James O'Keefe is Officially Trying to Affect Elections Now
James O'Keefe, the producer of 'ACORN Revealed: The Philadelphia Story' takes part in a press conference at the National Press Club October 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. During the press conference Andrew Breitbart showed new video material as well as new footage of ACORN officials.
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesIt's been five years since his ACORN sting videos spurred a panic that sent a Democratic Congress against that group of community organizers, and quickly consigned it to history. Today, in a new video, James O'Keefe has compiled undercover video of his Project Veritas moles inside Alison Lundergan Grimes's campaign for U.S. Senate.
Breathe (somewhat) easy, Democrats: There's no criminal activity alleged here. Instead, there's a succession of cheerful activists insisting that Grimes is on their side, and is participating in a "lying game" when she says she'll fight for the coal industry. One Democrat even offers that Barack Obama's regulations have "shut down all the really terrible environmental places," which is decidedly not the Grimes campaign line. She "strongly oppose[s] President Obama’s attack on Kentucky’s energy industry." The Grimes volunteers and backers don't take her seriously. ("Neither does anyone else," says Doug Stafford, Rand Paul's political director.)