ABC News Suspends Correspondent David Wright Over Mysterious Project Veritas Video Footage

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Daily Beast

ABC News has reportedly suspended one of its veteran journalists over unknown remarks that he made while being secretly recorded. The Washington Post reported that correspondent David Wright had been disciplined, but it remains unclear exactly what he said in the footage. The mysterious video was teased on social media Tuesday by the founder of conservative group Project Veritas, James O’Keefe, who said it “will expose ABC News’ agenda to mislead voters and push their own narratives.” The Post reported that ABC News officials reviewed the footage before his suspension. Project Veritas was previously behind the release of a video that showed ABC News anchor Amy Robach slamming her own network for allegedly sitting on the Jeffrey Epstein story for three years. O’Keefe said on Twitter that he’d release the new footage on Wednesday morning.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/david-wright-suspended-by-abc-news-over-mysterious-footage-says-report

[lapfog_1]

1. Wasn't there going to be a release of embarrassing

photos and video of Adam Schiff with a drug using / dealing idiot donor about a month ago by some right wing nutjobs... Wasn't that supposed to cause Schiff to resign?

What happened to that?

[Archae]

3. Adam Schiff was targeted by Wohl and Burkman...

And all they did at their big "reveal" was post a couple blurry pictures from a gay porn web site.

[lagomorph777]

2. I don't know Wright, but I know O'Keefe's reputation.

I think ABC should be very careful before disciplining somebody based on evidence which is probably fabricated or misleading.

[ArizonaLib]

8. I don't understand why O'Keefe still commands attention from anyone

including most right wing media. But whatever. If ABC wants to use Wright's suspension as a sign to right wing media that ABC is not independent, than Wright could probably use the vacation time to his advantage. If I worked for ABC as a journalist I would be counting minutes to any vacation I had coming.

[NewJeffCT]

4. If it's Project Veritas

it's most likely something that was selectively edited and spliced together to look incriminating

[Dennis Donovan]

5. I saw the video - heavily edited single snip of Wright saying "I am a socialist"

I watched the video and it's edited down to "I am a socialist" - nothing before or after (and no gaps to suggest it was a stand-alone statement).

ABC had better reverse their suspension IMMEDIATELY! WTF were they thinking???

[Harker]

14. He might have been quoting someone else.

Context doesn't mean anything to some people.

[Dennis Donovan]

15. That's what I'm thinking as well. n/t

[lagomorph777]

23. Yup!

Or O'Keefe might have edited out the word "not."

Or maybe, just maybe, it isn't illegal to be a Socialist, and ABC has no right to fire somebody for it, if true.

[Harker]

25. "Veritas" mea natibus. n/t

[Ellipsis]

6. Daily Caller has it up. It is heavily edited. I don't see anything wrong with it.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/26/abc-news-reporter-network-bias-donald-trump-project-veritas/

[thesquanderer]

7. It's truth, or at least honest opinion. But it is critical of his employer. So...

...whether or not you see anything wrong with it may depend on whether you're his employer.

[Ellipsis]

9. Granted.

I'd guess they already know his position.

[thesquanderer]

11. They may or may have not known his feelings, but either way...

...I could see why they would not want to put him on the air after the public knows he feels this way.

[Ellipsis]

12. Due diligence. n/t

[eyeofnewt]

10. Thanks for the link

I watched this video. Other than being honestly critical of his employer, ABC, I don’t see the problem. It’s certainly not anti-Trump. He’s expressing his opinion on the state of news that is reported and the disservice to viewers/voters. And so he’s socialist?
I do have to laugh, however, at the dramatic lead-in...like it’s a serious documentary or earth shattering news.

[Scarsdale]

16. O'Keefe is the fool who

dressed in what HE considered a pimp outfit, to take down an Obama agency. It was laughable, he wore a big hat with feathers and a long coat with a fur collar. Ridiculous. He has been trying to get famous for several years, and screws it all up every time. He is a complete clown. Time for him to give up and get a REAL job.

[lagomorph777]

24. He has this gig because he could never land a real job in a million years.

[Initech]

19. They're trying to pour gasoline on a non-existant fire.

And failing big time. Really this is some serious grade A bullshit. Well, anything from Project Veritas or Daily Caller is.

[yaesu]

13. I'm not sure if they get paid while suspended or not. nt

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[jgmiller]

17. Trump fans will see it as proof but really this is not a bad video

He sounds like he's being honest on both sides, he's saying ABC wants to report the dramatic and if that might not tell the whole story they are fine with. Guess what? That's what the media has been doing for years. This swings both ways and all sides should be outraged, not by this video but by how pathetic jouralists are these days.

I was always taught "who, what, why, when, where" when I watch the local news at least half of the stories fail not on just one of these principles but multiple ones, it's really infurtiating to see happen. How can so many reporters be so bad?

[IcyPeas]

18. imagine if we were all subject to this

at our jobs. how many of us have said negative things about our employer? geez this is getting like N. Korea.

[Politicub]

20. Do these people just go around getting drunk and popping off?

They're just human, but should be aware, more than anyone, that anything they say in public can and will be used against them in the court of media.

[YOHABLO]

21. Many of us would agree with his stance on corporate news organizations.

Why ''Project Veritas'' is going after David Wright is beyond me.

[Initech]

22. Project Veritas can go eat a steaming bag of rancid dog feces.

James O'Keefe is a tool and a fraudster who has been caught multiple times being a fraudster. The fact that anyone takes him seriously is the bigger story here.

Oh and if you look up the dictionary definition of the word "tool", I'm pretty sure that you would see his picture there.

[Harker]

26. In a "pimp" outfit. n/t

[rockfordfile]

27. That's the un-American right-wing group that trump used foundation funds to pay