James O'Keefe's Project Veritas fires back after NYT editor calls undercover vid 'mortal sin' and 'despicable'

Doug P. | 12:29 PM on October 14, 2017

Over the summer, the New York Times management warned its newsroom that “someone claiming to be a college student is trying to interview NYT journalists.” That “someone” was James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, which secretly recorded a NY Times “content editor” claiming to be an Antifa member, godson of James Comey, and to have worked for the Clinton and Obama campaigns.

The executive editor of the New York Times responded to Project Veritas with strong words:

Interesting – this is Dean Baquet talking last night about Project Veritas (https://t.co/xpN0CmZd8I) entrapping an audience strategy editor: pic.twitter.com/mJ6ehShfMg

— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) October 13, 2017

Project Veritas fired back with a question:

So why is undercover video journalism a "mortal sin" when managed by @JamesOKeefeIII but not when it's Soros funded? https://t.co/Wion2G7YDo

— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) October 14, 2017

Ouch!

Reaction is mixed with some in the media predictably falling on the side of the Times, but some others, not so much:

This reflects more on Baquet than it does on O'Keefe. https://t.co/KGutBEZCU1

— Michael (@Michael2014abc) October 14, 2017

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/919020119728193536
https://twitter.com/EricKjos/status/919023237215944704

Very eloquent response from Dean and why I am always skeptical of covering Veritas hit jobs. https://t.co/MA2Fqho9mm

— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) October 14, 2017

LOL!

"Courageous, undercover, investigative journalism when done
BY the MSM"

"Lying and subterfuge when done against the MSM" https://t.co/0W2vsAY88w

— Sane Trump Advisor (@TrumpAdvisor) October 14, 2017