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O'Keefe then released a video in 2012 supposedly exposing rampant cases of voter fraud by discovering non-U.S. citizens who had been permitted to vote in the presidential election. But when ThinkProgress did a simple Nexis search on the voters in question, they discovered that they were, in fact, U.S. citizens (many of whom willingly contacted ThinkProgress to prove that O'Keefe was lying about their alleged wrongdoing).

O'Keefe then tried to bust Patrick Moran, the director of field operations for a congressional candidate's campaign, for encouraging his employees to commit voter fraud. Yet when authorities investigated the accusations, it resulted in all charges against Moran being dropped. It seems the one thing O'Keefe doesn't have in common with Michael Moore is that O'Keefe has apparently never been right about a single goddamned thing in his entire life, which is what happens when you invent lies about things that you don't like.

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Where Is He Now?

O'Keefe is now considered such an expert on undercover journalism that he wrote a book about it that almost instantaneously became a New York Times best-seller.

Meanwhile, O'Keefe is still putting his exposes on YouTube, and people are still falling for them, despite the fact that every single one of them is partially if not entirely fabricated. His video exposing voter fraud (which, as you remember, was itself fraudulent) set off a chain reaction that, according to Slate, "had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any journalist" -- again, despite the fact that it was totally untrue. Conservative outlets such as Fox and Breitbart continue to laud O'Keefe's "undercover journalism," even though his latest stunt -- busting small environmental filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival for accepting funding from foreign oil interests -- has already been proved to be deceptively edited. In the world of inflammatory political videos, there really is no penalty for getting caught in a lie.