"HEY JAMES O'KEEFE, ABOUT THAT WHITE RACIST FORUM YOU ATTENDED IN 2006.."

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"HEY JAMES O'KEEFE, ABOUT THAT WHITE RACIST FORUM YOU ATTENDED IN 2006.."

I tried to search if this has been posted already but didnt see it.

http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309:hey-james-okeefe-about-that-white-racist-forum-you-attended-in-2006&catid=34:ye-olde-white-power-chopping-block

Saturday, 30 January 2010 13:40 OPP HQ
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Interesting what could have been - or not have been - had we caught his four years ago. Back then, there was this white supremacist forum that we had called attention to and eventually attended that featured American Renaissance's Jared Taylor and National Review's homophobe extraordinaire John Derbyshire. It was originally supposed to be held at the building of the conservative activist organization Leadership Institute until it was forced to move to another location. This was where we met Marcus Epstein, and readers to this website knows how that relationship has blossomed into a rather comical one, to say the least. There was also a photographer there, and lo and behold this picture has surfaced of a now familiar face attending the forum - James O'Keefe. That's right, before the ACORN videos he produced, before the arrest for interfering with a Senator's phone lines, and just a few months after he graduated from Rutgers to work for the Leadership Institute, O'Keefe was manning a table at a forum of suit-and-tie Nazis. O'Keefe became dead letter to conservatives the moment the cuffs were slapped on him last week, but if he ever shows up again in respectable company, we hope he has explained this little outing before he pulls any more race-based stunts.

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A DC area photographer snapped a photo of O'Keefe as he maintained a literature table near the panelists. At the time both heand Marcus Epstein were Leadership Institute employees. Epstein, who eventually served as executive director for Bay Buchanan's the American Cause and for Tom Tancredo's Team America PAC, would be arrested almost a year later for drunkenly attacking an African American woman in the Georgetown area of Washington, calling her a racial slur and also fighting with her husband before getting stopped by an off duty secret service agent witnessing the attack. O'Keefe, who was still being listed at the time of the forum on the RU Centurion masthead as "Editor at Large" would eventually be fired from the Leadership Institute after he called a Planned Parenthood office pretending to be a donor who only wanted his donation going to aborting black babies, because in his words, "the less black kids out there the better." It was a ruse to catch Planned Parenthood staffers in an embarrassing situation, which it did, but it also embarrassed his employers at the Leadership Institute as well, and they let him go. Still, David Fenner, Vice President of Programs at the Leadership Institute, said that they would not have restricted their members' participation in the 2006 forum. "This was outside of office hours," he said. "We don't say what our employees should do on their own time."

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