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'''James O'Keefe''' is an [[American conservative]] activist and journalist, who is a protege of [[Andrew Breitbart]]. He and [[Hannah Giles]], posing as a pimp and a prostitute, videotaped the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] [[ACORN]] office giving them advice on starting a brothel, which triggered major scandals in late 2009. <ref name=BG-Chaos>{{citation | '''James O'Keefe''' is an [[American conservative]] activist and journalist, who is a protege of [[Andrew Breitbart]]. He and [[Hannah Giles]], posing as a pimp and a prostitute, videotaped the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] [[ACORN]] office giving them advice on starting a brothel, which triggered major scandals in late 2009. <ref name=BG-Chaos>{{citation | ||
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Revision as of 15:11, 30 January 2010
James O'Keefe is an American conservative activist and journalist, who is a protege of Andrew Breitbart. He and Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, videotaped the Baltimore, Maryland ACORN office giving them advice on starting a brothel, which triggered major scandals in late 2009. [1] He and three other journalists have been arrested and charged, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with interference with the telephones of the New Orleans, Louisiana offices of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana).
He has described his approach as
The tone of my videos is unique. I'm not just reporting on something, I'm becoming something I'm reporting on.[2]
ACORN sting
Breitbart carried the ACORN report and introduced O'Keefe. [3]
Landrieu incident
While Michelle Malkin took no position on his guilt or innocence in the Landrieu incident, "This is neither a time to joke nor a time to recklessly accuse Democrats/liberals of setting this up — nor a time to whine about media coverage double standards...This is neither a time to joke nor a time to recklessly accuse Democrats/liberals of setting this up — nor a time to whine about media coverage double standards."[4]
College and early reporting
As a student at Rutgers University in 2004, as the editor of a conservative magazine he conducted a "satirical campaign to ban Lucky Charms cereal from campus dining halls on the premise the breakfast fare was offensive to Irish-Americans...which included a hidden-camera video with a Rutgers dining services official, was intended to demonstrate what O'Keefe saw as the absurdity of political correctness." Subsequently, as a law student in 2006, he used hidden-camera techniques on Planned Parenthood counselors.[2]
References
- ↑ James O'Keefe, "Chaos for Glory: My Time with Acorn", Biggovernment.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Michael Rispoli (17 September 2009), "ACORN sting 'pimp' is N.J. man who attended Rutgers University", The Star-Ledger
- ↑ Andrew Breitbart (10 September 2009), "Exposing ACORN: Introducing James O’Keefe", Biggovernment.com
- ↑ Michelle Malkin (26 January 2010), Ugh: ACORN-buster busted at Sen. Landrieu’s office in alleged bugging “malicious” phone tampering plot; affidavit link added; Update: “Veritas”?