James O'Keefe tries a Sting on anti-fraking film maker Josh Fox

[telemann.livejournal.com]

On Wednesday, conservative activist and controversial video sting artist James O’Keefe made an appearance in Cannes during the Film Festival with a new, secretly recorded 20-minute video that he said exposes the hypocrisy of two environmentalist documentarians and two Hollywood actors. At the end of the clip, after Josh and Rebecca Tickell, Mariel Hemingway, and Ed Begley Jr. appear to have unwittingly agreed to accept financing for an anti-fracking film from Middle East oil interests, O’Keefe claims he’s caught other allegedly altruistic actors and filmmakers in his trap, teasing a clip of a phone conversation with filmmaker Josh Fox.

But this time, O’Keefe wasn’t the only one making secret recordings. Left more than a little suspicious by years of vicious—and often surreptitious—attacks from the natural gas industry and its supporters following the premiere of his 2010 Oscar-nominated anti-fracking documentary, Gasland, and its 2012 sequel, Gasland II, Fox taped his interaction with one of O’Keefe’s minions and documented the elaborate lengths they went to entrap him.

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Many thanks to malasadas for the heads-up about O'Keefe's latest adventures.

Comments

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

My best answer to that is Maybe.

Ya know, what we have done is shift from a specific to generalities. The main concern if taking money from an amoral source is not a "bad thing" (and in ths case there was an agenda, I assume you have listened to the discussion) why the hiding of the source and funneling the money thru "acceptable" organizations?

I would agree that taking money with "no strings attached" is innocuous. Cynic in me wonders just how often that happens.

Bottom line: The motivation for the funding was to stop fracking to keep America dependent on foreign oil (made clear in the discussion) The motivation (hopefully) of the recipients is to stop fracking because they believe it's bad. Justification lies in the eye of the beholder...

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

" America dependent on foreign oil (made clear in the discussion) "

The "discussion" from the video I posted was heavily edited. I couldn't be sure what was said because they didn't just let the tape roll.

Also, none of this had any bearing on climate change.