James O'Keefe's Latest 'Terrorist' Medicaid Sting Goes After Woman For Following Law

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James O'Keefe's Latest 'Terrorist' Medicaid Sting Goes After Woman For Following Law
Ryan J. Reilly | July 20, 2011, 6:00AM



Stop me if you've heard this one. A man goes into a public assistance office in Charleston, South Carolina in a kilt, tells them he's a member of the Irish Republican Army and asks for help for 25 fellow Irishmen in a hospital who need Medicaid.

A government employee follows the rules and explains the process for filling out a Medicaid paperwork and the qualifications they'd need to meet. She informs them that a federal law intended to protect patient privacy requires her not to divulge any information he's told her.

So what happens next? James O'Keefe's Project Veritas releases a deceptively edited video that makes the woman look like a terrorist sympathizer, though it isn't even clear if she knows the background of the IRA.

In the edited version, the woman says it would not be in her best interest to divulge anything because she could not afford it and she doesn't want to go to jail. As it turns out, that's what she's supposed to do under the law.


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/james_okeefes_latest_terrorist_medicaid_sting_goes_after_woman_for_following_law.php?ref=fpblg

[elocs]

1. kpete posted that here this morning:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4928287

What bothers me about when I see a repost of a story at the top of the page is wondering if there is something wrong with my computer, or my mind. Not that it could be both, but it usually isn't.

[Rabblevox]

2. Bloody wanker. NO Irishman would ever wear a Scots tartan kilt. Fail. /nt

[EFerrari]

3. LOL

:)

[Ganja Ninja]

4. He did this just so he could wear a skirt. n/t