Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent

[sabra]

Source: CNN

Lusby, Maryland (CNN) -- A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.

James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.

The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.

"I never intended to become part of the story," Boudreau said. "But things suddenly took a very strange turn."

...

CNN was forwarded an e-mail, sent from O'Keefe's e-mail address, to the executive director of Project Veritas, Izzy Santa; and two conservative activists, Ben Wetmore of New Orleans and Jonathon Burns of St. Louis, Missouri, dated after the call with Boudreau.

"Getting Closer," the e-mail states. "Audio attached conversation with Abbie. What do you think of her reaction guys. She said she could do it Monday, Tuesday. Ben, you think I could get her on the boat?"

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/

[marmar]

1. He is a real pile of human waste.

nt

[donquijoterocket]

43. more worthless

Because if properly utilized human waste can be beneficial. This waste of skin,oxygen,and water never will be until he's fertilizer.But he's a hero to the wingers, such a good boy.

[LynneSin]

79. That's just not fair!!

Even human waste serves some value to the maggot, flies and bacteria that feed off of it. This asshole has absolutely no value whatsoever.

[sakabatou]

104. You're insulting human waste.

[Kingofalldems]

2. He's on probation is he not?

Hopefully the proper authorities will become aware of these activities.

[nxylas]

63. I thought he was in prison

If not, I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

[laylah]

66. If I remember correctly,

"Daddy" pulled some strings and got him off with just a slap on the wrist. He's SUCH a poor excuse of a human being :puke:

[katandmoon]

3. Holy shit. He's insane.

[EFerrari]

33. It sounds like he's internalized too many James Bond movies.

lol

[Golden Raisin]

69. No, a graduate of the

Lee Atwater/Karl Rove School of Sleazy Dirty Republican Tricks.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Not a prank.

[cybildisobedience]

5. the real issue: why does CNN continue to appease these people?

Why does CNN bend over backwards to make right wing nuts happy? They will never like them, they will never accept them and they will continue to seize on any opportunity to humiliate them.

[sabra]

7. I believe it was correlated to a documentary they had been working on

that's going to air Oct 2...

[Downwinder]

18. The article softpeddles the hatchet job they did on ACORN.

[svpadgham]

81. I noticed that too.

I kind of wish he had been able to pull it off with the CNN correspondent. That way they'd really see the kind of shit these assholes pull.

[Le Taz Hot]

111. Not trying to be a CNN defender here

but I was actually watching CNN, "Rick's List" or something like that, wherein they brought this story to light. In the process, Rick stated emphatically and more than once, that ACORN was ruined by this guy's "punks" and that they were innocent of the charges. He said that it was this sleazebag that had set them up.

[90-percent]

118. GOOD POINT ABOVE

It always infuriates me that, in the national sense of awareness of current events; most AMERICAN PEOPLE are still of the understanding that ACORN is guilty and corrupt and vote stealing and pimp business consulting, but in the END, ACORN WAS ABSOLVED OF ALL CHARGES!

THIS MISLEADING PROPAGANDA FROM THE LIKES OF THIS PUNK HAS TAKEN OUT YET ANOTHER ORGANIZATION THAT helped poor and underprivileged people find their way into participating in their own government! And get help navigating the predatory systems like those liars loan mortgages that victimized their very customers into bankruptcy or foreclosure? An organization who's purpose was merely to help the under privileged to a happier and more rewarding life.

Consider it the equivalent of somehow consigning DU to utter non-existent oblivion. "They" want to take out all things with even an aroma of progressivism, and in this case, continued with this pernicious, un-American effort at subverting speech one organization at a time!

What is the next progressive organization to be propagandized out of existence?

-90"% Jimmy

[tblue37]

73. Well, at least one reporter has had her eyes opened, and since she is

an investigative reporter, she might well have them in her sights in the future.

[Renew Deal]

6. Read the planning documents!

I have to wonder if this is even legal.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/09/specials/cnn.caper/index.html

[Matariki]

37. Heh. The battle of the assholes. Too bad it isn't Fox News they wanted to 'punk'

The can all eat each other alive

13. The "joke"

The joke is that the tables have turned on CNN. Using hot blondes to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television.

[spotbird]

48. I've read it all, but I don't understand it. What was his objective?

Did James think she would agree to consensual sex with him?

Did he think it would embarrass her if she reported, accurately, that he was a pervert?

It makes absolutely no sense.

[Renew Deal]

53. Both

And the possibility she wouldn't mention his "record" on her show if he had something on her.

[SirRevolutionary]

67. Ya, I don't think logic really entered his mind.

At least not what we on the left call logic. This is young conservative lurgic, they call it, and my bet was that he wanted to get all giggly and tell his friends a girl came on his boat, and he didn't even have to blackmail her.

[me b zola]

82. None of the memes or talking points that come from Fox make sense

---to rational people. Yet they serve a functional purpose to them. That is where this little "masterpiece" would have ended up, being played constantly on Fox as "proof" of whatever crazy-ass meme they had decided would get their groupies all in a tither about. What exactly was the meme? Who knows, I need a de-coder ring just to be able to follow along with their "logic".

[GoldenOldie]

8. Hilarious!!!

I'm really, really old and O'Keefe the pimp, looks like a creepy, weird little punk! Who paid for his "pleasure boat," and what makes him think any girl/woman with half a brain would even look at him, never mind being caught in bed with him? If he and his prostitute gal friend are the face or arse of the Young Republicans, they are in dire need of some good acting/performance instruction along with a whole lot of plastic surgery. Again, who is funding these creeps?

[Lochloosa]

9. I wonder if this part was legal?

The phone call was recorded without Boudreau's knowledge, but CNN obtained a copy of the recording after O'Keefe e-mailed it to friends and colleagues. Boudreau agreed to the meeting, which she understood would be in his office.

[hootinholler]

15. If that was done in Md, then It is certainly illegal.

Ask Linda Tripp.

-Hoot

[gardenista]

108. Oh no, now I need a brainwash

I just imagined Linda Tripp on a "pleasure palace" boat! AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Did you know that I have a friend who was one of her neighbors when she lived in Columbia, MD? They apparently had to have a meeting to confront her about not cleaning up after her dog. It was going around pooping in other people's yards, and she thought that was just fine... Typical rethug attitude.

[tanyev]

10. And this wouldn't have made HIM look foolish...how?

[Tesha]

84. he would have edited the tape (NT)

[suffragette]

11. Two interesting side points from this

Now that he tried a smear campaign on CNN, CNN finally gets it about what was done to Acorn:

O'Keefe is best known for making a series of undercover videos inside ACORN offices around the country in 2009. The 40-year-old liberal group was crippled by scandal after O'Keefe and fellow activist Hannah Giles allegedly solicited advice from ACORN workers on setting up a brothel and evading taxes.
The videos led to some of the employees being fired and contributed to the disbanding of ACORN, which advocated for low- and middle-income and worked to register voters.
But prosecutors in New York and California eventually found no evidence of wrongdoing by the group, and the California probe found the videos had been heavily and selectively edited.


I'd like to know the name of the financial donor mentioned as someone one Santa contacted about this here:
The day of the meeting, she wrote to someone she described as a financial donor to Project Veritas. She would not identify the individual.

Maybe that's why they're keeping her on the payroll after this happened. She knows at least one name of the people behind this band of miscreants.

[EFerrari]

32. Great point about CNN.

:thumbsup:

[Stevepol]

45. Don't know the ultimate source of dough, but Andrew Breitbart is at least

a sluice for the money to run thru.

[suffragette]

117. Good point

You put that well in calling him "a sluice for the money."
That's my take as well, that bigger players likely send the money through Breitbart to hide the origins and their complicity in these acts.

[Turborama]

95. Not just a wake up call for CNN. CBS are all over this, too.

ACORN Foe James O'Keefe Sought to Embarrass CNN's Abbie Boudreau on Porn-Strewn "Palace of Pleasure" Boat

It's hard to even know where to start with this one: James O'Keefe, the conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos essentially destroyed community organizing group ACORN, apparently attempted to lure CNN Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat potentially strewn with dildos and pornography, where he planned to faux-seduce her as hidden cameras filmed the whole thing.

Yes, you read that right.

CNN lays out the story http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/">here, and Boudreau herself explains what happened in the video below. Here's what happened: CNN had been working on a documentary about young conservative activists, O'Keefe among them; On August 10th, O'Keefe requested a private meeting with Boudreau, suggesting that he just wanted to talk because he was uncomfortable "about letting people into my sort of inner sanctum."

O'Keefe recorded the call without telling Boudreau, and emailed it to friends and colleagues. (It ultimately ended up in CNN's hands.) In the email, he said he was "getting closer" to getting to Boudreau and asked one colleague if "you think I could get her on the boat." Boudreau said later she had understood that she would be meeting with O'Keefe in his office.

When Boudreau showed up for the meeting in Maryland a week later, she was met by Izzy Santa, the executive director of O'Keefe's group, Project Veritas. A visibly nervous Santa asked to speak to Boudreau in the CNN correspondent's rented car, where Santa revealed that O'Keefe was attempting to set her up.

Full article and embedded video: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20018030-503544.html?tag=stack

[90-percent]

119. responsibility for destroying ACORN?

ACORN was not destroyed by O'Keefe singlehandedly. The biased-and-abysmal-and-transcriptional-report-memes-as-real-news-knowingly-lie-have-an-agenda-for-the-wealthy-elites-to-propagandize-to-get-people-to-vote-against-their-own-best-interests MSM also contributed to the unjust result or ACORN disbanding. IF this issue was treated to real bona fide JOURNALISM instead of slanted and biased agenda driven propaganda, ACORN may still be around.

And the just still loose and the bullies still win.

America is being bullied into middle ages serfdom and constant fear to serve the frail needs of the powerful and greedy. Just what the founding fathers had in mind.

-90% Jimmy

[No Elephants]

123. An unconstitutional law hastily passed by Congress de-funding ACORN. See Reply 122.

But for de-funding, ACORN would still have been in business when it vindicated itself, and O'Keefe would have been even more of a laughingstock than he is. As it is, he's a folk hero to Republicans and ACORN could not afford to keep operating.

[gardenista]

107. if she's smart, she'll get safe

and identify the individual. She is definitely not safe right now if she has that kind of information.

[DirkGently]

12. Gack. He calls his operation "Veritas." This kid's pure slime, and not very bright slime at that.

[Jefferson23]

13. I so hope this creep ends up behind bars at some point. n/t

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[sonomak]

14. So, Santa runs his Project Veritas

[nolabear]

16. Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends.

[Botany]

17. That little punk keeps this crap up and he is going to get his ass kicked

Good thing that the judge let him walk from trying to bug a senator's office.

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID15870/images/James_O%27Keefe,_AP.jpg

Looks like his nose has been broken too.

[madmax]

21. I read your post after I posted mine

we're on the same page ;)

[Botany]

34. He really needs to be given a wake up call.

After the phony pimp & ho act closed down ACORN he was trying
to set up a CNN reporter with sex toys? He does this stuff to the wrong
person and he is going to get his ass kicked and you can count on it.
It looks like he has never done a day's work in his life.

[madmax]

42. I just thought of something

The boat and a nice pair of cement boots. :rofl: Tony Soprano would approve and it would send a message. Ok, ok, I'm off the deep end. Just a little fantasy going on in my head ;)

[Botany]

44. He was going to try to seduce Ms. Broudreau

:rofl:



I am willing to bet that Ms. Broudreau is way out of his league and has a boyfriend/husband/girlfriend
that would kick James' skiiny ass all over the place. I wonder who is paying that boy's frieght? Koch Brothers?
Freedomworks? Rove?



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9222725

[Jennicut]

116. And she seems like one of the few decent reporters at CNN.

She does a lot of investigative reporting for them.

How delusional is James O'Keefe?

[Moostache]

36. No, he looks like he was dropped on his head as a baby...or got kicked in the head by a mule.

That would explain a lot.

[icnorth]

93. Both. I'd guess seconds apart.

When he looked it scared the mule s^!*less; purely a reflex reaction. ;)

[thereismore]

50. He is a beauty. His mug is so distinctive he'll have a hard time to "prank" more people.

He is a no good prick.

[tblue37]

74. Amazing that the ugly little creep would think she would respond at all

to his attempts to "seduce" her. He has an opinion of his appeal that doesn't fit with what he actually looks like.

[HillWilliam]

75. A face like a slapped arse

that only another repug could love.

[24601]

100. What "bugging equipment" was found? As I recall what Senator

Landrieu's staff and the FBI reported - the jerks told them that there was problems with constituents were trying to call but their phone system had outages. What they did try to do - their plan was to record the staff doing little or nothing, thus proving that the Senator's staff was ducking calls critical of the Senator. The plan didn't work since the phones weren't really out and the staff didn't follow his scenario. There wasn't any wiretap equipment and the recording device was his cell phone. That's why there weren't any wiretap/bugging charges. If they had be caught with wiretap equipment, Holder would have them rotting in GITMO.

[24601]

101. Self Delete - Dupe n/t

[madmax]

19. This jerk is going to take it

a step to far and someone is going to break his face.

[K8-EEE]

20. Hurray for conservative values! He was prob gonna

Alter the tape if he got any footage of her in there....like he did with ACORN.

[Ian David]

22. Wow. Absolutely bizarre, creepy, and downright crazy.

Hey, remember when Michael Moore went to interview Charlton Heston and kept trying to get him into bed?

No?

Oh, right. Because we don't do that shit.

[wryter2000]

61. My eyes!

Charlton Heston in bed with Michael Moore. :rofl:

[nxylas]

110. Or the time that...

...evil liberal mastermind George Soros paid some pimply-faced liberal activist to try and seduce one of Fox's news bunnies? No, me neither, though to be fair, there would be less need to do that. Most of them are ex-pornstars anyway, so if anyone wanted explicit footage of them, they'd just have to look on the Internet.

[matt819]

23. He's no more a "conservative activist" than I am

Like Palin, et al, he's a con man, a grifter. If this were a 1960s tv show, he'd be the target of the bunco squad. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Deadgnome]

24. This guy

Is a class-A moron. Sounds like this kid is overtly deviant. I guess it is only a matter of time before he gets caught and goes to jail for something stupid. He knows nothing of evidence disposal or subtley.

[HillWilliam]

78. Dumbya redux

Pappy kept buying that felonious little miscreant out of trouble, sealing up arrest records, glossing over AWOL, excusing deviant behavior all the way back to when jyurnyer sticking firecrackers up frogs' butts and blowing them up.

I shudder to think, but this O'Keefe idiot will probably be running for presidunce in 2024 on the repug "why don't you still miss shrub YET" platform. He fits the bill perfectly. They love criminals, morans, ne'er-do-wells, and the idle-rich perverts. He's all of the above.

[chervilant]

80. hmm...

Considering that he's a winger, I think the term you're looking for is 'moran.'

And, we ALL should know who provides the limitless resources to enable his insanity...

[Deadgnome]

92. Lol

Correction: This kid is moranic!

[madmom]

25. WHY is everything about sex with them?

[AlbertCat]

29. WHY is everything about sex with them?

Well, he's not getting any and he's jealous.... I guess.

If he really wants a juicy sex scandal, he should investigate The Family and C Street House. Or any other Repug group.

[nxylas]

64. But wasn't his co-conspirator in the ACORN video also his girlfriend?

Or was that wishful thinking on his part?

[COLGATE4]

26. The perfect little Rethug in the making. What a POS!

[xchrom]

27. quelle amuse!!! this is SO delicious. nt

[madmax]

28. And over at the darkside

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2598409/posts

Crickets

[alp227]

105. Conservative reaction is mixed.

Via Media Matters:

Brent Bozell, founder of the conservative MRC, said:

The MRC unequivocally denounces James O’Keefe for his attempted assault on CNN. It isn’t just childish and immature; it’s ugly, dishonest and filthy. There is no place in the conservative movement for this type of behavior and that’s exactly what I warned about in a commentary piece I submitted to CNN.com just two days ago.

Meanwhile, MRC analysis director Tim Graham posted some tweets attacking the CNN journalist.

Some of the Freepers were smart enough to say "not cool" to O'Keefe, but overall yea crickets and ACORN Derangement abound.

[valerief]

30. I don't even understand this. Why would he want to embarrass CNN?

I don't get it. They're Fox Lite.

[Blue Owl]

31. Would this be the "gotcha" journalism Palin was bitching about?

Looks like it's her own kind sinking to new lows.

O'Keefe is fourth-rate pond scum.

[onehandle]

35. Who's financing this little shit. nt

[Brother Buzz]

39. My guess is Breitbart

Perhaps he's Santa, but we'll never know because this operation is 'double super secret background' stuff, and O'Keefe is on 'Double Secret Probation'.

[SoapBox]

38. What a crooked, lying, weaseling piece of shit...

OK MSM...totally expose this guy every time he takes a breath.

He's scum...and any RushThugs and T.HateBaggers that even talk to him need to be exposed.

[K8-EEE]

40. CONSERVATIVE VALUES IN ACK-SHUN!

Jeezus is smiling at this plan fer sure, GOOD THINKING there James!

[Moostache]

41. I am going on record first with this.

James O'Keefe is going to go to prison - not "real" prison of course, but one of those white-collar day camp so-called prisons that Republicans go to for career advancement - and come out the otherside directly into his next career - religion-based huckster and fund raiser.

Look out Jeebus, James is actively waiting to "find" you...

[Pryderi]

46. Sounds like hes' been smokin' G. Gordon Liddy's Pubic hairs. n/t

[wisteria]

47. Trying to set innocent people up in compromising situations and then use it against them

or in this case,CNN is morally despicable. What a POS he is. And, to think, Republican's applaud him and his actions.

[toddwv]

49. Another O'Keefe escapade, another lawsuit and/or criminal charges

"Sexual assault can be verbal, visual, or anything that forces a person to join in unwanted sexual contact or attention. Examples of this are voyeurism (when someone watches private sexual acts), exhibitionism (when someone exposes him/herself in public), incest (sexual contact between family members), and sexual harassment. It can happen in different situations: in the home by someone you know, on a date, or by a stranger in an isolated place."

[The Wizard]

77. He needs to be sexually assaulted

by a rabid pit bull or cell mate.

[SteveM]

51. He continues to do this because he is good at it and there is a market...

I mean, didn't this kind of punking get the Obama administration to fire someone at the Agriculture Department, or something?

[AlbertCat]

76. He continues to do this because he is good at it

He is?????

His 2 scams have been completely debunked and exposed, because they were lame.

The defunding of ACORN is only something he played a small role in. It was done by the GOP and completely aided by the cowardly Dems. He didn't make his accusation stick, the GOP used it (before it could be scrutinized) on top of a lot of other fake ACORN accusations and the Dems quaked in their pink booties and allowed it to happen before they knew anything about the scam. If it had been up to him, it would have gone nowhere.

He's about as "good at it" as a sophomore. Not very.

[yurbud]

52. what happened to the wiretap charges against him?

[jeff47]

114. Since they didn't have any wiretapping equipment...

those charges were dropped. Instead, he plead guilty to a misdemeanor about trying to illegally access Sen. Landreau's office.

[alp227]

54. Maybe O'Keefe should actually go to the ghetto and be a real pimp

as part of his sentencing. Leave him to fend for himself in the mean streets. That sheltered spoiled brat.

[Downwinder]

62. Appropriate:

AS most of his targets and victims have been female.

[Crowman1979]

65. If that's the case, he'll wind up as the one being pimped.

I'm sure there some pimp in DC waiting for their male prostitute cash cow to waltz on by. Does Jim Guckert ring a bell?

[Zambero]

56. Is this "Strike 3 you're out!" for O'Keefe?

Yes I'm afraid it is. He's now an official cellar-dweller in the universal league of investigative media.

[TygrBright]

57. The best part about this story is that it's NOT just about sleazy little O'Keefe...

...although, of course, he is the juicy seasoning in the dish.

But the real meat is revealed if you go to the CNN article and not only read it, but follow the internal links to the document that was leaked to CNN and to Boudreau's blog on the incident.

It's clear that this is not just O'Keefe, this is a whole node of the well-financed RW attempt to bring down democracy in favor of some weird corporate fascist pseudo-democracy. This "Project Veritas" operation includes several of the sleazy bottom feeders we all know and despise from the ACORN attack, but it's also just the tip of a larger iceberg-- read the bits about how PV Exec Director, Izzy Santa, protested to one of the PV "donors" about this action because she thought it would backfire on the group. And then she was the one who blew it to Boudreau.

And then read the document that was excerpted here: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/09/specials/cnn.caper/index.html, where it becomes clear that this is part of a crazy, deluded, but meta-level strategy to spread even more chaos and stupidity through the media and remove any capacity that media sources might have to actually report facts credibly (if they ever want to.)

This is surreal.

And yes, the fact that O'Keefe is involved has helped generate some media hype about it, but it's that document that is the real story here.

amazedly,
Bright

[Locrian]

59. sounds interesting

but your link

>And then read the document that was excerpted here: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/09/specials/cnn.cap... where i

Comes back as page not found..

[JHB]

60. I'm getting all of CNN as "cannot display"

[Turborama]

96. Try this link

Works for me, hopefully it'll work for you too: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2010/09/specials/cnn.caper/index.html

[Warren DeMontague]

86. Remove the comma at the end of the link

then it should work.

[peacetalksforall]

68. Sounds like a Murdoch minion.

[JHB]

97. It's the marriage of "The Arkansas Project" with Nixon's "ratfuckers"

:puke: :mad:

[glitch]

112. more like "bratfuckers" nt

[lsewpershad]

58. How far

does this punk have to go before he lands in jail?

[MinM]

70. "The Good Wife" on CBS

had a couple characters on it last night that were very O'Keefesque.

[Javaman]

71. It appears as if o'keefe has the creepy part down well. nt

[tblue37]

72. We can hope that this sort of thing will cause the MSM to stop

treating these creeps as though they were serious jounalists and activists who represent one side of a reasonable argument and instead start telling the nasty truth about them.

[11 Bravo]

83. That little shitstain needs to have his ass kicked.

[d_r]

85. FREAKKKKK

and not in any of the good ways.

[fascisthunter]

87. It's Strange... he looks a lot like Oswald

but he sure isn't a "Patsy"... but a tool non-the-less.

[Warren DeMontague]

88. Typical: Right Winger tries to do something funny or creative, and it's a fucking MESS.

Witness:

Christian "Rock"... ALL of it.

The Nuge

Toby Keith

Ben Stein

Glenn Beck's "fiction"

That kid from Saved By The Bell who thinks bananas disprove evolution

Stephen Baldwin



...etc. The list goes on. The pinched, retentive, narrow and just plain stupid outlook that leads people to vote Republican is totally counterproductive to any sort of creative endeavour. Right-wingers get so mad about liberal musicians not just because the liberal musicians are outspoken about their liberal politics, but because the liberal musicians (Springsteen, U2, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, John Fogerty, etc. etc.) are the GOOD, TALENTED musicians. The ones on the right suck, pure and simple.

What you have here with James O'Keefe is a fucking goober who wants to be Sacha Baron Cohen, but has no clue as to what is actually funny, much less how to pull something like that off. Even his "Pimp" gig was fucking retarded, and the only other thing he tried to pull got him arrested.

Really, Mr. Baron Cohen needs to create a new character for the express purpose of "punking" James O'Keefe IMHO. That would be rich.

[karynnj]

113. Interesting points

I had for a long time thought that there were just different cultures and both had musicians and other creative people that they liked - and I simply knew and liked ours better. But, when I monitor right wing radio, it is jarring that between their rants, you hear bits of music - and it is mostly the music of liberal musicians.

Here in NJ, Christie and some Republicans were disappointed that after Christie very publicly made it clear he wanted Bruce Springsteen to play at his inaugural ball. Christie liked him well enough that he had attended far over 100 of his concerts and wrote an op-ed for his county's local paper taking Springsteen to task for having a concert for Kerry in 2004 - one of the few in NJ that Christie missed, fearing he would be "shown on the jumbotron". You wonder if he ever listened to the lyrics - or if he ever read the words that Springsteen spoke in introducing Senator Kerry in Madison, WI. If he had, he might have realized that there was NO chance that Springsteen would play for him - he's against everything he stands for. Christie made due with an E street cover band - that same county paper had photos of Christie singing with the band - that unfortunately did make the electronic version of the paper.

But, O'Keefe is not just an example of someone with a lack of creative skills. He is someone who is so convinced of his side's moral right that he feels justified in violating every social, moral and ethic societal value to further his goals. What is stunning is the support that he has received from Conservative media and some of their powers that be. I think the one punked by this episode will be O'Keefe, because buoyed by not only not being held accountable for his earlier transgressions but being honored by the right, I think he went to far on this one.

In his first transgression, he targeted ACORN, and organization that was liberal, mostly minority and dedicated to helping the poor with things like voting - an easy target to demonize by the right. The second had the cover - unbelievable as it was - that they were monitoring why the Senator's office did not respond to citizens. Here, he was clearly targeting a very beautiful, polite, articulate reporter with a disgusting and terrifying sleazy attack. That it was written in a pathetic way is the least of his problems - it exposes many glaring deficits in his character and that should be clear even to those on the right who lionized him when he attacked ACORN.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

89. What woman does he imagine would react favorably to this?

And assuming for a moment that the said woman was not immediately disgusted, what conclusions might the said woman draw from his lube and dildo collection?

[husky92]

90. Scumbag...

I thought they had this clown and his buddies nailed for their crap in New Orleans last year. He's still at it. They ought to throw his skinny ass in jail for a few months and let him think about it.

[Rex]

91. CNN is a worthless pile of crap. O'Keefe is a germ, an insect, a pimple on CNNs gynormis ass!

Why O' why do they still legitimize charlatans and pimps? 'An undercover video sting', REALLY is that what we are calling it? REALLY?

CNN deserves to go bankrupt and hopefully one day will be put out of business.

[MinM]

98. CNN Accused of Covering Up Alleged War Crime

You're exactly right. CNN and O'Keefe deserve each other...

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/cnn-accused-of-covering-up-alleged-war-crime

[NoodleyAppendage]

94. Apt Comparison. James O'Keefe = Brownshirt

As loathe as I am to make any Nazi comparisons to today, I can see no other that is more appropriate to O'Keefe and what he's attempting to do than the German brownshirts of the early 1930s. We should not take this person or those funding him lightly because they are completely stealing from the early propaganda tactics of the pre-war German fascists.

J

[tsuki]

99. CNN encouraged and exploited the Acorn story. They still cannot

help but exploit

"O'Keefe is best known for making a series of undercover videos inside ACORN offices around the country in 2009. The 40-year-old liberal group was crippled by scandal after O'Keefe and fellow activist Hannah Giles allegedly solicited advice from ACORN workers on setting up a brothel and evading taxes."

I almost wished it had happened.

[and-justice-for-all]

102. Pathetic bastard...nt

[depakid]

103. "The phone call was recorded without Boudreau's knowledge,"

Maryland law requires consent from all parties prior to recording- so there are grounds both for prosecution of a crime in Maryland and a probation violation in Louisiana.

[MrsBrady]

106. some other people have hit upon these points as well, but...

I don't understand....

how is he making a living?
Does he have a job?
Is somebody paying him to be a moron?
Why the hell is he making a music video and who would want to see it anyway?

Isn't he on some kind of parole and did he violate parole?
Why is he not being dragged back to court?

Why would CNN want to so a story on this moron?

[nxylas]

109. "Is someone paying him to be a moron?"

Yes, Andrew Breitbart.

[jeff47]

115. Answers

"how is he making a living?"

By being a useful tool for people who have a lot of money.

"Does he have a job?"

Yes. Useful tool.

"Is somebody paying him to be a moron?"

Yep.

"Why the hell is he making a music video and who would want to see it anyway?"

Because he's an desperate for attention and an egomaniac.

"Isn't he on some kind of parole and did he violate parole?"

Yes, and probably. If he's convicted of violating MD's wiretap laws (which he appears to have done), then that would be a parole violation. However, that wiretap conviction would be a larger crime than violating parole on his misdemeanor plea bargain.

"Why is he not being dragged back to court?"

Because this just happened, and in non-violent cases they tend to investigate before arresting the suspect. The assumption is that nobody is in mortal danger by leaving the moran out on the streets.

"Why would CNN want to so a story on this moron?"

Because they're doing a documentary on young conservative activists. That's actually a good thing - the more people learn about these freaks, the easier it is to marginalize them.

[Crowman1979]

120. What I'm surprised about is how long CNN kept falling for his shit.

[Kingofalldems]

121. Kick this important story

[No Elephants]

122. Where to begin?

1/ People need to stop dignifying this fool with terms like "activist" and "journalist. Ghandi, MLK, Jr. and Saul Alinsky were activists. Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow were journalists. This bumbling, self-important attention seeker is a nothing more than a dumbass.

2/ No one has proven he's a fake pimp.


3/ Without hearing from ACORN, a Democratic Congress hastily enacted an unconstitutionallaw introduced by Republicans to destroy a non-partisan organization whose work was to register people in poor neighborhoods to vote, on the basis of a heavily doctored video. ACORN later proved its innocence, but went out of business, due to Congressional de-funding.

Republicans are thought to have targeted ACORN because Republicans believe that the people ACORN registers are more likely to end up voting Democratic than they are to end up voting Republican (if indeed they end up voting at all). What were the reasons of the Democrats in Congress for acting so precipitously (and unconstitutionally), though?