American Pravda

by James O'Keefe

  9.James O’Keefe, Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013), 210–18.

  10.Kevin Sheehan and Carl Campanile, “Garner’s Kid on Sharpton: ‘He’s All About the Money,’ ” New York Post, February 24, 2015, http://nypost.com/2015/02/24/eric-garners-daughter-on-al-sharpton-hes-all-about-the-money/.

  11.“Undercover: Middle School Health Teacher Caught on Camera Offering Cocaine,” Project Veritas, June 18, 2016, http://projectveritas.com/2016/06/18/undercover-middle-school-health-teacher-caught-on-camera-offering-cocaine/.

  12.Ibid.

  13.Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 127.

  14.Glengarry Glen Ross, dir. James Foley, 1992.

  15.Hannah Parry, “Middle School Health Teacher Caught on Hidden Camera Offering Cocaine to Undercover Reporters and Boasting His Job Had Taught Him How to Avoid Getting Caught,” Daily Mail, June 15, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3643351/New-Jersey-middle-school-teacher-caught-camera-offering-cocaine-undercover-reporters.html.

  16.Kala Kachmar and Alex Gecan, “Howell Teacher on Leave after Reported Drug Video,” app.com, June 16, 2016, http://www.app.com/story/news/education/2016/06/16/howell-teacher-placed-leave-after-purportedly-offering-drugs-video/85986192/.

  17.Alex Gecan, “Howell Cops Investigating Teacher, Hidden Camera ‘Stunt,’ ” USA Today, June 17, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2016/06/17/howell-cops-investigating-teacher-hidden-camera-stunt/86029634/.

  18.“Howell Happenings,” Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/jack.cashill/posts/10212449065727793?notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic¬if_id=1489063352291772.

  Meeting Candidate Trump

  1.“High-Level Clinton Campaign Staff Caught on Video Knowingly Breaking the Law,” Project Veritas, September 1, 2015, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/video/high-level-clinton-campaign-staff-caught-on-video-knowingly-breaking-the-law/.

  Recognizing Propaganda

  1.F. A., Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (New York: Routledge Classic, 2001), 164.

  2.Edward Bernays, Propaganda (Brooklyn: Ig Publishing, 2005), 16.

  3.Tim Hains, “MSNBC’s Brzezinski: Trump Thinks He Can ‘Control Exactly What People Think,’ But That’s ‘Our Job.’ ” RealClearPolitics, February 22, 2017, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/22/msnbcs_brzezinski_trump_thinks_he_can_control_exactly_what_people_think_but_thats_our_job.html.

  4.Ibid.

  5.Elihu Katz, Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications (New York: Routledge, 2017), 3.

  6.Hayek, Road to Serfdom, 166.

  7.“Podesta Emails Showed Facebook Colluded with Clinton, Assange Reminds,” Reuters, September 27, 2017, https://www.rt.com/usa/404971-assange-facebook-podesta-collusion/.

  8.Will Rahn, “The Unbearable Smugness of the Press,” CBS News, November 10, 2016, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/.

  9.Hayek, p. 166.

  10.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart,” June 8, 1978, American Rhetoric, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm.

  11.Ibid.

  12.David Ernst, “Donald Trump Is the First President to Turn Postmodernism against Itself,” The Federalist, January 23, 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/23/donald-trump-first-president-turn-postmodernism/.

  13.Hayek, p. 157.

  14.Sophie Tatum, “Trump: NFL Owners Should Fire Players Who Protest the National Anthem,” CNN, September 23, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politics/donald-trump-alabama-nfl/index.html.

  15.Michael McCarthy, “Why Didn’t TV Networks Show Angry, Booing NFL Fans Sunday or Monday?” Sporting News, September 28, 2017, http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/nfl-tv-networks-deliberately-avoided-booing-fans-cbs-nbc-fox-espn-monday-night-football/wp37jk7eoiha1p7ktogwfftzs.

  16.Hayek, p. 157.

  17.Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart.”

  Meeting Alan Schulkin

  1.Laura Loomer, “NYC Democratic Election Commissioner ‘I Think There Is a Lot of Voter Fraud,’ ” October 1, 2016, http://projectveritas.com/video/hidden-camera-nyc-democratic-election-commissioner-i-think-there-is-a-lot-of-voter-fraud/.

  2.Gregory Mango, “Elections Official Caught on Video Blasting de Blasio’s ID Program,” New York Post, October 11, 2016, http://nypost.com/2016/10/11/elections-official-caught-on-video-blasting-de-blasios-id-program/.

  3.Rich Calder and Carl Campanile, “De Blasio Demands Resignation of Elections Official Who Blasted ID Program,” New York Post, October 14, 2016, http://nypost.com/2016/10/14/de-blasio-demands-resignation-of-elections-official-who-blasted-id-program/.

  4.Despite the press, as of June 2017, Schulkin is still listed as a commissioner. http://vote.nyc.ny.us/html/about/management.shtml.

  5.Erin Durkin, “NYC Elections Commissioner Alan Schulkin Keeps Post until City Council Confirms Replacement,” New York Daily News, January 3, 2017, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-elections-boss-post-city-oks-replacement-article-1.2933426. Italics added.

  6.John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (New York: Encounter Books, 2012), 48.

  7.Ibid.

  8.Ibid., 49–50.

  9.B. Drummond Ayres, “St. Louis Sees Specter of Vote Fraud,” New York Times, March 4, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/st-louis-sees-specter-of-vote-fraud.html?mcubz=0.

  Channeling Chicago

  1.The conversations that follow can be seen in the “Rigging the Election” series. Video I, October 17, 2016, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2016/10/17/rigging-the-election-video-i-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/. Video II, October 18, 2016, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2016/10/18/rigging-the-election-video-ii-mass-voter-fraud/. Video III, October 26, 2016, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2016/10/26/rigging-the-election-video-iii-creamer-confirms-hillary-clinton-involvement/. Video IV, October 27, 2016, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2016/10/26/rigging-the-election-video-iii-creamer-confirms-hillary-clinton-involvement/.

  2.Project Veritas recording.

  Going Deep

  1.Allison Maass, “You Can’t Make Fun of Terrorists at the U. of Minnesota,” CampusReform, March 3, 2015 https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6329.

  2.Project Veritas recording.

  3.Project Veritas recording.

  4.Monica Davey and Julie Bosman, “Donald Trump’s Rally in Chicago Canceled after Violent Scuffles,” New York Times, March 11, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/us/trump-rally-in-chicago-canceled-after-violent-scuffles.html?_r=0.

  5.Ibid.

  6.Project Veritas recording.

  7.Jacob Gershman, “DNC Cuts Ties with ‘Donald Ducks,’ ” Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2016, https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/09/08/dnc-cuts-ties-with-donald-ducks/.

  8.Project Veritas recording.

  9.Democracy Partners, http://www.democracypartners.com.

  10.“Congresswoman’s Husband Pleads Guilty to Two Felonies,” USA Today, August 31, 2005, https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-08-31-congresswoman-husband_x.htm.

  Pulling Back the Curtain

  1.“Barbara Jordan’s Vision of Immigration Reform,” NumbersUSA, October 7, 2015, https://www.numbersusa.com/resource-article/barbara-jordans-vision-immigration-reform.

  2.WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3833.

  3.Project Veritas recording.

  Counting Down

  1.Aaron Adelson, “69-Year-Old Woman Allegedly Punched in Face by Trump Supporter outside NC Rally,”
WLOS, updated May 9, 2017, http://wlos.com/news/local/69-year-old-woman-punched-in-face-outside-rally-by-trump-supporter.

  2.Ibid.

  Always Be Closing

  1.Project Veritas recording.

  2.Natalie Shutler, “Cesar Vargas Is New York’s First Openly Undocumented Lawyer,” Vice.com, November 14, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gqda3/cesar-vargas-is-new-yorks-first-openly-undocumented-lawyer-v23n8.

  3.Project Veritas recording.

  4.Project Veritas recording.

  5.Project Veritas recording.

  Banned from Twitter

  1.Project Veritas recording.

  2.Zeke Miller, “Democratic Senate Campaign Catches Conservative Infiltrator,” Time, August 7, 2016, http://time.com/4456711/democratic-senate-campaign-catches-conservative-infiltrator/.

  3.Project Veritas recording.

  4.Lacey Rose and Marisa Guthrie, “Bill Bush Breaks His Silence on Trump, the ‘Access Hollywood’ Tape, NBC, and a Comeback Plan,” Hollywood Reporter, May 21, 2017, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/billy-bush-breaks-his-silence-trump-access-hollywood-tape-nbc-a-comeback-plan-1005744.

  5.“Caught on Camera: Clinton Staffer Says I Could ‘Grab [Her] Ass’ and Not Get Fired; Ripping Up Ballots Is ‘Fine,’ ” Project Veritas, October 12, 2016, http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/12/hidden-cam-clinton-staffer-brags-i-could-grab-coworkers-ass-and-not-get-fired-video/.

  6.#Grabthembytheass!, Twitter, October 12, 2016, https://twitter.com/hashtag/grabthembytheass.

  7.Original was deleted, captured on reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/57fvy5/to_reactive_twitter_account_james_okeefe_forced/.

  8.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 12, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/786263324036136960.

  9.Abby Ohlheiser, “Just How Offensive Did Milo Yiannopoulos Have to Be to Get Banned from Twitter?” Washington Post, July 21, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/07/21/what-it-takes-to-get-banned-from-twitter/?utm_term=.f85600098c0f.

  10.Jim Hoft, “Breaking: James O’Keefe Is Locked Out of Twitter,” Gateway Pundit, October 12, 2016, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/breaking-james-okeefe-locked-twitter-posting-videos-exposing-corruption-video/.

  11.MYBOYSPLAYBALL TWITTERFEED, October 14, 2016, http://myboysplayball.com/2012/10/30/and-the-bullet-takes-aim/.

  12.Real Jack, Twitter, October 12, 2016, https://twitter.com/RealJack.

  13.Frank Flag, Twitter, October 15, 2016, https://twitter.com/rightlyaligned/status/787155913123606529.

  14.Garbage Kekistani, Twitter, October 13, 2016, https://twitter.com/Kekistani_Proud/status/786637198057676800.

  15.Guy Benson, Twitter, October 12, 2016, https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/786417248629993473.

  16.“CLASSY: Kathy Griffin Tweet about Sarah Palin from 2009 Shows She’s Been Attacking Kids for Years,” Twitchy.com, June 4, 2017, http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/06/04/classy-kathy-griffin-tweet-about-sarah-palin-from-2009-shows-shes-been-attacking-kids-for-years/.

  17.Alex Pfeiffer, “Twitter Forces O’Keefe to Delete Tweet Critical of Hillary Staffer in Order to Get Account Back,” Daily Caller, October 13, 2016, http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/13/twitter-forces-okeefe-to-delete-tweet-critical-of-hillary-staffer-in-order-to-get-account-back/.

  18.About Twitter, https://about.twitter.com/company.

  Closing Up Shop

  1.Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out (espionage).

  2.Chris Kahn, “Clinton Leads by 7 Points as Trump Faces Grope Claims,” Reuters, October 14, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-poll-idUSKBN12E2CS.

  3.Joe Schoffstall, “David Brock Offers Money for New Dirt on Donald Trump,” Washington Free Beacon, September 15, 2016, http://freebeacon.com/politics/david-brock-offers-money-new-dirt-donald-trump/.

  4.Alex Seitz-Wald, “Democratic Super PAC to Pay for Dirt on Donald Trump,” NBC News, September 15, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/democratic-super-pac-pay-trump-dirt-n648591.

  Spiking the News

  1.This call was put on speaker and recorded on video.

  Breaking Through

  1.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 16, 2016, https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII.

  2.Gavin McInnes, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/Gavin_McInnes.

  3.Ethan Porter, “Drudge Has Lost His Touch,” Columbia Journalism Review, September 2009, http://archives.cjr.org/feature/drudge_has_lost_his_touch.php.

  4.“Post Sex Story about Clinton Gets the Spike,” Washington Times, March 25, 1994.

  5.Michael Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000).

  6.“History of University of Virginia on the Web,” University of Virginia, http://www.virginia.edu/virginia/archive/webstats.html.

  7.Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2002), 19.

  8.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/788140510749814786.

  9.Jake Tapper, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/search?q=Jake%20Tapper&src=typd.

  10.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/788151933278322688.

  11.Brit Hume, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/brithume/status/788143729383055360?lang=en.

  12.Brit Hume, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/brithume/status/788162054016249856?lang=eu.

  13.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/i/web/status/788173578399313920.

  14.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/821141663347277824.

  15.Bret Baier, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/search?q=Bret%20Baier&src=typd.

  16.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/788214349408108545?lang=en.

  17.Charlie Kirk, Twitter, October 17, 2016, https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/788207283981291520.

  18.“Make No Mistake: Leftists Are to Blame for Anarchy at Trump Rallies,” The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 14, 2016, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/03/14/make_no_mistake_leftists_are_to_blame_for_anarchy_at_trump_rallies/.

  19.Anderson Cooper 360, October 18, 2017, https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20161019_040000_Anderson_Cooper_360.

  Weaponized Autism

  1.Jacob Silverman, “Is Charles Johnson a Digital Darth Vader?” Politico, December 11, 2014, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/charles-johnson-a-digital-darth-vader-113522.

  2.Welcome to /r/IAmA, https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/wiki/pages/.

  3.00Spartacus, “Hi, I’m James O’Keefe. Ask me anything!” reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/57jd2p/hi_im_james_okeefe_ask_me_anything/.

  4.Ibid.

  5.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 10, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/785573385308962818?lang=en.

  6.Cybork91, Twitter, October 10, 2016, https://twitter.com/search?q=Cybork91&src=typd.

  7.James O’Keefe, Twitter, October 10, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/785586566710304769?lang=en.

  8.Melissa Gott, Twitter, September 28, 2016, https://twitter.com/MelissaGottNC/status/781263168773431296.

  9.James O’Keefe, Twitter, September 28, 2016, https://twitter.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/781263804948774912?lang=en.

  10.Project Veritas Action, “Major Hillary Donor Inside Dem Fundraiser: Blacks Are “Seriously F***ed in The Head,” YouTube, November 2, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1L1gNUPbTw.
r />   11.Thomas Friedman, “Online and Scared,” New York Times, January 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/opinion/online-and-scared.html?mcubz=3&_r=0. Friedman had used this phrase as early as 2009 on Meet the Press.

  12.Anonymous, 4chan, October 27, 2016, https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/94792066/.

  13.PrinceCamelton, “TONIGHT: James O’Keefe, award winning journalist and writer, will be joining us for AMA at 7:30 PM EDT!!” reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/57izps/tonight_james_okeefe_award_winning_journalist_and/.

  14.“Hi, I’m James O’Keefe. Ask me anything!” Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/57jd2p/hi_im_james_okeefe_ask_me_anything/ (all four citations).

  15.“Rigging the Election” series. Video I, October 17, 2016, https://www.projectveritasaction.com/2016/10/17/rigging-the-election-video-i-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-incite-violence-at-trump-rallies/.

  16.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/589pa4/zulema_rodriguez_the_female_riot_activist_in_the/d8ymyp2/.

  17.Thomas Kennedy, “Donald Trump’s Cuban-American Problem,” Huffington Post, October 4, 2016, http://archive.is/FPhIw#selection-3097.193-3097.199.

  18.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/589pa4/zulema_rodriguez_the_female_riot_activist_in_the/d8ymyp2/.

  19.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/589pa4/zulema_rodriguez_the_female_riot_activist_in_the/.

  20.WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12012.

  21.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/58f9kx/i_just_discovered_more_proof_verifying_statements/.

  22.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5809hx/i_found_proof_that_the_hillary_campaign_had_the/?limit=500.

  23.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/589pa4/zulema_rodriguez_the_female_riot_activist_in_the/d8ymyp2/.

  24.WikiLeaks, https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/3934.

  25.Reddit.com, https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5809hx/i_found_proof_that_the_hillary_campaign_had_the/?limit=500.