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Though foreign reporters are still filing stories from Libya these days, such freedoms do not exist in the Landfill of Humanity on this side of the Atlantic, a place also known as “Florida.” On Wednesday morning, Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers went to cover a Bill Nelson fundraiser featuring Joe Biden at one of those Florida death mansions made out of stucco and the corpses of sex offenders or whatever. But Biden hadn’t gotten there yet, so his advance team put Powers in a closet and posted a staffer at the door so he couldn’t get out and talk to the awful rich Florida people who showed up to this thing. “When I’d stick my head out, they’d say, ‘Not yet. We’ll let you know when you can come out,’” Powers said. He didn’t, however, say if he was stripped naked and forced to live in solitary confinement for days on end, which is usually what people get when they aid and abet journalism these days.
After 90 minutes he was allowed out to hear Biden and Nelson speak for 35 minutes, before being taken back to the closet for the remainder of the event.
From inside his temporary prison Powers emailed his office from his cell phone: ‘Sounds like a nice party.’
Oh, it was a secret sex party. They were doing Powers a favor. The sight of the writhing bodies of old rich white people in the heat of passion is like what happens when you open the Ark of the Covenant.
We assume Florida has officially ticked Indians and manatees off their hit list and is about to move onto murdering journalists. [Orlando Sentinel/Daily Mail]
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Lindsey Graham hiding in the same closet.
Is it really hiding when everyone else knows he's in there?
He wasn't hiding. He was waiting.
"Larry? It's Lindsey. The spider just caught a coupl'a flies."
Line of this short week.
FTW
Seconded!
Lindsey hides in a tastefully-appointed walk-in in a quaint Victorian mansion in Charleston, not in some garish stucco nouveaux-riche monstrosity in Florida.
and his closets have a tuffed-velvet-lined glory holes
Less chafing.
WTF is tuffed velvet? I obviously need to step my decorating skills up, I saw an ad for a lovely interior designer named LindseyInSC on craigslist.
Well, then, at least Powers didn't starve. Miss Lindsey's ham biscuits are a treat!
Lindsey's in there with Mitch McConnell and Charlie Crist.
This was probably to the reporters advantage, as all the best stuff at parties like this happens in the closet.
He was probably trying to bust Clinton and some intern!!
Jesus dude, try to get some material from this decade. It's not that hard.
That stuff never gets old!!!
Where's the beef!
Don King has funny hair!
Kato Kaelin!
Hurr durr.
HAHA! Did you hear Jimmy Carter got attacked by a rabbit? It's true!
In hear they canceled the "Seven Minutes in Heaven" marathon after someone suffocated in the wattles of the biggest donor. Talk about awkward.
The words "Biden," "closet," and "naked" should never appear in the same story, especially on a Sunday hangover morning.
Fuck.
And here I thought Shepard Smith was the only reporter who had to stay in the closet.
Like any intrepid reporter, I'm sure he was investigating the skeletons in that closet.
Too bad it wasn't Santorum's closet. he could have counted the fetus jars.
He didn’t, however, say if he was stripped naked and forced to live in solitary consignment for days on end
Jack, just how hung-over are you right now?
Also, writing bodies for another cheap shot.
I thought that was just poetic license.
The story says "a member of Biden’s advance team consigned him to a storage closet."
Jack is just giving you the facts; you decide how drunk he was.
TITS or GTF back in the closet.
What?
Did he inventory the closet? Maybe this is where Imelda's shoes ended up.
Where was noted pseudo journalist James Dildo O'Keefe? Why wasn't he in that closet?
Busy. Those dildoes aren't gonna shove themselves up his ass.
Unless you buy that machine.
Oh for the love of jesus, ken, two words:
Poopy Head.
I know. And I missed the whole live blog. =(
"Stupid stupid stupid"
Never again?
Where was noted pseudo journalist James Dildo O'Keefe?
Getting permission from his probation to leave the state on a 9 day sailing trip after whining for donations due to being in debt to the tune of $50,000.
O'Keefe? Are you guys referring to the guy that exposed the corruption within ACORN? From your comments, you would think that you embrace corruption!!
Attack the messenger, regardless of what he has exposed, right?
From your comments, you would think that you embrace editing video to harass organizations that you disagree with, despite the later findings that there was no criminal wrongdoing on the part of those organizations.
So he only edited videos? Really?
NPR is a publically funded company that is supposed to be politically neutral. O'Keefe exposed that they are NOT politically neutral and therefore, should either become politically neutral, or stop receiving federal funds.
Even if NPR slanted to the right, I would be saying the same thing.
Exactly zero corruption was exposed.
Fail.
zero corruption? Aiding and abetting a pimp using underage prostitutes is not corruption? What world do you live in where such behavior is acceptable?
Didn't he try to expose himself to a female reporter?
Sounded more like a rape attempt, but yes.
Your hero wears a pimp suit.
#SINNING!
You guys are just mad because he exposed people at ACORN attempting to help a pimp use underage prostitutes. Unless you agree with underage prostitution? Or are you guys just posing as Lawrence Taylor?
Wow. I just read this and all I can add to the thread is that pseudo journalist James Dildo O'Keefe is also a dickwad.
Is JD O'Keefe posing as soiled dude?
Is JD O'Keefe posing as soiled dude?
That might be against his probation. You know, from when he was arrested for criminal activities.
Just wanted to see how our Breitard "pal" justifies that.
Powers is just practicing for his interview with Bradley Manning.
Shocking. Did this "mansion" not have a pressroom for contingencies like this?
I haz a sad for the lost gaffe that certainly must have issued from Biden's mouth when he was told a reporter had been locked in a closet at that fundraiser.
I bet it was a really fucking big one.
R. Kelly was also in there, at the ready with a full bladder, if he tried to escape.
Today's obligatory poop joke.
See, now this is useful. Totes OT, but really? Seriously? Who in Florida isn't in some kind of closet?
Oh, and props to 4Real House of Beauty, in the Grove, yo, you don't know, betta CALL somebody
Dude was being kept in a closet by bullies who wouldn't let him attend the party?
Was there, like, a montage of this, maybe like lots of grainy fades and cut shots, people having snacks, him in a closet looking lonely, rain beating on a window, him texting "sounds like a nice party", people drinking champagne, him checking his inbox…no new messages… some whiny Fray track playing in the background, and at the end somebody blows out a candle.
Starring Michael Cera. I can write the screenplay in two nights. Just need a little bridge funding.
This is what happens when you hire Blackwater/Xe for your security detail. Same thing happened at Berlusconi's fundraisers…
Bunga bunga…
With Berlusconi, you get Ruby the Heart-Stealer; with Xe, you get Heart Breakers and Life Takers.
Well, if it were a Berlusconi fundraiser, at least the reporter could have interviewed the excess prostitutes stuffed in there with him.
Didn't stop him from getting a model cathedral to the face!
So according to the article, 500 bucks would have sprung his ass on account of he would have then been considered one of the "donors." Fucking freeloading reporter has the nerve to not contribute to the candidate and then complain about being locked in a storage closet.
Had he been able to charge as a coat check, he may be able to bail out the LSM.
And what reporter worthy of any respect wouldn't drink at minimum $500 in booze and eat his weigh in hors d'ourves?
It's about balancing the budget.
The Biden Motorcade used to kill people. This is an improvement.
Mmmmmmm, manatee.
If the homeowner has enough money to be a "major donor," that "closet" is probably bigger than my apartment.
Ah yes, the old Barbara Bush"ism" comes to mind here about the underprivileged in their hovels and rich people's storage closets "working out very well for them."
It could have been much worse; it could have been a gathering of the Florida GOP.
So this was a literal closet rather than an Anderson Cooper type closet, right?
Please, Anderson is a Vanderbilt; his closet is much more tastefully appointed than whatever that stucco hell of a house can provide.
The party organizers were creating jobs for closet consigners. Everything is about fucking jobs.
He should have just said "green balloons" the second they put him in the closet.
This really is Bush Act III, isn't it? I don't think even Cheney's goons would have locked a reporter in a closet. But at least the poor guy got to avoid all the lizard-skin Florida matrons.
I don't think even Cheney's goons would have locked a reporter in a closet.
There would be no need to as they would be locked in a cage made of chain link fencing five miles away.
lizard-skin Florida matrons
Hey, that's not a very nice thing to say about Charlie Crist.
And here I thought hiding in the closet was the normal reaction to a visit by Joe Biden.
Florida millionaires sure have big closets.
They're a good place to keep republican politicians.
Big, but hardly the stuff of royalty.
"The sight of the writing bodies" – wow, that's what sick kinky rich folk do? It sounds disgusting.
You don't need to be rich to do that!
Are you sure this reporter wasn't writing for the NY Times? I'll bet that they locked him in the closet until enough people pay the $20 for the improved Times with all the news from the closets of Amerika. See what happens when Rich and Herbert exit stage left?
In a stunning coincidence, the Consignment Closet is a fabulous place to find secondhand designer clothes at absurdly low prices.
This article does not answer the one one question we all have:
How did he pee?
I would tell you but then I would have to kill you.
If I knew the answer to that I wouldn't be stuck at 108.
In his own mouth.
Nelson's wife left a lot of empty bottles in there…
He didn’t, however, say if he was stripped naked and forced to live in solitary consignment for days on end, which is usually what people get when they aid and abet journalism these days.
OK, I'm getting another grapefruit and vodka. That was awesome, even if not completely, intentionally so.
CHEEERS!
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Whatever happened to the good old days when, if a politician didn't want a reporter around, he simply had him handcuffed to a chair?
"So your brother's bound and gagged, and they've chained him to a chair"
Can you imagine if there was an Abbie Hoffman or a Jerry Rubin today? They'd probably end up on Dancing with the Stars.
Oh dear god, one Layne is enough already.
No one has any respect for the traditional ways any more. Standards are just slipping all over the place.
It's nice to see that Joe Miller's security goons were able to find work after the campaign.
Well, speaking as an old hand at this journalism game, my advice to Bill would be to drop a deuce in a corner of the closet and then wipe your ass with the nicest silk tie or designer dress hanging in the room. Usually, that would get the message across to Massa and Missy.
Considering this clown does not even post with their name and that the other source for this is "pajamas media", I am wondering where the pimp costume is in this story.
It's the second time this week that this "Joe Biden" fellow has been in the news. He must be wanting to get into politics or something.
I think he's formed an exploratory committee.
Called The Colonoscopian Task Force
But known to insiders as The Great Train Robbery.
You have to wonder how much the DNC has to reimburse these millionaire fundraisers after each Biden event. Him knocking over vases and stepping on kids/pets probably cut into half of each night's take.
They've gotten the hang of it by now. Just check the futures for Ming Knockoffs Ltd. and Rent-An-Orphan, S.A.
Mark Foley must have been on the security team.
Closet greeter.
Being the libtard that you all know me to be, and in fairness to Vice President Biden, I must say that there is no scandal here, really. The reporter was simply locked in a closet while refreshments were being passed out. Not a scandal as much as a gross miscarriage of one's liberty to be a mooch.
one's liberty to be a mooch
Now just wait one dad-gum minute, Sheriff. Where in the gosh-durn Constitution is that right? And if it ain't, why in tarnation innit?
Yours in Cristo,
User, I say, User of Owls, bless my heart
"…..The right of The Press to mooch canapes and pester the guests at fundraisers shall not be infringed…."
All Reporters shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, with the consent of the Owner, or in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. And since we are always at war, woo hoo!
Never would have happened to Clark Kent.
Or Rachel Maddow.
Harry Potter lived in a closet for years. He turned out fine.
Well, sort of.
Off topic but wondering if the conservatives still have that 'Mission Accomplished' sign.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/man-...
Well isn't that special. The U of SM must be delirious with pride. And, my gosh, who would ever suspect behavior of this sort from a gent who photographs as genially as this chap.
You know, I know I should be outraged at this abrogation of First Amendment rights, but as with almost everything to do with Uncle Gaffey, I find that I'm amused more than anything. I mean, really, a reporter in a closet with guards telling him "Not yet!" like parents to the excited children sitting on the steps on Christmas day, while Florida alligator-ladies pretend to eat caviar is just a funny image.
I read the article and I want to know if he saw or heard the 3 Joes? They had a show in California last week.
M-U-T-E action, geez. Still, for all intensive purposes, I'll continue to follow your commentary irregardless.
Well if SOMEONE had just called Stan, Eric and Cartman, he would've been let out of the closet. Or at least have had some interesting company.
Oh, it was a secret sex party. They were doing Powers a favor. The sight of the writhing bodies of old rich white people in the heat of passion is like what happens when you open the Ark of the Covenant.
Sounds like the wild party that was on True Blood a season or two ago!
Must be a Joe thing.
Err, not that *I* have a reporter chained up in my basement or anything like that. <.<
Jesus, this guy is no MacGuyver, is he?
I don't buy this story for a second. Hell it costs ANOTHER five hundred bucks to get in the closet at most of these events.
I'm thinking 'Eyes Wide Shut' but with adult diapers and checkbooks–Powers should consider himself spared.
I know this is snark gold for some, I just can't get worked up about it. Anybody that puts up with treatment like this deserves whatever he gets.
I was thinking the same thing–have a little fucking self-respect!
Eggzackle!
He didn’t, however, say if he was stripped naked and forced to live in solitary consignment for days on end,
Ladies and gentlemen, your Georgetown Hoyas!
I once stayed at a hotel in Orlando where they gave us complimentary copies of the Sentinel. After reading through it, I thought, "What a fine paper." Then I realized I had just scanned through the complimentary USA Today that was right on top of the Sentinel. I thought to myself, "Genius move Florida hotelier-publisher industrial complex."
But I did read a fine opinion piece, and promised myself to jot that writer's name down. I never did. Now I do not even remember what the hell the piece was about. I guess I could try and remember the days I was there and see what articles were printed then, but um, I guess I'll just take a little nap first, and hope I remember to do that when I get back up.
Wow that is a BIG FUCKING STORY.
They let him out to hear Biden and Nelson speak…
I'd even stay in the closet to miss that.
Was Hannity there?
This is the future of MSM. Call it the Señor Wences school of journalism. Press conference starting: "Open de door!" says Pedro. Press conference over: "Shut de door!" In the next phase, the politician will draw a little face named "Johnny" on his hand, slap a wig over it, and ask himself the questions, thereby avoiding those irritating "follow-ups."
Hell the politician is more likely to ask himself tough questions than some of the "journalists" working today.
Press conferences, “Rumsfeld Style”:Reporter: Are you torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib?Rummy: If you're asking me, 'Do enhanced interrogation techniques produce actionable intelligence?' the answer is 'yes.'Reporter: Thank you, Mr Secretary!________________________________________
Shit, maybe this is the third Bush administration?
Quit your whining Powers. At least you didn't get peed on.
Sounds suspiciously like Bush's protest zones.
Must have been a hold over employee from Dick Cheney staff?
srsly, how fucked are these DC insiders, even when they go to Florida?
Protecting the Richie Rich at ALL costs!
we are so screwed
What a weiner this guy is. Who the hell would asks if he can be let out of a place he's forcibly being held in?
I'll give him the first lock-up, because, really, what reporter expects to be put in lock-up covering a story? The second lock-in is inexcusable.
What kind of dumbass would submit to that treatment? 90 minutes in a closet?
Oh. Opportunities for wanking on the job, I guess.
What a dumb thing to do.
The aristocrats!
Like any intrepid reporter
He's no Gretchen Carlson. Why did he show up in the first place ?? Why couldn't he just make up a story like a FoxNews "reporter??" HENNGGHH?
Vice President Biden: "Bring out the Reporter."
Secret Service Agent: "Reporter's sleeping."
Vice President Biden: "Well, I guess you're gonna have to go wake him up now, won't you?"
Powers: "I wanna the story, I want the-"
Biden: "Put the fu(king lotion in the basket! "
It goes without saying that he was disrobed and left in solitary confinement for days where he was forced to watch video of Joe's most boring speeches and subsist on pre-ripe pistachios.
Cheney, on the other hand, would have shot him "by accident."
For crying out loud, rich people who live at "golf communities" have walk-in closets that are bigger than the apartments of hippie "journalists."
This ingrate reporter should thank his gracious hosts for allowing him to have a few hours of peace and quiet.
so again, how exactly did O'Keefe edit the videos? You have obviously watched BOTH videos and therefore, must be able to enlighten everyone… so please…. expound and provide details!
What do you want, a book report?
Try the one the GAO already produced.
So using your "logic" ACORN should NOT have fired anyone over the incident because it was all a farce?
That's my position. The employees were scapegoated and fired, just as Shirley Sherrod was.
Hey, if lies didn't cause havoc, no one would care about them.
Yeah, your lying liar lies worked. You should feel very proud that a huge empowering organization was destroyed by a 25 year old criminal and his tape full of lies.
Feel very good about that.
The AG of California concluded that the actions by a few ACORN employees was "“highly inappropriate behavior". You act as if they did nothing. You are the LIAR!!!
Scary thing is how fun it is to bat around this idiot. =)
Yeah, except that he didn't expose anything.
I guess your interest fell off just before all those AGs and the GAO found no wrongdoing had occured by ACORN, but that O'Keefe probably has broken laws by making and severely editing the video tapes.
That's okay, that's what we've come to expect from partisan hacks like yourself. Believe the hyped up lie, then refuse to listen to the truth that conflicts with your deeply held belief that those shifty Black people MUST have been doing something wrong. It's really pretty pathetic.
Your hero taps Senator's phones.
Your hero ride a dildo boat.
You guys are just mad because he exposed people at ACORN attempting to help a pimp use underage prostitutes.
Once again, because you appear to be slow, no he did not expose anything other than editing videos to create the appearance of wrongdoing that investigations later cleared the organization of doing.
Why do you agree with telling lies about people you disagree with? Is your sorry excuse for a political philosophy so completely intellectually and morally bankrupt that it can not be supported honestly?
We don't live in fantasy land, where you believe a 25 year old with some heavily edited video and a pack of lies without listening to the truth.
He didn't expose anything, and you are making a laughing stock of yourself to insist he did, you twat.
What's next, you going to remake the case for the Iraq war based on Saddam having WMDs?
You seem to forget that every ACORN office sitting through his ambush made a call to the cops immediately afterward. Because that's what you fucking do when someone admits to illegal activity. You don't tip them off that you know and then once they're out of earshot you immediately contact the authorities.
No, wait, I forgot, they were black. Throw 'em in the slammer.
Your lie:
"Aiding and abetting a pimp using underage prostitutes"
The truth:
"there is no evidence that any of the ACORN employees had the intent to aid and abet such criminal conduct or agreed to join in that illegal conduct."
Sorry to play the "truth card" on you.
"shifty black people"…. So if you disagree with the comments of another, you throw out the race card? Really? Thenyou go on and refer to a "dildo boat"? Such civility from the left. Such tolerance towards freedom of speech.
So what is the truth? O'Keefe did a sting operation at ACORN, the ACORN employees gave advice on how to run a prostitute ring for underage girls, those ACORN employees were fired, then congress stripped them of federal funding. Did I miss something?
Oh, what happened to ACORN buddy, don't change the subject now that you know you've been beat. What about being convicted for attempting to tap a Senators phones as long as we're bringing shit up?
The guy who made the statements and the CEO are fired, so what's your beef anyway? You drooling partisan hack.
No you wouldn't.
And he did nothing to prove any part of NPR's coverage was biased. What he proved is that an NPR employee has opinions of his own, which HOLY CRAP is not illegal or indicative of bias.
So he only edited videos? Really?
You make it sound like it was not unethical enough for you.
NPR is a publically funded company that is supposed to be politically neutral.
Which has nothing to do with your earlier whining about ACORN. Maybe you should try to do a better job of paying attention to your own comments. NPR being a neutral company does not mean that someone not involved in reporting is not allowed to have their own opinions. After all, conservatives constantly cry like babies about "political correctness" and "thought police", which is the exact type of crap they were whining about the NPR issue.
Even if NPR slanted to the right, I would be saying the same thing.
I read enough of your comments to know that is simply not true.
The ACORN crap was extremely unethical, even if you are not morally and intellectually correct enough to be able to admit it.
Strange, because I thought people that helped a pimp with underage prostitutes was committing some form of corruption. Since these people were fired by ACORN, I guess ACORN just felt that their employees SHOULD have done more to help? ACORN was mad because their employees didn't offer better advice?
Yeah, you missed the part where the whole world realized that the tapes were falsely edited to show something that didn't occur, and the part where ACORN was cleared of wrong doing by multiple states AGs and the GAO, and James O'Keefe has been sued.
You clearly also missed the James O'Keefe dildo boat saga.
Sorry to impinge your "freedom of speech" by noting that you are an uninformed liar. I know that is hard for you right wingers to understand that freedom of speech is a two way street. And bless your delicate little ears yes, sorry for saying "dildo".
This race card thing, you know race does exist and that a white kid who formerly participated in "pro-white" organizations attacking a large organization mostly designed to empower African Americans does, indeed, have something to do with race.
I know, racism doesn't exist, it is a "trick" like those tricks "rape" and incest" which are used to cause abortions.
I guess you're too much of a partisan hack to see anything other than a 25 year old convicted criminals discredited lies.
Have fun making a fool of yourself.
Yes, "how strange". You swallowed a sensational story hook line and sinker and then didn't bother to pay any more attention. This is the definition of a partisan hack.
"Strange, I thought…" Yeah, strange. You're wrong. How "strange".
So now I am an uninformed liar, partisan hack, racist? Wow, you are on a roll considering it is Monday morning. Do you refer to you coworkers the same way?
The "whole world realized that the tapes were falsely edited", really? Do you realize that the 20% of this country that calls themselves "liberals" does not make up the entire world? Sorry for that bit of bad news. I know most libs feel the entire world revolves around them.
I am just having fun watch a liberal hack throw out racial insults, dildo comments, and show how civil those on the left have become!!!
Yes. Yes you are. All those things.
If you can't even argue the facts of the case, so you go on to attack… what, that I vociferously disagree with you?
Sorry, Solidude. Free speech isn't the right to tell a lie and have everyone continue to respect and listen to you.
Yes, people who tell lies are liars. Your actions have consequences.
Haha. No one wants to be civil with a bald-faced liar, sir.
I know, you think you're owed civility at face value, but you're not. Civil engagement is a two way street, and if you show up with years old discredited lies and expect to find civility, you really don't get how the world works.
Glad you're having fun being exposed as a clown. If you like the abuse, feel free to stick around for more.
Can't stay long, I actually have a job to do. Let me know when your unemployment benefits run out and I will see if I can help you find a real job.
Changing the subject? I thought we were talking about O"Keefe? My bad.
I agree that O"Keefe should have been convicted for tapping a Senators phone lines. He crossed the line and should have been prosecuted. I don't care if it is a conservative or a liberal, such behavior should be prosecuted.
Haha. Ah, the last refuge of the liar. Another lie.
Such a dumbass.
Here's a little civility for you: Go fuck yourself.
More civility!! Nice!! Your mother must be sooooo proud!!!
I may not be so civil, but at least I'm not an uniformed liar.
Get back to work.
The truth is rarely civil, my dear shit-for-brains.
Right, so you admit he would do things that are clearly illegal and dishonest, but you think his other tapes are just right as rain.
Get back to work. Unless you want to continue to waste your employers money and continue to disgrace yourself.
Knock knock!
Who's there?
You really shouldn't put a picture of yourself on your profile. Lets just say, some people have faces for radio…
He is like Clinton, he has done some good and bad.
With regards to my "employer", I own a small engineering firm and have about a dozen employees. Let me know if you need a job cleaning the bathrooms. You obviously have a lot of time on your hands.
So what exactly did I lie about?
and, how exactly did O'Keefe edit the videos? I have watch the short video and teh entire video released by O"Keefe. You do realize that he released both don't you? The edited video only shows a slimmed down version of the entire video. But I guress to you, that is tampering with evidence? What a doofus!!!
Nice to bring racism to a conversation that has NOTHING to do with racism. Typical liberal trick – try to silence the opposition by pulling out the race card at every turn!! I guess if Obama did it with the Cambridge Police indicent, you can do it as well, right?
I agree that the cops were called in a few of the instances, but why then did ACORN fire some of the people? It is clear from the records that some of the ACORN employees were caught trying to helpe an undercover pimp so ACORN fired them! Using your logic, ACORN must be the racists because they fired black employees. right?
They cleared the organiziation, but NOT the individuals. Huge difference!!!
What do I care? As if your method of employment somehow keeps you from being a partisan hack. Does owning a small business suddenly give you a license to peddle misinformation?
I'm cleaning up enough of your shit here. You can clean up your own shit at your own office dumbshit.
I wish the guy who actually cleans your office toilets knows you use that as an insult.
So, what else you got?
You know nothing except for what O'Keefe peddles, you fling around insults about my employment which you know nothing about, you insist that racism is a "Card" to be "played", and you cry because I'm not "civil" enough for your delicate little baby feelings….
So…what else you got for us, chump?
Haha. Attacking a group that empowers African Americans by a young punk who was part of "pro-white" organizations has nothing to do with racism. Haha.
Wait, this is the racism is a trick argument, right? Doesn't exist? Isn't a motive in politics?
Maybe they are pathetic bullied pussies. Or maybe they're trying to be "civil".
Don't try to talk about racism chump, you've already tried to deny it plays a role in anything other than as a liberal "trick".
Your lie:
"It is clear from the records that some of the ACORN employees were caught trying to helpe [sic] an undercover pimp"
The truth:
"Even if O’Keefe and Giles had truly intended to break the law, there is no evidence that any of the ACORN employees had the intent to aid and abet such criminal conduct or agreed to join in that illegal conduct."
Sorry to play the "truth card" on you.
Oh, well with that logic, maybe a guy who is a convicted criminal shouldn't get to make crappy fake videos anymore, right? At least until his probation is over maybe?
Nah….
Here is the truth. If Brietbart and FOXNews were a tiny bit as honest – or in this case, interested in keeping some sense of propriety – they would drop this known liar who has REPEATEDLY been found to be a fraud. But he continues his "work".
See the difference is we take being wrong (or, stupidly, even the perception of being wrong) and take action to clean house. You all, on the other hand, celebrate and defend your lying crack pots.
I guess we'll see if a jury feels the same way about Mr. O'Keefe.
They cleared the organiziation, but NOT the individuals.
Which completely invalidates all your earlier claims.
No, they cleared the individuals. The state's AGs did.
So who exactly are all of these people that have determined that O'Keefe falsely edited the tapes? Have you personally seen the edited versus the entire tape? Or are you just rehashing a liberal talking point?
So… ACORN fired people that were caught on an edited and unedited tape trying to help an undercover pimp use underage prostitutes…. but you just want to try and discredit O"Keefe? And then you try and imply that I am a partisan hack even though you seem to defend Acorn at all costs?
Wow, the irony here is amazing!!!
Everyone has a choice regarding civility and the tone of debate. You have obviously chosen the gutter method.
Looks like I riled you up at your lack of employment. Strike a nerve did I?
With regards to clean up "shit" here? You deny that O'Keefe found corruption but yet, you acknowledge that ACORN fired some of their employees because of their actions? Yea… you are REALLY cleaning things up here!!
The Government Accountability Office. Multiple States Attorney Generals. The Washington Post. The New York Times. Etc…
Not that I'd put the reputations of the federal government and the national media up against a convicted 25 year old.
And no, I didn't waste my time watching the "unedited" version. If what was in it was important, wouldn't he have left it in his little "exposé"? Oh, no, he wouldn't as he is a liar.
I didn't clear ACORN or the actual people of anything jackass. The GAO and states AG's did, on the other hand.
What is ironic is that you can come here – years later – and defend a reprehensible action as if it hasn't been exposed again and again as a fraud.
I'm gainfully employed guy. I know, you'd really like to imagine some way I am "beneath" you, you great american small business owner.
You can't imagine how someone from the "lower class" could dare insult you. This from a "boss" busy trolling the internet. I bet every employee you pay would laugh their ass off if they knew what you spent your day doing.
I didn't acknowledge it was because of their actions. I think they probably got fired for how it looked. Just like Shirley Sherrod, who you all got fired for no good reason. A woman who was out doing good work for farmers, white and black, fired for no reason. Feel proud man, feel very proud.
Note the AG reports found no illegal conduct by ACORN employees.
Okay. They found the tapes to be misleadingly edited, and the ACORN employees were cleared of wrongdoing.
What next.
We can't debate with a dishonest person. How are we to do this? You lie and say it is the truth. And we are supposed to say… "hey guy, that's a good point you just made up."
Fucking internet troll. Someones "boss" paying themselves to spend their day doing this shit. Fucking ridiculous. Hard workin' teabag American.
So they were only fired because of the way "it looked"? What a load of CRAP!! If they had been only fired for such and were actually innocent, they could have sued ACORN for millions. Also, if O'Keefe edited the tape, wouldn't that tape have cleared their names and allowed them to go back to work?
You are making zero sense here!!! They were fired because they were clearly caught on tape giving advice to a so-called pimp about underage prostitution. That is plain and simple!!! O'Keefe proved that there were individuals within ACORN that were corrupt and made everyone question whether ACORN should receive any federal funding. And afer congress reviewed the full tapes, CONGRESS concluded (with a Dem majority) that ACORN should be stripped of federal funding because of what was uncovered on those tapes. That is a FACT!!!
Also, the DEM held house voted 345-75 to defund ACORN while the Dem led Senate voted 85-11 from a spending bill. Even DEMS in congress and the Senate saw the corruption, but you just want to deny that anything even happened!! Talk about a partisan HACK!!!
Why am I arguing years old issues with some poor bastards idiot lazy boss?
Sure I would. With a 1.6 Trillion deficit, I think we need to pull all kinds of funding from programs. We can't afford them any more!!!
Wait– haha, you cannot sue your boss for firing you, at least not in an at-will employment state. You want to argue labor law now?
They were fired because it looked bad. What part of low level scape goat don't you understand? You think they'd want to go back? After the funding was pulled, the org basically vanished. Where would they go back too exactly?
"They were fired because they were clearly caught on tape giving advice to a so-called pimp about underage prostitution."
This is not what the states AGs said sir.
And so your point seems to be that because congress does something – that makes it morally right. Because they, I guess, are the judicial branch of government?
And James O'Keefe is totally in the clear because his shit storm of lies caused so much trouble that an organization got ruined – and so because his lies had the desired effect, they were not lies.
The only "facts" are what is in the GAO and AGs report. Not what a weak, duplicitous congress did. Not what is in your misleadingly edited tapes.
Hun, we spent more money in one day of bombing Libya than NPR gets in an entire year. Your budget cut nonsense is so much bullshit it isn't even funny. It was a politically motivated attack job and you know it.
I can't tell if you're a liar or just so thoroughly ignorant you don't even realize when you're lying. If it's the former, I loathe you. If it's the latter, I pity you.
So I am dishonest because people were fired from ACORN?
I am dishonest because the entire tape shows what the "edited" or shortended tape shows?
I am dishonest because the Dem led congress and Senate voted to defund ACORN?
Please, show me where I am lying. I am waiting to be "enlighted" using your logic and facts. The real question is whether you can do it without profanity. By the way, profanity doesn't phase me. I hear it all the time when I visit my son at Junior High School. You obviously haven't learned that most "adults" refrain from using such language.
Do you even know how he "edited" the tapes? He took a long tape and condensed it. Do you understand that EVERY major new network does the same thing. I guess we should discredit ALL news agencies because they "edit" the tapes. Right?
Also, if the edited tapes were so damning, then why would O'Keefe voluntarily release the entire tape? Any clue? Because they show the exact same thing!! Do yourself a favor and watch both tapes. You might actually learn something for yourself instead of just repeating the same liberal talking points.
The question isn't what the congress did out of weakness. The question isn't what ACORN did out of fear.
The question is that you keep on insisting that the tape was exactly as presented. That the editing played no role in how the story was presented. And this is not true. People were lead to believe that "ACORN, in 8 cities, is actively help people evade taxes and encouraging child prostitution" when that is not the case. Simply not the case.
You keep defending a liar, you keep repeating his lies, you are a liar. I know, you're shocked. How can I be a liar? I'm an honest guy. Well, welcome to what happens when you watch FOXNews and don't pay attention to anything that happens afterwards.
PS – I don't care what you think about my choice of language.
Okay, this is ridiculous. No. An honest person can edit tape in an honest way. A dishonest person can edit tape in a dishonest way. It is like writing a news article. You can include all the relevant facts, or you can put on a pimp suit and mash stuff together to make things seem different than how they actually are.
Why did he release them? Because the States AG demanded he do so. Not because he is such a wonderful guy. Okay?
Now, the question for you is this: are states AG's and the GAO "liberal talking points"? If that is your world, then you have no credibility as an honest, rational person.
Did I say anything about ACORN as a group acitvely helping people evade taxes and encouraging child prostitution? Did I try to imply that? Nope!
What I have said all along is that O"keefe uncovered that there were a few people within ACORN that gave him advice on child prostitution. Even the California Attorney General (after his investigation) stated that members of ACORN engaged in “highly inappropriate behavior,”
They did not do enough to break the law, but their actions with highly inappropriate. So did they give advice to O'Keefe about underage prostitution, YES!! But there wasn't enough to presecute.
You keep trying to put words in my mouth that I have never said or support. Do you always do that with people that disagree with you? Do you always call people liars that disagree with you? You have an obvious liberal bias towards news and I have a more independent/conservative viewpoint. By the way, I don't watch Foxnews. I read about a dozen different websites including the liberals MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc. I try to look at numerous viewpoints and decipher from there. You seem to take your talking points only from liberal stations, then silence other viewpoints using the race card and the "liar" card.
I am defending a reprehensible action? You are the one that is defending a reprehensible action. For example, the CA DA concluded that employees actions within ACORN were “highly inappropriate behavior". You act as if people looked into and concluded the entire thing was a LIE. It wasn't a lie. A few employees at ACORN were caught and were fired. The DA's looked into and found they did some dispickagle things, but could not prosecute for it. You act as if nothing ever happened, nobody was fired, etc. If someone here is a liar, it is YOU!!!
You don't want to waste your time because you are afraid that you will find out that YOU are a liar?
So the AG's stated that none of that ever happened? The state's AG stated that the entire thing was a hoax and that a few people within ACORN did not say those things? WRONG!!!! The state AG found that the employees of ACORN showed some “highly inappropriate behavior", but the AG did not believe they had gone far enough to commit a crime.
No. You are wrong. And you continue to lie. And now you are pissing me off because it is clear that you are just having some meltdown about being called a liar. Here asshole, read the FOX NEWS coverage:
"Rather than give advice on prostituting underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes, the attorney general's office found ACORN members at times caught on to the scheme and called the police in the portions of the videos that were cut."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/01/calif-...
You said:
"Did I say anything about ACORN as a group acitvely helping people evade taxes and encouraging child prostitution? Did I try to imply that? Nope! "
But before you said:
"Aiding and abetting a pimp using underage prostitutes is not corruption?"
You fucking disingenuous liar.
Look asshole, you came here to defend O'Keefe and his "journalism".
But now you want to refocus on ACORN. The fact is, O'Keefe made a tape of ACORN employees going along with him, just as you might if some weird unknown potential criminal walked into your office. What he cut out was such things as them calling the cops on him. I think that is pretty major, don't you?
You being obstinate doesn't make you right.
Well, I mean, they broke no laws. Anything else I guess is up to the purview of ACORN. Right?
You said: "They cleared the organiziation, but NOT the individuals. Huge difference!!!"
But still ACORN got shut down due to a media firestorm that was ignited by the spark of heavily edited videotapes. So what you fuckers can't do in a court of law, you'll do in the media. Some nice end justifies the means type morality.
It is bad for ACORN employees to make poor judgment calls in a strange situation of entrapment, but it is cool for O'Keefe to do the same again and again.
Double standards are sweet I guess. Oh wait, O'keefe was convicted of an actual crime, and given immunity from another – for releasing these tapes ("on his own"! haha). Yet the cleared ACORN is gone, but the criminal O'Keefe strikes again.
I mean, come on guy, you came to defend James O'Keefe's journalism, and now you want to talk about ACORN? Don't you think that leaving in the ACORN people calling the cops on him warranted to be in the video? Or just the part where they pretend to go along with him to keep him there?
How is that "journalism"?
You are such an idiot! I know that some of the ACORN offices caught on and called the cops, but NOT all of them. You act as if ALL of them called the cops! If ALL of them had called the cops, then nobody would have been fired and the CA DA would have not have concluded that a few employees had acted Highly imappropriately.
Listen to yourself – O'keefe produces a short video which purports to show all these things. this is what he produced, this is his product. This is what we must judge him on.
Now, he is forced to release the full tape (mind you there were 8 cities, meaning 8 tapes, meaning untild footage which I am certain you have not seen all of (liar).) And you want me to watch that to judge his "journalism"? I might be able to use it to judge his self-preservation in the face of prosecution, maybe.
Here is one of your lies: "then why would O'Keefe voluntarily release the entire tape"
I guess if by voluntarily you mean in exchange for not being prosecuted for a crime, maybe.
You're a sad misinformed man. Or maybe a liar.
I'm an idiot, huh? I know, I'm an idiot unemployed welfare queen. We've been through this. Makes it easier on your ego for you to be wrong I guess.
Right, well, keep on keeping on believing those poorly edited videotapes and trying to defend James O'Keefe and see the reaction you get.
But you keep wanting to talk about "the whole tapes" when really, that shit was a moot point as by the time the dust settled, the organization was gone.
"The original storm of publicity created by O'Keefe's videotapes was instrumental in ACORN's subsequent denunciation in Congress, a sudden tourniquet on its funding, and the organization's eventual collapse."
You are defending a tactic which destroyed a large political opponent of yours by dropping a bomb of lies on it and sweeping it away before the dust settled. Be proud of tea party.
This is the "journalism" you are defending. The "hit them with a bunch of lies, cause a panic, get your dirty deed done before the dust settles."
Lies used to further your political aims.
James O'Keefe is a fraud of a man, and you are a lying defender of him.
"You act as if people looked into and concluded the entire thing was a LIE. It wasn't a lie."
It was what then, a partial lie? Okay, O'keefe is a partial liar. Not really what we look for in "journalists" but then maybe that's why we called him a "pseudo-journalist" which got you in here defending him in the first place.
"trying to help an undercover pimp use underage prostitutes" You liar. Again:
"Rather than give advice on prostituting underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes, the attorney general's office found ACORN members at times caught on to the scheme and called the police in the portions of the videos that were cut."
You're a pig and I'll tell you why.
You come to defend one thing, then you twist it into another. You call low level inappropriateness "corruption at ACORN". You claim O'Keefe released the tapes on his own, but the fact is he was granted immunity for that. You claim the end justifies the means.
Brown concluded, "Even if O'Keefe and Giles had truly intended to break the law, there is no evidence that any of the ACORN employees had the intent to aid and abet such criminal conduct or agreed to join in that illegal conduct."
You're at least uninformed. Probably a liar. I am going to go with liar because you've been acting like a trapped animal.
But I know, you're all full of the holy spirit on this one. Go have dinner with your kids.
But don't believe me. I'm just a welfare queen. I should probably be cleaning your toilet.
So this country is not running a 1.6 Trillion dollar deficit? So Obama has balanced the federal budget? So we don't need to cut any spending because money now magically grows on trees? and who is ignorant?
You are the fruit cakes that brought up O'Keefe.
Also, I am an "idiot lazy boss"? You have posted about 3 times more than I have today which means you DON"T have a job.
You have no clue what he cut out of the entire video because YOU haven't watched it. I have and I can tell you that you are full of crap!! You are obviously getting your info from a liberal website that has an agenda. Would it hurt you to watch the entire video? You obviously have a TON of time on your hands because you have dont nothing but respond here all day!!
"You are the fruit cakes that brought up O'Keefe."
Yes. Someone posted a funny comment about him here, and then because of that funny comment you decided that it seemed like we were all supporters of corruption.
Yes, I do have a job. In fact, I am still at work because of the time I spent arguing with a troll like you. The heights of foolishness.
full of the holy spirit? Wow, your uncivility never ceases to amaze me. With regards to cleaning a toilet, any job for you would help you. You obviously have a lot of time on your hands to insult others, call people racists, call others that disagree with you liars, and try to insult with religious sayings. Well done. Did you arrive at such a state while achieving liberal enlightment? If so, thank God only 20% of the people in this country call thmesleves liberals becaue I am not sure our country could handle such civility!!
I did not watch the entire video. We have been over that. I read the Attorney General's report. There are three others like it, plus an independent report, and a GAO report which all draw the same conclusions. All liberal rags, I suppose.
They all conclude the video was edited, and key parts left out.
Please feel free to direct any further comments to the States' AGs.
I only have time to insult the disingenuous people who come around here.
You don't want to be called a racist, but you support probably one of the saddest, most damaging, politically and racially motivated hit jobs in the last decade.
You don't want to be called a liar, but then you lie (examples provided). You don't want to be called a liar, but you associate yourself with known peddlers of false information.
You're mentality is broadly the same as other people who come around to toss around insults and defend the indefensible – you offer no civil discourse, then expect civility. You insult me for what you perceive as my station in life, and then are shocked I would try to defend myself. You use lies to discredit your opponents, and then demand democracy.
It is sick game you are playing, and you know it.
PS – I wasn't insulting you with the holy spirit comment. I was just implying you've got your panties in a bunch.
Oh, I sincerely doubt that, but keep that blood pressure down. Toadstools are not worth it. And the whole shrinking "Twiggy" comment stream is ever so entertaining!
Liar.
The full video was never released to the public despite Breitbart's claim that he was going to do so. Or his claim that he did, even though he clearly did not. Not that facts or the truth matter to Breitbart fans.
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