It would appear that modern politics consists mostly of doing spiteful shit on the internet in hopes of going viral for owning the other side. It's petty, illogical, and incredibly ineffective at changing minds, but there is a silver lining. Sometimes provocateurs will attempt a stunt that backfires so hard that it actually proves their enemies right. When it happens, it almost makes it all worth it ...

4 A Scam Artist Accidentally Proves Journalists Have Integrity

Remember when, several hundred sordid scandals ago, a candidate for a Senate seat in Alabama was accused of having sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl? In fact, multiple women came forward with accusations against Roy Moore. He, of course, responded by continuing his bid unabated. But for some, that wasn't enough. Conservatives had to prove that all of those "accusers" who went to The Washington Post with their stories were lying. So James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas (an organization that's basically devoted to trying to get liberals to admit that they eat babies via deceptive editing) came up with a plan.

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O'Keefe would arrange for a fake Moore accuser to go to The Post with a made-up story. The woman, who went by the name Jaime Phillips, would say that Moore got her pregnant when she was 15 and helped pay for her to get an abortion. Once they published said piece, O'Keefe would jump out of the closet and announce that the woman had never met Moore. And if The Post would publish one false story about Moore being an alleged sex fiend, surely that proved that all the other women were making up their stories too! It was a plan as solid as a fart.