Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe was officially ousted from the organization this month, and for John Oliver, it’s certainly not hard to bid farewell to “alt-right Borat.”
Facing allegations of mistreating his employees and misusing company funds funds — to the point that Project Veritas is at risk of losing its non-profit classification — O’Keefe resigned on Feb. 20, posting a 45-minute resignation video online (something that Oliver had a good laugh at based on the length of it alone).
Still, while the “Last Week Tonight” host dubbed O’Keefe “basically alt-right Borat,” Oliver pointed out that conservative hosts and pundits are sticking with O’Keefe, and expressing their outrage over his ouster. That said, when Steve Bannon said “James O’Keefe is a national treasure, full stop,” Oliver steadfastly disagreed.
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“Wow.
Facing allegations of mistreating his employees and misusing company funds funds — to the point that Project Veritas is at risk of losing its non-profit classification — O’Keefe resigned on Feb. 20, posting a 45-minute resignation video online (something that Oliver had a good laugh at based on the length of it alone).
Still, while the “Last Week Tonight” host dubbed O’Keefe “basically alt-right Borat,” Oliver pointed out that conservative hosts and pundits are sticking with O’Keefe, and expressing their outrage over his ouster. That said, when Steve Bannon said “James O’Keefe is a national treasure, full stop,” Oliver steadfastly disagreed.
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- 2/27/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
John Oliver started off Last Week Tonight roasting Fox News for the second week in a row. The HBO Max host show started off by noting that Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attended the train derailment in Ohio.
However, over on Fox News, Jesse Watters and Rachel Campos-Duffy asked why some personalities had not visited the site in East Palestine.
“Think about the environmental activists and corporate America, they weren’t there,” Campos-Duffy said on Fox & Friends Weekend.
The Real World: San Francisco alum continued, “This is an Erin Brockovich moment. There was a blockbuster Oscar-winning movie written about something like this.”
Watters added that Brockovich was actually paying a visit to East Palestine with Campos-Duffy asking, “But where is Julia Roberts?”
Oliver’s reaction to the Fox News segment left him confused and asking what they were talking about before educating the television personalities on Roberts’s profession.
However, over on Fox News, Jesse Watters and Rachel Campos-Duffy asked why some personalities had not visited the site in East Palestine.
“Think about the environmental activists and corporate America, they weren’t there,” Campos-Duffy said on Fox & Friends Weekend.
The Real World: San Francisco alum continued, “This is an Erin Brockovich moment. There was a blockbuster Oscar-winning movie written about something like this.”
Watters added that Brockovich was actually paying a visit to East Palestine with Campos-Duffy asking, “But where is Julia Roberts?”
Oliver’s reaction to the Fox News segment left him confused and asking what they were talking about before educating the television personalities on Roberts’s profession.
- 2/27/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
James O’Keefe, the founder of right-wing video organization Project Veritas, took a paid leave as his leadership role at the nonprofit undergoes a review from its board, according to former and current staff members in a NY Mag report.
The chairman’s position is being considered for removal as the conservative organization is embroiled with complaints of O’Keefe’s “outright cruel” behavior towards employees and disgruntled donors, according to an internal memo signed by a third of its employees obtained by The Daily Beast.
Daniel Strack, the nonprofit’s executive director,...
The chairman’s position is being considered for removal as the conservative organization is embroiled with complaints of O’Keefe’s “outright cruel” behavior towards employees and disgruntled donors, according to an internal memo signed by a third of its employees obtained by The Daily Beast.
Daniel Strack, the nonprofit’s executive director,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii congresswoman who sought the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, is completing her metamorphosis from iconoclast progressive to hardcore conservative by appearing as a featured guest at the Trumpy love-in known as the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Cpac 2022 begins Wednesday in Orlando, where Gabbard will join a roster of GOP loyalists — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican senators Ted Cruz, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, and Representatives Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene — in building buzz for the star of the circus,...
Cpac 2022 begins Wednesday in Orlando, where Gabbard will join a roster of GOP loyalists — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican senators Ted Cruz, Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, and Representatives Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn and Marjorie Taylor Greene — in building buzz for the star of the circus,...
- 2/21/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Miami — The strobes are pulsing. The fog machines are pumping. Three professional dancers wearing haute-couture costumes that appear to be made of newsprint contort themselves on stage to the all-encompassing roar of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Their dance partners, dressed in blue windbreakers and FBI caps, run their hands lasciviously up these mainstream-media sirens. Behind them, on an enormous screen, graphics emerge through war-zone CGI smoke: the New York Times logo, followed by a “vs.,” followed by: “Veritas. Be Brave. Do Something.”
For once, no one can dispute the...
For once, no one can dispute the...
- 2/1/2022
- by Laura Jedeed
- Rollingstone.com
Released in selected theaters on Oct. 19, Rocky Mountain Pictures' documentary "Hating Breitbart" has earned a bit more than $81,000, well below the company's previous documentary release, Dinesh D'Souza's political "2016: Obama's America," which has made almost $33.5 million since coming out in July.
But "Hating Breitbart" is not so much a political documentary -- although there's plenty of political content in it -- as a glimpse into the future of new media, as reflected in the tumultuous last few years in the life of online entrepreneur and provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who died in March, a month after his 43rd birthday.
Breitbart's father-in-law, actor and game-show panelist Orson Bean, and his wife, actress Alley Mills, headed to a theater in Burbank on opening weekend to see the film.
But, says Bean, "My wife and I were so moved by seeing Andrew again so much, that I don't know what my reaction is to the film.
But "Hating Breitbart" is not so much a political documentary -- although there's plenty of political content in it -- as a glimpse into the future of new media, as reflected in the tumultuous last few years in the life of online entrepreneur and provocateur Andrew Breitbart, who died in March, a month after his 43rd birthday.
Breitbart's father-in-law, actor and game-show panelist Orson Bean, and his wife, actress Alley Mills, headed to a theater in Burbank on opening weekend to see the film.
But, says Bean, "My wife and I were so moved by seeing Andrew again so much, that I don't know what my reaction is to the film.
- 11/6/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
On Monday, we reported on a new investigation from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas that seeks to discredit a Rutgers professor and the think tank he does research for, but the main thrust of the piece, as the title "To Catch A Journalist" suggests, was an attack on The Huffington Post's Sam Stein. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, O'Keefe defended his false assertion that an old journalism professor of Stein's accused Sam of getting his sources drunk, and responded to criticism of his reporting.
- 10/25/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
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