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Project Veritas 'CNN Leaks' fall flat
Politico ^

Posted on 02/23/2017 6:00:21 PM PST by MNDude

For a few days, Project Veritas founder and conservative activist James O'Keefe has been hyping the release of what he said were hundreds of hours of undercover audio recordings of employees at CNN.

Some staffers at CNN were legitimately alarmed that O'Keefe would be releasing tapes that could be embarrassing for the network. O'Keefe is known for his undercover video recordings, though questions over deceptive editing and concerns about the questionable tactics used to obtain those recordings have plagued some of his prior work. Before releasing the tapes Thursday, O'Keefe was featured on The Drudge Report and on Sean Hannity's radio show, where he previewed their release.

Instead, what O'Keefe released on Thursday landed with a dull thud in the media world. Though not all the hours of tapes have been made available for review, and damning recordings could still come out, O'Keefe made clear the audio he obtained is from 2009 and for the most part features lower-level staffers at the network.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: cnn; cnnleaks; fakenews; noduh; okeefe
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To: MNDude

It’s going to take a brave soul to “binge” on 100 hours of CNN.


21 posted on 02/23/2017 6:14:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: MNDude

Politico = Fake news = democrat propaganda = bull dung.


22 posted on 02/23/2017 6:15:08 PM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“It’s going to take a brave soul to “binge” on 100 hours of CNN.”

Just play the videos at the airport. :)


23 posted on 02/23/2017 6:16:42 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: MNDude

It may be too early to say for certain, but there’s something wrong with O’Keefe. He does this every time, maybe it’s ego or maybe he’s a lttle nuts, but it’s as if his mother never read him the story about the “Boy Who Cried Wolf”.

Over-hyping and under-delivering is going to put him in the Glenn Beck league real quick.


24 posted on 02/23/2017 6:19:51 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: MNDude

Face it CNN is boring ,yawn


25 posted on 02/23/2017 6:21:15 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: MNDude

Haven’t heard a thing, and I’m not going to jump to conclusions like the media.


26 posted on 02/23/2017 6:24:24 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: MNDude

Typical. It “doesn’t exist”.


27 posted on 02/23/2017 6:25:14 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!! Shadilay!)
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To: GraceG

If you are correct, O’Keefe misrepresented what he was going to do.


28 posted on 02/23/2017 6:25:37 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: IWontSubmit

Written on 2/23/17.

Today is 2/23/17.


29 posted on 02/23/2017 6:27:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: MNDude

Too long ago. I feel punked.


30 posted on 02/23/2017 6:31:06 PM PST by WENDLE (TRUMP 2020 !!! It is ON!! God blessed this country!!)
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To: GraceG

No, the problem is he didn’t promote it as a crowd-sourced science project he hyped it up without knowing what was in it. Tweets last night were “It’s the beginning of the end for CNN” and crap like that - then we get a “Oh gee, we don’t have the resources to know what’s in there so have fun”.

He bullshitted us. Again.


31 posted on 02/23/2017 6:32:16 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: MNDude

100 hours, if O’Keefe listened to an hour a day and two hours per day on weekends, he’d have personally reviewed them all in three months.

A pretty big flop.


32 posted on 02/23/2017 6:34:18 PM PST by Ted Grant
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To: AlaskaErik

I was underwhelmed too. Problem is the media has become so corrupt that the public has become numb to all but the most egregious left-wing news shaping.

I’d have loved to hear some tape on Donna Brazille or a strategy room session with marching orders to downplay F&F, IRS, Benghazi, or back-slapping Candy Crowley after the debate, etc. You know they did it, but does he have anything like on tape? Maybe, but the idea that he basically left it up to his viewers to crowd-source it is kind of discouraging.


33 posted on 02/23/2017 6:34:44 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MNDude

He damaged his brand again. Just release the stuff without the hype! If there are some nuggets, they will go viral. Now everyone sees a big nothingburger again.


34 posted on 02/23/2017 6:37:37 PM PST by bigtoona (Make America Great Again! America First! Th)
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To: MNDude

People on various websites just got the tapes and are just starting to look into them.

Give them a few days. The wikileaks stuff on Podesta took a few months.


35 posted on 02/23/2017 6:38:16 PM PST by Vic S
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To: MNDude

Says Politico....


36 posted on 02/23/2017 6:38:21 PM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: MNDude

O’Keefe should know by now that (i) lots of hype (ii) without delivering the goods = (iii) loss of credibility.


37 posted on 02/23/2017 6:41:34 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: MNDude

There was nothing to Benghazi either - at least according to politico.


38 posted on 02/23/2017 6:43:19 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: MNDude

O’Keefe should know by now that we want red meat and if he has some on CNN, throw us a bone - at least!!! Don’t put anything out that everyone is salivating for and have it fall flat - geeze! Surprised that O’Keefe didn’t know better.

Color me very disappointed.


39 posted on 02/23/2017 6:43:28 PM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: MNDude

He always stages the releases...gives the media something to react to first. More to come for sure.


40 posted on 02/23/2017 6:48:13 PM PST by Phillyred
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