AP’s investigative unit produces an appropriate criminal investigative report today on the background of the Republican Party operatives — and there appear to be more than just four — behind James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart’s “TeaBugger” operation at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) office in Louisiana last week.
Compare and contrast that with the shameful, fawning 2,250 word Sunday New York Times article attempting to turn the accused federal felons into folk heroes.
And, again, as we have in our coverage to date, we’ll ask the following simple questions, among others, which everyone should be asking — loudly:
1) When will GOP operative/propagandist/con-man Andrew Breitbart tell his BigGovernment.com readers and Fox “News” dupes that he’s been lying to them, and that his employee James O’Keefe never appeared as a pimp in the offices of ACORN?
2) When will snake-oil salesman Andy release O’Keefe’s complete, unedited, illegally-obtained ACORN video tapes publicly?
3) Why hasn’t he done so already?
4) Could it be because two independent investigations found they were heavily-edited, likely illegally-obtained, heavily over-dubbed, and showed [PDF] “no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers”?
5) When will “Orly Taitz” Andy share the existence of Marcy “emptywheel” Wheeler’s evisceration of his employee O’Keefe’s failure of a cover story for the alleged Louisiana “TeaBugger” felonies with his own readers? He claims to be a “journalist” (ironically enough) decrying the “biased” “Liberal Media,” who selectively report things, right?
6) Why does GOP operative Andy think his employee O’Keefe should be presumed “innocent until proven guilty” as he’s tweeted time and again, when he’s shown no such benefit of the doubt for ACORN, ACORN employees, or even Gitmo detainees who may face punishment of death?
7) Why is ACORN itself “guilty,” according to Angry Andy, of something or other, based on what he believes their employees did, but faux “journalist” Andrew Breitbart, who admits accused felon O’Keefe is on his payroll, is somehow not “guilty” of anything?
There are, of course, many more such question that the cowardly and professionally-deceptive Mr. Breitbart won’t be answering. But I thought it’d be nice to give Andy — and perhaps the “Liberal MSM” — a chance to start ignoring the above right away.
P.S. We have sent the above questions to Andy, with a promise to post his answers in full here, if he cares to offer them. Unlike his political hit-man “Big” sites, we have no interest in being unfair to anybody here, and have no fear of sharing all sides of any story.
Let’s just sell The Times to Murdock and get this over with. Who’s gonna read it after this?
Yeah-I just read some crap in the SF Chron about the break-in that was clearly intended to obcure the facts-our ‘newspapers’ are obviously useful only for training puppies & lining birdcages any more. Didn’t bother to write. The Chron is going down like the Titanic. I only read it online & for the amusement value. As a former New Yorker, it is rather galling to know that the newspaper I grew up with is now a war-mongering rag, and even harder ro deal with is trying to talk to my venerable, liberal, semi-wealthy parents & try & break them out of the spell they arYeah-i just read some crap in the SF Chron about the break-in that was clearly intended to obcure the facts-our ‘newspapers’ are obviously useful only for training puppies & lining birdcages any more. Didn’t bother to write. The Chron is going down like the Titanic. I only read it online & for the amusement value. As a former New Yorker, it is rather galling to know that the newspaper I grew up with is now a war-mongering rag, and even harder ro deal with is trying to talk to my venerable, liberal, semi-wealthy parents & try & break them out of the spell they are under-the one where if it’s in the NYT, it must be true. Sad days.e under-the one where if it’s in the NYT, it must be true. Sad days.
At some point, hopefully in the very near future, ACORN should give serious consideration to filing a civil action in which they include Breitbart and O’Keefe as named party defendants and begin hitting them with subpoenas and scheduling their depositions. I suspect that these two are merely front men for the hard-right billionaires and Fixed Noise, who are behind over-the-legal line astro-turfing and dirty tricks.
Amazing to me they chose those numbskulls to do the job. You’d think with all the money they’re rolling around in they could afford to send in the CIA, right? Oh yeah, they screwed up the CIA & stabbed ’em in the back. Probably don’t have as many friends as they used to. PMS. So sorry my last post was messed up-this comment box sometimes obscures the text (fails to wrap) so I get to type blindm here’s what it should have said: Yeah-i just read some crap in the SF Chron about the break-in that was clearly intended to obcure the facts-our ‘newspapers’ are obviously useful only for training puppies & lining birdcages any more. Didn’t bother to write. The Chron is going down like the Titanic. I only read it online & for the amusement value. As a former New Yorker, it is rather galling to know that the newspaper I grew up with is now a war-mongering rag, and even harder ro deal with is trying to talk to my venerable, liberal, semi-wealthy parents & try & break them out of the spell they are under-the one where if it’s in the NYT, it must be true. Sad days.
Ernest…”suspect”?
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
Or the ‘scrota-bomber’ witness family site.
http://haskellfamily.blogspot.c...-has-been.html
Delta employee asked to throw a suitcase on a plane without inspection is fired after refusing and believing it was a setup. Nice.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,...582621,00.html
Actually, after getting through the Fake news link and going to the source, there is a lot more here. I think they were trying to get him smoked for something he did earlier. I Wonder what was in the suitcase seen as a supe asked him if he knew what was in there. Velly Interesting.
http://blackstarnews.com/news/1...010-01-07.html
James O’Keefe never appeared as a pimp i
How does that square with the progressive talking point that the Acorn employees were just humoring them as their “disguises” was laughably transparent.
The two investigations were not “independent” They were whitewashes
we have no interest in being unfair to anybody here
Which is why you use the term teabugger even after it turned out the wiretapping charge is pure fiction.
Paul L.
1. I never heard of that “progressive talking point”.
2. This has nothing to do with “progressive”, it’s about O’Keefe breaking federal laws and a media cover-up of it and not digging deeper and going higher up the chain.
War is peace.
Love is pain.
Join or Die.
Death to Tyrants.
Senator David Vitter was trying to get his choice for prosecutor in this case by barring others from the job, but now his guy has rescued himself.
It was on the Maddow show last night.
Nobody really needs your questions answered, do they? We all know the answer, it’s the same one.
Because there’s money to be made crafting the kind of “reality” people are willing to buy.
The fact that it’s bad for America is of no more consequence to them as telling a crack dealer drugs are bad. Whether they have a taste for their own product or not makes no difference, they’re doing it to make money. It’s not like any of these people, you name ’em, Hannity, O’Keefe”, Limbaugh, whomever, could make the kind of money they’re making and receive the kind of notoriety they receive, doing honest work, competing with honest people.
Like mobsters, or drug dealers, or the whore, these con men can only succeed doing things that are beneath most people.
This is genuinely the dumbest thing I have ever read. Congrats!
I watched this video and I cannot understand why you argue over the small things when the big thing is that this ACORN employee seems to be advocating child prostitution.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOL9Jh61S8