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Jimmy Carr is a CNN producer who was caught in the latest James O’Keefe sting video as the man O’Keefe says is disparaging Donald Trump, American voters, and Kellyanne Conway’s looks.
Carr is a producer for CNN’s New Day Show with Chris Cuomo. Donald Trump Jr. has shared several video clips of Carr, tweeting with one, “I wonder what all the people “outraged” (fauxoutraged) about a tweet feel about how this @CNN producer talks about (Kellyanne Conway)???”
He also wrote, “In case you wanted to know how @CNN producers really feel about American voters. Their hatred for regular people shows through.”
O’Keefe, a conservative activist, and his Project Veritas group have been releasing a series of undercover videos that attempt to cast CNN in a bad light. President Trump has been at war with CNN, accusing the network of bias.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. The Video Shows the Producer Saying Conway Looks Like She Was ‘Hit by a Shovel’, American Voters Are Stupid & Trump Is Crazy
In the undercover video, the man O’Keefe says is CNN producer Jimmy Carr tees off on voters, Conway, and Trump. He calls American voters “stupid as sh*t” and said Trump’s adviser Conway looks like “she got hit with a shovel.” He also said of Conway, “that awful woman Kellyanne Conway. You know, the blonde.”
Specifically, when asked by the unidentified person doing the recording whether it, “would be fair to question the intellect of the American voter?” the man said to be Carr responds, “Oh no. They’re stupid as sh*t.” He also said that everyone inside CNN thinks of the president: “he’s just f**king crazy.”
“On the inside, we all recognize he is a clown, that he is hilariously unqualified for this, he’s really bad at this and that he does not have America’s best interests,” the man said to be Carr says in the video. “We recognize he’s just f**king crazy.
He also said that “Ninety percent of us are on board with just the fact that he’s crazy” and added that CNN was impartial in “theory.”
You can watch the video above.
2. Carr Has Worked for CNN Since 2014
On @CNN‘s @NewDay, @ChrisCuomo complains about “Disparaging tweets about females.” Insane! His employee, @jimmydcarr said this:
Carr’s LinkedIn page lists him as a producer at CNN, but he’s only held that job since May 2017. The page lists him as an associate producer in New York City.
Carr started at CNN in 2014 as a news assistant, according to his LinkedIn page. His page says he “managed a daily schedule of all New York Bureau guests appearing on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español, HLN, domestic affiliates, and international partners,communicated with producers around the world to ensure adherence to hit times, and greeted guests and accompanied them to makeup/studio/set.”
He then was promoted to the position of production assistant, a position he held through May 2017. His duties were listed as: “gathered multimedia elements and obtained legal/editorial clearance for air, built graphics and ordered custom animations; oversaw their use live in the control room, ran Teleprompter for both taped and live shows, assisted in live production of show, particularly in response to breaking news, and worked on Early Start & New Day,” among other things.
3. Carr Attended a University in Beirut & Studied Arabic
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According to his LinkedIn page, Carr previously worked for AlleyWire, a online video platform, performing such duties as “oversaw content management system (CMS) and supervised video publication, coordinated with reporters and editors to meet production timeline, and assisted CEO in preparing handbook of company-wide standards and best practices.”
Before that job, he held a series of internships, including as a production intern for CNN; as a Jerusalem Bureau intern for Media Line; as an intern in CNN’s United Nations Bureau; and as a news intern for Movements.org.
In the United Nations position, his duties included, “Assisted veteran correspondent Richard Roth by verifying information for reporting on air.” For Movements.org, he “focused on young activists in the wake of the Arab Spring.”
He studied Middle Eastern Studies at American University in Beirut, where he also studied Arabic, and has a BA in journalism, conflict studies, and Arabic from New York University.
Carr’s Twitter page is private.
4. CNN Previously Stood by a Medical Producer Caught Talking About Its Russian Coverage
A previously released O’Keefe CNN sting video featured a medical producer named John Bonifield. The man whom O’Keefe purports is Bonifield discusses CNN’s handling of the Russia investigation and President Donald Trump, saying at one point that CNN is covering the Russian investigation because of ratings and that Trump “is probably right to say like, look, you are witch hunting me.”
The news network issued a statement standing by its employee and noting that, as a member of the health team, he is not involved in coverage of Trump or the Russia investigation.
“CNN stands by our medical producer John Bonifield. Diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong, we welcome it and embrace it,” the statement said.
At another point in the video, the “PV journalist” says, “But honestly, you think the whole Russia sh*t is just like bullsh*t?” The man said to be Bonifield responds, “Could be bullsh*t. I mean, it’s mostly bullsh*t right now. Like, we don’t have any big giant proof.”
He also says, “I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging” and “And so I think the President is probably right to say like, look, you are witch hunting me.”
Project Veritas also claims that Bonifield brought up CNN head Jeff Zucker, saying, “Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN (Jeff Zucker) said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with that, let’s get back to Russia.”
Project Veritas then released a video it said shows CNN contributor Van Jones referring to the Russian investigation as a “nothing burger.” Jones has since called that video a “hoax,” according to The Hill.
5. O’Keefe’s Techniques Are Controversial
James O’Keefe holds a news conference at the National Press Club on September 1, 2015. (Getty)
O’Keefe’s sting videos – which some say are selectively and unfairly edited – have landed him in hot water before.
In 2010, “he was sentenced to three years of probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from entering then-Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office on false pretenses,” reported The Hill.
A June 2017 Washington Post story reports that O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has been hit with a $1 million conspiracy lawsuit.
The attorney representing a consulting organization that worked with the Hillary Clinton campaign told The Post that “Project Veritas infiltrated a Democratic consulting firm under false pretenses, secretly recorded private conversations and published deceptively edited footage — all to mislead the public and hurt former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the White House.”
The lawsuit contends that Project Veritas violated wiretapping laws, according to The Post. O’Keefe called the lawsuit an intimidation tactic, The Post reported.