this "He preyed on children"
People are gonna talk about this. Because of you, O'Keefe.
Brandon Martin
lol, this was the media's "teenage accuser". Pedo narrative BTFO
Charles Foster
No one is going to talk about this in 1 day and 23 hours.
Robert Thomas
It's hilarious watching you morons trying to justify this all and odd your using the same word for word replies on twitter.
Aiden Lee
lol, so this is a shareblue thread
Joshua Williams
The evidence is there forever though
Charles Morris
D-did PV just prove that Washingtonpost is trying to be evenhanded?
Isaac Kelly
Paul Mercer for the most part, just like Breitbart.
Jason Wright
Pretty much. David Brock is a sad joke and so is his company, not even Dems like him but that faggot keeps trying!
Angel Rodriguez
Stay BTFO, O'Queefe. Learn a little about journalism before you try to expose people.
Joseph Morris
>85 replies
>40 posters
John Smith
People are gonna talk about Moore being a pedo with more confidence till election day because of you.
inb4 "No one is going to talk about this in 1 day and 23 hours."
You fucked up, son. Kill yourself!
Grayson Nelson
No, they just proved that they took the bait and labeled Moore a pedophile on flimsy evidence.
Andrew Rodriguez
No one is going to talk about this in 1 day and 23 hours.
Kevin Lee
He proves WaPo has an editorial board
Wyatt Carter
Sorry sweetie WaPo BTFO
Robert Butler
So is the evidence that WaPo has lied about most of it's news coverage. WaPo has a choice at the end of the day to run a story or not and they chose to run that story, and yet they feel the need to shift responsibility to cover their own ass does not make WaPo any better
Ayden Long
And that Roy Moore isn't an actual pedophile. WaPo BTFO
Luke Williams
Every news outlet has an editorial, doesn't mean just because it's an editorial there isn't anyone to screen what gets printed
John Young
>Who's funding Project Veritas?
i would say Trump but he's a cheap bastard.
Charles Foster
This is common knowledge between individuals with basic understanding of how the news works, kiddo.
Camden Parker
See