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O’Keefe Headlines Bayshore Tea Party Event

By Art Gallagher

Keyport, March 17 – James O’Keefe, the 26 year old citizen journalist/filmmaker who has exposed taxpayer funded atrocities at ACORN, Planned Parenthood, the NJEA and most recently NPR spoke before approximately 100 members and friends of the Bayshore Tea Party Group this evening at the Ye Cottage Inn in Keyport.  Among the guests were State Senator Mike Doherty, R-23, and 13th district Assembly members Amy Handlin and Sam Thompson.

O’Keefe explained that is work is funded by grassroots donations to his Project Veritas, a 501-C3 (pending), whose mission is to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and transparent society. 

O’Keefe said he work is possible and necessary because the mainstream media no longer performs investigative journalism. “Mainstream journalism has devolved into punditry, stenography and promotion,” he said.

O’Keefe summarized his body of work with a video presentation that started with Jon Stewart’s coverage of the ACORN expose’ and concluded with clips of a hilarious video he produced while a student at Rutgers wherein he complained to a Dean that Rutgers serving Lucky Charms in their dining hall was denigrating to Irish Americans.

O’Keefe said that Rutgers banned Lucky Charms from their dining halls as a result of his meeting and later got the joke and started serving the breakfast cereal again.

In between Stewart and Lucky Charms, O’Keefe’s presentation showed his work exposing Planned Parenthood, the NJEA and various media pieces wherein mainstream media outlets ignored his stories and/or attempted to discredit him as he explained to the group the methodology of his stings and the reasoning for the staggered release of his videos.

The first annual Bayshore Tea Party Group St Patrick’s Day Celebration raised funds for the organization’s education and grassroots activism efforts.  The event was sponsored by Senator Joe Kyrillos, 11th district legislators Senator Sean Kean and Assembly members Dave Rible and Mary Pat Angelini, Doherty, Castle of Dreams Animal Rescue, Fastrack Oil and Lube, Diane Gooch’s Strong New Jersey, Todd Christie, Ken and Ann Kievit, Anna Little and Sean Spinello.

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Posted: March 17th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Bayshore Tea Party Group, James O'Keefe | Tags: , | 5 Comments »

5 Comments on “O’Keefe Headlines Bayshore Tea Party Event”

  1. TR said at 8:19 am on March 18th, 2011:

    Interesting list of sponsors.

    Will the effort to Cco-opt succeed?

  2. Rick Ambrosia said at 1:52 pm on March 18th, 2011:

    So much for transparency. But, what do you expect from a petty criminal. And it wasn’t even a sleazy hidden camera either.

    Hidden-camera activist James O’Keefe turns away APP videographer

    KEYPORT — James O’Keefe, the conservative activist known for his hidden-camera videos that
    have made headlines, apparently was not thrilled about the idea of being videotaped himself during a speech he gave Thursday evening.

    O’Keefe, who spoke to about 100 members of the Bayshore Tea Party and their supporters at Ye Cottage Inn, declined to be videotaped by an Asbury Park Press photographer who was there to cover the event.

    His wishes were communicated by Tea Party members at the event, who asked the photographer to leave.

    And this is your hero? Figures.

  3. MoreMonmouthMusings » Blog Archive » James O’Keefe: “I wish the Tea Party Hadn’t Told The Press That I Didn’t Want The Event Videoed” said at 8:48 am on March 20th, 2011:

    […] James O’Keefe is blaming the Bayshore Tea Party for the BPR (bad public relations) he’s suffering from as a result of his demanding that the Asbury Park Press’s  videographer not record his presentation to the group’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration on Thursday evening. […]

  4. MoreMonmouthMusings » Blog Archive » Little Raises No Money. Has Less Than $2000 Cash On Hand said at 11:20 am on April 14th, 2011:

    […] $1000 sponsorship of the Bayshore Tea Party’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration featuring guest speaker James O’Keefe was not reported.  The sponsorship check was drawn on […]

  5. MoreMonmouthMusings » Blog Archive » MMM Year In Review - March said at 3:17 pm on December 29th, 2011:

    […] James O’Keefe embarrassed NPR and came to Monmouth County as a Special Guest Speaker at the Bayshore Tea Party Group’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration.  O’Keefe ended up being embarrassed himself over the press coverage of the event which […]