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James O'Keefe is an independent American journalist from Westwood, New Jersey. He is notable for producing heavily-edited undercover videos suggesting that ACORN's was corrupt and Planned Parenthood engages in racism.

Planned Parenthood

In 2006, O'Keefe had Lila Rose, a pro-life advocate, go to Planned Parenthood and pose as a pregnant teenager while O'Keefe secretly taped. The staff attempted to persuade Lila to lie about her age so that she could be eligible for an abortion. When the tape was released, Tennessee lawmakers voted to end a $721,000 contract with Planned Parenthood.

In 2007, O'Keefe recorded audio of a visit to Planned Parenthood where he posed as a donor. He requested that his donation would fund abortions only for minorities, to which Planned Parenthood vice-president Autumn Kersey laughed and said it was understandable. When the audio was released, Kersey was suspended and Planned Parenthood apologized for their staff's actions.

ACORN

O'Keefe, along with Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and a prostitute at many ACORN offices asking for housing arrangements to run their human smuggling business while secretly video taping everything. Unsurprisingly, the ACORN staff gave advice, despite being told by the pair that they planned to smuggle young girls from El Salvador. Even more shocking is that the pair was given advice on how to avoid paying taxes on the smuggled girls income. Video excerpts were released, which resulted in the U.S. House of Representatives voting to end all federal funding of ACORN. The U.S. Senate, the IRS, and the Census Bureau also all voted to end funding for ACORN.

Arrest

In January 2010, O'Keefe was arrested along with two friends for conspiring to tamper with Senator Mary Landrieu's office phones. Plead to misdemeanor for no jail time. [1]

CNN Stunt

Attempting to embarrass and undermine the credibility of CNN, O'Keefe, along with fellow members of Project Veritas, staged a plan to seduce Abbie Boudreau, an investigative reporter for the network. His accomplice in the plan tipped Boudreau off before the plan was underway. O'Keefe has attempted to distance himself from the scheme. ^[1]

NPR

In March 2011, O'Keefe released an undercover video sting of NPR officials. Men posing as sympathetic Muslims attempted to donate $5 million dollars to NPR executives. On tape, the VP is heard bashing the Tea Party movement as racist. This action revealed the partisan nature of the taxpayer-funded media company. The affects were immediate, NPR's President resigned and their VP retired early.

The usual lamestream media cover-up began in defense of liberal NPR. NPR claims that they knew something was fishy, “we repeatedly refused to accept.” Now o'Keefe is set to release another tape showing not only was that statement false, but NPR offered to hide the funds from showing up in their donor records. ^[2]

Thanks to O'Keefe, calls to defund NPR in Congress just got louder.

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