rssJames O’Keefe and Joseph Basel, the Early Years
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 1:13 pm
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A liberal St. Louis blogger passes on this November 29, 2009 video of James O’Keefe and Joseph Basel — who would be arrested two months later for a still-mysterious hidden camera operation they attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
Blogger Adam Shriver argues that the video reveals the activists to be “jerks” who moved conspiratorially around a rally protesting the Catholic Church’s donations to an anti-gay marriage initiative. I’m just wondering what Basel was doing there. We know that O’Keefe was in St. Louis on November 28 to speak at a Tea Party rally. But here we see O’Keefe and Basel working together — on an apparently unsuccessful project — long before New Orleans.
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7 Comments
Comment posted February 23, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
The Dweeb Plumbers (the early years), waxing nostalgic for CREEP
Comment posted February 23, 2010 @ 8:22 pm
David,
I thought they might be trying to get footage related to this previous project you reported on: http://washingtonindependent.com/75505/james-ok… .
Also, Basel was in St. Louis with O'Keefe earlier in the year at a “campus gulag” built to raise awareness of the “evils of communism”: http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2010/01/fake… .
Comment posted February 24, 2010 @ 10:08 am
Gee I thought his homey was Marcus Epstein…
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
The real “jerk” here is Weigel, for (1) giving a platform to a hostile blogger, (2) running a video made by a hostile cameraman who's screaming into the microphone to “Stand Behind The Line,” and egging on the crowd to get hostile for what? O'Keefe standing with his hands folded in fromt of some arbitrary line PUT THERE SOLELY for the hostile people protesting against HATE, and (c) making it into some nefarious act.
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
The real “jerk” here is Weigel, for (1) giving a platform to a hostile blogger, (2) running a video made by a hostile cameraman who's screaming into the microphone to “Stand Behind The Line,” and egging on the crowd to get hostile for what? O'Keefe standing with his hands folded in fromt of some arbitrary line PUT THERE SOLELY for the hostile people protesting against HATE, and (c) making it into some nefarious act.
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 10:50 pm
The real “jerk” here is Weigel, for (1) giving a platform to a hostile blogger, (2) running a video made by a hostile cameraman who's screaming into the microphone to “Stand Behind The Line,” and egging on the crowd to get hostile for what? O'Keefe standing with his hands folded in fromt of some arbitrary line PUT THERE SOLELY for the hostile people protesting against HATE, and (c) making it into some nefarious act.
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 10:50 pm
The real “jerk” here is Weigel, for (1) giving a platform to a hostile blogger, (2) running a video made by a hostile cameraman who's screaming into the microphone to “Stand Behind The Line,” and egging on the crowd to get hostile for what? O'Keefe standing with his hands folded in fromt of some arbitrary line PUT THERE SOLELY for the hostile people protesting against HATE, and (c) making it into some nefarious act.
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