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The Bad Faith of James O'Keefe

His latest sting operation produced evidence that <em>The</em> <em>Washington Post</em> diligently seeks the truth. But that’s not what he told his audience.
Source: Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters

If James O’Keefe respected the right-wing populists who make up the audience of Project Veritas, a nonprofit he founded to produce undercover videos skewering the left, he would tell them the truth about all of the organizations that he targets.

Instead, Project Veritas operates in bad faith, an attribute it demonstrated again this week in the aftermath of its bungled attempt to trick The Washington Post.

A woman named Jaime T. Phillips approached the newspaper claiming that Republican Roy Moore impregnated her when she wasreporter, Beth Reinhard, that recounting the bygone ordeal made her so upset that she was unable to finish her salad.

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