James O'Keefe
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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James O'Keefe, author of "American Muckraker," continues his conversation about the sad state of journalism in this country, but holds an overall optimistic view that "the truth will out."
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxus show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. |
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| 0:28.3 | Hey, folks, good news. |
| 0:30.2 | We have my guest, James O'Kee, founder of Project Veritas, with us for the hour to continue our conversation from yesterday. The new book |
| 0:39.4 | is American muckraker rethinking journalism for the 21st century. We're talking James about some |
| 0:45.3 | big ideas, and I think I mentioned it yesterday that the real shock for me was when right before the 2020 election, everyone in the media declined to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. |
| 1:03.1 | There never was anything more that obviously needed covering by journalists. |
| 1:11.6 | And that was the chilling moment for me. |
| 1:13.6 | When I saw big tech allied with big journalism to say that we are going to not cover this, |
| 1:23.1 | and we even had, it's really gross when you have members of the deep state signing a big letter, |
| 1:26.8 | calling it Russian disinformation. I mean, that's a level, a diabolical level of gaslighting and |
| 1:34.3 | lying that I thought, that's the end of America. We have never been, we've made movies |
| 1:39.9 | about that kind of evil. Mr. Smith goes to Washington. But to see it happening in our time, that's when I thought we've gone over the cliff. |
| 1:50.7 | You've said it beautifully. |
| 1:52.1 | Speaking personally, my level of diabolical evil is when Project Veritas was banned on Twitter for quoting CNN. |
| 1:58.7 | That was my, whatever the modern version of woke is, |
| 2:02.1 | I've heard people say black-pilled, red-pilled, whatever pill. |
| 2:05.3 | But the moment, the event horizon that we crossed from me |
| 2:08.4 | was when they banned me from Twitter for quoting the other guy, |
| 2:12.4 | I was like, whoa. |
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