Ep. 989 James O'Keefe on the Lying Media
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
James O'Keefe has become notorious, and controversial, for his organization's undercover videos -- most recently, of people associated with CNN, who appear to suggest that some of their major stories are politically and ideologically driven. We discuss the American media, criticisms of his work, and what we can expect next.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 989. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.1 | Folks, I've just released another free e-book, this one called Education Without the State. |
| 0:20.6 | Grab your copy at no-education.com or by texting the word educate to 33444. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, talking today to James O'Keefe, who is the creator and president of Project Veritas, whose stated mission is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society. Well, you may be familiar with James O'Keefe's |
| 0:56.2 | work, perhaps most recently, with the clips that we saw from various people associated with CNN |
| 1:03.0 | and things they had to say about the coverage they gave to particular stories, in particular |
| 1:09.0 | the Russia's story and their views about the president, |
| 1:13.1 | his supporters, things of that nature. So that may be your only exposure to James O'Keefe, |
| 1:18.8 | but he's been doing this sort of thing for years and generating a lot of controversy. We're |
| 1:22.9 | going to talk to him about that. And of course, we'll be linking to Project Veritas and |
| 1:27.0 | James's Twitter and the |
| 1:29.2 | Project Veritas, Twitter, all that stuff, will be over at Tom Woods.com slash 989. James, welcome. |
| 1:36.0 | Thanks, Tom. It's great to be with you. I've been very interested to talk to you. I was interested |
| 1:40.2 | to find that I guess maybe neither one of us realized we were Facebook friends, so I thought, |
| 1:44.6 | ha, I can get to that guy. So I've had a number of requests to talk to you. So let's start with |
| 1:50.9 | your background. Before you were doing what you've become notorious for, what were you doing? |
| 1:55.9 | I was trying to be a normal person. I was trying to have a normal life. I tried law school for a year. |
| 2:00.5 | I tried business school. I tried trying to have a normal life. I tried law school for a year. I tried |
| 2:00.8 | business school. I tried to be normal, but I guess I was always thrust into doing the videos. |
| 2:08.8 | I would sneak out of the law library and go back into the video lab at Cal State Fullerton, |
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