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Project Veritas: James O’Keefe shows “Hollywood’s War on U.S. Energy”

CANNES — In a blockbuster new video, Project Veritas has exposed the truth about the dark funding behind Hollywood’s anti-fracking messaging machine.

New York Times Bestselling Author and Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe debuted the latest investigation at a “premiere” in Cannes, France on Wednesday.  In the investigation, an undercover journalist from Project Veritas posed as a member of a Middle Eastern oil dynasty and offered $9 million in funding to American filmmakers to fund an anti-fracking movie.  In video from a meeting with Ed Begley Jr., Mariel Hemingway and Josh Tickell, a Project Veritas investigator disguised as “Muhammed” offered $9 million for an anti-fracking film.   Muhammad” clearly states:

“If Washington DC continues fracking, America will be energy efficient, and then they won’t need my oil anymore.”

In the same conversation, Begley and Hemingway accept the funding and agree to hide the source of funds for the anti-fracking movie….In a phone call to Tickell, the ad executive states: “My client’s interest is to end American energy independence; your interest is to end fracking. And you guys understand that?”.  Tickell’s response:

“Correct. Yes, super clear.”

Tickell makes it clear on the tape that revealing the source of funding for an activist film can undermine its credibility. Tickell notes that the movie “Promised Land” undermined its own message because it was labeled as being funded by Image Nation Abu Dhabi. His advice: “So rather than putting that [the source of funding] up front, don’t mention that.”  In a follow-up call with Josh and Rebecca Tickell, Rebecca Tickell assures our investigator: “We would never tell about where the funding is coming from. That would be really awkward for us.”  Josh Tickell: “We’re confident that we can keep this zip locked, you know tight, air-tight forever. If we don’t protect who is kind of funding this thing, if we have to disclose that or that becomes a necessary part of it, the whole enterprise will not work.”

And then James O’Keefe comes to the point of the entire point of doing this investigation:

“This latest investigation shows the dark side of Hollywood’s environmental movement. Hollywood is willing to take and conceal money from Middle Eastern oil interests in order to advance their cause of destroying American energy independence.”

So while I have no problem in people “of means” wanting to live the “energy efficiency green life” (which Begely does seem to do), I have a real problem with these same folks taking money that will:

  • push their activist agenda, free of charge
  • perhaps put a buck or two into their own pockets (hey, that’s what they accuse the other side of doing, right?)

And most importantly, restrict ordinary folks from enjoying a standard of living. Artificially restricting the use of what would cheaper energy just raises the cost of EVERYTHING – the energy to grow food, make things, truck things around, turn the lights on, keep food healthy in the fridge, heat in those -30 degree nights, take Johnny and Gabby to the gun range….you get the idea.  It is clear that they see using energy as a sin against GAIA – and have no problem at all in de-industrializing life for the rest of us.

After all, they “got theirs” already, so obviously by their actions, they could care less about the children.  Or the poor.  Or those in undeveloped countries, literally living in mud huts.  Selfish, they be – only thinking that their ideas matter and have no worries about crushing other peoples’ dreams….

The raw video can be found at http://Youtube.com/VeritasVisuals

 

 

(H/T: Project Veritas)

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