James O'Keefe made a 50-minute musical about his life and Project Veritas. It's somehow even weirder than you'd expect
O’Keefe’s musical extravaganza skips breezily over almost everything Project Veritas did between 2011 and 2016, perhaps because very little happened aside from O’Keefe’s long, slow slide toward obscurity. By 2015, only fringe conservative sites had any interest in the filmmaker’s various hidden-camera hijinks. His 15 minutes seemed to be ticking down to nothing.
As it turned out, O’Keefe was not a one-hit wonder but a man ahead of his time. His style of storytelling is perfect for the Trumpian age: visual, entertaining, and presented as objective truth. This is O’Keefe’s night, and it begins in earnest when the room lights go down, the spotlights fire up, and the music starts to play. A montage of recent Veritas videos flicker on the enormous screen behind the stage. The first notes of “Blue Sky Action” by Above & Beyond filter through the air. And here he is, the man of the hour: James O’Keefe in aviator shades and a black flak jacket with “press” emblazoned on both the front and the back. The crowd cheers.
Later, after ACORN and his dramatic arrest, O’Keefe recounts a vicious and ancient feud between himself and a former collaborator,. “Maneater” by Nelly Furtado blasts as the lawyers in the case conduct a break-dance battle. There is nothing political about this, no relevance to anything save O’Keefe’s own life. Besides, it is Act Two. The main character must suffer.
The hits keep coming, or at least the ones that impacted O’Keefe on a personal level. The NPR sting — probably the group’s second-most-successful operation — receives a minute-long montage. O’Keefe did not participate; he was not there. But the audience receives a five-minute dance number that highlights the author’s stunt crossing of the Rio Grande in an Osama Bin Laden costume, then treats us to a second dance number as the U.S.
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