Set your faces to stunned. James O'Keefe: "We just wanted to see if Landrieu's phones were working"

[ck4829]

Straight from the Plumber reject's mouth himself:

"I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu's constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn't want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill. When asked about this, Senator Landrieu's explanation was that, "Our lines have been jammed for weeks." I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for "weeks" because her phones were broken. In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu's district office – the people's office – to ask the staff if their phones were working."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/01/okeefe-i-could-have-used-a-different-approach/1

Then why not ASK and then leave? Why go into the phone closet, huh?

If anyone believes this story from the Lil' Plumbers, be sure to refer them to me, I've got some hot beachfront property in North Dakota that I'd like to sell them.

[fascisthunter]

1. Heh? Is he baked? Still Commited a Federal Crime

I could give two shits about what this lying sociopath has to say. Have fun in prison.

[jimshoes]

2. Uhmmkay

Couldn't you have tried dialing the number Einstein?

[grantcart]

3. Mr. O'Keefe is to learn just how humorless federal prosecutors are.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Tell it to the judge.

Asshole.

[yellowcanine]

5. And why fake calls to the main line on their cell phones? Why not make real calls?

In fact they did not even have to go to the office. They could have just called and had their question answered. I envy the prosecutor who gets this dickhead on the stand for cross examination.

[Somawas]

6. O'Keefe is just

a corpsefucking douchehammer.

[Parker CA]

10. Douchehammer. Haha. Nice.

[JuniperLea]

7. It was a benevolent mission of mercy!

I get it now!

:rofl:

It just keeps getting better:)

[Parker CA]

8. Wow. What an absolute tool. The dude is a grade A moran.

[Hello_Kitty]

9. So you walk into the office, dial the number from your cellphone, and see if it rings.

Voila, you will know if the phones work or not.

[Canuckistanian]

11. That's it? That's all he's got?

I expected some grand conspiracy story how he got conned into this or that someone threatened him.

Nice touch with "the people's office", but no cigar.

CIA Headquarters are "the people's office", too. But don't expect to waltz in there, start fooling with the phone lines and anticipate no trouble.

[chelsea0011]

12. Keep right on talking pal. The feds are writing it all down.

[moondust]

13. Hilarious.

And when the lights go out I suppose he and his fellow cons don their radiation suits and crash the nuclear reactor to find out why "investigate."

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

14. I'm falling behind on the excuses

As I recall, first he wanted to tape Sen. Landrieu possibly saying derogatory things about the voters. Then O'Keefe was going to get her on tape throwing him out of the office, Mike Wallace-style. Then he was inspecting the premises for bugs out of an outsize sense of civic obligation. Or he wanted to take down the phone system so he could see how discombobulated the office would get. Now he's back to his outsized civic obligation, playing dress-up and trying to "test" to see if the Senator's phones were working. What's next? He heard a ticking time bomb, and just had time to gather the rest of the Mystery Machine crew and skedaddle over to Senator Landrieu's office to deactivate it before it blew her to Kingdom Come?

"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!"

[WeDidIt]

15. Translation : We were casing the joint to prep for the REAL operation

where we bug everything and plant hidden cameras.

[quiet.american]

16. That's some real fast talkin' there, son. Good luck with that. Oh, and - LOL. nt

[uppityperson]

17. I wonder how the judge that gave him a gag order feels about all these press releases

[Gregorian]

18. So the massive story in 2010 was that HE FIXES LANDRIEU'S PHONES?

I don't think so.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Another potential Medal of Freedom recipient.....

Move over, Rummy.

[tblue37]

20. And why dress up like the Village People in official phone repairmen's costumes? nt

[ddeclue]

30. DUZY ALERT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

[tblue37]

34. LOL! Thanks for that. Great fun! nt

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Maybe he meant to go to Senator Wide-Stance, instead.

:shrug:

[MerryBlooms]

21. So now it was their 'good deed' for the day

literally lol here - absolutely priceless.
Oh yes, we need more do-gooders like these four pathetic saps.
It won't be long before Rush and Faux sets up a fund raising site to help these 'patriots' fight big gubmit persecution.

[tanyev]

22. LOL. Li'l Plumbers.

The only thing that would have made this better is if Joe The (not really a) Plumber had been part of the gang.

[Lucy Goosey]

23. Didn't they show up dressed as phone technicians, though?

If they just wanted to ask staff if the phones were working, why impersonate repairmen?

Also, Landrieu said the phones were "jammed" and this asswad assumes it means "broken", but "broken" is not what the Senator said. By "jammed" she likely just meant they were getting lots of calls, so some people were probably having to call a few times before getting through, right? I really can't imagine any Senator ignoring a broken phone system for weeks just so she doesn't have to listen to constituents.

I feel like this guy is insulting my intelligence if he really thinks I'm going to believe him.

[Odin2005]

24. ROFLMAO!!!

:rofl:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. That doesn't even make sense.

Not that their reasons matter that much anyway, since what they did was a blatant felony.

[laylah]

26. OMG...

:rofl: What an idiot!

[Arkana]

27. This is the king of bullshit stories.

Seriously? It's so transparently shit that I have a hard time believing that he's not trolling the media.

[theothersnippywshrub]

28. I think O'Keefe's lawyer wrote this statement.

It carefully and artfully negates some of the elements of each of the crimes the FBI affidavit accuses the teabuggers of committing. (Violating Sections 1036 and 1362 of Title 18). O'Keefe implicitly denies that they entered under false pretenses, which would be a violation of 1036, and that they intended and attempted to interfere with the phones, which would be a violation of Section 1362, which is a felony and which would make the violation of 1036 a felony also.

I doubt that O'Keefe could write such a legally helpful statement without his lawyer's assistance. I also doubt that a competent lawyer would let his client issue such a statement without at least reviewing and editing it first. And Michael Madigan is a pretty serious, fairly expensive and very good white collar criminal defense attorney.

[librechik]

29. EVERY post on this thread should be of the BWA HAAAAA HAA variety

a simple call to the phone company inquiring about an outage would suffice for that. Give me an effin break, Jimmy Bob.

[Ardent15]

31. Sure you did,

And as I quote Robin Williams, "Obama's campaign was financed on the internet by a Nigerian prince. Come with me."

[TexasObserver]

32. Waterboard him a few hundred times to make sure that's all he knows.

[Maru Kitteh]

33. I'll bet that crap worked in college all the time. Little frat-rat bastard. Nice TRY!

[robinlynne]

36. Did he say this under oath?

[opihimoimoi]

37. Typ GOP Op...confusion....

[eppur_se_muova]

38. Did someone say "That's just crazy enough to work!"?

And did someone neglect to counter "This isn't Hollywood"? Sure sounds like.