ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to bug Mary Landrieu's office

Source: Times-Picayune

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 the advocacy group's credibility.

FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abbetted 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 witness from Landrieu's staff said O'Keefe was present in the office and claimed to be "waiting for someone to arrive."

O'Keefe on Thursday gave a speech to Libertarian Pelican Institute in New Orleans.



Read more: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_go...


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What comes around,goes around. Hope that creep goes to jail on the third degree.

 

Damn, he got disavowed on some "Ethan Hunt"-type shit.

 

This is a set up by Left wing zealots. He will beat this. The left has far reaching operations. look up some of the Clintons dealings.

 

Wow. Really??? :smt042

 

Don't you know your "ABCs" man? Always blame the Clintons. Apparently, they had the U.S. Marshall's Service abduct these fine young men off of the street, dressed them up against their will as phony telephone repair men and then coordinated with the staff in Senator Landrieu's office to come up with whole story. :smt101

On the real, I'm glad that this scumbag is finally getting his comeuppance after the bullshit they pulled on ACORN. He should be facing charges in Pennsylvania and Maryland for recording those people without permission. I'm also glad that the federal courts exonerated ACORN and rebuked Congress for illegally defunding the organization.

 

I wonder how many cartons of cigarettes he's gonna get sold for once he gets inside?

 

The Left is so powerful they can't even get health care passed.

 

I totally agree and it's about time!

 

James O'Keefe's race problem


Source: Salon.com

Many of the conservatives who gleefully promoted James O’Keefe’s past political stunts are feigning shock at his arrest on charges that he and three associates planned to tamper with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines. Once upon a time, right-wing pundits hailed the 25-year-old O’Keefe as a creative genius and model of journalistic ethics. Andrew Breitbart, who has paid O’Keefe, called him was one of the all-time “great journalists” and said he deserved a Pulitzer for his undercover ACORN video. Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly declared he should have earned a “congressional medal.”

His right-wing admirers don't seem to mind that O’Keefe's short but storied career has been defined by a series of political stunts shot through with racial resentment. Now an activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O'Keefe at a 2006 conference on "Race and Conservatism" that featured leading white nationalists. The photo, first published Jan. 30 on the Web site of the anti-racism group One People's Project, shows O’Keefe at the gathering, which was so controversial even the ultra-right Leadership Institute, which employed O'Keefe at the time, withdrew its backing. But O'Keefe and fellow young conservative provocateur Marcus Epstein soldiered on to give anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism an opportunity to share their grievances and plans to make inroads in the GOP.

According to One Peoples Project founder Daryle Jenkins, O'Keefe was manning the literature table at the gathering that brought together anti-Semites, professional racists and proponents of Aryanism. OPP covered the event at the time, sending a freelance photographer to document the gathering. Jenkins told me the table was filled with tracts from the white supremacist right, including two pseudo-academic publications that have called blacks and Latinos genetically inferior to whites: American Renaissance and the Occidental Quarterly. The leading speaker was Jared Taylor, founder of the white nationalist group American Renaissance. "We can say for certain that James O'Keefe was at the 2006 meeting with Jared Taylor. He has absolutely no way of denying that," Jenkins said. O'Keefe's attorney did not respond to a request for comment on his client's role in the conference.

O'Keefe's racial issues can be seen in many of his prior stunts, of course. The notorious ACORN videos highlighted images of himself dressed as a pimp, deceptively edited through hidden camera footage as he baited African-American office workers into making statements that could be perceived as incriminating. There were also lesser-known but equally inflammatory spectacles like the “affirmative action bake sale” O’Keefe and his conservative comrades held when they were students at Rutgers University. During the event, O’Keefe stood at a table in the center of campus offering baked goods at reduced prices to Latinos and African-Americans while whites were forced to pay exorbitant amounts. (Native Americans, he announced, would eat free.)

Read more: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/02/03/james_okee...

 

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A truckload TS. That "Jimmy Olsen" O'Keefe has race issue. That female companion who played the "ho" trying to shake the booty was hilarious.