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American Pravda

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by James O'Keefe


  71.“Shock Treatment,” Snopes.com, http://www.snopes.com/mike-pence-supported-gay-conversion-therapy/.

  72.“American Pravda, NYT Part IV,” October 19, 2017, Project Veritas, http://projectveritas.com/2017/10/19/american-pravda-nyt-part-iv-new-york-times-company-culture-revealed-everyone-hates-trump/.

  73.Erin Gloria Ryan, Twitter, October 19, 2017, https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/921015968939298816.

  Index

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  ABC, 17, 28, 114, 215–19

  Primetime Live, 52, 216

  Abedin, Huma, 64

  Access Hollywood tape, 139–40, 159, 271

  ACLU, 45, 200

  ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) reporting, 15, 20–23, 46, 50, 55–56, 59, 92–93, 238, 272

  civil lawsuit and settlement, 27, 179, 217–18

  media response to, 22–23, 29–30, 74, 217–18

  Obama on, 23

  Trump on, 1, 76

  Adams, J. Christian, 140

  Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 16, 26, 250

  agitprop, 122–23, 127. See also Soviet Union

  Ailes, Roger, 252

  Alinsky, Saul, 6, 10, 61, 67–68, 140, 143

  Alterman, Eric, 243

  Alvarez, Juanita, 67–68, 70–72

  America Takes Action, 232

  American Pravda series 255–77

  CNN, 255–64, 274

  New York Times, 257, 265, 267–76

  Americans United for Change (AUFC), 113–14, 125, 129, 164

  anti-fascist movements, 224–29

  Asbury Park Press, 73–74

  Aslan, Reza, 257, 261

  Assange, Julian, 267

  Associated Press (AP), 29–30, 203, 239, 241

  Attkisson, Sharyl, 246, 251

  Auletta, Ken, 9

  authoritarianism, 83–84

  autism, weaponized, 170, 173, 176. See also Reddit and redditors

  Ayres, Drummond, 91

  Baier, Bret, 163

  Baker, Steve, 74

  Baltimore, 21–22, 226

  Baltimore Sun, 260

  Bannon, Steve, 159, 207, 209, 211

  Baquet, Dean, 270–76

  Barber, Benjamin, 172

  Barker, Molly, 76–77

  Baron Cohen, Sacha, 20

  Barr, Ben, 221, 235, 240

  Barrow, Dianne, 62

  Beef Products Inc. (BPI), 217

  Bellevue hospital exposé (Nellie Bly), 47–48, 216

  Belling, Mark, 240–41

  Benghazi attack (2012), 5, 111, 250

  Benson, Guy, 142

  Bergman, Lowell, 158, 189, 191

  Bernays, Edward, 81

  Bernstein, Carl, 14, 272

  Beychok, Bradley, 146–47, 183–84

  bird-dogging, 101, 120–21, 127

  bin Laden border crossing reporting, 32–33, 36–37, 39, 41, 43, 78, 80, 141

  “birtherism,” 1

  Black Lives Matter, 63–64

  Black Panther Party. See New Black Panther Party

  Blackmun, Harry, 217

  Bliss, George, 49

  Bly, Nellie (pen name for Elizabeth Jane Cochran), 47–48, 51, 57, 216

  Bonifield, John, 258–63, 265, 274

  Borat (film), 20–21, 66–67

  Bossie, David, 2

  Bowdon, Bob, 62

  Bradbury, Ray, 12

  Brazile, Donna, 114–15, 167, 179, 184–85

  Breakthrough (O’Keefe), 63, 205, 214, 233

  Breitbart, Andrew, 2, 11, 21, 154, 157, 170, 233

  Breitbart News, 2, 154–58, 211, 258

  Broadcast News (film), 151

  Brock, David, 146, 184

  Bromberg, Yael, 28, 215

  Brown, Jerry, 23, 236

  Brown, Michael, 246

  Brzezinski, Mika, 82, 247, 264

  Bulger, Billy, 222

  Bunyan, John, 47

  Burke, Edmund, 5

  Burnett, Erin, 178

  Bush, Billy, 139–40, 159, 271

  Bush, George W., 188, 245

  Bush, Jeb, 79

  California, 8, 23, 27, 29, 175, 179, 213, 238, 271

  Camerota, Alisyn, 19, 25, 264–65

  Campbell, Richard, 126–27

  Canadian donation reporting, 76–68

  Cantu, Aaron, 231

  Cardona, Maria, 179–80

  Carlson, Tucker, 52, 176

  Carnegie, Dale, 60

  Carr, Jimmy, 263–65

  Carrefour, Legba, 224, 230–31, 235–36

  Carson, Ben, 172

  Cartel, The (documentary), 62

  Carusone, Angelo, 253

  Casey, Robert J., 55

  CBS, 17, 151, 158–60, 189–91, 210, 219, 249, 251

  “Bum Steer” video, 217

  CBS Digital, 9, 83

  48 Hours, 217

  60 Minutes, 189

  See also Couric, Katie; Rather, Dan

  Center for American Progress (CAP), 102

  Center for Medical Progress, 7–8

  Centurion (newspaper), 6

  Charen, Mona, 25

  Charney, Scott (“Scott Green”), 228–29, 235–36

  Chicago Board of Election Commissioners exposé (William Mullen), 48, 49

  Chicago Daily News, 55

  Chicago hospitals exposé (William Gaines), 49–51

  Chicago Mirage Tavern corruption exposé (Chicago Sun-Times), 50–51, 53

  Chicago Sun-Times, 10, 50, 53

  Chicago Tribune, 48, 49, 182

  Chomsky, Noam, 3–4, 162, 189, 214

  Christie, Chris, 62, 202

  cinema verité (truthful cinema), 8, 14, 49, 74

  Circa Media, 144–45, 148, 150

  Circus, The (documentary series), 204

  Citizen Action, 95

  citizen journalism, 11–12, 14, 17, 25, 30, 55, 83, 181–82, 208, 213, 245–46. See also journalism

  Citizens United, 2

  civil disobedience, 13, 132–36

  Civil Rights Act, 220

  Clayton, Ryan, 232–33

  Clinton, Bill, 2, 64, 98, 102, 159, 181, 252

  Clinton, Hillary, 16, 18, 31, 64

  campaign, 101, 105, 109–15, 118, 121–22, 129–30, 133, 137, 139–40, 269

  Comey and, 205

  Donald Duck disruption scheme, 113–15, 117, 126, 145, 171, 175

  election defeat of, 242, 252

  implications of presidential victory, 202–3, 250–51

  on Planned Parenthood video, 7

  presidential debates, 16, 79, 92–93, 165–66, 181–84

  Clinton Cash (Schweizer), 102

  Clinton Foundation, 102–3

  CNN, 5, 16, 19, 21, 25, 77–78, 162, 164, 166, 167

  American Pravda series, 255–64, 274

  New Day, 263

  Reliable Sources, 260

  CobeetheCorgi, 162

  Cochran, Elizabeth Jane (“Nellie Bly”), 47–48, 51, 57, 216

  Codevilla, Angelo, 6

  Columbia Journalism Review, 56

  Comet Ping Pong video, 235

  Comey, James, 3, 92, 205, 269

  Common Core, 16, 61, 79–80, 93

  conflict engagement, 101

  Conley, Dani
el, 219

  Connell, Paul, 240

  Constitution. See United States Constitution

  controlled discovery, 61, 88

  Conway, Kellyanne, 264

  Conway, Simon, 161

  Cooper, Anderson, 167–68, 179–80, 257, 259

  Correct the Record, 146

  Couric, Katie, 14, 25, 244–46

  Creamer, Robert, 28, 92, 100, 104–8, 110–32, 144–57, 166–67, 171, 175–76, 179, 184–86, 215, 218

  crowdsourcing, 174–75

  Cruz, Ted, 101, 111

  cultivation, 60

  Cuomo, Chris, 19, 263–65

  Curran, John Philpot, 17

  Daily Beast (news website), 275

  Daily Kos, 41, 104

  Daily Show, The, 21, 243

  Daleiden, David, 7–8, 180

  Damore, James, 254

  Dana, Will, 14

  Danziger Bridge case, 27

  Dayton, Mark, 137

  de Blasio, Bill, 89–90

  deep state, 3–5, 7, 11–12, 14, 26, 29–30, 41, 82, 91, 118, 202, 218, 242, 255

  DeLay, Tom, 221

  Democracy Partners, 28, 92, 100, 104, 112, 115, 117, 124, 137, 144–57, 166–67, 171, 175–76, 184–86, 230–33

  Democratic National Committee (DNC), 98, 100, 104–5, 110, 112–15, 117, 121–22, 125, 167, 175, 179–80, 184–86, 253

  Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 15, 35–36, 43–44

  Department of Justice (DOJ), 194, 204–6, 250, 251

  DeploraBall, 225, 235–36, 256

  DisruptJ20, 16–17, 66, 224–28, 235–36

  Donald Duck disruption scheme, 113–15, 117, 126, 145, 171, 175

  Dorsey, Jack, 142

  Dreamers, 120–21, 130. See also immigration

  Drudge, Matt, 159–60

  Drudge Report, 109, 154–55, 158–60, 164, 166, 263

  D’Souza, Dinesh, 212

  Dudich, Nick, 268–74

  Dunn, Colin, 225, 228–29, 235–36

  Durbin, Dick, 10

  earned media, 1, 2, 79, 209

  Earnest, Josh, 180

  Eder, Steve, 185

  Ellis, Michael, 16, 240

  entitlement programs, 15, 47

  Ernst, David, 84–85

  Ettema, James, 11, 14

  Facebook, 83, 113, 141, 153, 174, 208, 225, 242, 244, 254, 266, 268, 270

  fact-checking, 8, 209, 214

  Fahrenheit 9/11 (film), 243

  Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 12

  “fake news,” 48, 211, 213, 241–44, 246–48, 257, 259, 262, 266, 268

  Farhi, Paul, 18, 44, 260–62

  FBI, 3, 16, 103, 175, 203, 205, 224, 235, 269

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 156, 188, 251

  Federal Election Commission (FEC), 90, 140, 176

  Feingold, Russ, 137, 139, 143–44

  Ferguson, Andrew, 247–48

  First Amendment, 5, 10, 41, 109, 212–13, 215, 220–21, 250

  Florida, 140, 184, 191–92, 246, 271

  Food Lion, 215–17

  Founding Fathers, 63

  4chan, 153, 172

  Foval, Scott, 92, 93–94, 97–102, 104–7, 111, 113–14, 118, 124–37, 143, 157, 160, 164–68, 178–82, 185–86, 222, 237–41

  Fox News, 92, 142, 146, 154, 158, 160–64, 166–67, 180, 184–85, 192, 201, 211, 242–43, 249–53, 255, 257

  Franken, Al, 137

  Free Flow of Information Act, 10–11

  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 35, 39, 43–45

  Friedman, Thomas, 173, 209

  Fuerste, Madelin, 167

  Fund, John, 90–91

  Gaines, William, 49–51

  Gallagher, Mike, 165

  Garfield, Bob, 52–53

  Garfield’s 502 (Milwaukee jazz and blues bar), 96, 105, 238

  Garner, Erica. See Snipes-Garner, Erica

  Gephardt, Dick, 147

  Gerson, Michael, 24–25

  Giles, Hannah, 20–23, 28, 55

  Gizmodo (tech and science website), 254

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 209

  Glasser, Theodore, 14

  Glengarry Glen Ross (film), 68

  Glik v. Cuniffe, 219–20

  Goderich, Miriam, 2

  Golden, James, 161

  Gordon, Stephen, 77, 139, 164, 195

  Gordon, Todd, 274, 276

  Gott, Melissa, 172

  Greenfield, Daniel, 247

  Griffin, Drew, 166, 179–80

  Griffin, Kathy, 143, 257, 261

  Grynbaum, Michael, 267–68

  Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn), 84

  gun rights, 139, 143, 244–45

  gun violence, 147

  Habeeb, Lee, 155–56

  hacktivism, 177

  Haidt, Jonathan, 206

  Halderman, Joe, 32–33, 119, 148–51

  Halperin, Mark, 159

  Hanks, Tom, 210

  Hannity, Sean, 155, 158, 161, 164–65, 177, 183, 251–53

  Hanson, Victor Davis, 3, 6

  Hastings, Michael, 14

  Hayek, F. A., 81, 83–87, 215

  HBO, 28

  healthcare, 147. See also Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

  Heilemann, John, 204

  Herman, Edward, 3, 162, 189, 214

  Hermann, Peter, 236

  Hersh, Seymour, 14

  Hicks, Hope, 77–78

  Hitchens, Christopher, 243

  Hitler, Adolf, 226

  Holder, Eric, 56, 158

  homelessness, 102, 230

  How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), 60

  Howard, Tom, 48–49

  Hoyt, Clark, 24

  Huffington Post, 175, 206

  Hume, Brit, 163–64, 203

  Humphries, Rusty, 165

  Hunger Games, The (book and film series), 87, 183

  Hunter, Derek, 212

  identity politics, 14, 85

  immigration, 12, 31–45

  Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 34–45

  Dreamers, 120–21, 130

  O’Keefe crosses Rio Grande dressed as Osama bin Laden, 32–33, 36–37, 39, 41, 43, 78, 80, 141

  reform, 130, 147

  Imperium (film), 60

  Ingraham, Laura, 165

  Innocence of Muslims (film), 5

  Insider, The (film), 158, 189–91

  investigative journalism, 13, 37, 46, 50, 144, 214, 272

  Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference, 64

  invisible government, 81–82. See also deep state

  Isaacson, Mike, 231–32

  Isikoff, Michael, 159–60

  ISIS, 36, 43, 63, 155

  Islamic terrorism, 12, 87, 108

  iTalk app, 38, 184

  J-school. See journalism school (J-school)

  Johnson, Charles, 170

  Johnson, Lyndon, 198

  Johnson, Marion, 198–99

  Jones, Bill, 49

  Jones, Clarence, 191–92

  Jones, Leslie, 141

  Jones, Paula, 159

  Jones, Van, 168, 262–63, 265

  Jordan, Barbara, 120

  journalism

  citizen journalism, 11–12, 14, 17, 25, 30, 55, 83, 181–82, 208, 213, 245–46

  cultivation, 60

  definition of, 10–12

  ethics, 12, 30, 55, 164, 191–92, 206, 210–11, 244, 259, 269–71

  “fake news,” 48, 211, 213, 241–44, 246–48, 257, 259, 262, 266,
268

  hidden cameras, 29–30, 48, 50, 52–56, 58, 93, 99, 104, 112, 140–41, 216–18, 240

  history and state of, 46–53

  as identity versus activity, 10–11, 17, 30

  investigative journalism, 13, 37, 46, 50, 144, 214, 272

  New Journalism, 10

  and Obama, 57, 59, 111, 224, 249–52, 255, 259, 269, 271, 274

  Overton Window (range of acceptable facts and policies), 12, 86, 174, 268

  and propaganda, 81–87

  and Trump, 210–13, 242–54

  journalism school (J-school), 10, 51, 199, 200, 259

  Judicial Watch, 35, 39

  Jungle, The (Sinclair), 46–47

  Kaczynski, Andrew, 266–67

  KaiserDillon (law firm), 150

  Kasich, John, 111

  Katz, Elihu, 82–83

  Kelly, Megyn, 184

  Khalidi, Rashid, 271

  Kinsley, Michael, 82

  Kinsley gaffe, 82

  Kirk, Charlie, 164

  Klein, Jonathan, 246

  Klein, Robert, 61–62, 64–68, 72–75, 88

  Klein, Stephen, 220–23, 240

  Kluster, Eric, 189

  Korte, Ryan, 237–40

  Kristof, Nicholas, 211, 242

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 53, 66

  Kuhn, Luke, 228–29, 236

  LaFauci, Trevor, 140

  Lake Erie video, 36

  Landrieu, Mary, 26, 238

  Las Vegas, 79, 110, 126, 165, 167, 178–87

  League of Conservation Voters, 29, 218

  Lear, Norman, 97

  Leonnig, Carol, 30

  Letten, Jim, 27

  Levin, Mark, 163

  Levy, Clifford, 274, 276

  Lewandowski, Corey, 76–80

  Lewinsky, Monica, 159–60

  Lichtman, Allan J., 210

  Limbaugh, Rush, 155, 158–59, 161, 166

  Lindstrom, Sarah, 137

  LinkedIn, 228, 274

  Lippmann, Walter, 11

  Lone Survivor, The (Luttrell), 186

  Long, Huey, 226

  Loomer, Laura, 62–66, 73–77, 88–89, 140, 155, 157–59, 162, 183, 195, 203–4, 258

  Lucky Charms video, 6–7

  Luttrell, Marcus, 186–87, 205

  Maass, Allison (“Angela Brandt”), 108–12, 115–22, 124, 137–39, 144, 147–48, 168, 215, 232–33

  MacCauley, Lacy, 235

  Mack, Marlon, 198–99

  Mann, Jan, 27

  Mann, Jim, 27

  Manufacturing Consent (Chomsky and Herman), 3–4, 214

  Mao, Wylie, 139–43

  Markon, Jerry, 44–45

  Markowicz, Karol, 272

  Marlow, Alexander, 155–56, 158

  Marshall, Bill, 35, 39

  Martin, Jonathan, 185, 210

 

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