American Pravda

by James O'Keefe

  5.Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2002), 306.

  6.Rachel Kurzius, “Maps: Looking at How D.C. Voted, Precinct by Precinct,” November 29, 2016, http://dcist.com/2016/11/maps_looking_at_how_dc_voted_precin.php.

  7.Angelo Codevilla, “The Rise of Political Correctness,” Claremont Review of Books, November 8, 2016, http://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-rise-of-political-correctness/.

  8.Victor Davis Hanson, “Virtual Virtue,” American Greatness, September 5, 2017, https://amgreatness.com/2017/09/05/virtual-virtue/.

  9.George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1977), 76.

  10.The Center for Medical Progress, Documentary Web Series, http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/human-capital/documentary-web-series/.

  11.Eliza Collins, “Hillary Clinton: Planned Parenthood Videos ‘Disturbing,’” Politico, July 29, 2015, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/hillary-clinton-questions-planned-parenthood-videos-disturbing-120768.

  12.Dan Diamond, “Take Two: Obama Talks ACA in Florida,” Politico, October 20, 2016, http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/politico-pulse/2016/10/take-two-obama-talks-aca-in-florida-216969.

  13.Planned Parenthood (@PPact), Twitter, April 23, 2016, 10:08 a.m., https://twitter.com/ppact/status/723921395214733315.

  Defining the Veritas Journalist

  1.Ken Auletta, “Bribe, Seduce, Lie, Steal: Anything to Get the Story,” More, March 1977, 14.

  2.“Who’s a Journalist?” Creators.com, July 19, 2013, https://www.creators.com/read/daily-editorials/07/13/who-s-a-journalist.

  3.S. 987—Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/987. See appendix for complete bill.

  4.Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), 13.

  5.Jeffrey Olen, Ethics in Journalism (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988), 7.

  6.James Ettema, “Trying to Stir Public Awareness,” IRE Journal, July 1, 1989.

  7.Nathan Russell, “An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities,” January 4, 2006, Mackinac.org, https://www.mackinac.org/7504.

  8.Michael Uhlmann, “Bring Back Institutional Jealousy,” Liberty Law Forum, August 20, 2015, http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/bring-back-institutional-jealousy/.

  9.Charles Murray, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission (New York: Crown Forum, 2015).

  10.James Ettema and Theodore Lewis Gasser, Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 69.

  11.Tim Dickinson, “Michael Hastings, ‘Rolling Stone’ Contributor, Dead at 33,” Rolling Stone, June 18, 2013, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618.

  12.“Couric Wins Walter Cronkite Award,” CBSNews.com, March 10, 2009, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/couric-wins-walter-cronkite-award/.

  13.Peter Hermann, “Meetings of Activists Planning to Disrupt Inauguration Were Infiltrated by Conservative Group,” Washington Post, January 25, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/meetings-of-activists-planning-to-disrupt-inauguration-were-infiltrated-by-conservative-media-group/2017/01/24/b22128fe-e19a-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.e27cae1cc464.

  14.ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, March 9, 2011, https://archive.org/details/KGO_20110310_013000_ABC_World_News_With_Diane_Sawyer.

  15.Brentin Mock, “James O’Keefe Hustles Voters into Backing ID Laws,” CBSNews.com, May 31, 2012, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-okeefe-hustles-voters-into-backing-id-laws/.

  16.John Philpot Curran Quotes, Ireland Calling, http://ireland-calling.com/john-philpot-curran-quotes/.

  17.Paul Farhi, “Is It Okay for James O’Keefe’s ‘Investigative Reporting’ to Rely on Deception?” Washington Post, October 19, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-it-okay-for-james-okeefes-investigative-reporting-to-rely-on-deception/2016/10/19/f32fd46a-962e-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.d822dbaf98d5.

  18.Joe Miller, “The Stimulus Bill and ACORN,” February 6, 2009, FactCheck.org, http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/the-stimulus-bill-and-acorn/.

  19.“Lila Rose on The Factor with Bill O’Reilly and Leslie Marshall,” YouTube.com, April 7, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZeS0hVs5Qk.

  20.All videos accessible at ACORN investigation, Project Veritas, http://projectveritas.com/acorn/.

  21.Ed Driscoll, “The Abu Ghraib of the Great Society—Andrew Breitbart on ACORN,” PJ Media, October 19, 2009, https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/10/19/abu-ghraib-of-the-great-society/.

  22.Noel Sheppard, “Jon Stewart Mocks Media on ACORN Story: ‘Where the Hell Were You?’ ” NewsBusters, September 16, 2009, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2009/09/16/jon-stewart-mocks-media-acorn-story-where-hell-were-you.

  23.Ian Urbina, “Acorn on Brink of Bankruptcy, Officials Say,” New York Times, March 19, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/us/politics/20acorn.html?mcubz=0.

  24.Chris Rovzar, “Just How Heavily Edited Was the ACORN-Sting Video?” New York, April 2, 2010, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/04/just_how_heavily-edited_was_th.html.

  25.“Report of the Attorney General on the Activities of ACORN in California,” April 1, 2010, http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf.

  26.Dan Eggen, “Obama Says ACORN Should Be Investigated,” Washington Post, September 21, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002313.html.

  27.Clark Hoyt, “The Acorn Sting Revisited,” New York Times, March 20, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21pubed.html?mcubz=3.

  28.NPR Investigation, Project Veritas, http://projectveritas.com/npr-videos/.

  29.Michael Gerson, “The NPR Video and Political Dirty Tricks,” Washington Post, March 17, 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-npr-video-and-political-dirty-tricks/2011/03/17/ABbyMym_story.html?utm_term=.1640bb567ffe.

  30.Mona Charen, “O’Keefe Not Deceptive,” NationalReview.com, March 18, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262470/okeefe-not-deceptive-mona-charen.

  31.American Pravda Part 3, Project Veritas, http://projectveritas.com/2017/06/30/american-pravda-part-3-cnn-selectively-edits-hates-trump-and-think-voters-are-stupid/.

  32.Greg Marx, “O’Keefe Etc.,” Columbia Journalism Review, February 5, 2010, http://archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/okeefe_etc.php.

  33.“Danziger Bridge Officers Sentenced: 7 to 12 Years for Shooters, Cop in Cover-Up Gets 3,” nola.com, April 21, 2016, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/04/danziger_bridge_officers_sente.html.

  34.“O’Keefe Exonerated,” Internet Scofflaw, May 29, 2010, https://internetscofflaw.com/2010/05/29/okeefe-exonerated/.

  35.Settlement Agreement and Release, Project Veritas, http://projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OKeefeVeraACORNSettlement.pdf. Italics added.

  36.“ABC News Settles $1.9B ‘Pink Slime’ Lawsuit with Beef Products,” FoxBusiness.com, June 28, 2017, http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/06/28/abc-news-settles-1-9b-pink-slime-lawsuit-with-beef-products.html.

  37.Michael Parrish and Donald Nauss, “NBC Admits It Rigged Crash, Settles GM Suit,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1993, http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-10/news/mn-1335_1_gm-pickup.

  38.Sydney Ember, “Sarah Palin’s Defamation Suit against the New York Times Is Dismissed,” New York Times, August 29, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/business/media/sarah-palin-lawsuit-new-york-times.html?mcubz=0&_r=0.

  39.Eriq Gardner, “HBO Suffers Setback in Coal Baron’s De
famation Lawsuit over John Oliver Segment,” Hollywood Reporter, August 10, 2017, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hbo-suffers-setback-coal-barons-defamation-lawsuit-john-oliver-segment-1028555 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hbo-suffers-setback-coal-barons-defamation-lawsuit-john-oliver-segment-1028555.

  40.Sydney Ember, “Rolling Stone to Pay $1.65 Million to Fraternity over Discredited Rape Story,” New York Times, June 13, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/media/rape-uva-rolling-stone-frat.html?mcubz=0.

  41.Kristine Phillips, “James O’Keefe’s Undercover Video Stings Damaged Liberal Icons. Can a New Lawsuit Take Him Down?” Washington Post, June 8, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/08/james-okeefes-undercover-video-stings-damaged-liberal-icons-can-a-new-lawsuit-take-him-down/?utm_term=.1a26d35d9a15.

  42.League of Conservation Voters, letter to Judge Xavier Beccera, August 4, 2017, https://www.lcv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Confidential-Complaint_CLCV_LCV-8.4.17-final.pdf. Italics added.

  43.Darryl Fears and Carol D. Leonnig, “Duo in ACORN Videos Say Effort Was Independent,” Washington Post, September 18, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704805.html?sid=ST2011020203536.

  44.“ACORN Just About Buried in Criticism,” Associated Press, September 19, 2009, http://www.denverpost.com/2009/09/19/acorn-just-about-buried-in-criticism/.

  45.“Washington Post Admits to Bogus Quote,” Human Events, September 29, 2009, http://humanevents.com/2009/09/29/washington-post-admits-to-bogus-quote/.

  46.Campbell Robertson and Liz Robbins, “4 Arrested in Phone Tampering at Landrieu Office,” New York Times, January 26, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/politics/27landrieu.html?mcubz=0.

  47.Carol D. Leonnig and Garance Franke-Ruta, “ACORN Foe Charged in Alleged Plot to Wiretap Landrieu,” Washington Post, January 27, 2010, http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20100127/282690453327843.

  48.Corrected version of “wiretap” article: Carol D. Leonnig and Garance Franke-Ruta, “James O’Keefe Charged in Alleged Phone Tampering of Senator Mary Landrieu’s Office,” Washington Post, January 27, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012604145.html.

  Crossing Borders

  1.Alexander Bolton, “Reid: Southern Border Is Secure,” The Hill, July 15, 2014, http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/212328-reid-southern-border-is-secure.

  2.Stephen Dinan, “Hillary Clinton Says U.S.-Mexico Border Is Now Secure,” Washington Times, March 17, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/17/hillary-clinton-says-us-mexico-border-secure/.

  3.This conversation was recorded on video, available on request.

  4.Patterico, “Destroyed by Court Order: The Footage of a Landrieu Staffer Admitting the Senator’s Office Had No Problem with Their Phones,” Hot Air, May 29, 2010, https://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/29/destroyed-by-court-order-the-footage-of-a-landrieu-staffer-admitting-the-senators-office-had-no-problem-with-their-phones/.

  5.This conversation was not recorded live, but notes were made immediately afterward.

  6.Clip of Cyber Security and Terrorism Threats, C-SPAN, September 10, 2014, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4508145/mccain-okeefe.

  7.This conversation was not recorded live, but notes were made immediately afterward.

  8.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, part 1 (New York: Library of America, 1984), 105.

  9.Project Veritas recording.

  10.Ibid.

  11.Timaeus, “UPDATED x2: Was It Correct for Customs to Detain James O’Keefe?” Daily Kos, June 23, 2015, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6/23/1395778/-Was-It-Correct-For-Customs-To-Detain-James-O-Keefe.

  12.Jonathan Turley, “Controversial Filmmaker O’Keefe Detained at Border by Customs,” Jonathan Turley.org, June 24, 2015, https://jonathanturley.org/2015/06/24/controversial-filmmaker-okeefe-detained-at-border-by-customs/.

  13.Project Veritas recording.

  14.Paul Farhi, “Is It Okay for James O’Keefe’s ‘Investigative Reporting’ to Rely on Deception?” Washington Post, October 19, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-it-okay-for-james-okeefes-investigative-reporting-to-rely-on-deception/2016/10/19/f32fd46a-962e-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.d25de6aef8a1

  15.George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1968), 127–40.

  16.Jerry Markon, “Conservative Video-Maker James O’Keefe: Homeland Security Targeted Me, Asked Intrusive Questions,” Washington Post, August 13, 2105, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/08/13/conservative-video-maker-james-okeefe-homeland-security-targeted-me-asked-intrusive-questions/?utm_term=.94f9d21a4c05.

  17.Hugh Handeyside and Esha Bhandari, “Warrantless Border Searches of Smartphones Are Skyrocketing. We’re Suing to Stop Them,” ACLU, https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/privacy-borders-and-checkpoints/warrantless-border-searches-smartphones-are.

  Honoring a Tradition—The History of Journalism and Its Demise

  1.Undercover Reporting, Deception for Journalism’s Sake: A Database, NYU, http://dlib.nyu.edu/undercover/.

  2.Theodore Roosevelt, speech, Washington, DC, April 14, 2006, http://izquotes.com/quote/393284.

  3.Orrin Grey, “10 Days in a Madhouse: Nellie Bly’s Living Nightmare,” The Lineup, August 22, 2016, https://the-line-up.com/nellie-bly.

  4.“James Aucoin, The Evolution of American Journalism (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2005), 28–29.

  5.Marthe Jocelyn, “Scribbling Women”: True Tales from Astonishing Lives (Toronto: Tundra Books, 2011), 105.

  6.William Mullen and George Bliss, “Poll Judge Violations Condoned in Election Office,” Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1972, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1972/09/12/page/2/article/poll-judge-violations-condoned-in-election-office.

  7.“Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace,” Geraldo, http://geraldo.com/page/willowbrook.

  8.Time / Light Box, Erica Fahr Campbell, http://time.com/3808808/first-photo-electric-chair-execution/.

  9.“Award-Winning Trib Reporter Bill Mullen Retires; Helped Uncover Voter Fraud,” Crain’s Chicago Business, February 10, 2012, http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20120210/BLOGS03/120219999/award-winning-trib-reporter-bill-mullen-retires-helped-uncover-voter-fraud.

  10.Brooke Kroeger, Undercover Reporting: The Truth about Deception (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2012), 73.

  11.Michael Miner, “To Investigate and Advocate,” Chicago Reader, July 15, 2010.

  12.Jack Fuller, News Values: Ideas for an Information Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 47.

  13.“On the Media,” WNYC, March 18, 2011, http://www.wnyc.org/story/133116-james-okeefe/.

  14.Howard Kurtz, “NPR’s Polarizing Shake-Up: Vivian Schiller Resigns over O’Keefe Video,” Daily Beast, March 9, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/nprs-polarizing-shake-up-vivian-schiller-resigns-over-okeefe-video.

  15.Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro), Twitter, February 5, 2016, 8:03 a.m., https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136?lang=en.

  Swilling Chardonnay

  1.Bob Steele, “Deception/Hidden Cameras Checklist,” Poynter, July 5, 2002, https://www.poynter.org/2002/deceptionhidden-cameras-checklist/744/.

  2.Robert J. Casey, Most Interesting People (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1947), 78.

  3.Philip Meyer, “Tricks of the Trade,” Nieman Reports, http://niemanreports.org/articles/tricks-of-the-trade/.

  4.Greg Marx, “The Ethics of Undercover Journalism,” Columbia Journalism Review, February 4, 2010, http://archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_ethics_of_u
ndercover_journalism.php.

  5.Andrew Jones, “Holder: ‘No Proof Our Elections Are Marred’ in Voter Fraud,” Raw Story, March 13, 2012, https://www.rawstory.com/2012/03/holder-no-proof-our-elections-are-marred-in-voter-fraud/amp/.

  6.“To Catch a Journalist,” Project Veritas, October 27, 2011, https://projectveritas.com/2011/10/27/to-catch-a-journalist-new-york-times-jay-rosen-clay-shirky/.

  7.“About Us,” Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU, https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/.

  Practicing Magic

  1.David Samuels, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign Policy Guru,” New York Times, May 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=2.

  2.Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 126.

  3.Stephen Gordon, “Undercover Common Core Video: Executive Says ‘I hate kids, it’s all about the money,’” Project Veritas, January 12, 2016, http://projectveritas.com/2016/01/12/undercover-common-core-video-executive-says-i-hate-kids-its-all-about-the-money/.

  4.Laura Loomer, “Caught on Camera: Teachers Union Officials Advise Fraud to Cover Up Child Abuse,” Project Veritas, June 7, 2016, http://projectveritas.com/2016/06/07/caught-on-camera-teachers-union-officials-advise-fraud-to-cover-up-child-abuse/.

  5.“Textbook Publisher Sacked Employee in O’Keefe Sting Video on Common Core,” TPM, January 12, 2016, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/houghton-mifflin-harcourt-james-o-keefe-common-core.

  6.Hezi Aris, “Yonkers Public School District Drop Charges of Misconduct against Yonkers Federation of Teachers President Pat Puleo,” Yonkers Tribune, April 6, 2017, http://www.yonkerstribune.com/2017/04/yonkers-public-school-district-drop-charges-of-misconduct-against-yonkers-federation-of-teachers-president-pat-puleo-by-hezi-aris.

  7.Bob Bowdon, writer and director, The Cartel, 2009, http://thecartelmovie.com.

  8.Although the quote is often attributed to Jefferson, there is no documentation of the same.