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	<title>Comments on: Right Wing &#8220;Outraged&#8221; Over Latest O’Keefe Video</title>
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		<title>By: HarmonyG</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#039;Keefe is that  he is a year-round campaign tool, funded by wealthy donors in secret. He was caught lying about this by the Village Voice already.

He is not &quot;uncovering&quot; voter fraud, he is creating it - the whole idea of going into someone&#039;s offices and suggesting criminal activity to fish around and see if someone is agreeable is ridiculous. In law enforcement, it&#039;s entrapment which is prohibited. In media, it&#039;s unethical because it creates situations that are not necessarily happening otherwise.

O&#039;Keefe not only does not investigate Republicans, he intentionally buries videos that exonerate Democrats. Several of his videos were deceptively edited when they did not portray wrongdoing as clearly as this one. For example, taking subjects out of context via overdubbing.

O&#039;Keefe was convicted for one stunt and is still being sued right now civilly for breaking CA privacy laws in San Diego. One of his former colleagues has come forward to say she helped O&#039;Keefe illegally wiretap Member of Congress Maxine Waters. She also says O&#039;Keefe harassed her after she drank with him and found herself unable to control her muscles. She says he attempted to buy her silence and then smeared her in an online video. 

O&#039;Keefe has already settled one harassment charge and has had a written plan exposed that included inappropriate sexual conduct with a female reporter and had another written plan exposed which sought to smear Obama&#039;s pastor as an anti-Semite, a communist and sympathetic to infidelity and child molestation...

The kid in the video is dead wrong and is a fool for trusting someone he just met, but we cannot extend his actions to anyone else, including the father, the party or the left without evidence. Because O&#039;Keefe does make these leaps, for example smearing the whole of Acorn management for the actions of low level staff, it shows he is part of a larger effort going on to suppress access to voting through restrictive ID laws. O&#039;Keefe&#039;s job is to gin up the threat so the lawmakers can come in and save the day.

Just like the defund-Acorn bill was all written and teed up when his sting videos were released, O&#039;Keefe&#039;s current work is done to foster a narrative that in-person vote fraud is a problem when it&#039;s been rarer than death by lightning strikes. Because all of his benefactors are hiding, we know they are ashamed and fear repercussions, but there is little doubt they are the same folks pushing ALEC legislation through a bought Congress to tip elections.

People should insist we have this conversation on the front pages of the papers, and pit this one instance of a kid agreeing to fake fraud against the real fraud by experienced operative Nathan Sproul where registrations were discarded, addresses were changed and voters are routinely misinformed, misled, intimidated and disenfranchised through improper challenges.

This investigation is a waste of tax dollars because the videographer suggested the crimes and only law enforcement can conduct undercover criminal stings. But real vote fraud should be investigated immediately...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O&#8217;Keefe is that  he is a year-round campaign tool, funded by wealthy donors in secret. He was caught lying about this by the Village Voice already.</p>
<p>He is not &#8220;uncovering&#8221; voter fraud, he is creating it &#8211; the whole idea of going into someone&#8217;s offices and suggesting criminal activity to fish around and see if someone is agreeable is ridiculous. In law enforcement, it&#8217;s entrapment which is prohibited. In media, it&#8217;s unethical because it creates situations that are not necessarily happening otherwise.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe not only does not investigate Republicans, he intentionally buries videos that exonerate Democrats. Several of his videos were deceptively edited when they did not portray wrongdoing as clearly as this one. For example, taking subjects out of context via overdubbing.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe was convicted for one stunt and is still being sued right now civilly for breaking CA privacy laws in San Diego. One of his former colleagues has come forward to say she helped O&#8217;Keefe illegally wiretap Member of Congress Maxine Waters. She also says O&#8217;Keefe harassed her after she drank with him and found herself unable to control her muscles. She says he attempted to buy her silence and then smeared her in an online video. </p>
<p>O&#8217;Keefe has already settled one harassment charge and has had a written plan exposed that included inappropriate sexual conduct with a female reporter and had another written plan exposed which sought to smear Obama&#8217;s pastor as an anti-Semite, a communist and sympathetic to infidelity and child molestation&#8230;</p>
<p>The kid in the video is dead wrong and is a fool for trusting someone he just met, but we cannot extend his actions to anyone else, including the father, the party or the left without evidence. Because O&#8217;Keefe does make these leaps, for example smearing the whole of Acorn management for the actions of low level staff, it shows he is part of a larger effort going on to suppress access to voting through restrictive ID laws. O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s job is to gin up the threat so the lawmakers can come in and save the day.</p>
<p>Just like the defund-Acorn bill was all written and teed up when his sting videos were released, O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s current work is done to foster a narrative that in-person vote fraud is a problem when it&#8217;s been rarer than death by lightning strikes. Because all of his benefactors are hiding, we know they are ashamed and fear repercussions, but there is little doubt they are the same folks pushing ALEC legislation through a bought Congress to tip elections.</p>
<p>People should insist we have this conversation on the front pages of the papers, and pit this one instance of a kid agreeing to fake fraud against the real fraud by experienced operative Nathan Sproul where registrations were discarded, addresses were changed and voters are routinely misinformed, misled, intimidated and disenfranchised through improper challenges.</p>
<p>This investigation is a waste of tax dollars because the videographer suggested the crimes and only law enforcement can conduct undercover criminal stings. But real vote fraud should be investigated immediately&#8230;</p>
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