to criticize O’Keefe for doing what they will not.

His explanation is plausible and consistent with his M.O. — go into a government establishment wearing a disguise, shoot some hidden video, leave, publish, expose.

Unless he was holding a pair of wire-cutters or a bug, what is the government’s case?

but he acted stupidly.

Why hasn’t the President chimed in with his usual attention to the truth.

…who have desecrated the offices to which they were elected. Every day, these elected clowns commit crimes ranging to improper use of government funds to out and out TREASON.

Hey, Mary – YOU were responsible for the ACORN mess in Louisiana. You wouldn’t have gotten elected without those criminals.

Save your indignation for someone who cares.

They ran the “bugging the phone lines” headline for days on MSNBC.

1) O’Keefe has landed a few punches himself on the MSM. When the WaPo has to print corrections, that’s embarassing.

2) Landrieu undoubtedly wishes this whole thing will just go away. From a PR sense, she has to be standing on at least some thin ice, as a result of her Louisiana Purchase. This O’Keefe matter now opens the door for the blogosphere to talk about that whole matter for a bit longer…at a time when Landrieu assuredly wants to drop the whole matter of ObamaCare altogether.

3) Landrieu now looks like an MSNBC shill. Imagine being viewed as a shill of the Keith Olbermann network…

4) If O’Keefe is right about those tapes, the goverment will have to release them.

Or, the DOJ can hold onto them, assert (or imply through whispers and media leaks) that their contents incriminate O’Keefe instead of exonerating him…and count on the American people believing the DOJ over O’Keefe, based on the large trust of good will the Obama Admistration has built up with all of us since taking office. ()

I do believe the initiative is with Team O’Keefe, with its ally Breitbart.

Once again we see the results of conservatives/Republicans jumping to a conclusion and rushing to judgment based on partial information provided by sources who do not have the best interest of conservatives/Republicans at heart.

If conservatives/Republicans want to attract good people to the cause of limited government and Federalism we need to quit this self destructive behavior forthwith.

There is adequate time to collect all of the facts and stories before sending for the hot tar and feathers. It is impossible to un-ring a bell.

there was up to 10 years’ imprisonment as a possible punishment.

Then I read the report that O’Keefe and crew had planned to bug Landrieu’s phones, but as the “perps” were dressed to attract attention, it seemed absurd that they would be trying to commit a felony while everyone saw them in the act.

The real problem is our “representatives” have come to look at themselves as our overlords, and we, the serfs, should be grateful that they are spending us bankrupt as they “take care of us” in a manner we do not want them even to think about.

ON 101.5, NJ radio, I heard CNN evidently reported that O’Keefe was a “Republican problem”, intimating that somehow the Rep. Party was responsible for whatever it was that happened.

I’m sure the left, wounded in its very soul (a word Ann Coulter says they wouldn’t recognize) that it was caught (not that it did it, but that it was caught) on camera advising on how to illegally obtain a mortgage, how to illegally run a house of prostitution, how to illegally maintain the proper upkeep of under-aged, teenaged prostitutes, and how to illegally do all these things while also abetting immigration fraud. After all, everything the left does is for the children, unless they are illegal minors brought to service the never satisfied lefty porno dreams.

Ergo, now O’Keefe is in line for the usual politics of personal destruction perfected by the Clintons and ilk and pursued relentlessly by Obama and henchmen.

are held to a different standard then those who trash the Conservative side.
Failing to recognize, or remember, or account for the blow back, is not easily ignored.
Especially when the person(s) who ‘forgot’ that the left will manufacture ‘facts’ to suit their narrative, is someone who recently burned them at their own game.
Mr O’Keefe has a very large bullseye tattooed on his back.
Forgetting that, even for relatively minor matters, is a huge strategic blunder.

From his own statement above:

“On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.”

“Reflection” is another way of expressing the “Hind sight being 20/20″ concept.
And, while true, NOT something that an Investigative Journalist can long subscribe to if s/he expects to continue in that line of work for very long.

suing the media outlets that have not run corrections/retractions for libel/slander as applicable? It would be interesting to see how suing them is reported as news if at all… Also it could hurt those outlets at their bottom line by directly taking cash or further destroying credibility which means even less viewers/readers etc…

O’Keefe is right on a number of points. 1. With security an issue a better plan would have been prudent. 2. It is the public’s property. If that were not the case when she gets voted out she’d take it with her. 3. Undercover journalism is not new. I can remember many hours of both local and national news agencies wandering around with suitcase video cameras taping unsuspecting “bad guys” including teachers, businessmen, politicians, doctors and others. I think a few might have been up for Emmys. So what’s the big deal?

It was O’Keefe, democrats and the possible embarrassment to a media favorite. O’Keefe will demand the tapes back if he is not formally charged. I wonder if the DOJ will violate the law and refuse. If they charge him, they’ll have to play the tapes and it will prove it was a badly designed prank at worst. With terrorists getting Miranda, free lawyers and such, it will be hard for them to prosecute this. Especially if one of the defendant is the son of a federal prosecutor.

No way they win. They’ll dust James and his buddies off, warn them not to do it again and do their best to make it look like a college fraternity prank.

That is if Obama’s bad temper doesn’t get involved of course…

for fighting back! How many Rs, when accused of anything whatsoever, have as their first instinct an “I’m sorry, it won’t happen again”? Instead, O’Keefe is taking the fight to the enemy and returning fire. Good for him!

It seems to me that the whole point of being an investigative journalist is to be somewhere others don’t want to you be, see things others don’t want you to see, and reveal things others don’t want revealed. It’s a fine line – breaking and entering, much less wiretapping, is a no-no. Sounds like there’s no possible case that O’Keefe did either of those things.

At the very least, conservatives need to give their allies the benefit of the doubt long enough to get the whole story. It shouldn’t be news that MSDNC or WaPo will lie whenever convenient in order to blacken conservatives; why would we ever cite them as evidence?

masses how PATHETIC & DISGUSTING the LEFTIST media is….their inability to use the word “alleged” for James but ALWAYS for a TERRORIST who killed our military men and women shows them to be as EVIL as WE say they are!

i think we need to send this to all the “left” commentators and pressure them to run this at least once on the air during prime time!

I do e-mail her, but I’ve recently stopped doing that because it’s a waste of time & energy, Just received an e-mail from her thanking me for my views on the Sen. healthcare bill. I don’t think she would be thanking me if she had actually READ my e-mail. Her response was basically “screw you”, & this is why the bill is so wonderful…blah..blah.

I think it’s getting about time for such to happen. If Mr. O’Keefe and his colleagues in this “Landrieu Louisiana Purchase II” take one up, do let me know to which legal offense fund I may contribute.

c.f. http://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/defamation.html

O’Keefe, you are a tool for doing this. Exposing a private corporation is one thing. To screw with government officials like this, no matter how innocent it appears, is criminal. The ends do not justify the means in this case.

YOU HAVE SINGLE-HANDEDLY REVERSED A LOT OF NATIONAL PROGRESS by your stupid, irresponsible actions. This could be what keeps her, and other liberals, in office.

This will be used as an example all over the country against conservatives.

I hope you go to prison for this. You little arrogant fool. No conservative should defend this KID’s actions. You cannot defend the indefensible.

“I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building.”

What a complete idiot. He is basically saying that he wishes that he could have deceitfully infiltrated a FEDERAL GOVERNMENT office, just in another fashion.

What if it was an FBI office, or NSA office… Whether you like the Senator or not, O’Keefe is not innocent. He may not have broken in or intended to wiretap, but he is not in any position to claim that he is a victim. This is borderline treason!! How can you defend this???????????????

By Kyle-Anne Shiver, putting this episode into context. A former 60′s Leftist Ideologue, turned Commie, then reversed couse and turned Pro-American. She explains the mind-set and tactics of the left as only a previous insider can.
“Our mainstream media is now under what they consider a power-reverse mandate. Every member of every group that were once underdogs in America – all non-whites, women, gays and now Muslims – are to be given the extreme benefit of the doubt in terms of means, motives, and ends.
In the 60s radical worldview, nothing can be right with the world until the former underdogs are running everything. ” and concluding
“So, once again, I say bravo to Mr. O’Keefe and to every brave, young soul that dares to face off against the mainstream media today. You are the counter-revolutionaries we’ve been waiting for.”

http://bigjournalism.com/kashiver/2010/01/29/james-okeefe-reveals-an-msm-drowning-in-its-own-leftist-ideology/

Her explanation also gives me the insight to understand the reason cap-and-trade would be important to this Pres.

Let he whose wealth is not being re-distributed cast the first stone.