Rick Perry's connection to James O'Keefe

[PDittie]

I'll assume you all are familiar with O'Keefe. If not ...

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2010/01/teabuggin.html

Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com -- whose praise for O'Keefe is still strong in the wake of yesterday's events -- was a featured
speaker at that Austin convention last weekend of right wing blogger/freaks that Rick Perry hosted (and took to the shootin' range).

Look at the video (you can view it once before you have to register):

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2994

Somebody please save this before it goes away.

[Richardo]

1. Nice find, PDittie

:kick: and rec :patriot:

[sonias]

2. Teabuggery - my eyes!

I hated watching that PJTV video. :puke: Can't help you saving the video.

Your blog post on this has some very good links on this story. Great going! Rachel's clip on story with phone jammer criminal Allen Raymond was very good. Takes a crook to recognize another crook.

TeaBuggin' *updated*
(snip)
...Andrew Breitbart (who was in Austin over the past weekend with other right-wingbloggers and gun nuts fondling Rick Perry's pistol) and hailed even by our own Sugar Land Congressman Pete Olson, who introduced a House resolution commending O'Keefe for "setting an example for concerned citizens across America" and was "owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States"...

I wonder if Pete Olson would stand by his resolution commending O"Keefe now that he's a teabugger. Does Olson still think O'Keefe should be "setting an example for concerned citizens across America"? Just asking.

:shrug:


Sonia

[PDittie]

3. Not just Olsen

Carter, Conaway, Culberson, Granger, Gohmert, Hall, and Marchant co-sponsored the resolution. It will be withdrawn quickly and quietly.

What might grow legs is whether Breitbart -- whom Rick Perry fawned over at their right-wing-blogathon/gun-nut show event last weekend in Austin -- gets increasing scutiny for having had O'Keefe on his payroll -- or more accurately, "paid him for his life rights".

Brietbart ain't runnin' away yet:

http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/26/wait-until-the-facts-are-in

This really ought to get asked about at the GOP debate this Friday.

[sonias]

4. Brietbart spin

But there is absolutely no allegation in the criminal complaint that “wiretapping” or “bugging” is any part of this case, just the charge that O’Keefe and the others entered Sen. Landrieu’s office in New Orleans “for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system.”

So there also was no federal conviction for any of the crimes that O'Keefe alleged ACORN did either, but the MSM convicted them too. So Brietbart and O'Keefe are just getting a taste of their own medicine by feeding the yellow journalism machine. Too bad boys - suck it up!

Depends on what the definition of “wiretapping” or “bugging” is, right? I'm sure the Feds understand it very clearly even if Brietbart and O'Keefe don't.

Sonia

[white cloud]

5. the plot thickens LOL

NEW ORLEANS – Four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones shared a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications.

Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers with hard hats, tool belts and fluorescent vests and walked into Landrieu's office in a New Orleans federal building Monday. The others are accused of helping to organize the plan.

The most well-known suspect is James O'Keefe, 25, who posed as a pimp for a hidden-camera expose that damaged the reputation of the liberal community-organizing group ACORN and made him a conservative darling.

O'Keefe and suspect Joseph Basel, 24, formed their own conservative publications on their college campuses. A third suspect, Stan Dai, 24, was editor of his university's conservative paper and directed a program aimed at getting college students interested in the intelligence field after 9/11.
>>>>>>


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_re_us/us_senator_s_office_arrests

[PDittie]

7. On TPM yesterday

... so it's slowly getting picked up by the Lamestream Media (not that Yahoo is lame, mind you. AP, on the other hand ...)

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/alleged_landrieu_phone_bug_crew_emerged_from_world.php?ref=mblt

[sonias]

9. Finally we get a photo of Robert Flanagan

I'd seen every other suspect but this one yesterday. He's the son of the U.S. Attorney in Louisiana. A little awkward for dad that the kiddo is already facing time for a felony at 24.

Most of what I've read or seen in interviews suggests he's the one that's going to cave. Daddy is going to get Bobby Flanagan to plea bargain a deal and sell out his stupid accomplices especially James O'Keefe. He's the Fed's real target. Squeal little Bobby, squeal!

Oh and conservatives are abandoning James O'Keefe in droves. Hold your nose and read along at Politico:

Politico 1/27/10
Right wary of defending O'Keefe
Conservatives find themselves caught in a tough political position by the arrest of James O’Keefe, a onetime emerging hero to the cause whose latest exploits could prove him too volatile to touch.

(snip)
“Much like anyone else in this world, if you do something wrong, you should be held accountable to the full extent of the law. Affiliations or political leanings don’t change that,” said Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) who held hearings on ACORN prior to the release of O’Keefe’s videos and praised O’Keefe’s reporting at the time.

(snip)
Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), the resolution’s author and sponsor, said in a statement that “Individuals who lawfully expose wrongful activities by an entity like ACORN receiving federal tax dollars should be praised.”

“However, if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Senator Landrieu’s office – that is not something I condone,” Olson said. “Citizens have an important role in helping to expose waste and/or fraud when their tax dollars are being spent, but it must be done in a lawful manner.”

(snip)
Fox News host Glenn Beck, who gave considerable attention to the ACORN videos on his TV show told his radio audience Wednesday that if the charges against O’Keefe are true, it is “insanely stupid and illegal” behavior. “I haven’t heard his side, but you don’t do anything illegal, that’s Watergate territory,” Beck said. “You don’t do anything to hurt security for the president or for a senator or anybody else. You don’t mess around with it. Ever.”

Oh poor James he has no real friends.

Dumn ass stupid!
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Sonia

[sonias]

10. Photos on Froward69's DU thread

For your enjoyment... (warning GOP thugs)

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

12. My how quickly those rats are fleeing the ship

Oh please let this go right to the top of the RNC. Please Please Please.

dg

[sonias]

14. Or even better some of the right wing think tanks

Fine if they sweep Vitter up in the scheme too. And Rove would be a bonus!!


Sonia

[WolverineDG]

6. no complaint about wiretapping YET

give the AUSAs some time, they did find a listening device. Listening device = wiretapping = very big no no

maybe even some PATRIOT Act charges on top of it all, since Landrieu is on the Homeland Security Committee.

:evilgrin:

dg

[sonias]

8. Yeah their defense is "it wasn't active"

At least that's what I'm hearing. "We didn't complete the dead so therefore it wasn't 'wiretapping'"

Ah but the intent to wiretap was what? Just a childhood prank? I don't think you can get away with that kind of defense guys. You are all adults, you may not act like adults, but you will be tried like adults.

Dumb ass stupid adults, but there is no leniency for dumb ass stupid like the four of you. :evilgrin:




Sonia

[WolverineDG]

11. Doesn't matter if their link wasn't "live"

They intended to wiretap the office of a US Senator in a federal government building. That's what matters.

dg

[sonias]

13. I'm with you dg!

I think the four of them should spend serious time in jail.

I be throwing virtual law books at them. :)


Sonia

[WolverineDG]

15. Fortunately, the law is on our side

for once. :)

dg

[Downwinder]

16. Tampering with or disrupting a phone will still get you ten. n/t

[sonias]

17. Plus the real kicker is the "felony conviction" on their record

They won't be able to vote!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Sonia