{"id":10884,"date":"2013-11-12T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2013-11-14T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:23:53","slug":"serial-liar-james-okeefe-releases-another-deceitfully-edited-video-obamacare-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10884","title":{"rendered":"Serial Liar, James O’Keefe, Releases Another Deceitfully Edited Video: ObamaCare Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are just gluttons for punishment. Take James O’Keefe<\/a> for instance. The petulant, wannabe ambush journalist has already been exposed as a purveyor of dishonest videos that are deceptively edited in order to slander his victims. He was caught trying to execute a perverse scheme to seduce a CNN reporter<\/a>. He had to pay a $100,000<\/a> to settle a defamation suit brought by a former ACORN staffer. And he was convicted<\/a> of criminal behavior in a stunt he tried to pull in Louisiana.<\/p>\n

\"JamesSince then his projects have been few and even many of his former allies declined to promote them. But now he has a new video<\/a> that purports to expose some malfeasance on the part of some ObamaCare “navigators”<\/em> who are helping people to acquire health insurance. As I’ve noted before, O’Keefe’s inner sadist<\/a> assures that his projects are almost always aimed at attacking people and programs that serve the less fortunate. That’s true in this case as well.<\/p>\n

The ObamaCare association seems to have loosened up those who abandoned him in the past, including Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. However, his reputation for producing video fiction is fully intact. In the new video he sends in a shill to pretend to inquire about enrolling in a health care plan. In the process, the shill attempts to trick his unsuspecting victims into giving bad advice. However, we can’t know for sure whether they did that because the videos are so heavily edited that there is no way to discern the actual context. Also, the people O’Keefe’s shill spoke with weren’t certified navigators, but were in fact trainees. So the prospect of them making a few mistakes shouldn’t shock anyone.<\/p>\n

In one case, though, it is apparent that the navigators did not do what O’Keefe accused them of doing. O’Keefe alleged that the navigators advised the shill to misrepresent his income. In reality, they simply told him to report on the ObamaCare website the same amounts he reported to the IRS. It’s his responsibility to file his income taxes honestly. But the conclusions drawn in the video conceal that. That’s just one example of how creative editing can distort the true picture of what occurred.<\/p>\n

Given that Fox News is immersed in an obsessive campaign to cripple ObamaCare, they must have given the green light to O’Reilly to readmit O’Keefe into their good graces – sort of. O’Reilly devoted most of his opening segment to O’Keefe’s video, but without ever mentioning his name. That may have been wise considering the disrepute associated with O’Keefe and his band of dissemblers. O’Reilly only identified the video as the work of Project Veritas, which he helpfully explained to his viewers means “truth,”<\/em> something with which O’Reilly and O’Keefe have limited experience.<\/p>\n

Even Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze couldn’t post O’Keefe’s video without disclaiming that “It should be noted that the video is heavily edited and employs deceptive tactics in order to catch the navigators offering the shocking advice.”<\/em> When Beck’s crew is disturbed by deceptive tactics, you know you’ve crossed a line that most charlatans never see in their whole lives.<\/p>\n

Shameless Plug: Please Get My Ebook,<\/strong>
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community’s Assault On Truth<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

What’s worse, a United States senator, John Cornyn, Republican of Texas (where else?), also cited the O’Keefe video as evidence that ObamaCare needs to be stopped immediately. Cornyn said that “This behavior is unacceptable, and is yet another broken piece of a deeply flawed system. The Obama administration should stop this program immediately.”<\/em> Obviously – if a trainee tells a dishonest, partisan shill something that isn’t quite accurate, in a video produced by a known liar and criminal, then an entire government program that was set up to help 48 million previously uninsured Americans get access to health care should be thrown out.<\/p>\n

That’s the quality of the logic in use by Republican and Tea Party opponents of ObamaCare. And, as such, is more than ample justification for ignoring them completely. It also explains how the pathetically amateurish video fabrications of James O’Keefe get taken seriously by idiots in politics and the press.<\/p>\n

[Update 11\/14\/2013]<\/strong> Another Fox News program is hyping the O’Keefe lies. Sean Hannity did a segment<\/a> during which he also referred to Project Veritas as the video’s producer and never mentioned O’Keefe’s name. He also spewed other lies about the cost of the website, the navigators not getting background checks, and the scope of the people whose current plans will be terminated by insurance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people are just gluttons for punishment. Take James O’Keefe for instance. The petulant, wannabe ambush journalist has already been exposed as a purveyor of dishonest videos that are deceptively edited in order to slander his victims. He was caught trying to execute a perverse scheme to seduce a CNN reporter. 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