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the same four that went undercover to "bust" ACORN were caught trying to wiretap the phone lines of a democrat politician. I find it funny that most of the threads in this section when it comes to news events are posted by conservatives yet none of them jumped on this story as well as the political commentators on FOX.
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the same four that went undercover to "bust" ACORN were caught trying to wiretap the phone lines of a democrat politician. I find it funny that most of the threads in this section when it comes to news events are posted by conservatives yet none of them jumped on this story as well as the political commentators on FOX. welll didn't read it , didn't see it , don't blieve it . does this help you understand . |
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try opening up a newspaper...or watching real news.
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wasn't this like a week ago?
already old news |
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yes but where do i act like it wasn't? the point was...noone touched it.
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Post a link to the story so we can read it.
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I heard the news report. This is that little SOB named O'keefe that was the film maker that did the Acorn "Gotcha!" undercover videos.
Well guess what? The little basterd F'd with the wrong people now and got his little azz busted trying to F with a senators phone lines. He is a sneaky little F and I would kick his azz if he ever tried to pull his sneaky little tactics on me. Well now he has committed a serious offense and the FBI is on his azz. I hope they throw him away for at loeast 10 years, which is what the little F may be facing for his crimes. Maybe some of the bros will punk him out in prison. See what his butt looks like when he gets out. Sorry for the vent.....I hate sneaky people.  |
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From the Christian Science Monitor
Atlanta In his cape-wearing turn as a pimp in his undercover ACORN sting, James O’Keefe had cast himself as a new kind of conservative crusader, using the Internet bullhorn to tear down what he saw as liberal prejudices. But Mr. O’Keefe’s arrest for allegedly trying to tamper with the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana Monday will have consequences, not only for O’Keefe but also for the new brand of conservative muckraking he sought to pioneer. That movement has taken a hit, and the incident may chill future investigative efforts against liberal targets, some conservative journalists say. Indeed, many conservatives who had lauded O’Keefe’s work on the ACORN story – in which he showed that some workers of the left-leaning community organizing group were willing to help prostitutes avoid taxes – distanced themselves from the video-producer. Michelle Malkin said O’Keefe got “carried away.” Fox News commentator Glenn Beck said O’Keefe had entered “Watergate territory.” Others went further, suggesting that O’Keefe was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to incite a revolutionary fervor. "It turns out [O'Keefe] is a lot more like Che Guevara than Woodward and Bernstein," says Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Until now, O’Keefe’s tactics were borderline ethical, but undeniably effective, media experts say. In attacking ACORN – an organization created to help the needy, O’Keefe turned on its head the classic journalistic maxim: comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The result was lots of Internet traffic, TV coverage, and even action in Congress, which stripped ACORN of federal funding. But O’Keefe’s alleged phone-tampering attempt at Senator Landrieu’s office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans goes too far, says the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., which aims to counterbalance the perceived left-leaning bias in the media and where O’Keefe had worked and trained. “There is a responsible way to creatively generate a story or an incident which challenges the left in an ethical, yet aggressive way,” Steven Sutton of the Leadership Institute, told Politico. “Then there’s the other way, where you cross the line – and we teach people not to do that – and you expose yourself, whatever organization you’re affiliated with, and the people that you’re associated with to a deserved and justified backlash.” MediaMatters, the liberal media watchdog group, took a predictably harder line on O’Keefe and the movement he came to symbolize. “Vilification is the driving force and facts are optional,” Eric Boehlert writes. O’Keefe was certainly ambitious. The topic of a now-canceled speaking appearance in Utah was "[O'Keefe's] national expose of ACORN's unethical behavior, his changes in Congress, and how [he will] inspire our party's passion for a grassroots comeback." “Don't just respond to news, but actually create your own headlines,” O’Keefe said in a recent interview posted at a website affiliated with the Leadership Institute. But he dropped clues that he knew that his passion for conservative muckraking could get him in trouble, too. He told Mr. Beck last year that he’d be willing to go to jail for a story. In the FBI affidavit, O’Keefe admits to planning the operation and the men admit they entered Landrieu’s offices under false pretenses. The unanswered question, so far, is whether this was part of a broader Watergate-style conspiracy. An NBC report suggests that O’Keefe was merely trying to verify allegations that Landrieu's office was being deliberately unresponsive to constituents on the issue of healthcare reform. It has turned into a cautionary tale. “For now, let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism,” wrote Ms. Malkin on her blog. “Know your limits. Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting.” http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0128/James-O-Keefe-and-Landrieu-gate-Whither-right-wing-muckraking |
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Maybe some of the bros will punk him out in prison. See what his butt looks like when he gets out. Sorry for the vent.....I hate sneaky people. I don't realy care so i don't think I'm going to be a racist when i say this , but why is it that white guys allways hope some black queer well rape every body that goes to prison . surly some of them aren't queer . |
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try opening up a newspaper...or watching real news. well if it happened all I got to say is sorry but I have got use to your other post and am not inclined to give creditably to what you say . |
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From the Christian Science Monitor Atlanta In his cape-wearing turn as a pimp in his undercover ACORN sting, James O’Keefe had cast himself as a new kind of conservative crusader, using the Internet bullhorn to tear down what he saw as liberal prejudices. But Mr. O’Keefe’s arrest for allegedly trying to tamper with the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana Monday will have consequences, not only for O’Keefe but also for the new brand of conservative muckraking he sought to pioneer. That movement has taken a hit, and the incident may chill future investigative efforts against liberal targets, some conservative journalists say. Indeed, many conservatives who had lauded O’Keefe’s work on the ACORN story – in which he showed that some workers of the left-leaning community organizing group were willing to help prostitutes avoid taxes – distanced themselves from the video-producer. Michelle Malkin said O’Keefe got “carried away.” Fox News commentator Glenn Beck said O’Keefe had entered “Watergate territory.” Others went further, suggesting that O’Keefe was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to incite a revolutionary fervor. "It turns out [O'Keefe] is a lot more like Che Guevara than Woodward and Bernstein," says Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Until now, O’Keefe’s tactics were borderline ethical, but undeniably effective, media experts say. In attacking ACORN – an organization created to help the needy, O’Keefe turned on its head the classic journalistic maxim: comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The result was lots of Internet traffic, TV coverage, and even action in Congress, which stripped ACORN of federal funding. But O’Keefe’s alleged phone-tampering attempt at Senator Landrieu’s office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans goes too far, says the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., which aims to counterbalance the perceived left-leaning bias in the media and where O’Keefe had worked and trained. “There is a responsible way to creatively generate a story or an incident which challenges the left in an ethical, yet aggressive way,” Steven Sutton of the Leadership Institute, told Politico. “Then there’s the other way, where you cross the line – and we teach people not to do that – and you expose yourself, whatever organization you’re affiliated with, and the people that you’re associated with to a deserved and justified backlash.” MediaMatters, the liberal media watchdog group, took a predictably harder line on O’Keefe and the movement he came to symbolize. “Vilification is the driving force and facts are optional,” Eric Boehlert writes. O’Keefe was certainly ambitious. The topic of a now-canceled speaking appearance in Utah was "[O'Keefe's] national expose of ACORN's unethical behavior, his changes in Congress, and how [he will] inspire our party's passion for a grassroots comeback." “Don't just respond to news, but actually create your own headlines,” O’Keefe said in a recent interview posted at a website affiliated with the Leadership Institute. But he dropped clues that he knew that his passion for conservative muckraking could get him in trouble, too. He told Mr. Beck last year that he’d be willing to go to jail for a story. In the FBI affidavit, O’Keefe admits to planning the operation and the men admit they entered Landrieu’s offices under false pretenses. The unanswered question, so far, is whether this was part of a broader Watergate-style conspiracy. An NBC report suggests that O’Keefe was merely trying to verify allegations that Landrieu's office was being deliberately unresponsive to constituents on the issue of healthcare reform. It has turned into a cautionary tale. “For now, let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism,” wrote Ms. Malkin on her blog. “Know your limits. Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting.” http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0128/James-O-Keefe-and-Landrieu-gate-Whither-right-wing-muckraking Thank you. He did something illegal and should pay for it. Maybe it will be a lesson learned for some that think they can do what they want to try and get answers. There are legal ways to get information. I would think he could have gotten the phone records legally and researched more into the allegations of being unresponsive. |
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Looks like they were not trying to tap the phones but none-the-less their actions were no different than the dirty deeds squads during Nixon's reign.
The perps have ties to the GOP and were promoted by FOCKS noise as honest journalists...yeah OK....go figure huh? |
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"Basel and Flanagan attempted to gain access to Landrieu's office Monday while posing as telephone repairmen. The two men were "each dressed in blue denim pants, a blue work shirt, a light green fluorescent vest, a tool belt and a construction-style hard hat when they entered the Hale Boggs Federal Building," according to a news release from the local U.S. attorney's office.
After they entered the building, the two men told a staffer in Landrieu's office they were telephone repairmen, according to the release and an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes. They then asked for -- and were granted -- access to the reception desk's phone system. O'Keefe, who had been waiting in the office before the pair arrived, recorded their actions with a cell phone, Rayes' affidavit said. Landrieu said Thursday that the four men had "embarrassed themselves and their families." In a statement released by her office, the Democratic senator also called claims by the men's lawyers that their clients were trying to embarrass her staff "a clear and calculated effort to divert attention away" from the crime itself." http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/29/senate.office.arrest/index.html?iref=allsearch Posted on 1/29/10, this a new development |
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i just saw on CNN they are all claiming to be innocent and stated they weren't trying to phone tap the lines. I ask...what were they doing dressed as phone company employees? And then stated..they were merely trying to record phone calls to show that the office ignored calls from constituents...ummm isn't that what wiretapping is? What morons.
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