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VIDEOJoe Biden has a long history of plagiarism. And when he appeared at the D-Day ceremonies on Normandy he continued in this endeavor by stealing a Candid Camera skit. However, credit to Biden for actually improving on the Candid Camera skit by pulling it off at a solemn public ceremony rather than on a mere elevator.

Allen Funt’s son Peter has put hundreds of Candid Camera clips on YouTube. Funny stuff. I’ve yet to run into an ad that interrupts the clip.

In this Candid Camera classic from 1965, they introduce students to a very attractive teacher and then film their reactions when the teacher has to suddenly leave the room. First they test the girls, then the boys.

A lecturer at the State University of New York at New Paltz was caught on video stealing Republican yard signs in New York. Laura Ebert, who is an economics lecturer, has been charged with misdemeanor larceny for stealing signs endorsing Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.) for Congress and Marc Molinaro, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York. Video shows Ebert pulling up to a woman's front yard, getting out, and putting the political signs in her pickup truck.

I SPENT the summer producing new “Candid Camera” shows, and among the many things I observed after a 10-year hiatus was that people are more easily fooled than ever. That may seem counterintuitive, but I’m certain it’s true. Much has to do with multitasking. When my dad, Allen Funt, introduced the show over six decades ago, he had to work at distracting people. Nowadays they do it to themselves. Many people we now encounter are fiddling with cellphones and other devices, tackling routine activities with less-than-full focus. That makes them easier targets for our little experiments, but also more vulnerable...

Buster Keaton in Candid Camera!!

Andrew Breitbart said he wouldn't release his final photo of Rep. Anthony Weiner, an X-rated close-up, because the congressman had owned up to his Internet affairs. But he'd hold into it, he said Tuesday, as "an insurance policy" in case Weiner tried to get revenge on the blogger. Unfortunately for Breitbart--and for Weiner--that policy no longer holds, because on Wednesday a pair of radio DJs seem to have leaked a photo of Breitbart displaying the money shot on his iPhone.

EXCERPT "I think they should but they won't. They intended exactly what they did. "They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

This investigation into the remote spying allegedly being conducted against students at Lower Merion represents an attempt to find proof of spying and a look into the toolchain used to accomplish spying. Taking a look at the LMSD Staff List, Mike Perbix is listed as a Network Tech at LMSD. Mr. Perbix has a large online web forum footprint as well as a personal blog, and a lot of his posts, attributed to his role at Lower Merion, provide insight into the tools, methods, and capabilities deployed against students at LMSD. Of the three network techs employed at LMSD, Mr....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – Palestinians were shocked on Thursday after Israeli TV aired a graphic video showing a senior official caught on a hidden camera soliciting sex from a job applicant. The video, parts of which aired on Israel's Channel 10 earlier this week, was shot by former Palestinian intelligence officer Fahmi Shabaneh, who has accused the Western-backed Palestinian Authority of widespread corruption. In the video, Rafiq al-Husseini, president Mahmud Abbas's chief of staff, is shown flirting with a woman Shabaneh said was seeking a job in the Authority before entering a bedroom, taking off his clothes and crawling...

KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the Kops lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house. The trap was set and less than 24...

By noon on Jan. 10, Matt Rhoades and Kevin Madden knew they had a problem. The two men handle communications for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's presidential exploratory committee and had been told about a video flying around the Internet that spliced clips from Romney's 1994 debate with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). In it, Romney (R), then running for the Senate in a losing campaign against Kennedy, voiced support for abortion rights and gay rights -- positions he has since renounced. Romney's political inner circle, alerted to the threat, decided to strike back quickly. Less than eight hours after...

(CBS) NEW YORK Last April, police targeted a sex-for-money operation at a well-known Brooklyn massage parlor. They sent in an undercover officer to catch them in the act. Instead, the cops involved were the ones who got stung. Pictures taken from a series of hidden surveillance cameras show the undercover officer entering, standing in the massage parlor lobby and then walking out. He spends a total of 43 seconds inside. Yet the officer claimed that during those 43 seconds he was solicited by all eight women working there. Moments later the vice squad moved in and the workers and massage...

A provocative and controversial new Web site is calling on “everyday people” to arm themselves with video cameras and catch hypocritical pols who are up to no good - and mealy-mouthed journalists “sucking up” to them. It’s called AmbushTV, and its creators are looking for any juicy footage they can get their hands on. They want video of lawmakers who “talk tough on immigrants” but hire them to work in their homes. They’re also eager for footage of members of Congress who use private corporate jets when traveling to campaign events. And it’s not just lawmakers they’re after. They also...

We’ve all probably had experiences that made us wonder if we were the butt of a joke on Candid Camera. The last such event in my life occurred while waiting on a security line in a quasi-backwater Mexican airport a couple of years ago. While I expected a “maZana” attitude and cursory inspection, I found myself in a long queue waiting for security personnel who acted as if on an Easter egg hunt. These characters pulled vacationers’ luggage apart and did everything but don a Sherlock Holmes outfit and produce a magnifying glass. The piPce de résistance was when one...

Videotaping changed information gathering By Lynn ElberAssociated Press When George Holliday leaned out of his apartment window and aimed a video camera at police officers beating Rodney King, it was the end of innocence and the beginning of an era. Camcorders had been focused on weddings, birthday parties and other private joys. Now the public realm would increasingly belong to the new video technology and to accidental historians such as Holliday. The 1991 King video was "the flash point, the coming of age of portable video that everybody's got," said Syracuse University television professor Robert Thompson. "Which, in a very...