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Oh Great. PBS Also Met With Some Of James O’Keefe’s Flunkies

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The New York Times has confirmed with executives at PBS that they too were tricked into having lunch with some of James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas flunkies. This, of course, means that, like with NPR, they were presumably video taped in secret. So, if you woke up this morning desperately hoping that you could, one day, discover what the senior vice president for development at PBS has to say during lunch conversations with potential donors, then you could be in luck! Hoorah!

Yes, PBS’ Brian Reddington ate with what he thought were members of a group called the Muslim Education Action Center Trust. They were proposing a $5 million donation to PBS, but executives told the Times that they declined.

“Ms. Bentley said that Mr. Reddington came back from the lunch with ‘profound concerns about the organization’ and began what she called a routine vetting process “when there is an appearance of a conflict of interest and to ensure they meet requirements of transparency and openness.”

‘Attempts to confirm the credentials of the organization proved unsatisfactory and communication was halted by PBS,’ she said.”

Only time will tell if the Veritas members got Reddington to open up about his theories on the Tea Party’s gun carrying abilities.

(h/t Business Insider)

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  • errxn

    It’s a real shame that these guys aren’t doing this from a liberal standpoint. Because then, Jon could call them “investigative reporters” instead of “flunkies.”

  • cjd ohio 1

    nice jon, flunkies outsmart NPR, now lets see what happens with PBS lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    errxn said:
    It’s a real shame that these guys aren’t doing this from a liberal standpoint. Because then, Jon could call them “investigative reporters” instead of “flunkies.”

    Exactly. Just look at how Mediaite and the MSM were so excited about that Scott Brown prank call.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    You gotta love the nefarious picture they used of O’Keefe too.

    Also, check out Jon’s story about the Scott Brown Prank call. No mention of flunkies and no negative spin.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-scott-brown-thankdavid-koch-for-campaign-money-before-awkwardly-asking-for-more/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Lascar/100000889579338 Ed Lascar

    O’Keeffe has a crooked face, but he is cute! Kind of impudent!

    And…”flunkies”? I agree with “errxn” statement.

  • Cubby

    Dronetek said:
    You gotta love the nefarious picture they used of O’Keefe too.

    Have you ever visited Foxnation.com? They have an entire library of intentionally sinister pictures of Obama, Hillary, and all kinds of scary blacks and mexicans. If you want to see manipulative, misleading, and biased, the Fox Nation puts Mediaite to SHAME. And it’s affiliated with a major news channel! Scary.

  • illusive man

    Cubby said:
    Have you ever visited Foxnation.com? They have an entire library of intentionally sinister pictures of Obama, Hillary, and all kinds of scary blacks and mexicans. If you want to see manipulative, misleading, and biased, the Fox Nation puts Mediaite to SHAME. And it’s affiliated with a major news channel! Scary.

    Stay right there, I sent Maddow to you’re place to hold you in her big strong arms till you’re scary thought’s and shiver’s go away.

  • Calvin

    Oh Great. PBS Also Met With Some Of James O’Keefe’s Flunkies

    …says the flunky.

  • OxyCon

    The New York Times has confirmed with executives at PBS that they too were tricked into having lunch with some of James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas flunkies.

    Flunkies? Really? Now you’ve opened yourself up for having the race card used on you, since one of those “flunkies” is a Black man. According to Leftist rules, you are a racist. Did, you know that?

    Also, that’s quite the Leftist circle jerk of snobbery there!
    PBS whining to the NYT about being had like NPR. LOL

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    illusive man said:
    Stay right there, I sent Maddow to you’re place to hold you in her big strong arms till you’re scary thought’s and shiver’s go away.

    HAhahahahaHAHAHAhahAHAHAhahaHAHA it’s funny because she’s a GROSS GAY and GAYS are GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111 HahahahAHAHaHAHAHAHahAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!1111 Our Side will ALWAYS win because we have the perfect combination of Wit, Maturity, and Intelligence that you LIBS could only hope for!!!!!!11111 HahahAHAHahahaHAHAa dude I wish I could HIGH FIVE people through a computer!!!!!1111 HahahaHAHAhaha those NASTY GAYS!!!!!111

  • Socialist

    Wonder what makes PBS liberal to you conservatives.

    All they show is some random documentaries and sesame street all day.

  • tatboy

    I assume you had the same righteous indignation at the Gov. Walker prank caller. No???

  • tatboy

    cjd ohio 1 said:
    nice jon, flunkies outsmart NPR, now lets see what happens with PBS lol

    Good point. Jon Is all to happy to demean these guys (and maybe some is deserved), but I’ll bet my mortgage that if these guys were working for ALF, ELF, Earth First, Rainbow Push, SHAC, PETA, NARAL, etc they would be “investigators” or “undercover agents”.

  • roxsteady

    Yes, and both NPR and PBS turned down the 5 million dollar bribe that was offered. What’s the problem? The tea party is basically a bunch of ignorant racists who did show up at several events packing guns. Oh, and let’s not compare a prank caller who was speaking to an elected official to the fundraiser at NPR. It’s more of the false equivalency that the wingnuts cling to.

  • cjd ohio 1

    tatboy said:
    Good point. Jon Is all to happy to demean these guys (and maybe some is deserved), but I’ll bet my mortgage that if these guys were working for ALF, ELF, Earth First, Rainbow Push, SHAC, PETA, NARAL, etc they would be “investigators” or “undercover agents”.

    agreed

  • roxsteady

    By the way, the GOP baggers in congress can’t strip NPR and PBS of their funding without the Senate also passing it. Epic Fail!

  • roxsteady

    Does O’Keefe have a degree in journalism or is he like Joe the Plumber who didn’t actually have a plumbers license?

  • WHarropson

    OK so when Flunkies do it people lose their jobs and organizations lose funding, what happens when a non flunkies does it? I need to be reminded, help me here. What exacly? Is flunkie what you call a media operative that you are jealous of Jon?

  • tatboy

    roxsteady said:
    Does O’Keefe have a degree in journalism or is he like Joe the Plumber who didn’t actually have a plumbers license?

    Talk about Epic Fail.

  • ganymede

    Karl Spensen said:
    HAhahahahaHAHAHAhahAHAHAhahaHAHA it’s funny because she’s a GROSS GAY and GAYS are GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111 HahahahAHAHaHAHAHAHahAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!1111 Our Side will ALWAYS win because we have the perfect combination of Wit, Maturity, and Intelligence that you LIBS could only hope for!!!!!!11111 HahahAHAHahahaHAHAa dude I wish I could HIGH FIVE people through a computer!!!!!1111 HahahaHAHAhaha those NASTY GAYS!!!!!111

    On a more serious note I’d like to welcome back someone who I haven’t seen on Mediaite for quite a while. Karl Spensen really has a way with words and goes to the heart of what’s wrong with the liberal establishment. Welcome back Karl. You and your comrade-in-arms, James O’Keefe are true conservative heros.

  • Arkansas Steve

    JON,
    Maybe some of James’ “flunkies”, as you refer to them, will meet with you some day.

    Keep in mind Jon, that each of these flunkies has proven themselves about 100x more valuable than yourself at getting interesting & informative information to the public.

  • damien

    Suddendly, out of nowhere, flunkies! Hundreds of them!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Jon boy, your headline tells me all I need to know about your JournOlism. You can’t even pretend to hide it anymore, can you?

  • Pablo

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Jon boy, your headline tells me all I need to know about your JournOlism. You can’t even pretend to hide it anymore, can you?


    Bias? What bias?

  • Pablo

    roxsteady said:
    Does O’Keefe have a degree in journalism or is he like Joe the Plumber who didn’t actually have a plumbers license?

    IIRC, he graduated from a philosophy program. So, he’s on par with Rachel Maddow in journalism credentials. Has O’Keefe ever suggested that he’s doing journalism?

  • Grammie

    The big question to me is did he open with his big guns with NPR or was that just a shot over the bow to be followed by the kill shot at PBS.

    Don’t hold me to it but I think the preemptive statement by PBS to the NYT just might argue that they took the big hit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    It’s never fun to lose, but let’s all hope we’re able to cope with it better than Jon Bershad is.

  • LibertySister

    lol, these Flunkies sure must be alot smarter then management at NPR or the other left leaning idiots they catch either lying or doing something illegal. Especially with the Acorn sting with it involving 13 year old prostitutes.

    This shows you how values , morals or honesty is not part of a liberal playbook. just like with Jon Bershad and others here on this site.

  • WHarropson

    I would like someone to quantify just how much money now and over the next few years these flunkies have (and will) save the american taxpayer. And just for fun compare it somehow to the total value of Mediaite. That might provide a little perspective on who should be calling who a flunkie..

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Pablo said:
    IIRC, he graduated from a philosophy program. So, he’s on par with Rachel Maddow in journalism credentials. Has O’Keefe ever suggested that he’s doing journalism?

    It’s not journalism, it’s an Alan Funt shtick, which is why media types get so pissy about it. But only when it’s done by those ‘flunkies’ on the right, seemingly, and not the ‘plucky citizen journalists’ of the left.

  • socal4patrick

    After Michael More’s “documentaries” you have the hutzapah to complain. What next BJ Clinton lecturing on marital fidelity ?

  • felixw

    Based on O’Keefe’s past practices, I think we can all rest assured that there is more inflammatory NPR footage in his files…and he is just waiting for the right moment to make it public.

    You would think that these liberal ideologues at NPR would be a little more careful about what they say. But the leftwing media have become so smug, insular and self-righteous that they lost all perspective. Just turn on the microphone and let them talk, and the most amazing statements will pour out of their mouths…..Trust me, more examples are on the way.

  • LibertySister

    roxsteady said:
    Yes, and both NPR and PBS turned down the 5 million dollar bribe that was offered. What’s the problem? The tea party is basically a bunch of ignorant racists who did show up at several events packing guns. Oh, and let’s not compare a prank caller who was speaking to an elected official to the fundraiser at NPR. It’s more of the false equivalency that the wingnuts cling to.

    Oh yeah that tea party person with the gun that CNN and MSNBC hid the face and only shot close up of the gun on his back and never panned out to see it was a black man.
    That CNN wanted their viewers to think it was white racist tea party person yet it was a black guy!

    They thought they could fool there viewers who are idiots on believing it because they knew most of there viewers dont question what they see and follow like sheep….I guess it worked on you!

  • BatBoy

    The Chickens are coming home to Roost on you Progro-lefties.

  • wube

    Pablo said:
    IIRC, he graduated from a philosophy program. So, he’s on par with Rachel Maddow in journalism credentials.

    Dude, Rachel Maddow is a PHD. Her formal name is Dr. Maddow. Don’t equate the frog with an elephant

  • TfT

    Awe how sweet – Jon has apparently been studying Tommy’s headlines.

    It is so funny watching lefties try to circle the wagons even though they should be running away. NPR and PBS have damaged themselves, “the flunkies” just happened to be on the winning team here in exposing the bias.

    Give the “flunkies” the kudo’s they deserve.

  • wube

    Actually, what Schiller was saying is right. Conservativism is diametrically opposed to anything intellectualism stands for. If your mind can process enough to graduate from a college, you most probably will tend to be a liberal.
    I think conservativism is a sort of mental disorder that hampers intelligent thinking.

  • VoiceofReason

    tatboy said:
    Talk about Epic Fail.

    No reply tat because roxintheirhead had to go get a new keyboard when the tears shorted out the old one.

    I would offer them a hankie if it wasn’t so mean………….

  • VoiceofReason

    wube said:
    Actually, what Schiller was saying is right. Conservativism is diametrically opposed to anything intellectualism stands for. If your mind can process enough to graduate from a college, you most probably will tend to be a liberal.I think conservativism is a sort of mental disorder that hampers intelligent thinking.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…….then how does it feel, mister intellectual superiority, to be outwitted time and again by rubes with mental disorders?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA……hankie?

    Regards,
    Dr. VoiceofReason, BSME, MSME – Cal Poly SLO, PhD – Purdue University – Go Stangs and Boilermakers!!

  • VoiceofReason

    Sorry….did I neglect to say..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! THE GRAVY TRAIN IS OFF THE TRACKS!!!!! PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS AND CONTROL OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING IS GOING THE WAY OF THE DINOSAUR!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! IT WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED AND HAD YOU ASSCLOWNS NOT GRABBED WITH BOTH HANDS WITHOUT REGARD TO WHO WAS LOOKING BECAUSE YOU HAD YOU BOUGHT AND PAID FOR POLS AND MEDIA TO PROVIDE COVER…….NOT ANYMORE!!!!!

    I am reminded of a scene from the movie Brubaker, where the rainstorm has caused the poorly constructed roof of the prison to collapse and they are in the infirmary tending to the sick and the corrupt-o-crat doctor is tending to a guy fighting him off and the doc is telling him to shut up so the new reform warden (libbie assclown Redford) doesn’t catch wind of his scam and the guys says…….and this is classic and oh so apropos for today’s rank and file American………

    “I can’t afford anymore………….”

    Well we can’t afford any more of your looking out for us. We’ll just have to make it on our own.

    Horrors!!!!!

  • AnnCoulter

    Can someone please explain to me what’s going on with this site? I’ve checked several times to make sure that I didn’t somehow find my way to FauxNoise.com, because most of the comments here seem to be from Rethug shills (except for wube). And please explain to me how someone O’Keefe’s age, who studied philosophy, can be a devious little Conservative lacky! I guess if your only source for news is the “Fair & Balanced” station that might explain some of it, but how can someone so young be that cynical?

    Why can’t you conservative lemmings see the difference between an NPR exec-on-the-way-out (a fundraiser) who basically tells the truth about the Tea Party (the “grassroots” organization that was started by [the Koch brothers] some concerned citizens) vs. the ideological governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, whose sycophantic conversation with David Koch confirmed that he and The Brothers intend to destroy the unions despite the wishes the of people of Wisconsin? [For no other purpose than to further line the pockets of the Koch brothers with golden Wisconsonian cheese!] The former is a man not smart enough to realize that you don’t discuss the joys of alcohol consumption with those of the Muslim faith, while the latter is a man who plots and schemes behind the scenes on ways he can “trick” his Democratic counterparts into ramming through his draconian legislation. Walker’s budget deficit will not be solved by taking away union member’s collective bargaining rights, but he COULD make up a large part of that deficit were he not giving such large tax breaks to the super-rich and the corporations. NOTE TO CONS: the trickle down theory doesn’t work and never has.

  • VoiceofReason

    AnnCoulter said:
    Can someone please explain to me what’s going on with this site? I’ve checked several times to make sure that I didn’t somehow find my way to FauxNoise.com, because most of the comments here seem to be from Rethug shills (except for wube). And please explain to me how someone O’Keefe’s age, who studied philosophy, can be a devious little Conservative lacky! I guess if your only source for news is the “Fair & Balanced” station that might explain some of it, but how can someone so young be that cynical? Why can’t you conservative lemmings see the difference between an NPR exec-on-the-way-out (a fundraiser) who basically tells the truth about the Tea Party (the “grassroots” organization that was started by [the Koch brothers] some concerned citizens) vs. the ideological governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, whose sycophantic conversation with David Koch confirmed that he and The Brothers intend to destroy the unions despite the wishes the of people of Wisconsin? [For no other purpose than to further line the pockets of the Koch brothers with golden Wisconsonian cheese!] The former is a man not smart enough to realize that you don’t discuss the joys of alcohol consumption with those of the Muslim faith, while the latter is a man who plots and schemes behind the scenes on ways he can “trick” his Democratic counterparts into ramming through his draconian legislation. Walker’s budget deficit will not be solved by taking away union member’s collective bargaining rights, but he COULD make up a large part of that deficit were he not giving such large tax breaks to the super-rich and the corporations. NOTE TO CONS: the trickle down theory doesn’t work and never has.

    Hankie Ann?

  • Pablo

    Noted: Rachel Maddow and James O’Keefe both like girls.

  • BadGenome

    AnnCoulter said:
    Why can’t you conservative lemmings see the difference between an NPR exec-on-the-way-out (a fundraiser) who basically tells the truth about the Tea Party (the “grassroots” organization that was started by [the Koch brothers] some concerned citizens) vs. the ideological governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, whose sycophantic conversation with David Koch confirmed that he and The Brothers intend to destroy the unions despite the wishes the of people of Wisconsin?

    Sure, there’s a difference: Walker was elected, NPR wasn’t and simply shouldn’t receive one penny of taxpayer money whether or not their fundraisers are driveling idiots.

  • mamaearth

    @Karl Spensen….Yeah, I can see your intelligent and mature side with your comment…

    You stated:

    HAhahahahaHAHAHAhahAHAHAhahaHAHA it’s funny because she’s a GROSS GAY and GAYS are GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111 HahahahAHAHaHAHAHAHahAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!1111 Our Side will ALWAYS win because we have the perfect combination of Wit, Maturity, and Intelligence that you LIBS could only hope for!!!!!!11111 HahahAHAHahahaHAHAa dude I wish I could HIGH FIVE people through a computer!!!!!1111 HahahaHAHAhaha those NASTY GAYS!!!!!111

    Where is your supposed wit AND maturity, buddy?

  • mamaearth

    BTW- Karl…….I’m a conservative and you really don’t help the party with comments such as that!

  • BadGenome

    mamaearth said:
    BTW- Karl…….I’m a conservative and you really don’t help the party with comments such as that!

    Which is precisely the point. He’s trolling, and none too subtly. (The constant !!!!!111s were a clue.)

  • espo222

    This article shows the left’s true colors. Michael Moore lines his pocket by making fake documentaries, but because he does it as a liberal, he is called a hero. O’Keefe outs dirtbags whom the taxpayers are forced to give their money to and he is called a flunkie.

  • lane

    Why so sad, Jon? You’ll have the full video tape, isn’t it possible that the NPR execs were professional, respectful to their audience and not snobby elitists jerks?

    Just kidding. Doubtful at best. Given the ACORN ‘drip, drip, drip’ release strategy, I’m not optimistic for PBS/NPR as well.

  • The Donger

    AnnCoulter said:
    Can someone please explain to me what’s going on with this site? I’ve checked several times to make sure that I didn’t somehow find my way to FauxNoise.com, because most of the comments here seem to be from Rethug shills (except for wube). And please explain to me how someone O’Keefe’s age, who studied philosophy, can be a devious little Conservative lacky! I guess if your only source for news is the “Fair & Balanced” station that might explain some of it, but how can someone so young be that cynical?

    Why can’t you conservative lemmings see the difference between an NPR exec-on-the-way-out (a fundraiser) who basically tells the truth about the Tea Party (the “grassroots” organization that was started by [the Koch brothers] some concerned citizens) vs. the ideological governor of the State of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, whose sycophantic conversation with David Koch confirmed that he and The Brothers intend to destroy the unions despite the wishes the of people of Wisconsin? [For no other purpose than to further line the pockets of the Koch brothers with golden Wisconsonian cheese!] The former is a man not smart enough to realize that you don’t discuss the joys of alcohol consumption with those of the Muslim faith, while the latter is a man who plots and schemes behind the scenes on ways he can “trick” his Democratic counterparts into ramming through his draconian legislation. Walker’s budget deficit will not be solved by taking away union member’s collective bargaining rights, but he COULD make up a large part of that deficit were he not giving such large tax breaks to the super-rich and the corporations. NOTE TO CONS: the trickle down theory doesn’t work and never has.

    This may have been one of the most innaccurate, rambling, and pathetic diatribes I have ever seen. Seriously, does anyone one the left have a functioning rationale brain or do they just repeat what there told like good little soldiers.

  • Emma

    Dear Donger, It’s “rational” not “rationale”. Look in the mirror, nitwit.

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    Isn’t it funny how progressives celebrate information thief like the Assage while condemming ambush journalists like O’Keefe?

    Isn’t it funny how they worry about the quality of life of the traitor Pvt. Manning while they probably want to put O’Keefe in prison?

    Progressives, it’s their way or a jail cell.

    In Defense of the Muslim Hearings.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-defense-of-muslim-hearings.html

  • jimS

    Oh thank you. I suspected that PBS and the NYT were whores who could be bought, it was just price that makes them better.

  • kit9

    Do you call the media proclaimed rock star that posed as Koch with Walker? Of course not.

  • timcajun

    dogg sserto

  • tatboy

    Emma said:
    Dear Donger, It’s “rational” not “rationale”. Look in the mirror, nitwit.

    Ooooo a spelling flame…. Cripple-Fight!!!

  • X-3

    He deserves a Pulitzer but will never get one from his uberliberal peers.

  • chicgoods10

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