A woman approached The Post with dramatic — and false — tale about Roy Moore. She appears to be part of undercover sting operation.

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A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets.

In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared a dramatic story about an alleged sexual relationship with Moore in 1992 that led to an abortion when she was 15. During the interviews, she repeatedly pressed Post reporters to give their opinions on the effects that her claims could have on Moore’s candidacy if she went public.

 

The Post did not publish an article based on her unsubstantiated account. When Post reporters confronted her with inconsistencies in her story and an Internet posting that raised doubts about her motivations, she insisted that she was not working with any organization that targets journalists.

 

But on Monday morning, Post reporters saw her walking into the New York offices of Project Veritas, an organization that targets the mainstream news media and left-leaning groups. The organization sets up undercover “stings” that involve using false cover stories and covert video recordings meant to expose what the group says is media bias.

 

James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas who was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2010 for using a fake identity to enter a federal building during a previous sting, declined to answer questions about the woman outside the Project Veritas office, a storefront in Mamaroneck, N.Y., on Monday morning shortly after the woman walked inside.

 

“I am not doing an interview right now, so I’m not going to say a word,” O’Keefe said.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/27/a-botched-sting-with-a-phony-roy-moore-accuser-was-supposed-to-discredit-the-media-like-similar-schemes-it-did-the-opposite/?utm_term=.517d9d4cb5b4

 

The bit about the GoFundMe campaign is a hoot!

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Man, what utter hilarious desperation. But there's not much left for con artists to do these days, when all the attention is on the one at the top.

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Ouch! 

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   Wow. The right is taking fake news to a whole new level. 

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What a great idea . A watch dog group to watch the media 

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Will the left stop at nothing to try and ruin a man’s career?

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1 hour ago, IDWAF said:

Will the left stop at nothing to try and ruin a man’s career?

What do you mean? (Right wing)  Project veritas played a stupid game and are getting ousted now. Can't blame the left. 

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3 hours ago, Etxebunti said:

What do you mean? (Right wing)  Project veritas played a stupid game and are getting ousted now. Can't blame the left. 

I think you missed the point of the exercise.  They were trying to sting WaPo, not Moore.

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44 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I think you missed the point of the exercise.  They were trying to sting WaPo, not Moore.

Some times the simplest of concepts escape them, when consumed with full blown Trump derangement syndrome 

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16 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Some times the simplest of concepts escape them, when consumed with full blown Trump derangement syndrome 

 

   Yeah, like it escaped some of you that the conservative project veritas group was trying to set up the Washington Post. The ongoing pattern of fake news coming from the right.

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It didn't escape them. They were purposely obtuse.

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2 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   Yeah, like it escaped some of you that the conservative project veritas group was trying to set up the Washington Post. The ongoing pattern of fake news coming from the right.

I think I already said that, but thanks for repeating it.  Stings don't always work, ask any police officer, but Veritas does have a good track record of exposing the shenanigans of the MDL and their ilk like WaPo.

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11 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I think I already said that, but thanks for repeating it.  Stings don't always work, ask any police officer, but Veritas does have a good track record of exposing the shenanigans of the MDL and their ilk like WaPo.

 

   You said it, but you seem to have missed the post that was trying to blame it all on the left?

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9 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

What a great idea . A watch dog group to watch the media 

Only if they are unbiased and publish their results regardless of the outcome.

 

They clearly had no intention of going public with the fact that the Washington Post doubted their person's credibility, thoroughly investigated her, and decided to not publish her claims. They would have only gone public if their "sting" was "successful" in their eyes.

 

That is the epitome of bias. I'm all for a 'watch dog" but it can't have an agenda.

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2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   You said it, but you seem to have missed the post that was trying to blame it all on the left?

I think the question is why is WaPo bringing it out now?