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blogslut

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Thu Mar 7, 2013, 04:45 PM Mar 2013

James O'Keefe owes $100,000 BONUS: Wonkette DU Shoutout! [View all]

James O’Keefe—the blonde bombshell who set the conservative world of hidden-camera YouTube movies ablaze—has just agreed to a $100,000 settlement to calm down the unjustly fired (and weirdly litigious about it) ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera. According to a copy of the deal, obtained late last night by your wonkettes and viewable after the jump, O’Keefe has also agreed to ink an 11-word non-apology apology, that sources close to reality are calling “insincere” and “suuuuuuuch bullshit.”

According to the final 5-page agreement, signed by O’Keefe and his legal counsel Mike Madigan this past Tuesday, the boy detective now publicly “regrets any pain suffered by Mr. Vera or his family.” O’Keefe and his counsel have also consented to fork over the $100,000 within 30 business days of the settlement agreement’s being signed.

For the benefit of readers who are neither bitter and aggrieved former ACORN employees nor forum moderators at Democratic Underground, a short summary: ACORN was a community organizing group that became the locus of phantasmically baroque conspiracy theorizing in the build-up to the 2008 presidential election, first by the usual sad idiots, but inevitably by the seemingly rational journalists who must cover the sad idiots to pay their mortgages....


full story here: http://wonkette.com/505026/wonket-sexclusive-totally-blameless-crime-stopper-james-okeefe-to-pay-100000-to-acorn-criminal
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Hey! I am neither a "bitter and aggrieved former ACORN employee" NOR annabanana Mar 2013 #1
Today blogslut Mar 2013 #3
Get your can of cootie spray libodem Mar 2013 #38
Sure do. I sincerely hope O'Krap has more settlements lke these in the future. R. Daneel Olivaw Mar 2013 #5
AND, just this week... leftieNanner Mar 2013 #57
There's nothing more dangerous than a wounded slug. randome Mar 2013 #2
.. ewagner Mar 2013 #58
Gee, and where is the little shitstain going to get 100 large? Buns_of_Fire Mar 2013 #4
How big a dent will that hundred grand put in the Koch Brother's bank accounts? Bandit Mar 2013 #6
I'm surprised he hasn't been disappeared by now.. Voice for Peace Mar 2013 #28
My thoughts as well. progressoid Mar 2013 #11
The little shit will probably get it from momma and daddy. I hope momma and daddy southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #15
No. He'll get it from the rightwing slime balls that hired him, and sponsored loudsue Mar 2013 #36
Could be. I wonder whatever happen with the african-american young woman who southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #39
Check it out here RVN VET Mar 2013 #47
That was the girl. Yes O'Littleshit is a turd. southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #49
Thanks for the link amuse bouche Mar 2013 #54
Why would they? Lordquinton Mar 2013 #46
At the time he was living at home by court order. Momma and daddy were already southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #48
He shall.....(dramatic pause)....pawn the golden ring on Andrew Breitbart's rotting finger! Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2013 #27
Many of us defended Mr. Vera mzmolly Mar 2013 #7
Well I do remember one DUer who joined in on the Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #8
While I am happy for Mr. Vera... sdfernando Mar 2013 #9
"Blonde bombshell"??? GoCubsGo Mar 2013 #10
I hangfired on that, too. bluedigger Mar 2013 #14
i had to stop just at that JI7 Mar 2013 #18
sarcasm blogslut Mar 2013 #21
I do believe there is a thick layer of snark in that paragraph... JHB Mar 2013 #22
Wonkette has a wicked sense of humor. freshwest Mar 2013 #41
I think it was meant to be sarcastic. First, he isn't blond, and no one who ever sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #59
It's an Aryan thing. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #62
lol Matariki Mar 2013 #12
O'Keefe's non-apology Jazzgirl Mar 2013 #13
"weirdly litigious" drm604 Mar 2013 #16
Weird my mzmolly Mar 2013 #17
isn't wonkette now run and written by a Man ? JI7 Mar 2013 #20
I don't know. drm604 Mar 2013 #25
It is run by a female woman person now blogslut Mar 2013 #32
Sarcasm JHB Mar 2013 #23
By saying "weirdly" she really means "non-weirdly" as in "Why would Vera ever want to sue?" NBachers Mar 2013 #52
That was Wonkette humor. n/t Ian David Mar 2013 #53
that should be the tip of the iceberg mnmoderatedem Mar 2013 #19
what about Shirly Sherrod? Coolest Ranger Mar 2013 #24
IMO the Obama administration showed its ass even worse than Brietbart did on that one MotherPetrie Mar 2013 #42
Funny no mention of this over at Fox Mnpaul Mar 2013 #26
Asshole mtasselin Mar 2013 #29
Sheeeit..... Mopar151 Mar 2013 #30
What about Hannah Giles Gothmog Mar 2013 #31
Read the whole article. blogslut Mar 2013 #33
Never mind-she also settled Gothmog Mar 2013 #34
Professional Republican liar meets karma Berlum Mar 2013 #35
Locking ellisonz Mar 2013 #37
This does not seemed to be locked. Too bad he wasn't sentenced to work to reestablish ACORN. The Wielding Truth Mar 2013 #40
The settlement was a tenth of a percent of what it should of have been. freshwest Mar 2013 #43
Koch Brothers emptied one of their piggy banks in order busterbrown Mar 2013 #44
"Barrance Hussein O'Malley" DollarBillHines Mar 2013 #45
It's about easy as pie Aerows Mar 2013 #50
O'Keefe belongs in reform school Jack Rabbit Mar 2013 #51
There were a lot of creepy players amuse bouche Mar 2013 #55
So Congress is going to apologize for believing the child prostitutes bullshit Hissyspit Mar 2013 #56
Exactly, for forty years or more the far right was trying to destroy ACORN sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #60
We work our asses off to help Democrats get elected and they turn their backs rhett o rick Mar 2013 #64
Haha, gotcha, O'Krappy, ya little fucknut! AverageJoe90 Mar 2013 #61
Did anybody buy a sheep for Jimmy, yet? jerseyjack Mar 2013 #63
Juanita Jean is having some fun with this story Gothmog Mar 2013 #65
He should also have to wear a sandwich board that says I Am A Lying Putz tanyev Mar 2013 #66
Better yet davidpdx Mar 2013 #67
The picture of him on Wonkette's page really pisses me off. Webster Green Mar 2013 #68
And he continues to whip the Federal Judge responsible for incarcerating him.... Historic NY Mar 2013 #69
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