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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 03:52 PM Oct 2013

James O'Keefe: Conservatives are cowards

Conservative activist James O’Keefe, who specializes in making secret video recordings and then dishonestly editing them to attack groups and people he doesn’t like, claims that he is “feared and hated and attacked in a very nasty way” by liberals who “don’t play nice” and want to “destroy” him “using the government.”

In an interview on Eagle Forum Live with Phyllis Schlafly’s niece Anne Cori this weekend, O’Keefe lamented that his fellow conservatives are “afraid to be effective because to be effective is to be hated.”

Asked if he had any advice for struggling activists, the ever-humble O’Keefe responded: “To speak frankly: Get some balls.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/james-o-keefe-says-liberals-using-government-destroy-him-urges-conservatives-get-some-balls

That's how it should be interpreted. Liberals aren't afraid to take you down, O'Keefe, and your conservative buddies are running the other way.

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James O'Keefe: Conservatives are cowards (Original Post) ck4829 Oct 2013 OP
If I ever saw this sharp_stick Oct 2013 #1
Projection Gothmog Oct 2013 #2
You are my hero for this post Southside Oct 2013 #3
maybe idiot wingnuts send him the money JI7 Oct 2013 #4
Those were rough times Southside Oct 2013 #6
So is he saying he is a gejohnston Oct 2013 #5

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
1. If I ever saw this
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 03:57 PM
Oct 2013

asshole on the street it would be so hard to not just up and kick him in the balls and then a follow up couple of shots to the stomach.

He is such a smarmy little prick.

Southside

(338 posts)
3. You are my hero for this post
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 04:00 PM
Oct 2013

He had to pay $800,000 to one of the employees he taped in California, that was justice. they all should have sued. He settled the case. How does this coward have $800,000+ from making tea party porn is beyond me.

Thank you for the post.

JI7

(89,250 posts)
4. maybe idiot wingnuts send him the money
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 04:04 PM
Oct 2013

i remember hannah giles was doing a fundraiser by sending out letters to wingnuts asking for donations and that's how she probably paid off what she had to. although she had to pay less.

Southside

(338 posts)
6. Those were rough times
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 07:38 PM
Oct 2013

I hope we learned some lessons from what happened to ACORN. Sometimes you have to stand your ground and not take it like ACORN did, but in the end when democrats and republicans are coming after you, not much you can do I guess.

I anticipate something like that will happen to the Tea Party soon.

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