As promised two days ago on the Sean Hannity radio show, James O'Keefe and his team at Project Veritas just released covertly captured, previously unheard audio footage from within the CNN newsroom. But unlike his usual undercover sting operations, this footage was allegedly sourced from a CNN insider who apparently grew frustrated with the perpetually biased reporting of the "fake news" media outlet.

Per O'Keefe's website, today's release includes 119 hours of secretly recorded raw footage from an inside source at CNN with another 100 hours of footage still to be released. Given the volume of footage to be released, O'Keefe is asking for help to transcribe and investigate the recordings and encourages users to provide tips on interesting discoveries here.

For a few days, Project Veritas founder and conservative activist James O'Keefe has been hyping the release of what he said were hundreds of hours of undercover audio recordings of employees at CNN.

Some staffers at CNN were legitimately alarmed that O'Keefe would be releasing tapes that could be embarrassing for the network. O'Keefe is known for his undercover video recordings, though questions over deceptive editing and concerns about the questionable tactics used to obtain those recordings have plagued some of his prior work. Before releasing the tapes Thursday, O'Keefe was featured on The Drudge Report and on Sean Hannity's radio show, where he previewed their release.

Instead, what O'Keefe released on Thursday landed with a dull thud in the media world. Though not all the hours of tapes have been made available for review, and damning recordings could still come out, O'Keefe made clear the audio he obtained is from 2009 and for the most part features lower-level staffers at the network.

In Project Veritas' news release about the tapes, the first highlighted segment are two producers talking about the use of certain polls and why then-CNN polling director (now NH1 News political director and anchor) Paul Steinhauser declined to use a poll by Rasmussen, a group whose polling methods are still not widely accepted. Another highlight is of an assignment desk editor saying "Fox News is unbearable," and a news desk editor talking about how "there's no debate" about climate change.

What got the most attention on social media, though, was the unusual highlighting of a well-known quote that role of journalism is “aiding the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” But Project Veritas portrayed the situation as Richard Griffiths, now vice president and senior editorial director, being "caught explaining" the role of a journalist.

Here is Griffiths' quote, as “caught” by Project Veritas:

"If we are journalists, what is our role as a journalist? What is the fundamental role as a journalist, for us to do? Tell a story. Tell what's going on. There's a secondary corollary to that, right? Aid the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. To a degree, right? Is that not part of the traditional role of a journalist. It's actually one of the things I can be most proud of as a journalist. You know we try to show the ugly side of humanity so we can do something about it. It's hard, very hard."

O'Keefe suggested in a video that CNN is now working on afflicting President Donald Trump. The phrase "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," though sometimes attributed to H.L. Mencken, is best known for its use in the 1960 film "Inherit The Wind."

O'Keefe says he isn't done. He's calling on volunteers to comb through the 119 hours of raw tape, and is offering a $10,000 reward of "content that exposes media malfeasance." Shortly after the tapes were released, The Drudge Report shifted the focus from the tapes to O'Keefe placing "a bounty" on the media by offering the reward.

When reached for response, a CNN spokesperson said "I don't think there's anything to comment on."

All from a "journalist" who's been busted as a fraud on all his other "scoops", tried to date-rape drug a female CNN producer, and barely escaped a felony conviction for trying to bug the office of a US senator. Wow, what a hero!

I have no idea who this guy is, or what these events are that you are eluding to.

I don't need an expose on media bias. It is obvious.

As is the character of the current president of the United States.

Anybody can look up his business dealings, his history etc for themselves.

I don't need Fox or CNN to help form my opinion.

Trump is a piece of shit.

All from a "journalist" who's been busted as a fraud on all his other "scoops", tried to date-rape drug a female CNN producer, and barely escaped a felony conviction for trying to bug the office of a US senator. Wow, what a hero!

All from a "journalist" who's been busted as a fraud on all his other "scoops", tried to date-rape drug a female CNN producer, and barely escaped a felony conviction for trying to bug the office of a US senator. Wow, what a hero!

There is a number hidden in the dots below. What number do you see?



Give it a second before you continue. Really look. I’ll wait.

Did you see the 7, starting from the orange circles at left? Or maybe the 5, which starts at the purple circle in the center-right. Or maybe you didn’t see any number at all. Maybe you tried, but nothing jumped out at you.

There would a good reason for that: There is no number hidden in the dots. It’s just a randomly generated set of dots.

If you did see a number, you’ve proved the point that I hoped to make: When you’re looking for a pattern in a random set of data, you can often find it — especially if you have a lot of data to work with.

I’ll give you another example. Pizzagate.

I still don't see how 'bias' equates to 'fake news'. Just because a reporter or an editor has an opinion doesn't mean something didn't happen.

If the news outlet is actually reporting on events that never happened, or creating events that wouldn't happen otherwise, then that is 'fake news'.

Some staffers at CNN were legitimately alarmed that O'Keefe would be releasing tapes that could be embarrassing for the network. O'Keefe is known for his undercover video recordings, though questions over deceptive editing and concerns about the questionable tactics used to obtain those recordings have plagued some of his prior work.

"If we are journalists, what is our role as a journalist? What is the fundamental role as a journalist, for us to do? Tell a story. Tell what's going on. There's a secondary corollary to that, right? Aid the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. To a degree, right? Is that not part of the traditional role of a journalist. It's actually one of the things I can be most proud of as a journalist. You know we try to show the ugly side of humanity so we can do something about it. It's hard, very hard."

I still don't see how 'bias' equates to 'fake news'. Just because a reporter or an editor has an opinion doesn't mean something didn't happen.

If the news outlet is actually reporting on events that never happened, or creating events that wouldn't happen otherwise, then that is 'fake news'.

Naw the hit on ACORN and

How they report on news, what news they choose to report or not report, and what they leave out of their reports is what helps to form fake news.

It also influences the stories they won't run, because it goes against the narrative.