Posted on 01/26/2010 11:07:50 PM PST by SeattleBruce
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MSNBC and other “news organizations” are even billing this developing story as “Watergate”. What do Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow know? And when did they know it?
I’m sure they would like to believe O’Keefe is stupid enough to try to “wiretap” a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera. And they’d like you to believe it, too.
But there is absolutely no allegation in the criminal complaint that “wiretapping” or “bugging” is any part of this case, just the charge that O’Keefe and the others entered Sen. Landrieu’s office in New Orleans “for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system.”
And yet Carol Leonnig, in a story in Wednesday’s Washington Post writes in her lede:
"The conservative young filmmaker whose undercover sting damaged a liberal activist group last year faces federal criminal charges in an alleged plot to bug the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu"
In other words, speculation is rampant, but facts are few. And basic logic suggests that there’s much more to this story since there is so little information.
Leonnig, as you may remember, is the reporter who was forced to retract the false and libelous accusation that O’Keefe was motivated by racism in his ACORN sting.
Will Leonnig and the Washington Post be compelled to retract again?
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
“as conspiracy and RICO can be pretty loosely prosecuted, especially by Holder.”
Yeah, the cautious among us would be concerned right here. But O’Keefe seems pretty fearless!
This case is very curious, and I’m wondering this morning after much reflection that it may well be a “set-up”....by none other than O’Keefe.
Like Hannibal at Cannae, O’Keefe may have pulled back his front as a tactic to draw in the enemy and destroy them. My sense is that this is a gig devised to blow up in the prosecutor’s face and give O’Keefe a hammer on the prosecutor and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
I believe this happened Monday - and it’s here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437809/posts
and here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2437829/posts
Of course he can be that stupid, come on fellow freepers. Don’t close your eyes because he’s on “our” side. The kid made a big mistake,and if it turns out he was that stupid, he desrrves all he gets..
My Gawd, sometimes, I swear?
Tim-
Landroop’s statement read, in part, “The individuals responsible have been charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purposes of committing a felony.”
I haven’t seen anybody spell out just what that felony was, yet. Wiretapping? They’re going to prove intent to wiretap?
“Watergate”
Whenever the forces of darkness bring up Watergate, rational people should immediately come back with the facts. To wit:
Both parties wine and dine moneyed citizens as part of their efforts to obtain donations. They try to get the citizen’s head spinning by inviting him to any event that will put him in the company of the famous and powerful.
At that particular time, the demonrats had expanded this itinerary to include treating potential donors to the services of prostitutes, paid for out of DNC money. You know, Joe Sixpack’s ten bucks that he contributed to have a voice in our representative republic.
That was a felony. Actually, each instance was a separate felony.
Some of Nixon’s subordinates, without his knowledge, decided to try and obtain documentary proof of this, with the intention of exposing the dims’ despicable behavior. Unfortunately for America, the people of South Viet Nam, and mankind in general, they were not practiced and proficient criminals. As one might have guessed, they made a hash of it.
Nixon’s subordinates, then, were guilty of conspiracy to expose multiple felonies involving the improper use of DNC funds to pay prostitutes.
When his subordinates finally told him the truth, Nixon decided it would be best to cover up this trifling indiscretion. This was entirely reasonable, in view of the heinous crimes that the media had covered up for Roosevelt, maybe Truman, certainly Kennedy and Johnson.
Later, they even covered up murder for a sitting president. But Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was at the very top of their enemies list.
The demonrats, knowing that they had the media in their pocket, decided to take Nixon out once and for all. They commenced to lie, lie, lie, and spin, spin, spin, and artificially escalated this tempest in a teapot to the status of a (barf alert) “constitutional crisis.”
They had a few reasons for knifing Nixon.
1. Nixon had been involved in the effort to root agents of influence working for America’s enemies out of the State Department and other government posts, which was an unforgivable sin against the Evil one.
2. The huge cloud of dust they raised with their hysterical blather about Nixon’s “crimes” completely obscured the reason for the break in: multiple demonrat felonies, involving a vice that most of America still found repugnant.
3. Nixon’s Vietnamization program had succeeded, and he was on the brink of Peace with Honor in Viet Nam. That would have been a ghastly defeat for the left.
4. And, of course, a hodge-podge of obvious reasons: To embarrass the GOP, to demoralize the Silent Majority, to move the demonrats further to the left, and to forestall any good things Nixon might have done in a second term, with reelection off the table. You can probably name others.
With their customary shameless dishonesty, the left has elevated the Watergate incident to near-mythical status, like the assassination of Abe Lincoln or the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. This needs to be contradicted with the truth at every opporknockety.
I think it’s important, not least because every time a lib realizes that one of the left’s axiomatic propositions is nothing but lies and deceit, it creates the possibility that he will begin to question other planks in their blood-soaked platform.
Aawwww....did we irritate your widdle superior intellect?
Irritate? No, but it’s ironic that you use “intellect” in the pejorative?? :)
You were apparently so annoyed that I asked these questions, that you even gave it a
My Gawd, sometimes, I swear?
And to this:
No, but it’s ironic that you use “intellect” in the pejorative?? :)
That's called sarcasm. It tends to be an appropriate response to arrogance. It's in the "humor" genre.
Ah, I see, much obliged.
Tim-
btt
THANK YOU!!!!
Go ahead, Senator Landrieu, file charges. Then we can have discovery. In the meantime with all this extra noise, Big Gov can go ahead and release some more undercover ACORN tapes.
Go ahead, Senator Landrieu, file charges. Then we can have discovery. In the meantime with all this extra noise, Big Gov can go ahead and release some more undercover ACORN tapes.
for later
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