# James O'Keefe organization suffering from infighting, lack of funds **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 18, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393 "2011-11-18T21:49:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393/1 "2011-11-18T21:49:51Z")
Couldn’t happen to a better person. Here’s the story: > [@](#): > > After pulling off the brazen hidden camera sting credited with bringing down the liberal organizing group ACORN, James O’Keefe dreamt up an even bolder plan: to build a permanent undercover video operation that would expose institutions of the American left. > > But things have not gone according to plan. > > O’Keefe’s vision, pieced together from court filings, interviews and tax records filed by his nonprofit Project Veritas, has been hampered by bitter infighting, lack of funding and even his own fame. > > And O’Keefe has begun to fight back, preparing lawsuits against two former associates-turned-critics — one who claims O’Keefe had little to do with his biggest post-ACORN exposé, focused on NPR, and another former colleague who says she backed out of a project last month because of O’Keefe’s lack of professionalism. [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68628.html#ixzz1e5whHDMM](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68628.html#ixzz1e5whHDMM) Anyway, among the shocking revelations he’s made lately: [Journalists sometimes drink alcohol with their sources.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dale-maharidge/james-okeefe-project-veritas_b_1069647.html) [Also, they use salty language when talking about people who are pissing them off.](http://theprojectveritas.com/maharidge) [And some of the Wall Street Occupiers look like bums.](http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/national/article/995961--james-o-keefe-s-occupy-wall-street-video-fails-to-shock) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393/2 "2011-11-18T22:53:45Z")
Slow news day? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393/3 "2011-11-18T23:13:00Z")
How much Keefe is in this anyway? 🙂 The only surprise to me is how he has not gone after Santa \* for the lump of coal \*\*she \*\*gave him last year. > **[Santa delivers a present to the "fake pimp" O'keefe.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=580077)** > > Well, not the Santa, but O’keefe just found a being that he also could had thought that it never existed: A conservative with ethics in his own media organization: That ethical behavior deserves commendations, No? Uh, not in Right wing world it... - That was Santa as in “former executive director of Project Veritas”, Izzy Santa. (Yes, that is her name) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393/4 "2011-11-19T03:57:40Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > How much Keefe is in this anyway? > > 🙂 MILES O’Keefe. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/james-okeefe-organization-suffering-from-infighting-lack-of-funds/603393/5 "2011-11-19T07:01:44Z")
We had hoped that this was just a phase…