James O'Keefe is a 25 Year Old Adult. He did not intend to *prank* Sen. Landrieu

[berni_mccoy]

He'll have to tell it to a Judge if he intends to use the "prank" defense.

Imagine if he was an 18 year old African American trying to put a wiretap in some GOP Senator's office. Would that be considered a prank? Thought not.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. the GOP sat in a meeting and decided that's how it was going to spin it

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Watergate was just a "prank," too...

:eyes:

[renegade000]

3. man, if only others had thought of this unassailable defense...

Ames: "I was just joshing around with you guys...come on!"

:rofl:

[Arctic Dave]

7. LOL Me and Moscow was just pulling your leg. No biggie.

[arcadian]

18. Robert Hanssen: "I was selling secrets to the Rooskies to spotlight FBI corruption"

[maddezmom]

4. imagine if he was somewhere from the ME or Asia

[Bluerthanblue]

5. he's two years older than the "underwear bomber"-

:shrug:

Pranks?

[Vickers]

25. He's a year older than Lee Harvey Oswald.

Pranksters!

:crazy:

[walldude]

6. Breaking into the office of a United States Senator during a time

of war. Yeah that prank defense should get him real far. He's lucky they aren't charging him with treason.

[KansDem]

8. Don't forget the "Bush Defense"

Any inappropriate behavior displayed under age 40 is "youthful indiscretion."

[Boudica the Lyoness]

17. Wasn't it Henry Hyde who had the same excuse?

He had a four year affair with someone else's wife when he was in his 40's and claimed it was "youthful indiscretion". ......Then Bush gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom!

[KansDem]

20. Sure! But it only works for Republicans

They're the "Party of Personal Responsibility"...:silly:

[Matariki]

9. They all have heavy political connections - it wasn't a 'prank'

Stan Dai "helped run a "Defense Department regional defense counterterrorism/irregular warfare program" and then became assistant director of the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity Washington University, which prepares undergraduates for careers in intelligence."

Robert Flanagan is the son of Louisiana US Attorney who is running things while his Bush appointed boss is about to be replaced by an Obama pick.

These guys are connected. And it will be interesting to find out who was directing or funding them.

[waiting]

31. So true.

This is what makes it clear that it is an intelligence operation funded and probably created by Murdoch, and Rove and maybe even the U.S. Attorney in Shreveport, Flanagan. It is another Watergate, no matter how the right tries to spin it.

[gateley]

10. Why would this be a prank, when ACORN was an act of patriotism? nt

[John Kerry VonErich]

11. What they did IS domestic terrorism.

non violent of course.

[global1]

12. Where Is The Outcry From The Dems?......

We all know if the tables were turned and this was a Repug Senator office - that the Repugs would be all over the MSM wanting to put these people in jail and wanting a full investigation. Where are the Dems? How come we have not heard any statements from the Dems?

[blondeatlast]

16. It's in everyone's best interest NOT to politicize this. Keep the focus on the crime. nt

[izzybeans]

13. Oh boys will be boys. G.G. Liddy was 42 when he pulled his prank.

Pat Buchanan says everyone does it. That's how you know its good. ;)

[berni_mccoy]

15. LOL!

[mzmolly]

14. He's an adult who was already under investiation for illegally taping

people. He knew WTF he was doing. He's a typical "above the law" Republican.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Can you imagine the outrage if Michael Moore tried to tap Sen. McConnell's office phones?

There'd be calls for his execution as a traitor from FAUX news.

On the facts alone, they're in DEEP FEDERAL trouble. And I'm talking MULTIPLE FELONIES. Anyone who uses the "prank" defence should get laughed out of court right before sentencing.

[Mithreal]

21. Agreed. Are knuckleheads actually calling it a prank?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Of course the GOP and Fox will try to pimp that story line to the public.

Luckily I don't think this is the kind of case that is usually decided by a jury of Fox News watching idiots, is it?

[Marr]

23. Yeah, funny, isn't it? A fifteen year black gang member is an adult, but a twentyfive

year old white Republican is 'just a kid'.

[EFerrari]

24. Bingo.

[SoCalDem]

26. baby-faces, peach-fuzzed, wet-behind-the-ears young'un

boyzjustwannahavefun:)

[berni_mccoy]

27. And the AP is out there spinning this as a prank.

[kentuck]

28. The first question the judge should ask?

Was ACORN a "prank" also??

[Kingofalldems]

29. The Democrats did it too!!

Oh wait, they've never done anything like this. It is just like Watergate.

[KittyWampus]

30. Berni, he tweeted himself yesterday "I am a journalist". Journalists do not "pull pranks".

stupid fuck killed any possibility of using that defense.

[bridgit]

32. I realize republicans operate at a certain mental deficiency; but in O'Keefe's case it is pronounced

At 25 years old - for O'Keefe to be willing to be treated like the republican party's pasty-ass, pimped out Lee Harvey Oswald gimp-in-a-box has to be an indicator of a protein/nutrition starved childhood & lifestyle, especially by the looks of him. These are not normal people,

Something has made them very strange