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

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Where the money comes from for what? Some made for netflix film by a film maker no one heard of?

Did you see "Fuel"? Anyone in this group ever mention it?

Clearly the totality of Hollywood is bought out by that pretend sheik. Clearly climate change isn't real because O'keefe played "yes men".

And just who are you accusing of spin?

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Spin may have been the wrong word.
Hypocracy may have been better (which if it had been a conservative entrapped there would have been
at least three posts pointing that out.

*sigh* Dude, I am more amused by this than anything else, this is the way the game is played by independent producers
I have a friend who would sell his soul to the devil to be able to produce his latest project, and a nephew who may have..
My very first comment dealt with the who, not the what or why.
I am at a loss to understand why you seem to be so defensive about it or maybe I have a perception problem :)

[phildegrave]

...or maybe I have a perception problem :)

Maybe your constant feigning of cluelessness is off-putting to some.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

There is that possibility.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

The analogy is to the "Yes Men" on the left I think.

My mood was ruined because I got into a beef with someone on a job site. I don't like violence. I apologize.