James O'Keefe Tries to Entrap Hillary, Fails Spectacularly

[kpete]

Comes now word from Time Magazine that two women approached the Hillary Clinton campaign in Iowa and tried to entrap campaign officials into breaking the law. Does that sound like the MO of anyone we know? Fortunately, the officials weren't born yesterday, and now the campaign is on guard against future stunts of this nature. And so James O'Keefe can add another entry to the long list of things he's failed at.

From the story:

A Clinton campaign official alleges that the women engaged in several efforts to entrap supporters. In one scheme, described by Clinton staff, a woman attempted to pass a cash donation to Clinton volunteers and interns. In another, a woman approached the campaign on Aug. 19 and said both her parents had donated to Clinton the legal maximum of $2700 each and wanted to funnel an additional donation through their daughter, a violation of federal law. On Aug. 13, a woman claiming to be Canadian approached another Clinton fellow to ask how to falsify an address for a campaign donation.

In another instance, a woman volunteering with the Clinton campaign on voter registration efforts in Iowa City returned to the campaign’s office in Des Moines and asked whether it was okay that she refuse to register people who don’t support Clinton, the campaign official said. The Clinton campaign maintains that its policy is to register all voters, regardless of their preference in candidates.

.........

In an example of the kind of shrewd attention to detail that O'Keefe is famous for,
the phone number given by the women is listed on the website of a University of Minnesota organization called "Students for a Conservative Voice." Oops! Even better, one of the women was subsequently identified as Laura Loomer, a student at Barry University who illegally videotaped a professor earlier this year in what sounds like a fairly pathetic attempt to frame him for supporting ISIS. The university subsequently suspended Loomer, and the professor filed criminal charges against her. One would think that an individual under this kind of legal scrutiny would be well advised to avoid committing additional illegal acts, but you know what they say about the criminal element.

Kudos to Team Hillary for catching these (admittedly incompetent) crooks in the act, and I hope Team Bernie takes note and instructs its offices to be on the lookout for O'Keefe's criminals.

http://time.com/4006454/hillary-clinton-video-project-veritas/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/22/1414399/-James-O-Keefe-Tries-to-Entrap-Hillary-Fails-Spectacularly

[H2O Man]

1. Thank you!

Recommended!

[Gothmog]

2. O'Keefe is a fraud and liar

I am glad that the Hillary camp caught him

[riversedge]

5. yup.

[Unknown Beatle]

70. "O'Keefe is a fraud and liar"

An incompetent inept imbecile fraud and liar, and that's what makes him so endearing to conservative right wing assholes. They're birds of a feather.

[SusanaMontana41]

115. Disciples of Lee Atwater are everywhere. eom

[Fred Sanders]

3. Now on to taking down the criminals behind the PP smear...and valuing truth over lies again.

[calimary]

122. Now that ted cruz is urging church pastors to indulge in politicking from the pulpit...

PLEASE, EVERYBODY, call your Congressman/woman and Senator(s) and urge them to challenge the tax exempt status of ANY church whose pastor crosses that line!

Also, anybody here or anyone anybody here KNOWS - who attends churches like that - should be urged to inform their pastors that they are putting their tax exempt status at risk. CONSEQUENCES. There need to be CONSEQUENCES for pulling this shit. Even the threat of it hanging over their heads might be enough of a deterrent. Most church pastors are keenly aware of the importance of money to their ministries.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Begs the question

of whether there are moles in her campaign - or other Democratic candidates - who would coordinate a 'sting' that gets captured on video. I wouldn't expect repug operatives to be deterred after a single failed attempt.

[brer cat]

9. It would not surprise me in the least. nt

[mountain grammy]

6. Dirty tricks.. the GOP invented them and are still perfecting their act.

That's where you go when you've got nothing else.

[svpadgham]

21. Now, now

Politicians have been around much longer than 1854. I doubt they invented political chicanery, but they've definitely taken it to a whole new level.

[sufrommich]

7. I wish the Clinton campaign would have taken this one step

farther and actually got the authorities involved after these morons attempted to illegally contribute to the campaign.Isn't this what Dinesh D'Souza went to jail for? Maybe a couple of them facing federal charges would make them think twice.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. I still want to know why O'Keefe isn't in reform school

Let me add the kudos for team Hillary over this. They get an A for crime fighting, at least when it comes to this juvenile delinquent.

[Cal Carpenter]

15. Make no mistake, this jackass O'Keefe is 30 years old now.

I want to know why he isn't in jail.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Is that so? Well, happy birthday, Mr. O'Keefe and many happy returns to the day

By the time he's my age, he'll be the world's oldest juvenile delinquent.

[Plucketeer]

23. I hafta wonder

if he has a REAL job to support his hobby as a wanna-be provocateur? Kinda hard to believe even the GOP would keep funding O'keefe's bungled baloney. Of course, now that I think about it, they did spend millions over 50 times tryin' o deep six the ACA!

[nxylas]

56. They have very deep pockets

A Koch or an Adelson could probably pay O'Keeffe's salary with loose change they found down the back of the sofa.

[JHB]

68. Who says it's the GOP that's funding him?

All he needs is one billionaire who likes the cut of his jib.

Or a few tens of thousands of boodle-bags.

[Plucketeer]

71. That may be true

But as many times as this rube has flopped flat on his face, you have to wonder who'd hand him money with the resume he has so far! Better influence could be had by just printing up a bunch of lie-filled handbills and posters and providing a few staple guns.

[JHB]

73. And just how often has he flopped on his face -- in ways they care about?

He provides "evidence" that liberals and Democrats are monsters, and his target audience eats it up with a spoon.

All the debunking is just "liberal lies", so they don't care, and they just brush off the flops.

His target audience isn't interested in facts, they have their own. And he feeds them.

[Midnight Writer]

106. He killed ACORN singlehandedly (and fraudelently)

That alone is enough to make him a right-wing hero and keep the money flowing.

[MisterP]

48. he does have a very callow face, the face of someone who's never had to go through anything

one of those candy-cheeked lobotomites running those "Affirmative Action Bake Sales" without a damn idea of what they're doing or how they look to everyone who's not a Lacoste-wearing popped-collar or junior Dittohead

they handed Iraq over to 22-year-old Young Republicans and that didn't work out too well either

on edit: Laura Loomer better watch out, he's reform-school fodder when it comes to women as well as to politics

[Quasimodem]

77. That was my question, too!

Why isn't O'Keefe working as a telemarketer in some privately-owned prison?

[NewJeffCT]

124. reform school - or jail?

wasn't he charged with something a few years back?

[DemoTex]

10. Why do O'Keefe and Trey Gowdy so resemble each other?

In thought, word, and deed.

[UCmeNdc]

11. They should charge these people with attempted illegal bribes.

If they have contact information on these individuals the Clinton people should turn this evidence over to the FBI.

[George II]

12. Clinton's people are VERY sophisticated, and with 20+ years of experience dealing with....

...people like this, I'm sure they're on their guard.

Good that they caught the phonies, and the news of this may help prevent future attempts.

[mcar]

13. K&R

Well done Team Hillary!

[gratuitous]

14. You scam with the scammers you have, not the scammers you want

Nitwits like Laura Loomer aren't quite as plentiful as James O'Keefe might like, so he has to recycle even the burned assets. Seems odd that the scammers would go to all this trouble, what with all the popular media stories about how the Clinton campaign has peaked, is falling apart, can't get any traction, isn't trusted, and so on and so on. It's enough to make one wonder if the political reporters are just bored and making up stories to fill space?

[LAGC]

17. Isn't O'Keefe still on probation?

Wonder what his probation officer might think if he knew he was up to his old tricks again?

[svpadgham]

18. I don't know why

Every time I read a story involving this little worm, I feel surprised and think "Oh damn! This little fucker still ain't being interviewed from a jail cell?" Or "Oh, he's still alive?"

[Lee-Lee]

19. Let's hope they caught them all

One of the problems with this kind of stuff is that it's not enough to stop 90% of them because the last 10% will still end up as propaganda..

[lewebley3]

20. I don't trust Sanders supporters because of O'Keeffe: The GOP are using Sanders campaign

In Chicago, the GOP governor, handed out debt cards between
50 and 75 dollars,. to get people to rallies against the Dem,
these crowds, that are showing up for Sanders could be anyone,
the could have been paid by the GOP:

We know that the Koch brothers paid for the busses, and GOP
people to go to Wisconsin and pretend to be grassroot supporters
of Walker.

I know one thing for sure Hillary is a Dem: I don't know who the Sanders
supporters are.

[Bjorn Against]

22. Quite the conspiracy theory you have there

If you think the Koch Brothers want Bernie's message to gain traction however then you clearly don't understand the Koch Brothers. The Koch Brothers hate everything that Bernie stands for.

[lewebley3]

24. Yes, I do they want to destroy Hillary and the Dem's chances to win the white house

Koch's will help Bernie so they can divide the Dem': Limbaugh
has already said that the GOP people should support Sanders.

Koch's no 50% of America will not vote for a socialist.

[Bjorn Against]

25. You do realize the Koch's funded the DLC which Hillary was a founding member of?

Hillary has a history of taking money from wealthy interests, Bernie does not.

[SoapBox]

32. Conspiracy theory of the worst type.

Absurd.

Stop spreading such dirt.

[HubertHeaver]

69. Operation Chaos 2.0?

That worked so well in '08 I'm sure they would want to repeat.

[lewebley3]

83. Operation cause Dem to spend a lot of money: We don't have the lux with Citizen

[RiverNoord]

26. Wow. You have absolutely no clue.

I'm a Sanders supporter. I haven't voted for a Republican for over 20 years (it took a few years to realize that there was no value in voting for anyone who would associate him/herself with such an organization, even if the Democratic candidate was a twit...). I've voted in every election for state and national legislators, governors, and the office of the President of the United States since I turned 18. In every one of those elections for the past 20 years (I'm 45 today) I've voted for the Democratic candidate. Without exception.

I haven't always participated in caucuses or primaries. I was very enthusiastic about my vote in the 2008 Minnesota Democratic Party Caucus for Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee for the office of the President.

I saw this post and came to ask one thing - why hasn't anyone put this slug 'O'Keeffe' out of business, permanently? He's such a fraudster, it would be exceptionally easy to establish irrefutable evidence of serious felony-level crimes, with a bit of cleverness.

Then I saw your post. And it took me about 2 seconds after reading it do decide that you are much, much worse that O'Keeffe. There's no doubt that he's a complete fraud, making his pathetic living generating extremist right-wing propaganda through criminal methods. You, on the other hand, appear to consider yourself a supporter of the Democratic Party, but the things you say make supporters of the Democratic Party look insane, ugly and clueless.

God, how I wish people like you just find some other, non-political, topic to satisfy your need to bullshit. How about gardening? There's lots of controversy about best practices in gardening.

[lewebley3]

34. Yes, I do have a clue: The GOP supporters are paid to call talk show to attack Hillary

You don't think they would use this site as Sander supporters to
get at her.

[RiverNoord]

45. And now you tell me what I think or don't think.

Do you have any personal friends, because, at least online, you make lots of negative statements about people without the the slightest evidence. (Unless I tell you what I think, and I, in fact, know what I think, which is not always the case, the only way for you to know what I think is to use telepathy. Which is a fictional concept.)

I KNOW that there are BILLIONS that will be spent on the 2016 State, Congressional and Presidential elections. The vast majority of that will be spent by very wealthy right-wing extremists. Dirty tricks of every conceivable (and inconceivable, by just about anyone) type will be employed to an absurd extent.

I also know that the same thing happened in 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006....

So, yes, I DO think that lots of people will be paid to pretend to be Democrats on online discussion forums to pollute dialog.

The interesting thing, in your case, is that you assert a bizarre false equivalency: That GOPers are being paid to support Bernie Sanders in forums like this in order to reduce Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming President of the United States, but that you are certain that that the same thing is not being done to reduce Bernie Sanders' chances of becoming President of the United States. And this is, frankly, much more plausible, given that lots of very wealthy interests are actively supporting Hillary Clinton, likely because they are comfortable that she knows how to do 'business as usual' with them.

That is why your statements are absurd. YOU are more likely to be a GOP activist in disguise, working subtly to pollute the image of Bernie Sanders, cast doubt on the nature of his campaign, etc., than any single self-claiming Bernie Sanders supporter I have encountered on this site. The trolls are almost without exception rude, loose with facts, and make statements which prima facie seek to disparage supporters of either Sanders or Clinton, without recognizing that the vast majority of us understand the value and necessity of being decent to each other.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

53. Maybe

And maybe there are critics of Sanders and his supportrs here working for Hillary. See. Two can play that game.

[sufrommich]

28. That's just dumb conspiracy crap.

Seriously,get a grip.

[lewebley3]

33. Not consipracy: It is in GOP interest to help Sanders: Just a fact

[sufrommich]

37. It is conspiracy,without an iota of fact to back

it up.

[lewebley3]

46. GOP have talked about posing of Sanders supports to push attack on Hillary

[passiveporcupine]

72. Do you have links to back up your assertions?

[lewebley3]

84. Yes, there is you can apply for a GOP position with American's for Prosperity

This just one of the groups that are planting false stories about
Dems.

[thesquanderer]

38. On the other hand...

See:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251522817

[calimary]

123. Well, there is this...

From the handy dandy CON rag, the national review:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420262/republicans-should-help-bernie-sanders-weaken-hillary-myra-adams

Same piece-of-shit outfit that, during the 90s, featured john derbyshire's article exhorting the murder of the then-teenaged Chelsea Clinton because she might grow up and get into politics, extending the Clinton legacy.

Glad the Clinton campaign people were on the ball, and on their toes. I would hope EVERYBODY on our side, from the Sanders, O'Malley, and even Webb campaigns stays sharp about this. These jerks WILL be back. They WILL try again. In any and many other ways - as many as theyThey WILL stop at nothing. Take that to the bank. I'm kind of surprised at the Planned Parenthood people for being gullible and letting their guard down, and getting played like that. Were they all living on some other planet for the past few years or something??? They of ALL people should have been wary as hell. ANYONE involved in women's health and reproductive health matters needs to be vigilant as can be.

As Mad-Eye Moody always warned Harry Potter - "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!!"

[snort]

30. You're a Jackass.

[lewebley3]

31. Just telling the truth

[LanternWaste]

95. Confusing creative and unsourced allegations with "the truth" may be convenient

Confusing creative and unsourced allegations with "the truth" may be convenient for the irrational mind, but it's still simply a creative and unsourced allegation.

Begin documenting and supporting your allegations with objective sources, otherwise, well... bless your little heart.

Logic is indeed, a hard skill for the undisciplined mind to master. Good luck!!!

[L. Coyote]

35. This one's for you for sure:

Introduction to Logic

http://online.stanford.edu/course/intrologic

[Bubzer]

108. ...

[Marrah_G]

43. Sadly, you are unable to support your candidate without smearing another

[tenderfoot]

47. quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever read here.

[Kingofalldems]

52. I think lewebly is on the wrong track but---

I believe there are a few so called Bernie supporters who are actually republicans stirring the pot.

[Bubzer]

110. I have no doubts there are a few GOP operatives inciting arguments between Hillary and Bernie camps.

Can you blame them? We have two very strong candidates and they have....Trump?

I think they have candidate envy.

[navarth]

65. you guys keep falling for it

when one feeds a troll, the troll comes back

[awoke_in_2003]

50. Damn, you foiled us. nt

[Hekate]

58. Now that I've read this thread, I have a roll of tinfoil for you. It's shiny.

[Bubzer]

111. ...

"It's shiny" -

[JDPriestly]

60. I was in the crowd that showed up for Bernie in Los Angeles. The people were not paid.

We are a real force. People just like Bernie. When I wear my Women for Bernie pin, people come up to me and are excited to meet me because we are united by our support for Bernie.

Don't have to pay anyone to go see Bernie. He's the real deal. And so are the crowds he draws.

[lewebley3]

86. You wouldn't know if they were paid: Chicago did find out until after the election

Our GOP Govern passed out 500,000 debt cards: Illinois didn't know
until a staffer stupidly tried to cash them back in. (the left overs)

if the GOP are smart, they are passing out debt cards to people
who can bring back a stamped ticket from a Sanders rally.

[JDPriestly]

89. I'm sure Bernie's crowds are not paid. He doesn't have that kind of money.

It takes corporate money to pay crowds. Bernie's crowds are not paid.

[lewebley3]

90. No but the GOP does: The Koch people do

[lewebley3]

112. The GOP does

[murielm99]

101. I am a Clinton supporter, BUT

that is not why Rauner passed out gift cards. He gave them to workers who brought voters to the polls. Rauner was getting people to the polls who would vote for HIM! I question the legality of giving these to volunteers. I hope something will come of this.

If you have proof that there was anything other than this, please let me know, and let this website know.

I appreciate that you support Hillary, but let's stick to the facts.

[lewebley3]

109. Truth: is we don't know the extent to Rauner debit cards: We know he purchased $500,000w

Debit cards were not all used only to bring to people to poles, the were passed out to anyone
they wanted to give them too.

Two Black leaders changed sides to support Rauner, when they became GOP people: they
sweared that the were not bought: But then after elections they were
both given handsome jobs working for Rauner.

Don't be naive the GOP can and will buy people: they can find people
who will take money to attack Hillary: Trump paid actors
for his first rally: the crowd of people who were at the bottom of
the escalators each got 50 to 70 dollars for showing up.

GOP are not above spend money to create crowds for Sanders

You might want to ask yourself, why black women were at the Trump
rally this weekend. Trump is an original birther maybe like the actors
they were being paid.

[suffragette]

61. Hmm. Deflect from O'Keefe and his buddies actions and smear Sanders' supporters and

Sanders by extension.

Quite a job you're doing here.

[lewebley3]

82. The GOP brag about duping liberal sites: by posing as Sanders supporters

[suffragette]

91. And some GOP posing as Hillary supporters were busted per the article

In the OP.

Their actions and words gave them away.

[lewebley3]

88. No I am just thinking smart: I don't want to risk the whtie house for a GOP person

[frylock]

94. "I am just thinking smart"

[alittlelark]

76. uhhhhh.....yeah........

[roody]

80. I'm a Green who will be registering D

to vote for Bernie. Is your post a joke?

[lewebley3]

81. You may or may not be who knows

[Rex]

87. Wow you got hammered for saying something really stupid.

Better luck next time!

[still_one]

117. what a garbage post

[1monster]

27. Where does O'Keefe get the money for these little fishing expeditions? Any sane

funder would get tired of all the incompetence that he shows in his little scams. Okay, he had one big success with his smear of ACORN, but that was before he was exposed (and others started using the same tactics).

However, since then, he has had one embarrassing failure after another. Perhaps those funding these little endeavors are hoping just any little thing will stick. It reminds me of all those laughable attempts by the CIA to get Fidel Castro in the sixties. Incompetent and humiliating.

[Agnosticsherbet]

36. He runs Project Veritas and is supported br Brietbart and other

Conservative donors.

Conservative activist James O’Keefe accused of trying to goad protesters to ‘kill some cops’

[1monster]

41. Well, I guess that makes sense. Brietbart wasn't very bright and, apparently,

his political heirs are not either.

[pamela]

49. He's still dead though.

So there is some good news.

[awoke_in_2003]

51. Doesn't have to be too bright

Joe Sixpack will keep sending him money to do this stupid shit

[Erose999]

119. He's not supported by Andrew Breitbart anymore. Breitbart died from syphilis.

syphilis
syphilis
syphilis

[Agnosticsherbet]

120. I am sure that he found other sugar daddies who to pork for money.

[Chasstev365]

29. O'Keefe is a LOSER!

He has the evil intent of Karl Rove, but the brains of Kim Kardashian. Go away you little piss ant!

[DirkGently]

39. Slime. n/t

[Octafish]

40. Shouldn't O'Keefe be behind bars for that kind of thing?

What he did to ACORN was criminal, too.

[SunSeeker]

42. Good for the Hillary folks.

Those Okeefe scumbags should be in jail.

[dembotoz]

44. All the campaigns need to b aware of these frauds

Would anticipate Bernie attacks soon
Grass roots nature or image of campaign would lead them to test for vulnerable spots in fundraising

[barbtries]

54. why don't these people ever get in trouble for these acts?

like being arrested, prosecuted, sued.

[kentuck]

55. Isn't that illegal??

To try to trap someone or entice them to commit a crime?? Isn't that a crime in itself?

[LynneSin]

104. Well it kinda depends

If you are a progressive and do that then yes it is.

But if you are a piece of shit slimeball worthless excuse of existence doing it for the GOP like O'Keefe then well there is wiggle room

Actually he's on probation for doing a caper against Mary Landrieu.

[Enthusiast]

57. Weasels.

My apology to weasels.

[Vogon_Glory]

59. Coming Soon: Does Ms Loomer Support Prison Reform? N/t

[GoneFishin]

62. The right wing always cheats. Their ideology hurts everyone but the 1%. They have to lie to sell

their disfunctional worldview to voters.

[ejbr]

63. Brava, Madame Clinton, brava...

[MoreGOPoop]

64. K & R

Hook, crook & bullshit- it's all they've got. The party of
bridge-sellers & salvation peddlers can't win legitimately.

[fbc]

66. Barry University is a school for dumb kids with money.

There are plenty of state schools in the area that have higher ratings and are much more affordable (eg. FIU, FAU).

No real surprise this Laura Loomer is from a school like that.

[Historic NY]

67. The shit we have to put up with...Bernie better watch out ...

that little dweeb and his minions really need to find themselves in the back alley of the sewer they live in. It time that when they show up they need to be sent to the door or the ER.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

74. Laura Elizabeth Loomer

[alittlelark]

75. Has the local DA been notified?

[joeybee12]

78. I must be dreaming, DU is reccing a thread that shows

Hillary in a good light???? Hmmmm

[still_one]

79. Are there any charges that can be applied to them for trying to solicit an illegal activity?

[Rex]

85. Will this be reported in the M$M 24/7?

Should be another nail in the GOP coffin, but the M$M is pro-GOP so it won't.

[Omaha Steve]

92. WELL DONE!

K&R!

OS

[Jester Messiah]

93. The best thing O'Keefe could do for the world...

would be to leave it.

[mehrrh]

96. wait for it

I will await the editing and the "spin" from O'Keefe and the RW media whores who resort to this kind of tactic and call it journalism to see how they manage to use it against the Clinton campaign regardless of its epic failure.
I will never forget their blatant fakery in taking down AKORN and by the time they were exposed, the dirty deed was done.
They are trying the same with Planned Parenthood who is better prepared to fight than AKORN, but nevertheless, it is a war.
Put nothing past the RW and their sack of dirty tricks, and the lengths to which they will lie when their tricks fail.

[senz]

97. When will someone(s) infiltrate the O'Keefe operations?

It would take someone young, clever, patient and adventurous, but if anyone needs entrapment, it's little Jimmy Boy.

[KamaAina]

98. Why isn't he in prison?

That's where I'd be if I broke into a Senator's office.

[muntrv]

99. Why is he not in jail for impersonating an AT&T worker?

[Keep-Left]

100. Why isnt the media talking about this

instead of emails

[rladdi]

102. This is a prime example of the dirty and nasty Republicans. So many of them are in elected office,

serving the people and nation. They are most crooked, but GOP runs CRIMINALS, FELONS, RAPISTS, SEX ABUSERS and think nothing of it. In fact they move there criminals to different states from where the criminal offense took place to hide it from the voters.

[LynneSin]

103. I do not advocate having anyone ever having the shit kicked out of them...

but then again there are always exceptions to every rule. If someone took this piece of shit out back somewhere and kicked the shit out of him I wouldn't feel sorry for him. He is a worthless piece of shit.

[still_one]

118. I would prefer if this POS was behind bars where he belongs

[Beta Male]

105. Is that little twerp still at it?

He needs to move back under the bridge he came from!

[bucolic_frolic]

107. Why

isn't this guy in jail for fomenting conspiracies?

[snot]

113. I hope all our candidates are this careful.

[McCamy Taylor]

114. K&R

[still_one]

116. O'Keefe should be in jail. For illegal recordings, and other criminal activities

[MrWendel]

121. I don't think I could have said this any better but...

"A lot of Hillary Clinton's critics have such an obvious visceral hatred of her, that they are impervious to reason. And then there's also the Republicans." -- Laurence Lewis.

[silvershadow]

125. Failure is his stock in trade. nt