Undercover James O’Keefe Receives Surprisingly Warm Reception At Occupy Wall Street

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by Frances Martel | 8:15 pm, October 11th, 2011

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The New York twittersphere blew up yesterday afternoon as rumors began to circulate that conservative filmmaker/provocateur James O’Keefe had made a landing in their midst. It took only one day for O’Keefe to release a report of what he found. Despite posing as a banker in a disguise so transparent it made Clark Kent look like Lady Gaga, the protesters were by and large friendly to O’Keefe, offering him cake, and complimenting his suit, some with the objective of luring him into some sort of anti-capitalist get-rich-quick scheme.

The video, released by Breitbart.tv today, shows O’Keefe walking around the grounds at Occupy Wall Street unencumbered, approaching individuals and introducing himself as a Wall Street banker whose curiosity got the better of him. He is not welcomed enthusiastically, but certainly not kicked out, and the first person we see him talk to offers him cake. O’Keefe later tweeted that he considered their behavior “good-natured” because they wanted money from him, referring to the longest exchange in his video, where one individual attempts to convince him to invest in the “Constitutional World Federation”– some sort of anti-corporation corporation– and promised O’Keefe “billions and billions.” When O’Keefe thanks him for the opportunity and expresses pleasure to find a “fan of investing and capitalism,” the protester looks askance at him and corrects him on being a “fan of capitalism”– he’s just a fan of money.

While his arrival at the event was widely publicized on Twitter, where many were told not to instigate him, it is still surprising that he was, by and large, not confronted. While it is possible many people just didn’t know who he was, the fact that people can be seen photographing him from afar proves there were at least some elements that were well aware of his fame. But just because O’Keefe did not corroborate reports that the mobs were violent or catch them in any activity as insidious as his ACORN or NPR reports found doesn’t mean he didn’t make a stinging point against the protesters: at least some of them are willing to sell their hatred of capitalism in the free market, in the hopes of becoming the 1%.

O’Keefe’s report below:

[h/t Breitbart.tv]

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JamesYouToo1980

Where did he dock his rape boat?
carmen

Idiotic comment….
The_Reasonable_Lib

OH THE VIOLENCE!!!
JamesYouToo1980

Correction: “Seduction” boat.
SNAPTIE

O’Keefe,Totally Punks Occupy Wall Street. The anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street protesters had the nerve to ask James for investment capital. They wanted funding for the “Constitutional World Federation” Give me free chit, “Stupid people”
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Oooops, the author makes statements based upon ONE VIDEO ONLY.

Do you leftists NEVER learn from history?

I mean, it was only months ago! Wow the lack of memory is amazing in leftists!

Are leftists born without a history retention gene or something?
qwerty

lol
Anonymous

It looks like O’keefe is the one that got punked!!
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Oh, so the anti-capitalist protesters are actually crony-capitalists and in favor of making money after all.

Lord knows the numbers of people they’d gladly disenfranchise in doing so.

Pathetic, hypocritical, and yet, not surprising.
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Where did he dock his rape boat?

What did you think of this video?

Did you see the hypocrisy of these protesters laid bare?

Andy rational person does. Are you rational?
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Can I buy some pot from you?
Anonymous

Scott, David Koch here, I’m a little disheartened by the situation there. I can send you some troublemakers. beautiful beautiful!!
Luckyirishgoddess

James O’Keefe is a punk that got punked.
Hilarious!
Pablo

They don’t want to talk about that…at all. Anything but that, actually.

The spirit and intellect of the left…
Lloyd C

can I probe you with my finger?
whoislloydc@gmail.com
Lloyd C

why do you hide like a union contribution?

shouldn’t you be better than that?

whoislloydc@gmail.com
Anonymous

Well, well, he came out of his mommy and daddy’s basement for this? But first, did he get his probation officer’s permission to leave the state?
http://twitter.com/ZKWC Zoe Wiseman Clouser

Your grammar really needs a tune up.

It’s, “Do you leftists EVER learn from history?”

Is that an animal you butchered for your avatar?
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Scott, David Koch here, I’m a little disheartened by the situation
there. I can send you some troublemakers. beautiful beautiful!!

*DRINK

Koch Brothers mentioned.
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

What did you think of the protesters turning into crony capitalists in the video right before your very eyes?

Did you watch the video?
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Thank you, grammar police.

Tell us what you thought of the protesters in the video expressing their desire to be crony capitalists.
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

What was your reaction to the protesters’ hypocrisy in the video?
Guest

Dude…they have no intention of answering your very simple question….so I will for them.

Frankly, they are perfectly ok with the open advocacy of crony capitalism on display. The reason for this, is because the crony capitalism in question would be aligned with their poilitcal ideology. However, if it were to swing in the oposite direction, they would be climbing the walls in anger because of the “outrage”.

Anyway, thats how they roll…they were born without the ability to sense irony or hypocracy, and unfortunatly they are a libaility that the rest of us American’s have to carry.
Anonymous

look at these militant leftists, i bet they offered him a poison cake. LAWL
Anonymous

Let’s talk about how violent they were. I bet you can show me in the video clip where they tried to hurt or threaten him, huh pablo?
Farnsworth

What a load of gobbledygook
Hypocrisyjoe

The idea Jimmy O can still deliver such a report even after his time down there showed nothing to support it is evidence that he’s all about supporting his agenda more than he is doing any real kind of investigative reporting. Maybe he needs to hold protestors against their will on his boat in order to get the video he really needs.
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

Oh, you were finished? Well, then allow me to retort.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10-01/local/30252222_1_protesters-roadway-walkway

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048248/Occupy-Wall-Street-Thirty-arrests-Chicago-Washington-D-C-Bill-Clinton-hails-debate.html

http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2011/10/occupy_boston_protesters_undaunted_by_14.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44855382/ns/us_news-life/

http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/50-arrests-as-occupy-wall-street-protest-escalates-170372.html
http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

You spelled “the truth” wrong.
Farnsworth

Well then it’s lucky I have such considerate Mediaite chums to point these things out to me
Anonymous

These protesters are not legit.
Dan

Reminds me of the time I went to a Tea Party rally disguised as a muslim socialist and was greeted warmly with pie and coors light.
Anonymous

Oh you’re an idiot? again show me how okeefe was killed or beaten up during that video. You should put down the brush, you’ve already made enough broad strokes.
CarmanK

I want to know what the was the reason that justified O’Keefe going to WALL STREET to his probation officer. He was obviously there to stir up trouble and he certainly had not good intentions. the very fact he spent so much time with the single CON man, means he couldn’t do his normal chop job, so he had to settle for dull. Actually, he got a little of what he deserved: a dose of his own puffery and lies by someone who wanted the publicity or who spotted him as the SUCKER in the crowd.
Anonymous

one protestor out of how many? again, put the brush down picasso.
Go Navy

And the strawman cometh….LOL!
Go Navy

Free speech got you down again? That’s a shame.
Aryadne

That’s because this article is only about O’Keefe!!! Can your read or were you born without the reading retention gene?
Aryadne

Sorry but – and I’m no fan of O’Keefe – but O’Keefe punked that protester at OWS. But again it’s a case of one crazy dude making the rest of the masses look dumb.

Good job, O’Keefe, on editing out all the other people who didn’t take the bait.
Anonymous

Sounds like you don’t know what it means to be punked. Thats okay I will forgive you.
http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

Thanks for the grammar correction, sorry, I do not have a paid editor at this time.

Yes, I shot that coyote……………….with my Rebel camera. I only butcher animals I shoot with my Remington, not my Rebel silly.