Project Veritas posted footage of a New York Times reporter alleging media coverage of Jan. 6 was excessive.
The conservative group published a video on Tuesday of New York Times National Security Correspondent Matthew Rosenberg alleging some of his colleagues overreacted to the events.
“All these colleagues who were in the building, and they’re young and are like, ‘Oh my God, it was so scary,'” Rosenberg said in a clip posted by Project Veritas. “I’m like, ‘F*** off.'” He later added that “[the Times is] not the kind place I can tell somebody to man up, but I kind of want to be like, ‘Jude, come on, like, you were not in any danger.'”
In a separate clip, Rosenberg listed several colleagues who were reportedly at the Capitol on Jan. 6, only to describe some of them as “f***ing b****es” due to their claims of being traumatized by the Jan. 6 events.
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Rosenberg went on to say he wasn’t as in favor of his Jan. 6 reporting as it may appear. Rosenberg’s managing editor asked him, “Can we do like part two of that like, what’s going on a year since Jan. 6, kind of like memory-holing it,” the national security correspondent said in the video. “Like maybe ‘it’s no big deal.’ Yeah. We can do that. It’s a little quick turnaround. So, that’s what we’ve been doing the last few days.”
Rosenberg added he believes the Left overreacted as much as some on the Right underreacted to Jan. 6.
“The Left’s reaction to it in some places was so over the top that it gave the opening the Right needed to start introducing the idea of, ‘Whoa, these people are out of control. Like it’s not as big a deal as they’re making it.’ Cause [the Left] were making too big a deal. They were making [Jan. 6] some organized thing that it wasn’t. And that gave the opening for the lunatics in the Right to be like, ‘Oh, well, nothing happened here. It was just a peaceful bunch of tourists,’ you know, and it’s like, but nobody wants [to] hear that.”
Project Veritas’s clip also featured footage of Rosenberg speaking about the New York Times’s October coverage of FBI informants attending Jan. 6 and his struggles speaking with Jan. 6 prisoners. The footage is the first part of several videos Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe intends to release Rosenberg in the coming future.
It’s unclear based on Project Veritas’s footage when it was filmed or what the full context was of the conversation.
Project Veritas is an investigative reporting project that has had a mixed record on its sting operations over the years, including allegations of misleading editing.
Project Veritas and the New York Times have been in a legal battle over the paper’s access to select memos and documentation from the conservative group. The paper was recently allowed to publish copies of documents based on a Feb. 10 court ruling. Project Veritas is also engaged in a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times in Westchester County.
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The New York Times has not responded to requests for comment from the Washington Examiner.
