MSM is catching up on this and editing their articles now. Times-Picayune changed their headline to “tamper” instead of bugging:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html
WashPost has a correction on this, too:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012604145.html
Still, I am curious on what kind of guerilla video stunt O’Keefe et al had in mind that day. The last few were fun to watch! (Apparently the AP article quoted anonymous source saying one of the hard hats had a camera in it.)
TPM article recaps the revisions by news sources to erase the “bugging” meme:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the_landrieu_phone_case_not_a_bugging_after_all.php
I think what they were pretending to be Telephone repair people because apparently Landrieus office is impossible to reach by phone. I suspect, and this is a WAG mind you, that in fact the office phones were busied out by the staff. The result of which is that no one can call the office unless they know another number. I suspect they were filming Landrieus receptionist filing her nails, surfing the net and assorted other things rather than take calls.
The “tampering” I suspect was their “repairman” verifying that the phone did in fact work and that if the office CHOSE to, they could take calls at any time yet they had forwarded all calls to voicemail or something of the sort.
Just a guess mind you, and a wild a$$ one at that, but I suspect I am close to the truth on this.
Cheers,
knewshound