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You all remember James O’Keefe? He of the deceptively-edited videos he and Andrew Breitbart used to take down ACORN? He of the morality as fuzzy as the handcuffs that were among the sex toys with which he, per former associate Izzy Santa, planned to spring on CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau in his love boat, had Boudreau not been tipped off by a conscience-stricken Santa?
Well, he’s still cranking out dodgy videos that get debunked almost before they’re released, he’s still getting in trouble with the law, and he’s still being embraced by self-styled morality police and voter suppressors who don’t realize that they’re showing their true morality by slipping on his fuzzy handcuffs and keeping them on despite his track record:
Earlier this year, opponents of the photoID amendment condemned a banner used on Minnesota Majority’s website to promote a James O-Keefe-produced Youtube purporting to reveal fraud in the state’s voter registration system.
One racially charged element in the artwork? A figure wearing a sombrero, which MM’s Dan McGrath said represented an undocumented immigrant.
Hey, Minnesota Majority! Let us know how you God-fearing decent folk (like Mary Kiffmeyer of “Jesus at the Closing Table” fame) feel about being handcuffed to a lying creep of a video editor who has serious issues with women, per two women who were associates of his.
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Then again, considering that the Minnesota Majority folks have longstanding issues with truth and reality, it’s not surprising that they’d hook up with such a bizarre fabulist.
Oh, and here’s Mary Kiffmeyer, a longtime voter-suppression backer and famed moral scold, mocking a disabled Purple Heart winner as having “no courage”.
I am totally confused by What is going on in your region, PW. In WI you have a gov that should be swept away, given the reaction of people to his high-handed actions, but now looking like he will win re-election.
In MN you have people struggling to get by, but legislators fighting to give money to a private business so the business can take more money from the people (think parking, eating, and memorabilia) while becoming less accessible (think ticket prices). In this case, I would have to agree with kiffmeyer in her point. Her way of saying it was totally rude and uncalled for, but I think that she was correct that he didn’t want to face the voters on his pro-stadium vote. If I lived there, I would be incensed that they could find the money for the stadium but not for more important things.
So O’Keefe is doing an expose on the right-wing manipulation of electronic voting machines, then? I assume he’ll start the chronology around November, 2000, right?
Wait. Am I misinformed?
Morning PW & Pupses.
Hey PW: What’s the deal with the idiot DNC’s (apparent) decision not to pour some serious financial firepower into the KochWalker recall election? Are these people out of their F-n minds? (I know, I know. Rhetorical question, but still…)
The DNC is no happier about popular uprisings than the RNC.
Sigh
I am so tired of talking about this issue of the Diebold, Triad and ES&S Voting machine fraud. You see, I was in Ohio 2004 as an election observer. However, I have this nasty habit of talking about how the Repubs stole the selection and the Democrats allowed them to steal it.
That makes me very unpopular in certain “progressive” circles. Those who want to focus only on the Republicans.
Shhhhh
Do NOT talk about the Democrats complicity in all this. This shall not be talked about in certain circles.