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How Undercover Journalism Turned the Tide in 2016 – American Thinker

Posted by M. C. on September 4, 2020

We train our people, and I work with a network of groups,” explained Foval. “We train them up on how to get themselves into a situation on tape, on camera, that we can use later.” Unwittingly, Foval was committing to video the way Democratic operatives were using their own people to foment violence at Trump rallies, for which Trump people were inevitably blamed.

“I’m saying we have mentally ill people that we pay to do shit. Make no mistake,” Foval continued. “Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel and a shower, and I put them in a program. Like I’ve done that. But the reality is, a lot of people, especially, our union guys, a lot of union guys, they’ll do whatever you want. They’re rock ‘n roll.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/09/how_undercover_journalism_turned_the_tide_in_2016.html

By Jack Cashill

In mid-October 2016, while on business in New York, I swung over to New Jersey to visit with my relatives.  At dinner that evening, my brother, then in in the early stages of TDS — it has since metastasized; pray for him — was gloating over Hillary’s impending victory.

I asked my brother if he were willing to bet on it.  He most certainly was.  He was sufficiently confident to give me 7 to 1 odds.  I took it.  Based on what I knew, I would have taken the bet at even money.  I had inside info.

Earlier in the day, I had popped up to visit James O’Keefe at the Project Veritas offices north of the city.  My timing was excellent.  O’Keefe was in the middle of rolling out his “Rigging the Election” series of undercover videos.

A few days earlier, O’Keefe had released as part of the series a video recorded by the irrepressible Laura Loomer.  Laura was twenty-three at the time.  If there is a ballsier journalist/activist in America, I have not met him.  Today, Loomer is the Republican candidate for Congress in Florida’s 21st District.

Loomer caught Alan Schulkin, a Democrat on New York’s Board of Elections, in a moment of rare candor.  “I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” admitted Schulkin.  “People don’t realize, certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote.”  When Loomer asked him to identify the neighborhoods, Schulkin specified black, Hispanic, and Chinese.

This was not a lead the major media were prepared to follow up on.  The New York Daily News attacked Project Veritas.  The New York Times did its best to ignore it.

O’Keefe’s next bombshell was harder to ignore.  A Project Veritas reporter had been posing as a young Democrat organizer named “Steve” in Wisconsin and gained the trust of the higher-ups, most notably Scott Foval.  Foval was then deputy director of People for the American Way, an outfit founded by TV producer Norman Lear and funded by George Soros among others.

Like many campaign strategists, Foval liked to boast.  He began by sharing with Steve the many ways in which Democrats move people around to affect the outcome of an election.  As though speaking to an imagined Republican, Foval claimed, “Well you know what?  We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f—— a——- for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now.”  Vote fraud is old news, but Foval moved into new territory: a phenomenon he called “bird-dogging.”

“You remember the Iowa State Fair thing where Scott Walker grabbed the sign out of the dude’s hand, and then the dude kind of gets roughed up right in front of the stage right there on camera?” Foval asked Steve.

“We train our people, and I work with a network of groups,” explained Foval.  “We train them up on how to get themselves into a situation on tape, on camera, that we can use later.”  Unwittingly, Foval was committing to video the way Democratic operatives were using their own people to foment violence at Trump rallies, for which Trump people were inevitably blamed.

“I’m saying we have mentally ill people that we pay to do shit.  Make no mistake,” Foval continued. “Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel and a shower, and I put them in a program.  Like I’ve done that.  But the reality is, a lot of people, especially, our union guys, a lot of union guys, they’ll do whatever you want.  They’re rock ‘n roll.”

Foval conveniently laid out the hierarchy of the bird-dogging network.  “The [Clinton] campaign pays DNC,” he told Steve.  “DNC pays Democracy Partners.  Democracy Partners pays The Foval Group.  The Foval Group goes and executes the s— on the ground.”

Foval reported directly to Bob Creamer at Democracy Partners.  “Bob Creamer is diabolical,” said Foval, “and I love him for it.  I have learned so much from that man over the last twenty years, I can’t even tell you.”  Bob Creamer, the husband of a Chicago-area congresswoman, had already served time for bank fraud, a useful credential for running the dirty tricks campaign against Donald Trump.

According to White House visitor logs, Creamer had made more than 340 trips to the White House while Obama was president, occasionally with Obama present at the meeting.  Foval described Creamer as “the black hat” to his “white hat.”

O’Keefe sat on the Foval video for months.  In the interim, through a clever and involved strategy, he and his Project Veritas team succeeded in getting a 21-year-old reporter, “Angela,” an internship at Democracy Partners.  Creamer took a shine to Angela, bringing her to the DNC offices and even inviting her to the White House, which opportunity she ducked lest she get busted for entering under a false identity.

Creamer shared some of the secrets of bird-dogging with his new intern.  He explained that “DREAMers” were some of their most effective troublemakers.  “They’re just pros at this,” said Creamer.  When Angela asked for clarification, Creamer explained, “Dreamers are the category of people brought here as children, as immigrants.”  He singled out one particular individual whose “crew is spectacular at it.”  For the record, these “pros” were in the country illegally.  That did not seem to bother Creamer.

“So Hillary is aware of all the work that you guys do, I hope?” Angela asked.  “Oh yeah,” said Creamer.  “Yes. The campaign is fully in it.”

When I headed back to New Jersey that day, I knew that all this and more was about to hit the news, and it hit powerfully enough to shift the momentum.  During the final Las Vegas debate, Trump did not hesitate to bring up the dirty tricks campaign Hillary and her people had orchestrated.

As I relate in my new book, Unmasking Obama, O’Keefe, Loomer, and scores of other irregular journalists did the investigative work the major media refused to during the Obama years.  Their efforts ultimately paved the way to Trump’s victory.

Let me conclude with a tip: if you’re taking book on 2020, factor in some more good dope from Project Veritas.

Jack Cashill’s new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency, is now widely available.  Also see http://www.Cashill.com.

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Project Veritas Catches Facebook Employees, Contractors Admitting to Political Censorship

Posted by M. C. on June 25, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/06/25/project-veritas-catches-facebook-employees-contractors-admitting-to-political-censorship/

by Allum Bokhari

James O’Keefe’s team of undercover journalists Project Veritas have released hidden camera footage of Facebook employees admitting to deliberate political bias, censorship of Trump supporters, as well as discrimination against conservative and white male employees.

A Facebook insider, Ryan Hartwig, has also come forward to Project Veritas to give his account of bias and discrimination at the company.

The hidden camera footage reveals a host of Facebook employees and contractors admitting to political bias.

Steve Grimmett, team lead for content review at Facebook can be heard admitting that he lumps the MAGA movement in with “Nazis” and “Hitler.” Grimmett can be heard telling an undercover reporter that he monitors “hate organizations” including “Hitler, Nazis, MAGA, you know, proud boys, all that stuff all day long.”

“We rig the game so it can work on the left side” admits another Facebook employee, who agrees that the company “100%” favors the left.

A content moderator at Cognizant, a firm that handles content moderation for Facebook, can also be heard saying she would accept a $81 million bounty placed on President Trump’s head by the government of Iran.

“It’s inhumane, but if it’s going to save the country why not do it?” asks Kassi Cimo, the content moderator. “We should just hand him over to them. Take the money, as a country, that’s what I’m saying. If we hand him over, our country would be saved, I’m just saying.”

“If I were to go in with a MAGA shirt or a MAGA hat I’d get my ass beat,” says another employee, apparently admitting to an atmosphere of political discrimination and intimidation at the company.

In further undercover footage, Facebook Senior HR manager Leslie Brown can be heard admitting that it’s easier for the company to fire white males because they aren’t able to sue the company for discrimination.

“They were able to fire him without having to worry about discrimination…” says an undercover reporter.

“Right, right. Because he’s a white man. Yeah, white man. So no problem.” – Leslie Brown, Senior HR manager, Facebook.

“Oh, it’s easier when they’re..” continues the reporter.

“..White men,” says Brown, completing the reporter’s sentence. “No one has the white man’s back anymore [laughs].”

Are you an insider at Google, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, or any other tech company who wants to confidentially reveal wrongdoing or political bias at your company? Reach out to Allum Bokhari at his secure email address allumbokhari@protonmail.com

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.

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Democrat Operative Admits: We’ve Been Rigging Elections “for 50 Years”

Posted by M. C. on February 28, 2020

I remember as a kid hearing dead Chicago voters got JFK elected.

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24452-democrat-operative-admits-we-ve-been-rigging-elections-for-50-years?fbclid=IwAR3VcA_YXhvT44aYOCaq1fI_13VigkZraP14iibKSEnLbfqTjjwVlv_9GYQ#

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“It’s a very easy thing for Republicans to say, ‘Well, they’re bussing people in.’ Well, you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f*****g a******s for 50 years and we’re not going to stop now.” So said Scott Foval, until recently the national field director for left-wing group Americans United for Change. The people he described so vulgarly are Republicans, and by “deal with” he was referring to committing vote fraud.

You know, that crime Democrats claim doesn’t exist.

Captured on video by a Project Veritas undercover reporter posing as a Democrat donor aiming to perpetrate a vote-fraud plot, Foval’s startling admissions come on the heels of an undercover video showing New York City’s Democrat election commissioner, Alan Schulkin, admitting that “there is a lot of voter fraud.”  But while Schulkin actually lamented that political operatives “bus people in,” Foval is one of the election thieves orchestrating the bussing — proudly (video below).

Despite the above, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was still asked at Wednesday’s debate whether he’d accept the November 8 election outcome, unconditionally; this is much like asking baseball fans if they’d accept their team’s loss even though it’s known the umpires are biased against their side and that the other team intends to cheat. And this political skullduggery has already been honed. As Zero Hedge reports, Project Veritas head James O’Keefe “reveals how people, like Foval, successfully organize massive voter fraud in key swing states. Among other things, Foval goes into great details about how fraudulent out-of-state voters are hired on at fake ‘shell companies’ just so they can register to vote and are then paid for their votes through ‘paychecks’ from those same entities. Foval goes on to detail how the operatives bring people in to different states, using their own personal vehicles or by having shell companies rent vehicles, instead of using busses which would make it easier to prove a conspiracy.” (Emphasis in original.)

The Project Veritas video also features a co-conspirator, Robert Creamer, whom Breitbart describes as “a veteran Chicago activist and convicted felon who is thought to have planned Democrats’ political strategy during the push for Obamacare in 2009 and 2010. Creamer is also the co-founder of Democracy Partners, a consulting group that, according to Project Veritas videos, apparently contracts directly with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, and that works with an array of super PACs and consultants to organize, film and publicize their provocations.” In fact, Creamer is so deeply embedded in the Democrat machine that he has visited the Obama White House 342 times since 2009.

Not surprisingly, Foval expressed admiration for this older manipulator, saying:

Bob Creamer is diabolical and I love him for it. I have learned so much from that man over the last twenty years, I can’t even tell you. And he calls me to be his firefighter a lot of the time, because there are people who in our movement will not do what it takes to get s**t done. And I’m not that person. I’m the one they send when everything has gone to s**t. And so he spends a lot of time on the phone with my boss asking me to go places that I don’t wish to go.

And what gets done? Foval explained, “We manipulated the vote with money and action, not with laws.” The fraudster continued:

It’s a pretty easy thing for Republicans to say, “Well, they’re bussing people in!” Well, you know what? We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f*****g a******s for 50 years, and we’re not going to stop now. We’re just going to find a different way to do it. So, I mean I grew up with that idea. They used to bus people out to Iowa. If they needed people there we’d bus people out to Iowa.

As for future schemes, Foval mentioned two other swing states, saying, “Honestly, the ripest environment to do it in? Two, within striking distance: Michigan, Indiana. Least restrictive donation caps and campaign finance laws and investigative arms, and any of that. Like they have weakened it so bad in those three states [sic], you could f*** your mother in front of the governor and not go to jail — if you have enough money to do this.”

What may enrage American patriots even more is that Foval put the Project Veritas reporter in touch with a Democrat operative who was willing to help facilitate a vote-fraud scheme — and who is also a Mexican-born illegal alien. The man’s name is Cesar Vargas, a New York lawyer and Creamer ally who is co-founder of the Dream Action Coalition. As for his criminal dream, he stated:

Like I said, this is not gonna happen this election. So I think it’s about, for us, let’s see who the next president is. If it … if it’s Donald Trump, it even makes more sense. The issue will be more credible and it’ll give us more opportunity to jump in there. If it’s Secretary Clinton, and the voter ID laws are losing and we have much more opportunity to vote, and we have immigration reform, it’s not going to be as significant, right?

Vargas also said in no uncertain terms, “Yeah, and for me I totally get it, this is illegal; this is something that can be done.”

As for Foval, he had expressed his determination to expand the scheme, saying that it could be put into practice “on a much bigger scale. You implement a massive change in state legislatures and in Congress. So you aim higher for your goals, and you implement it across every Republican-held state.”

Foval helped make clear part of the reason why vote fraud is mainly a Democrat province, saying in part 1 of the Project Veritas vote-fraud investigation (the video cited above is part 2), “There is a level of adherence to rules on the other side [Republicans] that only when you’re at the very highest level, do you get over.” But he clearly has no such moral encumbrances, saying in the video that it “doesn’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this m****rf****r.”

And Foval worried no more about the law than the “legal” people, telling the Project Veritas journalist, “The question is, whether when you get caught by a reporter, does that matter? Because does it turn into an investigation or not? In this case, this state [Wisconsin], the answer is no, because they don’t have any power to do anything.” And perhaps he’s right. Explaining why Project Veritas’ first vote-fraud video didn’t get wider exposure, James O’Keefe said that many media outlets “spiked the story at the last minute. Our sources tell us the reason they did so was fear of retaliation and retribution from a future Hillary Clinton Administration.”

Nonetheless, Foval was fired Monday by the Americans United for Change, which claimed that it “has always operated according to the highest ethical standards,” while Creamer announced Tuesday that he’d be “stepping back” from his work with the Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton. Of course, it’s almost a given that after a six-month hiatus, they’ll be back, with a different organization and perhaps in a different guise.

For more shocking evidence of how bad vote fraud has become, view the Fox News Sunday Morning Futures video below, which presents an investigation into the matter.

So how bad is vote fraud? The Washington Post reported in 2014 on a study showing that non-citizen voters might have already tipped US elections in Democrats’ favor. And the problem won’t go away if we just cede elections, say nice words, and abide by a rule of lawlessness.

Photo at top: sreen-grab from Project Veritas “Rigging the Election” video (part 2)

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YouTube Censors Project Veritas Video Exposing Anti-Christian Bias at Pinterest

Posted by M. C. on June 13, 2019

by Allum Bokhari

YouTube censored a video from undercover journalism outlet Project Veritas featuring an interview with a Silicon Valley insider who revealed anti-Christian censorship at the social media platform Pinterest.

YouTube users who navigate to the Project Veritas interview are now met with a message informing them that the video is “no longer available due to a privacy claim by a third party.”

The video can still be accessed at Project Veritas’ website. It reveals that Pinterest added Bible verses to a “sensitive terms” list and censored a major pro-life website as “pornography.”

This follows a similar act of censorship by Twitter, which restricted a tweet from Project Veritas revealing internal communications from Pinterest smearing conservative pundit Ben Shapiro as a “white supremacist.”

In a statement to Breitbart News, a YouTube spokesman said “The privacy of our users is important to us, that’s why we created robust privacy guidelines. If someone feels their privacy has been violated on YouTube, they can file a privacy complaint and we will promptly remove the content if it violates our guidelines.”

In a comment on Twitter, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe denounced YouTube’s censorship.

O’Keefe posted, “The established media and technology are so afraid of investigative journalism they need to censor it. YouTube calls REPORTING on someone by showing their face and name, and how they added a pro-life group to a porn blacklist, a ‘privacy complaint.’ Would they do this to NYT?”…

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First They Came for Alex Jones

Posted by M. C. on August 21, 2018

Norris went ghost in July 2010 and has not surfaced since. Unlike her former colleagues, it is not President Trump who worries her. To become an enemy of the media is to risk one’s career, one’s freedom, even one’s life.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/first_they_came_for_alex_jones.html

By Jack Cashill

This past week, the nation’s newspapers took collective umbrage at being called “the enemy of the people” by President Trump.

“That is what Nazis called Jews,” gasped the editors of the Kansas City Star.  “A form even appeared in Nazi Germany, when Jewish people were called an ‘enemy of the state,’” fretted the editors of the Topeka Capital-Journal.

These being the only two editorials I read, I have to imagine that many more of the roughly 400 protesting newsrooms engaged in some variation on the reductio ad Hitlerum theme. Even if all 400 did, no halfway sentient adult can take this self-indulgence seriously… Read the rest of this entry »

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Mexican Nationals Meddled and Colluded in the 2016 Election

Posted by M. C. on February 19, 2018

“Only in the Democratic Party could an illegal alien achieve such heights without disguising his illegality,” O’Keefe writes.  Apparently, Vargas had known Creamer for years.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/mexican_nationals_meddled_emandem_colluded_in_the_2016_election.html

Most importantly, perhaps, the Mueller investigation has established that meddling by foreign nationals in a U.S. election is real and problematic.  This being so, the DOJ and FBI might want to turn their attention to the role Mexican nationals played in the 2016 election.  They will not have to dig deep to find evidence.

A good place to start searching would be the audio the journalists of Project Veritas recorded in their undercover stings of the Hillary Clinton campaign.  To make the search easier, James O’Keefe has documented many of these conversations in his new book, American Pravda. Read the rest of this entry »

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James O’Keefe Busts YouTube Deciding What Is ‘Legitimate’ News, and What Isn’t – Breitbart

Posted by M. C. on October 12, 2017

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/10/11/james-okeefe-busts-youtube-deciding-legitimate-news-isnt/

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a follow-up to its exposé of bias at the New York Times earlier this week. This time, the target is YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing platform owned by technology giant Google.

Project Veritas picks up where the first video left off, in conversation with the Times‘ Audience Strategy Editor, Nicholas Dudich, a former Democratic campaign operative who was shown suggesting that his political views informed his work publishing Times videos on social media platforms. (The Times responded to that first video with a statement saying that Dudich had “violated our ethical standards and misrepresented his role” in editing video content, but admitting that “he was responsible for posting already published video on other platforms.”) Read the rest of this entry »

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Project Veritas Undercover Investigation: CNN Producer Admits Network Hyping ‘Mostly Bullsh*t’ Trump-Russia Scandal for ‘Ratings’ – Breitbart

Posted by M. C. on July 2, 2017

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/26/project-veritas-undercover-investigation-cnn-producer-admits-network-hyping-mostly-bullsht-trump-russia-scandal-for-ratings/

“Could be bullshit. I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now,” the CNN producer, John Bonifield, said in a video O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released on Tuesday, when asked about his thoughts on the Russia investigation. “Like, we don’t have any giant proof. Read the rest of this entry »

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Undercover video: NPR exec says NPR would be “far better off” without federal funds « Hot Air

Posted by M. C. on March 29, 2017

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/08/undercover-video-npr-exec-says-npr-would-be-far-better-off-without-federal-funds/

high-ranking NPR executive Ron Schiller bashes conservatives, Republicans, and the Tea Party as “white, gun-toting … xenophobic … seriously racist people.”

The big news for me comes when Schiller, who thinks he’s meeting with representatives from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) to discuss a $5 million donation to NPR to help MEAC “spread Sharia worldwide,” that NPR would do better without federal funding.

I don’t think we are in Minnesota any more Toto.

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James O’Keefe offers $10,000 awards for evidence of ‘media malfeasance’

Posted by M. C. on February 23, 2017

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/23/james-okeefe-project-veritas-leader-offers-10000-a/

Conservative sleuth James O’Keefe is ramping up his effort to take down the mainstream media by enlisting the help of ordinary citizens to go undercover and expose wrongdoing in newsrooms around the country. Read the rest of this entry »

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