Despite double standard, O’Keefe pulls off Medicaid sting
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:25PM 
For Project Veritas' Medicaid sting, O'Keefe and his colleague pretended to be Russian drug smugglers. [Screen snip from video at Project Veritas.]James O’Keefe is arguably the most intriguing man working in investigative journalism today. Despite his brand getting more and more attention nationally, O’Keefe continues to disguise, investigate and amaze. His latest target: Medicaid. For this sting, O’Keefe and a colleague dressed up and identified themselves as Russian drug dealers selling “Bob Marley pharmaceuticals.”
There’s a giant double standard applied to O’Keefe. If his latest videos had been created by a paper like The New York Times, they'd be top of the fold on every website.
During the late 60s and early 70s, leftists dominated investigative journalism with shows like ’60 Minutes’ working their way into homes and history. O’Keefe actually uses methods that iconic show broke ground with.
Wikipedia, citing David Frum’s book ‘How We Got Here: The 70s,’ described ’60 Minutes’ as creating “reporter centered investigation.” Wiki went on to say, “The show pioneered many of the most important investigative journalism techniques, including re-editing interviews, hidden cameras, and ‘gotcha’ visits to the home or office of an investigative subject.”
That is exactly what O’Keefe does with Project Veritas, yet leftist media groups attack him for his methods.
O’Keefe’s Medicaid sting reveals a culture of corruption, not for self-gain but through lack of concern about any matter other than processing the application and satisfying the bureaucracy. There is no sense of morality, a common tenet of socialist governments.
After O’Keefe talks to one government employee in a human services agency, he phones her to thank her “from the bottom of heart” because, he says, no government employee in Russia “ever help you.”
Incredibly, O’Keefe adds, ““Thanks to hope and change…a Russian drug dealer can get Medicaid and abortion for his sisters…cousins…thank you so much.”
At another agency, one employee listens as the drug dealer talks about his 16 year old sister doing “sexual favors” and needing abortions (three) because of it. The employee says, “Wow! That’s not good.” Then, without skipping a beat, she explains since the daughter is that young and lives with the dealer’s father, the dealer’s dad will qualify for extra assistance—“Now we can look at like family medical.”
The dealer even divulges they’re “technically” dealing in illicit drugs and having girls working for them. He’s assured there will be no problems because of these matters.
For abortions, regardless of age, the recommended facility was Planned Parenthood. Democrats in Congress have aggressively defended their approval of federal funds for Planned Parenthood.
At another government assistance office, the employee confides, “Even if we run into people that are illegal aliens, it’s not like we report them to INS or anything.”
At one office, O’Keefe even shared that he owned a car worth nearly $1 million. No problem, as long as the car didn’t belong to O’Keefe’s fictional father who was actually the Medicaid applicant. Nor did it matter that Father’s physical problems could be related to his using some of the “Bob Marley pharmaceuticals” that comprised the family’s business inventory.
O’Keefe is one of the only real investigative journalists in the nation right now. Legacy media mostly function as advocates for socialist progressive policy.
[Disclosure: I have contributed to Project Veritas via the website’s online donation form, and I believe the project is a valuable educational resource for the American public.]
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