James O'Keefe's career is kinda interesting in how much he's exposed himself despite media protection, he's been living off a reputation that Breitbart built him for those ACORN videos which was a much larger project that had been built up for over a year before they finally released the story covering multiple offices/locations/etc.. Which was why it was such a major impact comparatively. After Andrew died, his "sting" operations have increasingly become unplanned and stupid, not to mention rushed and scattershot. Nowdays that ACORN thing under Veritas would have been him releasing the first pimp tape immediately as soon as they edited it, whereas Breitbart was like, no, check this at multiple offices, with multiple caseworkers, so we can establish a pattern. Which was the only reason it killed ACORN, their internal investigations further confirmed the O'Keefe/Breitbart footage/story.
I'd have to look it up for the dates but I think Andrew recognized the kid was going to be less of an asset than a problem and shuffled him off to do Project Veritas funded by others instead of it being a part of Breitbart.
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side note: I kinda wonder what Andrew's place in the alt-right/Trump movement would have been, he was pretty scathing of Trump in the 2012 primaries as a fraud/scam artist/opportunist/etc. and had called his birtherism obsession borderline racist. Which is not Steve Bannon's opinion obviously.
It's been used against Warren to show that she must have been an affirmative action case, cause anyone listed as non-white is presumed to have a huge advantage in academia. Which is obviously not the case but y'know.
The smoking gun/peace pipe was that they listed her as one of their minority faculty members for a number of years. Harvard that is, her earlier employers never did. Which is why I've never been convinced she did anything intentionally, as it was probably like the department PR and not anything she was pushing maybe just she had mentioned it offhand and they ran with it, she had built a legitimate academic career before she ever got to Havard which is why they took her on. She was one of the few people publishing on bankruptcy law so she has one of the higher citation rates among all law professors of which like two others in the top 25 or something are also bankruptcy law professors.
Her first defense of it was easily mocked since it was something like how it was family lore, when her campaign probably could have looked it up to confirm/deny which they eventually did but it fueled the story since it was 1/128th or whatever it is.
I do enjoy how Trump thinks it's an epic slam and comeback, and how some people of every party think it's this major issue, Warren initially seemed offended by it but after they looked it up though she stopped responding to it ages ago. Mostly comes up because she'll take some policy or political shot at Trump on twitter and he'll just respond with POCAHONTAS EPIC BURN BOOM.
