I have a feeling O'Keefe and his gang of Merry Men are going to claim this as their defense.

[vanbean]

They were just trying to prove that it would be so easy to bug the Senator's office. That's all. They were really just looking out for the citizens. He's a good boy and of course, would never to anything wrong.


I hope the whole story of how he edited and dishonestly portrayed the facts will come out fully now. He and his pimp outfit sicken me almost as much as how he got away with that ludicrous farce.
But, you watch, they will get out of this.

[niyad]

1. I certainly won't hold my breath that any of them will do a minute of serious jail time.

[Atman]

7. Of course not. They were working for the Republicans.

The GOP-owned media will whitewash it. We've already seen it today on teevee...it's just comedy to them. They show the video of O'Keefe in his pimp suit, because it looks silly. It minimized the seriousness of the crime. HAW HAW! Pimp boy dressed up a phone boy! HAW HAW! Fucking laugh riot. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Good thing it wasn't a Dem...we'd be hearing about it as a major news story for the next month.

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[snagglepuss]

2. I think your right. They're going to spin it as a dumb prank.

[blogslut]

3. From the news reports on MSNBC

The bumbling four are claiming that Landrieu's calls to office always resulted in busy signals and they wanted to "gain access" to her receptionist's phone in order to prove something or whatever.

If I were going to make up a cover-my-ass story, this wouldn't be the story.

[eleny]

4. As if committing a felony is ever an acceptable excuse

Somebody handed them a very long handled shovel.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

6. They also reported they didn't have equipment

with them to tap a phone. Said the device they used to communicate was a walkie/talkie type phone.

They're going to try and position this as stupid kid tricks. I hope they don't get away with it.

[vanbean]

12. If you have access to the phone room, and know what your doing, you don't need equipment.

I know, I work on phone systems.

[niyad]

8. "claiming that landrieu's calls to office"? surely that goes the other way around??

[blogslut]

10. Yes, you are correct

I transposed the wording

"calls to Landrieu's office"

EDIT ADD: My ability to type legibly and clearly is non-functioning this evening.

[theothersnippywshrub]

5. They probably would say the same thing if a group of ACORN employees

had done the same thing in a republican Senator's office.

[Jim Sagle]

9. Actually their defense will be, 'It's OK because we're Republican.' Charges will be dropped..

[spanone]

11. tell that to airport security when you're trying to sneak something on a plane