Posted on 05/20/2010 9:59:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Republican dirty trickster to escape personal accountability...
A federal judge gave a stern talking to this morning to the Rightwing dirty trickster James O'Keefe III and his three fellow conspirators --- one of whom is the son of the Acting U.S. Attorney in Louisiana --- for their attempt to access the telephone system of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu in her New Orleans office, by impersonating phone company employees.
While describing the Republican activists' actions as "unconscionable" and "extremely serious", Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. stopped short of ordering a trial, according to AP today:
A federal judge had strong words for four conservative activists who initially were accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office, but ruled the misdemeanor charges against them can be resolved before a magistrate instead of a judge. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. said Wednesday he isn't exercising his right to hear the case even though the four defendants are charged with an "extremely serious" crime involving a security breach at a federal building.
"Deception is alleged to have been used by the defendants to achieve their purposes which in and of itself is unconscionable," Duval wrote.
In January, O'Keefe and accomplices were arrested on a number of felony charges, but after intercession by superstar Republican Party attorneys, the charges were reduced to misdemeanors.
O'Keefe is infamous for having worked with Rightwing media activist Andrew Breitbart to publish and disseminate deceptively edited video tapes of secretly taped meetings with ACORN employees in a number of their offices around the country. Breitbart, O'Keefe and his accomplice in the videos, Hannah Giles, lied to the media about the content of the interviews which were released to appear as if O'Keefe had dressed as, and represented himself as a cartoon versions of a 70's-era Blaxploitation pimp. In fact, he never did, and the shots of him dressed as a pimp were shot later and deceptively inserted into the highly edited videos as published by pretend "journalist" Breitbart.
Mainstream corporate media outlets such as Fox "News" and the New York Times promoted and/or reported uncritically and inaccurately on the videos which law enforcement officials from New York to California unanimously found to have been be deceptively edited and revealing no criminal wrongdoings by any of the ACORN employees seen in the tapes.
Nonetheless, despite a minor and begruding correction from the New York Times for their repeated misreporting on the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax --- following more than three months of The BRAD BLOG's coverage of the entire O'Keefe/Breitbart/Giles scam, and how the so-called "paper of record" shamefully fell for it --- the publicity from the hoax led to a precipitous drop off in financial support for the four-decade old, pro-democracy, anti-poverty community organization, resulting in the closure of ACORN offices around the country.
O'Keefe was also allowed to escape personal accountability in California as well, for secretly taping ACORN employees, after he struck a deal to turn over unreleased copies of the unedited videos to the state Attorney General, for the first time, in exchange for avoiding criminal prosecution.
In short, ACORN paid a serious price for a phony political operation that was run against them, despite having broken no laws, largely as a GOP vendetta for their work in legally registering millions of low- and middle-income, largely Democratic-leaning voters. While the Republican perpetrator of the scam look to pay no serious price for either it, or his subsequent "extremely serious" dirty tricks in the office of a sitting Democratic U.S. Senator.
Sounds like Mrs. Friedman's little Bradley has fried his brain or he could be naturally stupid. Whichever, the boy is clueless about the scoundrels at ACORN.
Only if the target had been a republican.
BTTT!
This Brad guy has a serious mental disorder. He reads rumor and inuendo on leftist web sites, and internalizes them as truth. He thereby creates an alternate universe, from which he generates a blog, which is in turn internalized by other mentally deranged leftists. It’s like a cancer.
Somebody has their panties twisted in a tight wad.
wow, this really sounds like a well-balanced, neutral, objective piece of scholastic, fair journalism / sarc
This is a troubled person who does not sleep well at night. Some kind of personal problems are reflected in that sad, liberal face. Liberals are essentially unhappy people to begin with. And they want everyone else to be unhappy.
Did she?
Her deliberate disabling of the phone line is dereliction of office. She refused to acknowledge her constituents, refusing to represent them!
Oh never mind, we'll just verbally thrash you and drop charges.
For those as Limbaugh would say reside in Rio Linda, lets translate the Commonweal Institute description of itself into an empirical observation
The Commonweal Institute was an old established think tank which began as group advancing liberal causes strongly supporting freedom of expression through its publication The Commonweal .In the 60’s the institute was slowly taken over by socialist/communist radicals much like the democrat party.
WARNING
This publication is today nothing but a poseur of liberal idealism never supporting freedom of expression of, or comity towards, let alone encouragement to, opposing points of view. Instead its busy advancing socialist/communist concepts and the glories of that ideology through its publication. The presentations contained herein at minimum denegrate and usually fabricate (lie) about motivations of their opponents to this publication’s sundry socialist agendas. Any content of this publication read or viewed should be analized with that in mind .
Brad Feldman is the new “Max Boogerthal” (boogerthal called Breitbart a racist, then picked his snot on camera while speaking with Hannah Giles).
Whenever I want to impress a girl, I pick a huge chunk of snot and make “snot animals” to impress the townsfolk.
Looks like Brad has penis envy for Breitbart.
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