James O’Keefe finds another use for his pimp hat
By Hold it under the suckers’ noses and ask them to fill it with cash.
But in a new fundraising message to supporters of PVAction, O’Keefe writes that “a rampant and organized system of voter fraud has been exposed” by his reporters, and he promises more to come.
“Weeks ago, we deployed undercover journalists in early voting states across the nation,” O’Keefe writes. “They have been recording hours and hours of footage as we waited for the dam to break. And now I need to double down and flood the field with undercover investigators. They will be deployed to early voting stations around the nation to monitor ‘bussing’ activities and catch voter fraud in the act. Can you pay for one hotel night for an undercover journalist? One meal?”
By the way, the word busing (I assume he doesn’t mean kissing) is not at all meant trip the very sensitive alarms of the sort of people who can’t understand why black and brown people are allowed to vote.
At any rate I wonder if the sort of people who still take him seriously will offer room and board for his supermassive squad of undercover investigator sleuth fraud detectors. O’Keefe trying to graciously decline anything that can’t go in his bank account is an exchange I’d pay to see.
High-ranking marks don’t seem eager to grab this particular merde sandwich. Possibly because their hands are full with Trump.
In a 2011 email released during an unrelated lawsuit, a Walker ally suggested that if a close statewide election went the wrong way, Republicans needed to “start messaging ‘widespread reports of election fraud’” and argue for a recount.
Yet in the 24 hours after conservative activist James O’Keefe released a video, claiming to expose a voter fraud plot in Wisconsin, Walker has been relatively quiet. In his first comments on the videos, Walker tweeted a link to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that covered how Madison activist Scott Foval got Democratic “bird-doggers” into Republican events.
Walker’s caution, and the hands-off approach of other Republicans, suggest that the second Project Veritas Action video — “Massive Voter Fraud” — is prompting caution about how to move.
Because Project Veritas Action’s full undercover interview with Scott Foval has not been made available, the charge that he plotted voter fraud is constructed from O’Keefe’s narration and damning-sounding quotes.
Is the GOP thrice bitten, finally starting to get a clue? No. I’m sure that after the election we’ll hear lots and lots about the wonderful work PVA has done to defend democracy. For now they’ll let Trump shout about it and hope everyone takes this as a sign that the GOP is a serious party that just happens to have a high gibbering bigot count.
