but mariel hemingway and ed begley jr. wound up walk into an undercover sting orchestrated by james o'keefe, the conservative activist whose past targets have included npr and acorn. hemingway and begley attended a lunch with a man posing as a middle eastern oil tycoon, an actor hired by o'keefe who said he was offering millions of dollars to fund an anti-fracking film being made by their friend, liberal director josh stickel who told me candidly we were punked. o'keefe says this as hollywood hypocrisy. here's a bit of the surreptitiously recorded video from a lunch in late march at the beverly hills hotel. >> if washington, d.c. continues fracking, america will be energy efficient, and then they won't need our oil anymore. >> oh, yes. only where the money comes from. >> there was a misleading bit of editing there. begley was not responding to that statement about american dependence on oil but to a point