• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    For people who don’t know, this is the same James O’Keefe from Project Veritas infamy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe

    He is quite literally a professional disinfo agent, a propogandist, a fake news inventer.

    This is the guy who became famous back in 09 for ‘breaking’ the ACORN story, which was almost entirely trumped up bullshit, and he basically set the standard for how to do a totally unhinged, disconnected from reality, fake ‘expose’.

    Back then, after about 6 months, even a fair number of Republicans realized this guy was full of shit. A year or so later, the GAO investigated his claims and found them to be bullshit, but ACORN had already been killed by Congress.

    Him doing shit like that is where Bannon got the idea of the just insane torrent of nonstop absurd hyperbolic bullshit, primarily as a means of energizing the base.

    Anyway, fast forward to recently, O Keefe got kicked out of his own organization because… oh oops, he was misapropriating funds, the thing he falsely accused ACORN of doing.

    Fuck this guy in particular.