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PostNouveau posted:Here's a feel-good for the thread. James O'Keefe is so incensed by the terms of his just-ended probation for lying his way into a Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office that he got thrown off Tulane's campus for harassing the prosecutor who "ruined his life." That prosecutor has the look of a man that you just don't gently caress with.
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PostNouveau posted:Here's a feel-good for the thread. James O'Keefe is so incensed by the terms of his just-ended probation for lying his way into a Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu's office that he got thrown off Tulane's campus for harassing the prosecutor who "ruined his life." I feel like "shitbird" is a word made specifically for people like O'Keefe.
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Jul 17, 2013 18:39
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O'Keefe strikes me as the kind of guy who is going to end up cracking completely at some point and jumping off something tall after downing a gallon of Irish whiskey and writing something incoherent. He's not your run of the mill polished turd hack like Hannity or something, he's quite clearly got serious issues.
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Jul 17, 2013 18:39
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ReindeerF posted:O'Keefe strikes me as the kind of guy who is going to end up cracking completely at some point and jumping off something tall after downing a gallon of Irish whiskey and writing something incoherent. He's not your run of the mill polished turd hack like Hannity or something, he's quite clearly got serious issues. Oh yeah, definitely. The fact that as soon as he's able he goes back to Louisiana to dust off an old issue for a personal vendetta (and possibly opening himself to additional legal action in the process) instead of taking his lumps and moving on makes that pretty clear. And of course it's not the first time, poo poo always seems personal with him.
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Jul 17, 2013 18:48
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ReindeerF posted:O'Keefe strikes me as the kind of guy who is going to end up cracking completely at some point and jumping off something tall after downing a gallon of Irish whiskey and writing something incoherent. He's not your run of the mill polished turd hack like Hannity or something, he's quite clearly got serious issues. Why does it have to be Irish whiskey?
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Jul 17, 2013 18:50
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There was this hilarious interview I read like a week ago by O'Keefe where the interviewer completely kisses his rear end "You are the best journalist working today" (actual quote) and O'keefe claims paying a 100,000 settlement was a victory for him.ReidRansom posted:That prosecutor has the look of a man that you just don't gently caress with. Any man who wears an ironic mustache and isn't being ironic is a dangerous man Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Jul 17, 2013 19:04
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Ah, the ACORN fakepimp guy? I wish something worse happened to him. I really do.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:22
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Generic American posted:Man, was anyone listening to Limbaugh yesterday? I heard it and was going to post it last night. It was bizarre. It was one of those "now hear me out, folks" moments where even he knows what he's saying is, at best, a stretch and and at worse complete bullshit, but it had an air about it like "Wow! I never thought about hat. It's so crazy it just might be true!" To your average Rush listener, I'm sure it sounded like a demonstration of conservative, read-between-the-lines intellectualism.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:22
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He went off on this huge tangent from Rachel Jeantel's CNN interview. What was it about, you might ask? Well, Trayvon was actually a homophobe! And poor, poor Zimmerman was the victim of a hate-crime, since Trayvon just wanted to gay-bash him. The basis for this?
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ReindeerF posted:O'Keefe strikes me as the kind of guy who is going to end up cracking completely at some point and jumping off something tall after downing a gallon of Irish whiskey and writing something incoherent. He's not your run of the mill polished turd hack like Hannity or something, he's quite clearly got serious issues. I think the whole "ironic rape boat" thing provided ample evidence of that.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:26
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He's running around harassing people over something he plead guilty to?
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Jul 17, 2013 19:28
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Intel&Sebastian posted:He's running around harassing people over something he plead guilty to? No, you don't get it. He only plead guilty so he could be less distracted from seeking the truth
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Jul 17, 2013 19:29
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Monkey Fracas posted:Ah, the ACORN fakepimp guy? I wish something worse happened to him. I really do.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:40
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Intel&Sebastian posted:He's running around harassing people over something he plead guilty to? Don't you get it? That prosecutor ruined his life by recusing himself from the matter since he knew the father of one of the other guys involved. Had he just done the right thing and ignore their violations of federal law by letting the whole thing slide since he had a loose connection to them then everything would be OK. Doesn't that rear end in a top hat understand that laws don't apply to people with connections?!
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Jul 17, 2013 19:55
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Guilty Spork posted:Mostly I just want everyone to stop pretending he ever at any point had an ounce of credibility. He first became known with that ACORN stunt, in which he was demonstrably deceiving the public, and in doing so set in motion the shuttering of an organization that existed primarily to help poor people. There are STILL people who believe ACORN is around and causing mass voter fraud. O'Keefe's "career" is basically a giant pile of partisan lies, with a sexual harassment/rape cherry on top. Yea the article says "Video of the confrontation hasn't surface yet" most likely because he isn't done editing it to skew the prosecutor in the worst possible way.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:55
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For those that didn't click through: O'Keefe originally started on his quest for revenge by showing up at this prosecutors house, harassing his wife and trying to force a copy of his book on her while someone stayed behind in the car filming them.
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Jul 17, 2013 19:57
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Rush is talking about Rachel Jeantel again today, responding to her mention of having a 3.0 GPA in school during a CBS interview. Rush explained that the 3.0 GPA was the product of rampant grade inflation at the hands of Democrat union thug teachers who maliciously hold back from teaching real knowledge in favor of indoctrinating the students with anti-American propaganda aimed at getting them to vote Democrat. Also, blacks and liberals, especially black liberals, are the main thing holding blacks back in society. Rush then spend a few minutes reflecting on how sad and tragic this was, how racism and the specter of slavery will never disappear from American society because of blacks and liberals keeping it alive.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:02
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Intel&Sebastian posted:trying to force a copy of his book on her We have assault with a deadly weapon Book em
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Jul 17, 2013 20:05
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If O'Keefe wasn't connected like he is, he would have been charged with national security crimes, considering he WIRETAPPED A SENATOR. That's supposed to be serious business.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:14
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ReidRansom posted:That prosecutor has the look of a man that you just don't gently caress with. That prosecutor was forced to resign recently after it came out that 2 of his assistant US Attorneys were posting charged comments on several locally high profile federal cases. How he ended up landing with a cushy job at Tulane Law is beyond me. Here's a story on his troubles. http://www.mainjustice.com/2012/12/07/inside-the-scandal-that-toppled-the-new-orleans-u-s-attorney/
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Jul 17, 2013 20:17
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FlamingLiberal posted:If O'Keefe wasn't connected like he is, he would have been charged with national security crimes, considering he WIRETAPPED A SENATOR. That's supposed to be serious business.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:18
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Ho Chi Mint posted:Why does it have to be Irish whiskey? Yeah, O'Keefe doesn't seem like an Irish whiskey kind of guy to me. I can totally see him OD'ing on some kind of stimulant though.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:28
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Yeah, O'Keefe doesn't seem like an Irish whiskey kind of guy to me. I can totally see him OD'ing on some kind of stimulant though. If they still made Zima, he's a Zima guy.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:35
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Yeah, O'Keefe doesn't seem like an Irish whiskey kind of guy to me. I can totally see him OD'ing on some kind of stimulant though. Alright, buddy, but it's got to be a stimulant with a play on the very Irish name of O'Keefe.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:35
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Given his history of Irish-related pranks I assume he's the kind of guy who would drink Irish whiskey. Which brand, I don't know.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:37
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XyloJW posted:Alright, buddy, but it's got to be a stimulant with a play on the very Irish name of O'Keefe. Molly?
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Jul 17, 2013 20:43
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I imagined him to be a flavored rum drinker. "Panty dropper" etc.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:47
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XyloJW posted:Alright, buddy, but it's got to be a stimulant with a play on the very Irish name of O'Keefe. According to Wikipedia, Ireland's primary drug problem right now is heroin. I can see O'Keefe on heroin.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:53
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Given his probable interest in his 'heritage' and this vibe I get that he's a show-drinker and not a pro-drinker I could easily see O'Keefe fighting grimaces as he sips irish whiskey on heavy rocks at some cocktail party.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:55
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Molly? I cannot even begin to tell you how awesome it would be if some conservative shill fuckhead took molly and then went on the air and admitted everything they're really thinking. My god, it would be like a nuclear bomb hitting conservative ideology.
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Jul 17, 2013 20:59
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I don't think I've ever seen/heard as many black people on right wing media as I have in the last two days. It's like they've erected a human wall of black people that they can stand behind while lobbing racist bombshells. I'd almost feel sorry for people like Alveda King if she wasn't such an objectively horrible person. She's obviously a single issue Leviticus evangelical voter but they only cart her out so she can talk about how some issue is totally due to black people acting crazy.
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Jul 17, 2013 21:27
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Warchicken posted:I cannot even begin to tell you how awesome it would be if some conservative shill fuckhead took molly and then went on the air and admitted everything they're really thinking. My god, it would be like a nuclear bomb hitting conservative ideology. That would pair well with the gifts the Strategy Group For Media hand out.
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Jul 17, 2013 21:30
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ReindeerF posted:Given his history of Irish-related pranks I assume he's the kind of guy who would drink Irish whiskey. Which brand, I don't know. The same brand every clueless jackass who proclaims their Irish heritage but doesn't know gently caress-all about it: Jameson, the Americanest of Irish whiskies.
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Jul 17, 2013 21:31
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FlamingLiberal posted:If O'Keefe wasn't connected like he is, he would have been charged with national security crimes, considering he WIRETAPPED A SENATOR. That's supposed to be serious business. It was a harmless joke, though. You know how Republicans are with humor.
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Jul 17, 2013 21:54
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Intel&Sebastian posted:For those that didn't click through: O'Keefe originally started on his quest for revenge by showing up at this prosecutors house, harassing his wife and trying to force a copy of his book on her while someone stayed behind in the car filming them. The Right Wing's Michael Moore, everyone. This is completely equivalent to Moore's stunts.
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Jul 17, 2013 23:17
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Vertical Lime posted:Rape Hillary again? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/muslim-american-surveillance-new-york?page=1
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Jul 17, 2013 23:50
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McDowell posted:The Right Wing's Michael Moore, everyone. I can't stand Michael Moore, but it's a little disingenuous to compare O'Keefe's tamest stunt to Michael Moore and say they are the ideological equivalents of each other. I'm pretty sure Michael Moore has never broken the law or even if he has he has never lured any women onto creepy sex dungeon boat stings.
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Jul 18, 2013 00:23
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I can't stand Michael Moore, but it's a little disingenuous to compare O'Keefe's tamest stunt to Michael Moore and say they are the ideological equivalents of each other. I'm pretty sure Michael Moore has never broken the law or even if he has he has never lured any women onto creepy sex dungeon boat stings. Yeah, Moore is nothing special, but I'm sure if you start trashtalking O'Keefe to a conservative that 'moral equivalence' will happen almost instantly.
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Jul 18, 2013 00:29
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mr. mephistopheles posted:I can't stand Michael Moore, but it's a little disingenuous to compare O'Keefe's tamest stunt to Michael Moore and say they are the ideological equivalents of each other. I'm pretty sure Michael Moore has never broken the law or even if he has he has never lured any women onto creepy sex dungeon boat stings. But you see, both sides are equally bad, because reasons.
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Jul 18, 2013 00:33
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I have a theory. I think sometimes these types of people genuinely do not understand why the sexist and racist poo poo they say is sexist and racist. They seriously think sexism and racism are random labels just thrown out by Liberals. So, they think they can do the same thing by randomly throwing out labels and acting like its a counter argument. This is true. Their worldview is such that they are the arbiters of all common sense with a healthy dose of naive idealism about the world. "Men loving men is not normal, and so therefore it shouldn't exist."  "Black people don't talk normal so they're dumb, and there sure are a lot in prison so they must be committing most of the crime." "If you don't coerce people by withholding food/housing/healthcare then people won't want to work." The list of really dumb, but very common sense, things abounds.Any kind of more learned perspective on these issues that is at first slightly unintuitive is completely rejected out of hand as being nonsensical when compared with their "common sense" approach to the issues. Anything that requires a second layer of understanding is completely thrown away. So while we, on this forum, have a pretty clear idea of what sexism and racism are, they're really perplexed by it. It feels extremely random to them. They can't fathom how something that is perceived by them to be an innocuous truth about the world could be deemed abhorrent by other portions of society. This is why you see them complain about leftists having these dastardly plans about PC language. They are not capable of understanding the clear logic behind it, and so dismiss all of it as a cudgel wielded arbitrarily against their team. Their blind acceptance of culture war rhetoric and pro wrestling approach to politics causes them to dismiss racism/sexism as a tool in those fights. This is why they're so interested in trying to point out hypocrisy on the left. Any perceived hypocrisy on the left becomes evidence for their claim that Democrats' only interest is in hurting the opposing team.
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Generic American posted:Man, was anyone listening to Limbaugh yesterday? My favorite part of yesterdays show was when a woman called in talking about how she had listened to Rush for 15 years and that he had opened up her eyes. Then she said something along the lines of "Do you think that Rachel feels a little guilty now for sewing the seeds of doubt in Trayvons mind anout Zimmerman being a rapist which caused him to act out in this way?" Rush said "Ehhhhh I'm just not seeing that" and she just responded "me neither." Those are always my favorite callers. They call up with a revelation they think Rush will love and he has to pretend like it isn't completely retarded by immediately talking over them or turning their question into something totally different and not letting them speak again. It must destroy those people. Or it reinforces the fact that only Rush has the real answers.
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