Here You Go: DOCUMENTARY PROOF: James O’Keefe’s Latest Video Is A Fraud

[kpete]

DOCUMENTARY PROOF: James O’Keefe’s Latest Video Is A Fraud
By Scott Keyes on May 18, 2012 at 10:06 am

As ThinkProgress documented this week, both of the “non-citizens” shown in James O’Keefe’s latest video sting supposedly committing voter fraud by participating in American elections are actually American citizens.

Following our stories, ThinkProgress readers confronted O’Keefe with these facts on his Facebook page. The conservative filmmaker refused to acknowledge that the two “non-citizens” he smeared in his video, Zbigniew Gorzkowski and William Romero, are actually American citizens, demanding “official documentation that proves otherwise” before he’d correct his story.



Romero’s family provided this official documentation to ThinkProgress last night. Here is a scanned copy of Romero’s certificate of naturalization, issued on February 4, 2011. Redactions are ours:



MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/18/486575/james-o-keefe-william-romero-citizen/

[Kingofalldems]

1. Special Counsel needed on O'Keefe and his backers

[pennylane100]

2. We should demand proof that this guy is a member of the human race.

We demand DNA testing immediately.

[mopinko]

3. isn't he supposed to be on probation?

and wasn't this kind of shit prohibited by that probation?

[progressoid]

4. That won't make any difference to him or his idiotic followers.

Just like Obama's birth certificate makes to difference to birthers.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Orsino]

6. Lies that take ten seconds to tell, and two hours to refute...

...when the voting public has a fifteen-minute attention span.

Mission accomplished.

[Gold Metal Flake]

7. I wonder if his real purpose is to probe for weanesses to be exploited by pubs.

I wonder if O'Keefe's real purpose (as a tool, which is what he is) or assignment is to probe election boards for weaknesses that can be exploited for fraud by Republicans. Also, if his bullshit videos stoke anger amongst the easily impressed, under-average intelligence and angry teabagger helps to create hostile workplaces for good poll workers and drives them away, well, bonus. It is true that the republican playbook is to erode government at all levels over generations, so attacking local election boards would have to be a part of that (like school boards).

[Scurrilous]

8. K & R