A brief history of James O'Keefe self-owns, in light of today's WaPo story 1/
2010: James O'Keefe tries to lure a CNN contributor onto a boat stocked with dildoes, only to have his plan exposed by one of his staffers cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/…
2010: O'Keefe's attempt to sting Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu in her office ends with a misdemeanor conviction for the prankster prince thehill.com/capital-living…
2015: An O'Keefe sting showing a Canadian citizen buying Clinton campaign merch leaves reporters wondering if he's kidding huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-ok…
2016: O'Keefe's attempt to penetrate a George Soros foundation is blown when O'Keefe forgets to end a voicemail to one target, leaving a recording of his staff planning the entire sting
2017: An environmental group busts an O'Keefe sting in progress, thanks in part to one O'Keefe operative's penchant for leaving his phone and cuff links / recording device (?) on a table newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Nov. 2017: O'Keefe has to sue his insurance company, demanding they pay his mounting legal bills buzzfeed.com/stevenperlberg…
And today, the best O'Keefe own goal in a while: O'Keefe's sting on the Post collapses in part because his operative forgets to take down her GoFundMe page washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Of course, none of this will stop O'Keefe from doing his "stings" or conservative media from getting hyped about them.
Finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't include O'Keefe posing as an arctic mercenary
One more: 2014 - O'Keefe poses as a mustachioed "civics professor" to uncover Dem voter fraud, only for his operatives to be turned away by Democrats motherjones.com/politics/2014/…
The hits keep coming. 2014 — O'Keefe tries to record an anti-fracking filmmaker accepting mysterious foreign financing, only to get recorded himself thedailybeast.com/inside-a-holly…
And there's still more. 2017 — an O'Keefe operative's cover is blown after she suspiciously asks a lot of questions about teacher-student sex theintercept.com/2017/09/29/jam…
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