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James O’Keefe files libel lawsuit against Keith Olbermann, David Shuster, Al Gore’s Current TV
The Daily Caller ^ | Feb 29, 2012 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 02/29/2012 6:40:30 PM PST by expat1000

Conservative videographer James O’Keefe has filed a lawsuit against Al Gore’s Current TV and anchors Keith Olbermann and David Shuster, alleging they libeled him.

“Well I welcome criticism and misguided hatred, but if you knowingly lie and call me a ‘felon’ or a ‘rapist’ or any other slanderous or libelous [attack], I will sue you,” O’Keefe told The Daily Caller.

During the Feb. 24 edition of Olbermann’s show “Countdown,” Shuster called O’Keefe a “convicted felon,” something that is not true. Shuster also said that there was a “rape allegation facing” O’Keefe, something that also isn’t true. That claim, according to O’Keefe’s lawsuit, was related to allegations political activist Nadia Naffe made against him last year. The transcript of Naffe’s court deposition attached to O’Keefe’s lawsuit, however, proves he was never alleged to have raped her. It also shows that a judge dismissed Naffe’s allegations that O’Keefe harassed her.

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Looks like Olbermann was extremely sloppy on this one. It could cost him.
1 posted on 02/29/2012 6:40:39 PM PST by expat1000
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To: expat1000

Go James!!! I hope you make a TON!!!


2 posted on 02/29/2012 6:42:30 PM PST by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then 11.06.2012, the Tower of Sauron)
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To: expat1000

If he gets hit hard enough, maybe Algore tv will cut him loose.

Then he can work for CNN.


3 posted on 02/29/2012 6:43:52 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: expat1000

The left LOVES to use the courts.

I hope this one is extremely annoying and very, very expensive for them.

I hope it goes on and on, and that James makes TONS.


4 posted on 02/29/2012 6:44:52 PM PST by gaijin
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I hope this one is extremely annoying and very, very expensive for them. I hope it goes on and on, and that James makes TONS.

Heck yes!

6 posted on 02/29/2012 6:46:35 PM PST by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: Carthego delenda est

And Shuster is another sad, sputtering little queer.


7 posted on 02/29/2012 6:48:16 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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8 posted on 02/29/2012 6:49:21 PM PST by narses
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To: expat1000

LOL, that couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of *astards!


9 posted on 02/29/2012 6:49:55 PM PST by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: expat1000

You need any moolah, let me know. I’d gladly help with w/expenses, James.


10 posted on 02/29/2012 6:53:22 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. 0bamao's ANTI-TRUTH & SPIN TEAM is again on the move.)
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To: expat1000

oooh, I hope you’re right!

O’Keefe is a patriot and unafraid. Wish more of us were the same. Our compliance and cooperation with evil is killing us. Here’s ONE GUY who actually is going to take it to them, IN THEIR FACE!

YEA!!!!


11 posted on 02/29/2012 6:53:40 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: expat1000

If I were O’Keefe, I would drop the lawsuit for $500,000 and the opportunity to whack Olberman upside the head with a 2X4 seven times.


12 posted on 02/29/2012 6:53:58 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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O’Keefe is a patriot and unafraid. Wish more of us were the same. Our compliance and cooperation with evil is killing us. Here’s ONE GUY who actually is going to take it to them, IN THEIR FACE!

How long until the GOP condemns O'Keefe?

13 posted on 02/29/2012 6:55:13 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: expat1000

It’s about damn time our side started taking these bastards to court when they libel and make slanderous statements....

Do it enough and the crap will stop....

That dickhead KO has to shell out a couple hundred grand.....that will shut his pie hole.....


14 posted on 02/29/2012 6:56:26 PM PST by Popman (America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
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To: RitaOK

I NEED some good news.


15 posted on 02/29/2012 6:58:33 PM PST by txhurl
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To: expat1000

James is a hero and a great Patriot. I’ll love to see that smirking fool Olbermann forced to pay up for this.


16 posted on 02/29/2012 7:00:30 PM PST by Apollo5600
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To: expat1000

I hope he ends up taking Algore for everything he’s got, but who’d want to own a POS cable network that nobody watches and the Magic 8-ball Climate Change Predictor?


17 posted on 02/29/2012 7:07:56 PM PST by bigbob
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To: expat1000

good...we need more people like O’Keefe...as long as they let this continue to go one way it will never end...


18 posted on 02/29/2012 7:21:46 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: expat1000

A LONG time ago Drudge ran a story about how Rahm Emmanuel had beaten his wife. The story proved untrue, and Drudge ran a prominent retraction of the story the very next day.

Rahm STILL sued Drudge.

There has been no retraction here —why should there be much higher expectations on James to not sue...?

Sue away..! Lean into it, and sue enthusiastically.


19 posted on 02/29/2012 7:48:38 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Grizzled Bear

Isn’t that the truth!


20 posted on 02/29/2012 7:58:30 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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