The Scorpion Stings Itself

Filed in National by on November 27, 2017

In today’s media world, it’s not enough to publish stories. News organizations must be prepared to defend them, and themselves, as well.

The Washington Post showed how to do it this afternoon, turning the tables on James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

A woman approached reporters the day after its original Roy Moore blockbuster ran, purporting to have been impregnated by Moore as a 15-year-old. The reporters checked her background and found … well, read the story for the details. The best part of this report is how it lays out O’Keefe’s methods for soliciting the quotes he needs for his misleading videos. The fake victim kept asking the reporters for assurances her story would cost Moore the election.

This is a good example of the level to which Republicans will stoop when an election is on the line — so low they’d need a ladder to reach the gutter. Thank heavens they’re this dumb.

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  1. jason330 says:

    O’Keefe is a cancer. Worse than cancer, he is an bacteria actively eating away at the country from the inside out. How can a democracy endure sustained attacks from such vile and determined internal enemies?

  2. Alby says:

    If people were really up for a revolution, it wouldn’t. But they aren’t.

  3. Alby says:

    Now comes a Slate article explaining that O’Keefe’s latest clumsy attempt at a sting won’t hurt him a bit because his loyalists will never read about the debunking. While that might be true, it misses the point. We have to call out these mooks in order to stiffen the backbones of our invertebrate elected Democrats.

  4. Alby says:

    Well looky here. Contra that Slate article, even Fox News couldn’t resistpointing and laughing at the oafishness of O’Keefe’s faceplant. The mouth-breathers will hear of it after all.