James O'Keefe's voter fraud prank fail
Don't we liberals at least deserve to be punked by someone with slightly more talent?
... I suffer fairly severely from what psychologists call "empathic embarrassment": I find it agonising to the point of physical discomfort to watch other people making fools of themselves ...
O'Keefe, of course, is the rightwing prankster who helped bring down Acorn and was then convicted in connection with a sting at the offices of Louisana Senator Mary Landrieu. But with the significant exception of the ambush of Acorn, there's something epic – almost worthy of awed respect, if it didn't make me cringe so much – about how astonishingly inept he is at "punking" the liberals he despises ...
O'Keefe's latest efforts concern the phantom menace of voter fraud. During last week's North Carolina primary, he confronted two North Carolinians whom he accused of having registered to vote despite not being citizens. If you followed O'Keefe's exploits in New Hampshire – where he tried to expose the scandal of dead people voting, but picked a non-dead voter by accident – you can probably guess the results of his North Carolina caper ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/17/james-okeefe-voter-fraud-fail?newsfeed=true
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