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James O’Keefe Defends CNN ‘Sex Boat’ Caper And Racial Aspect Of ACORN Pimp Costume

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Tommy Christopher: Theres a couple of questions i’ve been meaning to ask you for a long time about some of your older investigations…on the Abbie Boudreau caper — where she was going to get standed on a boat filled of dildos — you said this plan was presented to you and you rejected it.

James O’Keefe: (Long pause) That’s right.

TC: My question is -there’s lots of emails that show people pitching the plan to you, but you haven’t produced any emails that show where you put the kibosh on it, when you said ‘no we weren’t going to do it’- do you have any of those emails?

JO: There are some emails but I think the thing is the thing that was presented to me was disgusting and it wasn’t something that i was going to do. I wasn’t going to do what was in that document.

TC: Why not put out the emails to show that you were disgusted and you weren’t going to put it out ?

JO: I mean, It’s not something that even happened, it’s not something I was planning on doing, so I’m not going to comment any further than that. It didn’t happen! You’re asking me about something that didn’t happen and I wasn’t going to do…

I’m showing you videotape of a professor at Rutgers University who is potentially and apparently willing to engage in a pay for play scheme and that’s what I want to talk about in this phone call, and I’m not going to talk about something I didn’t do and didn’t want to do.

TC: Izzy santa said you were waiting on the dock with a boat full of dildos and we’re taking your word for it that you weren’t, if there’s emails that say you didn’t do that why not produce them?

JO: I’m not commenting on it because its something I wasn’t going to do, and its something I didn’t do that — so I’m not going to comment on things I don’t do and didn’t intend to do when I have a video recording. I mean the truth of it, Tommy, is that people say a lot of things about me.

People say I wiretapped a senator — I mean, to this day, some of allies, some of your friends on Twitter say that I wiretapped a senator, when I have a federal judge and US attorney in writing saying I did not, so the moral of the story is that unless you catch James O’Keefe on tape doing something, and by the way — let me say this — this whole notion that I’m out to do nefarious things — I video tape everything that I do — do you honestly believe that I would do something like that on camera and put it on Youtube?

The whole purpose of my investigative techniques are to videotape myself and my colleagues in the course of exposing something and to publish it, why would I publish myself wiretapping a senator? Okay? Sometimes I use a false pretense — i used false pretenses in this investigation, false pretenses have been used by Dateline and NBC and To Catch a Predator and Primetime Live and 60 Minutes for decades, but this notion that I do all these nefarious things, I think you should think about it logically before you jump to wild conclusions and I’m not going to comment.

TC: I don’t have any questions about the Landrieu thing, you don’t want to talk about the dildo boat.

JO: I’m not commenting on things i didn’t do and didn’t want to do.

TC: In fairness, you talk about how everything’s videotaped, so again if you want people to believe that you weren’t going to do this dildo boat thing why not put out pictures of what was actually on the boat? I mean you admit there’s a boat, there’s a picture of you on a boat, let people decide, you don’t have to answer, it’s just what I wonder…

The other thing I wanted to ask you about the ACORN thing, I asked your friend Christian this a few years ago at CPAC, he didn’t really have an answer for me, so maybe you can answer it. You’ve insisted that the choice of the pimp costume for the ACORN investigations didn’t have a racial component to it and yet you told Sean Hannity that you were surprised that the people at the ACORN office believed you were a pimp because and this is a quote “I’m the whitest guy I know” — if there was no racial component to the suit, then why would you tell Sean Hannity that you were too white to be believed to be a pimp?

JO: I think you need to check your facts on that! I never told Sean Hannity that –I think that was Fox and Friends…

TC: you’re right, it was Fox and Friends.

JO: It was kind of a harmless thing, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show had a clip where he said ‘Oh james you don’t have to say you’re a white guy, you’re wearing your chinchilla costume over your andover uniform.’ I had a blazer and khakis on. It was a harmless comment meant to be you know — it was probably my naiveté — it was one of my first times on TV and it wasn’t meant in that sense. It was maybe trying to be cute, I’m wearing khakis, I’m a thin 25-year-old kid and I’m trying to be a pimp, you know, I don’t think it was meant to be anything like that.

TC: You could see how a person could reasonably think what you were saying there that a white person couldn’t be a pimp, even if that’s not what you meant?

JO: Well, I didn’t consider that because I was just, you know, on live TV wearing a costume — maybe that wasn’t even a good idea to begin with! But you know, we don’t play by the rules, you’re not supposed to go into ACORN dressed as a pimp. You’re supposed to go into ACORN investigating voter fraud and we went in investigating their willingness to help prostitutes.

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  • Anonymous

    Who knew Napoleon Dynamite was such a twisted pervert?!

  • Pablo

    You need a new obsession, Tommy. This one’s boring.

  • http://www.myspace.com/susanstephenson Sue Stephenson

    S-o  m-a-n-y  w-o-r-d-s ……..ZZZzzzzzzzzzz.

  • Pete Pitt

    I would use the word sad instead of boring.

  • Anonymous

    WOW, Tommy, face to face with pure evil.

    Rather than ask him about easily dodged questions of racism, which his defenders wouldn’t believe anyway, you should ask him why the people who get fired or in trouble from his “journalism” are always little people with no axe to grind with him.  His carelessness in destroying the lives of others is one of his worst attributes

  • Pablo

    Like those damned prosecutors, huh? Always putting the little people in jail…

    If they had nothing to hide, they’d have nothing to worry about. It the truth hurts, that’s your problem, Timmah!

  • JamesYouToo1980

    Boy, I have to admit I was wrong about O’Keefe.  I thought he was trying to rape the female CNN reporter.  I was wrong, it was just a prank.  We all know how funny it is to corner and video tape young women on boats with the intention of causing them to cry, begging to be released.  Ah, good times. 

    I should stop saying he tried to rape her.  It was more like guerrilla seduction.  Well, liberals have Edward R Murrow to look up to.  I guess conservatives will have this intrepid reporter.  No, not intrepid…whats the term for when you are super creepy with no morals?  I want to say skeezy.

  • Anonymous

    The cake pricing actually presents a very interesting concept.  While seemingly offensive, it asks the question, is it fair to change prices based on an attribute you cannot change?  Sounds like he should be praised of an interesting ethical question, not attacked.

    I’d suggest they use the eye color next time, since that’s how the old psychology experiment was done and creates the same interesting questions w/o the baggage and racial concerns..

    As to James’ racial issues, your evidence is pathetic yet your implication is severe.  

  • Anonymous

    some clerk with the Ohio State government has nothing to hide. A special ed teacher from NJ has nothing to hide. The Acorn workers had nothing to hide.

    Jimmy’s problem was with their organization and he gets the little people canned for misunderstanding, misinterpreting, or expressing the organization’s policy.

    God, your worship of this disgusting ratfcker is worse than your love of Limbaugh and Beck

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Don’t worry, James.  The conservatives above your post will defend the boat tactics as well. Just watch.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Yeah… you’re right.

    Those poor ACORN workers had no idea it was illegal to set up a teen prostitution ring with illegal aliens and then hide the earnings at six different ACORN offices in a row.
    O’Keefe clearly led them on.

  • Anonymous

    lmao….Tommy has always expressed his dislike for O’keefe. However, you can’t blame Tommy, O’keefe is an annoying criminal liar. Seeing that O’keefe has bee arrested for his “journalism” I wonder why some people actually support him.

     

  • Anonymous

    Oh, and I almost forgot;

    You are a racist, Pablo. (I am guessing that you still believe your slavery apologist lie that the first slave in America  as owned by a black guy)

  • wawoo

    And maybe the real shame is that his proposed kidnap and sexual battery was not realized so that he would now be in prison doing real service to minority interests.

  • Anonymous

    Tune in tomorrow for T.C.’s sixth story on the same topic.

    Perfectly rational in Liberalville .

  • wawoo

    And actually none of what you say is true.

  • Anonymous

    You’re of the lowest form of life when you constantly play the race card, Tommy.  It’s a loser.  You’re admitting defeat and ignorance.  

  • Anonymous

    Not sure many people would support  his boat issue.  I am sure this guy spends alot of time dateless. My pediction is that he will be in prison soon and not for bad videos.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds more like a personal vendetta then news!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Amato/692316541 Mike Amato

    You failed to report that O’Keefe was NOT dressed as a pimp while taping inside the ACORN offices:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21pubed.html?src=twr

    I know this article is critical of O’Keefe but it’s important to give all the facts to avoid perpetuating debunked myths.

  • JamesYouToo1980

    Are you talking about O’Keefe’s personal vendetta against journalists?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    LOL! Racial aspect? 

    You’re the racist Tommy. You have skin color on the brain. 

  • Anonymous

    Really …?Do tell.
    So when I actually saw ACORN workers telling O’Keefe some of the things he would need to do to set up a brothel of underage girls in a lengthy uninterrupted clip they weren’t really doing it…?

  • wawoo

    Does not exist as a real time, un edited representation of what happened. One more blatrant falsehood on your part.

  • Ralph

    It’s sort of surprising that the Acorn staff did not see such a costume as inauthentic.

  • Chuck, Sacramento

    Tommy’s smear crusade continues…   By the way, dressing like a TV parody of a pimp, how would Tommy suggest he dress?   For whatever reason, it seemed he intentionally dressed like a goofball 70′s TV show pimp, instead of say a hip-hop or gang-banger or car salesman…

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Why is it an “interesting concept?”

    –Cobra 

  • TruDat

    Liberals aren’t that bright.

  • Anonymous

    They told him it was illegal. In two of those offices, they called the police when he left.

    Still, instead of focusing on the right wing fascination with Acorn, focus on the New jersey school teacher or the clerk in Ohio or even Ron Scheller, whose comments were edited in a deceptive way.

    I won’t concede ACORN, but this is more than ACORN. it’s about an appalling lack of concern for the very people who enable this douchebag to produce his fake videos

  • Anonymous

    They told him it was illegal. In two of those offices, they called the police when he left.

    Still, instead of focusing on the right wing fascination with Acorn, focus on the New jersey school teacher or the clerk in Ohio or even Ron Scheller, whose comments were edited in a deceptive way.

    I won’t concede ACORN, but this is more than ACORN. it’s about an appalling lack of concern for the very people who enable this douchebag to produce his fake videos

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “Fair enough. It seems as though O’Keefe is expecting some benefit of the
    doubt here, and as he’s fond of saying, the viewers can decide for
    themselves.”

    We can decide for ourselves, Tommy. Most of us have decided that you’re full of shit, that’s why you’re on this pathetic excuse for a blog — if it weren’t for the comments section nobody would be here. You spent more than half of this story trying to call O’Keefe a racist without any proof whatsoever — and you’re such a coward, Tommy, that you didn’t even interview him about that. O’Keefe actually respects people’s intelligence, and knew that you’d grasp at straws to back up something you’ve already made a decision on.

  • Moderate

    When all else fails, play the race card.

  • TruDat

    Sounds like this Tommy Christopher dude (whoever the hell he is) strongly fears the superior journalism and effectiveness of James O’Keefe. 

    Christopher seems to be stalking O’Keefe in an effort to discredit him.  Was Tommy Christopher an ACORN employee or something?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Well that’s what Tommy Christopher does, perpetuate lies.

  • TruDat

    Simpleton Alert!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I miss Sarah Palin!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    He didn’t actually wear the obvious parody pimp costume when he did the sting operations. And his pimp costume was basically a chinchilla coat with cane and sunglasses over a blazer.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    what year is it? 

    i swear all of this has been hashed and rehashed so many times….

  • Anonymous

    That makes one of you.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    TC – Do you think Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Rod Blagojevich, Don Imus or Joe Biden are racist? 

  • Anonymous

    So many Zs. So little thought.

  • C’Mon Man

    That’s because he wasn’t wearing the pimp costume inside genius.  It was a set up, a ruse, a trick.  The video was heavily edited.  He’s being sued in federal court for over it. 

  • C’Mon Man

    Superior journalism?  So lying, editing, cutting and pasting and purposly ruining peoples lives to spread lies is “journalism”.  He is a criminal who has to get permission from a federal judge to leave New Jersey.  He’s being sued in federal court over his acorn BS.  “Journalism”… yeah right. 

  • One pissed off liberal

    Do you regularly climb mount denial, or is this new for you?

  • Anonymous

    Now that’s a picture worth a thousand words. lol

  • Anonymous

    The new opening of “Hannity and O’Keefe”.

  • Anonymous

    Who wrote the article Einstein??

  • Pablo

    Speaking of lying, here’s some now!

  • Cecelia

    I think it’s just that all of Tommy’s inferences of racism are beginning to blur together…

  • Pablo

    Facts aren’t racist, dumbass. Like the fact that the vast majority of slaves sent to early America were sold by other black men is not racist. It’s just a fact.

    If John Casor was not the first legal slave, who was? You say it’s a lie. Tell us the truth.

  • One pissed off liberal

    WTF are you talking about?

  • Pablo

    Why stop lying now? It’s working so well for you. *snicker*

  • Pablo

    Distributing benefits based on race, particularly as government policy is worthy of discussion.

  • Pablo

    Distributing benefits based on race, particularly as government policy is worthy of discussion.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Who is Tommy Christopher?  Is he O’Keefe’s cameraman?

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    No, he isn’t. And the full audio and full transcripts were released at the same time as the edited packages.

    So, why did ACORN fire all those people? And why are they out of business?

  • Anonymous

    In Tommy’s mind, EVERYTHING is racist.  Except him of course, which is funny since he seems to stereotype black people in about 197 different negative ways.  Tommy has no shame.  He embarrasses himself on a daily basis.  I kinda feel sorry for him.  

    RACIST!

  • Pablo

    Tommy’s greatest journalistic effort has been live-tweeting his heart attack. It appears that he’s working on an O’Keefe inspired sequel.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, you spelled ‘FOX” wrong on your little avatar thingy.  

  • Pablo

    You mean public servants who inject their agenda into their taxpayer funded jobs? *snif*

  • Cecelia

    With O’Keefe I think there is a “live by the sword, die by the sword” aspect to what he does.

    I think he’s done some real exposes, but they come with a certain taint to them.  A certain sense of stealthy belligerence. The sex toy thing was most emblematic of that.

    Partisan anger is fairly common today (Tommy obviously has his share), but when it takes the form  of a desire to fool, entrap, get over on and humiliate those awful others, it is hard for me to have a great deal of sympathy when that person is met in kind.

    Live by the sword, die by it.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Tommy Christopher for showing James O’Keefe to be the dishonest, low life charlatan that he is.  

    That kid just cant give a straight answer, or tell a simple truth.  He’s as dicey as a bag of frozen vegetables. 

    I dont know why any full grown adult would support that nimrod, and its really depressing that people Like sarainitaly, Pablo, tatboy etc.. all make such a concerted  effort to trick themselves into making his illusions their reality.  

    Its no wonder they are the direct heirs of the Moonies (who founded the “Washington Times?” Who signs Andrew Breitbarts paychecks there? Is it any surprise that a very deliberate self deception is such a daily practice for these rightwing nut jobs?) 

    (ir)Reverend Moon knew that it is one thing to brainwash others, but that its quite another to have them brainwash themselves on ones behalf.  Sarainitaly, Pablo, BigEddie and the rest, all indulge Moons lesson with gusto… they actually seem  proud of their ability to do just that.

    Looking at the world through such politically tainted eyes must be tiresome, so you know these kids are dedicated by their nonstop, knee-jerk assaults on the facts you have uncovered. 

    Nevertheless, I am glad you have opted to tell the plain truth about James O’Keefe, Tommy, and let that moron out himself for the liar that he truly is. 

    Also, You know you’ve struck a chord when you get an massive barrage of brainwashed rightwing fanatics flying off the handle as on the comments above.  

    Its a testament to the accuracy of your piece that you have so many dishonest busybodies (all with absolutely no sense of morals, fairness, etc…) caterwauling in politicized despair.  

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Pablo, check your email. 

  • Anonymous

    Whoah, it was O’Keefe who played the race card, not me. Read it again. He’s the one who said he was too white to be a pimp.

  • Anonymous

    I also didn’t say he was dressed as a pimp while taping inside ACORN. It wasn’t relevant to my question.

  • Cecelia

    I doubt  that even Tommy would term as “fact” the implication that the statement “I’m the whitest  guy I know” is perhaps suggestive of racial biases.

  • Rper

    Breitbart goon

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    talk about brainwashed….whoa.

    oh, and you didn’t answer me in the other thread, after your last unhinged rant - I am curious as to how many cats you own?

  • Anonymous

    He said “I’m the whitest guy I know”.  And, unless you live in a cave, you know what it means when somebody uses the phrase “he’s the whitest guy…”.  It typically means nerdy, preppy, straight-laced, often times a pu$$y.  Not exactly the traits you think of when you think about a pimp.  As usual, you’re stretching.  There’s plenty to hit O’Keefe about but as is your way, you over reach in your attempt to always call people “racial” or “racist”.  It’s a big problem you have and it removes all credibility.  

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    now…is that what he said TC? 

    You are accusing me of lying in another thread for altering your comment a hair, and you just altered O’Keefe’s comment, changing what he said.

    He said he can’t believe ACORN believed he was a pimp because he is like the whitest guy he knows. Haven’t you even heard of people saying, “he’s like the whitest black guy I’ve ever known” (a Carlton)?

    Being the whitest guy ever doesn’t always mean skin color, but attitude/way of acting/being. Just ask Eddie Murphy.

  • Anonymous

    No shit.  I haven’t seen this latest “Project Veritas” thing reported anywhere except Mediaite.  No one else seems to care about O’Keefe anymore.

  • Texan

    It wasn’t a “sex boat” it was a “rape boat” tommy! Stop carrying water for Fox News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Texan

    sock alert

  • Anonymous

    Liar

  • Pablo

    Poopyhead!

  • Pablo

    Or Allen West. Or Herman Cain.

  • Pablo

    I dont know why any full grown adult would support that nimrod, and its
    really depressing that people Like sarainitaly, Pablo, tatboy etc.. all
    make such a concerted  effort to trick themselves into making his
    illusions their reality.

    …and Congress and Obama and NPR and ACORN and…

  • NORBIT

    BREAKING NOW ON FOX:

    ACORN orchestrating – and channeling funding to –  the OWS revolts!

    The Democrats new slogan for 2012:
    VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

  • Mencius

    Yeah, she can really articulate the Right’s position well. 

    “Don’tcha ya know we need the freedom that people are having from way back in the day before the gotcha lamestream media started doing that thing that it is that they do because of their support of taxes which we need to get back to an economical level so that real Americans can… uh… send your checks to SarahPAC. Thanks, Greta.” 

  • Mencius

    It’s tough to read, eh? Have you tried getting a tutor? 

  • C’Mon Man

    Seriously dude, use the google.  He is being sued.  The reason people lost their jobs was because of the edited lies.  And he’s not only been sued over people losing their jobs, but acorn employees from 2 different states are suing him for recording and disseminating the recordings without their permission, in violation of their state’s laws.  It took months for the truth to come out, as the claims were being investigated in numerous jurisdictions.  At that point it was too late, damage was done.  The bell couldn’t be unrung. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    i was thinking of an old skit where he was talking about that kind of thing. it was hilarious.

  • JamesYouToo1980

    O’Keefe has a chip on his shoulder because the main stream media take him seriously.  So he likes to come up with convoluted schemes to take them all down a peg.  The incident last year with Abbie Boudreau, trying to get her on a boat and “seduce” her so she would end up crying and begging to be released.  Now his current investigation of journalism as some sort of shadowy institution out to destroy America. 

    Everyone hide, Sam Stein is drugging his sources to get information out of them!  Oh no!  Journalists use tactics and strategies while doing their jobs?  Dear God, someone stop these animals! 

    O’Keefe is jealous of “establishment” journalists because he wants to be as respected as they are.  But instead of starting from the bottom and working hard on the boring fundamentals, he wants to be some sort of cool Serpico reporter, standing up to the corrupt establishment.  I mean, the title of his series is “To Catch A Journalist”, similar to the TV series about catching pedophiles.  How subtle.

  • Anonymous

    legal slave? 

    1) Wasn’t John Casor’s owner a slave before owning slaves? Anthony Johnson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(American_Colonial)
    2) There were far more white slave traders in West Africa than black slave traders.Furthermore, the only reason why black slave traders existed was because the white slave traders realised that the best way to capure blacks in Africa was to use local Africans who knew the geography well. Show me where african tribes enslaved each other before white men went to Africa.
    3) Why do you always forget to mention the black slave traders who freed some of their black people who were captured? 

  • TruDat

    Apparently so, since the mainstream media (aka, liberal media) have been doing it for years.  Have you ever heard of Dan Rather?

  • kromecom

    It’s official: Pablo is no longer worthy of reply by any sentient being. You’d be caught up in Storm of Stupid if you engaged him. I’m serious about this folks. Ignore him.

  • kromecom

    O’Keefe is a Racist. Not all conservatives are racists. But the Dixiecrats certainly were and they now make up the GOP base. That’s not opinion. That’s fact. Read a history book!

  • Pablo

    No, Anthony Johnson was an indentured servant, not a slave. There’s a difference. He was free when he bought John Casor. There were no slaves until Anthony Johnson’s slave; John Casor.

    So, who was the first slave, if not Casor? You called me a liar. Tell us the truth. You posted the Wiki link to Johnson’s page, which completely agrees with me and not at all with you. Explain yourself, liar.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover
  • Pablo

    Full audio and transcripts were made public when the edited packages were. It didn’t take months for the truth to come out. Big Government published ALL OF IT right up front. You lie.

  • Pablo

    Of course, that’s the Working Families Party, an actual registered political party in New York (which is an ACORN offshoot) paying people to break the law.

    I’m SHOCKED!!!

    Does anyone know where Bertha Lewis is sleeping these days? I’m guessing it isn’t Zucotti Park.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    The sad part about your post? At a time, literally more than one decade into a true massive swayed allocation of American dollars, you find that “revolution” is something to joke about. Do not sleep on America during this day and age. We are a former producer turned total consumer. We have a debt to nations with better, yet sketchy, economic health. Debt which as of today, we couldnt pay if payment were requested. 20 years ago, countries with THIS type of character were considered “third world” or “banana republics” .. yet, YOU pick sides and scream DEMOCRATS as if you do not live in this same country. As if you looked at your last net worth and sat back happy with a liquid high six figures at your disposal. So JOKE about “revolution”. Be simple about it, as if it means ONLY bloodshed -because it doesnt. Make fun of slogans that should be the calling card for every American who has sat up -finally- and read the last 10+ years of american corporate-political history and realize that the change that is needed will be revolutionary change. 

  • Rmilter

    He did NOT wear the costume into the ACORN offices, the whole thing was an edited lie!

  • Anonymous

    Nobody truly cares about ACORN but FOX News viewers, and bitter conservatives that believe that Obama stole the election. 

  • Anonymous

    O’Keefe is in the history books?  Neat. 

  • Rmilter

    I think this was a very good article pointing out the inconsistencies and lies by a very hateful young man. This type of yellow journalism should be exposed, especially when Fox “News” takes this criminal liar seriously.

  • Anonymous

    “Early in 1620, Johnson was captured by slave traders in his native land of Angola and sold to a merchant belonging to the Virginia Company.[1] He arrived in Virginia in 1621 aboard the James. At this time he was known in the records as “Antonio, a Negro”.[2] Johnson was sold to a white planter named Bennet to work on his Virginia tobacco farm.”
    Anthony Johnson was a slave;
    1) he was CAPTURED from Angola….Indentured servans normally have agreements with guardian/father figure with their masters
    2) slavery in USA started in 1526…….a century before Johnson in 1620
    3) indentured servants had contracts of ownership for about 3-7 years. Johnson was free after 15 years.
    4) An indentured servant in 1620 is a slave by modern definition of slavery

    I just owned you!!! how does it feel? Racist.

  • Anonymous

    Dixiecrat’s make up the GOP base?  So, the GOP base is made up of 85 year olds?  That’s weird cuz I’m 34. 

  • JamesYouToo1980

    Pablo, you were right and I was wrong.  James O’Keefe is lucky to have fans like you to defend him against trolls like me.  How could I have jumped to conclusions when I heard the story about the “seduction boat” and that female reporter. 

    There is nothing wrong about what he did.  I remember hearing a story about how Walter Cronkite would trap young women on his boat filled with pornography, sex toys, and lotions, with the goal of humiliating them into crying and begging for him to return to shore and release them.  Classic journalism.  Of course, back then he had to use real porno magazines.  Not like these modern day reporters who trap young women on their boats with iPhones and laptops filled with porn.  But, times are a changing. 

  • Bware

    This goon is what passes for “field intelligence” in todays morally bankrupt far-right.

  • Rio

    I think he hears dog whistles at Sherwin Williams.

  • Rio

    rudeboy lives up to his name.  Johnson was an indentured servant that worked off his debt in four years,  later given farm land by Bennett.  Johnson then sponsored more indentured servants, freed all but John Casor.

    http://www.confederatecolonel.com/2010/05/the-anthony-johnson-story/

  • Pablo

    No, you didn’t. Johnson was free, and when he was indentured, he had a path to freedom. Casor was the first man legally judged to have no path to freedom. That made him the first slave. Duh.

  • Texan

    will you at least wipe your chin off?

  • Anonymous

    Rio is an idiot, where did he get the 4 years from? did he pull out that number from he behind? lmao. Also, “rudeboy” doesnt mean “a boy that is rude”

    As for you, Pablo, path to freedom is irrelevant…….A slave for 1 year is a slave for that 1 year. Anthony Johnson was not even an indentured servant by any standard- what made him an indentured servant? the duration of servitude? His arrival? His freedom? 

  • Anonymous

    Rio is an idiot, where did he get the 4 years from? did he pull out that number from he behind? lmao. Also, “rudeboy” doesnt mean “a boy that is rude”

    As for you, Pablo, path to freedom is irrelevant…….A slave for 1 year is a slave for that 1 year. Anthony Johnson was not even an indentured servant by any standard- what made him an indentured servant? the duration of servitude? His arrival? His freedom? 

  • Anonymous

    I agree. If people like O’Keefe played it a little bit straighter, there could be some value to what he does.

  • Anonymous

    No

  • Anonymous

    Who knew that all it took was Napoleon Dynamite to expose the loony liberal leftists?

  • TruDat

    Of course you and other liberal loons don’t care about ACORN; you losers love wasting taxpayer money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Funny how conservatives love to revile government…except when it relates to determining legal guilt or innocence. 

    The same government you guys won’t trust with anything else you’re totally willing to trust with prison terms and death sentences… 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Which “poor ACORN workers had no idea it was illegal to set up a teen prostitution ring with illegal aliens and then hide the earnings at six different ACORN offices in a row?”

    Something you guys keep forgetting is that ACORN was found NOT GUILTY. 

    But by then, it was too late, because O’Keefe had managed to ruin the organization. It’s the way conservatives handle businesses they don’t like. I see it all the time with trumped up “obscenity” charges lodged against adult stores. The goal isn’t to find an entity guilty, it’s to make it impossible for that entity to remain solvent and in operation.

  • Rio

    rudeboy, the four years is his amount of “servitude” under a system established within the English colonies where anyone who paid the cost of transportation for an indentured servant became eligible for land.  Workers that were imported agreed to work a number of years in return for their transportation costs, those importing workers…..because they desperately needed laborers in the new country……would get parcels of land for paying to import people, the more they paid to import, the larger their estates became.  At the end of Johnson’s service, Bennett also gave him farmland.  Johnson then began importing laborers, all were let go at the end of their service except one, John Casor:

    Johnson achieved personal and financial success before slavery had officially taken root in Virginia.  Indeed, it was Johnson’s court case against another black man, John Casor, which established slavery in Virginia and by that precedent, throughout the English colonies.

    http://www.biography-center.com/biographies/18370-Johnson_Anthony.html

  • NORBIT

    Pablo, I’m assuming Bertha Lewis was the Good President, that they kicked out?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    It’s really gotta suck that people only read your articles so they can comment on how much of a transparent hack you are.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Amato/692316541 Mike Amato

    Actually, yes you did. 

    “The choice of the pimp costume served multiple purposes in the ACORN videos…”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    And this is the ass hat claiming that Sam Stein is getting people drunk so that he can convince them to spill their secrets… 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Given that the ACORN staff never saw the costume, I don’t think it’s particularly surprising at all… 

  • Anonymous

    This remains a lie. A NJ teacher talks about her co-workers and that is a political agenda to you?

    You people are seriously Trotsky-ites/Leninist in tactics if not goals. EVERYTHING is politics

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    I’d like to see O’Keefe dress in something orange. A jumpsuit, perhaps.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Acorn  workers telling O’Keefe how to break the law. Acorn workers wanted to help O’Keefe set up a brothel of underaged girls. You can bet Acorn have been doing this for years.

  • Anonymous

    A pencil-neck geek.

  • NORBIT

    I’m glad to see you’re seriously engaged Ricci.

    There needs to be some fundamental changes to our system of government, particularly the self-serving, incestuous relationship between Wall Street and Washington; but the one thing that has destabilized our society, devastated generations (particularly in the black urban areas), and debilitated the human spirit taht personified this concept called America, is the Democratic Welfare State!

  • PaulG85

    I hate James O’Queef. That slut that he was hanging around with was hot. Hannah Giles I’m talking about, yeah. I’d love to find a video of someone punching him in the head.

  • Rio

    ACORN ruined that organization from within.  Lost in all the hoopla here is the fact that prior to these O’Keefe events ACORN was already in the hotseat.  The House Oversite and Government Reform Committee investigation found:

    Tax evasion, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting a coverup of nearly $1 million embezzled by Dale Rathke.

    Investment fraud, depriving the public of the right to “honest services,” and engaging in a racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce.

    Conspired to defraud the United States by using taxpayer dollars for partisan political activities.

    Submitted false filings to the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Labor.

    Violated the US Fair Labor Act

    and then there was the voter fraud issues across the country.  All the above was going on prior to James O’Keefe’s ‘gotcha’ journalism. 

  • Rio

    Juries of our peers determine guilt or innocence, a judge then sentences according to legal guidlines.

    I just served and the person should have gone to jail, of course,  prior offenses were kept from the jury, then I found out another same offense is pending.  This person is likely to get off on all three.

  • Cecelia

    I take the expression “I’m the whitest guy I know” to mean that O’Keefe was saying that he isn’t cool, hip, or street savvy, just how seriously should his pimp disguise have been taken.

  • Anonymous

    http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf
    Yes, edited transcripts were released. It says so right there in the AG’s report..dumbass. It was a condition for them getting immunity.
    They never went into the ACORN offices dressed as pimps. That was done later to make ACORN look even more reckless. It was good acting for the camera.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, it’s spelled that way for a reason, but thanks anyway.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re ok with staging a (fake?) kidnapping/rape/possible murder on an innocent civilian, and they’re the loony ones? 

  • Pablo

    God, this one’s stupid.

    LOOK THE TERMS UP.

    They mean different things. That’s why they’re different terms. You might want to crack a history book sometime too.

  • Pablo

    You sound afraid, Bunky.

  • C’Mon Man

    So if the transcripts were unedited, then why did the California Attorney General demand unedited video in return for immunity from state procution in CA?  Do you actually think the CA AG would offer such a sweet deal even though he violated CA law if the transcripts were “unedited”?  The very idea that breitart would offer unedited transcripts when they would destroy the entire narritave is completly laughable!  Go ahead and support these distorters and liars, but it won’t change the truth.  You lie.

  • Pablo

    Full transcripts and audio:

    http://tinyurl.com/3petpfw

    http://tinyurl.com/yesrm25

    http://tinyurl.com/3vknb8f

    http://tinyurl.com/3sfqttd

    They’ve been there from the beginning. I really don’t care what Governor Moonbeam has to say about it unless it’s under penalty of perjury.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah…I’m OK with that…It’s all good.

  • Pablo

    CEO of ACORN and Co-Chair of the Working Families Party.

  • Anonymous

    Tommy Christopher: King of the Useful Idiots

  • Anonymous

    Typical….defending a scumbag masquerading as a journalist. 

  • wawoo

    Ralphie, little boygirl James was not wearing his “Pimp” attire when he debased himself at the various ACORN offices.

  • Anonymous

    dont you just want to whip his ass

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I wonder if O’ Keefe actually considers himself a journalist or undercover reporter??

    Though, I’m sure he can’t even uncover what number comes after 4, who makes the “Big Mac” or if wire-tapping a Congress woman’s office is legal??

  • Nellie3ster

    Imagine having this twerp and his parents as neighbors…..peeping in your windows, causing trouble, evil mischief…. I so hope he gets exactly what he (and slurpy Breitbart, as well) deserves.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Sarahinitaly, 

    I am curious as to why you have absolutely no morals, no honesty or even any basic decency. 

    And as for “unhinged”, thats a pretty fancy word coming you. 

     Need i remind Cherisse that she tried to google and post as much ugly dirt as she could tease out about Mark McKim, (a private citizen whose business is NONE of your own) in order to twist out some hambone excuse for her political betters at Fox? 

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-and-friends-laments-publicizing-dui-record-of-unemployed-plumber-at-obama-beer-summit/

    You know Sarah, your behavior on that comment thread was not just unhinged, it was pretty freakin CREEPY.  

    There’s a really awful kind of person that engages in that kind of sleazy and snarky behavior, and you are just that awful sort of person, Sarah… it speaks to a very poor upbringing. 

    Were it not for the internet, you would be peering over wash lines and going through other peoples garbage. 

    For someone who spends as much time whining about what you think is “big government”, you spend a LOT of time tweezing out and posting personal info about private citizens for the sake of your meat headed political ideology.  

    McKim, Ploshnik, Vera, etc…, you just dont care, and you piss all over the 7th Amendment in the process. 
     

     You know Sarah, as someone who regularly reads this site, i have seen you and Pablo comment nonstop, all day long,  writing the exact garbage… for almost 2 years.    You do the same on other sites as well. 
     You spend almost every waking hour on here defending the indefensible, and vomiting out complete bs. 

    Ever come up for air?  
    Dont you have a life? 
    Dont you have a job? Or is this kind of lunacy it? ”Ad hominem”? Sure…, in the literal sense, “to the man”.  I am speaking to what utterly hypocritical and unconscionable behavior you and your pals make such a breathless point to express every day, hour by hour, with all the stamina of a fully charged meth head.  I dont care if you flag this or get me removed from posting, but you need know what a truly awful example of a human being you really are. 

    Do the world a favor, and try not to reproduce. 

    -Ta!

  • Anonymous

    Oh… and just so you know Cherisse, I am talking about your ugly behavior on the Mark McKim thread (which ranks among some of your more disgusting stunts)… i dont care about any other conversation you are having. 

    Look at yourself, and try hard to think about why you became so bitter and hateful. 

  • Bob

    O’Keefe is a known liar, a racist crook and has a hatred for women.In other words, he’s the perfect Republican.

  • Anonymous

    Try to grow a set, Bobbie.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    most normal, thinking, non race-baiting obsessed people did…

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    who is cherisse?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    why don’t you do yourself and just not read what I write? Why don’t you not spend so much time obsessing about me, and how I spend my day… You dare question my *morals* or *decency* yet have plasted how many posts on mediaite, now, attacking me. You don’t know me.

    I didn’t dig up any dirt on Mark McKim. I replied to a post by TC that discussed his DUI, and I rebutted one of his points in his post with a fact about where the story originated. 

    Why don’t you go back and read all of your posts where you devote countless words, making all kinds of wild accusations and attacks against me, and then apply your words to yourself. And you attack my parents, in your hateful little process… really? 

    You are the one with the problems, dear. Not I.

    Try not to reproduce? Seriously? You’re f*cking going there? Do you know ANYTHING about me, and my life? No, you don’t. So, I suggest you STHU.

    I try to contribute to the comment section on this board, and I disagree with the stories, but I am civil, and  try to stay on topic, and relevant to the posts. I engage with the writers on this site, and although TC gets mad at me at times, I think I debate topics, and don’t lob out insults unless attacked. 

    What the hell have you contributed? All I see are ad hominem attacks on the commenters here. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    And have they not been known to make racially insensitive comments at times, even been accused of *racism*…? 

    Yet, I don’t think any of them are racists. But we can certainly dig up racially insensitive comments they have all made, no?

  • Anonymous

    you are punkin. 

  • Anonymous

    Look Cherisse, your words are on the record.  

    They are as plain as  day, easy to cite,  and the behavior they represent is absolutely abominable.  Back in the 50s, they would call you a “nosey busybody”, and thats putting it delicately. ”Creepy little snit with no moral backbone, or sense of fairness” is more appropriate. 

    Its fine for you to talk about “ad hominems” when you make a daily practice of smearing people you dont even know (like McKim, Vera, Ploshnik, Russel, etc..) just as a pathetic gesture on behalf of your political betters at Fox News or Big government.com.  (“Contributions” you call it?  Please! its just 101 percent garbage hon, and you stink to high heaven from it.) It really does take an awful sort of person to use google to tweeze out and post as much dirt as you do on PRIVATE CITIZENS  who you have never ever met.  And for what reason? Dirty dishonest politics! You have spent the last two years making a daily practice out of being that very awful sort of person.  If you had any sense of decency, you would be very ashamed of yourself (and if you had a life, you would find something better to do.)  Pat Robertson was right…, you right wing freaks are your own worst enemies.  Your behavior is so depraved, you are just scaring people away from your cause. The high horse on which  you put James O’Keefe looks really ugly to normal citizens (and your creepy google searches into other peoples private lives is even worse)… no sane person would want your brand of cynical lunacy.  Look, I am just holding up a mirror to your face Cherisse… even if you dont like the hideous rash that you see, you still need to hear this. Now i’ll leave you to spy on the vegetarians down the street, so you can cook up some dirt about them. And again, please do the world a favor, and try not to reproduce. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Yes, my words are on record. And as you will see, I did as I said:

    “I didn’t dig up any dirt on Mark McKim. I replied to a post by TC that discussed his DUI, and I rebutted one of his points in his post with a fact about where the story originated.”

    If you think all those google links are about Mark, you obviously did not read my post, or look at the links. These are news stories about OBAMA.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-and-friends-laments-publicizing-dui-record-of-unemployed-plumber-at-obama-beer-summit/#comment-333597790

    So, like you said, my words are there. You are a liar. 

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-and-friends-laments-publicizing-dui-record-of-unemployed-plumber-at-obama-beer-summit/#comment-333627641

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-and-friends-laments-publicizing-dui-record-of-unemployed-plumber-at-obama-beer-summit/#comment-333648796

    Yes, you, my dear, are a liar. And you contribute nothing but personal attacks. 

    “right wing freaks”? LOL!

    Yea…and I’m the one with the problem. *eyeroll*

    Sorry, but you are filled with hatred. Your words are there for all to see.

  • Anonymous

    Ok, but which inherently lazy ass race was it that demanded that slaves?  If there wasn’t a demand, then there wouldn’t have been a supply.  That’s the same old bullsht that the Anglo-Saxon uses to absolve himself of any guilt as far as slavery is concerned.  “Don’t blame us, the Africans forced the slaves on us”.  “We were prepared to do the work oursleves.”  Yeah right

  • Anonymous

    Your words are clear as day Cherisse…, dont lie, and try to clean them up to make yourself look like a hero.  

    You post with all the pompous righteousness of a one woman Jerry Springer audience. And you go after private citizens like an obese, couch bound, slow-moving lynch mob glued to the computer monitor. 

    Its grotesque and creepy. 

    You should be ashamed. 

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