Posted on 04/02/2023 8:11:51 AM PDT by Twotone
associate went around the country catching employees at ACORN offices on video helping out with what turned out to be a hypothetical scam involving a pimp who was setting up a brothel full of underaged girls and the products of those exploits were tumbling onto the pages of Andrew Breitbart’s then-new site BigGovernment, O’Keefe got very famous very fast.
Since then, he’s been one of the most active conservative media figures in America, pumping out investigative journalism in a fire-hose stream. Not everything has worked out, as one might imagine — when O’Keefe and his team tried a more satirical video chiding then-Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office staff for their refusal to answer their phones following Landrieu’s Obamacare vote, the senator’s allies went after him and ultimately got him enmeshed in a federal criminal prosecution for supposedly “wiretapping” her office, something he didn’t do.
And just recently, O’Keefe got into a snit with the board of Project Veritas, his investigative media organization, which resulted in his getting bounced from the company.
Nobody really thought that would end his career, and it hasn’t. He’s back with a new outfit, O’Keefe Media Group (OMG, which is a hilarious name for certain), and he’s got a bit more understated, but potentially every bit as effective investigation:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
BTTT
I would say this, after watching it. These are all retirees and it would seem like they were aware of some ‘donations’ but I think their data was stolen and someone made tens of thousands of political donations without this group aware of the situation.
This is a great article. If you get to the bottom, there’s a link to the FEC website so FReepers can do their own sleuthing as to what’s happening in their own state. Red State AG’s should be all over this!
GOP needs to sue ActBlue to see how this moneys being routed in, because it’s clearly illegal.
I had completely forgotten about ACORN.
Under fire? Give me a break. The only ones that know about this are we here at FR and a few others that share our politics. Business will go on as usual.
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for scaling things. By "things" I mean ideas, methods, organizations. Things that work, that accomplish something useful, attracted attention, financing, and human talent.
Doesn't matter what these things do. Can be positive, can be negative. If there are people who like what a certain thing does, that thing will grow.
This includes things that help to tear down capitalism, and America. There would seem to be a significant constituency comprised of people an institutions that want to wreck America. Just as there are lots of people who want to deform their own minds and bodies. Just as there are lots of people who want to do away with themselves.
Here's the thing, about the "things."
In order to scale a thing rapidly, you have to attract a lot of talent, of labor, do do the things necessary to build the thing. The faster you want to scale, the faster you have to draw in the talent to help you scale your... thing.
The Left has to scale things rapidly because so often their "thing" is to fool people. They need to scale as fast as possible before people — normal people — catch on to what they're doing.
This is one of the ways they're vulnerable. In order to scale rapidly, they can't take time to vet all the people they have to attract to do the work to build their thing. This allows subversives to slip into their organizations. Just as they've slipped their subversives into our organizations.
This is what James O'Keefe seems to have figured out.
They can't do anything about this.
If they want to use the scaling infrastructure that American capitalism has produced, they have to make themselves vulnerable to infiltration.
The devil is in the data. It’s all out there. Somebody just needs to process it.
Article mentions the Republican started ‘WinRed’ in response to ActBlue to raise money for candidates.
Whoeverruns WinRed should be shot. It acts like a virus or a poorly run scam to collect money for Republicans.
It’s no wonder it LOST money during the last election.
Republicans need to trash it and start again
Thanks for this!
Oh wait... Rona ROMNEYmcD is still in charge. Crickets on this O’Keefe discovery. But wow has she been all over on this Trump indictment. NOT.
Where is she and McConnell and McCarthy???
Sickening our GOP is silent except for a very few. We all need to call our worthless congresscritters now.
OOOOH Wow, 1 scalp. The story is already dead. James O’Keefe is a national treasure. It’s too bad no one cares.
OOOOH Wow, 1 scalp. The story is already dead. James O’Keefe is a national treasure. It’s too bad no one cares.
Then someone needs to prosecute it. Let me know how that works out. Maybe we can get John Durham on the case.
Alas, VTenigma is right. Nothing much — if anything — will be done. Talented data nerds have done yeoman work on the 2020 election results, uncovering hundreds of thousands of bogus votes and scheming of every sort. And still not a single state has audited its election results. We all saw the footage of armloads of identical, perfectly aligned ballots being stuffed into ballot boxes in the dark of night and the suitcases of ballots being wheeled out from under the table during counting. Truck drivers report driving loads of ballots from place to place. Nothing was done. There is no price to be paid for cheating (cf. men competing in women’s sports). We have officially descended into banana republic territory. The next few years will be fascinating — like a fiery carwreck.
Since actblue supports democrats, nothing will happen.
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