I wonder if MSNBC can get its money back on that special “Watergate Jr.” graphic and the ominous theme music they used when throwing their resources (and reputations) at James O’Keefe?
The charges against O’Keefe and three other men have been reduced to a misdemeanor offense of entering federal property under false pretenses. Yes, the extent of their offense is that two of the men dressed up like the construction worker in the Village People and claimed to be phone repairmen. Call it “Misdemeanor Mischief.”
O’Keefe and his cohorts now get their day in court to defend against these charges, or to negotiate a plea with federal prosecutors. So, to paraphrase former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan: Which office does O’Keefe go to get his reputation back?
To be clear, no one endorses breaking any Federal laws. But O’Keefe was the victim of a high-tech tar-an- feather job by the likes of Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann and David Shuster. NBC even used scarce news department resources to fly Shuster down to New Orleans so he could have his pulse on every non-development in the story. In fact, the only news Shuster broke while in New Orleans was at the hands of Andrew Breitbart forcing him to retract his own words on live television. Proud as a Peacock.
Even today, MSNBC is negligent and deceitful in its “reporting” on this latest development. Their headline reads: “O’Keefe, others plan to plead guilty.” That’s their angle? The story is that federal prosecutors have reduced the charge to a misdemeanor instead of the felony MSNBC has been shouting about for months. But mention of the dropped felony charge is not made until the final paragraph of the story.
Finally, Media Matters for America and other left-wing media “watchdogs” spent a lot of time attacking O’Keefe for his public statements, his defense and his appearance on the Hannity show. They claimed that his story made no sense and it was “lame”, “absurd on its face,” and “obvious lies.” But, the minor charges that federal prosecutors filed today actually mesh exactly with O’Keefe’s statement and description of events.
So again, the question is: Where does O’Keefe go to get his reputation back? Is it somewhere at 30 Rock?
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I remember that Keith had an "apology" once in regards to Scott Brown…but it was because he didn't insult him enough.
True scumbags at MSNBC.
Room 101………
Haha nice! O'Keefe will do, at the very most, a few months of jail time and be back at it again in no time. In fact, the jail time will probably help burnish his Alinsky-type credentials. I seem to remember somebody referring to jail time as a "forced sabbatical"?
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Liberal Media never retracts (unless embarressed into it by a cuddly alpaca) and will never retreat.
My solution? Let Retracto bite 'em all on the ass. Start with that disgusting "dough boy" Olbermann.
Retracto might need shots after biting Miss/Mr. Lesbonia 2007, Ralph Maddow.
If I remember the story correctly Mr. O'Keefe was held for 24 hours or more without acess to lawyers or a phone call. That would be a massive denial of Constitutional Rights. if completely true. I do not know if the charge reduction was the result of a plea deal or was it done by the Prosocuters on their own. Still too much is not known except that all the major News Outlets of the MSM lied and they not only knew it but the Absense of Malice protection by their very actions might not apply
The narrative is set and the leftist trolls in the media and elsewhere are going to twist this story for all it's worth.
The dumbest thing the prosecutor could do is go for jail time. Can you imagine what martyrdom will do to O'Keefe's image?
In the words of King George…
"If you'll believe that, I've got some Ocean front property in Arizona…"
Huffington Post is still calling it a Break-In … where's Retracto!?
This is why MSNBC ratings are in the crapper! Making up stuff does not cut it Shuster!
and you are expecting this apology when?…
Could it be when Hell freezes over? Or, more appropriate when Pelosi tells the truth- about anything? MSNBC is a muckraking enterprise for hard core lefties and Obamaphile kool aid sippers. They won't want to hear anything exculpatory at all about these youngsters.
So don't count on hearing much…
Liberal scum. Akin to loyalists in the revolutionary war.
" misdemeanor offense of entering federal property under false pretenses."
Lot of charges could be filed in Wash DC., starting at the White House.
It is true! that the UNDERWEAR BOMBER got treated with more constitutional fairness than did Mr. O'keefe. I can remember Sixty Minutes doing rougher stuff than this. The problem is ,that we the folks, do not get the real story and the pertinent information. We need a media over-throw.
No, what he needs is to go after Olberman and get him on camera doing something on the note of child pornography or prostitution. Even better would be if he can make him endorse Sarah Palin for president. That would be the best pay-back ever…
From my front porch you can see the sea….
Yes, isn't it a hoot that the MSM still has this on their playlist, when Congress has been busy overturning our Constitution?
A dozen years or so ago ACORN sued me in three federal courts for what in their opinion violated the Fair Housing Act. My real estate company had some ads that did not feature minorities. Never mind that most of our ads did feature minorities, ACORN claimed that ALL of our ads must. Oddly enough HUD had sent us a letter a month earlier stating that a buyer had a protected right under the Fair Housing Act to discriminate. Hmmmm. It is with greatest pleasure that I have watched O'Keefe kill off ACORN. He is a hero of of national porportions. By the way, we netted a win on all three lawsuits and Wade Rathe's deceased father's estate was used to pay back what Wade's brother stole. Gotta love it. signed E. Zach Lee-Wright
Doesn't get anymore Texas than ol' George.
Outstanding…you give all us hope against an increasingly intrusive government.
Control the money, and their asses will follow!
Nope, and he is a good guy, who is good to his fans, and seems to live a moral life.
It is becoming increasingly clear that our country is at a historical crossroad, not only for itself, but for the history of Western Civilization. The corrupting MSM have absolutely no intention of apologizing to Mr. O'Keefe. They will do everything they can to diminish and destroy him. The MSM see Mr. O'Keefe as an enemy. They see Western Civilization as an enemy. The time for expecting or asking MSM for an apology is gone. We must wake up to the reality that the Malevolent Sadistic Media is not here to preserve our freedoms, but to destroy them, and Mr. O'Keefe as well. But, their agenda has met the resistance of truth that Mr. O'Keefe represents. He has wounded them badly. This is war.
The best thing James can do to get his rep back is to break another "big" story….great read Larry!
O'Keefe the scumbag still broke the law… "Reduced" from a felony to a misdemeanor?
O'Keefe should have the book thrown at him…
People need to start waking up to the reality of what these people on the left are. The MSM and the Democrat Party are evil, radical, leftists that do not care about truth or their fellow man.
Yup. He lost a teenage daughter out in the Hill Country while I was living in Austin. Very tragic. Really a well respected, good man. Good family man, great Texan.
Wrong. What he did was expose the fact that a sitting Senator's staff was IGNORING her phones.
That's the crime here, an unresponsive government is a short lived government. Watch.
I find it incredible that a right wing wacko, fox tv viewer would have the nerve to complain about inaccurate, name calling reporting. You are truly jerks.
A right wing wacko who was able to show everyone the truth and defund a corrupt vote machine for the left.
I truely hope that Mr. O'Keefe is planning his next "outting" as I type this. Go get em!! Every time they slap you down, get up twice as strong and out somebody else until you clean up this mess and corruption in Washington…One lone reporter, doing the job that should be done by the main stream by revealing the truth. Wow, his voice has been heard by millions of people. We are impatiently waiting for the next chapter of "O'Keefe against the Shape-Shifters".
his big crime was making a Senate-whore look like an idiot. the fact that she's a democrat turned you & the rest of the lefty trolls into hardcore, straight-laced, by the book, law & order types. or as you're known around here: hypocrites…
The way this was filed means he took a plea. This is the reduced charged. Its good to have a co-conspiritors father as the acting US Attorney.
Yeah, that showed him, Franky.
See ya in November, loser….oh I'm sorry let me use the troll spelling: See ya in November, looser
The road to their ranch, where she was killed in a wreck (While on a date? I've forgotten.), became too painful for them to travel, so they moved. Back in the 90s, they "traded" houses with a family in The Dominion. The son of that family worked for me for a short time, and I got to hear quite a few stories. All of them revealed George Strait to be a very good man.
[ Eli's Hammer ] The boys copped a plea, as they say in the criminal world. Good boys just having prankster fun..like a frat stunt. Now, had these boys (actually they'd be men if they were poor) been from my side of town…off to prison they would go. Perhaps they could have had a court appointed attorney plead them down to 6 months in county jail and 3 years probation.
They better take the plea–actually they have–and be very glad one of them didn't make a sudden move and get their well off butts shot by a nervous guard.
ridgerunner:
Well, quite a few of us have been working on that for some time.
It's called, "Don't buy their products, alert their advertisers that you don't watch their shows, and don't pay to see or buy their movies."
I am cancelling all pay tv stations Monday, and I plan to tell them it is because of Bill Maher. Tom Hanks, and some of the other movies they have been playing that denigrate our patriots and contribute to the decimation of this country.
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No Kevin, the scumbag who broke the law is the idiot sitting in the oval office, and we the people will do away with him in 2012.
Shame he didn't drive his car off a bridge, then leave an innocent woman in it to drown. Then, he would have gotten off scot-free, and been elected senator.
All Texan's seem to be decent folk to me…
But George is definately one of the better ones Love to listen to him sing.
The young man will walk on these charges. He should insist on a jury trial. The Feds will fold or fail in the case I know them like the back of my hand.
TexasRancher
Having worked in Texas a lot I love the state. Tennesse and Texas has a long history together and I am proud of that history and I join you today in your endeavor.
This is just too precious. The trolls were dancing about, with plenty of "dropping the soap" jokes, gloating how O'Keefe and his colleagues were destined for long prison terms and felony records.
Thing is, what the government calls a criminal, and what the people call a criminal, are often very different things. Sometimes, "criminal" is a badge of honor.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1103052mmugs...
He can be held as an enemy combatant, you know; any one of us can. You need to work on your spelling, too.
lets all support a criminal because we are brainwashed to think the right can do no wrong…….
chrages reduced doesnt mean nothing was done wrong all you experts
dont expect TV or politicians to have ethics if you dont have any either…..
KOOKS
Swish!
>have the nerve to complain about inaccurate, name calling reporting. You are truly jerks.
Hillarious! Pot meet Kettle.
Criminal? Really?
He has been convicted then, and is assumed guilty? Trial by media, I thought you guys were against that. I guess not when it's your media. Hypocrit.
It happens to be the case that O'Keefe in conjunction with Brietbart, made utter complete fools of the mainstream media. It is curious that "Mainstream Media" can actually be defined by their reaction to such events, or as is the case, their complete non reaction.
O'Keefe did the USA a great favor by exposing the corrupt underside of Acorn, as was recognized subsequently by the bipartisian responses of the Congress regarding Acorn.
The subtle and non subtle pressures that result in the characteristics of the "Mainstream Media" can be understood and it is time to politely inform friends, associates, hotel managers, and others who are still wrapped up in the fuzzy warm blanket of the nature of the propaganda.
Someone needs to keep track of what the sleezy old broad is doing. The LSN sure isn't going to do it. She has no respect for her constituants. We knew that after Katrina. Why doesn't Louisiana get rid of her?
WTF is entering a federal building under false pretenses? Do I go to jail if I have no buisness in the building, but just go in to use the bathroom?
Funny how when leftist skidmarks break the law you leftists praise them for "civil disobedience."
"lets all support a criminal because we are brainwashed to think the right can do no wrong…….
chrages reduced doesnt mean nothing was done wrong all you experts "
Yes, you are SO RIGHT about that! "Let's all support a criminal" who dunked Mary Jo into Poucha Pond on Chappaquiddick in July 1969 – "because we are brainwashed and can do no wrong…"
"charges reduced doesn't mean nothing was done wrong all you experts"…so you RE-ELECTED HIM for the next FOUR Decades.
HYPOCRITE!
Go back to HuffPo, loser.
MSM : Yes indeed , the only thing that works is starve the beast , watch it die. Do not participate in the lie and lie ceases to exist.
Start with suing Rep Timothy Horrigan of NH and Blue Hampshire website where his libelous statements were posted and not retracted.
I find it incredible that a moonbat koolaid drinker would post here………..
Yes, indeed! As I have lived life, I have become less patient with advertisements (at much louder volume than the music), and listening to the choices of the dj/programmer. I pretty much listen to the music I choose – not what someone else chooses.
I am not at all familiar with a lot of the new "country" stars, and I don't happen to like the music of some of the older "country" stars.
Well said. However, there is that sign with the icicles… Maybe if they don't get a bailout, and their wallets are empty?
Nah…..not likely.
"The Feds will fold or fail in the case I know them like the back of my hand."
Quick! Go and wash it!
There is a film out now that apparently leads to the audience' cheering when Middle Easterners kill U.S. soldiers. People have said, they caught themselves just in the nick of time – and realized what they were feeling.
First of all, I would like to ask any Conservative what they might have been doing sitting in that theater. With all the good info on films to be had on Big Hollywood, there is no need to fund the Marxists.
The usual trolls are out. Let's just take a minute to savor the actual charge against O'Keefe, "entering a federal building under false pretenses". Hmmmm. Was there any violence involved? No. Were they caught with weapons? No. Was this act in service to a further act of criminality? No.
But according to the trolls, we should throw the book at them. If they serve even 1 day in jail, it would be absurd. Soldier on Mr O'Keefe and keep up the excellent display of Real Journalism that the media will no longer do!
Civil vs uncivil….. God vs god…. Justice vs injustice…..SET THEM FREE…Bribery at that location is the big story!! They wouldn't answer their phones to keep from addressing the complaints from their Queen's (Mary was the little lamb, it's fleece is white as snow's) constituents!!!!!
I have no plans to retract my words. If Mr O'Keefe wants to sue me, he is free to do so. It wd be a waste of effort on his part.
To be clear, no one endorses breaking any Federal laws.
Um, why the hell not? If there's a law against entering federal property under false pretenses, it bloody well ought to be broken. What makes federal property so special? Imagine if such a law applied to all property; it would make investigative journalism impossible. So now it only makes investigating shenanigans impossible if they happen on federal property; is that something we should put up with? If that's a law then I endorse breaking it, and I think people ought to break it as often as possible.
I did a long time ago.
Who watches stations like MSNBC? Other than thick-headed libs. Just out of curiosity …
Why would O'Keefe even want an apology from a media entity (msnbc) whose opinions, reported as fact, are not those he respects? If it were me I could care less.
There is no incentive for the MSM to apologize for their mistakes and lies. If they apologize, they will loss their crazy viewers – if that is possible – and loss ad revenue that they need.
Yeah but we're the jerks chocking your chain there sparky….
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and having REAL lives precluded us from monitoring (yawn) MSNBC or other such dribble. So one wonders just what was said- if anything.
What did you hear?
Hi, dcase. The gist of the deal is the feds are only going to charge O'Keefe and company with a "misdemeanor instead of the felony MSNBC has been shouting about for months. But mention of the dropped felony charge is not made until the final paragraph of the story on" MSNBC.
so the tone was that they are guilty, hateful little snots that got away with something, correct?
That's exactly what we would expect from the propagandists…
You pretty much nailed it. The only thing they are charging them with is entering the building under false pretenses.
Indeed, entering a building under false pretenses… then they are going to have to arrest and charge every democrat senator and representative as they show up for work then. Some RINOs too.
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