Filmmaker Who Targeted ACORN Arrested in Alleged Senate Phone Scheme

[Coyote]

We used to wait and have a trial, get a verdict and that kind of thing before we sent people to jail. I guess finding the truth is no big deal to you, huh? If he's been arrested, he must be guilty.

Make an ass of yourself much?

Sounds like retaliation to me. Fuck with Obama's minions, find yourself in prison.

Retaliation?

Catching them in the act of committing a felony is retaliation?!

Good grief ...

I'm amazed at the apologists.

 

[Coyote]

There's something really strange about this.

Why was O'Keefe taping them going into Mary's office? If all they wanted to do was plant a bug (I doubt it) why videotape it?

Also notice how the FBI got involved with this far far far far quicker than say with the Fort Hood shooter

Well duh! Of course they did. The Fort Hood shooting was first and formost a military matter - their jurisdiction and it took some time before they were even able to figure out who the shooter was and what exactly was going on.

An amateur attempt to tap a representatives phone - caught in the act - is cake by comparison. Kind of like old Jefferson and his frozen money - hard to talk your way out of the obvious, but they all have their apologists

 

[SFC Ollie]

Phone closet is nothing more than hundreds of color coded wires. Without the color code you would have no clue which wires went to which room, let alone which phone, or even fax machine, or dedicated computer line. My bet is those guys had no clue as to the color codes in use. Unless they also broke into the DCO (Dial Central Office).

 

[Ravi]

Props to Bobby Jindal

"That office represents the United States senator who was elected by the people of Louisiana," Jindal said. "I don't care what your politics are ... we need to respect the law."

Gov. Bobby Jindal condemns alleged infiltration of Sen. Mary Landrieu's office | Louisiana Politics & Government - - Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News - NOLA.com

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Palin/Jindal 2012

 

[Jay Canuck]

Limbaugh offers his "wild guess" about "what O'Keefe was doing"

 

[L.K.Eder]

Phone closet is nothing more than hundreds of color coded wires. Without the color code you would have no clue which wires went to which room, let alone which phone, or even fax machine, or dedicated computer line. My bet is those guys had no clue as to the color codes in use. Unless they also broke into the DCO (Dial Central Office).

could any of these wires hit you on the head? i mean, i am not dissing you. i am just saying that the hard hat disguise was as convincing as the pimp disguise. i guess they watched too much A-Team. wait, is this still running?i pity the fools.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Phone closet is nothing more than hundreds of color coded wires. Without the color code you would have no clue which wires went to which room, let alone which phone, or even fax machine, or dedicated computer line. My bet is those guys had no clue as to the color codes in use. Unless they also broke into the DCO (Dial Central Office).

could any of these wires hit you on the head? i mean, i am not dissing you. i am just saying that the hard hat disguise was as convincing as the pimp disguise. i guess they watched too much A-Team. wait, is this still running?i pity the fools.

The point I'm making is unless they knew the color codes, getting into that closet would gain them absolutely nothing. Believe me without the map it is nothing but a multicolored spaghetti mess.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Wrong yet again Ollie.

Grey, red, blue, yellow. How hard is that to remember? Had an Interior Communications Specialist (Navy telephone person), explain it to me.

It's not so much the wires that are the problem, just hook in alligator clips, but.......you DO realize that most Federal offices have digital communications, right?

Stay in the brief case business Ollie, you don't have the intelligence for a real job.

 

[Article 15]

Wrong yet again Ollie.

Grey, red, blue, yellow. How hard is that to remember? Had an Interior Communications Specialist (Navy telephone person), explain it to me.

It's not so much the wires that are the problem, just hook in alligator clips, but.......you DO realize that most Federal offices have digital communications, right?

Stay in the brief case business Ollie, you don't have the intelligence for a real job.

Ahem ...

Programming phone switches and installing phones is what I did when I was in Iraq. Ollie has a point ... depending on the size of the comm room it could be a huge pain in the ass to find a specific phone line on the wall especially without a map.

These idiots aren't that bright.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Wrong yet again Ollie.

Grey, red, blue, yellow. How hard is that to remember? Had an Interior Communications Specialist (Navy telephone person), explain it to me.

It's not so much the wires that are the problem, just hook in alligator clips, but.......you DO realize that most Federal offices have digital communications, right?

Stay in the brief case business Ollie, you don't have the intelligence for a real job.

Ok dumbass, how about the red pair with white stripes? Or the blue and green pair of wires?

Ft Bragg war room has over 500 pairs of wires each with a different color. Sorry but it's not as simple as grey red blue yellow.

And of course they have digital communications. But the individual pieces of equipment still have to be wired into the system somewhere.

I don't know what these guys were doing and I doubt that they knew either. You sure as hell don't know. 22 years in the signal corps I think I know a little more than your navy telephone person.

You think I spent 22 years doing nothing but courier missions? LOL What a loon.

 

[Intense]

Limbaugh offers his "wild guess" about "what O'Keefe was doing"

Do You two shop together? You look related Jay. Maybe It's just the glasses.

 

[Article 15]

Wrong yet again Ollie.

Grey, red, blue, yellow. How hard is that to remember? Had an Interior Communications Specialist (Navy telephone person), explain it to me.

It's not so much the wires that are the problem, just hook in alligator clips, but.......you DO realize that most Federal offices have digital communications, right?

Stay in the brief case business Ollie, you don't have the intelligence for a real job.

Ok dumbass, how about the red pair with white stripes? Or the blue and green pair of wires?

Ft Bragg war room has over 500 pairs of wires each with a different color. Sorry but it's not as simple as grey red blue yellow.

And of course they have digital communications. But the individual pieces of equipment still have to be wired into the system somewhere.

I don't know what these guys were doing and I doubt that they knew either. You sure as hell don't know. 22 years in the signal corps I think I know a little more than your navy telephone person.

You think I spent 22 years doing nothing but courier missions? LOL What a loon.

The remember having to wade through the main room at Pope.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Wrong yet again Ollie.

Grey, red, blue, yellow. How hard is that to remember? Had an Interior Communications Specialist (Navy telephone person), explain it to me.

It's not so much the wires that are the problem, just hook in alligator clips, but.......you DO realize that most Federal offices have digital communications, right?

Stay in the brief case business Ollie, you don't have the intelligence for a real job.

Ok dumbass, how about the red pair with white stripes? Or the blue and green pair of wires?

Ft Bragg war room has over 500 pairs of wires each with a different color. Sorry but it's not as simple as grey red blue yellow.

And of course they have digital communications. But the individual pieces of equipment still have to be wired into the system somewhere.

I don't know what these guys were doing and I doubt that they knew either. You sure as hell don't know. 22 years in the signal corps I think I know a little more than your navy telephone person.

You think I spent 22 years doing nothing but courier missions? LOL What a loon.

The remember having to wade through the main room at Pope.

Never worked out at Pope. (flew out of there a few dozen times) But my platoon supported Corps Rear for about 18 months. And that's when I had to learn what had to be operational in the war room. I had microwave, and satellite hookups to where ever troops were deployed and had to run the phone and data lines for the war room. 2 switches on hand. one hot and one programed and ready as a back up. Along with of course my own little specialty the good old fashioned patch panel.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Limbaugh offers his "wild guess" about "what O'Keefe was doing"

And you think Obama and Biden are executive material...go figure

 

[Intense]

In his cape-wearing turn as a pimp in his undercover ACORN sting, James O’Keefe had cast himself as a new kind of conservative crusader, using the Internet bullhorn to tear down what he saw as liberal prejudices.

James O'Keefe walks out of the St. Bernard Parish jail in Chalmette, La., Tuesday. O'Keefe, a conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN, is one of four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans.


.But Mr. O’Keefe’s arrest for allegedly trying to tamper with the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana Monday will have consequences, not only for O’Keefe but also for the new brand of conservative muckraking he sought to pioneer.

That movement has taken a hit, and the incident may chill future investigative efforts against liberal targets, some conservative journalists say.

Indeed, many conservatives who had lauded O’Keefe’s work on the ACORN story – in which he showed that some workers of the left-leaning community organizing group were willing to help prostitutes avoid taxes – distanced themselves from the video-producer.

Michelle Malkin said O’Keefe got “carried away.” Fox News commentator Glenn Beck said O’Keefe had entered “Watergate territory.”

Others went further, suggesting that O’Keefe was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to incite a revolutionary fervor.

"It turns out [O'Keefe] is a lot more like Che Guevara than Woodward and Bernstein," says Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.

Controversial but effective
Until now, O’Keefe’s tactics were borderline ethical, but undeniably effective, media experts say. In attacking ACORN – an organization created to help the needy, O’Keefe turned on its head the classic journalistic maxim: comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The result was lots of Internet traffic, TV coverage, and even action in Congress, which stripped ACORN of federal funding.

But O’Keefe’s alleged phone-tampering attempt at Senator Landrieu’s office at the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans goes too far, says the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Va., which aims to counterbalance the perceived left-leaning bias in the media and where O’Keefe had worked and trained.

“There is a responsible way to creatively generate a story or an incident which challenges the left in an ethical, yet aggressive way,” Steven Sutton of the Leadership Institute, told Politico. “Then there’s the other way, where you cross the line – and we teach people not to do that – and you expose yourself, whatever organization you’re affiliated with, and the people that you’re associated with to a deserved and justified backlash.”

MediaMatters, the liberal media watchdog group, took a predictably harder line on O’Keefe and the movement he came to symbolize. “Vilification is the driving force and facts are optional,” Eric Boehlert writes.

Headed for trouble
O’Keefe was certainly ambitious. The topic of a now-canceled speaking appearance in Utah was "[O'Keefe's] national expose of ACORN's unethical behavior, his changes in Congress, and how [he will] inspire our party's passion for a grassroots comeback."

“Don't just respond to news, but actually create your own headlines,” O’Keefe said in a recent interview posted at a website affiliated with the Leadership Institute.

But he dropped clues that he knew that his passion for conservative muckraking could get him in trouble, too. He told Mr. Beck last year that he’d be willing to go to jail for a story.

In the FBI affidavit, O’Keefe admits to planning the operation and the men admit they entered Landrieu’s offices under false pretenses. The unanswered question, so far, is whether this was part of a broader Watergate-style conspiracy.

An NBC report suggests that O’Keefe was merely trying to verify allegations that Landrieu's office was being deliberately unresponsive to constituents on the issue of healthcare reform.

It has turned into a cautionary tale. “For now, let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism,” wrote Ms. Malkin on her blog. “Know your limits. Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting.”

James O'Keefe and Landrieu-gate: Whither right-wing muckraking? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

 

[paperview]

Wanna see a fun (retch) video of Breitbart being a total dickhead on national television?

44 - James O'Keefe arrest: David Shuster battles Andrew Breitbart (Video)

 

[Yurt]

what boggles the mind are the left wing party hacks who wholly defended acorn, and in fact still are defending acorn, have immediately jumped to convict this guy.....

the hypocrisy stinks

Uh huh...you're so full of shit...you convicted ACORN on the edited tapes.

And you still believe that someone that would go into a federal office on false pretenses is on the up and up...why, because he's a "conservative" .

you're a liar

i never said it was good, nor have i ever defended them

you're nothing but a dishonest hack who defended acorn, yet convicts these guys

 

[Article 15]

Wanna see a fun (retch) video of Breitbart being a total dickhead on national television?

44 - James O'Keefe arrest: David Shuster battles Andrew Breitbart (Video)

Holy shit is that guy 12?

 

[Modbert]

O'Keefe better hope he gets a Conservative bunkmate:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/polit...ut-planned-sting-of-sen-landrieus-office.html