Bizarre news out of New Orleans, covered in depth first by the Times-Picayune: 4 arrested by FBI in apparent attempt to bug phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu--and one of the inept is James O'Keefe, who recently rose to media (largely Fox News) and political fame for his anti-ACORN videos., where he posted as a pimp. Two people dressed as phone workers and O'Keefe was in office trying to record it. Already this afternoon all of the great Watergate lingo being recycled, from "follow the money" to "just a third-rate burglary."The Times-Picayune in headline refers to O'Keefe as "ACORN Gotcha Man." One of O'Keefe's "co-conspirators" is Joe Basel, editor of a conservative campus paper at University of Minnesota-Morris.
The first report on a clearly flustered Fox News (below):
What a great story!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's good to see that FOX News is seeking out some context here : )
I don't get why O'Keefe would want to make a video of his pals committing a crime. What's up with that?
ReplyDeleteHow did the Fox folks make the leap from they were there to tap the phones to they were there to catch some Acorn hanky-panky in the Senator's office??? Was anything about Acorn even mentioned in the release besides identifying the videographer as the same guy who did the Acorn videos?
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