Per Dave Weigel at Slate, James “Dead Breitbart’s Erstwhile Dress-Up Houseboy” O’Keefe is being sued by another of his Project (No) Veritas associates:
… On Jan. 27, Daniel Francisco, who was until earlier that month the executive director of Project Veritas, launched a lawsuit (case No. 51182/2014) against his former employer. In the summons, filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Francisco claimed to have been “wrongly terminated” by Project Veritas, that “Project Veritas has breached its contract” by “failing to compensate him for the final week of his employment,” that it has “tortuously interfered with Paintiff’s contract,” and that since then James O’Keefe had “defamed” Francisco…
Per Dana Milbank at the Washington Post, Rand Paul is being sued for stealing (plagarizing?) his lawsuit against the NSA:
… Since December, the libertarian lawmaker, a tea party favorite, had been working with former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein to draft a class-action suit seeking to have the National Security Agency’s surveillance of telephone data declared unconstitutional; the two men appeared together as early as last June to denounce the NSA’s activities.
But when Paul filed his suit at the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, Fein’s name had been replaced with that of Ken Cuccinelli, the failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia who until last month had been the state’s attorney general. Cuccinelli has never argued a case in that courthouse, and he isn’t even a member of the D.C. bar (he also filed a motion Wednesday seeking an exception to allow him to argue this case in D.C.). But he is, like Paul, a tea party darling….
However, Jon Chait, at NYMag, assures us that nobody will capture the Bare-Faced Liar Crown from a certain celebrated Turdblossom:
Karl Rove is most famous for being architect of one of the worst presidencies in American history and then a Superpac strategist/ delusional Romney campaign-night dead-ender. I’m a Rove junkie, and just as a snobbish fan of any popular band must have some obscure album he finds superior to the band’s most popular work, the Rove career function I find most delightful and rewarding is his work as a Wall Street Journal op-ed columnist. This is the medium that truly pulls back the curtain on Rove’s fascinating combination of insularity from facts outside the conservative pseudo-news bubble, delusional optimism, and utter lack of self-awareness. The Journal column is a weekly gift to amateur Rove psychoanalysts everywhere.
Today’s column begins with Rove’s bizarre belief that the health exchanges in Obamacare are a “single-payer” system, reflecting his apparent confusion about what this term means… But the main point is the Orwellian proposition that “Mr. Obama’s pattern is to act, or fail to act, in a way that will leave his successor with a boatload of troubles.” What kind of president would bequeath a boatload of troubles to his successor? Oh, the irresponsibility….
NotMax
No, this is not snow.
It is ash from the latest volcanic eruption in Indonesia.
jl
Another associate is suing O’Keefe? How many are suing him?
Edit: and the Wiegel link claims that Cuomo said conservatives extremists were not welcome in NY. I thought Cuomo just said that extremists could not win a general election in NY anymore.
StringOnAStick
Heh; Rapeboat O’Keefe being sued by yet another former employee. Doesn’t that just make your day?
Smarmy little prick.
Villago Delenda Est
Well, what do you expect, Daniel Francisco? Lie down with mangy mutts, rise with fleas. And worse.
Suffern ACE
@jl: he did mean that, but, you know, outrage! Heck New York is practically falling over itself passing sharia support bills, ordering VW to unionize against its will, forcing priests to perform abortions and exempting gays from taxation that I’m thinking of moving to New Jersey where the politicians merely have their hands in the kitty.
NotMax
From what I’ve read or seen about this Wildstein guy in NJ, he strikes me as Breitbart without the charm.
lamh36
This really is a beautiful quote from Mildred Loving in 2009, from the Loving v Virginia case that ending the ban on interracial marriage.
“@Lgbtiamish 42m
The Mildred Loving quote that begins the judges ruling. Beautiful! #LGBT #Virginia #Equality pic.twitter.com/lCni1NTjvp”
Aji
I just love the thought of open warfare between Bruce Fein on one side and Paul the Lesser and the Cooch on the other. Fein will mop the proverbial floor with both of them.
Suffern ACE
Ok. Yuzuru Hanyu may need to slow down a bit or the other skaters will need to invoke the mercy rule.
NotMax
@lamh36
People tend to forget how recent a change the overturning of anti-miscegenation laws was.
At the time he was born, Obama’s parents were criminals in the eyes of the law in 21 states.
RaflW
Turdblossom just becomes a more and more apt nickname as the years go by…
feebog
Cannibal rats on a ghost ship eating each other. Film at 11:00.
gnomedad
The right seems increasingly devoted to making shit up, but I guess Rand Paul is too dumb even for that.
NotMax
@feebog
Some intern at SYFY pitching Ratnado! in 3… 2… 1…
Redshift
@jl: In Cuomo’s remarks (speaking of the cuff), there’s literally one sentence where he says “Because if that’s who they are and they are the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are” in the middle of several paragraphs talking about the civil war going on between moderate and conservative Republican politicians in the state. Cherry-picking that sentence and pretending he was talking about regular people is classic conservative manufactured outrage.
Weigel should know better. I guess sometimes when you gaze too long into the Bubble, the Bubble also gazes into you…
max
@gnomedad: The right seems increasingly devoted to making shit up
I would say that the South (by which I mean the elites of the South, including their newspapers) has always been devoted to making shit up regarding politics and policy. (See various newspapers accounts of both the ante & post bellum South.)
And the South OWNS the Republican party now. First time the South has truly owned a party since the 1890’s or the antebellum era.
max
[‘They were off in their own little world before, but now they have crowbared their way into the national conversation with stuff non-Southerners aren’t familiar with, so it sounds like it came from out of no where.’]
Redshift
@gnomedad: Yeah, he and his staff all seem to be the kids who got through college by cut-and-pasting their papers from Wikipedia, and then pretending they didn’t know there was anything wrong with it when they got caught.
danielx
The things that come out on Friday, I tell ya…
James O’Keefe getting sued…oh dear.
Clearly the little gobshite has made his career choice, and it is to be an exceedingly sleazy passenger on the wingnut welfare train. Given his record it seems unlikely that any (normal) employer with a semi normal hiring process would allow him with ten feet of the front door. Within ten feet of the exterior, that is. I mean, unpleasant, manipulative, deceitful, convicted of Federal crimes, serial sexual harasser; aside from these traits, what’s not to like?
Then Aqua Buddha’s federal suit, well, what to say? If there was ever any doubt that it was a publicity scam from the start, retaining the Cooch to represent him put any such doubts down. Put down right alongside any hope of winning the suit, anyway, since winning such suits generally depends on competent counsel and Ken ain’t exactly betting a thousand in legal tilting at various wingnut windmills.
As to Karl Rove being a lying little shit completely unburdened by conscience, logic or self-awareness either one… not news. Any semi-politically aware person with a pulse has known this since 2001 if not earlier. Not that it doesn’t bear repeating on occasion.
fleeting expletive
I’m just reflecting upon my life. By and large I get to do what I want (old) and can pay my bills. No one cares if I sweep my floors or wash things but me. I have a car that probably needs servicing but runs. I’ve been driving on the donut since Saturday, but it has been very cold and so I don’t care. I have plumbing and central heat and graham crackers, but running out of peanut butter.
I probably won’t be driving ten years from now, if I’m here. I’ll look into a scooter unless I’m more disabled or have dementia. I’m so glad S and J, my kids are just liven’ their lives, they’ll let me know when I can help them. And I’ll surely do the same. That donut hole, that’s a story. Closest I’ve been to a full-blown panic attack in years.
gnomedad
@max:
This is doubtless true, but it seems to me that of late there is little effort to even bother with cherry-picking and distortion. They just open up the wingnut glossolalia spigot and the base applauds. Probably nothing has actually changed and it’s just bullshit fatigue on my part.
Jay S
@RaflW: No, all turd and no blossom seems to be a better descriptor.
Redshift
@gnomedad: No, I think it has changed. The Bubble is a lot more tightly sealed than it used to be, and that means throwing out code words works as well as making up a full BS storyline, and with a lot less effort.
On my more optimistic days, I wonder if the actual influence of conservatives on national policy is waning, because the ones who get elected increasingly don’t want to do anything but grift. They’re still doing a lot of damage on the state level, though.
PurpleGirl
@lamh36: That is a beautiful passage from Mildred Loving. Thank you for posting it.
Bill E Pilgrim
@Villago Delenda Est:
Given the look of that famous fur coat, possibly quite literally.
KG
Usually, if you are seeking to appear pro hac vice, you need to have local counsel. Especially if you’re the plaintiff’s attorney. You can’t just file a complaint if you’re not a member of the bar.
mdblanche
Here’s a great new song that Rand Paul claims he’s written.
SRW1
Re: Rove.
We do know that Republicans tend to be somewhat defficient in the recognizing of comical irony department. Fortunately, they can compensate by being really good at unskewing polls.
Steve Crickmore
Republicans make such large, predictable deceitful targets, Karl Rove is exhibit A, that it is no longer so interesting, but what has been so demoralizing for me,- is that as officials in the Obama adminstration are so concerned with optics over substance, they have done their fair share of grifting and larceny, as well. In other words… Would top Obama administration officials practice deceit repeatedly in support of efforts to avoid admission of a simple error?..Absolutely.
Chyron HR
@Steve Crickmore:
Boy, you Pure Progressive Firepups sure are desperate to change the subject whenever anyone subjects Republicans to any form of criticism. But you do it FROM THE LEFFFFFFFFFFFFFT, so that’s okay.
Fred
“…Rove’s bizarre belief that..
.” No no NO! GOPer grifters don’t express beliefs. GOPer grifters spin BS and lies to sidetrack debate, muddle issues and gull the gullible.
All statements about GOPer grifters should start with: “Karl Rove (or fill in grifter’s name) would have us believe…” as opposed to “Karl Rove believes…”
This has been going on too long and must be addressed.
...now I try to be amused
“Paintiff” is an amusing typo.
low-tech cyclist
To quote Harvey Danger, “the agony and the irony, they’re killing me…”
Jose Padilla
Fein doesn’t have a cause of action for “plagarism”. An attorney has a work-for-hire arrangement with the client, so the attorney work-product is the property of the client. Fein does a cause of action for whatever fees he was promised, but has not been paid.
TG Chicago
Chait said:
That seemed like way too much of a flat-out lie for the WSJ to print, even in the op-ed page. So I checked it. And here’s what I saw:
That’s the only mention of single-payer or the exchanges. Rove isn’t saying that the exchanges are a single-payer system, but that the drop-dump-substitute will lead to an environment more suitable to enacting a single-payer system in the future. Even many on the left have theorized that this is Obama’s long-term plan. Rove could have been more clear, but he wasn’t lying here.
(That said, the “leaving problems to his successor” bit was indeed pretty rich)