ACORN nemesis once targeted Planned Parenthood

[sabra]

Source: LA Times

The activist filmmaker behind the documentary that toppled ACORN is talking.

James O'Keefe posed as a pimp and covertly filmed ACORN officials discussing how he and Hannah Giles, pretending to be a prostitute, could set up a brothel with underage girls from El Salvador while dodging taxes.

After the movie aired on Andrew Breitbart's website, Congress cut off ACORN's funding.

Deflecting questions about whether he's a conservative, O'Keefe told NBC News that he was a "progressive radical" who hoped to do more documentary exposés in the future.

Meanwhile, NBC aired audio of O'Keefe during an earlier campaign when he called Planned Parenthood and tried to make a donation to abort African American babies. "There's way too many black people in Ohio, so I'm just trying to do my part," he told a staffer. Her response, "Whatever." Then she hung up.

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[Demeter]

2. Matthew 7:16

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?


A teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount; it suggests that we are able to distinguish between false and genuine prophets by the things they do and say. In the same passage, Jesus calls false prophets wolves in sheep's clothing.

[sabrina 1]

3. I don't see how he can deny being a Conservative. He was the

founder of a Conservative newspaper in college, an endeavor that was funded by Morton Blackwell of the very Conservative Leadership Institute, whose graduates include Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Norquist and Jeff Gannon.

This guy's lies will catch up with in the upcoming lawsuits ~ he's told so many so far, no wonder he's now in hiding from the press and has scrubbed his website.

Also, all of his stunts, almost exclusively aimed at minorities and poor people, have a distinctly racist tone to them. Including the reason he publicly gave for going after ACORN, which was that they 'register people to vote who will vote for Democrats' and 'no one was holding them accountable for that'. Who votes for Democrats Mr. O'Keefe? Lol, no wonder he won't answer his phone. There are many, many questions he needs to answer, including who funded him? He has made conflicting statements about that also.

He was accused in college of being racist for calling some of his fellow black students the 'N' word. A charge he denies in a statement saved from his scrubbed blog tinged with racism in itself.

The choice of using pimps and prostitutes as a way to entrap workers of an organization whose main goal is to help the poor and minorities and staffed by many minority workers and volunteers, raised the question of 'racism' from the beginning.

This is not a nice person, and one who thinks nothing of lying, as he did on the Hannity show last week when he angrily calleed ACORN workers in Philly 'liars' for claiming they did not go along with his prank, asked him to leave, and filed a police report. As it turned out, it was O'Keefe who was proven to be the liar.

[Demit]

4. This slimebucket is right from the mold of Karl Rove and Lee Atwater.

Conservative is not really the right word to describe him. Scum of the earth might come a little closer.

[sabrina 1]

7. Yes, I just posted a raving hateful rant from Breitbart

attacking Sen. Kennedy on hearing of his death, in the OP I just posted. Slime-bucket comes close, although I agree it's hard to describe people this low in mere words.

[johnfunk]

8. He's a Leadership Institute alum

Who is financing him?

[gratuitous]

5. I saw the NBC report last night

O'Keefe reminded me very much of former acquaintance Floyd Brown, one of the "brains" behind the Willie Horton smear against Michael Dukakis. A willing little whore like Mr. O'Keefe should never want for money, especially with so many on the conservative side with more money than they rightly know what to do with.

[Jim__]

6. Why do you accept O'Keefe's version of the story?

"filmed ACORN officials discussing how he and Hannah Giles ... could set up a brothel with underage girls from El Salvador while dodging taxes."

Well, they said they did that in San Diego too; and it's horseshit. Prior to the taping they told the ACORN rep that they were trying to keep the underage girls out of the pimp's hands. Giles accidently gives it away on the tape. It's obvious these tapes are edited, we don't see the beginning of the conversation. Don't help these assholes spread lies.