The folks over at Fox News cancelled alt-right troll James O'Keefe's appearance on the softball's program. The softball was teasing a video from Project Veritas about protesters "bird dogging" at Donald Trump campaign stops.
O'Keefe is notorious for doing undercover videos of individuals who he claim are liberal propagandists. He often films them without consent and selectively edits these videos to make it seem like something is sinister going on.
Fox News didn't bring alt-right troll on its programs because of his history of misleading videos.
He and his allies often to justify these accusations by saying that the "junk food media" blackout his investigations. He and his allies often try to ambush anti-conservative agitators.
O'Keefe was trying to piece together this allegation that some liberal group was deliberately trying to rile up Donald Trump supporters. It's almost amazing that in this free society, an agitator is given the freedom at their risk to disrupt political events.
This nobody named Scott Foval, a former advocate for the Americans United for Change was chatting with an operative for nearly 20 minutes. Throughout the video, he says some stuff that makes it look like the DNC is deliberately trying to pay people to get roughed up by Trump supporters.
Far from that. The Americans United for Change and other groups O'Keefe tried to infiltrate said that O'Keefe is pathetic and he's not telling the truth.
You know the softball is the biggest Trump supporter in the conservative media. He's risking his career on the controversial billionaire winning the presidency.
Sean "Softball" Hannity is treading on thin ice with the Fox News executives.
The softball is saying to his audience in real time that "Fox News can't independently verify the video but we will cover some of it."
When the softball often introduces a "bombshell", he doesn't often say it's truthful.
Since Roger Ailes was fired out the cannon, the Murdoch family is trying to do clean up. They want to keep the viewers watching. However they want the network to be valid in the truth.
The softball doesn't tell the truth to his viewers and listeners. He's often parading nonsense as opinionated journalism.
The lawsuits against him continues. Even though this agitator is dead, his assets would be up for grabs by those who sued him.
The racist right lost an ally to their efforts. On February 29, 2012, after finishing his documentary Hating Breitbart, conservative agitator Andrew Breitbart was at a local spot in his hometown of Los Angeles.
Everything was cool until the early morning of March 1. After leaving his spot, he was walking home. He would.collapse and die on route to the hospital. He passed away of a heart attack.
I remember that four days before his death, he was on That Guy Who Helped Obama Win's program. He was promoting that devastating tape that could rattle the institutional left. A tape that President Barack Obama was shielding from the junk food media.
Everyone was caught off guard by this. Not many in the junk food media had heard of him. They knew he was the one who brought down ACORN, the community organization group the racist right believed "stole" the election from John McCain.
ACORN was being taped by James O'Keefe (aka ACORN Pimp), a right wing activist and his girlfriend at the time Hannah Giles. They would sneak into the community organization office as normal people and then turn around and put on a pimp and prostitute outfit. Their antics managed to shut down the community organization. Their antics managed to get them in trouble with the fired employees.
O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart were forced to shelve out money after the tapes produced were found to be misleading and slanderous.
They heard of Breitbart being the guy who managed to embarrass Anthony Weiner, a longtime Democratic lawamker from New York. He got major credit for catching the lawmaker sexting women his penis. That led to the mighty fall of Weiner.
Shirley Sherrod is the most high profile litigant against the estate of Andrew Breitbart.
Weiner tried to resurrect his career by running for mayor of New York. His career tanked after got caught sending even more disturbing and even more explicit photos of his penis.
Now there's a real big story involving Breitbart. It comes in regards of Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) worker who was fired by the federal government after she was accused of saying offensive statements about White people.
July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture because of administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by blogger Andrew Breitbart on his website.
Based on these excerpts, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks as racist and U.S. government officials called on the official to resign. But, when the story was understood to be about the NAACP audience reaction to Sherrod's story, and not Sherrod at all, the NAACP and White House officials apologized. In addition, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack apologized for the firing and offered Sherrod a new position.
Sherrod would file a lawsuit for defamation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com TV chief Larry O'Connor, and a "John Doe," who, according to the complaint, is "an individual whose identity has been concealed by the other defendants and who, according to defendant Breitbart, was involved in the deceptive editing of the video clip and encouraged its publication with the intent to defame Mrs. Sherrod."
On April 18, 2011, Breitbart and O'Connor filed joint motions for dismissal on First Amendment grounds, known in legal circles as an "anti-SLAPP motion." The motion argued that Breitbart's "1400-word, July 19, 2010 commentary... that is the subject of Sherrod’s lawsuit" was in the context of a "months-long and very loud public clash between Tea Party conservatives and the NAACP and its allies in Congress."
The motion was denied, and on February 15, 2012, the U.S. District Court issued a six-page "statement of reasons" which accused Breitbart and O'Connor of wasting "a considerable amount of judicial and litigant resources" on their "'novel' if not overreaching motion."
On March 2012, Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure. He remained a named party in Sherrod’s lawsuit until August 2013, when Sherrod’s lawyers moved to name Susie Bean Breitbart, his widow, as defendant in the lawsuit.
In 2014, Sherrod's lawyers indicated that U.S. executive branch privilege may play a role in the suit
To this day, most on the racist right believe that Sherrod is a "racist". Her image was severely tarnished.
Tom Vilsack, the current USDA chief is being subpoenaed to court Lawyers for Sherrod and O'Connor said Friday that they had subpoenaed Vilsack for deposition earlier this week. They did so after U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said in a hearing Monday that Vilsack's testimony could speed up the conclusion of the case. The USDA referred calls to the Justice Department, which did not respond to a request to confirm that Vilsack had been subpoenaed.
When Sherrod's full speech to an NAACP group earlier that year came to light, it became clear that her remarks about an initial reluctance to help a white farmer decades ago were not racist but an attempt at telling a story of racial reconciliation. Once that was obvious, Sherrod received public apologies from the administration — even from President Barack Obama himself — and an offer to return to the Agriculture Department, which she declined.
Sherrod's lawyers have been pushing the government to release more documents and emails in an effort to get more information on her ouster. At one point, the judge said that deposing Vilsack, who has said he alone made the decision to seek Sherrod's resignation, might be a quicker route to the information.
The case is one of the first high-profile federal lawsuits to test bloggers' freedom of speech rights, and large news organizations including The New York Times Co., The Washington Post Co. and Dow Jones & Company have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the suit.
Sherrod's lawsuit says the incident affected her sleep and caused her back pain. It contends that she was damaged by having her "integrity, impartiality and motivations questioned, making it difficult (if not impossible) for her to continue her life's work assisting poor farmers in rural areas" even though she was invited to return to the department.
Lawyers for the bloggers argue the blog post was opinion and did not defame Sherrod.
The Breitbart empire is collapsing. Nothing of the shit is sticking to the wall. With the passing of Andrew Breitbart death, the company is left with no motivation.
O'Keefe, Giles and Dana Loesh left Beirtbart on sour terms. Joel Pollack went to Crazy Jones and InfoWars. Ben Shapiro left the company to jump onto agitator radio.
EBT cards are down in several states. I am guessing conservatives are rejoicing over that one!
Yeah, I know that conservatives believe that those on food stamps and welfare are the reasons for America's turmoils. I can't fault them for believing in the poor being "moochers" and "Obama's people!"
They're entitled to be condescending. I mean that type of stuff right there is a reason for why President Barack Obama won reelection. The middle and lower class believe that the safety net is there to keep them from robbing and looting. Cause if you have to steal to keep food on the table, you probably would. Trust me, if the opportunities were given, the poor would steal from a grocery store if they couldn't have access to the safety nets. Believe me, you never know what happens until you become one of them!
If you're disabled, I guess that you better get better. Because you're going to need a job as well. If you're in need of a firearm, get one because you're going to need it.
In the minds of the racist right, some are fixated on those "gubmint" leeches taking out of their hardworking pockets. They don't see that less than 10% of the federal funds go to food stamps. Most of the federal funds go to either infrastructure and federal agencies.
Republican lawmakers from state and federal levels are diligently pushing legislation that cuts food stamps and unemployment benefits to the bare bone. Some states believe that you're entitled to less than $100 for a family of four. Some believe that you have to have a drug test to get student loans, food stamps, welfare, farm aid, disaster relief and unemployment benefits.
With the rising costs of electricity, heat, food, gas, rent, necessities such as toilet paper are going up, more people are using safety nets. The more things that go up, the likelihood that many would resort to safety nets and food banks for assistance.
Conservatives are rejoicing over the nationwide glitches in the EBT program. Xerox technical services are down and many Americans can't use the EBT (electronic balance transfer) card at local stores.
Coming from ReallyGhetto.com. Assuming its a racially insensitive website.
So with this government shutdown affecting 800,000 government workers, with some getting no pay for work, I would imagine that some will apply for a "safety net' if the inept Congress can't pass a budget.
The Republicans tried to pass a bill in the House of Representatives to shed off over $40 billion in the SNAP program. The Democratic-controlled Senate and the president told the Republicans don't even try it.
But they did it anyway. This budget deal proposed by Republicans include cuts to the healthcare law, cuts to safety nets and a strong pullback on regulations (in regards to the environment).
The Associated Press reports that 17 states were affected by this problem and they're trying to fix it as quickly as possible. For conservatives, they rather see it down indefinitely.
People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards on Saturday, after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure.
The electronic benefits system experienced a temporary shutdown during a routine test of Xerox back-up systems, company spokeswoman Jennifer Wasmer said Saturday.
"While the system is now up and running, beneficiaries in the 17 affected states continue to experience connectivity issues to access their benefits. Technical staff is addressing the issue and expect the system to be restored soon," Wasmer said in an emailed statement. "Beneficiaries requiring access to their benefits can work with their local retailers who can activate an emergency voucher system where available. We appreciate our clients' patience while we work through this outage as quickly as possible."
U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Courtney Rowe underscored that the outage is not related to the government shutdown.
Shoppers left carts of groceries behind at a packed Market Basket grocery store in Biddeford, Maine, because they couldn't get their benefits, said fellow shopper Barbara Colman, of Saco, Maine. The manager put up a sign saying the EBT system was not in use. Colman, who receives the benefits, called an 800 telephone line for the program and it said the system was down due to maintenance, she said.
"That's a problem. There's a lot of families who are not going to be able to feed children because the system is being maintenanced," Colman said. "No one should put maintenance in during the daytime."
She planned to reach out to local officials.
"I'm trying to reach out to everybody because I'm not thinking of me an adult who can figure out things. I'm thinking of the simpler person in the world who is sitting there trying to just do basic shopping to feed their kids. You don't want children going hungry tonight because of stupidity," she said.
This photo circulates around white extremist websites.
Ohio's cash and food assistance card payment systems went down at 11 a.m., said Benjamin Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Ohio's cash system has been fixed, however he said that its electronic benefits transfer card system is still down. Johnson said Xerox is notifying retailers to revert to the manual system, meaning SNAP customers can spend up to $50 until the system is back online. SNAP recipients should call the 800 number on the back of their card, and Xerox will guide them through the purchase process.
Illinois residents began reporting problems with their cards — known as LINK in that state — on Saturday morning, said Januari Smith, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Smith said that typically when the cards aren't working retailers can call a backup phone number to find out how much money a customer has available in their account. But that information also was unavailable because of the outage, so customers weren't able to use their cards.
"It really is a bad situation but they are working to get it fixed as soon as possible," Smith said. "We hope it will be back up later today."
In Clarksdale, Miss. — one of the poorest parts of one of the poorest states in the nation — cashier Eliza Shook said dozens of customers at Corner Grocery had to put back groceries when the cards failed Saturday because they couldn't afford to pay for the food. After several hours, she put a sign on the front door to tell people about the problem.
"It's been terrible," Shook said in a phone interview. "It's just been some angry folks. That's what a lot of folks depend on."
Mississippi Department of Human Services director Rickey Berry confirmed that Xerox, the state's EBT vendor, had computer problems. He said he had been told by midafternoon that the problems were being fixed.
"I know there are a lot of mad people," Berry said.
Sheree Powell, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, started receiving calls around 11:30 a.m. about problems with the state's card systems. More than 600,000 Oklahomans receive SNAP benefits, and money is dispersed to the cards on the first, fifth and 10th days of every month, so the disruption came at what is typically a high-use time for the cards.
Plenty of experiences at a Walmart. The people of Walmart website is a popular blog that takes shots at the company and the insane things some do while shopping at the retail giant.
Oklahoma also runs a separate debit card system for other state benefits like unemployment payments. Those cards can be used at ATMs to withdraw cash. Powell said Xerox administers both the EBT and debit card systems, and they both were down initially.
Like Ohio's Johnson, Powell said that Oklahoma's cash debit card system has since been restored, but the EBT cards for the SNAP program were still down. Powell said Oklahoma's Xerox representative told them that the problems stemmed from a power failure at a data center, and power had been restored quickly.
"It just takes a while to reboot these systems," she said, adding that she did not know where the data center was located.
Powell said that some grocery store cashiers had been speculating that the federal government's shutdown caused the problem, but state officials have been assured that that is not the case.
"We are hopeful it will be up this afternoon but we were not given a specific time frame," she said.
David Akerly, a spokesman for Michigan's Department of Human Services, also confirmed that residents in his state have reported problems using their cards.
Colman said the store manager promised her that he would honor the day's store flyer discounts next week.
Before I go, do you know a friend or family member using an EBT card?
Do you believe the poor take advantage of the safety nets?
Do you support intrusive laws such as drug tests in order to receive a safety net?
Isn't what you do at home a "private matter!" See I thought libertarians and conservatives were all about limited government intrusion on what you do at home.
I guess it only applies to them and not the rest!
Here's an Ohio man ranting sarcastically about the situation. Not understand the plight of the poor, the needy and the disabled. Just ranting because he has a camera and a whole lot of bigots that agree with him. As usual, he'll speak a good game but still get the whole scenario wrong!
NAACP president Benjamin Jealous is leaving the organization.
The head of the nation's civil rights group is leaving by the end of the month.
Benjamin Jealous is stepping down as the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
He wants to spend more time with his family. He is the youngest ever national leader of the organization.
Under Jealous' lead, the NAACP has had a number of notable achievements during his tenure,
including: registering 374,553 voters and mobilizing 1.2 million new and
unlikely voters to turn out at the pollsfor the 2012 presidential election; leading the charge for Connecticutand Maryland to abolish the death penalty; endorsing marriage equality; and fighting laws the NAACP claims were intended for voter suppression in states across the country.
During Jealous’ tenure, the NAACP's online activists have increased
from 175,000 to more than 675,000; its donors have increased from 16,000
individuals per year to more than 132,000; and the number of total
NAACP activists has topped one million.
Jealous will step down as president of the NAACP at the end of December 2013 Jealous is married to Lia Epperson, a law professor at American University and a civil rights attorney.
He leaves behind a somewhat controversial history. I mean he was around during the whole Shirley Sherrod fiasco in 2010. During a convention, Jealous stated that the Tea Party was the last elements of racism.
He slammed those ignorant Republicans like Tim Scott (the only Black U.S. Senator), Rand Paul, Palin Da Ass, and Glenn Beck as panderers of racism. He was completely right on that one.
It pissed off that agitator Andrew Breitbart. That agitator tried to get back at the NAACP by releasing a video of then U.S. Agriculture representative Shirley Sherrod talking about her experiences in the South.
Sherrod lost her father to the racial extremists who murdered him. She had some resentment towards White people at a time. As a community advisor, Sherrod was hoping to help save families from losing their homes.
She was dealing with a White family from the South who was on the verge of losing their home, changed her views.
So as she shared this experience, Breitbart took all the good parts out of the speech and put it together to make it seem like the NAACP was hosting a Black extremist and President Barack Obama allowed this person to be on the "gubmint" payroll.
The video was posted on the Breitbart websites and it was going to be on the Chalk E. Becker show.
President Barack Obama ordered Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to send that woman packing.
The NAACP also overreacted to it too by issuing an apology.
Soon as the controversy was starting to built up. The truth came out.
The video was doctored, the controversy soon swung to the president overreacting and the media's rush to judgement. Also this fiasco left egg on the face of Andrew Breitbart. His credibility was ruined during that event.
He managed to rebuilt himself as the guy who took down Anthony Weiner, a Democratic congressman who texted his penis to women. Weiner was the only success that Breitbart had during his time as an agitator.
Weiner would later try to run for mayor only to be sent back to the cesspool he's created out of his arrogance.
Breitbart would later die of a heart attack in 2012.
Jealous and Breitbart were not the best of friends. The conservative agitator was trying to smear the NAACP and have Jealous fired.
Jealous also criticized the president. He believes the president has to throw a little more weight into the issues in the Black and Hispanic communities. The unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers is very high.
Jealous, Rev. Perm and the president spoke at the March On Washington rally last month.
He made it clear that Black America must speak up about issues such as unemployment, racial profiling and the U.S. Justice system (in regards to the George Zimmerman verdict).
Under his leadership, the NAACP endorsed the rights for gay couples to marry.
Ben Shaprio and Joel Pollack once again bury their heads in the ass once again.
For one thing, would Ben Shapiro say this stuff to directly to an over 7 ft tall NBA player?
The conservative Breitbart News overreacts once again to the news of NBA center Jason Collins coming out as the first openly gay basketball player.
Buzzkill.
The news broke around 10am and the nation is embracing the NBA star for having such courage to open up about his sexuality.
President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton had contacted Collins and showed their support for the player.
Shaprio on the other hand comes to Twitter to promote conservative agitating. And yes, he's getting flack for it. He took to the social networks to rant about the junk food media forcing the news down his throat.
What kind of America does the left think we live in? This is not 1947 with racism. This is not 1997 with Ellen. Bravery requires risk.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 29, 2013
And yes he gets flack and then plays the victim when confronted by those who felt his tweet was over the line.
Yes, it's tracked this douchebag Ben Shapiro and the many who supported him.
Jason Collins comes out as a gay player.
Andrew Breitbart once was the voice against the "establishment" media and their "shielding" of President Barack Obama. This conservative agitator died in March 2012 with a legacy of race-baiting and pompous grandstanding.
Surrounded with controversy, this conservative activist founded his own media empire that aided in attacking President Barack Obama, Hollywood or those in the so-called liberal media! Breitbart.com was the beginning of the Big blogs. Each Big blog is play upon what he mocked progressive values such as peace, Hollywood and government.
Andrew Breitbart gain notoriety after he sent two conservative activists into ACORN, a minority voting and housing assistance program that he believe were aiding in voter fraud.
He also succeed in getting Barack Obama's advisor Van Jones fired after he published tapes of Jones calling the Republican Party a bunch of "assholes".
Breitbart was responsible for ending the career of long-term Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-New York) after he used Twitter to send sexual explicit photos to women.
But his most controversial scandal was Shirley Sherrod, the USDA worker under fire for alleged racist comments that were deemed offensive enough for the White House to have her removed. When it turned out it was a doctored video and Mrs. Sherrod was actually trying to acknowledge racism growing up in her childhood, this scandal became an issue towards President Barack Obama. He was forced to apologize personally to Mrs. Sherrod. Breitbart was sued for defamation of character by Mrs. Sherrod. This lawsuit is active even though the conservative agitator died.
A controversial legend to the conservative agitating media.
Andrew Breitbart was the right hand man of gay conservative agitator Matt Drudge and ex-right winger mega-blogger Arianna Huffington. Breitbart made a living trying to distort videos in order to smear an opponent. He claimed that his mission was to root out those who claimed the Tea Party and conservatives were racist and in turn to prove that President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and their liberal allies are the proven racists!
A known hot head, Andrew Breitbart got into it with commentators who called him out on his hypocrisy.
Never one to back down, Breitbart would get his supporters to shout down those who attack him.
Since his passing, the legacy of Breitbart lives on! Breitbart trained "young gun" proteges Lila Rose, Jason Mattera, James O'Keefe, Dana Loesh, Joel Pollack, and Ben Sharpio to become serial agitators. They vow to expose the "institutional left" and those who support it.
By the way, the newest hot head conservative agitator is the Turd Flipper. She takes the mantle of the most annoying serial agitator.
President Barack Obama may have to continue his campaign for change throughout his second term.
Let's continue down the path to defeat by putting out another pointless debate over things that have nothing to do with the economy!
I seriously think that Frank Luntz has a point on one thing! In a Mother Jones article, the conservative agitator who spins talking points for the Republican Party talked to a bunch of young voters at a College Republican retreat.
Luntz believes that the conservative talk radio market has been very successful in ratings, however it's destroying the Republican Party in the elections.
The immigration reform blitz that Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) pushed upon the King Hippo and Weasel Levin wasn't moving the needle among the right wing faithful. The right wing agitators can't stomach immigration reform. They believe that it's granting amnesty to undocumented workers and their families.
The talk about immigration reform is on the ropes after the Boston Marathon bombings. The conservative wing of the U.S. Senate is trying to slow down the progress made because they're feeling the need to be "border hawks" and "isolationists".
They want to use the U.S. Constitution only when it applies to their extreme agenda.
Instead of trying to understand the issue of immigration reform, they evoked fear and hatred of those who aren't like them.
Now let's rehash the old meme of the Obama Phone! Once again proving that there support of the conservative junk food media is mutual.
He's still bitching!
If you've got the opportunity to listen to the conservative agitators in the junk food media get riled up about the Government Phone Program, then you're missing much!
They're worked up over the program granting the underclass an opportunity to have a free cell phone in case of an emergency
The official website for FreeGovernmentPhones say that ever since Barack Obama was inaugurated, the term “The Obama Phone” has persisted. People say Obama is redistributing the wealth by starting a program that gives free cell phones – Obama phones – to the poor. Detractors of both President Obama and of the government’s long-standing phone assistance program have fought over this claim since 2009 with each side mudslinging “facts” at each other.
Well this hasn't stopped among those "mudslingers" in the junk food media.
Hence the video that got those in the conservative/white supremacist bubble riled up.
This video went viral and it's was spread through the conservative/white supremacists blogs and junk food media shows.
Unfortunately, it didn't help the perennial loser Mitt Romney move votes. It only hurt him, badly among the middle class. It's was another lame attempt to race-bait those old White bigots into fearing the evil Black "welfare queen sheboon" who wants her stake in the "gubmint's gibbs mes!"
The scary Black lady who riled up conservatives.
The Politico tries to tear through the bullshit with no avail. The report tells a tale of Republicans and some conservative Democrats threats of ending the program because they're upset over the "welfare queen" talking about how she's got her free "Obama Phone!"
Lifeline, the controversial phone subsidy program that snagged attention during the first Obama administration, has landed back in the spotlight. Critics then accused the White House of dishing out free cellphones to the poor. Now they’re questioning whether reforms put in place by the Federal Communications Commission to tackle rampant misuse will actually work.
A Republican-led House bill with 42 co-sponsors would nearly gut the federal program. An amendment in the recent Senate budget debate tried to eliminate funding entirely. And a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Thursday will dissect its worth.
Lifeline gives telecommunications providers a subsidy to offset the cost of phone service for customers with low income. The program ensures everyone has access to emergency services and jobs.
The Republican Party who still trying to win over the middle class and the non-White majority will once again throw away votes.
They're throwing away opportunities to win over voters. They're floating on a sinking ship. And if they continue on, they'll lose more elections.
It's not worth my time to argue with idiots! The keyboard warrior has to be older than me, stuck in their ways! The warrior has to be a White male and probably a conservative that harbors bigoted views towards someone's race gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, language, political or economic standings.
By the way, since these people assume it's mostly Black people who stay on welfare and government entitlements, I want to address this. When Blacks become a majority of the country's population, then it's safe to say Blacks are racists! Until then, it's the White conservative male and his uncanny support of the Republican Party who promote themselves as the racist.
I wish I could have been your president, but that "N****r" Obama won and we're pissed about it! - Mitt Romney.
The event for all right wing extremists. Where being an Obama basher is a sure hand clapper. Conservatives will have to be farther to the right of Hitler in order to be a part of the jubilee.
They scratched off the fat guy who is governor of New Jersey. The fat guy embrace the federal assistance of that "Kenyan" Obama. That Virginia governor named Bob is dead to them after he said he wanted to tax his citizens.
The Conservative Action Political Conference is held in Washington. The American Conservative Union gives ratings to politicians who drink the blood of Satan. The one who could be the most conservative gets the invite. So if you're drinking Satan's blood, you're a die hard conservative.
Whereas a handful of nuts come together and with ideas of "America" and "liberty" vomited in a 15 minute speech. Where a bunch of washed up politicos and conservative agitators gather to cry about how that evil "Hussein" Obama defeated their standard bearer.
Perennial loser Mitt Romney and former running mate Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) appeared with the other headliners. Some of them testing the water for potential run for defeat in the presidential election.
Embrace my support, my cult followers! Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) gets the cult riled up just like his daddy.
Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Dr. Benjamin Carson, Texas governor Rick Perry (aka Mr. Oops), Sarah Palin, and Ryan are the often floated around names for a potential run at defeat. Each of them getting an opportunity to shine in the limelight as the person capable of fixing the mess that "Muslim" Obama created the day he took office.
Each event must include a few gun totting celebrates. Besides Mr. Opps, there's Wayne LaPierre and David Keane, the National Rifle Association's standouts. They're trying to scare the audience with threats of gun rationing and pea shooting liberals like the "Elitist" Obama.
Seeing that even a few tokens were present beside Scott, there was Dr. Carson. Carson is the guy who made his political debut at the National Prayer's Breakfast where he promoted conservatism to that "dictator" Obama.
He's back from the ass whooping he got in 2012, Allen West, the former Congressman of Florida.
The CPAC token quota got better, they've add Colonial Allen West to the roster. A defeated politician, the former Florida lawmaker hints another chance to reign in his influence in Washington against the "Socialist" Obama.
Seeing Mr. Oops and those washed up politicos Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin was amazing. They've managed to not only attack that "Communist" Obama but take shots at that perennial loser Mitt Romney.
I heard from Arianna's grapevine that even Fox News was snoozing on the perennial loser. They cut his speech shorter than "terrorist" Obama.
Even a few Democrats were there. Look there's a washed up politico like Pat Caddell at CPAC!
Wasn't he the one who wrote an article calling for the "racist" Obama to resign. He and Doug Schoen were on Fox News frequently saying that "totalitarian" Obama was going to lose.
Just ask Dick Morris if he still figured that perennial loser Mitt Romney was ahead of the game!
The Alaskan former governor Sarah Palin is probably kicking herself right now! No one is paying attention to her! So what does a "celebrity" like her go since Fox News let her out of her contract this year?
Why on earth you Republicans couldn't beat my [Democratic] Party? I practically spin the news in your favor! - Pat Caddell, the washed up politico who once helped Jimmy Carter become president.
Donald Trump, the reality television star who is a mogul of a real estate company decided to be headliner to the event as well. Wow I wonder if the Donald would bring up the questions of that "retard" Obama and his forged birth certificate?
You know Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and Jeb Bush got little attention for their speeches. After all didn't they once tell the Republicans that they can't run on stupid anymore?
Is Steven Crowder still running around trying to get hit in the face?
Did Artur Davis walk into the arms of friends? I guess he dreamed he was a Democrat. Today he's woken up to become a proud Republican. A former Democratic congressman who got pummeled in the primary nomination for Alabama governor, now wants to run in Virginia as a Republican. How Black is that?
How that minority outreach working for you?
I mean a few Brown and yellow tokens were featured speakers. But there was a whole lot of Confederate themed t-shirts on the backs of old fat White guys. I guess if you're thinking about giving Blacks an opportunity to be proud conservatives, I guess keeping them separated from the rest of society is a conservative principle. We should thank our slavemasters for giving us Black folk food and shelter. They just keeping the animals fed!
It's quite funny that the fat white guys were in the presence of a Black Republican.
The Black Republican thinks he's Fredrick Douglass. And he wants to say the Democrat Party, the one party to nominated that "NIGGER" Obama for president started the Ku Klux Klan.
I guess the Democrat plantation keeps them enslaved by the "gubmint". Ask the fat white guy about us Black folk being happy being enslaved. After all a few scraps and a nice shack keep the Black folk out of trouble right?
You know I am just as surprised that the cabal of lunatics would embrace failures. I mean how did Newt Gingrich get an invite? Didn't he sit next to that crazy liberal Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-California, Minority Leader)? He was at the "tar baby" Obama's inauguration this year!
Could you count the amount of times a speaker says either America, Ronald Reagan, freedom, liberty, Iran, Obama, tyranny, military, new, liberal, Pelosi, Reid, kids (grandkids), future, time is now and take our country back?
No "oops moments" here, my friends! We're packing some heat! - Rick Perry.
I feel such comfort around you great people! You guys give an old gunslinger much love and I shoot my love back! - Wayne LaPierre, the spokesman for the National Rifle Association.
Why didn't you guys focus on that "moron" Obama's birth certificate? - Donald Trump
Saying goodbye is so hard to do! But Jennifer Carroll leaving the Florida State House is sort of a blessing for embattled Republican governor Rick Scott.
Florida lieutenant governor Jennifer Carroll might as well get her ass out of the limelight. The Black Republican is once again under FBI investigation that probes into corruption within the Florida statehouse.
Tallahassee, Florida is the center of a major scandal. The lieutenant governor resigns.
Last year, she got her panties in a bunch after a former staffer sued her for wrongful termination. The whistleblower claims that Carroll, a married woman was having an affair with a woman who was a staffer.
Now according to Raw Story, a progressive blog, the lieutenant governor's scandals could plague embattled Florida governor Rick Scott, a controversial Republican politician.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement sources told media sources that Carroll submitted her resignation on Tuesday. The story is gaining traction across the state and it's going national.
Federal authorities investigating her ties to Allied Veterans of the World, a nonprofit which operates Internet cafes in Florida.
Allied Veterans co-owner Jerry Bass, his lawyer and two top officers from Jacksonville’s Fraternal Order of Police were arrested on Tuesday after a raid on Internet cafes run by the nonprofit. Investigators suspect that Allied Veterans may have been using the Internet cafes for illegal gambling, money laundering, mail fraud and racketeering. The organization also may have lied when it said that it that it gave 70 percent of $290 million in profit to charity. Documents reportedly showed that only 2 percent were given to qualified nonprofits.
Carroll had been featured in a commercial for Allied Veterans in 2010 and she owned the firm 3N & JC, which did consulting work for the nonprofit organization.
As a member of the state House in 2010, Carroll came under fire for a conflict of interest after she proposed a bill to formally legalize gambling at Internet cafes. She later withdrew the bill and claimed a staffer had filed it without her knowledge.
Carroll was also accused of falsifying documents in 2011 that would have made her firm eligible for Jackson County grants for minority-owned companies, according to the Times-Union. Forged leased documents made it appear that the Clay County firm was located in Jackson County.
This could hurt Florida governor Rick Scott's reelection chances.
Another scandal for Florida governor.
During his term, he voided contracts for high speed rail. He ran against Obamacare and lost. He tried to end early voting in urban areas. He endorsed the "stand your ground legislation" that led to the Trayvon Martin shooting. He wanted unemployed and the poor to have mandatory drug testing for benefits and housing assistance.
Now this scandal will carry some water in the swing state of Florida. The president won this state by a slim margin. The Republicans fear the heavy turnout of Hispanic/Latino and Black voters. In 2010, the Republicans won control of the state legislature and they've gerrymandered the districts. Now it's almost impossible for a Democrat to win a competitive seat in state.
Being endorsed by the Tea Party can damage a reputation. Being a Black Republican isn't so cool when you're in the limelight of a scandal.
Black Republicans love to throw around this notion that they're above the fray! They criticize the Black Democrats for being immoral. And now guess what, how many of you Black Republicans got the heat shining on you?
Herman Cain?
Michael Steele?
Allen West?
Armstrong Williams?
Juan Williams?
Jennifer Carroll?
The list keeps growing and Black Republicans one by one fall like dominoes.
Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) can't catch a break even with his own party!
The White terrorists online had it up to here with the Republican Party. Their last hope for an all White political party were squandered today by the announcement of Congressman Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) being appointed to serve as a U.S. Senator for the departing Jim DeMint.
Of course, the Republicans can relish in their choice. For next two years, Republicans will booster their "street cred". On your favorite website's comment section, they'll be remarks about Tim Scott being the "next Black hope" and how liberal Black politicians such as President Barack Obama are the "real racists!" They'll continue to push the false narrative that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being a registered Republican in order to make the case to impose legislation that roll back civil rights and progress.
As usual I notice that this decision will have detectors. First the liberals will slam this decision as a political ploy to win over Black votes. They'll say that Scott, is a certified nut job. They'll first figure out a competitor who's likely going to take him on! The Democrats may find a Black candidate to take on Senator Tim Scott.
They'll find out embarrassing stories about his life. Seeing Scott isn't married, they'll question his sexuality.
The right on the other hand are mixed! Conservatives will use this a rally call to dismiss critics about the political philosophy being racist. Others on the hand will find an exit. They'll move on to third parties such as the Constitution Party or American Third Position Party. Those two parties cater to White extremists.
Today, I have scoped out the websites which I choose to keep off this page! They're flexing their internet gangsta about the decision and let's just say it's not pretty.
Many conservatives outrage online about NEGRO in South Carolina. Some conservatives praise the decision, others look at this as travesty! Some may think it may break the ice with Black voters, others think that it's another lame attempt for political correctness.
The hate towards President Barack Obama is unprecedented.
Senator Jim DeMint, a controversial conservative firebrand for the Tea Party was praised online by White terrorists. They've felt that his move to the Heritage Foundation and his praise of Scott were treasonous to their cause.
Some called Scott more than just a NIGGER, but a GROID, a HERSHEY, BOOT LIP, and numerous other racial slurs. White terrorists believe that the move by Republican governor Nikki Haley was purely political and slam her and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) as "RINOS" or "conservatives in name only!"
The Root writer Cord Jefferson wrote in 2010 about White terrorists online faced with the choice, on who they would for if the election was a matter of principle. One website I choose to keep off this page state "[Given the choice if you had an option, would you] vote for a conservative nigger or a libtard human?”
The websites classify "human" for White people.
Besides President Barack Obama, white extremists attack Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina). White extremists hate Republicans for allowing them into the fold.
I've seen it time after time, these individuals are hiding online. They rather hide online than face the person they've attacked in the public. They fan the flames of hate and division. They're not happy over the changing demographics in the nation. They're not happy that President Barack Obama easily trounced Mitt Romney. They're not happy about the way of the economy. They believe that regardless of what the president does the country is going downhill. They know that the world is changing and their grip on society is in decline.
Is it possible that a Black person create a website and devote it to the hate of White people?
I will bet you that the moment some Black extremist creates a website like this, conservative agitators will raise holy hell about it and scream that the person, President Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Attorney General Eric Holder are the true racists.
During the first term of President Barack Obama, we seen Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, Attorney General Eric Holder, First Lady Michelle Obama and their children face the most hostile comments from those in the conservative media.
They feed extremists misinformation about the president's birth certificate, his policies and his stances on many social issues.
As the president's job approval rises, the Republicans scramble to win back the message. The fiscal cliff is tearing a hole into the Republican stronghold. They're not winning on the tax issue. The Sandy Hook shooting has the Democrats now demanding reasonable gun control. The public is in favor of reasonable gun control.
Black liberals think of him as a TOKEN. White conservatives think of him as a NIGGER that doesn't complain!
Many Americans want compromise, Mitt Romney to fade out of the spotlight and hate the new batch of possible Republican contenders for the 2016 United States presidential election. With Scott being appointed as a senator, not much is going to make Republicans look any better with the American public.
Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) doesn't represent the values of African Americans.
He's not an Uncle Tom or sellout! He's only an extremist in my opinion.
He will assume the role of political gridlock in the country. He will try his hardest to be a thorn in President Barack Obama's agenda. Despite the criticism from many liberal Black politicians, Scott represents a milestone. He will be the seventh U.S. Senator after Roland Burris.
Yeah, he may be a Black person who broke the color line with a 95% White senate, but his actions were to roll back the gains of many others! This is a reason to why Black people aren't supporting the Republican Party.
James O'Keefe (left), Hannah Giles (right) and Andrew Breitbart (center). A federal judge ruled that they could be legally sued for taping former ACORN workers in their sting videos. Andrew Breitbart died in 2012.
In 2009, two conservative activists go into a low income housing and voting rights organization. These two dressed up as a prostitute and a pimp. The went "undercover" to expose this organization for voter fraud.
As they filmed the organization staff, they got "advice" from workers telling them how to get public assistance and how to register "Mickey Mouse" for the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections. This young activist and his then girlfriend had went forth with their evidence of shady activity to one of the country's most hostile conservative agitator and the network responsible for the rise of the Tea Party Movement. This agitator was railing against the "establishment media" and their shielding of President Barack Obama.
Many Republicans believe this organization "stole" the election for Barack Obama. The Republicans vowed and succeeded in getting this organization shut down.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now shut down in 2010, putting hundreds of workers out of jobs. The result of the the videos, which were recorded secretly by conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe (the "young couple"), were released on Fox News and the late Andrew Breitbart's website BigGovernment.com from September into November 2009.
They quickly generated widespread, negative publicity for ACORN, a non-profit organization involved in voter registration, community organizing and advocacy for low- and moderate-income people for nearly 40 years. O'Keefe explained in September 2009 that he "targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives".
Hannah Giles reputation was ruined after the ACORN videos.
The U.S. Census Bureau and the IRS ended contracts with the organization, and the U.S. Congress voted to suspend its funding to ACORN. Soon ACORN also lost most of its private funding, despite several independent investigations that by December 2009 began to reveal no criminal activity by ACORN staff had taken place. ACORN filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.
The videos seriously tarnished Hannah Giles. She refused to participate in any other activist activities with James O'Keefe after the ACORN incident.
James O'Keefe is currently on probation for a federal crime. He tried to infiltrate the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) over her participation in the deciding vote for the American Healthcare Reform law.
While on probation, James O'Keefe asked a federal judge to grant him permission to continue his "journalism" without causing a scene. That was granted. So off he goes!
James O'Keefe wanted to continue the same formula he did with ACORN. Alas, most of his schemes seem to backfire. The media hasn't covered the latest bombshells from James O'Keefe and his fellow conservative agitators Lila Rose and Jason Mattera. They seem more interested in facts over edited footage.
Since Andrew Breitbart's passing, his organization has struggled to stay relevant. His crack team of serial agitators have rolled out the Harvard tapes of Barack Obama. He was embracing Derrick Bell, a tenured professor who was campaigning against the discrimination of women and people of color in the Harvard Review. The Breitbart team thought they had a "smoking gun!" Nope, just another banana peel that's rotten.
In order to keep the movement going, they kept James O'Keefe and Lila Rose running across the country with their cameras looking to tear into an organization that supports progressive causes. Planned Parenthood, CNN, NPR, and even billionaire George Soros were targets of a James O'Keefe sting. Unfortuantely, those couldn't match the formula of ACORN.
James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles portrayed themselves as a pimp and prostitute who were looking for a way to get public assistance for underage prostitutes.
Now that the ACORN sting tapes are long and gone. Some former workers are vowing revenge.
According to the New Civil Rights Movement, a federal judge has just refused to throw out a request from James O’Keefe, who infamously and secretly filmed an ACORN worker while pretending to be a pimp. The selectively-edited video, emblematic of O’Keefe’s ugly brand of journalism, ultimately led to the unfunding of ACORN by Congress and its subsequent bankruptcy.
“Juan Carlos Vera sued O’Keefe and his associate Hanna Giles in Federal Court on privacy claims, after O’Keefe secretly filmed Vera at an ACORN office in National City in 2009,” Courthouse News reported:
The now-famous series of ACORN recordings featured O’Keefe posing as pimp, dressed in a chinchilla coat, while Giles was disguised as a prostitute.
“The edited video depicted plaintiff as conspiring to promote an underage prostitution business by agreeing to help defendants file fraudulent tax forms and smuggle underage girls from Mexico,” U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz wrote in his order denying defendants’ request for summary judgment.
Vera, who said he contacted police shortly after the activists’ peculiar visit, sued them in the summer of 2010.
O’Keefe sought summary judgment, claiming that Vera had no expectation of privacy when the conversation was taped.
But Judge Lorenz found a “genuine dispute as to whether plaintiff’s [Vera's] expectation of privacy was reasonable.”
“ACORN is in the business of providing counseling and support for the community on various matters,” Lorenz wrote. “By its very nature, the organization handles personal matters with individual clients.
Defendants walked into ACORN and asked for plaintiff’s help with tax forms. … Specifically, they solicited his help with setting up an illegal prostitution business with underaged girls. … Plaintiff, as a worker for an organization like ACORN, reasonably believed that the content of the conversation was sensitive enough that it would remain private.”
O’Keefe duped Vera by asking if the conversation would remain confidential, before he launched into details of the nonexistent scheme, Lorenz wrote.
Over the course of a 40-minute conversation, Lorenz noted, the three “abruptly paused their conversation” after Vera’s supervisor, David Lagstein, entered the office, and continued talking after the supervisor left.
“Based on the surrounding circumstances, plaintiff reasonably believed that the conversation was private because it was held in his office with no one else present, and he believed that no one else was listening in on his conversation,” Lorenz wrote.
Because of this “genuine dispute,” Lorenz denied O’Keefe’s motion for summary judgment.
One of the controversial video from Project Veritas, a conservative activist group founded by James O'Keefe and Lila Rose.
Conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles poised as a "pimp" and "prostitute" in an attempt to uncover wrongdoing at community housing group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). They generated mainstream coverage after they filmed several workers talking about illegal activities.
The roller coaster of stupidity in the name of conservatism. James O'Keefe, 25 along with three other men were arrested for attempting "bug" Louisiana Democratic senator Mary Landrieu's main office in New Orleans.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing in the media, investigative journalism. Andrew Breitbart, a conservative blogger with ties to Matt Drudge was promoting videos by O'Keefe and his former girlfriend Hannah Giles. The pair were convinced that the community organization group ACORN was responsible for Barack Obama's victory in 2008 through "voter fraud" and "illicit activities". They traveled to ten ACORN locations and managed to videotape a few of the workers talking about "how to created fake voter registrations", "smuggling El Salvadoran children for prostitution" and convinced a woman to "admit that she murdered her husband". They wanted to expose the liberal lies and shame the group.
The CEO of the community group Bertha Lewis slammed the pair, Fox News (which heavily promoted the pair) and the Republican Party for creating a "witch hunt" and slander of an organization that helps low income families find housing. ACORN is currently in the process of suing Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles for restitution and unauthorized filming in a private business.
The impact of the videos affected the lawmakers and many broke ties to the group. The House of Representatives and Senate have voted unanimously to sever funding to the organization group. The U.S. Justice Department is fighting the repeal the decision made by Congress.
Since the videos were posted on YouTube, O'Keefe and Giles became internet sensations. Unfortunately, Ms. Giles image was tarnished in the matter and hasn't been featured in many of the filming by O'Keefe.
To make matters worse, this arrest has been buzzing across the internet. Many liberals are thrilled to see this person arrest, and conservative voice despair and anger to the actions. One prominent conservative activist, Michelle Malkin dismissed him and severed ties to O'Keefe. In one of her postings, Malkin stated:
"Let it be a lesson to aspiring young conservatives interested in investigative journalism: Know your limits! "Know the law. Don’t get carried away. And don’t become what you are targeting."
Details on the matter: Associated Press
Conservative ties bind 4 La. phone plot suspects
New Orleans (AP) - 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.
The fourth suspect, Robert Flanagan, 24, wrote for the New Orleans-based conservative Pelican Institute and had recently criticized Landrieu for voting in favor of health care legislation after securing a Medicaid provision helpful to her state.
O'Keefe was a featured speaker at a Pelican Institute luncheon days before his arrest, though institute president Kevin Kane said Wednesday that he had no idea what happened at Landrieu's office or what the four were doing there. Flanagan, son of the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, was a contract worker for the institute, mostly writing for its blog.
"Robert has done terrific work and I think very highly of him, and am very sorry to see him in this difficult situation," Kane said.
It's not yet clear whether the plan was a prank intended to be captured on camera or a more serious attempt at political espionage, as claimed by state Democrats who dubbed it "LouisianaWatergate."
Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan said Republicans once praised O'Keefe as an American hero, "yet today, in light of these deplorable and illegal attacks on the office of a United States senator by their champion, Republicans have not offered a single iota of disgust, a whisper of indignation or even a hint of outrage."
In October, Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, sponsored a resolution praising O'Keefe and the woman who posed as a prostitute, Hannah Giles, for their investigation of "fraudulent and illegal practices and misuse of taxpayer dollars" by ACORN. Thirty-one Republican congressmen signed on as co-sponsors.
In response to the arrests, Olson said that "if recent events conclude that any laws were broken in the incident in Sen. Landrieu's office — that is not something I condone."
A witness told authorities O'Keefe was sitting in the waiting area of Landrieu's office and appeared to record Basel and Flanagan on his cell phone when they arrived posing as phone workers. Landrieu, who was in Washington at the time, said in a statement that the plot was "unsettling" for her and her staff.
A federal law enforcement official said one of the suspects was picked up in a car a couple of blocks away with a listening device that could pick up transmissions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not part of the FBI affidavit. Another official said Dai was the suspect arrested outside.
All four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
"It was poor judgment," Flanagan's lawyer, Garrison Jordan, said. "I don't think there was any intent or motive to commit a crime."
O'Keefe, Basel and Dai returned to the courthouse carrying suitcases Wednesday morning for private appointments with the department that handles arrangements with defendants before trial. None would comment as they entered and exited the courthouse.
Flanagan, who was not with them, is the only suspect who lives in Louisiana. Basel is from Minnesota; O'Keefe, New Jersey; and Dai, the D.C.-Virginia area.
As O'Keefe left jail Tuesday with Dai and Basel, he said only "Veritas," Latin for truth.
As he got into a cab outside, O'Keefe said, "The truth shall set me free." His father, James O'Keefe, Jr., of Westwood, N.J., said he had not spoken to his son in several days and did not know he had traveled to New Orleans, let alone why he went to Landrieu's office.
"That would not be something that I can even imagine him doing," he said. "I think this is going to be blown out of proportion."
The allegations were quickly condemned by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. Its political affiliates have registered hundreds of thousands of voters in urban and other poor areas of the country.
O'Keefe's arrest "is further evidence of his disregard for the law in pursuit of his extremist agenda," ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said in a statement. The organization's Twitter feed commented on the news: "Couldn't have happened to a more deserving soul."
Last year, O'Keefe used a hidden camera to record ACORN staffers who appeared to offer illegal tax advice and support the misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.
The videos were first posted on biggovernment.com, a site run by conservative Andrew Breitbart. In the past, Breitbart has said O'Keefe — now a paid contributor to BigGovernment.com — is an independent filmmaker, not an employee.
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Breitbart said: "We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O'Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu's office."
Dai is a former assistant director of a program at Trinity Washington University that taught students about careers in intelligence, university president Patricia McGuire said. It was part of a national effort to interest students at liberal arts colleges in careers in intelligence but did not teach spy craft, she said.
He was listed as a "freelance consultant" in a Junior Statesmen program at the Central Intelligence Agency where he appeared as a speaker.
O'Keefe and Basel were also active in conservative publications at their respective colleges, Rutgers University and the University of Minnesota-Morris. They gave a joint interview Jan. 14 to CampusReform.org, a Web site that supports college conservatives on student publications.
"I happen to call what I do shoe leather journalism and not advocacy journalism," O'Keefe was quoted as saying. "So, I would consider it just journalism."
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Associated Press Writers Kevin McGill in New Orleans, Pete Yost in Washington, Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles and Ben Nuckols in Baltimore contributed to this report.
