James O'Keefe is still a clown

[Capt. Obvious]

Jimmy the video sting prince went out looking for a new story. And apparently he watches Fusion TV, because he decided to cross the Rio Grande just as Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos did last month, only without pointing out all the hazards that Ramos highlighted along the way, and also with a rubber Bin Laden mask.

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After that, O'Keefe does a little song and dance across what he says is a stretch of the U.S-Mexico border, crossing back and forth over about 15 feet of river—first in plain clothes, then dressed as Osama, purportedly to drive home the point that we are UNSAFE, and anyone who says terrorists are not pouring across our undefended borders IS A LIAR.

Weirdly, in his "six mile" trip from the river border to I-10, O'Keefe's video never shows him crossing the well-patrolled road that runs parallel to the river, the multiple irrigation canals, the well-maintained parcels of farmland, the two-lane Highway 192 (also called "Esperanza Road,&quot or any of the other obstacles that stand between the border and I-10 in every place there isn't already a permanent outpost. (You can see them for yourself on Google Maps.) Although, at one point, you can see miles and miles of truck-tire tracks in the dirt around O'Keefe and West on the U.S. side of the border, where they're talking about how desolate and unprotected it is.

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Update: "To complete this investigation, Project Veritas spent over $74,242 in legal fees, investigators salaries, and travel expenses... Please help me replace these funds." ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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[MohRokTah]

1. He's becoming a complete mockery of himself.

It's almost as if he's doing performance art mocking what a conservative "investigative journalist" would do.

Could James O'Keefe be the Betty Bowers of wingnut bloggery?

Nah, he's really that stupid.

[pinboy3niner]

6. It's hard out here for a pimp

[MohRokTah]

8. .

[Blue Owl]

2. Hmm, that looks more like his brother, Osoggy bin Laden

n/t

[conservaphobe]

3. Too bad he didn't get himself freedomed by a militiaman with an itchy trigger finger.

Yes, I went there.

[freshwest]

10. So did I. But I was a bit meaner about it.

[Gothmog]

4. The latest stunt is just plain sad

[cui bono]

5. Isn't he supposed to be in jail by now? n/t

[zappaman]

7. Fuck that guy. n/t

[Enrique]

9. Obama is doing nothing to protect us

from Zombie Osama.

[Orsino]

11. Because selling his ass on the street is still illegal...

...and doesn't pay as well as panhandling outside the towers of the powerful.

[Erose999]

12. I agree with O'Queefe, they should have prevented him from entering the country. He should have been

left in the desert for the coyotes or the drug cartels or the rattlesnakes to find.