James O'Keefe

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I must have been under a rock for the past few weeks because this morning was the first I heard about James O'Keefe and Abbie Boudreau.

Holy Hell! Why isn't he in jail for attempted kidnapping?

Try and imagine that, this weekend, I plan to stage an elaborate “prank.†Because I disagree with her politics, I’m going to coax Ann Coulter out from Connecticut under the pretense that I’d like to interview her. When she arrives, alone, she’s encountered by me and a couple friends, who tell her we’d like to do the interview on a boat. She concedes, probably hesitantly, but off we go.

Once we’re out at sea, far away from land and decent cell service, I pull out dildos, condoms, hardcore porn magazines, handcuffs and a blindfold, and I begin to aggressively hit on Coulter. I compliment her sex appeal and then tell her the thesis of my ruse: I’m going to screw her like she screws liberals.

Imagine one of my friends is videotaping this, and that, while I don’t physically harm Coulter, I relentlessly pursue this intimate humiliation until I feel like we’ve got all the tape we need for our “joke.â€

Two things would happen once we’d returned to shore, with Coulter embarrassed and scared: 1. My friends and I would be rightfully arrested for kidnapping and assault and 2. I’d never find employment ever again.

If this scenario sounds farcical, it’s not. It’s exactly what conservative prankster James O’Keefe—he of the ACORN pimp fiasco—had planned to do to CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau, right down to the “condom jar†and “lube.†In a document he titled “CNN Caper,†O’Keefe says his ultimate goal was to turn the tables on CNN: “Using hot blondes to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television.â€

This case is two years old, isn't it? I had never heard about it before. Have we discussed it on this forum and I just forgot about it? I don't read every thread so maybe I missed a thread on it.

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I must also have been under a rock, because I hadn't heard about this.

Ditto on the, Why isn't he in jail?

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I must also have been under a rock, because I hadn't heard about this.

Ditto on the, Why isn't he in jail?

I don't know why he isn't in jail.

Here is are a couple of links

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/cnn/james- ... -privilege

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-29/us/o ... e?_s=PM:US

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More what the Holy Hell comments from the CNN article

In a Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 file photo, activist James O'Keefe attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. / AP PHOTO/HARAZ N. GHANBARI For that reason, the script continued, O'Keefe would say, "I'm going to punk CNN. Abbie has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I'm going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she'll get seduced on camera and you'll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath."

O'Keefe has claimed that he was not going to follow the script and it was written by someone else. However, his female associate warned Abbie Boudreau and that was the only reason she didn't get on the boat. If he wasn't going to go through with the plan, why would his associate feel the need to warn the reporter? The woman who warned Boudreau is still in O'Keefe's group but her responsibilities have been taken from her. Why take her responsibilities if the story wasn't true?

The section of the "Caper" document that addresses the Boudreau plan includes a mock script in which O'Keefe tries to seduce Boudreau and explains, "the joke is that the tables have turned on CNN."

"Using hot blondes to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television." (Boudreau has a long and impressive resume.)

If there is fallout, the document says, "make sure to emphasize Abbie's name and overall status to help burden her career with this video, incident and her bad judgment in pursuing you so aggressively."

It continues that "if they go on the attack, you should point out the hypocrisy in CNN using the inherent sexuality of these women to sell viewers and for ratings, passing up more esteemed and respectable journalists who aren't bubble-headed bleach blondes and keep the focus on CNN."

Does this man not watch Fox News?

I think that he was attracted to the female reporter and O'Keefe is so arrogant that he thought she was trying to seduce him.

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Oh my G-d!! I can't believe this guy actually would even consider doing this!

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http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-29/us/o ... 2?_s=PM:US

Boudreau flew to Baltimore, Maryland, on August 17, rented a car, and drove to suburban Lusby, where O'Keefe wanted to meet. O'Keefe sent a text message to Boudreau that morning, saying that Santa would meet her when she got there.

When Boudreau arrived at the address, a house located on a tributary of the Patuxent River, Santa approached her with a tape recorder in her hand and said she wanted to talk in the car, Boudreau said.

"I noticed she had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK," Boudreau said. "The first thing she basically said to me was, 'I'm not recording you, I'm not recording you. Are you recording me?' I said, 'No, I'm not recording you,' and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording."

Santa told Boudreau that O'Keefe planned to "punk" her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up. Boudreau said she would not get on the boat and asked Santa why O'Keefe wanted her there.

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Boudreau ended the meeting and left. After the incident, Santa gave CNN a series of e-mails she says shows O'Keefe intended to try to embarrass both the network and Boudreau through an elaborate plan.

The day of the meeting, she wrote to someone she described as a financial donor to Project Veritas. She would not identify the individual.

"I have a problem on my hands that I think has the potential for unnecessary backlash," Santa wrote. "Today, James is meeting with a CNN correspondent today on his boat. She is doing a piece on the movement of young conservative filmmakers.

"She doesn't know she is getting on a boat but rather James' office. James has staged the boat to be a palace of pleasure with all sorts of props, wants to have a bizarre sexual conversation with her. He wants to gag CNN."

She wrote that "the idea is incredibly bad" and "the more I think about it we should not be doing this."

O'Keefe had also instructed Santa to print a "pleasure palace graphic" on a large poster, according to an e-mail.

CNN later obtained a copy of a 13-page document titled "CNN Caper," which appears to describe O'Keefe's detailed plans for that day.

"The plans appeared so outlandish and so juvenile in tone, I questioned whether it was part of a second attempted punk," Boudreau said.

But in a phone conversation, Santa confirmed the document was authentic. Listed under "equipment needed," is "hidden cams on the boat," and a "tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine."

Among the props listed were a "condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs" and a blindfold

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Gross! :(

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It would be hard to charge him criminally but I hope she is suing him. A quick google shows he just had to pay 100k to someone else.

[YPestis]

I remember when this came out on the news. For anyone not familiar with Mr. O'Keefe, just read his bio on wikipedia. It is an eye opener. He has a history of secretly taping organizations for his right wing agenda and then doing selective edits on them to manipulate the appearance of impropriety. Almost all of his questionable "stings" have led to some administrative leaves or resignations, although almost none have unearthed anything illegal. Basically, he's a muckraker of the worst kind. He adds nothing to the national dialogue, in fact trying to push his agenda through deceit and lies. It's great that his most recent escapades have received far less attention due to his history of dishonesty. I guess someone have never heard of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

[Patsy]

So he was going to threaten to rape her. Am I wrong that threatening to harm someone, when it is reasonable to assume you could follow through, is legally assault? If so, that's what he was going to do, and it only failed because she was warned- he should have been charged with attempted assault at the very least, if not conspiracy to kidnap.

How did he think ths would reflect badly on HER?