James O'Keefe owes $100,000 BONUS: Wonkette DU Shoutout!

[blogslut]

James O’Keefe—the blonde bombshell who set the conservative world of hidden-camera YouTube movies ablaze—has just agreed to a $100,000 settlement to calm down the unjustly fired (and weirdly litigious about it) ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera. According to a copy of the deal, obtained late last night by your wonkettes and viewable after the jump, O’Keefe has also agreed to ink an 11-word non-apology apology, that sources close to reality are calling “insincere” and “suuuuuuuch bullshit.”

According to the final 5-page agreement, signed by O’Keefe and his legal counsel Mike Madigan this past Tuesday, the boy detective now publicly “regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family.” O’Keefe and his counsel have also consented to fork over the $100,000 within 30 business days of the settlement agreement’s being signed.

For the benefit of readers who are neither bitter and aggrieved former ACORN employees nor forum moderators at Democratic Underground, a short summary: ACORN was a community organizing group that became the locus of phantasmically baroque conspiracy theorizing in the build-up to the 2008 presidential election, first by the usual sad idiots, but inevitably by the seemingly rational journalists who must cover the sad idiots to pay their mortgages....

full story here: http://wonkette.com/505026/wonket-sexclusive-totally-blameless-crime-stopper-james-okeefe-to-pay-100000-to-acorn-criminal

[annabanana]

1. Hey! I am neither a "bitter and aggrieved former ACORN employee" NOR

a "forum moderator at Democratic Underground" and I remember exactly what that travesty was all about. And I'll bet that most DUers do too.

[blogslut]

3. Today

...we are all DU moderators.

[libodem]

38. Get your can of cootie spray

At the lounge canteen counter.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Sure do. I sincerely hope O'Krap has more settlements lke these in the future.

Litigate his ass out of existence.

[leftieNanner]

57. AND, just this week...

the House included a provision in their budget bill to...... (wait for it)..... DEFUND ACORN!!! Which would be totally find - IF IT STILL EXISTED!!!!!

[randome]

2. There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded slug.

[ewagner]

58. ..

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. Gee, and where is the little shitstain going to get 100 large?

(That's a rhetorical question, of course... )

[Bandit]

6. How big a dent will that hundred grand put in the Koch Brother's bank accounts?

It would be like me giving someone a quarter.... Big Whoop

[Voice for Peace]

28. I'm surprised he hasn't been disappeared by now..

[progressoid]

11. My thoughts as well.

[southernyankeebelle]

15. The little shit will probably get it from momma and daddy. I hope momma and daddy

kick his little ass out the door.

[loudsue]

36. No. He'll get it from the rightwing slime balls that hired him, and sponsored

him and his ilk to try to smear democrats. The swiftboaters are on steroids since the Citizens United decision by the bush appointed supreme court.

[southernyankeebelle]

39. Could be. I wonder whatever happen with the african-american young woman who

was going to work for him. He tried some stuff with her. I think she was going to sue him. He locked her up in his parents shed or barn something like that. Her name I think was Tina, Nia or Nina or something like that. She worked for conservative groups. I use to follow her for alittle while because of O'Littleshit.

[RVN VET]

47. Check it out here

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/152325-trials-of-nadia-naffe/

A very sordid, smelly situation involving O'Keefe and allegations of rape that never quite got made. No, not the mis-applied accusation of David Shuster that O'Keefe tried to rape Nadia. The story I heard -- and it's probably no more than that, but bear with me -- was that she was urged by O'Keefe to claim that she had been raped at Occupy WallStreet. Sure it sounded like an exaggerated claim, but then Breitbart, presumably before his death (but one never knows) was videoed at OW screaming in a drunken temper to the OW crowd "Why won't you all stop attacking the Country. And why don't you stop the raping?" I've always wondered if Breitbart's drunken accusation was part of a smear that never got off the ground. According to the original story, Nadia had refused to go along with the lie and was, maybe as a result of her refusal and maybe just because O'Keefe is a turd, drugged and locked up in a barn.

[southernyankeebelle]

49. That was the girl. Yes O'Littleshit is a turd.

[amuse bouche]

54. Thanks for the link

What a vile motley crew of useless idiots

I wanted to feel sorry for Nadia Naffe but I just couldn't

The good thing is, that creep Breitbart is still dead. A real POS

[Lordquinton]

46. Why would they?

He did his job, they eliminated ACORN with zero evidence, or reason. I don't know the full scope of the organization, but it was helpful for us, and they annialated it, and he just has to pay 100,000 which is nothing. Until he's making billion dollar payouts, they won't consider it more than the cost of doing business.

What would be the price we'd pay to wipe out, say, the John Birtch society? or Rush?

[southernyankeebelle]

48. At the time he was living at home by court order. Momma and daddy were already

paying for him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. He shall.....(dramatic pause)....pawn the golden ring on Andrew Breitbart's rotting finger!

Grab a shovel, James.

[mzmolly]

7. Many of us defended Mr. Vera

and ACORN from the unscrupulous B.S. peddled by Liar O'Thief.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mzmolly/165

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mzmolly/220

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/mzmolly/166

I am happy that Mr. Vera will receive a bit of justice.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Well I do remember one DUer who joined in on the

ACORN bashing.

[sdfernando]

9. While I am happy for Mr. Vera...

And I don't know his situation or what factors he considered....Compensation not withstanding, if it were me, I would not have settled and insisted on a very very public trial.

[GoCubsGo]

10. "Blonde bombshell"???

Wonkette had better go look up the definition of "blonde bombshell", because this little turd ain't one. He's blonde, but that's about it.

[bluedigger]

14. I hangfired on that, too.

Where the hell did that come from?

[JI7]

18. i had to stop just at that

[blogslut]

21. sarcasm

It's Wonkette.

[JHB]

22. I do believe there is a thick layer of snark in that paragraph...

...as evidenced by the "sources close to reality" and their comments.

[freshwest]

41. Wonkette has a wicked sense of humor.

[sabrina 1]

59. I think it was meant to be sarcastic. First, he isn't blond, and no one who ever

got a look at him could ever call him a 'bombshell'. The little creep has absolutely nothing going for him and I think Wonkette was simply making fun of him.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. It's an Aryan thing.

[Matariki]

12. lol

nice nod to our high-info wonkiness!

[Jazzgirl]

13. O'Keefe's non-apology

"I'm sorry I tried to set you up for a sting".

[drm604]

16. "weirdly litigious"

How can she justify calling Vera weirdly litigious? She herself says that he was unjustly fired.

[mzmolly]

17. Weird my

ass.

[JI7]

20. isn't wonkette now run and written by a Man ?

it's not the original liberal wonkette.

[drm604]

25. I don't know.

I assumed Wonkette was a she because of the name and the picture at the top, but I don't know for certain.

[blogslut]

32. It is run by a female woman person now

Her name is Rebecca Schoenkopf - a.k.a. CommieGirl, former columnist of OC Weekly.

I liked it with Ana Cox. I liked it when Alex Pareene edited it. I adored it when Ken Layne ran it. I love it most of all with Rebecca Schoenkopf (a noted commie) in charge. It is and has always been liberal, media-shaming snark.

[JHB]

23. Sarcasm

Ain't it weired that someone unjustly smeared and fired might, y'know, sue someone's ass?

[NBachers]

52. By saying "weirdly" she really means "non-weirdly" as in "Why would Vera ever want to sue?"

Some hidden over-the-top snark sarcasm, I believe.

[Ian David]

53. That was Wonkette humor. n/t

[mnmoderatedem]

19. that should be the tip of the iceberg

The boy detective knew eactaly what he was doing and knew how misleading all his propaganda was, and went ahead and did it anyway. His only goal was to bring down ACORN under false pretenses. Every employee affected should get a similar settlement...

[Coolest Ranger]

24. what about Shirly Sherrod?

when is she going to get her payout for the pain you caused her

[MotherPetrie]

42. IMO the Obama administration showed its ass even worse than Brietbart did on that one

[Mnpaul]

26. Funny no mention of this over at Fox

Maybe someone should send them a tip.

[mtasselin]

29. Asshole

He is just a asshole that has never worked a day in his life, poor little rich kid

[Mopar151]

30. Sheeeit.....

That little turd ain't payin', and his mouthpeice is plannin' to lowball and stall this down to 10 K or less.

[Gothmog]

31. What about Hannah Giles

Giles' grandmother is a big deal in the Fort Bend republican party and has been raising money for her granddaughter's legal defense fund. I skimmed the settlement agreement and saw no real mention of Giles being released unless she is deemed to be an agent of O'Keefe. Is Giles still a part of this case?

[blogslut]

33. Read the whole article.

Ms. Giles settled, I assume, separately, a few months ago.

[Gothmog]

34. Never mind-she also settled

Giles settled last year http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10785-hannah-giles-settles-acorn-suit.html The terms of her settlement were kept confidential

[Berlum]

35. Professional Republican liar meets karma

[ellisonz]

37. Locking

[The Wielding Truth]

40. This does not seemed to be locked. Too bad he wasn't sentenced to work to reestablish ACORN.

[freshwest]

43. The settlement was a tenth of a percent of what it should of have been.

[busterbrown]

44. Koch Brothers emptied one of their piggy banks in order

to take care of their boy!!!

[DollarBillHines]

45. "Barrance Hussein O'Malley"

"The sad idiots believed there was a collusion scheme between ACORN and a former employee of the group, who happened to be that year’s Democratic Presidential candidate: a ferocious IRA terrorist-sympathizer named Barrance Hussein O’Malley."

The entire article is hilarious.

[Aerows]

50. It's about easy as pie

to get wingnuts to choke on their own evil. That guy surely did so. LOL.

[Jack Rabbit]

51. O'Keefe belongs in reform school

. . . and something like ACORN needs to be resurrected.

[amuse bouche]

55. There were a lot of creepy players

but it goes to show how terrified of the Dems and Obama, Breitbart was

I'm not ashamed to say, I jumped for joy at his demise

Someone linked a long piece from The Phoenix. The crap that went on is stunning

[Hissyspit]

56. So Congress is going to apologize for believing the child prostitutes bullshit

And refund ACORN?

No?

Mission accomplished.

[sabrina 1]

60. Exactly, for forty years or more the far right was trying to destroy ACORN

They helped minorities after all, mostly they helped stop the bigotry that prevented African Americans from buying homes wherever they wanted to buy them, and to get loans from banks to do so under the new law that was passed to try to eliminate prejudicial decisions preventing them from exercising those rights.

So Congress, both parties, destroyed ACORN. Only 75 Democrats voted against that unconstitutional 'law' introduced by one of the worst Republicans, and then signed on to by all those Democrats.

Not to mention all the court rulings that stated that bill was a 'bill of attainder' and as such unconstitutional. So there is no excuse for Democrats at least, not to publicly apologize to ACORN and to all those who were helped by the organization for what they did.

Shameful, and this is nothing more than a slap on the wrist, which O'Keefe won't have to pay being that he is nothing more than a low life, nutcase in the employment of people like the Koch brothers.

[rhett o rick]

64. We work our asses off to help Democrats get elected and they turn their backs

on ACORN. It was a huge disappointment.

If someone is a good writer out there I think there is a story contrasting ACORN for the masses vs. ALEC for the elites.

[AverageJoe90]

61. Haha, gotcha, O'Krappy, ya little fucknut!

Hope there's more to come in the future. Jimmy Boy deserves every proverbial slap people can throw at him.

[jerseyjack]

63. Did anybody buy a sheep for Jimmy, yet?

[Gothmog]

65. Juanita Jean is having some fun with this story

As I mentioned earlier, Hannah Giles' grandmother is a big deal in the Texas GOP and the Fort Bend Republican party. http://juanitajean.com/2013/03/08/the-investigative-reporting-crime-syndicate/#comments

People who have been having their hair done here for a while are aware of the local connection to James O’Keefe’s partner in crime Hannah Giles, the wannabe ho in the ACORN “sting.” Long story short – her Grandmother is the local Christian Coalition Godmother with enough swing to get our congressvarmint Pete Olson to honor her granddaughter on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States of American congress for breaking the law and wanting to be a ho. That takes some swing, Honey.

So come to find out, Ms. Hannah, who has no visible means of support except for sending out letters asking people to give her money to fight the evil libruls, made a secret settlement with the ACORN employee she scammed.

And now James O’Keefe has done the same. He’s paying the ACORN employee $100,000 and admitting that he was was wrong to omit that the employee did, in fact, call the police during the “sting.”

I don’t think we’ve seen the last of these two characters. They enjoyed their fame waaay too much and let others pay the fine for them. And if you’ve got a Super DeLux Brand Christian grandmother who is so proud that you can pass for a ho that she she has it announced in congress, then your life is cool.

I agree with Juanita in that I doubt that we have seen the last of Giles or O'Keefe.

[tanyev]

66. He should also have to wear a sandwich board that says I Am A Lying Putz

and stand in the background of every show on Fox News in a 24 hour cycle.

[davidpdx]

67. Better yet

Ala Die Hard 3 he should have to wear a sandwich board naked saying "I am a racist piece of shit" in an African American neighborhood. I bet he wouldn't last long.

[Webster Green]

68. The picture of him on Wonkette's page really pisses me off.

What a fucking punk-ass little creep. I want to crawl through the Interweb tubes and shove the cigar down his throat.

[Historic NY]

69. And he continues to whip the Federal Judge responsible for incarcerating him....

the same one that is supervising him. The same one that should lock him up after the numerous incidents. The Judge should inflict some pain of this unrepentant creature