Politics can make for strange bedfellows, perhaps none stranger than the Los Angeles Times editorial board and James O’Keefe.
These left- and right-wing tribunes both expressed serious concerns after the duo who filmed the viral undercover Planned Parenthood videos was charged with 15 felonies this week.
Did hell freeze over? @latimes editorial board agrees w/ @JamesOKeefeIII re CA AG overreach in @daviddaleiden case https://t.co/iP9Pa2uQRr pic.twitter.com/sKnesuKLid
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) March 30, 2017
The Project Veritas president tweeted his incredulity that the Times agreed with him that the charges by California State Attorney General Xavier Becerra were unwarranted and politically motivated.
“Did hell freeze over? @latimes editorial board agrees w/ @JamesOKeefeIII re CA AG overreach in @daviddaleiden case,” O’Keefe asked on social media.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt made news in summer 2015 when they secretly filmed Planned Parenthood executives haggling over compensation for baby parts from abortions.
The two, who run the Center for Medical Progress, have been charged with invading the privacy of medical providers by filming them without consent.
“It’s disturbingly aggressive for Becerra to apply this criminal statute to people who were trying to influence a contested issue of public policy, regardless of how sound or popular that policy may be,” the left-leaning editorial board of the Times wrote on Thursday.
“Had David secretly recorded a Republican politician, he would have probably been awarded the Polk award,” O’Keefe commented in a statement. “Because he was exposing one of the left’s sacred cows, he is now the victim of politically-motivated overreach in the prosecution of a law which is unconstitutional in the first place.”
O’Keefe is known for his undercover investigations of progressive institutions not unlike the viral sting on Planned Parenthood. The LA Times is not known as a champion of conservative causes.
