He said:
A Democratic Thief is as bad as a republican one.
One doesn’t want to pre-judge a case but to say the least it doesn’t look good. There is no question that if they were trying to bug a Senator’s office that would be a federal offense.
One should not get the idea that you can violate law with impunity. Of course it’s not the organized corruption of ACORN. We seem to be dealing with a bunch of 20 somethings who are too full of themselves. Unlike the ACORN films this is one story involving Mr. O’Keefe that will not be ignored by the MSM.
As Ann Althouse’s commentator says O’Keefe deserves the gratitude of the nation for his Acorn expose, but lets be frank, if this had been a democrat breaking in to a republican’s office we would be all over him. A reasonable person would conclude that this stinks and stinks badly.
Of course a reasonable person given the early evidence would have concluded a certain gentleman was murdered in Kentucky so if people want to withhold judgment that’s up to them. For me I gotta call ’em as I seem em and from what I’m currently seeing O’Keefe joins John Edwards in the as a winner of the “Wheel of Fish” award.
If subsequent facts prove me wrong then I’ll retract it.
Update: Breitbart comes out swinging
Update 2 : I think the egg is on my face in 35 days or so of this story O’Keefe has been looking better and better and the MSM has looked like a bunch of fools. Consider the Wheel of Fish award retracted.
Well, I think Breitbart has a valid point here. As of this writing all that is out there is a very small part of one side of the story. Smart people wait until at least both sides of the story come out before passing judgment. It does seem to be a Republican trait to instantly savage a group or individual as soon as there is any hint of improper action. This is not prudent or proper in any case. Why allow the MSM and the other hangers on to the progressive cause to drive our actions? Everyone with half of a functional brain realizes that if the initial charge is true then a serious mistake has been made. There is plenty of time for condemnation if the story proves true so lets all just be calm and wait till we actually hear both sides before we send for the lynch mob.
A fair opinion, and as I said if it turns out otherwise then I’ll apologize and give the “Wheel of Fish” award to myself, however given the info we have a reasonable person would assume that something isn’t right here (at the very least).
I’d rather get that out there then duck it.
Until O’Keefe releases the unedited ACORN tapes and shows that what he represented by his edited versions was what really happened, we have no reason to believe him on this.
Why hasn’t O’Keefe and Breibart released the unedited ACORN tapes? What are they hiding?
More interesting to me is whether Andrew Breitbart is going to be shown to have paid for this New Orleans stunt. He’s admitted on Hugh Hewitt’s show that O’Keefe is on his Big Government.com payroll and so far, ACORN is his website’s sole moment of glory. Was he behind this stunt?
So lets get this straight:
Long videos and audios showing ACORN directly aiding and abetting hiding funds from underage prostitution: “Oh we don’t know what happened. It’s doctored can’t decide what the tapes really show.”
Four twenty somethings arrested in the senators office, no video, no audio, just the affidavit filed so far: “It’s a vast right wing conspiracy and Breitbart is at the center of it.”
I’m sorry John Stewart didn’t buy the first and time will tell on the second.
I wouldn’t think that Breitbart would be dumb enough, but then again I didn’t think John Edwards was dumb enough for a sex tape either.
As I already said, for now O’Keefe get the “Wheel of Fish” unless I have reason to believe otherwise. Breitbart gets none until or unless I see something that adds to something.
But if you want to speculate be my guest and thanks for reading.
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