James O’Keefe: ‘We Are the Journalists’ Because of the Legacy Andrew Breitbart Built

Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe spoke with Breitbart News from the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit about his memories of working alongside Andrew Breitbart, conservative censorship on social media platforms, and the future of fighting against mainstream media giants.

“Andrew Breitbart taught me that it really is about getting yourself into the New York Times. It’s about getting covered by the mainstream media. It’s about forcing them to cover the word, getting outside the echo chamber,” James O’Keefe told Breitbart News’ Jerome Hudson. “So, there really is nobody … like the way that he was, but we try at Veritas to break these stories that force media to cover it. That force reactions and that’s sort of what Andrew taught me.”

O’Keefe then discussed the censorship across several different big tech and social media giants.

"You can’t be silenced into submission. You have to keep fighting. You have to have the courage to continue and I think one of the things that we’ve done is go undercover into Twitter, and we’re going to go after the other companies as well.”

He added, “If you want to ban people for their views, just be honest about it. So we’re trying to capture these engineers and executives on tape admitting why they’re removing people from the platform.”

O’Keefe also stated that citizen journalism is necessary and important.

“I think it’s necessary. I think that it’s become the journalism. It’s no longer citizen journalism. We are the journalists,” O’Keefe claimed.

He also outlined how Andrew Breitbart instructed him to be himself and remain genuine.

“I believe that journalism is an activity, not an identity. I think Breitbart gave people the inspiration. I mean, he would bring out the best in you. He once said to me ‘James, you’re like the Incredibles, you know, you’ve got this inner force, this inner spirit. Grab onto it and be who you are meant to be.”

O’Keefe also shared his thoughts on how to combat leftist outrage in the future.

“I think that we just have to keep going after the sacred cow. CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, you know, the big media,” O’Keefe told Breitbart News. “We gotta go after these organizations. We gotta expose them and I think the truth will set people free.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/21/exclusive-watch-james-okeefe-we-are-the-journalists/

Trump thinks we can replace U.S. forces in Syria with Arab troops. He’s wrong.

By Max Boot

Columnist

April 19

In Washington, bad ideas never die. They are simply revived by another administration that has no clue they were ever tried in the first place.

Back in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had the bright idea of asking Muslim nations to provide troops to guard holy sites in Iraq. He was oblivious to the fact that Sunni soldiers would not be welcomed by Iraq’s Shiites.

Rumsfeld returned to the idea in 2005, writing to President George W. Bush, “I believe we should seriously pursue the idea of a Muslim military contingent in Iraq,” with the goal being to “eventually provide relief for U.S. and other coalition forces.” Rumsfeld claimed that the Saudis and Qataris were supportive but, once again, nothing came of it: The Arab states had neither the capability nor the will to get involved in a costly counterinsurgency.

Fast forward to this week. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration is asking Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to contribute money and troops to stabilize eastern Syria so that the United States can pull its 2,000-strong contingent out. This is in line with President Trump’s comment that “we’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/04/19/trump-thinks-we-can-replace-u-s-forces-in-syria-with-arab-troops-hes-wrong/?utm_term=.c830d75fb2ff