18 thoughts on “So Much For The “Wiretapping””

  2. Why would I be in mourning? Absent O’Keefe being caught with wiretapping equipment, proving it in a court of law would be nearly impossible.

  3. Ah, Gerrib was trying him in the court of public opinion. Apparently that’s was impossible too.

  6. …..in the face of a total lack of evidence. Good job there Chris.

    To bad this site does not have an ignore feature.

  8. O’Keefe pled guilty to a crime. Read that again. He confessed to criminal activity.

    Obviously he was up to something malicious. “Journalists” don’t plead guilty to crimes.

  11. They pled to what is essentially trespassing. Their videotaping of the allegedly “swamped” call center was politically malicious, maybe, but hardly beyond the pale these days and certainly in-line with O’Keefe’s “60 Minutes” Gotcha! shtick…

    O’Keefe also was in the office and secretly videotaped the incident, while Dai was outside, according to the Justice Department statement.

    Landrieu, a Democrat, had voted in favor of the Democratic health care reform bill the previous month.

    Calling himself an “investigative journalist,” O’Keefe claimed he was trying to test the credibility of a claim by Landrieu that her office had been unable to field calls from constituents opposed to her stance on the Senate health care bill because her phone lines had been “jammed for weeks.”

    For his community service, I hope he picks-up garbage along the highway in his “pimp” outfit.

  12. if he was just being a journalist, he wouldn’t have copped a plea, so, yes, I am holding to the wiretap theory

    I see you are still logically impaired. The charge is entering federal property under false pretenses.

    So much for your wiretap theory.

    Being a journalist, wouldn’t the first thing he needs to do is enter the property?

    He wouldn’t have copped a plea? He was going for a story and they brought the full weight of the law down on him. Copping a plea is also known as cutting your losses. When you’re in a kangaroo court, getting out is the priority.

    he wouldn’t have copped a plea

    What’s your logic? Because he was innocent? Perhaps he wasn’t. Perhaps he did enter under false pretenses… because that’s how he expected to get a story which might not happen any other way. It’s a form of civil disobedience. Doesn’t a lefty understand the point of civil disobedience?

  13. ken anthony – The charge is what they could prove, not necessarily what he did. Entering Federal property as a journalist is perfectly legal. Entering it posing as the phone company is not. Also, “civil disobedience” means you make the Government actually take you to trial. There, you make the Government look like idiots for (in this case) trying to “kangaroo court” a “journalist.”

  14. “O’Keefe pled guilty to a crime. Read that again. He confessed to criminal activity.

    Obviously he was up to something malicious. “Journalists” don’t plead guilty to crimes”

    Innocent people cop pleas all of the time Chris. It it is a minor misdemeanor.

    It is cheaper and easier to pay the fine and go on with life than it is to pay a Lawyer to fight malicious prosecution.

  15. Yes, there was malice Chris, but it was on the side of the prosecutor who pushed this chicken-shit charge.

  16. O’Keefe pled guilty to a crime. Read that again. He confessed to criminal activity.

    Obviously he was up to something malicious. “Journalists” don’t plead guilty to crimes.

    One wonders what Gerrib thinks about the NYT’s front page story last week exposing US military black ops program in foreign countries. Surely that information was classified and divulging classified material is against the law. A felony actually. Obviously, the NYT was up to something malicious, but in Gerrib’s logic, they are still “Journalists” because they didn’t plead guilty to the crime?

    Hey, Rand, have you ever plead guilty to a crime? If not, can we call you a journalist now? I guess since misdeamnors are considered malicious crimes, you are out of luck if you ever claimed no contest to a speeding ticket (you evil, malicious, scum of the Earth violator of speed limits). On second thought, I wonder how many journalist participated in 1960’s sit-ins and got arrested for trespassing? I guess they’ll lose their journalist credentials now.

  18. Also, “civil disobedience” means you make the Government actually take you to trial.

    Uh huh. So anything else is not, eh?

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