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James O’Keefe’s Latest Project Alleges Journalistic Corruption; Targets HuffPost’s Sam Stein

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James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas appear to have a new institution in their sights with a new hidden camera video project titled “To Catch a Journalist: Part One.” The video is first in what appears to be series, and is superficially successful in raising questions about Jeff Keefe, a Rutgers professor who appears to offer to kill an economic report if it would help defeat an anti-collective bargaining vote in Ohio. O’Keefe also aims to smear The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, but falls far short of the mark.

Keefe is currently an assistant professor at Rutgers University who, according to his profile, specializes in “state and local government public employee compensation, employment levels, dispute resolution, particularly interest arbitration, health benefits, and pensions.”

Via a recorded telephone conversation with someone described by O’Keefe as a “Project Veritas decoy,” Keefe appears to offer to kill an economic study if the research were to be unfavorable to the underwriter, the “Economic Policy Institute.”

O’Keefe specifically alleges that the Rutgers professor offered to kill “an economic study in a pay-for-play deal in order to defeat SB5,” which is an Ohio anti-collective bargaining bill. The video depicts a conversation that appears to support this allegation, which Keefe later defends to Christian Hartsock, a partner of O’Keefe’s in Project Veritas. While the video looks damning, given O’Keefe’s track-record of questionable editing (regarding his initial Pimp/ACORN stunt and his NPR funding scam), a healthy dose skepticism is never a bad idea.

The second part of the undercover video alleges that Sam Stein — who is a well respected White House correspondent for Huffington Post and frequent contributor to MSNBC’s Morning Joe — is guilty of getting his sources drunk so that he can get good stories from them. Stein refutes the story, and tweeted his followers, shortly after receiving the call from O’Keefe, “James O’Keefe just called to ask if i get my sources drunk in order to get their scoops… I’m usually drunk. not my sources though.”

It should be noted that O’Keefe, in confronting Stein about the alleged drinking, isn’t himself completely honest in his question. Stein’s journalism professor said that Stein “goes out drinking at night with people,” never saying that he “gets sources drunk.”

“Saying that Sam goes out drinking with sources in DC is like saying he goes out breathing with them,” said Tommy Christopher, a colleague of Stein’s, and a frequent critic of James O’Keefe. “People let their guard down in social situations. Stop the presses!”

O’Keefe’s modus operandi is to bait criticism with an edited initial release, then put out what he claims are “unedited” transcripts and clips, which often refute some of the criticisms, but still don’t add up to what they’re presented as. It appears, though, that whatever thread he’s pulling on with EPI, his gratuitous smear of Sam Stein could seriously undermine his findings. We shall wait for Part 2 to see what emerges.

Until then…watch the video below, courtesy of Project Veritas:

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  • Pablo

    O’Keefe lies! Sam Stein and journalism have nothing to do with each other.

  • Guyoxim

    At least he doesn’t live in his mom’s basement, like little Jimmy.

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    Wow, there’s your headline….People Talk When They Drink.  He’ll likely get a Peabody Award.

  • Anonymous

    Man, Republicans are so dumb you could sell them red shit on a stick, they wouldn’t question it even after a full meal with a sign that reads “ATTENTION: YOU ARE EATING SHIT AT THIS VERY MOMENT”.

  • Michelle

    Great response Levi!

  • Anonymous

    I’m dumber for having read this.

  • Pablo

    When someone gets a trick pulled on them, they can’t wait to pull it on someone else.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, who still listens to O’keefe the criminal liar?

  • Michelle

    Mediaite hangs on his every word.  And what exactly did he lie about?

  • Michelle

    Is that possible?

  • Rufus Danegro

    He lied about everything, much like you do, and most conservatives.

    How your Rev Wright?

  • Anonymous

    You sure are witty for an old hag.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Not really.

  • bd

    Evidence of ignorance:

    Whoever wrote the transcript of that telephone conversation, and allowed for it to be published, wrote “publish or parish”. “Publish or parish”?!?! That doesn’t mean anything.

    It should be “publish or perish”.

    Morons!

  • bd

    also “contrary” is apparently spelled “contraru”…who wrote this transcript? jeez.

  • Anonymous

    as part of the media okeefe’s  job is to help shape public opinion, and decide what news is important to be reported

  • Chayal Boded

    @ dufus and suck-down must be females cuz MEN are taught to be gentlemen, even when they disagree. Apparently you two twits weren’t raised “right” by your mommies. Only other females can be so catty and miserable.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    Isn’t this O’Queaf dude a convicted felon?

  • Anonymous

    James O’Keefe, like Andrew Breitbart, is a professional racist.  That’s why Republicans love him,.

  • Chayal Boded

    Really!?!?!? You got the nerve to puke that with a pic of the Obaminator as your avatar?  Too funny, even for an obvious clueless mouth breathing obambie. Pathetic.

  • Chayal Boded

    Still trying to sell that meme polly? Well keep squawking like the parrot you are, the rest of teh libshits that inhabit this blog love to hear it, they somehow get all warm and moist over it as if it is going to mean or affect something . . . Curious creatures your average moonbat libshit.

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    And O’Keefe is different than Michael Moore…..how?

  • Anonymous

    If O’Keefe took a tax break, he would own up to it, but when Michael Moore does it, he rails against the system that he benefits.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Which is why you jumped in. We got it!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    journalistic corruption is likely the EASIEST charge to prove either way.  I’m sure he’s got the goods, since it seems such an easy, easy target.  Ditto with the academic fraud.  All pathetic, but also pretty darned obvious…   

  • M Colins

    Colby Hall has done what all apologists for the Left do which is to repeat the MSM narrative on O’Keefe that he “selectively edits” his videos.

    First of all, all video which finds its way into news stories has been edited to one degree or another, “Selectively” is used to purposely mislead because arbitrarily editing video would be moronic and pointless. What has been allowed to stand is the impression that the editing done by O Keefe has changed the actual truth of the encounters in the investigations he has done, which they have not.  Starting with the ACORN stings O’Keefe included complete video and transcripts along with the shortened edits. This charge has been refuted but the Left continues to make the charge because they know certain people will dismiss his reporting out of hand.
    This whining about editing is literally the last refuge of people who have been caught red handed.

  • Chuck, Sacramento

    Spin all you want but though O’Keefe needs to learn the value of defensive editing his exposing of liberal corruption has led to numerous factual and systemic problems such as Acorn and NPR.

  • Anonymous

    Just the facts. Republicans hate facts.

    Are you still pretending to be an ex-Marine or something?

  • lazzzlo

    Democrats would have made sure the sign identified every aspect of the signage while tacking on usage, city, county, state and federal tax fees.

    Most normal people recognize sh*t on a stick.

  • lazzzlo

    Democrats would have made sure the sign identified every aspect of the signage while tacking on usage, city, county, state and federal tax fees.

    Most normal people recognize sh*t on a stick.

  • Anonymous

    Rutgers will be investigating the first half, that’s going to be very embarrassing.  The ‘getting sources drunk is a bit silly, as Colby notes, but that’s because journalists don’t have standards.  I mocked it a first, too, but the I realized.  That’s why we all know the media is lousy.  In what other profession is doing your job while drinking the ‘norm’.  Any other profession from machinist to doctor to lawyer, you’re fired.  For journalists, its funny.   

  • lazzzlo

    I think it is almost impossible for a journalist to write without injecting their opinion.  The days of a reporter acting as a camera are over.

    As a news consumer I’ve adapted and enjoy the theatrics and pretzel logics of the authors as they justify their screed.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Good point.  Acknowledging that O’keefe lives in his basement, I ignore everything that he exposes regarding corruption on the left and continue on my oblivious way….how bout you?

  • Pit Boss

    “Only other females can be so catty and miserable.”

    Is that how you justify knocking them over the head with a wooden club and dragging them back to your “man cave” by their hair?

  • Bware

    O’Keefe is a clueless Andrew Breitbart goon. Nobody with half-a-brain takes these people seriously.

  • One pissed off liberal

    I like to make unsubstantiated, opinionated declarations about people who I disagree with too!  Watch!
     
    Man, Democrat are so dumb you could sell them red shit on a stick, they wouldn’t question it even after a full meal with a sign that reads “ATTENTION: YOU ARE EATING SHIT AT THIS VERY MOMENT”.
     
    And because I said it….that MAKES IT SO!   Cool.

  • lazzzlo

    He is very raw.  Some of what he has done has hit the mark.  Other times it has been questionable.  I’m not to old to appreciate the agent provocateur.

  • Anonymous

    It should be noted that O’Keefe, in confronting Stein about the alleged drinking, isn’t himself completely honest in his question. Stein’s journalism professor said that Stein “goes out drinking at night with people,” never saying that he “gets sources drunk.”

    It should be noted that Colby Hall, in attempting to cover for Stein, isn’t himself completely honest in his reporting. Stein’s journalism professor said “I stay in touch with Sam. He goes out drinking at  night with people…You get some booze in people and suddenly the stories floooooww”.

  • Anonymous

    delete

  • Anonymous

    You don’t know much about lawyers, do you?

  • Anonymous

    disqus fail

  • Anonymous
  • Pit Boss

    Michelle, your favorite Mormon agrees that selective editing is rampant in O’Keefe’s bullshit videos and many of his edits are outright lies: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/

  • One pissed off liberal

    If he is a criminal liar, why aren’t you leftys supporting him hook, line, and sinker?

  • Anonymous

    That little pathetic, wanna-be Agent OO7 reminds me of a stink bug.  And you know what we do with them. .

  • One pissed off liberal

    Are you still pretending to be the Minister of Information from Saddam’s defunct Iraqi Army?

  • One pissed off liberal

    Please refer to the numerous examples on this page of people who know what is being exposed, but convince themselves that clever “editing” makes what they see false.
     
    It is a good example of willfull dillusion.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Well grounded point backed up with unarguable facts.
     
    Not to mention the fact that numerouse congressional investgations and the reallocation of millions of federal dollars have not resulted from his stings.
     
    You are smart not to take this seriously and even smarter when you ignore the obvious things his videos reveal..   

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    O’Keefe would be more properly animated as ghost than man. With his penchant for hiding around corners and in shadow he operates as a simple specter self titillating through the surprise of others.  

  • wawoo

    What body did he pea on?

  • lazzzlo

    Foreigner?  I thought we were supposed to be on the same side.

  • One pissed off liberal

    TRANSLATION:  I hate the fact that this scrawny little nobody has picked up a camera, and with a little bit of imagination, has embarrassed and exposed the depth of corruption in the liberal institutions that I support.  I also hate the fact that now I cant accuse right wingers of corruption without them responding with video evidence of liberal corruption to counter my unfounded accusations.
     
    Because of this, I want to inflict physical harm to him:   END TRANSLATION

  • One pissed off liberal

    TRANSLATION:  I hate the fact that this scrawny little nobody has picked up a camera, and with a little bit of imagination, has embarrassed and exposed the depth of corruption in the liberal institutions that I support.  I also hate the fact that now I cant accuse right wingers of corruption without them responding with video evidence of liberal corruption to counter my unfounded accusations. Because of this, I want to inflict physical harm to him:   END TRANSLATION

  • Anonymous

     ”Starting with the ACORN stings O’Keefe included complete video and transcripts along with the shortened edits.”

    What color is the sky in your world?   O’Keffe only gave up the unedited tapes to avoid prosecution in New York and California and was found to have heavily edited the tapes while ACORN was found to not have committed any wrongdoing.

  • Anonymous

    Look out! Little Jimmy O’Keefe has escaped his parents’ basement! Maybe he’ll try to lure someone onto his dildo-filled boat again

  • One pissed off liberal

    GREAT!  So please describe where on those unedited transcripts does it show that what O’keefe portrayed in the edited video was clearly a lie.

  • Anonymous

    That was yesterday!

  • C’Mon Man

    Weaksauce.  This was debunked a week ago.  This tool tried to target EPI and Policy Matters Ohio, and Sam Stein reported it.  Now he wants to go after Stein.  This douche needs to go find an honest job and stop inventing faux outrage for breitbart.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/james-okeefe-economic-policy-institute_n_1015845.html

  • Anonymous

    Well, if you crush them you aren’t too bright =P

  • Anonymous

    Are you spooked?

  • Pablo

    At least he doesn’t live with his mother-in-law, like Obama.

  • Pit Boss

    Brought up on felony charges. He pleaded down to a misdemeanor and got 3 years probation.

  • DCBorn

    Here we go again from another brilliant liberal.  When you can’t say anything intelligent, resort to juvenile sexual comments. What is with you people?

    Note:  Those that can, do.  Those that can’t, talk about it.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He is no major specter… More of a cold chill that launches out of corners at petting zoo’s… Less fear inducing than real things.

  • Pit Boss
  • Anonymous

    Nice spin, but the truth of the matter is that he turned over the full copy and transcripts in Exchange for immunity from prosecution. The editing included O’keefe showing himself in the video to be wearing a flamboyant pimp suit when in fact he was wearing a shirt and tie. He failed to show the three Acorn employees who blew him off, threatened to call the cops, or just kinda made fun of him.
    This guy is a hack. I’m sorry that he’s on your “team” and it makes them look bad, but sticking up for him just makes you look bad.

    http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7780&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

  • Pablo

    Wrong. The full audio and transcripts were posted at Big Journalism when the stories broke. They’re still there.

    http://tinyurl.com/yesrm25

    http://tinyurl.com/3vknb8f

    http://tinyurl.com/3petpfw

    http://tinyurl.com/3sfqttd

    Stop lying.

  • Pablo

    Well, that explains Congress and NPR.

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    Keefe?  Probably his own.

  • Norbit

    James,
    You’ll have a field day with the press.

    Forget about undercover, most of your research can be done right online, through reports of the Bias Bile the Mainstream Media Spews at Conservatives, Republicans, and non-complying blacks and hispanics on a daily basis!

  • Anonymous

    Vivian Schiller hangs out at petting zoos?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Ahhh… the ol’ “Hijack the hastily constructed analogy” trick.  Hope you are doing well Oxy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Patti/1293008607 John Patti

    I love how Mediaite discounts O’Keefe. It’s not like the guy is responsible for bankrupting ACORN and neutering NPR. It’s all about the ‘questionable editing” LOL. I don’t think in my lifetime that I’ve seen a news broadcast that wasn’t edited. But because it is a successful conservative journalist- the picture liberals paint is “questionable,” and “stunt.” 

  • Pablo

    They were already released. You fail, as did Jerry Brown’s office.

  • Anonymous

    Well, well. It looks like the person who is still serving three years of federal probation has emerged from his parents’ basement. At least now, I now what I will wear for Halloween. I intend to buy a captains hat from my local marina and fill a bag full of sex toys.

  • Anonymous

    Kinda like Big Dog Bill.

  • Anonymous

    350 lbs

  • Anonymous

    You must have the word racist tattooed on your nose just so you can remember to use it when you have run out of common sense. Which is all of the time.

  • Anonymous

    That could be true, I don’t have the time or interest right now to fact check it, so I’ll give it to you. It still doesn’t change the fact that this guy is dishonest in the extreme. If James O’Keefe was a liberal doing the exact same type of stunts I couldn’t even see Michael Moore having the balls to defend him. Every conservative on this board would be going nuts ripping him to shreds. Why waste your time circling the bandwagon around this doof?

  • Anonymous

    I really want to buy James O’Keefe a drink.  Call me!
    September 11, 2009

    http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=2945

    Shockingly, he is the first to rush to O’Keefe’s defense!  What’s a fanboi to do, eh, pablo?

  • Anonymous

    to be fair, he could live anywhere in New jersey he wanted to.

  • Anonymous

    To do so, little Jimmy would have to establish an intimate relationship with another human and there is no proof he can do so. No wonder you love him

  • Anonymous

    No, she’s not old.  She’s just dumb

  • Anonymous

    I’m betting, on this site alone:  Michelle, Pablo, Good Lt, seek…..and a host of lesser wingnuts. 

    Look who they follow: a  drug addicted momma’s boy, a former shock jock, this criminal….these are the people who think Clarence Thomas told the truth and who think Ollie North is a hero.  Of course, they believe everything this serial liar says

  • http://twitter.com/jmb2612 jmb2612

    expose corruption? More like lie, take things out of context, mislead people and selectively edit videos to put words in peoples mouths.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-blaze-finds-that-the-npr-%E2%80%98sting%E2%80%99-video-used-%E2%80%98questionable-editing-tactics%E2%80%99/

  • Anonymous

    Convicted of crimes?  Solid record of willful dishonesty.  Attempted rape of CNN correspondent?

    But, if you mean they are both polemicists, then you’re still wrong.  O’Keefe’s joy is lying his way into people’s trust where he edits their comments in ways that get his victims fired.  Ohio government clerks, ACORN peons, NPR fund raisers…..wherever he goes he ruins lives. 

    Roger never got fired

  • Anonymous

    Three different organizations found O’Keefe’s ACORN videos were misleading:  The California AG’s office, the Brooklyn DA, and the Congressional Research Service all found O’Keefe deceptive.  Way to not know

  • Anonymous
  • One pissed off liberal

    “I don’t have the time or interest to fact check it”
    “It still doesn’t change the fact that this guy is dishonest in the extreme”
     
    Umm….yes it does dude.  Maybe you ought to find the time and interest to fact check something you render an opinion on so you don’t sound like such a blithering fool.

  • Anonymous

    Is your requited or has he taken out a restraining order?

  • lazzzlo

    Great point, we can be divergent.  It is simple to set up a baseline.

    I know that personally I piss off a fair amount of people that “like” me.

  • Anonymous

    no, he doesn’t.

    Or sales.  My friend was the VP of a travel company and they “expensed” huge bar bills when they were trying to get resorts to join the program

  • Anonymous

    Why would you demand facts from him and not from the conservatives you keep fellating?

    More important, since you are as liberal as I am conservative, why don’t you change your nomme de plume to “angry white person” or some similar thing

  • Anonymous

    Get your Schillers right

  • One pissed off liberal

    So, let me get this straight.  Your link provided to prove that he is a liar is an opinion article written on mediate?
     
    I have a suggestion, why don’t you look at the actual transcript instead of adopting what people tell you you should think, and decide for yourself whether the “edit” job perpetuated a lie, or just removed useless video time?

  • Anonymous

    Ask O’Keefe what was intelligent about what he tried to do to a CNN reporter.  Instead of, you know, getting mad at someone who has read the guy’s MO.

    http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-29/us/okeefe.cnn.prank_1_hannah-giles-undercover-videos-james-o-keefe?_s=PM:US

  • Anonymous

    how is NPR neutered?

  • Anonymous
  • Cecelia

    Michelle, did you see the opinion piece about Mormonism in the Washington Post?

    It’s quite moving.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • One pissed off liberal

    What the hell does this have to do with the question of whether or not O’keefe’s editing perpetuates a lie?

  • One pissed off liberal

    Thats pretty racist to assume I’m white and pretty homophobic to use the term “fellating”.  Stereotype much?  Of course you do…your a liberal.

     

  • Anonymous

    read it and you tell me

  • Anonymous

    I can spell too.* It’s spelled “you’re.”

    By the way, if you think “liberals” are streotyping racists and homophobes, why do you call yourself one?

    PS Learn what the word “rhetorical” means

    *entertainingly, I cannot type well

  • Anonymous

    No “dude” it doesn’t. Carry on with the anger and the head in sand though.

  • Pablo

    Are you stalking him too, Timmah!? I have no idea what his personal relationships are. Do you?

  • Pablo

    Do you have a point? I appreciate a job well done. It’s not like I’ve spent years chasing him around the internet grinding my tiny little axes. Stop projecting. 

  • Anonymous

    If I were, I would run into you…

  • Pablo

    What we really need is a good community organizer.

  • Pablo

    Wrong. Why do you make things up?

  • Pablo

    Hey, it could take a really long time to figure this out! You’d have to scroll at least a page up to find the links I posted to all of it.

  • Pablo

    You’re such an angry inch, Timmah!

  • Anonymous

    Is it the voter suppression of the poor that excites you, pablo, or the destruction of mortgage access to the poor. In fact, what is your main beef with the poor getting housing and voting?

  • Anonymous

    beats a collection of drug addicts and criminals. I mean, Harvard trained lawyer, teaching part-time at the U of Chicago law school (a top 5 law school, no less) sure beats a college drop out who learned how to suck up to the rich when he was Jeff Christy and telling people “to take the bone out of your nose and call back”.

  • Anonymous

    Are you excited over voting for Mitt, yet?

  • Obeezy

    He is North Korean, what do you expect.. He would defend Hitler if he was alive

  • Bob

     O’Keefe, the guy arrested for fraud and trying to hack a senator’s phone line, is accusing somone of being corrupt? LOL

  • Bob

    You guys really hate America, don’t you?

  • Bob

     because we have ethics, unlike the Republican Party, who makes heroes out of crooks like Little Jimmy and Ollie North.

  • Anonymous

    Somebody is going to find that kid in a pair of cement shoes one day.

  • Anon

    of course he could get a date…to rape

  • clever

    And you know he lives in his mom’s basement how? I am assuming you live in your mom’s basement so you assume everyone does. For your information living in basements is a liberal thing I myself have never met anyone other than a liberal who freeloads off their parents. This is not sarcasm but my own experiences.

  • clever

    We all know how fair and balanced Mediate is.I know when I want facts I always come here so that what ever they write I know to believe the opposite.

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

    Given that Obama is the President of the United States and lives in the White House, I believe it is more accurate to say that his mother-in-law lives with him and his family. 

    Oh, the scandal!

  • clever

    I think the housing crisis is the problem with mortage access to the poor dumbass.

  • Anonymous

    Please do your own homework.  You’ve already been pwned in respect to some of your questions.  Stop being lazy and do the research yourself OR just add

    #notintentedtobeafactualstatement

    to your posts so that we know you aren’t interested in truthful statements re James O’Keefe and his “ethic”.

  • Pablo

    Not at all.

  • Rper

    OKeefe is one of cybergoon Andrew Breitbart’s henchmen so this has zero credibility.

  • Pablo

    No problem with voting whatsoever, as long as they’re voting legally. As for mortgages, people who can afford them should be able to get them, Timmah! But that’s not so easy these days, thanks to the work of ACORN and the like.

  • Pablo

    Thanks for making stuff up, Bob! There’s not a single fact in your comment.

  • Pablo

    I don’t plan to. Are you excited to vote for Hopenchange II, Timmah!?

  • Pablo

    Those are what we call “opinions”. ACORN’s onw investigator, former MA AG Scott Harshbarger had this to say: “They said what they said. There’s no way to make this look good.”

    http://tinyurl.com/yfoq3dp

  • Anonymous

    Why aren’t Colby’s opinion pieces labeled as such?

  • Vols86

    u know what they call a guy that still lives with his mom and thinks someday he might get to drive the car? Shit on a stick–J. O’

  • Pit Boss

    James O’Keefe, who is best known for bringing down the community-organizing group ACORN by posing as a pimp, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully entering federal property, but he avoided jail time, according to reports.
    O’Keefe and three others werearrested earlier this year when they entered the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) disguised as telephone workers, in an alleged attempt to tamper with the senator’s phones and determine whether she was ignoring constituents’ calls. They were initially arrested on felony charges, but the charges were reduced today to entering a federal building under false pretenses — a misdemeanor.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006067-503544.html

  • Anonymous

    Yup, only liberals live in their mum’s basement, I learn so much from cons like you and Blow’Keefe

  • Anonymous

    When even Beck is on a con’s case, he has a problem

  • Anonymous

    So a man who routinely uses disguises and deceptive practices himself is worried about corruption?

  • Anonymous

    Next thing you know he will be telling us to respect his authoritah!

  • Anonymous

    Let him tell her to find a place on her own and see what happens…

  • Anonymous

    No, I don’t hate America. I just don’t like people who want to tear it down like you. Big difference.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    Not a liberal in the bunch, right.

    LMFAO

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    No one is suppressing the votes of the poor. The votes of our service personnel overseas is another story.

    The poor can’t afford mortgages, which is why they don’t get them. Unless of course you count all those toxic mortgages that Fannie and Freddy pushed through with Barney Frank’s blessings. If you can’t be depended upon to pay the payments, why should you be entitled to own the property?

    Back to voting rights, your friends at ACORN committed voter registration fraud on an unbelievable scale in 2008, but that didn’t suppress the poor’s voting rights. The New Black Panthers intimidated voters at the polls but that didn’t suppress the voting rights of those people now did it?  Oh wait, I guess it kinda did, but the Attorney General won’t prosecute that case. Selective law enforcement because the perps were black and the victims were white… gee, that just doesn’t seem right, now does it?

  • Anonymous

    So are you the token race baiter here?

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    The New Black Panthers are Obama’s pals. The AG said that he wasn’t going to prosecute them because they are one of us.

    “TMP”

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    ddod, he’s another resident idiot here.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

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    liberals with ethics! That is the funniest thing I have heard yet!

    Like Ted Kennedy had ethics?

    Damn, Bob, you are one funny guy.

  • Anonymous

    That’s funny, I don’t see anywhere in The Constitution that being a lawyer is a prerequisite for being President. Maybe that’s the biggest part of the problem – most of the power wielding elite in DC are lawyers.

    Shakespeare was right.

  • Anonymous

    How many of those organizations that expressed that opinion are supporters of liberal agenda items?

    All of them. Of course they don’t like O’Keefe – he is dangerous to them.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    And Barney Frank and Charlie Rangle.

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Ted was caught running down the beach stark naked at 3 in the morning bombed out of his mind.

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha and Barney Franks lover being the head of Fannie (Herb Moses). Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Michael Moore does the same damned thing, but you guys just love him. There is not one bit of difference except the side of the argument they are on.

  • Anonymous

    Including that guy in San Deigo who lost his job by doing the right thing and listening the their BS, collectiong as much information as possible and calling the police on the pimp and Ho’ because they we talking about people smuggling in his office.

    Who care if a few people get hurt along the way, he was exposing a massive threat to our way of life that ACORN posed by helping poor people vote.

    Courageous journalism indeed.

  • Anonymous

    This is one of Timmah’s favorite tactics – he buries you in documents and does the duck and dodge hoping you won’t take the time to look it up. Most of the time he does this the documents tend to refute his claims but he is counting on the diversion.

  • Anonymous

    yes of course it was an opinion piece not backed by any facts: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/
    Check again moron.,

  • Anonymous

    Selectively quote much?

    This hidden camera controversy is an apt example. While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers. Instead, the videos represent the byproduct of ACORN’s longstanding management weaknesses, including a lack of training, a lack of procedures, and a lack of on-site supervision.

    What was the point of your love for this “sting”?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, unfortunately they are coming out of the woodwork lately.

  • Anonymous

    Given the nutballs and plutocrat servants running against him? Gladly

  • Anonymous

    don’t get mad just because okeefe is being petty and vindictive for having been exposed by stein: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/james-okeefe-economic-policy-institute_n_1015845.html

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, lost of proof that the FBI and state agencies investigated the actions of ACORN. Congress pulled its funding, and it filed for bankruptcy.

  • Anonymous

    If he doesn’t self destruct he stands a decent chance of becoming a respected (or feared) journalist.   Although he’s hit on some major stories I think he’s still basically an amateur pretending to be a 60-minutes producer. 

  • Texan

    rofl

  • Anonymous

    Colby says…”We shall wait for Part 2 to see what emerges.”

    No Colby, we shall not.  

    I am sick to death of habitual liar James O’keefe and all the attention you so called “media critics” lavish upon him.  Its like you have nothing better to do with your time. 

    I am tired of a dishonest, deranged, and idiotic delinquent like OKeefe smearing innocent people with his BS.  And I am sick of self proclaimed “journalists” and “bloggers” constantly polishing his turds for him.   

    You guys are enablers… and what you are enabling is immoral, dishonest, and flat out stupid. 

    Ask yourself Colby, how much coverage did Mediaite dedicate to the filibustering over the Zadroga Bill, and how much does it dedicate to a spoiled brat like OKeefe, with his politically orchestrated lies. 

    I am so done with it.

    At least some writers know how to report basic, provable facts without trying to get all titillatingly tabloid about it. 
    http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/09/27/40086.htm

  • Anonymous

    Quote: “Acorn–Helping poor people vote.”  What?

    How about a drug dealer getting busted by an undercover “Narc?”  After all, the dealer was only feeding his, um, family…What?

    Hmm, from the 1930s to the present, Communist/Socialist States have posed undercover stings in order to garner information from America and the West.  (Lately, we’ve seen Islamists engaged in similar activity.)  For instance, Alger Hiss was a very high ranking State Dept. Official who kept his status as a Soviet Spy, incognito.  But, in that instance, I am sure was copacetic to your ideology, hence, the deception was acceptable?

    STEVE, you typify the Communist/Socialist mentality, meaning, “the ends justifies the means,” as long as it is your “ends.”  I suggest that Socialism is a “pathology.”  An ideology that can rationalize the “liquidation” of some for the benefit of the many, is psychologically and/or socially underdeveloped.

    You demonstrate such by your hypocrisy and rationalization in your above post.  Furthermore, STEVE, I don’t like you or your ilk.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    purveyor of Swill,What are you talking about? Alger Hiss, undercover Narc and 1930 Communist/Socialist States? you sound crazy.

    Here is a little background of what my comment was about. The “Journalist” O’Keefe edited the “reporting” to fit his agenda and screwed over this guy. So he is take the slander and the “news” outlets that played the tapes without checking if they were true to court. 

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/San-Diego-ACORN-Worker-Sui-by-Gustav-Wynn-100710-717.html

    You demonstrate you willingness to place ideology and party over country and reality.

  • http://twitter.com/DreadfulPenny81 Melissa E.

    Actually, what’s said on the tape by the professor DOES imply that Stein at least uses material from these drinking sessions for stories. The professor said that when people get enough liquor in them, the “stories just flow”. Whether Stein buys the drinks or not doesn’t matter, but if he uses quotes or stories from these drinking sessions, it becomes of a question of his ethics and integrity as a journalist.

  • Anonymous

    There was once talk of putting “cement shoes,” so to speak, on Woodward and Bernstein.  All depends on whose Ox is being gored, doesn’t it?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    I guess it all depends on whether, or not, it is your “Ox that is being gored.”

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Good work, MELISSA,  I agree with you.  A sworn neutral Jury would have to agree also.  I’ll leave it at that…    

    Nice to make your acquaintance.

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    LoL   (good one, if I have to say so myself)

  • Anonymous

    They do, can’t you tell?

  • Anonymous

    I was going to use the rope analogy but because O’Keefe is such a pencilneck you’d have to use string.

  • One pissed off liberal

    I hate the 20 or so percent that want to turn it into a socialist Eutopia.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Blow Keefe? 

    OMG that is both clever and witty.   You took O’keefes real name, and changed the “O” to “blow” (wich rhymes of course) in order to to turn it into a sexual inuendo.

    I remember I used to do that in the sixth grade….it was so funny then too!

  • Anonymous

    Nobody wants to tear it down. But when Obama came into office with what Bush and the GOP left him, the economy, Iraq War, I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.

  • One pissed off liberal

    Don get mad because the only places you can find anything in print to support your dulusional lunacy is the huffpo, MSLSD, and KOS

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

    “Saying that Sam goes out drinking with sources in DC is like saying he goes out breathing with them,” said Tommy Christopher, a colleague of Stein’s, and a frequent critic of James O’Keefe. “People let their guard down in social situations. Stop the presses!”

    So…Tommy said it’s like breathing air, and Sam denies he does it. Which is it?

  • One pissed off liberal

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    And Eric Holder!

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  • One pissed off liberal

    “Look who they follow: a drug addicted momma’s boy”

    Please dont talk about about the President that way…he has snorted “blow” in quite some time.

  • One pissed off liberal

    “Pwned” huh?  I see you finished your homework and the parents are letting use the computer now.

    Why do you review the transcripts in their entirety, then tell us all where editing lead to a falshood?

    Mkay….then after you do that, that you can make the sophmoric claim that I am “pwnd”…ok little boy?

  • One pissed off liberal

    I did…..it says nothing about it.  Maybe you can point out the page slick?

  • One pissed off liberal

    “Carry on with the anger and the head in sand though. ”

    Says the guy who openly admits he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JYVAWGBIPKD6KM34635KNVLVGQ Lee

    It’s fools like you who put the clown we have in the white house there. Enough said. Case clossed.

  • Anonymous

    Bash Bush, Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush,Bash Bush…

    The economy was the Congress’ responsibility – the same Congress that failed to pass a budget for two years in a row. After three years your Bash Bush routine is wearing thin. So why don’t you try to put the responsibility where it lies instead of this tired old shuck and jive routine? I know you learned this in the Media Matters academy, but it doesn’t work with people that have graduated junior high school.

  • Anonymous

    So much of liberal arts content is just left wing advocacy. One example is that despite every objective measurement-graduation rates, physical abuse, learning disabilities that favor girls over boys-”research” asserted girls were being discriminated against in schools. So it is not surprising that a professor would offer to squelch any finding not favorable to progressive Democrats.

  • Anonymous

    excellent

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