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RSS FeedsAnalysis: The 6 most puzzling aspects of that bizarre botched sting against the Washington Post
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

28 november 2017 19:15:21

 
Analysis: The 6 most puzzling aspects of that bizarre botched sting against the Washington Post
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


WASHINGTON—The Washington Post on Monday night published a detailed account of an apparent attempt to deceive Post reporters into believing a made-up story of a woman who says she had an abortion after Roy Moore, who is now the GOP Senate nominee in Alabama, impregnated her when she was 15. The woman was seen walking into the headquarters Monday morning of Project Veritas, a political operation that employs deceptive tactics in attempts to embarrass journalists and expose alleged bias.But however this plot turned out, it’s worth recapping just how poorly conceived and executed it was — and just how embarrassing this is for Project Veritas. Shortly after the woman was seen walking into the headquarters, founder James O’Keefe declined to answer questions about her connection to the organization.Project Veritas has taken down some powerful people, but this was a mess. (And it’s not alone in that distinction, as Will Sommer recounts in this Twitter thread.) You can read the full story here. Let’s take it apart piece by piece.1. The woman, Jaime Phillips, claimed to have spent only one summer in Alabama, yet she called from an Alabama area code and had “rolltide” in her email addressAs The Post reported:Back at the newsroom, (reporter Beth) Reinhard became concerned about elements of Phillips’s story. Phillips had said she lived in Alabama only for a summer while a teenager, but the cellphone number Phillips provided had an Alabama area code.Elsewhere in the story, they report that Phillips’s “email address included ‘rolltide,’ the rallying cry of the University of Alabama’s sports teams, which are nicknamed the Crimson Tide.”For someone who spent only a short time in Alabama — and claimed to have experienced what would seem to be a traumatic event during that short time — the woman sure seemed fond of the state, so much so that she rooted for its college sports team ...


 
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