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You are here: Home / James O’Keefe and the Case of the Purloined Panties

James O’Keefe and the Case of the Purloined Panties

by $8 blue check mistermix|  March 22, 20122:28 pm| 115 Comments

This post is in: Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

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Nadia Naffe, who worked with James O’Keefe for a while and has filed some sort of harassment claim, is dumping core about their relationship, including an email where she says this:

James, this is not junior high. You need to grow up and be a man. Do not continue to make a fool of yourself by calling to offer me money, as you did on Oct. 24th. I was never with you for the money. I’m not looking for a payoff. Be a man and return my panties and scarf that were in the trunk of your car. Do not keep my undergarments as a trophy or souvenir to show off to your friends. We have been friends for two years, do not have Ryan contact me to discuss our personal and private affairs.

This is all wrapped up in another harassment suit about this incident:

Those documents shed new light on the “CNN Sex Boat Caper” that reportedly featured an attempt to strand then-CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau on a boat full of sex toys and hidden cameras. O’Keefe has maintained that he rejected the pornographic aspects of that plot, but whistleblower Izzy Santa’s allegations belie those denials.

Follow the links if you want to read about the whole fucked-up mess. (via Buffalopundit on the Twitter)

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115Comments

  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    March 22, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    Breitbart dies, the wheels come off lil Jimmy’s gravy train. The freude, it has indeed been schadened.

  2. 2.

    Emma

    March 22, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    Not on your life. I am NOT getting off the boat. If I wanted to bathe in slime I’d find a spitting cow.

  3. 3.

    pragmatism

    March 22, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    my fave part of nadia’s blog:

    When you observed me lying in bed, talking on the phone with a male friend, you became noticeably upset. You picked up your penny loafers and stormed out of the room like a 10-year old boy having a tantrum. You called me on the phone moments later demanding to know why I was talking on the phone with someone else in your presence. You were furious.

    Hell hath no fury like a preppy scorned.

  4. 4.

    mistermix

    March 22, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    @Yutsano: It’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof except Big Daddy is already dead.

  5. 5.

    Halteclere

    March 22, 2012 at 2:38 pm

    What. A. Winner.

    Yeahaw.

  6. 6.

    Ash Can

    March 22, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Unfortunately, her claim was dismissed. I’d enjoy this imbroglio a lot more if that weren’t the case.

  7. 7.

    flukebucket

    March 22, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    It’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof except Big Daddy is already dead.

    LOL!!! This will not be topped today or maybe ever.

  8. 8.

    Cat Lady

    March 22, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Shorter Nadia: I can’t believe I gave my panties to a Geek.

  9. 9.

    pragmatism

    March 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @Ash Can: i have the same reservations but i still find it funny. even funnier that if she is a hyper-litigous person who is prone to making mountains out of nothing-hills and deliberately constructing an alternate reality which fits her narrative, she is just like lil’ jimmy o’keefe the third.

  10. 10.

    hells littlest angel

    March 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Certainly no one could have predicted that this people’s hero of journalism would turn out to be an immature dipshit.

  11. 11.

    Surreal American

    March 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @mistermix:

    “You said it yourself, Big Breitbart. Mendacity is a system we live in.”

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    March 22, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    How it is that that douchenozzle, O’Keefe hasn’t had the unholy snot beaten out of him, or at least a Youtubed neck-punching, is a great mystery.

    But let’s not forget, he’s one of their “stars.” The Republican bench is not a deep one.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Quite the piece of work, Mr. O’Keefe is.

    This is just fucked up on so many levels:

    James, I am not a fool. The barn is the same place where you taped intimate moments with Emma, without her knowledge. You are looking for a reason to blame me for what happened that night, so that you can become the victim. Perhaps, you believe by denigrating my personal character and using the same sexually suggestive tactics that are currently being used against Herman Cain, that my reputation will be ruined and so that yours can be spared. But James, the only place your version of the facts has any merit is in your paranoid head.

    First off, can I enter in a fervent plea that the O’Keefe Sex Tape remain forever hidden? Both for the sake of Emma, whoever she might be, and for the good of all humanity. Secondly, ‘sexually suggestive tactics that are currently being used against Herman Cain’? Is she trying to say that Cain was set up or that all of his accusers were lying or what?

  14. 14.

    mistermix

    March 22, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    @Surreal American: Give me a drink first and I’ll tell you about it.

  15. 15.

    trollhattan

    March 22, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Am beginning to suspect the pimp outfit wasn’t just a costume. Rrrrrrawr, Jimmy, rrrrawr!

  16. 16.

    Silver

    March 22, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    My dad wears penny loafers.

    He’s a 60+ accountant.

  17. 17.

    jl

    March 22, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Won’t he be busy in court defending himself against the voter registration fraud charges? What happened with that escapade?

  18. 18.

    redshirt

    March 22, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Jimmy O’Keefe = The Geek from Sixteen Candles?

    EDIT – I see the formidable Cat Lady beat me to this riposte.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    OT, but the

  20. 20.

    hells littlest angel

    March 22, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    @trollhattan: O’Keefe’s face looks like it’s been punched a time or two.

  21. 21.

    Ash Can

    March 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @pragmatism: I can certainly see humor in it, and I’m all for this carbuncle-on-the-ass-of-humanity getting any sort of comeuppance, even if it’s just a public black eye. However, the fact that I’d so much rather see his ass locked up and no longer roaming free, as well as the not-insignificant “ew” factor of Nadia Naffe’s posts (really, I just ate lunch, geezus) prevent me from laughing at this hot mess as much as I wish I could.

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    March 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Does anybody else feel like a mint julep here or is it just me?

  23. 23.

    SenyorDave

    March 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    Sounds like these two deserve each other. I know it is a stretch to say that any human being, particularly a woman, deserves O’Keefe, but she was working for the same warped organization.

  24. 24.

    Fwiffo

    March 22, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    Near as I can tell, this is the best thing ever.

  25. 25.

    Ben Cisco

    March 22, 2012 at 2:55 pm

    is dumping core about their relationship

    From the looks of it, that was the only thing that was breached.
    __
    /rimshot

  26. 26.

    Cat Lady

    March 22, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    @redshirt:

    You’re going to have to get up pretty early around here to beat me to 80’s comedies references.

  27. 27.

    Face

    March 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    whistleblower Izzy Santa’s

    Izzy Santa? This is a joke, right?

  28. 28.

    pragmatism

    March 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    @Ash Can: fair enough. it appears that jimmy is his own worst enemy. we should be able to just sit back and watch him choke himself out.

  29. 29.

    freelancer

    March 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    How is this poisonous dork not in jail yet?!

  30. 30.

    The Real Randiego

    March 22, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    Speaking of which – where’s that Breitbart autopsy report? Are we really sure he’s dead?

  31. 31.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    OT, but the master of horror strikes again!

  32. 32.

    quannlace

    March 22, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    What exactly does James Boy-Reporter do for a living? Okay, he gets paid to write a column on Breitbart’s site and for first use of any new muckraking videos.
    But is that enough to keep body and soul together? Okay, using ‘soul’ advisidly.
    *****
    Just saw his pic on Google images. Looks like he could also be training rats as his unholy army of the night.

  33. 33.

    kay

    March 22, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    “Picked up your penny loafers” is such a low blow, but I bet she loved writing that.

  34. 34.

    niknik

    March 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    god this fucking mobile site is ANNOYING!

  35. 35.

    Mouse Tolliver

    March 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @Ash Can: @Yutsano: Her claim was only dismissed because the judge wasn’t sure O’Keefe was under his jurisdiction. The judge encouraged her to get a good lawyer and file a civil suit.

  36. 36.

    Argive

    March 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    @freelancer:

    Yeah, I’m tired of patiently waiting for him to do something even dumber than all of the dumb shit he’s already pulled.

  37. 37.

    scav

    March 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Fantasists battling it out in real time over the interwebs? For Free? TV, broadcast or cable should be very very concerned at this point.

  38. 38.

    Punchy

    March 22, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    OT:

    Ruh roh. Looks like Barney Fife’s done this before. Sanford PD appears to be a veritable clown car of crooked keystone coppers.

  39. 39.

    redshirt

    March 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    @Cat Lady: LOL. I’m no slouch (“Don’t sell yourself short – you’re a tremendous slouch”), but I bow before your obvious excellence.

  40. 40.

    pragmatism

    March 22, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    @kay: everyone knows that the modern preppy pimp wears boat shoes with no socks and beehive knots in the laces.
    of course jimmy didn’t know that it is decidedly un-pimp to light a cigar with a $1 bill.

  41. 41.

    Ash Can

    March 22, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @Mouse Tolliver: OK, that definitely makes me feel better! I hope she does exactly that, and takes his ass to the cleaners.

  42. 42.

    Chyron HR

    March 22, 2012 at 3:12 pm

    @redshirt:

    More like Anthony Michael Hall on the 1985 season of SNL: Forgettable failure.

  43. 43.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    March 22, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    @Ash Can:

    takes his ass to the cleaners

    I believe you are being redundant: She wants her panties back.

  44. 44.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    You called me on the phone moments later demanding to know why I was talking on the phone with someone else in your presence. You were furious.

    Because, lord knows, talking to someone over the phone is exactly the same as inviting some black stud to fuck you right in front of the shocked O’Keefe.

    Yeah, I’d be furious, too, as she moans in ecstasy as someone with a non microscopic dick finally satisfies her.

  45. 45.

    Citizen_X

    March 22, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Emma, whoever she might be

    I don’t know, either, but here’s a clue: O’Keefe had sex with her in a barn.

  46. 46.

    NickM

    March 22, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    I don’t know, either, but here’s a clue: O’Keefe had sex with her in a barn

    Emma’s a goat?

  47. 47.

    Schlemizel

    March 22, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    Dang I luvs me some Wesley Crusher!

    Also OT but of note Birthers in California have files a petition with the court to have a candidates name removed from the ballot until he can prove he is a natural born citizen. The filer is some low level GOP dork and the candidate in question is one Willard Mittwad Romney!!

    That time the family spent in hiding in ol Me-he-co wants to come back & bight the clown in the bum

  48. 48.

    WereBear

    March 22, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    It occurred to me recently that it must be difficult to be a Right Winger. To have all of your Philosophies of Life, once actually implemented, to be shown up as roaring failures or moral travesties. It explains how their lives, once the rock is lifted, are so bereft of sense or satisfaction.

    Not that I’m happy about it. It’s simply true.

  49. 49.

    Villago Delenda Est

    March 22, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    James, this is not junior high.

    Obviously not. Junior high is way too advanced in maturity for the likes of O’Keefe. Preschool, I’m thinking. He’s not even advanced enough for Kindergarten.

  50. 50.

    Argive

    March 22, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    @Citizen_X:

    I really hope that these “intimate moments” were actually O’Keefe begging Emma to have sex with him and getting denied over and over again, culminating with him calling her a prude bitch and running away.

  51. 51.

    RyanayR

    March 22, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Jesus christ! He tried to date rape a woman?!?!? Put that fucker in federal prison already.

  52. 52.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 22, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    @dmsilev:

    that the O’Keefe Sex Tape remain forever hidden? Both for the sake of Emma, whoever she might be, and for the good of all humanity

    I am seconding this motion. Society will never be ready for the spectacle of geeky white boy sex. Not even ironically.

  53. 53.

    redshirt

    March 22, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    @WereBear: That assumes they are capable of self-reflection. I’m not so sure – at least for 27% of them.

  54. 54.

    opie jeanne

    March 22, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    @Citizen_X: I hope that Emma is a human.

  55. 55.

    Heliopause

    March 22, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    How strange that a journalist who made his name by dressing as a stereotypically outrageous pimp would have issues with women and sexual relationships. How very, very strange. Never would have guessed.

  56. 56.

    WereBear

    March 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @53: redshirt: That assumes they are capable of self-reflection. I’m not so sure – at least for 27% of them.

    Oh, one of their core principles is no self reflection. Like vampires, I suppose.

    Criminy, I borrow a desktop during my late late rushed lunch and get the mobile site again. Will no one rid me of this meddlesome app?

  57. 57.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    March 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yes, but CBS would finally have footage of how to handle Sheldon’s first time.

  58. 58.

    David Koch

    March 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    Speaking of puzzy.

    It’s too bad we didn’t listen to our progressive betters and the emoprogs who told us hooker-lovin John Edwards was the only True Progressive™.

    Nice job. Way to go.

  59. 59.

    scav

    March 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    OT State Breaking News. NC, SC state line isn’t where folks thought it was

    A modern survey of the state line between North Carolina and South Carolina has sent 93 property owners into another state.
    ….
    The owner of a Lake Wylie store says he will likely have to close because he is now in North Carolina, where gas is 30 cents more a gallon and he can’t sell fireworks.

    The other residents impacted presumably just have the joys of changing schools, phone numbers, driver’s licenses and governments. Cartographers everywhere get to play with a line tint they don’t get to use often.

  60. 60.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    March 22, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    @scav:

    Why they don’t just secede and declare themselves a new state? They could become an on-shore tax haven, like the Caymans, only with road access and better BBQ.

  61. 61.

    Roger Moore

    March 22, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):
    I don’t think they’re going to show the actual act; broadcast TV still has some limits.

  62. 62.

    Argive

    March 22, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    The [very small part of the] South shall rise again!

  63. 63.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 22, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    @scav: Seems kind of bizarre and pointless survey considering the boarder has been there for the last 312 years.

  64. 64.

    David Koch

    March 22, 2012 at 3:41 pm

    @scav:

    Lake Wylie store says he will likely have to close because he is now in North Carolina, where gas is 30 cents more a gallon and he can’t sell fireworks.

    Man, North Carolina sounds like a bunch of fascists. What kind of state doesn’t allow gas stations to sell explosives on site?

    Palin/Cenk 2016!

  65. 65.

    freelancer

    March 22, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Seems kind of bizarre and pointless survey considering the boarder has been there for the last 312 years.

    Man that sounds like the worst tennant ever. He just won’t die!

  66. 66.

    Martin

    March 22, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Seems kind of bizarre and pointless survey considering the boarder has been there for the last 312 years.

    This is the GOPs new redistricting plan. Too bad they didn’t wait another 6 months. Then they could have denied all these people the right to vote for failing to register in time and having improper photo ID.

  67. 67.

    Origuy

    March 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    @scav: But the bright side is, they aren’t in South Carolina any more.

  68. 68.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    March 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    @Argive:

    The [very small part of the] South shall rise again!

    Just think of the benefits of the newly declared tax-free state of StuckInTheMiddleWithYou Carolina. It would give Mitt Romney somewhere on-shore to park his money.

  69. 69.

    Gus diZerega

    March 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    @NickM: a quadruped anyway.

  70. 70.

    Tone In DC

    March 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    @opie jeanne:

    Be nice. It’s tough for a pimp (who still lives at his parents’ house and worked for an employer like Dimbart) out here.

    As for Emma… Somewhere, Kaus is smiling.

  71. 71.

    Martin

    March 22, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I’d go with North South Carolina, personally.

  72. 72.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    March 22, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    @opie jeanne:

    I hope that Emma is a human.

    The smart money is on chicken lady.

  73. 73.

    scav

    March 22, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Mapping was probably for other reasons with this as an interesting side effect. The GA/TN border spat was at least over water rights. Long Live the new state of Middle Carolina (MC)! Or, maybe we could finally get that state of East Carolina? !

  74. 74.

    Legacy

    March 22, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    Nadia Naif is Harvard educated?

  75. 75.

    shortstop

    March 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    @mistermix: Fabulous.

  76. 76.

    replicnt6

    March 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    @NickM:

    Emma’s a goat?

    You owe me a keyboard.

  77. 77.

    dmsilev

    March 22, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    @NickM:

    Emma’s a goat?

    Nobody tell Mickey Kaus.

  78. 78.

    aimai

    March 22, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    I’m also wondering about the career ending racist event that ruined her stint with the Bush/Cheney white house and the particular degree she is going to get from Harvard. She really does seem kind of…thick, mentally.

    aimai

  79. 79.

    shortstop

    March 22, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    @freelancer: Are you talking about the actor or the cleaning solutions company?

  80. 80.

    JCJ

    March 22, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    @NickM:

    LOL. Well done.

  81. 81.

    shortstop

    March 22, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    After reading the Palin thread two doors down (in which a number of people too cheap to pay therapists are publicly working out their very special issues), I’m welcoming the plentiful comedy in this one.

  82. 82.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    March 22, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    OT – but it looks like my RWNJ local radio station is ditching Rush for Huckabee. There was just an announcement saying (and I paraphrase) “we at the Talk Station know what you want, and we have listened to your requests, stay tuned for changes to your Talk Station, all will be revealed at NOON on April 16.” Huckabee’s show begins April 9 at 12 noon. If they are not replacing Rush I have no clue what the announcement was about.

  83. 83.

    Woodrowfan

    March 22, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    from reading the young woman’s blog entry, it seems that O’Keefe was targeting a journalism professor who had been requesting the IRS forms from O’Keefe’s little project. When she asked why not release the forms, O’Keefe told her that there were “problems” with the forms and he couldn’t release them.

    Any bets that O’Keefe is also a tax cheat?

  84. 84.

    ET

    March 22, 2012 at 4:12 pm

    Can I just say that it doesn’t surprise me at all that O’Keefe would somehow be a party to something so sleazy.

    He’s a bottom feeder.

  85. 85.

    Comrade Dread

    March 22, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    @David Koch: Meh. I’d hazard to say that quite a few presidents, senators and congresscritters have engaged in sexy time with a professional gal in the course of the Republic.

    I could get over that and vote for him if he weren’t a corrupt, lyin’ SOB.

  86. 86.

    freelancer

    March 22, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    OT – Sanford FL police chief and oblivious white privilege poster-boy Bill Lee shit-canned (temporarily)!

  87. 87.

    kc

    March 22, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Be a man and return my panties

    He can’t. HE’S WEARING THEM.

  88. 88.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    March 22, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Huckabee will be able to keep an audience like Rush? The target demographic wants pure rage mixed with chest beating and Huckabee seems a little to mellow for that.

  89. 89.

    Valdivia

    March 22, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    @mistermix:
    FTFW

    I am going to frame that.

  90. 90.

    Clime Acts

    March 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    My gaydar goes into overdrive when O’Keefe appears.

    Same with Breitbart.

    Closet cases.

  91. 91.

    kc

    March 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    @Citizen_X:

    I don’t know, either, but here’s a clue: O’Keefe had sex with her in a barn.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    I’m sorry. It’s wrong of me to love this story so much.

  92. 92.

    El Cid

    March 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    More conservatives seeing that their totally not racist free speech is being oppressed.

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A prominent conservative think tank in North Carolina apologized Thursday for a freelance blogger’s decision to post a photo illustration depicting President Barack Obama clad in sexually suggestive clothing and eating from a bucket of fried chicken…
    __
    …The image, which was no longer available on the Meck Deck site but could still be seen on a blog post by WRAL-TV reporter Laura Leslie, is a small and low-resolution depiction of the president’s head crudely pasted onto a body clad in high-heeled boots and other garments suggestive of fetish wear. Between his spread legs is a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
    __
    The image accompanied a post by Servatius titled “Obama Goes Pro Gay Marriage to Get NC on Election Day,” in which she argued that the president had electoral strategy in mind when he criticized the proposed amendment to North Carolina’s constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.
    __
    “I am genuinely sorry my inclusion of the photo has caused controversy for the John Locke Foundation,” Servatius wrote Thursday in an email in response to a question from The Associated Press. “If it has offended anyone, I sincerely apologize. It was meant to illustrate Obama’s southern political strategy, nothing more. An honest reading of the piece itself shows there is nothing offensive in it.”
    __
    Servatius found the image when searching online for an illustration of the president in drag, she said, to underscore her point about the strategy of appealing to young voters on the issue of gay marriage. She said she didn’t think of the picture’s racial implications.
    __
    “I simply don’t think in those terms. Unfortunately some people do,” she wrote. “To me, fried chicken is simply a Southern cuisine.”

    Pffft. Libruls. Always leaping straight to play the race card.

    It’s a picture of Obama in thigh-high high-heeled boots, a bikini bottom/leather thongs and string-tied shirt, all covered in what looks like sequins, sitting on apparently a football gridiron, presenting his ‘nads to the viewer, with a bucket of KFC innocently placed in his general ‘nad area.

    Yeah, it’s clearly indicative merely of a politician’s propensity for election-time appeals to popular issues among youth and Southern cuisine. How anyone could think this issue homophobic or racist is clearly beyond the capacity of your average Doric column to imagine.

    I’m torn. I can’t decide whether I hate them more for their pig-people meanness or their disgusting cowardly dishonesty.

  93. 93.

    Comrade Dread

    March 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: He also tends to ascribe just a bit of humanity to poor people and that’s enough to get one blacklisted from the ranks of good Republicans.

  94. 94.

    Tony J

    March 22, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    @WereBear:

    You forgot the bit where the only reason any of their core beliefs ever get “shown up as roaring failures or moral travesties” is because the Political Left controls almost every lever of power in America and the Liberal Media lies all the time to make Conservatives look bad.

    If everyone else is just cheating, it’s easy to be a Right Winger. You just have to keep on getting the truth out there until the military recognises how right you are and resets everything to Year Zero.

    At least, that’s what they keep on telling me.

  95. 95.

    Comrade Dread

    March 22, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    @El Cid: They’ve moved beyond dog whistles to T-Rex calls.

  96. 96.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    March 22, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    @El Cid:

    I’m torn. I can’t decide whether I hate them more for their pig-people meanness or their disgusting cowardly dishonesty.

    Can we add to the bottom of the list, somewhere down around item# 1,027,492, their simply appalling concepts of graphic design? If the Rosie-the-Riveter posters had been designed this badly, we’d all be speaking German right now.

  97. 97.

    aimai

    March 22, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    @Clime Acts:
    Oh no, there’s tons of MRA’s like O”keefe. His misogyny always struck me as way more important than his homophobia. And with that crew you always hate the one you fuck more than anyone else. O’Keefe is a straight up parody of the “NiceGuy” date rapist. Women are his target of choice.

    aimai

  98. 98.

    Ben Cisco

    March 22, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    @kc:

    Be a man and return my panties

    He can’t. HE’S WEARING THEM.

    I just want you to know my underarms are cramping because of you.
    __
    That probably didn’t come out right.

  99. 99.

    Tonybrown74

    March 22, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    @mistermix:

    This really should have been the title of the post.

    Either way, your internets should be arriving momentarily. Congratulations!

  100. 100.

    Citizen Alan

    March 22, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    @dmsilev:

    First off, can I enter in a fervent plea that the O’Keefe Sex Tape remain forever hidden?

    Are you kidding? That would be comedy gold! A neanderthal frat boy who thinks that he’s a stud because he can last a whole twenty seconds? In a barn, no less?!? I want a copy of that right now! With “Yakkity Sax” playing as the soundtrack!

  101. 101.

    David Koch

    March 22, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    @Comrade Dread: the point is four years ago the pious professional left lectured the laity that they had cornered the market on politics and it turned out the sages put all their chips on a scandal plagued creep. They even banned/excommunicated the heroics to didn’t follow them like sheeple.

    this has to be engraved, for you know the progressive betters (some who are already supporting Ron “let the poor die” Paul), will once again attempt to lecture us on their superiority and demand obedience to their papal-like pronouncements.

  102. 102.

    Anoniminous

    March 22, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    @aimai:

    What the heck is an “MRA?”

  103. 103.

    honus

    March 22, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    @freelancer:

    Lee was on the job for just 10 months. He joined the department after a 27-year career at the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office with a mission to clean up a department marked by internal turmoil and race-related scandals.

    Mission accomplished.

  104. 104.

    daveNYC

    March 22, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    I Googled her. She’s black. Her kitchen counters are going to be inspected to hell and back.

    I have zero sympathy for her though, I’ll just eat some popcorn as the rabid bastards that she helped and thought were her friends end up tearing her apart.

  105. 105.

    Chyron HR

    March 22, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    @Anoniminous:

    Mentally retarded ass Men’s Rights Activist.

  106. 106.

    Argive

    March 22, 2012 at 5:27 pm

    @Anoniminous:

    I believe it means Male Rights Activist. Misogynistic twerps, generally speaking.

  107. 107.

    g

    March 22, 2012 at 5:35 pm

    Well, I’m only partway into the soap opera at Nadia’s blog, but my first impression is – for someone who thinks she’s a “journalist” she sure needs a good editor.

  108. 108.

    Anoniminous

    March 22, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    @Chyron HR:

    and

    @Argive:

    Thank you.

    The only thing I could think of was Magnetic Resonance Angioplasty.

    (Which is a good indication of how sad my life is … buh-dub, buh-dub, buh-duh)

  109. 109.

    kc

    March 22, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    @Ben Cisco:

    I hope they’re cramping in a good way!

  110. 110.

    g

    March 22, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    The thing that really gets me here is there are these creepy right wing twerps running around imagining themselves as great moral crusaders, when in actuality they’re sexually preying on one another, committing financial irregularities and practicing a kind of Keystone Kops incompetent intrigue-ery. And the “noble work” that they’re doing is nothing more than trying to get mainstream professionals like professors and journalists to respond to fabricated assertions in a manner that might expose them as….living human beings who happen to have opinions.

    Seriously, what would be the point of presenting a journalism professor with some kind of made-up story about racial stereotypes, and getting him to comment on it?

    “Here’s an example of Blahblahblah, professor, what do you think of it?”

    “Oh, well, I guess something like that would be pretty awful.”

    “Aha! Gotcha! The story was fake! You are totally busted!”

    “So? You asked me for my opinion about a hypothetical, we’re having a casual conversation. What’s wrong with you, man?”

  111. 111.

    Older

    March 22, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    @NickM: Nick M FTW!

  112. 112.

    300baud

    March 22, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Wow. I didn’t think I could feel any compassion for somebody who chose to work with James O’Keefe. But what Nadia Naffe went through is horrible. I sent her a sympathetic note.

  113. 113.

    The Tragically Flip

    March 22, 2012 at 11:54 pm

    She accuses O’Keefe of filming a sexual act with “Emma” without her consent. I (and numerous prosecutors and legal precedents) would call that rape since it nullifies any consent Emma gave which must be assumed to be contingent on *not being fucking filmed.*

    Whether it is true or not, if Ms. Naffe knew or believed this before this incident, and remained friends with O’Keefe, her own ethics also comes into question (as if being friends with O’Keefe for his publicly known deeds isn’t reason enough).

    She also implies O’Keefe drugged her drink:

    But the one thing I regret the most is turning my back to James and not observing him, as he stopped in the kitchen, where my beer was sitting, on his way out the front door.

    Again, no idea if it is true, but if she suspects that, it’s too bad she didn’t get a blood test or something the next day.

    I don’t find her entirely credible, though the idea that O’Keefe is a douchebag who was trying to create some kind of creepy isolation-seduction set up and had a tantrum that the woman wasn’t at all into it is completely credible. I actually wonder if the whole secret video project was just a ploy to spend time with her, it all seems so pointless and ill conceived. Very glad to see how well invested the money given by donors to Project Veritas is.

  114. 114.

    pseudonymous in nc

    March 23, 2012 at 1:04 am

    @David Koch:

    Man, North Carolina sounds like a bunch of fascists. What kind of state doesn’t allow gas stations to sell explosives on site?

    These people have been saved from living in South Carolina, the ungrateful bastards.

  115. 115.

    Nemesis

    March 23, 2012 at 8:31 am

    Goddamn, I need a bleach shower after reading the comment sections of the articles. The breitbrat avatars are popular.

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