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He is a pioneer in the use of the new media in investigative reporting. Maybe to a fault.
While I don't know how much this is going to stand up in court, since he wasn't doing any actual tampering, but my god. If I could see this sucker go down it would make my life.ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to bug Mary Landrieu's office
By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
January 26, 2010, 1:53PM
YouTube Filmmaker James O'Keefe dressed as a pimp before entering ACORN offices last year. O'Keefe was arrested Monday after attempting to wiretap U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones in New Orleans.The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility.
FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office's telephone system.
A fourth person, Stan Dai, was accused of aiding and abetting Basel and Flanagan. All four were charged with entering fedral property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.
A witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."
"Because the details of yesterday's incident are part of an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, our office cannot comment at this time," said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders.
O'Keefe on Thursday gave a speech to Libertarian Pelican Ins ute for Public Policy in New Orleans. O'Keefe was hailed as a conservative hero for dressing as a pimp and taping ACORN employees offering advice on how he and a partner could get away with running an international under-age pros ution scheme.
The New Orleans event was promoted with this glowing statement about O'Keefe by the Pelican Ins ute: "James has been a pioneer in the use of new media to drive these kinds of important stories. He will discuss the role of new media and show examples of effective investigative reporting."
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.s...ested_for.html
Last edited by ashbeeigh; 01-26-2010 at 04:11 PM.
He is a pioneer in the use of the new media in investigative reporting. Maybe to a fault.
Well, he did crimp that racket's style.
WTF were they trying to listen to?
O'Keefe tried to bug a US Senator. Allegedly.
Sounds like a more balls than brains scenario.
I guess once you "enjoy" the limelight by becoming a hero to the partisans you'll do anything to duplicate the feat. Somewhere out there I'm sure Joe the Plumber is doing whatever he can to keep himself abuzz.
Of course, regardless of a conviction, this event will be used to prove that what you saw in his prior work was somehow invalid.
Dear God someone fix my spelling error. It cannot be fixed! I'm sorry, i try to contain my ditziness to the Club but it appears to have crossed over.
That's why Ash posted it.
Well, of course it is.
That and I still want to punch the guy in the balls for all the I've had to go through.
Then again, this is Louisiana. What couldn't you dredge up if you managed to listen in on a politician's phone calls?
No doubt O'Keefe will paint himself as a saintly victim of a vindictive state now that the FBI has revealed its own narrative about him to the media.
Probably.
And here's the affidavit http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/..._affidavit.pdf
Why do you want to see this guys' life ruined? That's disturbing to me.
Maybe he ruined it himself first, without any help from ashbeeigh.
Poetic justice..
I wonder if Fox news is going to parade him around again?
Just read the original ACORN thread. It'll clear a lot of things up.
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134685
So he ruined someone else's gravy train before ruining his own.
Or, there are more than the two mind-numbing, cable news driven sides that will shout at each other about this.
ACORN was all peaches and cream and deserving of big fat federal contracts before the big meanie Right-Winger showed up with his camera and tail.
Sweet poor little O'Keefe got busted by Obama the Moslem's henchmen for trying to expose the truth about a RAT senator.
Yawn.
Sometimes people need a reality check to realize how hypocritical they are.
Maybe both "sides" are full of .
I know, either you are with us or you are against us.
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