Is it just me or does O’Keefe look like Lee Harvey Oswald ?

Isn’t there a law against attempted fraud of this sort?

You’d think that O’Keefe could have been a little less transparent.

But you’d be wrong.

Apparently this is a replay of what Greg Palast did to Blair admin in the 1990s, in a pay-for-play setting, with small sums, and Palast hooked Blair’s minion on first throwing the line in.

Since it works so easily on the right, O’Keefe must have thought the lefties were equally rapacious & stupid.

The resemblance would be purely physical; Oswald was comparatively balanced, and reasonable.

Camel. Or vicuna.

is this some kind of probation violation?

IOW, so what? he’s a pest and going to do it again and again and again.

I’d love to know who’s bankrolling this guy. That, and what motivates that female accomplice of his to put Planned Parenthood out of business.

Of course the amazingly liberal media will report on this fraudulent activity with a thorough investigative reporting on it… wait, what?

LOL. Tampering with phones, using phones… oh, just lock the lil pimp up.

what motivates that female accomplice of his to put Planned Parenthood out of business

My guess: money! That and having no shame, of course.

She can afford good health coverage and contraception, probably.

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My guess is that Jimmy’s funding is running low.

O’Keefe has crawled so far up the ass of the right-wing that his feet are no longer visible.

Wanna be Eva Braun if you ask me.

It’s not just you. He DOES look like Oswald.

There’s a moral to this story which even some of us who know better are sometimes tempted to forget: don’t take shortcuts; play everything up front and by the rules. That’s what saved Mishel and Hanauer. That’s what did in Dan Rather.

Self loathing and shame at having female parts.

I am amazed that anyone any longer exists, our side included, that sees anything wrong with this. This is how science is done today, and I mean not just soft science but hard science too. Select a desired outcome and find only the facts that support it.

Isn’t he bankrolled by Breitbarf?

It was a gross miscarriage of justice not to have sentenced the little shit to federal prison time after he did his circus act at Landrieu’s office. Ian Masters had a piece on this last night. It’s item #1. Good interview.

All he needs is a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano…

Throw the little shit into a federal supermax, please.

Thanks for reminding us of that miscarriage of justice. Exactly. Why was this WHITE POS let off after fiddling around at Landriu’s office??

Frankly, as long as these skeevy creeps mess with so-called “Democrats” or “Democratic” causes, like ACORN, whatever they do is just fine with the PTB. Typical. It’s all about oppressing the 99% by whatever means possible.

I’m not so sure Breitbart is even bankrolled by Breitbart. Both of these dirtbags are whoring for anyone who’s willing to write a check.

This seems to be a common theme — wingers accusing lefties (or Dems) of doing something they themselves are guilty of. Part of it is an attempt to encourage the both-sides-do-it narrative that corporate media loves, and part of it seems to be that they find it hard to believe that some people *don’t* play dirty. In their world-view, honest people are suckers, victims, losers.

Wanna be Eva Braun if you ask me.

Close, but he’s actually a Leni Riefenstahl wannabe. But you’re right that his cinematography more closely resembles Eva’s skills as depicted in her home movies of dear Adolf. Grainy, no composition to the shots, and the lighting is sub-par at best.

Would this be the same EPI that supported Obama’s gift to the rich last year by extending the Bush tax cuts??

Now they wouldn’t sway their findings one little bit to suit a Democrat, would they???

Is it just me or does O’Keefe look like Lee Harvey Oswald ?

He looks more like Timothy McViegh (the OKC bomber) to me.

Oh, and BTW, I find I do have to AGREE with O’Keefe’s main theme.

His main theme on almost EVERYTHING is “the other side does it too.”

Well, you know what folks, the evidence is in, and it’s pretty clear to this old fat guy he’s right.

When Bush was Prez, indefinite detentions, warrentless spying, rendition, and torture were OMG NOEEES.

I don’t even need to say it do I. In fact, you have to go no further than THIS SITE to find self proclaimed Democratic commenters defending assassinating American citizens with no due process. And I’d still bet my last dollar those EXACT SAME self proclaimed Democratic commenters would’ve completely blew a gasket had George W Bush done the exact same thing.

So yeah, it seems both sides do it. And both sides use the excuse that the other side does it so what.

Cool, huh?

He loos like an asshole to me.

A smirking asshole.

This is the problem with dividing the world into two sides. EPI has just proven that they have a boatload of integrity. The EPI has nothing to do with Executive overreach, assasinations, etc. The EPI is out there providing objective data. Why do you need to have your two sides?

I was trying, but obviously failed, to make the point that O’Keefe, which IS what this post is about, is right about his central meme “that both sides do it.” David wrote “So naturally, James O’Keefe wanted to “prove” the same thing about liberal think tanks through entrapping organizations like the Economic Policy Institute.”

So this IS relevant to this post.

And when W and The Dick were shredding the constitution their side claimed “Come on, both sides bend the rules a little bit when the ends justifies the means” and now that Obama is President and I see Democrats defending HIS shredding of the constution too, well, it turns O’Keefes central meme is correct, even if he was wrong about EPI.

Is that not a valid point to make or did I go about it wrong?

EDIT: And BTW, if EPI is so full of credibility why did they support Obama’s bill to extend the tax cuts for the rich when during the years of Bush they wrote lots of stuff showing tax cuts for rich don’t work as advertised?

Hey OldFatGuy, we know, we know, you can always find an example here or there of Dems or Liberals doing the wrong thing–just like Conservatives. The difference, of course is that for Conservatives it’s a way of life, and for Liberals you are pointing to isolated incidents. And I seriously doubt that O’Keefe’s purpose is to prove that “both sides do it.” His purpose is proving that liberals are evil hypocrites. He has failed to prove his thesis with ACORN, NPR, Senator Landrieu and now EPI. He has no regard for the truth, all that matters to him is perception, and that is what he’s trying to impact. He’s a creepy little dipshit who should dig a hole and crawl into it.

Hey, how about a link or two on your assertions regarding EPI?

While I would agree with OldFatGuy’s premise that Democrats are as much of a problem as the Republicans are, my 20 second research of googling the EPI’s page on the Bush tax cuts is basically ambiguous. They have links to pages supporting it and opposing it. Hell one was a link to an article written by the freaking Heritage Foundation….. But the majority were opposing the Bush tax cuts.

Basically, good premise, but its wrong in this particular case. It seems

Tax cuts don’t work as advertised

As detailed in a new Economic Policy Institute policy memorandum, these tax cuts were heavily targeted toward the wealthy at the expense of middle class families, poorly designed as an economic stimulus, and costly—significantly more so than advertised.

http://www.epi.org/publication/ten_years_later_the_bush_tax_cuts_remain_unfair_ineffective_and_expensive/

When it comes to reviving the economy, tax cuts do not work as well as smart public spending. That is economic common sense proven true by the past two attempts at tax-cut stimulus, in 2008 and in 2003-04. And yet, incredibly, we are starting to hear the same old tried-and-failed policies from conservatives and the GOP.

http://www.epi.org/publication/public_investment_far_better_than_tax_cuts/

In support of Obama’s deal:

President Obama won policies that will put or keep money in the pockets of the families of the unemployed and middle and low-income families, which will increase spending and create jobs. That’s what a payroll tax holiday for workers, unemployment benefits and the various tax credits will do: create customers for business and create jobs, which is our biggest need right now.

http://www.epi.org/publication/the_deal_republicans_got_to_comfort_the_rich_obama_got_to_help_the_rest_and/

BTW, how can anyone read these two quotes and not see they’re polar opposites.

When it comes to reviving the economy, tax cuts do not work as well as smart public spending. That is economic common sense proven true..
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And yet, incredibly, we are starting to hear the same old tried-and-failed policies

tax cuts are “failed policies”.

That’s what a payroll tax holiday for workers, unemployment benefits and the various tax credits will do: create customers for business and create jobs

Tax cuts and tax credits will creat jobs.

If anyone can’t see the blatant change of heart between these two, one when discussing Republicans, the other when discussing Obama, then they’re not looking.

Links to above quotes available at post 34.

Ok, OFG, you did show EPI making seemingly contradictory assertions, however, context is everything. They are asserting that the Bush tax cuts did nothing for the middle class, being targeted toward the wealthy. The years since Bush’s 2003 tax cuts show this to be true. Jobs were not created by cutting taxes for the wealthy; their incomes have risen sharply, job numbers have declined. The last quote, “in support of Obama’s deal,” was talking about tax cuts and credits TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. Putting money into middle class hands is by definition, economic stimulus, because we have no choice but to spend it. So EPI was correct again. Your original statement that EPI plays politics with their research was disingenuous, making it seem as though EPI was finding opposite results based on the party in power when actually their findings are logical and correct in both instances.

One sees this a lot in right-wing argument; a blurring of the facts to convince the credulous. Because you know that any explanation countering such an assertion loses three quarters of the audience.

You and I will have agree to disagree I guess due to a difference of reading comprehension.

The first link does indeed specify the Bush tax cuts for wealthy, but the second one, where they call tax cuts failed policies, discusses tax cuts in genereal, using the 2008 tax cuts as another example.

In one instance they’re saying tax cuts in general are failed policies, in another instance they’re saying tax cuts creates jobs.

If you want to spin that in some way to make it sound consistant, be my guest. I’m not going to respond further though because it’s obvious you’ve made up your mind despite what the words say.

They even criticized the tax rebates, which directly into the pockets of middle class taxpayers, as ineffective.

In addition, the 2008 package called for $100 billion in personal tax ‘rebates’. Only about one-third of the rebate checks, which ranged from several hundred to two thousand dollars per family, were spent. It was not an effective way to get the economy back on track.

Oh, and one last point.

You claim I was being disingenuous.

By the way my reading comprehension works, when they say tax cuts in general are failed policies, and when they cite tax rebates, which are really just like the payroll tax holiday, it put dollars directly into the middle class pockets, as being ineffecitve but then claim Obama’s tax cuts will create jobs which is what we need right now, then they’ve come to different conclusions.

If the reason they came to different conclusions wasn’t because one was discussing Republicans and the other a Democrat, what was the reason for coming to different conclusions?? Or are you still going to insist that it doesn’t say what it seems apparent to me to say? That in one instance tax cuts in general, even those targeted to middle class families are ineffective and then tax cuts of the payroll tax will create jobs.