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Originally Posted by Dozer523
Might be farcical or not. But, the whole thing is crappy.
Lying to get someone to say something to embarrass themselves?
Fruit of the poisoned tree.
Lately, I've been reading Kant, and his rejection of lying in all forms regardless of circumstances, objective and consequences is sounding better and better.
In short, a liar (trying to make a clearly illegal monatary contribution) got a guy (who refused to accept the illegal contribution, repeatedly) to honestly state his opinion
and we're chastising the latter?
ALICE! Look out for that Rabbithole!
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And this damning quote: ""Liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,"
Well duh! Look at me!
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While I certainly don't condone the sentiments expressed by Schiller, I think you're on the money here. O'Keefe is a bottom-feeding "journalist" of the worst sorts- picking politically vulnerable targets, constructing elaborate (and generally tasteless) ruses to serve as a trap, and then editing his secret footage in a way to emphasize whatever message he wants to send.
It worked against ACORN and it appears to have worked here. I lost a lot of respect for NPR because they appear to have slammed the panic button instead of aggressively attacking this guy for his dishonest journalism.
Whatever you think of ACORN and NPR, you have to acknowledge that O'Keefe's practices are counterproductive and destructive in the long run (I'd include the liberals who have made calls to Wisconsin and Palin posing as Koch and Sarkozy in my condemnation as well, along with the edited Wikileaks video that tried to hide the weapons).
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Videotapes secretly recorded last summer and severely edited by O'Keefe seemed to show ACORN employees encouraging a "pimp" (O'Keefe) and his "prostitute," actually a Florida college student named Hannah Miles, in conversations involving prostitution by underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes. Those videos created a media sensation.
Evidence obtained by Brown tells a somewhat different story, however, as reflected in three videotapes made at ACORN locations in California. One ACORN worker in San Diego called the cops. Another ACORN worker in San Bernardino caught on to the scheme and played along with it, claiming among other things that she had murdered her abusive husband. Her two former husbands are alive and well, the Attorney General's report noted. At the beginning and end of the Internet videos, O'Keefe was dressed as a 1970s Superfly pimp, but in his actual taped sessions with ACORN workers, he was dressed in a shirt and tie, presented himself as a law student, and said he planned to use the prostitution proceeds to run for Congress. He never claimed he was a pimp.
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