WND EXCLUSIVE
O'KEEFE GETS NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR ON VIDEO
Calls Trump 'idiot,' but says Pence worse because of his religion
Bob Unruh
A senior home-page editor for the New York Times blasted President Trump as an “oblivious idiot” and Vice President Pence as “horrible” because of his religious faith, confessing her colleagues hope their reporting will influence people not to vote for them.
Desiree Shoe, a London-based editor for the Times, was captured on video as part of the American Pravda undercover investigative series by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.
The project last summer released three undercover videos exposing CNN, including one in which a CNN official admitted that the “Russia” investigation regarding the Trump campaign was much ado about nothing.
A previous video on the Times featured a video editor for the paper admitting he had friends at YouTube who helped position his videos.
The newest video shows Shoe admitting that Times reporters tried to hoped their work would lead to Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2016 election.
“I think one of the things that maybe journalists were thinking about is like … ‘Oh, if we write about him, about how insanely crazy he is and how ludicrous his policies are, then maybe people will read it and be like, ‘Oh wow, we shouldn’t vote for him,'” she explains.
And she confesses to a “clearly defined liberal-leaning bias” at her newspaper.
“The New York Times is not … I mean, it’s widely understood to be liberal-leaning. But, American newspapers are not supposed to claim a bias, they’re supposed to be objective,” she says.
Is the Times not on the left? Project Veritas asked.
“I’m not saying that they’re not. I’m saying it’s widely, widely understood to be left-leaning.”
It’s difficult to be objective, she said, because the newspaper wants to make money and its readers want to read left-leaning material.
“This is what I was trying to say is like the last couple years it’s changed for the bad. … I think the business model itself is just … there’s so much panic about what to do that, you know, what else is a company supposed to do? That’s the conundrum … is that a business model, in this time is built on what the readers want,” she said.
Shoe, who has worked with the Times since 2009, explained her personal opposition to Trump.
“I feel like Trump is … is just a … is sort of an idiot in a lot of ways. Just an oblivious idiot,” she says.
However, “If you impeach him, then Pence becomes president, Mike Pence, who’s f—-ng horrible … I think maybe, possibly worse than Trump. He’s extremely, extremely religious. [Pence] at one point backed a bill that hinted at conversion therapy for gay people … which is like electrocution, stuff like that,” she says.
O’Keefe comments in the video that it’s clear “truth takes a back seat to money and objectivity takes a back seat to politics.”
Shoe repeatedly emphasizes she’s “speaking off the record” but confirms it’s hard to be unbiased with the president “when the words that are coming out of his mouth are apologetic toward white supremacists.”
The video:
WND reported last week when Baquet resorted to name-calling against Project Veritas.
“It was an undercover operation in which James O’Keefe, who I think is a despicable person who runs a despicable operation. He essentially tries to catch people from what he sees as the left-wing media saying inappropriate things,” he said.
Baquet’s harsh comments are on video, as are O’Keefe’s response to them. They followed O’Keefe’s video about Times employee Nick Dudick.
Baquet said: “Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts about this. For those of you who saw it, it was an undercover operation in which James O’Keefe, who I think is a despicable person who runs a despicable operation. He essentially tries to catch people from what he sees as the left-wing media saying inappropriate things. He caught a kid, a guy in his 20s, who I, to give you an idea, they portray him as a very powerful figure in the New York Times … I never met him.”
He argued Dudick has an entry-level job but acknowledged: “He said things he shouldn’t have said. Um, and he said things that you know, were damaging. And I’ll deal with that. But the greater sin wasn’t his, it was theirs. They sent a young woman in, as part of their undercover operation, who essentially made him think he was developing a friendship. He said really stupid stuff, he said he was Jim Comey’s godson, he said he had once worked undercover, essentially … he said stuff he shouldn’t have said. But his sin was a sin of foolishness and it violated our policies. Their sin was greater. Their sin was a sin of lying and subterfuge. They’re, they’re just awful.”
O’Keefe said the Times should have been thanking Project Veritas for uncovering a weakness in their system. And he said that while Project Veritas may have lied to the Times, the Times lied to its readers.
The American Pravda series began with several reports about CNN, including one in which Jimmy Carr, an associate producer for the “New Day” morning program, lambasted the president.
Carr said: “We all recognize he is a clown, that he is hilariously unqualified for this, he’s really bad at this and that he does not have America’s best interests. We recognized he’s just f—— crazy.”
The first video about the New York Times revealed Dudich, the audience strategy editor for NYT Video, explaining how the Times slants Trump news on the front page.
“Oh, we always do,” he said.
Then Project Veritas released a second video about the Times.
It again featured Dudich, this time describing “how he can influence the news by manipulating social media and employing the help of his friends in Silicon Valley,” Project Veritas said.
“As an editor, I’m a gatekeeper so I can choose what goes out and what doesn’t go out. And let’s say we wrote something about Facebook negatively … We actually just did a video about Facebook negatively, and I chose to put it in a spot that I knew wouldn’t do well,” he said.
Project Veritas said Dudich admitted he has friends in Silicon Valley who help his videos move to YouTube’s front page.
The report noted Earnest Pettie, the brand and diversity curation lead at YouTube, helped “push Dudich’s videos to the top.”
In the video, he described Dudich as “one of the people I think who has more knowledge about YouTube as a platform than probably anyone else that I know.”
He said the New York Times benefits from the relationship.
“There are things that exist in the product that, like, are definitely optimized for news. Now, like last night if you searched for Hugh Hefner, there’s the search results but then there’s also. … A carousel comes up with a page that’s just news videos. There’s this need, people are searching for a topic that is, that our systems know is a ‘newsy’ topic, so let’s give them videos that we know to be newsy because we know we have these news partnerships.”
He added: “In very rare cases, we will try to make up for the fact that something isn’t in the trending tab. We will, like, use some type of intervention … to encourage the thing to be there.”
He explained “algorithms do control everything but sometimes you need humans to provide a check.”
“That’s why I’m here,” he said on the video.
Hear his comments (Editor’s Note: Be forewarned of highly offensive language in the video):
In an earlier segment of the American Pravda series, Carr said American voters are “stupid as s—.”
The video: (Be warned of offensive language):
Carr continued, regarding Trump: “This is a man who’s not actually a Republican. He’s not actually a Republican. He just adopted that because that was the party he thought he could win in. He doesn’t believe anything that these people believe. The man’s on this third wife. I guarantee you he’s paid for abortions. He doesn’t give a s— about abortion. He doesn’t care about gay marriage. He doesn’t even really care about the budget.”
And he claimed he’s not alone in his opinions: “Ninety percent of us are on board with just the fact that he’s crazy.”
The Carr video was the third in the Project Veritas series.
In No. 2, Van Jones, former President Obama’s onetime “czar” on green jobs and a longtime left-wing commentator, activist and organizer, agreed with President Trump that the Russia scandal is “a big nothing burger.”
The video clip shows Jones being approached on a street and stating in response to a question, “The Russian thing is just a big nothing burger.”
He adds, “There’s nothing there you can do.”
The video (Be warned of offensive language):
In the video that opened the series, another CNN producer admitted the network’s focus on allegations that Trump’s election campaign colluded with Russia is mostly for ratings. The producer said the network’s mostly liberal audience would not have put up with that kind of treatment of Obama.
The first video was of CNN producer John Bonifield, and his comments drew the attention of the White House. O’Keefe’s video of Bonifield shows him saying, “I think there are a lot of liberal CNN viewers who want to see Trump really get scrutinized.”
See the video (beware off offensive language in the video):
http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/n-y-times-editor-calls-trump-oblivious-idiot/
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