Friday, January 29, 2010

Trapped by the phone closet 

"Journalist" O'keefe releases a statement saying "the sole intent" of pimpgate was "to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator."

I see. So the sequence described in the FBI's affidavit (#6-8) where O'keefe's partner Basel asks to see an office phone, "manipulates" it, (pretends?) to call the number from his cell, claims he can't get through and needs to access the telephone closet to do repair work, then falsely represents himself as a telephone repairman to the GSA... that's all part of this awesome undercover investigation into whether Landrieu's office staffers were ignoring calls from constituents, back in December.

Okaaay. Pardon us if we skeptically submit that O'keefe's statement doesn't explain the need for costumes, the "manipulation" of the office phone, the (false?) claim that phone repairs were needed, and the false representations his crew made to the GSA in order to gain access to the phone closet.

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The supposed basis for the prank--exposing Landrieu's office for not answering calls from constituents--is easily, provably false.

I've called and e-mailed Landrieu's office on a number of issues--ranging from the bailout to health care reform--and have never had a problem getting through (I should add, too, that I was calling to express views on legislation that were not shared by Landrieu--so the idea that she's stonewalling constituents who don't agree with her is ridiculous).


So, I'd love to see O'Keefe provide some evidence for his claim that Landrieu's office is not responsive...

By Blogger ethan, at 3:09 PM  

your right hand who dat.

hell to the yah .

nice touch.

By Blogger GENTILLY YARD ART, at 3:38 PM  

I had problems faxing Landrieu my nastygram a few weeks back, but it is understandable considering the timing. However my calls have always made it through.

Any way you slice it, these four men are morons. They wanted the glory of bringing down Landrieu and didn't think about pesky details like keeping it legal.

Now they are doing what Republicans do best: whining and refusing to take responsibility for their actions.

I really hope that these numbskulls do time if only to discourage this kind of activity.

By the way, I love the new name!

By Blogger Jacque, at 6:44 PM  

The ACORN guy was just playing along with the joke, too.

By Blogger GO, at 9:15 PM  

This is the NFL. The NFL says to cease and desist use of "who dat." We'd also like the rights to "Mard Gras." As you were.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:48 PM  

Here is my lede today on this story:
{Know Felon In Drag, Dahmer Look'like James Elmer O'Keefe Exposes Himself to Breitbart, Blows Smoke Out His Ass through a Pelican Brief)
I actually went onto Breitbart's fecal paper trail for a little R'n'R (rantin'n'rectalatin) and had a wonderful time playing Kick the Neocon with some of his better half-wits. And lemme toll'ya, that was more fun than a barrel full of voodoo dolls!

Hope you don't mind, I left the comment link back to YRHT. Riiiight. I'm kidding! Really.

I still think he looks more like serial cannibal Jeffery Dahmer than serial patsy Lee Harvey Oswald.
Either way it just goes to show'ya: just because this pusillanimous double'think fish'punked loser went to college it doesn't mean he has the Chromosomal Dexterity to connect Y to Y.

One thing I did find interesting on his Linkdin profil: "Former" Eagle Scout. Can someone ask James Perry how that is accomplished? How does one become a "Former" Eagle Scout? Well, how about Felony arrest?

By Anonymous Editilla, at 1:30 AM  

The Fat Boys were more convincing. Human beatbox!

By Blogger joejoejoe, at 1:44 AM  

Edtilla, perhaps you're right about O'Keefe looking more like Dahmer, but count me as another "resembles Oswald" person when watching the St. Bernard parish jail footage.

Something about his manner...as if he takes himself way too seriously.

But I'm less concerned about O'Keefe personally than about the possibility that there are a lot of nutjobs like him out there.

By Blogger Michael, at 10:22 AM  

I've never had a prob contacting Mary's office. And they hate me.

By Anonymous GentillyGirl, at 3:04 PM  

Interesting that Vitter's senatorial hold on Louisiana U.S. Attorneys gets finally dropped just days after the Associated Press reports on the link between the Landrieu office phone tampering arrests, acting U.S. attorney Bill Flanagan, and Vitter's intransigence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012703199.html

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/post_313.html

By Blogger Coco Drie, at 6:40 PM  

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By Blogger briyan, at 10:20 PM  

Oyster, this is very, very simple: were they caught with bugs, electronic devices, or eavesdropping equipment of any kind? Read the affidavit. It looks like no. The only one who was was out in the car and then it's just a question of whether he was recording the other three guys' conversations in the building (as opposed to holding bugs or the like). These guys are 24-25, you are way underestimating their moronictudedness. Because yes if there were no bugs found on them what else could they have been doing?

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:18 PM  

New Orleans
Editilla's Citation mensuelle
"A proper school should teach nothing but bookkeeping, agriculture, geometry, dead languages made deader by leaving out all the amusing literature, and the Hebrew Bible as interpreted by men superbly trained to ignore contradictions, men technically called 'Fundamentalists.'"
~Elmer Gantry
--thus back-channeled by
The Known Felon In Drag,
James Elmer O'Keefe:
"Let us rock the foundations of academia and challenge the thrones that have for too long indoctrinated us about our world and the context in which we live."

Michael, you got dat'righ!
There was something about his perp'walk that said more than simply: "I've been ridden", but more like I half'way expected to see the son of Jack Ruby step in from the side and shoot this stupid patsy's heart. Then again, I was only 3 years old when his daddy did it to O'Keefes "daddy". I saw it on the news. 3 years old, really.
What? Yikes.
I con'tellll you donnn'beeleeve meeee.
I could do Oswald. Wait, did I say that?

But you want take a thrill ride?
Sarah Palin thinks Lil'Liddy (Eli's Tag) is Hot. HA! I can hear it the way she sayz Hacky Mam, Doh'Ya'Know?
He's Hat Y'kno!
Hey, put a mustache on'im, call'im Dirty Boy.
This little fakir could become Sarah's Rapier!

By Anonymous Editilla, at 3:18 AM  

Anon, "moronictudedness", very nice.
I just don't have a come back for that one.
But these boys had coodies, or at least their fearless leader had a cell phone which today counts as a bug when you are using it to make a movie. Now THAT is the one that strikes me envious.
The word "Bug" was used before the MIT geeks found a Moth in their paperwork and it means hidden listening. Ironically, sayz buddhaspook, Hiding it in plain sight is always the best. Why not consider it a cell phone as did James Elmer O'Keefe?
One thing fo'sho'tho, Lil'Liddy is a Bug unto his own. How do we know he doesn't have circuitry in his brain? Nano in his grape nuts?
The Centurion Candidate.

By Anonymous Editilla, at 3:45 AM  

More evidence for ya, Erster. I've called Landrieu's office numerous times, and, with a very few exceptions when something huge was going down in DC, I've not had a problem getting through.

My question: how would the office staff know what the call was about before they didn't answer?

By Blogger Grandmère Mimi, at 2:34 PM  

Personally, I think more people should break into politicians offices to do mischief, whatever it may be. On a side note, reading anything Editilla writes somehow gives me a huge headache.

By Anonymous whoever, at 4:10 PM  

Wow. Letten recused himself:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/02/us_attorney_jim_letten_recused.html
I suppose there isn't a lot to be read into that action.

By Anonymous Editilla, at 8:13 PM  

Hey, mischief is fine. It's skulduggery that gets my goat.

Whoever, that is the meanest thing anyone has ever said to me.
Sooo, what? You want me to go away? No problem. Cheezus, can't even have any fun around here anymore.

By Anonymous Editilla~New Orleans Ladder, at 10:11 PM  

On Hannity, Serial Tapist James O'Keefe repeats false suggestion that Landrieu took $300 million bribe ~Media Matters
http://mediamatters.org/research/201002020002

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