Posted on 01/23/2014 9:41:54 AM PST by Nachum
The rightwing prankster and documentarian whose videos have drawn blood at ACORN and NPR, says his organization is being harassed by the state of New York.
Do extreme conservatives pranksters and videographers have no place in New York State either?
Late last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ignited a firestorm of criticism in right-wing media when he told a public radio host that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay … have no place in the State of New York.”
Cuomo was referring to the prospects of far-right political candidates in the deeply Democratic Empire State, not the prospects of his own far right constituents. Nevertheless, conservative talkers like Sean Hannity said they were moving out of state, conservative bloggers called for a boycott of state businesses and products, and New York Republicans demanded an apology.
Now James O’Keefe, the conservative activist whose deceptively edited videos helped bring down ACORN and led to the resignation of top brass at National Public Radio, says that Cuomo’s administration is in fact trying to run him out of the state.
O’Keefe’s organization, Project Veritas, has had its headquarters in Westchester County, just north of New York City, since 2011. And O’Keefe says that the state’s Department of Labor is now demanding two and a half years worth of financial and payroll documents and threatening them with a subpoena.
“Despite the fact that Project Veritas’s finances are meticulously maintained to the penny, Governor Cuomo and the New York Department of Labor is on a witch-hunt, demanding all documents and financials since our founding,” reads a post on the group’s website. “This is nothing more than meritless, politically-driven targeting. Governor Cuomo said it himself–we don’t belong in New York.”
According to O’Keefe, the group compiled the requested documents for a meeting scheduled last December. However,
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
No biased there, Beast. I don't know in what context this author thinks would have made what Acorn was doing legal or moral. You can't fake what was said, they were complicit in the solicitation of fraud.
“James O’Keefe, the conservative activist whose deceptively edited videos helped bring down ACORN”
That quote tells all about the “Reporter” who wrote this.
Andrew Cuomo, Neostalinist.
Mussolini wannabe
Liar.
Funny... I thought he posted the whole raw footage as well as the highlights reel...
Well... Yes he does..
No bias at the Daily Beastie...
No sireee, none at all...
Because the Main Stream Media was OK with those remarks......
How the Left Sees James O'Keefe:
How we see him:
" I see everything you are doing ACORN!!!!"
Ping.
And besides, NY is too darned cold in the winter!
More a Mussolini-style Fascist buffoon than anything, I think.
Stand up comics in the Soviet Union were given more license to poke fun at the government than Cuomo is willing to allow.
James, leave that communist state asap!
Yes, he did post the entire reel.
But in typical leftists fashion, a lie is promulgated in the hope that many people who hear it won’t know the truth.
The Left hates people like Breitbart and O’Keefe because they don’t want this very powerful, courageous kind of citizen journalism to catch on.
A chicken in every seat of power, but a cellphone camera in every pocket.
Now the villainous, evil James O’Keefe, the Satan-munching conservative activist baby mutilator, whose deceptively edited lies and prevarications (in the form staged videos that were clearly all fictional), helped bring down honorable, good-natured, kind and wonderful organizations (such as the estreemable ACORN). O'Keefes' archetypal diabolical horrors, led to the resignation of some of the finest human beings to walk the Earth since Jesus Christ --the top brass at National Public Radio!
D’Souza, O’Keefe, Scott Walker’s supporters. The war has escalated.
The makers should leave NY to the takers.
Accordingly, in Cuomo's sinister way of thinking, it's a no-brainer for him to send his henchmen out to harass O'Keefe and Project Veritas any way they can, and hope that Project Varitas will collapse as a result.
Welcome to McCarthyism of the left, aka Cuomoism.
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