Special Ed Teacher Stalked, Harassed By James O'Keefe and Right-Wing Creeps

[Ian David]

Run time: 01:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29PJhw5pCE   Posted on YouTube: November 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress2 Views on YouTube: 2681   Posted on DU: November 18, 2010 By DU Member: Ian David Views on DU: 1052

 
This is one of the most stomach-churning things I've ever seen. Right-wing pseudo-journalist James O'Keefe decided to do an expose on the teachers unions. So he sent one of his flunkies to a bar after a teachers' conference to buy drinks for a special education teacher named Alissa Ploshnick, and prompt her to dish about incompetent colleagues while secretly recording her. One of Ploshnick's stories was that a colleague of hers referred called a student a nigger" and was demoted but not fired. She was clearly outraged.

Guess what happened? O'Keefe released the recording, and got Ploshnick suspended for using the n-word. Yes -- the teacher who, in what she thought was a private setting, complained about a colleague using a slur is suspended. Here, per Zaid Jilani of Think Progress, is O'Keefe's video ambushing Plotnick outside her home:

More:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/79189/special-ed-teacher-stalked-harrassed-right-wing-creeps

Hat-tip to:
http://twitter.com/Chloebeetle/status/5110944602529792

[sakabatou]

1. Ugh

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

2. that little POS should be in prison

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Wow, he is good at entrapment and very bad at expose'.

Some one should do this to him. They should show how he ruins people with false editing and trapping them into situations that can be later edited to look very bad. Enough people should know about how he works so he will lose his ability to cause harm to anyone.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

5. I doubt anyone would be able to catch him in an unguarded moment

-He'd surely sniff out someone trying to beat him at his own game. But I'd love to see the video of him trying to do one of his "expose's" on an LA street gang...

[The Wielding Truth]

8. He is so full of himself. I bet it would be so easy.

[RZM]

4. Bullshit all around

Not just his sleazy tactics, but also the district's very bizarre decision to suspend Ploshnik.

[NuclearDem]

6. It's been said before...

But one day, he's gonna try this on the wrong person and end up with a lot of leg--

...what? He got away with trespassing on federal property with only three years probation?

...Fuck.

[Doctor_J]

7. True. In this case, it is a damn shame

that his victim wasn't armed and wont to shoot trespassers. when is the 2nd amendment actually going to be used to protect our freedom? It should be crystal clear by now that the police and courts are not going to rein in the right wingers. that leaves us.

[The Wielding Truth]

9. So . He is still on probation? What are the conditions? Maybe all we

need him to do is break probation. Maybe he already did?

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. Do people not know what quotation marks are?

Are we so dense that when one quotes a third party verbatim, we are unable to distinguish between the party who reports the slur verbatim and the individual who used the slur?

It's not just RWers. It's people in general. I've seen it on this site.

it reflects sloppy thinking and a frighteningly sudden increase in the speed of the spread of unalloyed stupidity.