The unbearable lameness of James O'Keefe: Attempt to punk CNN reporter is a final stupidity
Breitbart's boy strikes again:
A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.
"I never intended to become part of the story," Boudreau said. "But things suddenly took a very strange turn."
O'Keefe is best known for making a series of undercover videos inside ACORN offices around the country in 2009. The 40-year-old liberal group was crippled by scandal after O'Keefe and fellow activist Hannah Giles allegedly solicited advice from ACORN workers on setting up a brothel and evading taxes.
We all remember the utter lameness of his attempt to wiretap Mary Landrieu, which blew up in his face. Well, this scheme was even lamer:
CNN was forwarded an e-mail, sent from O'Keefe's e-mail address, to the executive director of Project Veritas, Izzy Santa; and two conservative activists, Ben Wetmore of New Orleans and Jonathon Burns of St. Louis, Missouri, dated after the call with Boudreau.
"Getting Closer," the e-mail states. "Audio attached conversation with Abbie. What do you think of her reaction guys. She said she could do it Monday, Tuesday. Ben, you think I could get her on the boat?"
Boudreau flew to Baltimore, Maryland, on August 17, rented a car, and drove to suburban Lusby, where O'Keefe wanted to meet. O'Keefe sent a text message to Boudreau that morning, saying that Santa would meet her when she got there.
When Boudreau arrived at the address, a house located on a tributary of the Patuxent River, Santa approached her with a tape recorder in her hand and said she wanted to talk in the car, Boudreau said.
"I noticed she had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK," Boudreau said. "The first thing she basically said to me was, 'I'm not recording you, I'm not recording you. Are you recording me?' I said, 'No, I'm not recording you,' and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording."
Santa told Boudreau that O'Keefe planned to "punk" her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up. Boudreau said she would not get on the boat and asked Santa why O'Keefe wanted her there.
"Izzy told me that James was going to be dressed up and have strawberries and champagne on the boat, and he was going to hit on me the whole time," Boudreau said.
A short time later, O'Keefe emerged from a boat docked behind the house. In that brief conversation, Boudreau told O'Keefe that he did not have permission to record her, and reminded him that the meeting was solely to discuss the upcoming music video shoot, and he had never mentioned that he wanted to tape their meeting.
Boudreau ended the meeting and left. After the incident, Santa gave CNN a series of e-mails she says shows O'Keefe intended to try to embarrass both the network and Boudreau through an elaborate plan.
The most amazing thing about this is that anyone continues to consider that Andrew Breitbart's pseudo-journalistic propaganda products have even an ounce of credibility. Why exactly was CNN even talking to O'Keefe? That'll teach 'em.
Maybe now is the time to start asking people exactly why ACORN was killed by Congress -- and doing something about it.
As much as we denigrate and make fun of Andrew Breitbard and James O'Keefe, the bottom line is they have been successful. Breitbart was just on Bill Maher's show being pawned off as a respectable journalist. He is funded by the shady right wing groups. O'Keefe escaped prosecution for attempting to wiretap a U.S. Senator's office and he effectively destroyed the community organizing group known as ACORN. It worked. They won.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaking of ACORN and voter fraud:
Special Edition: Report of Mass Voter Fraud in Houston full of holes.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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I was really pissed at Bill Maher when I saw that breitbart was on his show Friday night. I tried to log in and send him a message for Overtime, asking why he even recognized the scum, but I couldn't get in for some reason.
I'll have to try a bit later to send Bill a message, telling him not to have this jerk on his program.
“It appears to me that the document that CNN obtained is evidence of criminal activity. Viagra is still a prescription medication in this country and I somewhat doubt that a legitimate doctor prescribed it to someone as young as O'Keefe who I believe is 26. So, based on this information one must assume that:
* This little plot included acquiring a controlled substance without a valid prescription or
* Someone illegally transferred prescription medication to O'Keefe which is also a crime as would be O'Keefe's possession of it. In fact the mere fact that he is alone on the boat waiting for her puts him in possession. or..
* A doctor who should be reported to the AMA and local authorities is prescribing viagra to 26 year olds.
The only unfortunate item is that while we have the list we do not, from what I read, have any eyewitness account. If nothing else, this internal document from Veritas specifies an organised conspiracy to acquire a controlled substance for other than it's intended use which I am fairly certain is a crime.
If O'Keefe wants to make his career destroying other people by nefarious means there is no reason he should be given any benefit of the doubt about his motives. All he should get is Innocent until proven guilty. I really hope someone looks into this.”
Sadly, ED is not solely an affliction of older generations. It's not entirely implausible for O'Keefe to have a legit prescription for it.
if the sex he was having is the same ol, same ol. Switching hands doesn't really raise the desire.
A very good point but I doubt a 26 year old with ED would include it in their supplies list or want to make the fact they require it known to their associates. If there was a prescription and it came from a US Pharmacy there would really be no way to charge him as there would be no reasonable belief a crime was committed as you say. However if the medication is not in his name or was imported illegally it is a pretty clear violation of federal law. Based on his level of research (see pimp costume) in previous crap he has pulled I highly doubt there is a legitimate prescription in his name.
That the slime even has a penis to be dysfunctional...
He may be a fungus, and they do not reproduce sexually.
Actually... just one good look at the little fella and I would naturally assume he needed it... medically speaking, that is.
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Well we know little man O'Keefe's displaying lube was some serious overcompensation for what's not there. How Freudian of O'Keefe and his cohorts.
Come on! The 'pleasure palace' decor taken straight out of Goldie Hawn flick, Foul Play. (or from Breitbart's BETA movie stash)
Goldie hides in guy's apartment to escape killer/thugs and whilst looking out window the guy flicks a few switches and mirrors, disco ball, sex toys, blow up doll all magically appear ....and then he drops his pants
. . . .as in he and O'Keefe's alternate dimensions, these kind of guys are so deluded about their physical selves..... that if he walks into a room, it's foreplay.
Funny how O'Keefe has no problem with the talking point blond Obliva du Hasbeens on FOX news cameras that have his pipe dream job.
Since the law refuses to punish this little frat boy for his illegal activites, it's time to "old school" him on how things really are handled in the dark underbelly of society that he thinks he understands.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
He better NEVER cross my path. EVER.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Just another weak agenda driven evil punk ass Conservative who will eventually get his.
tough and untouchable. I know a few places he'd find out different.
like the old school.
NOBODY 2012
If they wanna know about hookers they should interview michael steal...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
R.I.P. Deborah Jean Palfrey
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
My first thought after reading that story: what a double douche that guy is. Like Breitbart, what's amazing is how shamelessly and arrogantly full of themselves they are, while being completely full of shit.
is based on O'Keefe! They both live in dream worlds. Unfortunately O'K is alive and well and doing his dirty deeds with impunity. Maybe this'll be his hanging.
in my mouth at the though of O'Keefe plus "pleasure palace.
EWWWWW!!
O'Keefe's "pleasure palace" is Breitbart's underwear drawer.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
special case of lameness.
(as a young progressive in my early 20's I dated a young conservative also in his early 20's, and he was incredibly lame and boring with his watching Billo religiously and his crush on Coultergeist)
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
The worst part is they make you leave the nightlight on during intimate moments.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
"Why exactly was CNN even talking to O'Keefe?"
/done
That's the question. CNN played right along with the games to destroy ACORN. These people are on the same team and CNN is just using this latest thing for publicity of its new program. It is officially entertainment with entertainment quality promotion. Think the WWF or World Wide Wrestling Federation. That is the level of CNN etc.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byhf3wVQbsw
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and smarts, they'd be classy enough to be making human/animal snuff films.
What a bunch of low lives.
What is this guy, 12?
"He wrote this book here and the book says ; He made us all to be just like him So, if we're dumb, then god is dumb and maybe even a little ugly on the side".
Frank Zappa
http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/32017/small/12...
American People To Corporate Media: We Don’t Trust Anything You Say... A Gallup poll has revealed that a record majority of Americans fundamentally do not trust the mass media and believe it to be politically biased.
Remember how the media treated Jeff Gannon as a colleague. These people have no interest in journalistic integrity or holding power accountable. Everyone gets off and is in the same game. Corruption rules the day.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
That does explain a few things, I suppose.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
I doubt he could get a girl any other way, and even this didn't work.
What motivates him to want to discredit the most mainstream innocuous news organization, CNN?
Oh, I guess Fox and Friends(Breitbart) want every news outlet to be just like them, corrupt, with seamy sexual harrassment going on...
The ONLY way to stop this kind of constant undermining of our news is for the Democrats to win this midterm, demonstrating to them that even if they throw everything they've got at them the people prefer this party to the other one.
MyMy
I assume he want's to punk CNN because you know,it's so "Liberal" and biased etc.
If Pimp Daddy James had a clue he'd know what a ridiculous idea that truly is.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
What exactly did the guy have planned? I'm really wondering if he wasn't planning to something more than "punk" this reporter, you know what I mean?
For his accomplice to be so distressed, and protesting that she's a "moral person" and therefore had to warn this woman makes me wonder if O'Keefe wasn't planning more of a drugging/rape, honestly.
a sex tape where he could splice in another model with her face obscured - then he could say it was Boudreau.
Really, he thought that he would have strawberries and champagne on a boat and his "hitting on" Abbie Boudreau was going to net him scandalous footage? I think the only footage he'd have gotten would have been her rejecting his pathetic little advances at every turn. O'Keefe is an ugly, troll of a man on the outside and inside.
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
Talk about delusions of grandeur.
a real ladies man.
this little episode the next time he comes on the show and calls him a 'journalist." BTW, why isn't that punk in jail yet?
O'Keefe is one ugly asshole and pervert that surely has a std.
He better watch his back because there may be someone out there who can play his game better than he can and he just might be the butt of some other person's punk job.
Why was this lady even talking with him about anything? Hasn't the word gotten out at cnn that he's a awesome type of creep?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
This happening to the network that hired a piece of shit like Erick Erickson. Getting what they deserve.
Maybe the new CEO at CNN will bring CNN back to news coverage and real investigative journalism...
but i'm not holding my breath or changing my ToVo settings yet...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
what O'keefe's idea of a pleasure palace is and how many Star Trek posters are on the walls.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
You really think it's over for him? Please. He'll be getting at least wingnut welfare for the rest of his life, and the "liberal" media will continue to "ask questions" about the latest from this "controversial journalist" for decades. (Alternating with hand-wringing as to whether 22 hours a day on his next "scoop" will be enough to
keep wingnuts from throwing rocks through their windowssatisfy the demands of journalistic objectivity."O'Keefe and fellow activist Hannah Giles allegedly solicited advice from ACORN workers on setting up a brothel and evading taxes"
really, Scott?
that's the best you could do with the resources at your fingertips?
idiot.
Brutish, sexist behavior is commonplace the rightwingers.
Arlene Novak McCarthy LGBT Activists
Slime like O'Keefe will be around a long time. Who knows what really motivates them? Selfish interests I suspect. Look at Karl Rove. He could choose to be an honest political advisor. Instead he got into politics by perpetrating "dirty tricks" and currently spends his time destroying democracy and sitting in the pocket of corporate America.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
O'Keefe will be around a long time, unless of course it turns out he's gay. Then of course Fox and Fiends will have nothing to do with him anymore.
Probably their whining about "voting rights" and "advocacy for the poor." ACORN was on the Republican hit list for quite a while but was able to survive and continue its mission.
Democrats were able to destroy ACORN in about a week using O'Keefe's obviously doctored videos as an excuse. And now, the Democrats don't have to hear the whining. Because, hey, it's all about the whining.
So quit complaining. The unconstitutional destruction of ACORN by the Democratic Congress is really a glass that's half full. It just looks like it was hurled against the wall and shattered into a million pieces.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
perspective. I guess, if the Dems really wanted our votes, they wouldn't have trashed Acorn so readily.
The Congressman with guts... Grayson on Acorn.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Center for Constitutional Rights is handling ACORN v. USA:
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) v. USA
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
This asshat thinking he could seduce a big name reporter is not only the height of sleaze, but also hubris. That ugly, noxious fool couldn't get laid in a brothel.
This is the same guy who went on Fox News dressed like Huggy Bear because, in his extensive experience in the sex trade, that's how pimps dress. After that, he and two other members of the Village People tried to tap Mary Landrieu's phones. A heavily lubricated floating fuck hut seems totally in character.
Wow, who'd a thunk it? O'Keefe is a liar and a fraud. That's news to me!
I have to agree with David on this. Why would anyone talk to O'Keefe or take him or Breitbart seriously? After the Shirley Sherrod fiasco, you would think that both of them would craw under a rock somewhere.
...This makes James O'Keefe a felon. This type of action is cognized under the wiretapping statute of Maryland. Details on my blog:
James O'Keefe violates MD law. The law in question has a 5 year prison term and $10k fine maximum.
I think the plan was to get consent for audio recording, since the law doesn't cover video. So it's like "I'm going to record this interview, are you cool with that? Yes? Great, can we step into my boat now...?" and bam, he now has sound for his video.
I don't see though how relentlessly hitting on someone in a boat is "punking" them. What was his narrative going to be exactly that makes her anything but a victim here?
I'm curious what the sexual harassment statute says in Maryland? Isn't Alvin Greene being charged with something similar to what O'Keefe was planning? I mean, he had dildos and so forth all ready to go...
..O'Keefe enjoys his own personal congressional caucus ...
http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201001260008
If so inclined, e-mail his 31 Beltway mommies & daddies & ask them what the next prize they bestow on their little boy O'Keefe will be...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/27/83079...
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
Does O'Keefe ever look in a mirror?
The idea that he could seduce any woman who isn't unconscious from drugs or alcohol is laughable.
A room full of dildos on a professional interview?? Geeze Louise.
He thinks he is a serious investigative reporter. Hysterical
The guy is pathetic.
If the White House nudnicks want the Progressive attention they think they deserve then a newly funded
Acorn is called for today. Show some actual progress in supporting the people that got the voters to the polls
and were illegally shut down by the cowards in charge.
michel chavaniac
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
This guy is slime; he's a punk; he's scum of the earth, just like his buddy breitbart. He seems like some sort of psychopath fo me; he should be locked up.
I'm wondering about this Izzy Santa. The CNN reporter said that she looked really afraid, her lips were shivering, and she had a bit of dirt on her face. I wonder if this jerk o'keefe abused her?
That must be what that "reflection" thing is primarily about? I'd like to hear the fundamental reason(s) the girl had a change of heart.
Maybe that's why the Authors of the good book believed that thought originated in the ♥?...
The word "heart" in the bible was not used in the modern sense of "emotion" because it is depicted as having thoughts, intentions, and imaginations. The emotions were usually considered to be in the kidneys...
..."Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins." (Psalm 73:21) "Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. Let not my heart envy sinners." (Proverbs 23:16-17) "I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways." (Jeremiah 17:10) "All the churches will know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts." (Revelation 2:23) [reins and hearts = hearts and minds]
It seems to have had a positive outcome nonetheless... for some people. :-P Thanks Mr. Amato & Neiwert
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Can't afford HBO. Maher must have bumped his head!!! That he would invite Breitbart on his show is beyond contempt.
For that he earns my WORSTEST PERSON...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
This moron has GOT to be one of the stupidest homo sapiens on the planet. She was flirting with him??? Has he looked into a mirror and/or listened to himself lately?
An ego the size of the Hindenburg ... it will almost certainly go up in flames some day.
*
WHY can't the authorities figure out how to put this asshat in jail and leave him there???
O'Keefe will be the nomber 1 male model on FOX's assless chaps calendar.
As in chaps who's got no bottom
Or the gay rodeo kind?
Rump Ranger: Hi'Yo Dildo, away....
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
What I want to know is what role does his father have in his nonsense?
Isn't he a US Attorney or some such in Louisiana? Does anyone believe that if your Daddy wasn't a US Attorney you would be doing some kind of time for screwing with a US Senator's phone system?
A powerful Daddy is the best kind of affirmative action. Hasn't any journalist cornered his sire? WTF?
What a dweeb! No wonder he looks like Gilligan.
The thing to remember about O'Keefe is that he favors strategies set up so that he can embarrass someone no matter how they act. For example, if ACORN turned him down for help, he would have played that as "ACORN refuses to help white people" by changing the framing of the story a little bit.
I don't know how that would have played out here, but my guess is that if she rejected his advances, he had it set up to take her (or CNN) down regardless.
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