This is left-wing "journalism": false pretenses, ambush tactics and doctored tapes. What a surprise. Not. Media Continue to Falsely Accuse O'Keefe of Wiretapping By Lachlan Markay Thu, 01/28/2010 Some in the liberal media continue to insist that James O'Keefe and his three cohorts were trying to "bug" or "tap" Sen. Mary Landrieu's phone lines when law enforcement officials have clearly said that they were not. Since the left doesn't like O'Keefe, the liberal media seems to think standard practices of journalistic integrity don't apply here. According to MSNBC, one law enforcement official, who was not named, said "the four men arrested for attempting to tamper with the phones in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) were not trying to intercept or wiretap the calls." This statement comports with the affidavit filed in court after O'Keefe and company were arrested, which did not mention wiretapping or bugging, and only referred to the "tampering" of phone lines (h/t Patterico). But the Boston Globe parroted this false accusation this morning in a gossip blog post about one of the alleged perpetrators, Joe Basel. The Globe--the same Globe that complained about ACORN's "trial-by-video"--called him a "political dirty trickster who was busted in a Watergate-style bugging operation earlier this week," and said again a couple paragraphs later that Basel was "bagged by the feds allegedly trying to bug the phones" in Landrieu's office. At least the Globe writers said "allegedly" the second time. The L.A. Times also issued the false claim that the crew had tried to "bug" Landrieu's phones, and explicitly tried to tie O'Keefe and company to the perpetrators of the Watergate break-in:
Crime-Tolerating Left Pounces on Apparent New Orleans Stunt by Kyle Olson Let me first say, if what is being reported in the media is accurate, a dumb prank was attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu by James OâKeefe and his comrades. There should be zero tolerance for crime, regardless of who does it. If OâKeefe is guilty of what the FBI is alleging, he should be held accountable. The Left believes that now, but where were they six months ago? Itâs interesting to observe, and personally experience, the hypocritical way the Left is treating this situation. Consider two unsolicited e-mails I received Monday night from a few liberal wackos with too much time on their hands. Hereâs the first, which was accompanied by the subject line, âRepublicans are Asâ-es!â: The other, titled, âJames OâKeefe is going to jail! YOU FAILED!â: The alleged crimes committed by ACORN employees in the OâKeefe and Giles videos were excused, and even rationalized, by the Left. But they donât apply the same level of patience and understanding for OâKeefe and Company. Even worse, theyâre jumping to conclusions about their guilt, and the nature of their alleged crime. The liberal media is openly theorizing that OâKeefe and his friends were trying to bug telephones in the senatorâs office. The Louisiana Democratic Party is already calling it the âLouisiana Watergate.â As Andrew Breitbart said: Surely James OâKeefe is not dumb enough to think he could actually bug the phones of a sitting U.S. Senator. Only the âA-Teamâ could do that, and they disbanded well over a decade ago. The Left, despite video evidence, was silent about ACORNâs gross shenanigans. But when scant details emerge from a stunt in New Orleans, itâs the next Watergate. It shows what their real agenda is. Itâs not truth, itâs not justice and itâs certainly not the American way. Itâs maintaining power and access to taxpayer dollars by any means necessary.
It was on both Brett Baier, and Sheppard Smith as well as Greta, on Tuesday, and O'Reilly covered it on wednesday before the SOTU when no other station was doing anything but talking about the annointed one, nice try though. Did the thought ever occur to you that they tape these opinion shows during the day, and that they are not always up to date. Nevermind I already know my answer, I just asked if a thought ever occured to you, obviously the answer is no.
Yo, dipshit, it was already stated in the article I posted that Fox "News" casters briefly mentioned the story on Tuesday. The fact remains that Fox's Big 3 talkshow hosts ignored the story on Tuesday, while CNN and MSNBC did not. Did the thought ever occur to you that the story broke on Monday and was available to everybody for coverage on Tuesday? Obviously no. Fox talking heads have egg all over their faces for lionizing that felon. No take-backs or do-overs for this clusterfuck.
I'll take John Edwards over Dick Cheney anytime. Seriously, dude, try to stay on topic. I know it's a novel experience for you, not talking about anything and everything but the thread topic, but it will help disguise your intellectual shortcomings if nothing else. Assuming you actually have something to contribute to the topic, of course. I may be dangerously out on a limb with that assumption.
Considering that you're implying the eagerness to so quickly jump on the this new story as a measure of journalistic integrity, let us review: Media Ignore ACORN Giving Business Advice to Pimp and Prostitute By Noel Sheppard Sat, 09/12/2009 You would think videos exposing representatives of the controversial organization ACORN giving advice on how a couple can get a loan to set up a brothel would be BIG NEWS. Such would seem especially the case if the proposed house of ill repute would be employing minors illegally smuggled across the border from Central America. Yet, when Andrew Breitbart's new website Big Government published such videos Thursday morning, media normally fascinated with sex stories almost completely ignored it. The boycott continued even after several ACORNers were fired as a result (sting videos embedded below the fold): ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC have not aired one television report concerning this matter The New York Times has not published one article concerning this matter USA Today has not published one article concerning this matter The Boston Globe has not published one article concerning this matter The Los Angeles Times has not published one article concerning this matter The Chicago Tribune has not published one article concerning this matter Bucking the boycott trend were the Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN, and Fox News. ABC's Jake Tapper also wrote about this at his Political Punch blog (h/t Paul Chesser). Not surprisingly, one of the people to report this on Thursday was Fox News's Glenn Beck who opened his program that day: How do they sleep, indeed. Later in the program, Beck marvelously said the following: Why indeed? After all, in the summer and fall of 2006, America's media on a daily basis harped on the word "macaca" as well as electronic messages sent to male pages by a little known Florida Congressman. Now, three years later, an organization with close ties to the President of the United States had to fire several of its representatives for giving business advice to a couple looking to import under-aged girls to be used as prostitutes, and these same news outlets couldn't care less! How DO YOU sleep at night, MEDIA?
Pretty stupid. Highlighting the pathetic joke that is ACORN is one thing; entering under false pretenses into a Senator's office another entirely (no matter which Senator, even Stuart Smiley, er, Al Franken...). Question: Did he commit a felony? I thought he was charged with entering federal property under false pretenses. Is that itself a felony?
Felonies were definitely committed. The two sidekicks were impersonating telephone repairmen. That's false pretenses. O'Keefe was there, which subjects him to aiding and abetting, and once a conspiracy is established, he'll be charged with that as well. A conspiracy exists whenever two or more people plan a crime, even if only one of them actually commits the crime. The main crime is telephone tampering. Even attempting to tamper with a phone operated by the federal government is a felony. These cocky punks are all felony stupid, and if there's any justice, they'll be labeled felons for life.
Did the thought ever occur to you that they have their programs planned, and even shot sometimes days in advance? They squeeze it in their show when they have time on their show, sorry if it is not priority number 1 for conservative opinion shows, just as Acorn was not for your buddy Keith Olbermann and Rachel Madcow. What is much more scary is when All of the actual supposed news services bugscoe listed above decided not to even mention anything about the Acorn story. Sherlock Holmes over here just figured out that Hannity and Beck might be conservative, please tell me what great mystery you plan to solve next inspector gadget. What was your first clue? Hannity only says that he is a conservative twenty five times a night on his show. News Flash buddy, Hannity and Beck are opinion guys as are Madcow, Olbermann, and Chris Matthews, none of them are news sources, you would be hard pressed to find anyone as irrational as yourself who can not discern the difference. The fact of the matter is Fox News covered it, with their news guys, and you sir are an idiot. (I use the term "Sir" rather loosely, with you.)