‘ACORN’ film-maker arrested by FBI in wiretap plot
Posted this afternoon by the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility.
FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O’Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office’s telephone system.
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Gayelle
January 26th, 2010
4:16 pm
Looks like Obummer is getting back at O’Keefe for his criminal friends at ACORN. I hope you idiots are happy for voting for Obummer. Impeach Obama ‘10.
Courtney
January 26th, 2010
4:25 pm
Just like Hitler and Chavez. Fear the Left!
wesleywhatwhat
January 26th, 2010
4:26 pm
another right wing loony doing something illegal and immoral? SURPRISE!
Chris
January 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Hey Gayelle,
Get a life and turn off Fox news. You don’t know nothing so quit talking!
wesleywhatwhat
January 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
oh, and look – some right wing loony comments trying to twist the story and spread fear. SURPRISE!
Brent
January 26th, 2010
4:27 pm
Just like when Clinton unleashed the IRS on Herman Cain, looks like the Dems have taken a page from Stalin. Perceived enemies of the state will not be tolerated.
Gayelle'saHater
January 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
You’re the idiot. Regardless of what you & others may say, He is your President of the United States of America. If you don’t like it you can go to New Orleans and purchase a passport, you can get it one day. And get the hell out!!!
Rob
January 26th, 2010
4:31 pm
Well, you idiots seemed happy voting for W so we are returning the favor. Funny how that works ain’t it? Its even funnier that this criminal got caught. BTW, who do yall plan on running in 2012, there does not seem to be many top notch candidates floating around without cheating scandals or the wrong religion.
Robert M
January 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
Gayelle, impeach him for what? Maybe you should read the law to determine what an impeachable defense is. And it is amazing that you are blaming the President for someone’s illegal activities. I am SURE the President had something to do with this. Of course, he has nothing better to do than frame four guys.
GaBlue
January 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
I don’t get it. How exactly did Obama force those men to break existing laws?
rome
January 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
Wow, I wonder if the GOP news network A.K.A. Fox News will cover this story. And if they do will they try to blaime obama for it
taxpayer
January 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
Government going after the whislebloweres now……..We still know ACORN is wrong and needs to be disbanded. And the whole point of sharing ideas is that it IS MY country and I can speak up, protest things I do not like and vote for someone else soon enough. I am not some right wing nut. Until very recently I was a democrate. Somehow maturity and paying taxes changed my views.
Come on 2012!
January 26th, 2010
4:35 pm
Actually, one of the great things about this country is that we are free to criticize our leaders, and in fact are expected to when we disagree with them. Many of us disagree with the current tone and tenor (look it up, there’s no way you know what it means) of the government and can’t wait for our opportunity to do on a national scale what the good people of Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey have done on a state scale. The fact remains, if Obama had been O’Bama and irish american, jewish american, german american, or even good old, plain old american instead of african american, he would have been trounced during the primaries by the current Secretary of State.
Yahooooooo
January 26th, 2010
4:36 pm
This guy has finally gotten caught breaking the law. He glorifies in settting up politicians and organizstions to make himself look credible. Karma is a b****
irony
January 26th, 2010
4:36 pm
If O’Keefe was a liberal Oflaba would have made him his COS by now. We all know how much Oflaba loves those law breakers!!!
wpf
January 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
This is get back surprised it took this long.
Jack P
January 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Cool it people. Bush did it!
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Taxpayer, do you even know what a Whistleblower is? It is a person who works INSIDE an organization who reports it?
Did any of the people making this video work for Landreui or ACORN?
Sounds like we need more taxes for education so your children don’t grow up to be as stupid as you are.
And it sounds like the knee jerk defense of the Water Gate Plumbers idiot jr. cousin is yet another example of why MOST conservatives are not rational or reasoning beings.
CenterisGood
January 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
What is it about Left wing people. You ever notice how Lefty Hard Core’s are like the monkeys at the zoo slinging poo at the tourist.Why always so hateful and petty? Here’s to the next blogger blaming Bush for all our problem. Let’s ask Clinton about his great job in office too. I voted for Bill once and I voted for Bush too, so you hard left and hard righters can bite my cheeks. Obama is a narcissitic socialist. It’s just a fact, not a thought.
Come on 2012!
January 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
If the guy gets off for this, highly unlikely, my guess is that he will then ‘mysteriously’ get audited by the IRS. Jeremiah Wright and the rest of the Chicago mafia will make sure their puppet does not let this guy off.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
So noted:
Attention Democrats…it is now totally acceptable for all of us to illegally wire tap all Republican senators. Surely they have nothing to hide.
All the conservatives on this site will defend you as ‘whistleblowers.’
Mike
January 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
Rob says: Well, you idiots seemed happy voting for W so we are returning the favor. Funny how that works ain’t it? Its even funnier that this criminal got caught. BTW, who do yall plan on running in 2012, there does not seem to be many top notch candidates floating around without cheating scandals or the wrong religion.
Hey dude..um in case you missed it…the republicans just won a senate seat in Mass., so I think the backlash to socialist politics is under way already. I guess you and all of the other Obamabots like paying taxes to support people to lazy to support themselves. Here’s looking forward to a flashback of the Carter years when he screwed the demmies for the following twelve years!!!
Don't Drink the Kool Aid
January 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
“Get a life and turn off Fox news. You don’t know nothing so quit talking!”
Hey Chris…looks like your the one who “don’t know nothing.” Maybe they didn’t teach you what a double negative was before you dropped out of school.
RJ
January 26th, 2010
4:41 pm
Shame on CNN for putting this news on the front of their website and airing it on television. It took more than 4 videos and a lot of pressure for CNN to air anything about the original ACORN videos, but they are reporting this right away. I think there will be more to this story as if they were going after someone strong, they would have not chosen a moderate Dem. And yes, for those about to question me, Fox News is also reporting this.
Mary
January 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
Wow…Its funny how “they” try to blame and point fingers at OUR president. Blaming the president who’s been in office for a year cleaning up MESS Bush did for 8 years. Idiots…
Coon Dawg
January 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
Enter your comments here
Wiretapping is far less a crime than treason. Impeach Obama the muslim marxist pretender! Tar and feather Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Dodd! I hate communists!
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
Hey mike ‘dude’ in case you noticed it Senator Zoolander had a lot of Democrats angry about the man (small m) failing to fight for health care reform. Don’t think we’re not going to be actively voting try and toss out Republicans who have sat on their ass and done nothing.
lmno
January 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
“Dems have taken a page from Stalin. Perceived enemies of the state will not be tolerated.”
Uh, these people tried to wire tap her office. They were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is nothing partisan in that.
If they were trying to wire tap a republican senator, they would also be arrested.
But its interesting you say “Enemy of the State”. It sounds like “Enemy Combatant”.
And to those commentiing on Obama, his name is nowhere in the article. What are you talking about?
Josephine
January 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
@Courtney — Hitler was a right-winger.
Democratic Hack
January 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
Looks like the Democratic Hacks have taken over this site.
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Some information on the money behind “independent film-maker” James O’Keefe.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Yeah RJ! Shame on CNN for calling out Hypocrites and actually doing their job instead of being fronts for whatever you want them to say and hear like Fox news!
butch
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Enter your comments here I LIKE TEDS COMMENT
Michael
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Hey Chris you dont know nothing? You sentence shows hom nuch you know.
GaBlue
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
I’m headed over to Isakson’s office now, dressed as a missionary with a fake campaign donation check from a fake anti-choice organization. While I’m there distracting him with my godly virtues, my collegue is going to slip some bugging devices around the office. Y’all don’t mind, do ya? Who’s coming with?
(just kidding! don’t send the cops after me. I’d never pose as an anti-choicer.)
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
Hey Demo Hack,
Count the comments. Moronic Conservafreaks out number dems.
Burdell
January 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
Wow! I thought the discussions stooped pretty low between the Tech and UGA fans on the sports blogs…this has the sports blogs beat hands down!!
lmno
January 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
“Shame on CNN for putting this news on the front of their website and airing it on television. It took more than 4 videos and a lot of pressure for CNN to air anything about the original ACORN videos, but they are reporting this right away.”
I agree that the story involving the non-profit group ACORN was news and CNN dropped the ball by not airing it earlier. However, the first story was about a low level employee of non-profit organization giving advice on how to avoid income taxation for a prostitute, and the second is people entering a US Senator’s office by means of deception with the intent to illegally wire tap her. The stories do not compare.
Nope
January 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
Conservatives crack me up! You rant and rave about Obama, yet you support these baffoons for committing a felony. Your ire is a joke.
Democratic Dope
January 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
Josephine,
Hilter was a leftist
Grow up and read
1bighammer
January 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, and now OBAMA. Another in the Line of Democratic Presidents that used the IRS and or FBI to see retribution on their enemies.
He may be my President…buyt I don’t have to like him or his policies.
CenterisGood
January 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
ewh..ewh…there it is….there is it…. JACK P blaming Bush. I love it, it didn’t take long
anybody missing the point about ACORN? yeah the film maker is a dork for the illegal wire tap, but he didn’t make up the ACORN stuff.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
Democratic Dope,
Read yourself. Fascism is a mixture of business and the state ala what Roberts just did with the Republican funded effort to allow unlimited Corporate free speech.
You and all those like you are the fascists.
butch
January 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
I LIKE TEDS COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:49 pm
1bighammer,
So, you don’t mind if I listen in on your phone conversations? Please post your phone number.
CenterisGood? Anyone missing the point about HYPOCRITES. You don’t get to pretend to be a concerned citizen and break the law to do so. A ‘dork’ for listening in on a United States Senator?
Would that make anyone listening in on Republicans ‘dorks’ but not change the backroom deals that they’re making with K street ‘dorky’?
Laughing at the Imbeciles
January 26th, 2010
4:49 pm
I love it! It only takes two paragraphs of a news story none of you know anything about for you to throw down your partisan gauntlets and began verbally assualting one another. Everyone can hide behind a keyboard and computer screen, but no one wants to do what it takes to implement real change. Bravo!
butch
January 26th, 2010
4:49 pm
PUTNEY SWOPE ANYONE?
Mike
January 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
Hey there AB vs Mexico (wrong citation by the way)…I look forward to both the demmies and repubbies voting each other out and making way for some libertarians to clean up the god forsaken mess started by W and now exacerbated by O. We need to cut taxes and stop giving handouts to every person to lazy to help themselves. Reward hard work and innovation and discourage lazeabouts…
jimbo
January 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
impeach obozo , get rid of peonlosi and reid. acorn is all about obozo and he is all about acorn.
Keep then stupid and keep them poor
and they will come back for more!
Oh, what about drug testing for welfare? A couple dollars will save thousands per year for each rejected. Thousands X Thousands.
Oh, sorry – that sounds racist.
Know guns, know peace, know safety.
No guns, no peace, no safety
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
I’m slamming people who defend wiretappers before anything else.
Laughing at imbeciles without laughing at the ACTUAL imbeciles is imbeciliy Laughing at the Imebelices.
Thus making you an Imbecile.
atlien052
January 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
If Michal more would have don’t this, he would have won an Oscar!
Karen
January 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
You guys are some mean spirited people. The state of the world is because of hateful people like you all.
GOSH…
atlien052
January 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
Moore
Democratic Dope
January 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
Aaron Burr V. Mexico,
Keep drinking the kool aid.
FaxRFacts
January 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
Wiretapping is illegal and awful. Doesn’t matter if you’re an R or a D; a red or a blue; a right or a left.
HOWEVER – the FACTS are that if a liberal film maker (Michael Moore or others) would have been caught wiretapping a Republican Congresswoman, the mainstream media would have ignored the story. The NEWS here is that the mainstream media is making a big deal of this. If you can read – go to this link and see what they say about it. The mainstream media refuses to print stories that are negative to the current majorities or White House.
http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2010/OmittingforObama/ExecutiveSummary.aspx
Nope
January 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
This is what Michele Malkin said about this today:
“Let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism: Know your limits,” Malkin wrote in reply. “Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting.”
For once I agree with her. If you defend these morons, then you defend lawbreaking. Besides… one of the boys who impersonated the phone company in order to get access to the office phones is the son of an acting US Attorney.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
So Jimbo you support drug testing for welfare huh?
What about drug testing for using guns?
I don’t support that but I don’t think you do either.
You’ll support any lack of freedom for those you oppose, and take it away but never sacrifice any of your own.
That makes you a hypocrite.
Democratic Dope,
I don’t drink either flavor kool aid. The one spouted by the man (small m) or the one spouted by the FOX news channel that you clearly drink.
I am capable of rational thought.
You are not.
Only in America
January 26th, 2010
4:55 pm
Ted
Wow! Tell us how you really feel. I think your black heart trumps those blue lips.
Nope
January 26th, 2010
4:55 pm
Oh, and Malkin also said this on her blog:
“This is neither a time to joke nor a time to recklessly accuse Democrats/liberals of setting this up nor a time to whine about media coverage double standards. Deal with what’s on the table.”
Laughing at the Imbeciles
January 26th, 2010
4:55 pm
Karen…my sentiments exactly. It’s like watching your dog bark at it’s own reflection in the mirror – funny, yet pointless.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
FaxRFacts…
The liberal media is neither liberal nor are they media.
They are nothing more than echo chambers for their corporate over lords and Twitter.
Except FOX which isn’t even an echo chamber but a lie factory.
jimbo
January 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
wrong answer – if I am financing an idiot demoncart that doesn’t want to work, then they should be tested for drugs before they are paid to lay around. Yes, drug testing for guns wouldn’t be a bad idea except thatt he guns that are the problem are illegal and largely in the hands of the well, welfare back street theives.
lmno
January 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
“HOWEVER – the FACTS are that if a liberal film maker (Michael Moore or others) would have been caught wiretapping a Republican Congresswoman, the mainstream media would have ignored the story”
I respectfully disagree with you. It wouldn’t matter if the target was Democrat or Republican, nor would it matter if the intruders were filming a movie with a left or right slant. This is not a story to be ignored. People entered a Congressional Office and bugged it. It would be reported.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
Michelle Malkin…saying things that are reasonable?
Now I have clearly entered some kind of bizarro land….
quint
January 26th, 2010
4:58 pm
Did you guys even read the article? Seriously…did you follow the link to the original story? These guys were impersonating phone company employees and attempting to “tap” a U.S. Senator’s phones. Is that not a crime? These goofballs have so many right-wingers already defending them and saying nasty things about the president that it is amazing Republicans can breathe without being told to by Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck.
Try to defend these guys on principle. You can’t do it.
Fuzzy
January 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
What a bunch of morons,– all of you. Unbelievable!
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
Never say “Can’t” when the challenge involves hypocritical self righteousness on the part of a conservative FOX news watcher.
Except…somehow…Michelle Malkin….boggles the mind.
Michelle MALKIN? Reasonable?
How?
RJ
January 26th, 2010
4:59 pm
@Aaron Burr V. Mexico – Fox News is reporting both the good and the bad. “A front for whatever you want them to say and hear”? I would say the Obama administration is doing a fine job of this themselves by denying only Fox News interviews with the President while granting every other major outlet access.
@lmno – It may have involved low level employees of an organization but what it did was expose the disregard for morals and standards for one of the largest “get out and vote” groups nationally. ACORN was single-handedly responsible for countless Obama votes in our past election. To deny the huge impact those “low level employees” had on our past election is looking at the situation through rose colored glasses.
Was this the right thing to do? Absolutely Not! Would it have brought some new information to light that the left side does not want out there? I’d imagine so.
lmno
January 26th, 2010
5:00 pm
I really wish that the story would have first broken that “A Senator’s office was illegally entered and A wire tap was attempted” without any mention of the film maker or the Senator. Then all of you could have decided whether this was a story or not before finding out who was on “YOUR” team.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
5:01 pm
RJ
Thanks for morally supporting democrats wiretapping Republicans.
You say “Absolutely not” and just turn right around and say, “The Ends Justify the means”
jimbo
January 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
@Aaron Burr V. Mexico – Fox News is reporting both the good and the bad. “A front for whatever you want them to say and hear”? I would say the Obama administration is doing a fine job of this themselves by denying only Fox News interviews with the President while granting every other major outlet access.
Don't Drink the Kool Aid
January 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
Why is everyone either a right-winger or left-winger? How about a lawbreaker? Most of you posters have on your rose colored partisan glasses that you can’t see the truth about either party. Has our culture devolved to a point where when one person in a class/group/race does something the automatic reponse it to brand everyone as being the exact same. Good luck trying to defend either side of the aisle and their tactics. Those who live in glass houses….you know the rest.
lmno
January 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
“@lmno – It may have involved low level employees of an organization but what it did was expose the disregard for morals and standards for one of the largest “get out and vote” groups nationally”
Which is why I wrote that CNN dropped the ball by not airing the story earlier. However, I reiterate that its not a story on the same level as this. Now, if the person in the prostitution story had been a member of Congress, then I would think it was as big as this.
jimbo
January 26th, 2010
5:02 pm
thanks RJ, saved me the typing
Logic
January 26th, 2010
5:03 pm
How about everyone staying on topic.
Obviously, wiretaping the Senator’s office was wrong.
The Senator’s acceptance of a the bribe to support the Health Care legislation was wrong.
CNN refusal to run stories about the corruption in ACORN was wrong.
CNN immediate running this story is interesting; however, they should run this story…it just opens all kinds of questions since they did not run the original ACORN story. Nevertheless they must run the story as I am sure FOX, and MSNBC will also run the story.
Unfortunately, too many here have just dug in to their positions without rational thinking.
jeff
January 26th, 2010
5:04 pm
taxpayer –
Ironic, isn’t it? The leftist kooks celebrate, applaud and defend their whistleblowers, but yet young O’Keefe is being prosecuted to the full extent by the quacks.
Brent
January 26th, 2010
5:05 pm
The charge is that Mr. O’Keefe alledgely “aided and abetted” the other people. That could mean he bought them lunch that day. Anyone who doesn’t think the FBI has been on his tail for a year now has their head in the sand.
jerry
January 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
ACORN should be in IRAQ looking for Bush’s Weapons Of Mass Destruction.
GaBlue
January 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
FaxRFacts at 4:45, Actually, you can’t speak in the subjunctive case and call your supposition a “fact.” Just sayin’.
quint
January 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
For what crime was Michael Moore accused? non sequitor…you fail…miserably
joop
January 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
Hitler was neither left nor right. He was a hate-filled idiot with no tolerance for people that did not share his world-view. Kind of like these comments.
RJ
January 26th, 2010
5:09 pm
@ABVM – Although I was originally fooled by your writing, I am coming to the understanding that your reading comprehension is that of a drunk monkey. I clearly made my point that it was not the right thing to do, however had it gone through there would be things brought to light. Anyone denying that fact is a moron. This is the case in any “closed-door” situation. There is a reason people are talking behind closed doors and they have that right. I don’t care if its a politician or the janitors in your office building, if you wiretap them, there are going to be interesting revelations. I am not morally supporting it by saying “the ends justify the means” at all. I truly believe there needs to be a lot more transparency from both parties, but at the same time offices have doors for a reason.
@lmno – The politician here did nothing wrong hence the level playing field of this. There was nothing said nor done by the politician in either party so your analogy is a moot point.
al
January 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
So it is ok to wiretap someone office…hmmm Way to go Richrd Nixon Jr. then blame the left due to fact it is good for the country….hmm Why you are at it let the CIA train Bin Laden – Bush 1 then turn him lose so his son Bush 2 can be a Hero yet never find him. Great while you at it lets trade guns for drugs in Nicaragua( Olie North) to start a war there bring the drugs back on CIA aircrafts to sell in the US to buy more guns and fill the prison up so ur homeboy can get that govt contract for soap and free labor. So sale that snake oil that nobody wants, lets give more no-bid contracts Hiliburton Ex VP Chaney and vote Red like yor neck the true party of change.
Aaron Burr V. Mexico
January 26th, 2010
5:21 pm
@RJ – Your insults imply that I care what you think.
I don’t. Therefore you have no power to insult me. Beings who watch FOX news are not rational, nor are they thinking.
You go through the motions of logical thought, attemting to parley it in the semblance of an argument, but the very foundations are questionable. You lack moral context and attempt to extend the absolute into the contextually meaningless. You are indeed supporting the ‘ends justify the means’ and fail yet even to realize you are doing so. That is because you fail to notice the consequences of the positions you advocate, which makes sense, since you don’t think about the things you say.
Reality
January 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
Hey Chris,
It is 5:26 PM and you are still an idiot.
FALCON JOSH
January 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
I think the people at ACORN and James O’Keefe should be put in jail together. GO Falcons!!!!
Commonsenseagitator
January 26th, 2010
5:29 pm
Surprise, surprise,surprise Sgt. Cater, another repbulican caught violating the law. Of course all the right wing nut jobs are going to defend this criminal just as they have mass murderers Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Kino
January 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
Too. Funny.
The kid’s obviously been reading, and believing, too much of his own press. Any old school hacker can tell you that monkeying around with someones phone system is a federal offense. This kid should have read up on the possible consequences to his actions before acting like Inspector Gadget.
Shades of Watergate
January 26th, 2010
5:34 pm
What is it with conservatives and wire taps? Gotta wait for all the details but some things never change.
Bob
January 26th, 2010
5:34 pm
Impeach Obama? We can get him for not holding up the constitution for not wanting to protect the U.S.
Mayor Nagin
January 26th, 2010
5:36 pm
Is my city all chocolate yet? If so, I need some more guvmit benefits.
heeldawg
January 26th, 2010
5:37 pm
This whole sad situation is exemplary of modern politics in America–a vigilante journalist breaks the law and gets caught. But he’s a journalist who exposed a bunch of low-life charlatans in ACORN for what slime they really were. CNN reports the former but skims over the latter; FOX reports the latter and glosses over the former. We have fascists and socialists fighting over our country as our elected representatives in Washington, and their designated media outlets bias all of us in whatever direction they choose based on their political orientation. All of the American people are losers as a result. Whatever happened to character? To honesty? To the concept of political service for the common good?
Seems like this country has been taken over by a bunch of dogma-spouting zombies.
2by8
January 26th, 2010
5:40 pm
I have come to the conclusion that there are so many clueless people walking the face of the earth for the simpsons to remain on TV for twenty years shows how educated people are they get their news and facts from TV.
I remember the NCIS show were people were asked to write in and ask the crime lab specilaist questions DA!!!!!! it is just a tv show and she is not a real crime person. I bet one the dimwits posting on this site saying it was Obama sent in a question.
Liz
January 26th, 2010
5:42 pm
To: Gayelle’sa Hater, that is what is great about this country. We have the freedom to not like the President AND we can say it all we want. If you don’t like the freedom of speech, maybe you should leave. Go to Iran where you can get executed for it.
James
January 26th, 2010
5:46 pm
The comments in this thread make me weep for the species. We’re doomed.
liv'nlargeinATL
January 26th, 2010
5:47 pm
I guess “wesleywhatwhat” thinks righties have a monopoly on bad behavior. Put down the kool-aid bud, politicians are all corrupt, right or left.
2by8
January 26th, 2010
5:49 pm
liz please when you criticize you critciize with facts and real evidence not just letting hot air out. You know nothing about freedom of speech. I bet you couldn’t even answer a simple history question if Iasked.
Yeah Obama told the dude ‘hey go and tap her office’ and that is critizing the president. That is accussing so get your fact straight.
James
January 26th, 2010
5:50 pm
Let me remind the partisan fanatics here of some demographics. Recent polls show people in the US identify as liberal (approx. 20%), conservative (approx. 30%) and moderate/independent (approx 50%). One of these days the majority of us are going to put all of you extremists into a leaky boat and put you all out to sea. You’re really ruining life for the rest of us.
2by8
January 26th, 2010
5:50 pm
James your feel just the way I do
MUSTANG100
January 26th, 2010
5:56 pm
Just wait and see how Contrary Mary spins this! She listed herself a ‘moderate’ in her re-election Senate campaign. Man, did she take in and hornswaggle the Cajuns down there! She’s looking for ANYTHING to take the spotlight off her for selling out and revealing herself as the Progressive Liberal she really is. Her constitiuents are 3 to 1 against healthcare ‘reform’ (yeah, like it’s not a govt. takeover ATTEMPT of one of the largest cashflow businesses in the US), but this is her last term, so what does she care?
RJ
January 26th, 2010
5:59 pm
@ABVM – I do not for one second believe the notion that you care what I think about you. I am able to objectively analyze thoughts and ideas allowing me to form my own opinions. I am a socially liberal, fiscally conservative tax paying citizen of the greatest nation on Earth. I do not agree with either party whole heartedly, however you are making the broad assumption that everyone who would like to be informed of global ideas and concepts regarding our future are irrational and not thinking. I read CNN and FOX equally along with a vast array of sites somewhere in the middle of those two.
You have done a fine job of broadcasting your ignorance to a large number of people and for that I would like to thank you. Maybe, just maybe one day down the road you will take your blinders off and surf around to read and analyze situations from multiple points-of-view, form your own opinions and finally for once make a comment that makes sense.
MUSTANG100
January 26th, 2010
6:07 pm
Just got off the phone with some close friends who live there. Well sourced rumors are that the FeeBee guys set them up under the guise of a ’sting’, and the entire episode was planned and orchestrated by the NewAwlins FBI Field Office. Time will tell.
Avery
January 26th, 2010
6:09 pm
Lol @ the right wing lunatics who seem to believe Obama forced a right win lunatic filmmaker to illegally wiretap US citizens.
patrick
January 26th, 2010
6:10 pm
here are a list of 50 Obama lies….this does not include the massive run up of debt of almost 2 trillion dollars (450 billion was the debt before he took office). This does not include over ten percent unemplyment (he said it would not go over 8 percent) my God his lies and deceit is almost too much to stomach
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
patrick
January 26th, 2010
6:12 pm
obama lied…the economy died
patrick
January 26th, 2010
6:14 pm
In After only two months in office, President Obama may have fallen short on a number of his campaign promises.
1: Sunlight Before Signing — “When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it,” he said.
2: Capital gains tax elimination — Just weeks prior to the election, Obama advisers Austan Goolsbee and Jason Furman told the Wall Street Journal that Obama planned tax cuts that included “the elimination of capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-ups.”
3: New American jobs tax credit — During his transition, Obama’s promised to provide a $3,000 refundable tax credit to existing businesses for every additional full-time U.S. employee hired in 2009 and 2010.
4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties — In October 2008, Obama released his “Rescue Plan for the Middle-Class” in which he promised to allow financially distressed Americans to withdraw up to $10,000 from their 401(k) accounts and retirement savings without having to pay penalties. They would only pay income taxes on the amount.
5: No jobs for lobbyists — “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”
6: Earmark reform — at the first presidential debate in Oxford, Miss., Obama declared, “[W]e need earmark reform. And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
7: Bring troops home in 16 months — Even as combat troops are brought home, Pentagon officials have said fresh units will continue deploying to Iraq.
8: Sign “Freedom of Choice Act” — Obama expressed his support for the sweeping plan that would repeal all national and state regulations of abortion passed over the last 35 years.
9: $4,000 college credit — Obama pledged to make college “affordable for all Americans” when he announced his American Opportunity Tax Credit.
No. 10: Transparency — On the White House website, the Obama administration claims it will be “the most open and transparent in history……………How did that work out?
patrick
January 26th, 2010
6:16 pm
As another example, consider Obama’s stirring tale for the Selma audience about how he had been conceived by his parents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor following the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4. “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,” he said, “because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama”
Obama was born in 1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: “I meant the whole civil rights movement.”
Does ANYTHING that comes out of his mouth resemble the truth IN ANY WAY?
NH
January 26th, 2010
6:16 pm
Jail Obama he is the next Baby Doc Duval.
Mike
January 26th, 2010
6:18 pm
Right wing lunatic’s? If your just a little liberal your an idiot.
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
6:19 pm
O’Keefe played the pimp, for an encore he’s gonna play the bitch.
James
January 26th, 2010
6:19 pm
Patrick do you realize you posted as supporting evidence, a link that disputes much of what you and the original list of “lies” purports?
Kamchak
January 26th, 2010
6:25 pm
“Independent film-maker” James O’Keefe punks planned parenthood.
TheManMike
January 26th, 2010
6:28 pm
I’m rather curious as to what they expected to record…Surely they understood that any tape recorded in that manner would be considered illegal. Must have been something good, yeah? If not, why go to all that trouble? Politics aside, you all know a part of you wonders what they could have uncovered…….
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
6:29 pm
Names or a boyfriend O’Keefe…Names or a boyfriend… what’s it gonna be college boy?
ProgressivePeach.com
January 26th, 2010
6:30 pm
Watergate 2: Conservative Boogaloo. We Americans can’t do enough to marginalize this Republican Party of hypocrisy (law & order? Family values? HAH!) lies and deceit. How could anyone in their right mind cast a ballot for a Republican for ANYTHING?
patrick
January 26th, 2010
6:39 pm
This administration is acting like it wants to bankrupt the country, convert it to an entirely socialist economy and end all meaningful debate about it before the year is out.
GARed
January 26th, 2010
6:42 pm
When are all of you left wing idiots going to stop blaming Bush? The taxi left the stand a year ago and now it’s your “man” running the ship and it is sinking fast! Can’t wait to run that idoit and his Chicago political mafia out of office!
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
This sounds like a good time for some Thompson quotes:
“Nixon’s spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives — whether you’re me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin’s daughter or your fiancee’s 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don’t even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.”
uh..courtney?
January 26th, 2010
6:56 pm
Courtney, and you others that are conservatives: Hitler was a National Socialist, which is far, far Right–just to the right of you. Castro is to the far, far Left because he’s communist. He is Chavez’s mentor, though his country is not communist. Remember, the Nazis and Communists hated each other in WW2. They are not near each other on the political spectrum. Please get your blaming straight.
Bjork Falafel
January 26th, 2010
6:57 pm
It is as it was…
DMR
January 26th, 2010
7:02 pm
Folks,
We have laws. We have a Constitution. ANYONE regardless of Party affiliation, race, religion, or seat of power, should pay the price for their actions. This is the problem with both sides of the aisle. Even worse, it is the problem with most American voters. Everyone is pointing the finger and saying, “Well, your guy did this or she did that or blah, blah, blah”. The ability to get the voters to fight amongst themselves is why politicians on the whole don’t have to worry about the citizenry.
If the film maker and his friends broke the law, arrest them, arraign them, give them their day in court, and if guilty, put them in jail. I don’t care if they are Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, Democrats, or whatever.
I did not vote for the President, but HE IS THE PRESIDENT. So that makes him my President. And because he made promises…not of policy, but of principle, I hold him to that. Transparency has not existed. Accountability of the large financial companies does not exist. Listening to the American people has largely been ignored.
George Bush made horrible mistakes as President, no question. He’s gone now. Now it is up to the CURRENT PRESIDENT. When you have people like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank killing housing through Fannie and Freddie, when you have Tim Geitner cheating on his taxes, when you have Charles Rangel cheating on his taxes…and by the way he is the Chairman of Ways and Means (WRITING THE TAX LAWS).
I don’t hate Obama. It is not that I dislike the MAN. I don’t agree with his policies, that in many cases will do more harm than good. We need to be able to have civil disagreements with being uncivil. “Here ended the lesson…..”
Michael C
January 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
GaBlue: “subjunctive case” — NICELY DONE! I’ll bet 95% of the folks on here don’t know what that means (including myself). I’m going to look it up, and it will be the first thing I will have learned from spending the last 10 minutes reading this train wreck of a blog.
DMR
January 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
It should read….”WITHOUT BEING UNCIVIL”.
Alf's Dad
January 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
what we need is a born-again, plain-speakin’, silver-spoonin’, draft-dodgin’, brush clearin’ texan to smite the evil-doers….mmmmmm never mind!
Alabama Communist
January 26th, 2010
7:07 pm
LOL! So Fox Network little tiny Retarded super neo-con Republican Spooks blow one as the “Gang that couldn’t wiretap a dead Cell phone”……
jconservative
January 26th, 2010
7:07 pm
Its deja vu all over again!
Csquared
January 26th, 2010
7:08 pm
good luck with that DMR. Well Said BTW.
t-bone
January 26th, 2010
7:09 pm
Attorney General Holder will probably choose not to prosecute the wiretappers just like he chose not to prosecute the Black Panthers who were intimidating voters on election day. FAT CHANCE!!! Wiretapping is a crime and should be prosecuted. The Panthers committed a crime and should have been prosecuted. Where was CNN’s outrage over the latter?
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
7:10 pm
I nominate O’Keefe to be inducted into The Abermoth Hall of Shame.
Hey! Maybe they’ll be roommates!
Mikeymike
January 26th, 2010
7:35 pm
What makes this story incredibly rich is the fact that these idiots wanted to uncover acorn doing illegal things when they themselves are doing illegal things.Hello pot meet kettle! Hopefully these idiots will blow the whistle on the people who put them up to this for immunity and then we will know who is behind this stupidity.
DividedWeFail
January 26th, 2010
7:38 pm
I love how everyone is comparing the left to Hitler, Stalin, etc… How typical of rightwing nimrods, regurgitating what they hear on conservative media. Sounds like it was taken directly from ‘Liberal Fascism’; the same tactics used by idiots like Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort who think the banana was designed by God to fit into our hands even though the modern banana was designed by man through artificial selection… but I digress. The point I’m trying to make is that uneducated people like that, rather than using reason and evidence to progress their argument, simply invoke names like Hitler and Stalin, and compare them to the individual or group they disagree with. Pathetic.
Counting the days
January 26th, 2010
7:39 pm
I cannot wait till November. I have HOPE there will be CHANGE
Jim
January 26th, 2010
7:41 pm
I cannot believe some of the B S, total crap, I have read about this article.
S.B.
January 26th, 2010
7:49 pm
Gayelle, stop being so obtuse. This isn’t about Obama, it’s about the poor judgement of these men in trying to bug illegally. Fear the left, Cortney? You are kidding, I hope. The ‘left’ is about equality so we should fear fair treatment among the people, eh. Read other sources (and your preacher or Fox aren’t reliable sources or resource); you may be surprised how misinformed some are and you may have to change your mind. .. .. It’s possible.
Whatever
January 26th, 2010
7:52 pm
Funny, I do not remember the AJC running any story at all online when the ACORN videos were released, but let the filmmaker get in trouble and wham! Front Page!
say what?
January 26th, 2010
7:53 pm
DMR thanks but your comment will fall on deaf ears. The folks blaming Obama for setting up the FBI sting, you are starting to believe your own conspiracy theories. Grow up and think for yourselves. The young men were WRONG, but of course they thought they were untouchable.
Csquared
January 26th, 2010
8:05 pm
for those folks blaming Obama, FBI, etc for the travails of the would be wire-tappers, whatever happened to PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? or is that just something you throw around when it suits? They MADE a CHOICE, knew it was wrong, and upon suitable judicial process, will either be exonerated (thus vindicated) or tossed into prison.
Oh Please
January 26th, 2010
8:17 pm
You right wing freaks have no idea how stupid you sound. History is going to laugh at your ignorance and gullibility. You’ll believe any tin-hat rumor you hear as long as it slams Obama. You’re pathetic!
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
8:23 pm
Looks like the Republicans are nothing but a lynch mob of Nixonesk thugs still on a patriotic quest to turn this country into a plutocratic dick-tatorship. This is just business as usually for these Dick Armies of the world.
Gwinnett Mom
January 26th, 2010
8:28 pm
And when I speek the truth, the AJC sensors it!
Gwinnett Dad
January 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
God is evil, he created Gwinnett Mom…
Csquared
January 26th, 2010
8:49 pm
and took one of your ribs to do it too Dad. That musta hurt….
Whoooooty Boy
January 26th, 2010
8:52 pm
I wonder if Presbo and hi s band of clowns had anything to do with this…bunch of two faced liberal dweeebs…just wait til November…
DannyX
January 26th, 2010
9:24 pm
This is probably a case of stupidity at its ridiculing best!
Wow, this is right up there with gay Republican model/escort/reporter Gannon/Guckert! Remember the fake reporter from Talon News that lobbed Bush soft ball questions during his rare press conferences! (The same guy that spent the night at the White House about 100 times according to official records.)
Theses fools thought they were being clever. They even recorded their “caper,” funny stuff.
Gosh, you think? Just maybe? Could be? Just opening the door to that phone room had to have set off alarms.
John Stewart, David Letterman, Colbert, SNL, and the others, you’ve been given a gift, enjoy!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DannyX
January 26th, 2010
9:33 pm
Catch these guys soon on their new Fox News show, “Dumb, Dumber, Dumberer”
I hear their first guest is going to be Joe The Plumber! Riveting!
DannyX
January 26th, 2010
9:52 pm
So here is the recap, the Republican blogger version of what is on the phone video camera that “ace” reporter was busted with…
Their version of the video shows Obama planting those poor young Republicans in that phone room. I hear Obama is seen holding 2 screaming hysterical skinny boys by the collar, forcing them to pose with a handful of phone wires in the Senator’s office. It was awful.
IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!
I’m sure these boys discovered Obama’s real Kenya birth certificate and were about to expose it. More conspiracy later.
Btw, here is a preemptive “LIBERAL MEDIA.”
G. Gordon Liddy
January 26th, 2010
10:10 pm
These fine young men are American heroes…
Polly Wog
January 26th, 2010
10:24 pm
Looks like someone might be going to federal p-m-i-t-a prison.
DannyX
January 26th, 2010
10:54 pm
Mustang100? Do you work for Senator Vitter (Republican La.)?
I believe Senator Vitter (Republican La.,) you know the other Senator from that state, has done a lot of business with Mustang Ranch. You see the other Republican from Louisiana used to hire hookers. These hookers would actually put diapers on the good Republican Senator. Senator Vitter (Republican La.) would get sexual gratification from these paid acts.
He will be re-elected. If you by chance see one of his campaign speeches give him a holler for me will ya MUSTANG100, ask him, “Pampers or Huggies?”
Louisiana needs a change.
appaloosa
January 26th, 2010
11:05 pm
Let the right destroy themselves… online.
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mackie mccleod
January 27th, 2010
11:49 am
to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
forums.signonsandiego. com/showthread.php?t=59139
to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
dallasnews. com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3574
L
January 27th, 2010
2:10 pm
And, remember in November…Paul Broun was one of 31 Republic Congressmen to sign on to a resolution calling James O’Keefe a national treasure for his guerilla (gonzo?) journalism tactics in the ACORN sting. Remember too, that ACORN posited that the film was heavily edited to omit the staffers calling O’Keefe on his “joke.”
America!!!!!
January 27th, 2010
4:42 pm
Go Colts!!
Chris Mathews is covered in his own spittle because he is drinking, again and becacuse he is a racist.
January 28th, 2010
1:00 am
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/27/msnbcs_matthews_on_obama_i_forgot_he_was_black_tonight.html
Capt. Spastic
January 28th, 2010
9:45 pm
Can one of you babbling baboons explain to me exactly HOW this can be derived as being Obama’s fault or a left-wing plot?
O’Keefe was and IS a scum-bag, He and his pack of jackals did this to themselves! No one forced him into that office, or planted the equipment on him.
If you’re going to hate, at least hate for a valid, legitimate reason.
Oh wait. I forgot where I was for a minute.
Never mind.
willie p
February 11th, 2010
12:35 am
Enter your comments here
Hmmm…so interesting and oh, so factual! After reading all of the comments, I have made a decision…there is a major difference between ignorance and stupidity…ignorance is when someone has not check out things for themselves, or does not have the resources to do so. Stupidity is some who can check out things for themselves but refuses to. Thus, the old phrase “ignorance is bliss” comes into play. Stupidity on the other hand…well, lets just say “Stupid is stupid.” We are all born ignorant, and we increase our knowledge through the years. Others take ignorance and work hard, very hard, to earn the title “Stupid.” Thank all of you for the “laughs.” That includes all …right, left, and center. You have made it very worthwhile for me to retire tonight and dream good dreams. I am laughing so hard, that I only hope I can go to sleep quickly. Stupid Rules.
thank you, thank you