James O'Keefe Aims At Hillary, Stings Self

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Conservative activist James O’Keefe is so determined to catch Hillary Clinton’s campaign breaking the law that his group broke the law to do it.

James O’Keefe assured me it wasn’t a joke.

Standing at the lectern at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Tuesday morning, in charcoal suit and plaid tie, O’Keefe said he was serious.

This was a bombshell. This was criminal.

O’Keefe is a conservative activist and media celebrity known for producing sting videos targeting liberal organizations and politicians.

His most (only) successful takedown occurred in 2009 when he recorded himself dressed up as a pimp, asking ACORN employees to help him fund his brothel. They took the bait, and after he released the footage, ACORN collapsed.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/01/james-o-keefe-aims-at-hillary-stings-self.html

Lying punk O'Keefe uses falsehoods and dishonesty to take down ACORN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy

In 2009, workers at offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) were recorded secretly in videos by conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe. They played a young couple who appeared to be receiving advice from these workers as to how to hide prostitution activities and avoid taxes. These videos were released on Fox News and the website BigGovernment.com from September into November 2009, generating extensive, negative publicity for ACORN. This non-profit organization had been involved for nearly 40 years in voter registration, community organizing and advocacy for low- and moderate-income people. O'Keefe said in September 2009 that he "targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives." Because of the controversy, the U.S. Census Bureau and the IRS ended contracts with ACORN, and the U.S. Congress voted to suspend its funding to the non-profit. Soon ACORN also lost most of its private funding, despite several independent investigations that by December 2009 began to reveal no criminal activity by ACORN staff had taken place. ACORN filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.

Independent investigations were made by state attorneys general of Massachusetts and California, and the U.S. Attorney of Brooklyn, New York; their reports were released beginning in December 2009 and extending through April 2010. The attorney general's office in Massachusetts and the U.S. Attorney for Brooklyn concluded that the ACORN workers had committed no criminal activity and that the videos were "heavily edited" to create a misleading impression of their activities.

The California Attorney General granted immunity to O'Keefe and Giles in exchange for their raw videos shot at three California ACORN offices. Its comparison of the raw videos with the released versions found that the published videos had been heavily edited to misrepresent the workers and the situations so as to suggest criminal intent and activity. The AG's Report noted that "O’Keefe stated he was out to make a point and to damage ACORN and therefore did not act as a journalist objectively reporting a story", and because the Giles-O'Keefe criminal plans were a ruse, the ACORN workers could not be complicit in them. It found no evidence of intent by the employees to aid the couple. The report also noted "a serious and glaring deficit in management, governance and accountability within the ACORN organization" and said its conduct "suggests an organizational ethos at odds with the norms of American society. Empowering and serving low-and moderate-income families cannot be squared with counseling and encouraging illegal activities". The California report was followed by one by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which reported there was no evidence that ACORN workers had misused government funds or participated in the criminal activities represented in the videos. But, ACORN was effectively destroyed by then.

The Congressional resolutions to eliminate funding to ACORN were nullified by a federal court ruling that the measure was an unconstitutional bill of attainder. But, on August 13, 2010, a federal appeals court reversed that ruling and upheld the act that cut off federal funding for ACORN.

[randys1]

1. MY entire body trembles in anger when I think of what a piece of shit he is and he took down

ACORN

a Wonderful org

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2. That is exactly why I took the trouble to include the Wiki references.

ACORN did nothing wrong. In fact, every fucking penny of the $40,000,000 advanced to ACORN was properly accounted for to the penny.

O'Keefe's hack job on ACORN was just that: A HACK JOB FROM THE WORD GO, and all designed to destroy an organization that existed to empower the common man and woman and to register men and women left out of the system to vote.

I'd like about 20 minutes alone with Mr. O'Keefe.

[randys1]

3. Any decent human being would also like that 20 mins.

[Gothmog]

4. O'Keefe is a fraud and liar

All of his tapes are fraudulent and heavily edited

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5. Not an argument here. I can't stand the weaselly little scumbag.

And his reich-wing pimpster drag was one of the most comical yet tragic things I have ever seen. Seriously, attention whore doesn't even begin to cut it.