House Republicans are calling for NPR CEO Katherine Maher to appear at a hearing on May 8 following a now former staffer’s allegations of bias in news coverage.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-wa), chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, joined with two other House Republicans in a letter to Maher. “The Committee has concerns about the direction in which NPR may be headed under past and present leadership,” they wrote. “As a taxpayer funded, public radio organization, NPR should focus on fair and objective news reporting that both considers and reflects the views of the larger U.S. population and not just a niche audience.” The hearing would be before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
Maher has defended the network after Uri Berliner, who had been a senior business editor and reporter, published an essay in The Free Press that claimed that the network lacked an “open minded spirit” and viewpoint diversity,...
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-wa), chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, joined with two other House Republicans in a letter to Maher. “The Committee has concerns about the direction in which NPR may be headed under past and present leadership,” they wrote. “As a taxpayer funded, public radio organization, NPR should focus on fair and objective news reporting that both considers and reflects the views of the larger U.S. population and not just a niche audience.” The hearing would be before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
Maher has defended the network after Uri Berliner, who had been a senior business editor and reporter, published an essay in The Free Press that claimed that the network lacked an “open minded spirit” and viewpoint diversity,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Jenna Ellis smiled in her mugshot. The former Trump attorney who was indicted alongside him and 17 others over an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results even made the Fulton County booking photo her profile picture on Twitter. “Those who mock me, my former client, and my God want to see me break and they aren’t going to get that satisfaction,” she told The New York Times in August.
On Tuesday, through tears, Jenna Ellis accepted a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors. Five years probation and some community service...
On Tuesday, through tears, Jenna Ellis accepted a plea deal from Georgia prosecutors. Five years probation and some community service...
- 10/24/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
James O’Keefe, the right-wing personality who made a name for himself by going undercover in an effort to dig up dirt on progressive organizations, has been using his former activist group’s funds for personal purchases, including luxury helicopter travel, DJ equipment, and liquor, an internal audit found.
O’Keefe, who founded the Project Veritas in 2011, is being accused of improper behavior in addition to inappropriately spending donor funds, according to a draft private internal audit of the group’s expenses conducted by an independent law firm and reviewed by The Washington Post.
O’Keefe, who founded the Project Veritas in 2011, is being accused of improper behavior in addition to inappropriately spending donor funds, according to a draft private internal audit of the group’s expenses conducted by an independent law firm and reviewed by The Washington Post.
- 9/6/2023
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Right-wing action group Project Veritas filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its founder, James O’Keefe, alleging he bullied staff, and violated his employment agreement by establishing a rival organization while still on Project Veritas’ payroll.
“Being known as the founder of an organization does not entitle that person to run amok and put his own interests ahead of that organization,” the filing, obtained by Rolling Stone, reads. “Defendant James O’Keefe (“O’Keefe”) failed in his duties to Plaintiff, Project Veritas, causing it serious and significant damage.”
According to the lawsuit,...
“Being known as the founder of an organization does not entitle that person to run amok and put his own interests ahead of that organization,” the filing, obtained by Rolling Stone, reads. “Defendant James O’Keefe (“O’Keefe”) failed in his duties to Plaintiff, Project Veritas, causing it serious and significant damage.”
According to the lawsuit,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
As Dominion Votings Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News rolls on toward an April trial, John Oliver took a moment Sunday night to shred Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch for creating “monsters” like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, then trying to disavow their words.
Those words, of course, came in the form of emails and text messages, which have been steadily released in court filings from Dominion. Quite a bit has come out, so here’s what you need to know: At the end of February, Dominion docs revealed that several Fox hosts, including Ingraham and Hannity, were privately bashing election deniers that were being brought on their shows in 2020.
Among the messages: “Sidney Powell is lying,” sent from Tucker Carlson to his producer Alex Pfeiffer on Nov. 16, less than two weeks after the election, and “Sidney Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is,” sent from Ingraham to...
Those words, of course, came in the form of emails and text messages, which have been steadily released in court filings from Dominion. Quite a bit has come out, so here’s what you need to know: At the end of February, Dominion docs revealed that several Fox hosts, including Ingraham and Hannity, were privately bashing election deniers that were being brought on their shows in 2020.
Among the messages: “Sidney Powell is lying,” sent from Tucker Carlson to his producer Alex Pfeiffer on Nov. 16, less than two weeks after the election, and “Sidney Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is,” sent from Ingraham to...
- 3/13/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
In a shocking development, the New York Young Republican Club has suspended Matthew Tyrmand, one of its prominent members and a member of the Board of Directors for Project Veritas. The suspension comes amid allegations that Tyrmand may have played a key role in the ousting of James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas. The […]
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- 2/25/2023
- by Grady Owen
- ShockYa
James O’Keefe, the political activist who founded the right-wing action group Project Veritas, has been forced out of leadership by the organization’s board, he said on Monday.
“I think it’s fitting that we’re here on Presidents Day,” O’Keefe remarked at the outset of an emotional 45-minute farewell speech he delivered to Project Veritas staff. He said the remarks, although being filmed, were intended only for them. “I’m going to try my best to speak from the heart.”
“Currently, I have no job at Project Veritas,...
“I think it’s fitting that we’re here on Presidents Day,” O’Keefe remarked at the outset of an emotional 45-minute farewell speech he delivered to Project Veritas staff. He said the remarks, although being filmed, were intended only for them. “I’m going to try my best to speak from the heart.”
“Currently, I have no job at Project Veritas,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Florida residents Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander both pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy charges, after they reportedly stole the diary of Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden and sold them to Project Veritas, which never published the material.
Project Veritas confirmed to the court that it paid for the rights to the diary, for 40,000 according to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Wiliams. Veritas founder James O’Keefe said the documents were innocently found at Ashley Biden’s home in Florida, and that they eventually turned them over to the police.
The prosecution still suspects greater involvement on Project Veritas’ part, suggesting that they may have directed Kurlander and Harris to steal necessary materials to authenticate Ashley’s diary after the initial theft.
This occurred in late 2020 and may have been part of a failed attempt to discredit Biden towards the end of the presidential election.
Project Veritas confirmed to the court that it paid for the rights to the diary, for 40,000 according to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Wiliams. Veritas founder James O’Keefe said the documents were innocently found at Ashley Biden’s home in Florida, and that they eventually turned them over to the police.
The prosecution still suspects greater involvement on Project Veritas’ part, suggesting that they may have directed Kurlander and Harris to steal necessary materials to authenticate Ashley’s diary after the initial theft.
This occurred in late 2020 and may have been part of a failed attempt to discredit Biden towards the end of the presidential election.
- 8/26/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
Two Floridians pleaded guilty in New York’s Southern District court to transporting the diary they stole from President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley in Florida shortly before the 2020 election to New York, where they were each paid $20,000 for it by the right-wing media group Project Veritas.
Prosecutors said that Project Veritas even asked Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander to return to Biden’s home in order to pilfer more materials for the organization. They agreed before meeting with a representative from Project Veritas in Florida to hand over additional stolen items.
Prosecutors said that Project Veritas even asked Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander to return to Biden’s home in order to pilfer more materials for the organization. They agreed before meeting with a representative from Project Veritas in Florida to hand over additional stolen items.
- 8/25/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
In the past decade, Project Veritas has repeatedly stirred the pot by surreptitiously recording community activists, abortion clinic staffers, union leaders, prominent media figures and others. Now, the outfit founded by James O’Keefe aims much higher — a petition before the Supreme Court to vindicate secret recordings from government overreach.
Specifically, Project Veritas is taking aim at a Massachusetts law that criminalizes the secret taping of public officials. O’Keefe’s outfit sees the ban there as an affront to free speech and the free press, while acknowledging, “This Court has never addressed the First Amendment implications of secret audio recording ...
Specifically, Project Veritas is taking aim at a Massachusetts law that criminalizes the secret taping of public officials. O’Keefe’s outfit sees the ban there as an affront to free speech and the free press, while acknowledging, “This Court has never addressed the First Amendment implications of secret audio recording ...
- 5/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the past decade, Project Veritas has repeatedly stirred the pot by surreptitiously recording community activists, abortion clinic staffers, union leaders, prominent media figures and others. Now, the outfit founded by James O’Keefe aims much higher — a petition before the Supreme Court to vindicate secret recordings from government overreach.
Specifically, Project Veritas is taking aim at a Massachusetts law that criminalizes the secret taping of public officials. O’Keefe’s outfit sees the ban there as an affront to free speech and the free press, while acknowledging, “This Court has never addressed the First Amendment implications of secret audio recording ...
Specifically, Project Veritas is taking aim at a Massachusetts law that criminalizes the secret taping of public officials. O’Keefe’s outfit sees the ban there as an affront to free speech and the free press, while acknowledging, “This Court has never addressed the First Amendment implications of secret audio recording ...
- 5/20/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Project Veritas has sued CNN for defamation over a segment in which one of its anchors commented on the group’s suspension from Twitter.
In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, the group claims that on Feb. 15, Ana Cabrera said that its suspension from Twitter was due to “spreading disinformation.” In fact, the group said, it was suspended for “repeated violations of Twitter’s policies prohibiting the sharing—or threats of sharing—of other people’s private information without consent.”
In the segment, Cabrera said, “We’re starting to see companies cracking down to try to stop the spread of misinformation and to hold some people who are spreading it accountable, Brian. For example, Twitter has suspended the account of Project Veritas, a conservative activist, uh, activist organization. At least that’s how they couch themselves … but this is part of a much broader crackdown, as we mentioned,...
In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, the group claims that on Feb. 15, Ana Cabrera said that its suspension from Twitter was due to “spreading disinformation.” In fact, the group said, it was suspended for “repeated violations of Twitter’s policies prohibiting the sharing—or threats of sharing—of other people’s private information without consent.”
In the segment, Cabrera said, “We’re starting to see companies cracking down to try to stop the spread of misinformation and to hold some people who are spreading it accountable, Brian. For example, Twitter has suspended the account of Project Veritas, a conservative activist, uh, activist organization. At least that’s how they couch themselves … but this is part of a much broader crackdown, as we mentioned,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
A months-long war of words between CNN and Project Veritas has escalated into an actual libel suit. On Tuesday, James O’Keefe’s outfit filed a complaint in Georgia after a CNN anchor discussed Twitter’s suspension of Project Veritas and attempted to explain that “this is part of a much broader crackdown… by social media giants on accounts that are promoting misinformation.”
Project Veritas is more accustomed to being a defendant in court over its brand of ambush journalism. The conservative group has largely been successful in fending off suits for surreptitiously recording targets, but O’Keefe certainly tempts ...
Project Veritas is more accustomed to being a defendant in court over its brand of ambush journalism. The conservative group has largely been successful in fending off suits for surreptitiously recording targets, but O’Keefe certainly tempts ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A months-long war of words between CNN and Project Veritas has escalated into an actual libel suit. On Tuesday, James O’Keefe’s outfit filed a complaint in Georgia after a CNN anchor discussed Twitter’s suspension of Project Veritas and attempted to explain that “this is part of a much broader crackdown… by social media giants on accounts that are promoting misinformation.”
Project Veritas is more accustomed to being a defendant in court over its brand of ambush journalism. The conservative group has largely been successful in fending off suits for surreptitiously recording targets, but O’Keefe certainly tempts ...
Project Veritas is more accustomed to being a defendant in court over its brand of ambush journalism. The conservative group has largely been successful in fending off suits for surreptitiously recording targets, but O’Keefe certainly tempts ...
- 4/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Twitter permanently banned James O’Keefe Thursday. The Project Veritas founder spent the preceding days posting videos taken of a CNN employee without that employee’s knowledge, in keeping with his organization’s practice of coverted recorded content, but in violation of Twitter’s policies.
O’Keefe, who had over 900,000 followers at the time of his suspension, told TheWrap that he plans to sue the social media platform.
“The account you referenced (@JamesOKeefeIII) was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesperson confirmed. “As outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, ‘You can’t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts,’ and ‘you can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.'”
The rep declined to elaborate on the claim that O’Keefe was running multiple fake accounts, including how many he was running or how they were used.
O’Keefe, who had over 900,000 followers at the time of his suspension, told TheWrap that he plans to sue the social media platform.
“The account you referenced (@JamesOKeefeIII) was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesperson confirmed. “As outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, ‘You can’t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts,’ and ‘you can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.'”
The rep declined to elaborate on the claim that O’Keefe was running multiple fake accounts, including how many he was running or how they were used.
- 4/15/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
CNN said it is involving “law enforcement” after James O’Keefe, the founder of the right-wing group Project Veritas, crashed a morning editorial call with CNN President Jeff Zucker and said Project Veritas would be releasing tapes from previously recorded phone calls.
“Legal experts say this may be a felony. We’ve referred it to law enforcement,” the CNN PR account tweeted on Tuesday in response to a video of the call O’Keefe posted on Twitter.
In the video, O’Keefe can be seen unmuting himself on a phone and telling Zucker, “We’ve been listening to your CNN calls for basically two months and recording everything. Just wanted to ask you some questions, if you have a minute. Do you still feel you are the most trusted name in news? Because I have to say from what I’ve been hearing on these phone calls, I don’t know about that.
“Legal experts say this may be a felony. We’ve referred it to law enforcement,” the CNN PR account tweeted on Tuesday in response to a video of the call O’Keefe posted on Twitter.
In the video, O’Keefe can be seen unmuting himself on a phone and telling Zucker, “We’ve been listening to your CNN calls for basically two months and recording everything. Just wanted to ask you some questions, if you have a minute. Do you still feel you are the most trusted name in news? Because I have to say from what I’ve been hearing on these phone calls, I don’t know about that.
- 12/2/2020
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
CBS News has removed a portion of a CBS This Morning segment on coronavirus testing that featured a Michigan hospital. But the network denies claims made in a new Project Veritas video that CBS News was behind any effort to stock a line of cars at the hospital’s drive-through testing site to make it look longer.
Instead, the network said that the hospital, Cherry Health, “informed us for the first time that one of their chief officers told at least one staffer to get in the testing line along with real patients.” But the network said that they did not have knowledge of this until after the segment aired on Friday.
The network’s response was to a new video from right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe’s group Project Veritas, which has for years targeted mainstream journalists on charges of bias.
The CBS This Morning segment featured shots of drive-through Covid-19 testing at the hospital,...
Instead, the network said that the hospital, Cherry Health, “informed us for the first time that one of their chief officers told at least one staffer to get in the testing line along with real patients.” But the network said that they did not have knowledge of this until after the segment aired on Friday.
The network’s response was to a new video from right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe’s group Project Veritas, which has for years targeted mainstream journalists on charges of bias.
The CBS This Morning segment featured shots of drive-through Covid-19 testing at the hospital,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
ABC News suspended correspondent David Wright ahead of the Wednesday release of a Project Veritas video, a network spokesperson told TheWrap Wednesday.
“Scoop: In response to tomorrow’s upcoming #ExposeABC release, @ABC News has Suspended the correspondent involved…Stay tuned,” wrote Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe on Tuesday night, hours before his latest stinging operation dropped. Project Veritas is a right-wing operation that seeks to discredit mainstream media outlets.
In the secretly-recorded video from Project Veritas, Wright appears to say he considers himself “a socialist.” He also seems to suggest that ABC has become a “profit center” for parent company Disney.
“You can’t watch ‘Good Morning America” without there being Disney princess or Marvel Avenger appearing,” Wright is recorded saying. “It’s all self-promotion.”
Later in the video, he says that ABC News “second-guesses” itself when it comes to covering President Trump to not appear biased against him. “That enables him,...
“Scoop: In response to tomorrow’s upcoming #ExposeABC release, @ABC News has Suspended the correspondent involved…Stay tuned,” wrote Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe on Tuesday night, hours before his latest stinging operation dropped. Project Veritas is a right-wing operation that seeks to discredit mainstream media outlets.
In the secretly-recorded video from Project Veritas, Wright appears to say he considers himself “a socialist.” He also seems to suggest that ABC has become a “profit center” for parent company Disney.
“You can’t watch ‘Good Morning America” without there being Disney princess or Marvel Avenger appearing,” Wright is recorded saying. “It’s all self-promotion.”
Later in the video, he says that ABC News “second-guesses” itself when it comes to covering President Trump to not appear biased against him. “That enables him,...
- 2/26/2020
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
ABC News said that it has suspended correspondent David Wright after right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe’s group Project Veritas caught him on video complaining about how politics is covered.
“Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News and the individuals involved,” the network said in a statement. “David Wright has been suspended, and to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned away from political coverage when he returns.”
In the heavily edited video posted on Wednesday, Wright can be heard being asked whether he considers himself a Democratic socialist. Wright replies that “more than that, I consider myself a socialist.”
It is not entirely clear what the context was for the conversation, but Project Veritas said that the undercover video was recorded during coverage of the New Hampshire primary. A source familiar with the situation...
“Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News and the individuals involved,” the network said in a statement. “David Wright has been suspended, and to avoid any possible appearance of bias, he will be reassigned away from political coverage when he returns.”
In the heavily edited video posted on Wednesday, Wright can be heard being asked whether he considers himself a Democratic socialist. Wright replies that “more than that, I consider myself a socialist.”
It is not entirely clear what the context was for the conversation, but Project Veritas said that the undercover video was recorded during coverage of the New Hampshire primary. A source familiar with the situation...
- 2/26/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
James O'Keefe, the veteran sitcom producer and frequent Garry Marshall and Miller-Boyett collaborator who worked on Mork & Mindy, Perfect Strangers, Full House and Family Matters, has died. He was 76.
O'Keefe died Oct. 31 of heart disease at his home in Bel Air, his wife, former Sony Pictures Studios executive Jan Kelly, announced.
His father was Dennis O'Keefe, an actor in such movies as The Leopard Man (1943), Brewster's Millions (1945), Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) and Follow the Sun (1951), and his mother was Steffi Duna, an actress and dancer who appeared in ...
O'Keefe died Oct. 31 of heart disease at his home in Bel Air, his wife, former Sony Pictures Studios executive Jan Kelly, announced.
His father was Dennis O'Keefe, an actor in such movies as The Leopard Man (1943), Brewster's Millions (1945), Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) and Follow the Sun (1951), and his mother was Steffi Duna, an actress and dancer who appeared in ...
- 11/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Network Staffers Unfazed by Project Veritas’ ‘Expose CNN’ Campaign: No One ‘Really Cares About This’
Staffers at CNN aren’t worried about the latest leaks from Project Veritas’ “Expose CNN” campaign, though the passcode to the network-wide 9:00 a.m. editorial call was changed ahead of Tuesday’s meeting. If anything, they’re annoyed at the “gross” tactics used to obtain undercover videos of junior staffers discussing network operations.
“I don’t even know what [it] is,” said one staffer when asked about Project Veritas’ latest campaign against the network.
“No one is talking about it,” said another.
Also Read: CNN Says No One in Project Veritas's #ExposeCNN 'Sting' Is a CNN Journalist
Monday, Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group that has tried to conduct previous sting operations to expose journalistic bias, released its latest video targeting CNN. The “Expose CNN” operation relies on video footage taken by Cary Poarch, who listened in on the morning editorial call and is promoted by Project Veritas and...
“I don’t even know what [it] is,” said one staffer when asked about Project Veritas’ latest campaign against the network.
“No one is talking about it,” said another.
Also Read: CNN Says No One in Project Veritas's #ExposeCNN 'Sting' Is a CNN Journalist
Monday, Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group that has tried to conduct previous sting operations to expose journalistic bias, released its latest video targeting CNN. The “Expose CNN” operation relies on video footage taken by Cary Poarch, who listened in on the morning editorial call and is promoted by Project Veritas and...
- 10/15/2019
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
Love him or hate him, James O'Keefe has been establishing legal precedence throughout the nation. A conservative activist, O'Keefe's Project Veritas pushes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking and investigative journalism through the use of undercover video and audio, and sometimes, fooling subjects — government officials, members of academia, community-based social organizations, etc. — into saying things they perhaps shouldn't.
Today's lesson in the art of ambush journalism comes from a Florida federal court, which has granted summary judgment to Project Veritas in a lawsuit. The lesson? If you're going to secretly record someone, maybe ...
Today's lesson in the art of ambush journalism comes from a Florida federal court, which has granted summary judgment to Project Veritas in a lawsuit. The lesson? If you're going to secretly record someone, maybe ...
- 4/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The New York twittersphere blew up yesterday afternoon as rumors began to circulate that conservative filmmaker/provocateur James O'Keefe had made a landing in their midst. It took only one day for O'Keefe to release a report of what he found. Despite posing as a banker in a disguise so transparent it made Clark Kent look like Lady Gaga, the protesters were by and large friendly to O'Keefe, offering him cake, and complimenting his suit, some with the objective of luring him into some sort of anti-capitalist get-rich-quick scheme.
- 10/12/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
London, Aug 30: Soul singer Beverley Knight is keen to become a mother after finding true love with her fiance.
The British star got engaged to production technician James O'Keefe in October last year and the two are planning to wed next summer, reports contactmusic.com.
Knight, 38, admits before she met O'Keefe, she had no desire to settle down - but now she is thinking about putting her music career on hold to be a mother in future.
'Before James I was happy being single and leaving children to everyone.
The British star got engaged to production technician James O'Keefe in October last year and the two are planning to wed next summer, reports contactmusic.com.
Knight, 38, admits before she met O'Keefe, she had no desire to settle down - but now she is thinking about putting her music career on hold to be a mother in future.
'Before James I was happy being single and leaving children to everyone.
- 8/30/2011
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Lawrence O'Donnell agrees on something with right-wing filmmaker James O'Keefe: the government is wasting tax dollars. That is, of course, where it ends, as O'Donnell explained during his "Rewrite" segment tonight how O'Keefe's latest video, depicting a fake Ira member applying for Medicaid, proves only that the government employee is "accustomed to dealing with crazy people," and that wasting tax dollars on an investigation of the office was an outrage.
- 7/21/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
The conservative activist James O'Keefe has returned with what he describes as "evidence of government employees gladly offering public assistance to individuals representing themselves as drug dealers." In comments recently to Fox News, O'Keefe, known for his video "stings" of NPR and Planned Parenthood among others, described his new work as "dwarfing" anything he's done before. The first video in a series has been posted today in a story on the Daily Caller.
- 7/18/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
You may remember Vivian Schiller, the former CEO of NPR, from her role in the media storm surrounding a sting video, created and edited by James O'Keefe, showing NPR executive Ron Schiller (no relation) making disparaging comments about Republicans and the Tea Party movement. Shortly after announcing her departure, Schiller vowed to return to media, saying she planned to remain in journalism. She's made good on that promise: Schiller is currently in talks with NBC News, where she will oversee digital projects.
- 6/1/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
The parallels between right-wing undercover dance-pop sensation James O'Keefe and left-wing (?) hacker/fashion icon Julian Assange have been long drawn out, but with every new interview the similarities become starker. O'Keefe visited John Stossel on his eponymous Fbn program to defend his tactics and asserted that, since "the public has a right to know... you simply don't have an expectation of privacy when you're discussing business matters."...
- 4/23/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
James O'Keefe is the provocative "film maker" who can successfully list Acorn and Vivian Schiller's career at NPR as toppled targets. However, his technique of filming his subjects with hidden camera and editing out important context have received fairly harsh criticism from reasonable people on both the left and the right. Somewhere in the last few weeks or months, O'Keefe and his friends must have gotten together and brainstormed for the proper response to all of the criticism directed his way, and came up with the following: a cheesy music video that fails a both earnest entertainment and ironic pastiche, but is unintentionally hilarious to watch!
- 4/19/2011
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
On Wednesday night's Colbert Report, conservative auteur and would-be Bizarro Captain Stubing James O'Keefe came perilously close to ensnaring host Stephen Colbert into his latest sting, an email effort to defer the cost of his so-called NPR sting video through online donations. Colbert saw through the plea as a ruse to associate himself with an unsavory criminal element, but didn't ask the obvious question: how did O'Keefe compose a five page fundraising email to pay for an NPR video, and not offer his donors a frickin' tote bag?...
- 3/31/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Mike Huckabee's remarks about Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy weren't incendiary-until Eric Hananoki got his hands on them and found just the right snippet to get the media fired up. Howard Kurtz on how partisan groups are deploying sound bites to discredit public figures.
Mike Huckabee, whose nonstop book-flacking is keeping him on the political radar, was doing a routine radio interview when the talk briefly turned to Natalie Portman.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Al Sharpton: Obama's Go-To Black Leader
Seattle host Michael Medved questioned how the 29-year-old actress could tout her pregnancy at the Oscars when she had not yet married her fiancé. The once-and-maybe-future presidential candidate replied that it was "troubling" to see "a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts" of having a child out of wedlock, because "there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions...
Mike Huckabee, whose nonstop book-flacking is keeping him on the political radar, was doing a routine radio interview when the talk briefly turned to Natalie Portman.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Al Sharpton: Obama's Go-To Black Leader
Seattle host Michael Medved questioned how the 29-year-old actress could tout her pregnancy at the Oscars when she had not yet married her fiancé. The once-and-maybe-future presidential candidate replied that it was "troubling" to see "a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts" of having a child out of wedlock, because "there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions...
- 3/30/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
Ex-npr CEO Vivian Schiller has made her first public remarks since her ouster, telling the International Women's Media Foundation in Washington D.C. that she's "not done" with a career in media. "I certainly plan to stay in journalism." Schiller resigned this month in the messy aftermath of a video "sting operation" conducted by James O'Keefe, which caught two NPR executives on hidden camera making critical comments about the Tea Party.
- 3/25/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
James O'Keefe, the self-described investigative journalist behind the NPR sting video, appeared on Reliable Sources and told Howard Kurtz that he was motivated to look into NPR after they improperly handled the firing of former contributor Juan Williams. Kurtz questioned whether O'Keefe's journalism tactics were unethical, but O'Keefe argued his form of investigative reporting was necessary to seek and find the truth.
- 3/13/2011
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
The former Morning Edition host rips the network's videotaped debacle, executive blunders, and Juan Williams fiasco-but defends its federal funding. Plus, Howard Kurtz on yet another NPR sting.
After three decades at National Public Radio, Bob Edwards views the turmoil at his former employer with a mixture of amazement and disgust.
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For all his complaints, Edwards says he fervently believes that NPR should continue to receive federal support in the wake of the House vote to eliminate its government subsidy and that of PBS.
"It seems cursed, doesn't it?" he says in an interview. "It's one thing after another." Likening the network to "that Al Capp character who walked around with a cloud over his head," Edwards says it has been "seriously damaged" by the mistakes that led to a high-level shakeup this week.
While this might seem like sour...
After three decades at National Public Radio, Bob Edwards views the turmoil at his former employer with a mixture of amazement and disgust.
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For all his complaints, Edwards says he fervently believes that NPR should continue to receive federal support in the wake of the House vote to eliminate its government subsidy and that of PBS.
"It seems cursed, doesn't it?" he says in an interview. "It's one thing after another." Likening the network to "that Al Capp character who walked around with a cloud over his head," Edwards says it has been "seriously damaged" by the mistakes that led to a high-level shakeup this week.
While this might seem like sour...
- 3/11/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
A new, second secret recording reveals a supposed donor being coached on avoiding an audit. Howard Kurtz on yet another NPR executive suspension.
Just when it seemed that National Public Radio had weathered the worst comes another storm, another setback, another suspension.
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Two days after forcing out its chief executive over an undercover sting that embarrassed the network, NPR put another top executive on leave Thursday following the release of a second surreptitious recording by conservative activist James O'Keefe.
In that audiotape, Betsy Liley, NPR's director of institutional giving, is heard advising a man posing as a wealthy Muslim donor on how the network could help "shield" his group from a government audit if it accepted the $5 million he was offering.
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said in a statement that Liley's comments on the tape "regarding the possibility...
Just when it seemed that National Public Radio had weathered the worst comes another storm, another setback, another suspension.
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Two days after forcing out its chief executive over an undercover sting that embarrassed the network, NPR put another top executive on leave Thursday following the release of a second surreptitious recording by conservative activist James O'Keefe.
In that audiotape, Betsy Liley, NPR's director of institutional giving, is heard advising a man posing as a wealthy Muslim donor on how the network could help "shield" his group from a government audit if it accepted the $5 million he was offering.
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm said in a statement that Liley's comments on the tape "regarding the possibility...
- 3/11/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
By now, many have heard about the undercover video of NPR's outgoing Senior Vice President for Development Ron Schiller railing against Tea Partiers and how NPR would be better off without public funding. But what most don't know is that the comments, particularly the funding talk, theaten to derail a new social media campaign NPR was planning to launch--one aimed at saving the very government funding Schiller said NPR could do without.
Before the somewhat manufactured scandal, Fast Company had learned that NPR was about to ramp up a sophisticated social media strategy to rally its politically savvy audience--a plan that included enlisting many of its nearly 800 local member stations. The new scheme was a second phase, coming roughly three months after NPR joined on as one of the partners in a national Facebook campaign spearheaded by American Public Media and the Association of Public Television Stations called "170 Million Americans...
Before the somewhat manufactured scandal, Fast Company had learned that NPR was about to ramp up a sophisticated social media strategy to rally its politically savvy audience--a plan that included enlisting many of its nearly 800 local member stations. The new scheme was a second phase, coming roughly three months after NPR joined on as one of the partners in a national Facebook campaign spearheaded by American Public Media and the Association of Public Television Stations called "170 Million Americans...
- 3/10/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
Piers Morgan is turning out to have a knack for uniting otherwise natural enemies. To discuss the current mess at NPR prompted by comments former NPR employee Ron Schiller made about the Tea Party being racist, Morgan got NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard to share airtime with James O'Keefe mentor Andrew Breitbart, and while their rhetorical paths did not cross, they both gave Morgan some important insight into the story.
- 3/10/2011
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
NPR's federal funding is at risk and CEO Vivian Schiller is out after conservative activist James O'Keefe caught an NPR executive on camera railing against the Tea Party-but O'Keefe tells Howard Kurtz he's not pursuing a right-wing agenda.
On Monday, Vivian Schiller took the podium at the National Press Club to passionately defend the mission of National Public Radio, even as she acknowledged her own management mistakes.
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By Wednesday morning, she had been forced out, courtesy of James O'Keefe, the man who famously dressed up as a pimp in an undercover sting against Acorn. The conservative activist had faded from the news, nine months after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's office under false pretenses.
Most of the coverage has ignored the deception involved in O'Keefe's latest scheme,...
On Monday, Vivian Schiller took the podium at the National Press Club to passionately defend the mission of National Public Radio, even as she acknowledged her own management mistakes.
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By Wednesday morning, she had been forced out, courtesy of James O'Keefe, the man who famously dressed up as a pimp in an undercover sting against Acorn. The conservative activist had faded from the news, nine months after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's office under false pretenses.
Most of the coverage has ignored the deception involved in O'Keefe's latest scheme,...
- 3/10/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
At last year's Cpac convention, Andrew Breitbart and I had a much-publicized dustup over conservative dress-up artiste James O'Keefe (he of the undercover NPR "sting" video), concerning the racial overtones of O'Keefe's choice to wear a pimp costume in the intro to his Acorn videos. That encounter didn't go so well, but this year's Cpac offered a fresh chance to discuss the issue. During a long lunch with Breitbart, liberal filmmaker Lee Stranahan, and liberal blogger Mike Stark, I finally got an answer to my question.
- 3/9/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
NPR is embroiled in yet another scandal as pressure from conservatives mounts to de-fund the public radio broadcaster. NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned this morning as a fallout of conservative activist James O'Keefe posting a hidden-camera video of senior NPR executive Tom Schiller (no relation) bashing the tea party movement as "racist" and "xenophobic" and saying that NPR would be better off without federal funding. (Tom Schiller resigned after his statements were made public. On Wednesday, he also pulled out of what was to be his next job, at the nonprofit Aspen Institute, citing the controversy.) Last year, Vivian Schiller came under fire for the dismissal of longtime analyst Juan Williams over his comments on Fox News Channel that he feels uncomfortable when he sees people in Muslim garb on planes. "The Board accepted (Schiller's) resignation with understanding, genuine regret, and great respect for her leadership of NPR these past two years,...
- 3/9/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Most of the early reporting on the so-called "sting" of NPR executives by operatives of James O'Keefe's "Project Veritas" identify O'Keefe as the person behind the Acorn videos, describing him as a "conservative activist," "master of the video sting," even a scare-quoted "investigative journalist," and while some reports included references to O'Keefe's arrest for an incident at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office, all but one omitted any mention of O'Keefe's plot to strand a female reporter on a boat loaded with sex toys and hidden cameras.
- 3/8/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
When a young reporter prank-called Wisconsin's union-busting governor this week, he joined a new golden age of political high jinks. From the blogger who brought down Acorn to the McCain volunteer who claimed she was attacked by Obama cronies, David A. Graham revisits the best capers.
The Yippies and Will Rogers might be long gone, but political humor is far from dead-as a prank call to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday proved. Ian Murphy, a writer with the alternative-news site Buffalo Beast, managed to talk to Walker under the pretense of being billionaire conservative benefactor David Koch, calling to encourage Walker in his battle against public unions. Murphy got a few titillating tidbits out of Walker-including the fact that Walker considered using "troublemaker" plants and preliminary acceptance of an unethical gift-but the main goal was embarrassment, and that appears to have worked just fine.
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The Yippies and Will Rogers might be long gone, but political humor is far from dead-as a prank call to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday proved. Ian Murphy, a writer with the alternative-news site Buffalo Beast, managed to talk to Walker under the pretense of being billionaire conservative benefactor David Koch, calling to encourage Walker in his battle against public unions. Murphy got a few titillating tidbits out of Walker-including the fact that Walker considered using "troublemaker" plants and preliminary acceptance of an unethical gift-but the main goal was embarrassment, and that appears to have worked just fine.
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- 2/25/2011
- by David A. Graham
- The Daily Beast
Finding a classic like Barbie in the news during the holiday season is no surprise, though at the culmination of a year that brought us new Wikileaks revelations, "Put Him in Bucca," and James O'Keefe's "Palace of Pleasure," it's especially apt that this year's trendy doll comes with an air of intrigue. Meet "Video Girl Barbie," a doll with a hidden camera in her chest that may pose a threat to children, and doubles as a weapon of espionage.
- 12/4/2010
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
British soul star Beverley Knight is determined to sing at her upcoming nuptials, despite wedding magazine advisers warning against doing so. The singer became engaged to her production technician boyfriend James O'Keefe on Halloween, October 31 and she's aiming to wed in 2012, once she completes her current work commitments.
But Knight is already sure about one aspect of her big day - she intends to serenade her new husband and their guests at the reception. She tells U.K. TV host Lorraine Kelly, "Halloween was very special because I got engaged. He's definitely an all round gorgeous man... I'm hoping that it (the wedding) will be 2012 because I've got to get this album done, the tour, and he's got lots of stuff going on himself."
"All the magazines that I've now been buying say, 'Oh no, don't sing, don't sing'. But I can't hear music and not sing... it's got to be done!
But Knight is already sure about one aspect of her big day - she intends to serenade her new husband and their guests at the reception. She tells U.K. TV host Lorraine Kelly, "Halloween was very special because I got engaged. He's definitely an all round gorgeous man... I'm hoping that it (the wedding) will be 2012 because I've got to get this album done, the tour, and he's got lots of stuff going on himself."
"All the magazines that I've now been buying say, 'Oh no, don't sing, don't sing'. But I can't hear music and not sing... it's got to be done!
- 11/11/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
British singer Beverley Knight is engaged - but the star is so busy working, she's putting the wedding off until at least 2012. The "Shoulda Woulda Coulda" hitmaker was delighted when her production technician boyfriend James O'Keefe proposed recently.
But Knight admits she's so busy working on a follow-up to her 2009 album "100%", she has no time to plan their nuptials. She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "I wasn't expecting it and what with the new album, our wedding won't be any time next year."
The Mobo Awards winner said last year during her tour that she would release a new studio album, her seventh, in 2012.
But Knight admits she's so busy working on a follow-up to her 2009 album "100%", she has no time to plan their nuptials. She tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "I wasn't expecting it and what with the new album, our wedding won't be any time next year."
The Mobo Awards winner said last year during her tour that she would release a new studio album, her seventh, in 2012.
- 11/5/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Earlier today, James O'Keefe released a statement in which he expanded upon his initial denial that he planned to sexually humiliate CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau, a denial that is belied by additional evidence presented in Boudeau's "Right on the Edge" documentary. In addition to the "CNN Caper" document that outlined the plan, Boudreau also released emails and telephone recordings that corroborated key elements of the plot. We reached out to Boudreau to see if she had a reaction to O'Keefe's statement. Her response was brief and to the point:...
- 10/5/2010
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Since the story of conservative Acorn slayer James O'Keefe's attempt to sexually humiliate CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau broke on Wednesday, ever-more disturbing details have emerged. Saturday night's airing of Right on the Edge, the Boudreau documentary about which she and O'keefe were supposed to meet, fills in a few more blanks, and reveals just how monumental a screwup this was for O'Keefe.
- 10/3/2010
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
It was a week straight out of a media critic's dreams, or a surrealist filmmaker's screenplay: Rahm Emanuel's tenancy issues, James O'Keefe's "palace of pleasure," and Rick Sanchez's spontaneous combustion. With so much of import going on in the world, makes sense that the media mostly missed the fact that the Ecuadorian police force tear-gassed President Rafael Correa and quarantined him in a hospital as his shouted "kill me! kill me!"...
- 10/2/2010
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
Conservative reaction to James O'Keefe's alleged plot to sexually humiliate CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau has been almost uniformly harsh. Until now, aside from a few tangential tweets, O'Keefe mentor and benefactor Andrew Breitbart has been silent on the matter. Those waiting to take their cues from the influential conservative media figure can now let the pigeons loose, as Breitbart has released a statement in which he praises Boudreau, and calls O'Keefe's plot "patently gross and offensive."...
- 10/2/2010
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Aside from several segments on her own network, CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau's tale of attempted sexual humiliation by conservative activist James O'Keefe has gotten scant coverage on cable news. Popular Fox News late-night yuckfest Red Eye at least tried to cover the story last night, and while there was some mockery of O'Keefe, the overall effect was to deflect and trivialize what O'Keefe is alleged to have done. The segment begins with a misguided comparison to Stephen Colbert's congressional testimony, and ends with panelist Ann Coulter lamenting the fact that "narc" Izzy Santa prevented Boudreau from "rolling in the condoms."...
- 9/30/2010
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
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