James O'Keefe, Noted Bullshit Artist, Is Coming Back to St. Louis
James O'Keefe, the filmmaker behind a hilariously busted scheme to embarrass the Washington Post back in November, is heading to St. Louis next {this} week to bask in a conservative love-fest courtesy of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.
The founder of Project Veritas will receive the inaugural "Kitty Werthmann Award" for his work exposing "the dirty playbook of the radical liberal agenda," according to a press release from the organization's president, former Missouri GOP Chair Ed Martin. The ironies are multiple: Not only is O'Keefe's playbook famously dirty from cover to cover, but he's had more high-profile failures than, dare we say, Ed Martin himself.
Most recent, of course, was the failed WaPo setup. O'Keefe's project apparently hired a woman to pretend she was a victim of senatorial candidate Roy Moore. The conservative provocateur seemed to want to show the paper would fall for any old story — and that it was desperate to take down Moore. Instead, the daily published a story exposing the failed sting. Not only did they find a GoFundMe campaign the woman had set up to help her relocate for a new job to "combat the lies and deceit of the liberal MSM" — but they actually spotted her at the offices of Project Veritas.
O'Keefe's career is littered with similar embarrassments and controversies. In 2009, a "sting operation" he conducted against ACORN purported to show employees dispensing advice on setting up a brothel. O'Keefe later settled a lawsuit from a former ACORN employee for $100,000. Since then, O'Keefe has repeatedly attempted to embarrass news organizations, reporters and left-wing organizations. He’s usually the one left with egg on his face.
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