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Remember the two scumbags, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who briefly got famous making allegedly damning (but actually doctored) videotapes of ACORN employees, making it look like ACORN approved of child prostitution and other crimes? No? You’ve forgotten about them already? Well, I wrote about them here. At the time, my brother Crab, who is smarter than me, said prophetically, “It’s just a matter of time before these a**holes get in real trouble.”
And was he right! *schadenfreude* We saw the little faux-whore Hannah making a fool of herself last week in Massachusetts, trying to get air time “investigating” “Democrat voter fraud” without any success. But more joyously, the smartass faux-pimp O’Keefe has just been arrested by the FBI for messing with the phone system in Senator Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office.
What’s that Art says? RUH-ROH! A promising career in Segretti-style “rat-f**king” (their own lovely term) comes to such an early and abrupt end!
Landrieu? One of the most conservative Democratic Senators, she has finally become one of the more outspoken defenders of the Senate healthcare reform bill. And ACORN? Bless their hearts, they continue with the thankless but heroic work of empowering America’s poor and building our democracy. You can donate to them here: https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/2749/t/4538/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2769
I’ve copied the Politico story for your enjoyment, over the fold…
Anti-ACORN filmmaker arrested
Federal authorities have arrested four men on felony charges for attempting to infiltrate Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office, including one filmmaker who targeted the community group ACORN last year in damaging undercover videos.
Among those arrested was 25-year-old James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmaker, along with Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan and Stan Dai, all 24. They were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses and attempting to gain access to the Democrat’s office by posing as telephone repairmen, according to a copy of an FBI affidavit unsealed Tuesday.
The complaint said that O’Keefe was waiting in the office when Flanagan and Basel each entered the premises, wearing light green fluorescent vests, denim paints and blue work shirts, tool belts and hard-hats. They informed a member of Landrieu’s staff that they were telephone repairmen and requested access to the main telephone at the reception desk.
At that point, the two men allegedly attempted to manipulate telephones and accessed the telephone closet, saying they needed to work on the entire system. The men, who said they left their credentials in their vehicles, and were later arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service soon afterward. O’Keefe was allegedly involved with planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation, according to an FBI news release.
According to the FBI, the four men could each face up to 10 years and a fine of $250,000 if they are convicted. The case, which is being investigated by special agents of the FBI and deputy marshals with the United States Marshal’s Service, is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jordan Ginsberg.
Michael Madigan, O’Keefe’s lawyer, told POLITICO Tuesday afternoon that he was still unclear exactly what happened at the senator’s office.
“I don’t know the facts yet of what exactly happened, but at heart James O’Keefe is a good kid,” said Madigan, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer who served as counsel to Sen. Howard Baker during the Watergate investigation and helped run former Tennessee Republican Sen. Fred Thompson’s investigation of the Clinton administration.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Capitol police said the department is aware of the incident and is maintaining close contact with law enforcement authorities. And a Landrieu spokesman declined to comment, saying Monday’s incident is part of an ongoing investigation.
In a statement, ACORN said O’Keefe’s arrest is “further evidence of his disregard for the law in pursuit of his extremist agenda.”
This was not the first of O’Keefe’s legal troubles: ACORN is pressing charges him with a six-figure lawsuit in Baltimore for videotaping its employees with a hidden video camera over the summer. The lawsuit is still ongoing, and the Philadelphia branch of the group alleged in federal court this month that O’Keefe and co-filmmaker Hannah Giles caused emotional distress, harm and injury in their publicizing of the videos.
This is the reason why only 21% of people consider themselves libs… because their values and beliefs are so – off!
You call these young people scumbags, becaues they want to expose corruption, and you say nothing about groups like ACON (sorry ACORN) who employs the most seediest of all human beings – just makes no common sense!
wiseup Vern, these kids have more guts and balls, than you will ever hope to have..
I hope they throw James O’Keefe in prison and throw away the key ! And hopefully this will keep all the little GGordon Liddy’s out there from pulling something like this again !! This is cool in college campus’s today, to ratfuck people !!!
Don’t ever let Michelle Quinn con you into believing she values the rule of law.
“Landrieu? … she has finally become one of the more outspoken defenders of the Senate healthcare reform bill.”
$300 million will buy you a US Senator Vern.
$300 million will buy you a US Senator Vern.
True that, Banned. Didn’t fit into my short story, but true that. (Maxine Waters memorably referred to the Landrieu buy-off as the “Louisiana Purchase.”)
And Quinn, they were not “exposing corruption,” they were creating nasty fictions.
That girl is hot!! Anyone knows how much the current going rate is?
And Quinn, they were not “exposing corruption,” they were creating nasty fictions.
What do you call an ACORN worker helping a pimp and one of his girls figure out how to create a whore house in the neighborhood – CORRUPT .. the rule of the law can be broken if those who are suppose to inforce the law become corrupt…
These kids are exposing what this country is beoming – Corrupt!
Both Dem/repubs should be monitored by the public at all times, that encludes bugging the phone system.. if they are public servants they should be monitored by the public at any time or place in a public forum!
This is cool in college campus’s today, to ratfuck people !!!
Its cool because two kids had the guts and the brain’s to pull it off… and i have never fucked a rat and i am sure not many poeple in college have either!
The tapes were totally doctored, Quinn, and we have no idea what those workers were responding to, as the scumbags replaced their own voices with a voiceover. Don’t you read anything? Click here to let a little truth into that noggin of yours:
http://orangejuiceblog.com/2009/12/and-acorn-bounces-right-back/
For god sake wise up – doctored my arsh –
Don’t insult your intelligence!
Oh, fine. Ms Quinn knows better than federal investigators. Forget it.
“Both Dem/repubs should be monitored by the public at all times, that encludes bugging the phone system.. if they are public servants they should be monitored by the public at any time or place in a public forum!”
And also don’t let Michelle Quinn try to con you into believing that she values the Constitution and its privacy protections.
Ya don’t think it is wierd that the feds choose to investigate the kids instead of ACORN…I suppose voter fraud, burning docs and helping pimps is a waste of the feds time..
Again, maybe the feds need to hire these college kids, because they are losing their crip!
By the way the Constitution was designed to protect the people (WE The PEOPLE) aganist a government who would forget what the constitution means!
“By the way the Constitution was designed to protect the people (WE The PEOPLE) aganist a government who would forget what the constitution means!”
The Constitution also protects us against “we the people” who would subvert it…not just the government.
But thanks for your ridiculously one-sided observations.
The Constitution also protects us against “we the people” who would subvert it…not just the government.
The Constitution was designed as a check and balance system.. And yes the Government will use the the laws of the land to bring to justice anyone who breaks the law using the court system… But the constitution was design – so unlike Europe at the time, the US would be a land controled by the people and not by the Government … land of liberty!
But thanks for your ridiculously one-sided observations.
WE THE PEOPLE only vote. representives of the people draught the amendments and laws that effect this land and its people…
Yeah, boy . . . these kids are real American heroes. The one with the glasses reminds me of Patrick Henry; and the one on the right, well she’s the spitting image of Martha Washington.
“the US would be a land controled (sic) by the people and not by the Government”
Again, you fail to fully understand the Constitution. We have a democratic republic…in other words, we do NOT have DIRECT governmental control by “the people”. We have elected representatives and a President and a Judiciary (as proscribed by the Constitution) who represent us. We have no “direct” control. Michelle Quinn can not write a law.
You really need to read some history.
Vern, don’t hang your hat on Acorn.
Vern,
Leave it to the Reeps to blow it again, just as they have the Dems on the ropes…
ACORN’s out to taint the jury of their peers
Mainstream Media, ACORN, Media Matters (all the supposed defenders of due process and journalistic ethics) are jumping to conclusions over the arrest today of James O’Keefe, with the clear intention to smear and, if possible, convict O’Keefe and his alleged co-conspirators in the court of public opinion
The ACORN story was a huge black eye for the organized left and their allies and cohorts in the mainstream media. So they are relishing every minute of this breaking story, making it their top story – while they ignored the initial ACORN story until they no longer could.
MSNBC and other “news organizations” are even billing this developing story as “Watergate”. What do Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow know? And when did they know it?
I’m sure they would like to believe O’Keefe is stupid enough to try to “wiretap” a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera. And they’d like you to believe it, too.
I’ll wait until the facts are out…
what a tool vern is calling them scumbags .they exposed your corrupt acorn . and you turn on them ..the only scumbag is you vern . you are so blind and so one sided your little fAR LEFT vern party is sinking enjoy the slow decent down to the bottom of the ocean .
They were doing something at the Senators office and I am positive they where not delivering Girl Scout cookies.
Taking illegal actions to uncover illegal act is still illegal. Unless you are on the far right.
I agree all the facts may not be public or gathered, but seriously they were doing something and I doubt if they were working for the FBI
There you go GOP Greedy Old P*icks!! Willing to justify illegal actions by trying to find illegal actions!! Just like phone illegal phone tapping to PROTECT US!!!
What i said:
WE THE PEOPLE only vote. representives of the people draught the amendments and laws that effect this land and its people…
How you responded:
Again, you fail to fully understand the Constitution. We have a democratic republic…in other words, we do NOT have DIRECT governmental control by “the people”. We have elected representatives and a President and a Judiciary (as proscribed by the Constitution) who represent us. We have no “direct” control.
Not only do i seam to understand the American Contitution without being long winded – you failed to read through what i had written… And yes i can help write a bill that might become law, if i am not mistaken?
Taking illegal actions to uncover illegal act is still illegal. Unless you are on the far right.
What does Far right mean: having the guts to protect your country from the corrupt, even if it means breaking the law…
I am too young to remember Water Gate.. But was not it the phone conversatioin’s of the president that brought him down??
And come on kiddies, leave out the name calling – its childish!
Let it be known that Michelle Quinn believes it’s OK to “break the law” if you’re “protecting your country”
In doesn’t take a genius to figure out how dangerous using that justification for criminal activity would be. Can anyone say anarchy?
Any bets on if that theory would hold if it’s a liberal doing the lawbreaking?
Appalling…absolutely appalling.
Oh, and Ms. Quinn, please don’t try and weigh in on Watergate…your naivete just keeps shining through and your losing any credibility you may have had.
lets see the mind of these lefties like far left vern and benson only the right does illegal action . well lets start with frezzer jefferson and put secret docs in my pants berger . oh those are on the left = IT DOES NOT COUNT . the cia does a wire tap to discover a plan to blow up the usa and the lefties will SCREAM = ILLEGAL WIRE TAPPING .
Cállate, gusano. I sent MONEY to the opponents of Cold Cash Jefferson to help get him out of Congress, and I celebrated and wrote about it plenty, HERE, when Anh Cao beat him. You don’t know anything. You and Quinn and Crowley keep pretending that the scumbags caught ACORN doing something bad, when they all they did was harass them and make DOCTORED TAPES. That’s a fact, baboso!
“lets see the mind of these lefties like far left vern and benson only the right does illegal action”
Show me just ONE post, just ONE comment, where ANYONE on this blog said that “only the right does illegal action”.
Crowley’s right, we don’t know for sure they were “bugging” although it’s hard to imagine what else they may have been up to. We’ve got plenty of time to enjoy the show, and see exactly what noble patriotic activity they were up to in Landrieu’s office, dressed like repairmen under false pretenses. Could someone pass the popcorn please?
Doctored tapes, toctored dapes, blabbing apes, spotted snakes! More babbling from the Left when they don’t like reality. Prostitution peddlers will be put down. They are shutting down. They need to crawl back under the rock from whence they came. Good riddance.
Imitation of Crowley (done with hands cupped tightly over ears);
Neener, neener, neener, I can’t heeeaaaaaarrrrrrr you!!
So who is it that’s in 6th grade?
Prostitution peddlers will be put down. They are shutting down. They need to crawl back under the rock from whence they came.
Yes. The dirty mind of James O’Keefe and FOX News. Hear, hear.
By the way, Whistleblowers break confidentiality laws. The Pentagon Papers were an act fundamentally undermining the security of the nation. I can go on and on about that. The ends don’t justify the means, but revealing scandalous behavior like ACORN has its place.
And Vern, the pedophiliac prostitute peddlers in those ACORN offices weren’t intimidated to make those statements.
EL MENTIROSO CON LA NARI GRANDE VERN . TU ESTA SIEGO . VERN PORQUE NO TU TE SIENTA CON TU AMIGOS HUGO Y FIDEL , HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT ONE MI TRIESTE AMIGO ..
ya know, Cubano, your Spanish is just as bad as your English. Must just be your brain…
Perhaps after a few years in federal prison ACORN will be kind enough to help these scumbags get back on their feet.
no bad is you vern .go hang out with you scumbag buddies from down there . maybe when you play your sour notes on your piano you can play the commi anthem . maybe spend some time down there you bald morron before you speak and remove all dought what a fool you are . try rogaine or a wig . your pals get caught with their pants down and you attack the people who expose their faults . true FAR LEFT VERN
“By the way, Whistleblowers break confidentiality laws. The Pentagon Papers were an act fundamentally undermining the security of the nation.”
You either wilfully or ignorantly distort the case of the Pentagon Papers here. D. Ellsberg did commit a criminal act (by his own admission), and was charged for this act. Ellsberg surrendered after charges were filed, and expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. Had it not been for the gross governmental misconduct and illegal evidence gathering, he may very well have served a long time.
Whistleblowers more generally are those defined as those seeking or requiring protection from retaliation when they disclose or report ethical and or/criminal acts. “Confidentiality laws,” as you call them, may either be confidentially agreements (civil violations, not criminal), or governmental security clearances, but there is no “confidentiality law” against reporting an illegal act per se, although in an exceedingly small number of cases there may be a violation of law insofar as reporting on the crime itself requires a breech of classified information. In such cases, as in the case of Sibel Edmonds, who worked for the FBI, such cases may be rejected under the assertion of State Secrets Privilege, or these people may themselves be prosecuted (as Ellsberg was).
Stated otherwise, there is no law that allows people to break the law in order to preserve it – contrary to the bush doctrine and gross subversion of our Constitution. To suggest otherwise assumes that the rule of law itself must be overthrown – an act of either revolution, or treason, depending what side you are on, but certainly not an act justified by any law. There are, of course, cases of jury nullification or as well as prosecutorial discretion, but these are not “laws,” only outcomes.
And finally, if your heroic duo are “whistleblowers,” what exactly were the crimes they were seeking to so dutifully bring to the attention of the American Public? Where are their “Pentagon Papers,” there mountains of documents indicting government officials of gross malfeasance? Your argument would be decidedly more palatable with some shred of evidence.
Let it be known that Michelle Quinn believes it’s OK to “break the law” if you’re “protecting your country”
Liberals pick and choose laws to and not break:
Illegal immigration: libs want Citizenship for people who broke the law… Right?
Libs, want to numerous laws of the land to impose healthcare on the American people..Right?
Libs break laws everday just by being thinking like a liberal.. not to mention common sense..
BUT IF IT IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE FROM ABUSE BY CORRUPT ELECTED.. GOD FORBID..
Oh, and Ms. Quinn, please don’t try and weigh in on Watergate…your naivete just keeps shining through and your losing any credibility you may have had.
Why would i not use watergate as an example of catching a government offical in the act… I am more credible than you, since you choose to use an NO name with your comments mate.
I am anti federalist for a reason, as was Mr. Jefferson. The people have the Public records act.. they should also have the right to monitor the people’s business, in all aspects.. Without full disclosure and monitoring of the Government – when the cat is away the mice will play!
Sorry for the typos
mq take a bow that was so great right on point . especially the illegal immigrant point of view . bunch of phonies .
Great one my friend – don’t underestimate the liberals – they are made up of the greatest minds of this country ie.. Soros.. Mr Soros and his like are determined to change this country to benifit the, “so called poor”, and the rich and distroy the middle class as they have in Europe.
This is why the people of this country should have the right to montior any governmental agency while protecting national security… What these kids did was not well thought out, they should have asked for all records, encluding phone conversation’s that the state had with the federal government that pertained to all the entitlements that the state received for a vote… bringing up the topic of a possible bribe, has brought government corruption into the spot light!
We still don’t know what these kids are facing as far as law breaking, but it pales compared to what the president and his merry men and women are doing!
And finally, if your heroic duo are “whistleblowers,” what exactly were the crimes they were seeking to so dutifully bring to the attention of the American Public?
I don’t know where you want to start:
lets take pimping and then child rape and abuse ect… I mean come on – I love your long and very well written comment, but did you not watch the tapes????
Has common sense no place in the liberal mind?
Is it all about Robin Hood and his Merry men looking after the underserved and the vulnerable – if they happen to be pimps, rapists ect.. its just a human flaw??
These kids are not on drugs, they did not batter and murder some poor kid on the street with a 2X4.. they wanted to prove, i think not only to themselves, but the American people, (what we have all suspected), that ACON (ACORN) are lead by businessmen/women, who hire the low of the low to con the federal/state/ and private citizen out of billions.
Its that simple!
Michelle Quinn, The Grating One and Terry Crowley continually embarrass themselves by parroting Faux News “talking points”, they aren’t bright enough (or INFORMED enough) to figure out that Faux News has distorted the “facts”, this tends to leave them twisting-in-the-wind trying to defend nonsense like Acorn as the biggest, most corrupt and scandalous organization of all time.
For instance Michelle Quinn writes;
” What these kids did was not well thought out, they should have asked for all records, encluding(sic) phone conversation’s that the state had with the federal government that pertained to all the entitlements that the state received for a vote… bringing up the topic of a possible bribe, has brought government corruption into the spot light!”
A low-information voter like Michelle takes the word “bribe” to heart, but almost EVERYONE else knows that that is how the Senate works, it’s called bringing-home-the-bacon. Every Senator (Repugs included) tries to bring as many dollars back to their state as possible, THAT’S THEIR JOB! But in Faux Newsland, if a Democrat does it, it’s a crime!
Every time you hear Acorn, George Soros, SEIU you know that that person is a Faux News watcher, it’s almost as if they’ve put a ring through their viewer’s noses and then they lead them around, getting them all excited over their blown-out-of-all-proportion “scandals”. That’s why Quinn “thinks” that Acorn has received “billions” rather than the 58 million over 15 years that Acorn has actually recieved from the federal government. Now there are REAL scandals involving BILLIONS of dollars, but those usually involve military contractors, but as we all know( I mean those of us in the reality-based community), Faux News doesn’t do “real”.
HEY ANONSTER get off your keith o msnbc talking points . your always ripping on fox news . fox news blows away msnbc . the far left station you get your info from . oh perhaps you get your info from air america . OOPS OFF THE AIR . you want embarrassing look in the mirror with your red beret on with a star in the middle of it .
Vern, you should send the post image to http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/
Perhaps after a few years in federal prison ACORN will be kind enough to help these scumbags get back on their feet.
LOL, Baxter #38 – Jon Stewart made that joke last night, but YOU BEAT HIM TO IT! Take a bow.
Michelle Quinn, The Grating One and Terry Crowley continually embarrass themselves by parroting Faux News “talking points”,
The grating one… Thanks, i think??
And love, I am many things, but listening to and taking other ideas as my own is not one of them… I am and have always been know as an independent thinker.. i call it as i see it!
If people at fox news ( i think you mean’t) see as i see it.. Good for them!
A low-information voter like Michelle takes the word “bribe” to heart, but almost EVERYONE else knows that that is how the Senate works, it’s called bringing-home-the-bacon.
What you call a LOW-INFORMATION VOTER, most Americans would call a decent and honest indivdual… I bring home the bacon every day by running a honest and stright forward business and so can our elect..
Every time you hear Acorn, George Soros, SEIU you know that that person is a Faux News watcher,
I read about SEIU from a document concerning healthy families in Orange Country. George Soros is an immigrant from Europe (I know alot about Mr. Soros from word of mouth) and since i am very much aganist any type of Orangization that gets rich off the: underserved, vulnerable and needy ect…. Yeah know the script for, “lets make money off the poor”, i know all about them… Yes i watch fox news, but i also watch BBC, RTE, Mexican news, NBC, ect…. I am nuts about the news, not so much about dancing with the stars… Maybe you need branch out abit!
thinks” that Acorn has received “billions” rather than the 58 million over 15 years that Acorn has actually recieved from the federal government. Now there are REAL scandals involving BILLIONS of dollars, but those usually involve military contractors,
No i think most people would prefer seeing contractors in Iraq getting the money, than ACORN who’s workers give advise on pimping out kids???
And please don’t give me the talking points about the war. Men, women and children will always be the victims of war. But it is better to die fighting, than die in a foot ball field, because you were raped…
Read: In the name of honor!
You need to get out more!