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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Excellent Links / Friday Night Open Thread: Project Veritas, Going Through Some Things

Friday Night Open Thread: Project Veritas, Going Through Some Things

by Anne Laurie|  August 18, 20239:20 pm| 160 Comments

This post is in: Excellent Links, Grifters Gonna Grift, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Schadenfreude

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James O’Keefe said he was exposing waste, fraud & abuse: Now he’s Under Investigation for Looting Project Veritas https://t.co/fzz8G6Zuuu

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) August 18, 2023

It won’t bring back ACORN, but any day where James ‘JOKe3’ O’Keefe III and his merry band of Repub ratf*ckers come under legal scrutiny is a pretty good day for me.

Due props to The Nation for getting there first:

… While the exact nature of the investigation is not yet public, the timing would suggest that it relates to O’Keefe’s alleged financial improprieties during his tenure as the group’s chairman and CEO. Back in February, O’Keefe was accused of spending “an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries” by the conservative nonprofit’s own board of directors, amid their very public feud over the management and future of Veritas. Westchester DA Miriam Rocah’s probe follows a raft of civil lawsuits, criminal investigations, and six-figure court losses that have trailed the group under O’Keefe’s leadership—including a still-active federal investigation into the theft of property belonging to President Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden…

Attorneys for Project Veritas also filed a civil complaint against O’Keefe in federal court this past May, accusing the ostensible investigative reporting outfit’s original hidden-camera sting artist of breaching his contract and fiduciary duties to the group, among other counts. Despite that pending litigation, made public alongside a detailed new timeline reiterating the board’s own version of its disputes and grievances with O’Keefe, Veritas says that the organization did not prompt the Westchester DA’s investigation into its former leader via a formal criminal referral…

… O’Keefe has made a name for himself by attempting to unearth further supposed malfeasance by liberal activists, politicians, and institutions—as well as by his perceived foes in the establishment media and Big Tech. Multiple people caught up in O’Keefe’s investigations have lost their livelihoods in the frequently incoherent and often inaccurate publicity maelstroms that have followed the typical Project Veritas exposé: nonprofit workers, Obamacare navigators, NPR executives, public school teachers, and news media employees among them.

In October 2021, a federal judge finally stated the obvious about O’Keefe’s latter day Nixonian dirty tricksters, declaring that it was acceptable for litigants to refer to Project Veritas in open court as a “political spying operation.”…

Following O’Keefe’s attempt to unilaterally fire Veritas Chief Financial Officer Tom O’Hara, in contravention of the 501(c)3’s bylaws, and O’Keefe’s own surprise resignation this past February, the Veritas board published a preliminary tally of its former leader’s financial misdeeds.

Pending a “third party investigative audit,” the board accused O’Keefe of spending “$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor,” blowing over $150,000 on high-end limo services, and taking thousands of dollars more for personal DJ equipment. O’Keefe, they said, also requisitioned $60,000 for “dance events,” including the production of a semi-autobiographical pop music celebration of his life in muckraking: the Project Veritas Experience. Such self-indulgent expenditures would be what’s known within the Internal Revenue Code for tax-exempt 501(c)3s as “inurement.”…

It’s unclear how this parallel audit, or the group’s new civil complaint against O’Keefe, will aid or hinder the Westchester DA’s criminal investigation already underway. One former PV executive says that the DA sent a request to Veritas for “all financial docs” relevant to the case back in the second week of April—and another long-serving senior-level member of the group confirmed, saying, “We have complied and given them information.” In all cases, these sources close to Veritas would speak only on the condition of anonymity, citing either legal exposure from the group’s onerous use of nondisclosure agreements or physical threats made by O’Keefe’s incensed fanbase—or both.

Compounding all this scrutiny on O’Keefe’s past financial behavior, Veritas board member Matthew Tyrmand—the far-right Polish nationalist, Steve Bannon protégé, and alleged architect of O’Keefe’s ouster, according to O’Keefe’s diehard defenders—resigned last month…

O’Keefe was lucky in his timing when the Great ACORN Drama broke, and he’s kept afloat on the rich right-wing grifter tide ever since through a combination of media-friendly ‘dramatics’ and a Gish gallop of dishonesty at every turn — you couldn’t get a grip on one thread of malfeasance without a dozen squirmy little monsters & malefactors dropping out of the web. But there are far bigger and more professional grift-groups roaming the ‘conservative’ networks these days (*cough* TFG *cough*). When he was fired / jumped ship from Project Veritas back in February, seemed pretty clear Jimmy wanted to get ahead of the prosecutorial pitchforks & torches by hiving off a ‘new’, ‘totally different’ grifteration… but, Murphy willing, he may just have made too many enemies among his PV running buddies to slide out with a tap on the wrist, this time.

The Associated Press:

… The organization [PV] sued O’Keefe in May, accusing him of breaching his contract with “incredibly troubling workplace and financial misconduct,” including screaming at colleagues, exposing employees to obscene messages and having staffers run errands for him, such as picking up laundry and cleaning his boat.

Among O’Keefe’s lavish spending, the organization alleges, were: $10,000 for a helicopter flight from New York to Maine; more than $150,000 on private car services over an 18-month span; and expensive stays in luxury hotel suites while other employees were forced to stay in budget accommodations.

According to the lawsuit, Project Veritas’ board had intended to reinstate O’Keefe from his suspension “with appropriate safeguards,” but ultimately terminated his employment in May after he claimed in media interviews that the organization had fired him to appease a pharmaceutical company over its reporting on COVID-19…

Neither Project Veritas nor any staffers have been charged with a crime [*], and the group has said its activities were protected by the First Amendment.

*Yet.

Vanity Fair: “James O’Keefe Is Under Investigation and Project Veritas Is Finally Going to S–t”

A mass ouster of employees from right-wing media group Project Veritas this week has left the company’s future in question, with a threadbare staff and serious fundraising concerns, say newly laid-off employees. https://t.co/QkRGQpy8AJ

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 18, 2023

… O’Keefe was removed from his leadership role with Project Veritas in February, after employees signed a joint letter accusing him of being “a power-drunk tyrant” who allegedly wasted company funds on personal expenses and was supposedly “outright cruel” to colleagues. Project Veritas later sued O’Keefe for alleged financial impropriety, and the District Attorney in Westchester, New York has opened an investigation into him, the Nation reported this week.

But employees who remained at Project Veritas said the company’s post-O’Keefe era wasn’t so great either. Staffers who were terminated this week complained that Project Veritas’ new CEO, Hannah Giles, struggled to fundraise and to articulate a clear mission for the company…

Project Veritas terminated five employees on Monday and 20 on Thursday, according to two former employees who were laid off. “We went from 43 to 18,” one of those former employees told The Daily Beast…

After O’Keefe’s ouster, Giles had been a promising candidate to return Project Veritas to conservatives’ favor. She co-starred in a 2009 sting video O’Keefe produced against the group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). In the video, Giles posed as a sex worker and O’Keefe as a pimp soliciting money. The clip catapulted O’Keefe to conservative stardom…

The optimism soon soured. Two recent Project Veritas employees accused Giles and her inner circle of being inefficient fundraisers, and of sending employees to chase impossible tips on stories whose subjects never materialized…

The differences extended to editorial decisions, including Giles’ alleged emphasis on a document cache that colleagues believed to be little more than a nothingburger. Recent employees claimed Giles had represented the documents as containing proof that China was manufacturing a bioweapon…

From what I can garner on twitter — not gonna befoul my beautiful mind digging into other RW sources — the usual wingnut mob is predictably ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS!!!! about this whole mishegas. They’re slightly handicapped, at this point in time, because they haven’t yet decided whether That Giles beyotch set him up!, or Biden’s DoJ minions at it again!, or (I suspect this one has legs, because QAnon) Proof that Big Pharma and the ChiComs are about to release another vaxx-based bioweapon!!!. I’m sure the leading Very Serious Media Mouthpieces will have the narrative smoothed out in time for the Sunday morning talk shows. (And it will be bad news for Democrats / good news for TFG, too also.)

The career arc of Sarah Palin should’ve warned Giles that ‘Conservatives’, as they are now, would never accept a mere female as the head of a proper conservative grift operation. A pretty face is all very well on the promotional material, but when it comes to the important things like money / power, one Y chromosome is among the absolute minimum requirements for leadership. I *do* hope that, since she’s been a JOKe3 ‘partner’ for so long, she’s been smart / self-aware enough to have collected enough evidence to bury her business ex under the jail… because why not be a Friday-night optimist, in a deeply Cynical way?

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  1. 1.

    gwangung

    August 18, 2023 at 9:21 pm

    Snicker.

  2. 2.

    SpaceUnit

    August 18, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    Chickens / roost.  Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

  3. 3.

    MagdaInBlack

    August 18, 2023 at 9:25 pm

    My favorite Sociology prof left teaching to work for ACORN. I don’t know where he is now, but I do know this is making him smile.

  4. 4.

    SpaceUnit

    August 18, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    I had an epiphany today while watching a clip from 60 Minutes.  TFG is absolutely fucked down in Georgia.  It’s going to be Republican government officials that bury that son of a bitch.

    I’d seen it before but hadn’t really considered it in the context of an actual trial.

    He’s so fucked.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    @MagdaInBlack: Probably a bittersweet smile.  How did we let them destroy Acorn?

  6. 6.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 9:33 pm

    Perhaps they can get Mike Lindell to investigate.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    August 18, 2023 at 9:34 pm

    Loony, loonier, looniest.

    One of the featured speakers at Lindell’s wackadoodle thing this week was Emerald Robinson, who proved herself too chock full o’ nuttiness for Newsmax back in 2021.

  8. 8.

    Yarrow

    August 18, 2023 at 9:35 pm

    Fyi, Nitter.net is up and running again.

  9. 9.

    Baud

    August 18, 2023 at 9:36 pm

    I like it when bad things happen to bad people.

  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    @Baud: You should write a book about that!

    edit: but none of us on Balloon Juice could be in it.

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 18, 2023 at 9:40 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
      We could sign waivers.

  12. 12.

    japa21

    August 18, 2023 at 9:41 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Not that we haven’t had bad things happen but we are all such goody two shoes.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    August 18, 2023 at 9:42 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Hope and Chain Gangs

  14. 14.

    Quaker in a Basement

    August 18, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    That guy is #4 on my list of conservative assholes I’d like to see in prison, behind Stone, Giuliani, and you=know-who.

  15. 15.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 18, 2023 at 9:44 pm

    Man who based his career on being dishonest turns out to be dishonest!

  16. 16.

    Baud

    August 18, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It’s already part of the Balloon Juice terms and conditions.

  17. 17.

    RevRick

    August 18, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    Have you seen the commercials for Americans for Prosperity? They are what I suspected: a front for hack rightwing economic policies.

    Their answer to climate change? Screw the kids and grandkids and produce and burn more fossil fuels. Let the world burn as long as billionaires can add to their I’ll-gotten wealth.

  18. 18.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 9:45 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Yeeeesss

  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    @Baud: Literal LOL

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 18, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    @Baud: It’s okay.  I signed Steve in the WTF’s name.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: There is that!

  22. 22.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    Speaking of assholes, what’s up with the Wohle character & sidekick?

  23. 23.

    RaflW

    August 18, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    Besides the obvious of calling it Project Very-TAAS, since it’s as reliable and ethical as the Russian state news organ, I’m certainly happy to see yet another GOP-aligned p.o.s. having some accountability.

    Pretty amazing how the Brookses, Douthats and so on never seem to put 2 + 2 (and 2 more, and 2 more after that…) together to realize the whole thing, back to McCord, Hunt, Atwater and right through to Manafort & Stone has been bamboozlers and outright lawbreakers.

  24. 24.

    bbleh

    August 18, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    Wait … what?  A paragon of honesty like James O’Keefe, accused of embezzling funds from his right-wing affinity fraud operation campaign for truth and good government??  It’s unpossible!

  25. 25.

    Scout211

    August 18, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    It’s no wonder that they are running out of money. I’m thinking that the times have changed politically so much that there really is no need for a gotcha-type private organization to expose what they’d like people to believe are Democrats’ underhanded schemes, fraud and malfeasance.

    The Republican House leadership does that now all on their own.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    August 18, 2023 at 9:49 pm

    @RevRick

    Drill Melt, baby, drill melt.
    //

  27. 27.

    Scout211

    August 18, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    @bbleh: And as TIFG says, “if you’re famous they let you do it.”

    I guess O’Keefe wasn’t quite as famous as he thought he was, the dance video notwithstanding.

  28. 28.

    RaflW

    August 18, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    Ahem.

    The career arc of Sarah Palin should’ve warned Nikki Haley (currently in 5th place behind four men in RCP’s aggregate) that Conservatives, as they are now, would never accept a mere female as the head of a proper Republican presidential ticket.

    Heck, that RINO squish Mike Dense is ahead of Nikki!

  29. 29.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 9:54 pm

    I can’t believe the board let him get away with that spending shit. They had to have known, or were completely incompetent.

  30. 30.

    CaseyL

    August 18, 2023 at 9:57 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: ​
     

    Por que no los dos?

  31. 31.

    RaflW

    August 18, 2023 at 9:57 pm

    @Scout211: “The Republican House leadership does that now all on their own.”

    With exactly the skill, deep research and panache of a Project V. ‘sting’, to boot!

  32. 32.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: I think you spelled complicit wrong. :-)

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 9:58 pm

    @RaflW: Female and brown!

  34. 34.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 9:59 pm

    @CaseyL: true, true

  35. 35.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:01 pm

    @WaterGirl: that’s the word I needed!

  36. 36.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 18, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    Awwww one shitstain fleeced other shitstains.

    Too bad!  So sad!  Fuck ’em!

  37. 37.

    Jackie

    August 18, 2023 at 10:04 pm

    @SpaceUnit: Watching that brought back the stunned shock of listening to that recorded phone call when it was first released. Whenever the Fulton County trial finally happens, the jurors listening to that phone conversation – many maybe for the first time – will be stunned. There’s no other adjective that encompasses the reaction to hearing that phone call for the first time. Other adjectives will follow; such as disgust, anger, shock, dismay… but stunned will be the first.

  38. 38.

    Alison Rose

    August 18, 2023 at 10:07 pm

    Delicious. I hope he’s very unhappy.

  39. 39.

    Dan B

    August 18, 2023 at 10:08 pm

    I thought I read that O’Keefe had an Only Fans account.  If so then sexual assault might be on the list.

  40. 40.

    Jackie

    August 18, 2023 at 10:08 pm

    @RaflW: Especially one that’s not flaxen blonde, blue eyed, with a pasty white complexion.

  41. 41.

    BC in Illinois

    August 18, 2023 at 10:10 pm

    @RevRick:

    Have you seen the commercials for Americans for Prosperity? They are what I suspected: a front for hack rightwing economic policies.

    “Americans for the Prosperity of Charles Koch and Family”

  42. 42.

    SpaceUnit

    August 18, 2023 at 10:11 pm

    @Jackie:

    Yep.  I think Fani Willis could get a conviction with nothing else but those two officials’ testimony.  But she’ll have a whole lot more.  He’s screwed.

  43. 43.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 18, 2023 at 10:15 pm

    O’Queef doesn’t have an ethical bone in his body. It’s no surprise that he is accused of neglecting his “fiduciary duties”. He’s just another reactionary grifter.

  44. 44.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 18, 2023 at 10:16 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Fyi, Nitter.net is up and running again. 

    Woo hoo!

  45. 45.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 18, 2023 at 10:18 pm

    @bbleh: You can just see this playing out at Rick’s Café Américain, can’t you?

  46. 46.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 18, 2023 at 10:19 pm

    @RaflW: Pretty amazing how the Brookses, Douthats and so on never seem to put 2 + 2 (and 2 more, and 2 more after that…) together to realize the whole thing, back to McCord, Hunt, Atwater and right through to Manafort & Stone has been bamboozlers and outright lawbreakers.

    Their ideological blinders prevent that from happening.

  47. 47.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    @Dan B: I don’t get the connection?

  48. 48.

    DougL

    August 18, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: I was there when it happened. I worked for Alliance for Justice at the time when the ratfucking video came out of the Acorn employee advising a client in such a way it could be construed to be enabling domestic terrorism. We partnered with Acorn to rally a defense but the fix was in so quickly. Total bs but congressional Dems and liberal funders could not throw Acorn under the bus fast enough. It was one of the most depressing episodes of my 3-decade long career in progressive advocacy groups. I’ve always had nothing but contempt for 0’Keefe and his project bs. Still, you can’t ignore how effective the monied right is in using people like him and creating mountains of bullshit we have to fight through to thwart any progress.

  49. 49.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:22 pm

    @Jackie: I’m still laughing at the ‘I just need 17,800, one vote more than I need’.

  50. 50.

    Alison Rose

    August 18, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    @Dan B: I have no idea if he has an OF account, but why would that mean he was potentially guilty of sexual assault?

  51. 51.

    Regnad Kcin

    August 18, 2023 at 10:25 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: ideological *binders*? Full of women?

  52. 52.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 10:28 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Speaking of assholes, what’s up with the Wohle character & sidekick?

    Jacob Wohl recent news

  53. 53.

    wjca

    August 18, 2023 at 10:30 pm

    He’s just another reactionary grifter.

    Just remember, every dollar ripped off from organizations like Veritas is a dollar less for them to spend on their primary objective of disinformation.  I’d almost rather he got to keep ripping them off for a couple more years.  Now those donations will just go to some other scum outfits.

  54. 54.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:32 pm

    OT the paperwork goddesses hate me this week: I finally got the last form I needed to transfer the home title. I drove into Seattle this am and got the ‘recording’ section done. A lot of other Services are in the same place, so I was sent to the Dept of Licensing window for the final step….tadah – the computers for the whole state are down, no idea when they’ll be back up. I checked a couple times before I drove home and no luck. Now I need to plan another trip (gas, parking) to try to get this transaction done. grrrrrrrrrrrrr

  55. 55.

    smith

    August 18, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    @wjca:  I’d almost rather he got to keep ripping them off for a couple more years.

    The ideal outcome would be him embezzling them into bankruptcy, and then he goes to prison for it.

  56. 56.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:36 pm

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: sweet, keep em off the streets for a while.

    I still can’t get over all the GOP criming on text, email, video. WTF???? I guess it’s all hubris, but damn!

  57. 57.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: How frustrating!

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: They clearly never watched The Wire.  Too many black people for their tastes.

  59. 59.

    karen marie

    August 18, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    sending employees to chase impossible tips on stories whose subjects never materialized

    This made me laugh out loud.

  60. 60.

    Jackie

    August 18, 2023 at 10:40 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: I’m so sorry! I hope you’re not too far from Seattle!

  61. 61.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 10:41 pm

    @WaterGirl: [obligatory Wire reference omitted]

    It is amazing, isn’t it? It’s like they never heard of recordings. Or Ollie North [e-mail server backups].

    Come to think of it, Project Veritas was in the recording business. [scratches head]. Is a puzzlement.

  62. 62.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: 😸 didn’t think of that!

  63. 63.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:46 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    .@Jackie: 

    It’s so minor but sooo annoying. I’m only 30 minutes from downtown but everything is more expensive there (parking fees & finding spots during the summer tourist season).

  64. 64.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: I mean, I learned in 1988 that email is forever. Just boggles the brain.

  65. 65.

    Jackie

    August 18, 2023 at 10:48 pm

    Off topic, but is something going on with RawStory? They haven’t updated since early afternoon (PT.) They’re not my primary source, but I do check them regularly to seek out other sources.

    They’ve been frozen on Santos’ claiming “everybody lies on their resume.”

  66. 66.

    smith

    August 18, 2023 at 10:50 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage:  It’s weird — they walk around in a state of deep paranoia, convinced that  powerful, shadowy forces are out to get them, but then they do their criming as if they were untouchable.

  67. 67.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    @Jackie: They’ve been frozen on Santos’ claiming “everybody lies on their resume.”

    Well, to be fair, that is a show stopper.

  68. 68.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage:

    Random shout out to JR in WV & Litl brit different: I hope your treatments are going well. I am thinking of you both as you fight cancer.

  69. 69.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 10:54 pm

    @smith: yes, good way to put it. I left out the paranoia. That makes it even more weird.

  70. 70.

    Steve in the ATL

    August 18, 2023 at 10:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I knew I’d regret giving you power of attorney!

  71. 71.

    opiejeanne

    August 18, 2023 at 10:57 pm

    @WaterGirl: I sure remembered that differently. I thought the pimp and working girl routine was what he tried at a Planned Parenthood, but I was wrong.

  72. 72.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 11:00 pm

    @opiejeanne: they had totally stereotypical outfits in the video I remember. Now that we know J’okeef is a frustrated entertainer the outfits make more sense. It was definitely ACORN.

  73. 73.

    wjca

    August 18, 2023 at 11:01 pm

    @smith:

    It’s weird — they walk around in a state of deep paranoia, convinced that  powerful, shadowy forces are out to get them, but then they do their criming as if they were untouchable.

    Just brainstorming here.  But perhaps they figure the shadowy forces will only come after them for things done in secret.  So doing them on camera becomes protection.

    Sure, it’s ridiculous.   But so is how they behave.

  74. 74.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 11:01 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: since you’re a powerful attorney, did he just get attorney superpowers?

  75. 75.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 11:02 pm

    Alexandra Petri is a national treasure.
    [gift link]

  76. 76.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    @Mr. Bemused Senior: I’ve only read the title so far, but thank you. Just from that I know it’ll be good!

  77. 77.

    opiejeanne

    August 18, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: The description of his get-up was reminiscent of Huggy Bear from the tv show Beretta.

  78. 78.

    RevRick

    August 18, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    @NotMax: Make Greenland Green Again!

  79. 79.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 18, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    East Bay police departments are going through some things. FBI arrested 10 officers from two departments

  80. 80.

    Mike in NC

    August 18, 2023 at 11:10 pm

    Will never understand why this creep never worked for Stephen Miller.

  81. 81.

    RevRick

    August 18, 2023 at 11:12 pm

    @BC in Illinois: Exactly! It’s a bunch of crap slogans aimed at making sure a ton of money gets shoveled into the laps of those who already have a ton of money.

  82. 82.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    @opiejeanne: exactly! Did I tell you about the friend who married a woman from LA and they got him the bright yellow suite to wear around Las Vegas for his bachelor party! He’s tall & skinny and it fit great.

    ETA the photos rock

  83. 83.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    August 18, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    How is the Oklahoma thing not in there? That was my favorite weird grift of O’Keefe’s. Here’s one mention.

    In November, the nonprofit was legally obligated to report that O’Keefe, as the company’s executive, received $20,512 in “excess benefits” in 2021. The filings were posted by Hawaii’s Tax & Charities Division.

    Project Veritas’ executive director, Daniel Strack, later told The New York Times through a spokesperson the money was used to “accommodate” the CEO at a production of “Oklahoma!” in Roseland, Virginia, in which O’ Keefe played a lead role.

  84. 84.

    TS

    August 18, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    @SpaceUnit:

    I’d seen it before but hadn’t really considered it in the context of an actual trial.

    In the world down under, the video you linked can’t be seen – so I went to this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_Bdf_jGaA

    which is the full call (1 hour). After noting everyone who is there Trump starts by saying how it’s obvious he won in Georgia

    when we go over some of the numbers – we won, very substantially, you can even see it by rally size, we got 25 – 35000 people per rally

    So rally size it is that determines who won an election SMH.

  85. 85.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 18, 2023 at 11:16 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: and that he took PV employees with him but they had to stay in economy hotels.

  86. 86.

    PaulWartenberg

    August 18, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    I’ve been going back through my personal political blog, getting to the stuff I wrote in 2009 and wondering about several of the blogs I enjoyed that stopped updating that year or soon after (by 2013 or so). Balloon Juice and Digby’s Hullaballoo seem to be the last ones standing from those years.

  87. 87.

    Redshift

    August 18, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    Hey, WG, I missed the earlier general news thread, but I have a response to this that I didn’t see anyone else mention:

    edit: April of 2026. We will surely find out that the choice of date has some significance that we will all find offensive in nature.

    It’s not about the date, but via Jay Kuo’s substack, the intro to TFG’s lawyers’ motion requesting that date has a long quote (with a citation) about how not giving them sufficient time is “not to proceed promptly in the calm spirit of regulated justice but to go forward with the haste of the mob.”

    It’s a quote from the Supreme Court opinion in the case of the Scottsboro Boys.

    Is that offensive enough for you?

  88. 88.

    smith

    August 18, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    Grifting has gotten to be so on-brand for right wingers by now it would be shocking to find an honest one.

  89. 89.

    danielx

    August 18, 2023 at 11:22 pm

    Unfortunately, that picture of James O’Keefe wearing his pimp outfit is something I will never be able to unsee.

  90. 90.

    Ruckus

    August 18, 2023 at 11:24 pm

    @CaseyL:

    Si!

  91. 91.

    TS

    August 18, 2023 at 11:29 pm

    @Mr. Bemused Senior:

    Love the play on Oscar Wilde at the beginning. She knows it all

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    August 18, 2023 at 11:30 pm

    @PaulWartenberg

    Coinkly-dinkly shuttered my blog in 2009, after 10 years. Small fry, sure it wasn’t on your radar screen.
    ;)

  93. 93.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 18, 2023 at 11:31 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Everyone does.

  94. 94.

    Mr. Bemused Senior

    August 18, 2023 at 11:32 pm

    @TS: thanks for pointing that out!

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 18, 2023 at 11:33 pm

    @BeautifulPlumage: Honestly, that’s just the ability to bill at a higher rate.

  96. 96.

    Lyrebird

    August 18, 2023 at 11:33 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    @Dan B:

    I also missed the connection.  I do remember, though, that the accused made some very creepy preparations to “punk” a CNN reporter but fortunately other people foiled the plan.

    I hope he is prosecuted to the full extent of the law and I hope the whole sinister organization goes bankrupt.

     

    ETA: I also recommend Googling “Crufts dog dancing” instead of thinking about these slimeballs any further.

  97. 97.

    Tehanu

    August 18, 2023 at 11:35 pm

    Rooting for injuries, getting out the popcorn…

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    August 18, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    Food for thought. (Emphasis added.)

    Protecting the Constitution from Trump

    Insurrectionists are ineligible to serve without congressional amnesty. Here’s how states can enforce this.
    [snip]
    …The authors explain, for example, that Section Three applies to all insurrections, not just the one led by Jefferson Davis. They demonstrate that no act of Congress is required to enforce Section Three. And they observe that no criminal conviction or charge is required for a Section Three disqualification. Source

  99. 99.

    SpaceUnit

    August 18, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    @TS:

    He dug himself a hole with that call.  God help me, but I’m actually starting to believe he might face some consequences.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    August 18, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Thank dog! I was getting so strung out that in my crazier moments I was halfway thinking about getting a Twitter account. There are still accounts that I want to follow on that godforsaken site.

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 18, 2023 at 11:56 pm

    Operation Free Jiminy has succeeded. The cricket that got into my place a couple of days ago and has been chirping like crazy has been trapped and then released unharmed into the wild.

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    August 18, 2023 at 11:58 pm

    @SpaceUnit

    Just imagine if Raffensperger had not the foresight to record it.

  103. 103.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 19, 2023 at 12:00 am

    @NotMax: ​
      It means it probably wasn’t the first call that he got.

  104. 104.

    Redshift

    August 19, 2023 at 12:03 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    It means it probably wasn’t the first call that he got.

    I’ve read that Lindsey Graham called earlier than that, and that may be why, but I haven’t checked to confirm it myself.

  105. 105.

    SpaceUnit

    August 19, 2023 at 12:08 am

    @NotMax:

    It was likely more legal self-preservation than integrity but I’ll take it.

  106. 106.

    Edmund dantes

    August 19, 2023 at 12:10 am

    @WaterGirl: cause a lot of Dems were still scared of their shadows back then. And we still had a lot of stupid ones that thought they would look sensible being the “adults”. Thankfully most of that has been driven out of the party ( the joe Lieberman types self selected out) and the remaining Dems from that era learned from their mistakes.

  107. 107.

    HumboldtBlue

    August 19, 2023 at 12:12 am

    @TS:

    Thanks for the link, I have not listened to the entire call.

  108. 108.

    Spanky

    August 19, 2023 at 12:17 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    a production of “Oklahoma!” in Roseland, Virginia, in which O’ Keefe played a lead role.

    Jud?

  109. 109.

    Ken

    August 19, 2023 at 12:23 am

    @Spanky: More likely third cowboy from the left.

    And I suspect most of the money was to buy him the part, like in the old cliché where the backer asks the director to find a small part for his “niece”.

  110. 110.

    Geminid

    August 19, 2023 at 12:30 am

    @Spanky: Roseland is a very pretty place in Nelson County, about 45 miles south of Charlottesville, but I never heard of it having a theatre scene. Bluegrass, maybe.

  111. 111.

    Geminid

    August 19, 2023 at 12:35 am

    @Ken: You could probably buy a part in a musical staged in Roseland for a bag of good weed. Most of that 20 grand likely ended up in O’Keefe’s pocket.

  112. 112.

    BeautifulPlumage

    August 19, 2023 at 12:37 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Dang! Thought you might get a little cape for your suits and a new letterhead : (

  113. 113.

    wjca

    August 19, 2023 at 12:38 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    East Bay police departments are going through some things. FBI arrested 10 officers from two departments

    What they are going thru is a very long overdue housecleaning with high pressure hoses.  I think there was an impression, from the outside around here, that there were problems.  Serious problems even.  But I don’t think people outside realized it was nearly as bad as it now looks.

  114. 114.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 19, 2023 at 12:42 am

    @BeautifulPlumage: We don’t get wigs and robes and stuff here.

  115. 115.

    wjca

    August 19, 2023 at 12:46 am

    @Spanky:

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: a production of “Oklahoma!” in Roseland, Virginia, in which O’ Keefe played a lead role.

    Jud?

    Definitely my first thought as well.

  116. 116.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 12:53 am

    Didn’t we have previous threads about Oklahomagate?

    Ah yes.

    https://balloon-juice.com/2023/02/11/saturday-night-sludge-open-thread-jimmy-okeefe-just-wants-to-be-seen/

    https://balloon-juice.com/2023/02/20/schadenfreude-open-thread-jokeefe-project-veritas-have-parted-ways/

  117. 117.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    August 19, 2023 at 1:16 am

    @Lyrebird: For those who do baseball, it’s time for the Little League World Series. Here’s highlights from the Friday afternoon game between Nolensville, TN (back for the third year in a row) and Smithfield RI. They’re known locally as Stella and the Fellas, for their pitcher, Stella Weaver—she pitched a shutout in the regional playoff game against the Alabama team.

  118. 118.

    BSChief

    August 19, 2023 at 1:35 am

    “Project Angry Incels.”

  119. 119.

    RaflW

    August 19, 2023 at 1:35 am

    @Lyrebird: Holy crap, this from 2019 was amazing(skip to 0:59 to pass the commentary). Thanks for a good, good night video recommendation!

  120. 120.

    BellyCat

    August 19, 2023 at 1:40 am

    @BeautifulPlumage: Congratulations and thanks Bill Gates!

  121. 121.

    Steeplejack

    August 19, 2023 at 1:54 am

    @RaflW:

    You have to click on through to get a specific video link to give us. A Google search link just sends us to a possibly random search page that might not have the same results. And we can’t tell which video you mean.

  122. 122.

    Geminid

    August 19, 2023 at 2:05 am

    @Geminid: Roseland, Virginia is not even a town, but there is a large brewpub there owned by Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company. Mega-brewer InBev bought them out in 2016). That must have been where the musical was staged.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    August 19, 2023 at 2:16 am

    @Geminid:

    Devil’s Backbone, you say? Their Vienna Lager is quite often my on-hand brewski.

  124. 124.

    TS

    August 19, 2023 at 2:17 am

    @HumboldtBlue:

    @SpaceUnit:

    I’m not usually a 538 fan but this video popped up & is 3 local Georgia lawyers discussing the issues. It’s adding some explanations to the indictment.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6M9djUFJ60

  125. 125.

    karen marie

    August 19, 2023 at 2:18 am

    @Jackie: That story came out the last week in December 2022. Lots more wrong than the site is frozen.

  126. 126.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 2:19 am

    @Steeplejack

    (It is B-J After Dark funtime, right?)

    “With a name like Smucker’s Devil’s Scrotum it has to be good.”
    :)

  127. 127.

    Steeplejack

    August 19, 2023 at 2:32 am

    @NotMax:

    Eh, all too many of these craft breweries (secretly owned by huge corporations) have cute/​edgy/​bullshit names. It’s practically a requirement. However, my latest purchase was a six-pack of Bell’s Amber Ale. Meek, inoffensive name.

  128. 128.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 19, 2023 at 2:36 am

    @NotMax:

    Smucker’s Scrotum?  Probably has high fructose corn syrup in it.

  129. 129.

    Steeplejack

    August 19, 2023 at 2:41 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    “Light citrus notes.”

  130. 130.

    sab

    August 19, 2023 at 2:58 am

    @Steeplejack: We  have all these pubs around making alchoholic soda pop. I do not want high octane citrus flavored slightly sweet beer. I just don’t.

  131. 131.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 19, 2023 at 3:04 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Hmmm… musical fruit? I thought beans had that spot taken. It’s a brave new world out there…

  132. 132.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 19, 2023 at 3:08 am

    @NotMax: I’m not good with anything with that in the name.

    Even the actual hanging ball sack is weird.  Being able to sit on one of your nuts shouldn’t be physiologically possible.

  133. 133.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 19, 2023 at 3:09 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: What about musical bones?  Oh listen to their tones!

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 3:17 am

    @mrmoshpotato

    Apparently Testicle-Flavored Beer Exists And We Have Questions.

  135. 135.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 3:27 am

    @Steeplejack

    There was (is?) an IPA from Colorado named Modus Hoperandi.

    They get a free pass for that one. ;)

  136. 136.

    Mai Naem mobileI

    August 19, 2023 at 3:44 am

    @Jackie: i went on there and didn’t have any issues. I know sometimes they’ll recycle old stories, especially on the weekends. I think they just don’t have the content for the weekends.

  137. 137.

    Mai Naem mobileI

    August 19, 2023 at 3:48 am

    @NotMax: did somebody ask for this?. This is like the weird flavored lays chips they’ll try and introduce and you just wonder who thought it was a good idea. Chocolate flavored chips or whatever.

  138. 138.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 3:58 am

    @Mai Naem mobileI

    weird flavored lays chips

    “Bet you can’t eat just one.”

    “You lose.”

    ;)

  139. 139.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 4:06 am

    @NotMax

    Gettin’ all science-y: hedonic hyperphagia.

  140. 140.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 19, 2023 at 4:09 am

    @mrmoshpotato:

    That’s Intelligent Design for ya…lol!

     

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Percussion isn’t musical!

    /ducks thrown drumsticks

  141. 141.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 19, 2023 at 4:11 am

    @NotMax:

    Who volunteered to cut open a scrotum and taste a testicle? Why?

    I have a feeling PCP was involved…

  142. 142.

    Steppanhammer

    August 19, 2023 at 4:20 am

    @Steeplejack: I want to say Devil’s Backbone is named for a local part of the Blue Ridge mountains there, but I can’t remember for sure.

    Though you are very correct about the larger trend!

  143. 143.

    NotMax

    August 19, 2023 at 4:30 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee

    As we used to describe the ingredients of the hot dogs served up at summer camp, which invariably turned gray when boiled, “everything but the oink.”
    ;)

  144. 144.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    August 19, 2023 at 4:54 am

    @NotMax:

    Lips and assholes shoved in some intestine. I wonder if they use the scrotum?

    On topic and all that…lol

  145. 145.

    lowtechcyclist

    August 19, 2023 at 5:21 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: ​
     

    Lips and assholes shoved in some intestine. I wonder if they use the scrotum?

    If it’s usable, they surely use it.

    But don’t you dare put ketchup on that mish-mash of random internal organs!! Heaven forbid! //

  146. 146.

    mrmoshpotato

    August 19, 2023 at 5:26 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    That’s Intelligent Design for ya…lol! 

    Yup!

    Percussion isn’t musical!

    /ducks thrown drumsticks

    Yeah, but the bass drum dropped on you is gonna meet its target!

    Odie Squashed Manatee!

  147. 147.

    prostratedragon

    August 19, 2023 at 5:59 am

    There are many of these; here’s one of the shorter ones: Percussion concerto, Darius Milhaud

  148. 148.

    Shalimar

    August 19, 2023 at 6:32 am

    @opiejeanne: The pimp and ho outfits that O’Keefe and Giles wore were strictly for publicity photos designed to get media attention.  Which worked.  90% of the coverage was basically “look at these clowns. would you believe anyone bought this crap?”

    They dressed like normal people in all of the actual interviews, because of course no one would take people looking for aid assistance in the clown outfits seriously.

  149. 149.

    Chris Johnson

    August 19, 2023 at 6:41 am

    Timbah On Toast did a marvelous extended video essay on O’Keefe, so if you like to see Project Veritas go through some things, you’re in luck :)

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPslWoHNC5x3kroln-h38kaS5lULne8cZ

    He also does Dave Rubin, Tim Pool: very good video maker, this. I found him through his essays on dubstep, Skrillex and James Blake :)

  150. 150.

    Barry

    August 19, 2023 at 6:44 am

    @RaflW: “Pretty amazing how the Brookses, Douthats and so on never seem to put 2 + 2 (and 2 more, and 2 more after that…) together to realize the whole thing, back to McCord, Hunt, Atwater and right through to Manafort & Stone has been bamboozlers and outright lawbreakers.”

     

    I am not, because that is their job.  Whatever else they do, they have to turn a blind eye or blame it all on Democrats.

  151. 151.

    Geminid

    August 19, 2023 at 7:46 am

    @Steeplejack: “Devil’s Backbone” is the name of a ridge and a ski run at Wintergreen Resort, up on the Blue Ridge. You can probably see the resort from Roseland, where a Mr. and Mrs. Crandal started their brewery maybe 30 years ago on their 100 acre property. They managed to grow their business and set up a larger brewing facility near Lexington, and then they sold the company to InBev in 2016 and made a lot of money.

    I think they might have held on to a large restaurant complex they built on Highway 151, right at the bottom of the road up to Wintergreen resort. Other brewers and a couple distillers have set up on 151; that’s where one-term 5th District Congressman Denver Riggleman and his wife operate a vodka distillery.

    These establishments attract a lot of people from the resort and from Charlottesville 25 miles to the east. The locals call that stretch of 151 “Alcohol Alley.”

  152. 152.

    evodevo

    August 19, 2023 at 8:22 am

    @Steppanhammer: There’s a Devil’s Backbone over in the neighboring county (Harrison Co. KY) – never been there though…

  153. 153.

    H.E.Wolf

    August 19, 2023 at 8:25 am

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:Percussion isn’t musical!
    /ducks thrown drumsticks

     The piano players aren’t going to be very happy with you, either. :)

  154. 154.

    Doug R

    August 19, 2023 at 8:57 am

    Hey, those pimp threads don’t pay for themselves.

  155. 155.

    J R in WV

    August 19, 2023 at 10:11 am

    @BeautifulPlumage:

    Thanks for thinking of us!

    I had my next-to-last marathon yesterday and neet with the robotics surgeon Monday. I was amused to  see Little Brits cost for snacks — I get free snacks and pop during a chemo session  !

    There are obviously out of pocket costs, but i am somewhat amazed at how much is covered by Medicare and the supplemental coverage.

    I’m feeling OK following the all day chemo yesterday  — stopped by my family doctor’s office after leaving the chemo center,  he had been  visited by the top two administrators of the whole hospital group who gave him a plaque with congratulations on his work and a picnic lunch for the whole staff.

    He was over the moon with happiness and I was glad to share that with him.  Also  got some  needed prescriptions.

    Have never been this well feeling after all day of chemotherapy… I  don’t think you can get used to it,  cis-platin is toxic to the point where you need a dozen other drugs to protect you from it.

  156. 156.

    Another Scott

    August 19, 2023 at 10:37 am

    @J R in WV: Thanks for the report.  Keep on keeping on.

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  157. 157.

    Miss Bianca

    August 19, 2023 at 10:38 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Oh, my! You mean a right-wing grifter/fraud who made it his business to harass and destroy liberal activists and groups was a big ol’ MEANIE to his fellow employees in the grifter/fraud business and fraudulently grifted a bunch of money to support his rock and roll lifestyle?

    SAY IT AIN’T SO!

  158. 158.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 19, 2023 at 11:32 am

    @Spanky: Surly With The Whinge On Top

  159. 159.

    The Lodger

    August 19, 2023 at 1:17 pm

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: There are some places in the rocky mountains where you should automatically answer NO when asked, “Do you want fries with that? “

  160. 160.

    Sebastian

    August 19, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    @SpaceUnit:

    I think people completely underestimate the real consequences of the RICO charges. EVERYONE in his orbit is guilty of furthering the conspiracy. The list of people who’ll be charged under RICO will grow like a wildfire and possibly even take out the Freedom Caucus.

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