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The funny thing is going to watch the MSM try and explain why O'Keefe is an important person and why viewers should care about this story, when they neglected to cover much of what he did to make himself known to begin with.

2 Yeah, I'm anti being a bugging douchebag, even if it's for "my" side.

3 Whoa, whoa, can we at least wait for some more details before throwing the kid on the fire?? He wasn't, apparently, tapping any phones, he was videotaping, a la ACORN, which is a far cry from bugging someone's phone.

4 Yeah, I am inclined to believe that Landfill was exaggerating what he was doing in order to have him and his buddies arrested. I would wait until the dust settles before we toss him under the bus. That having been said - if he did what he is accused of, then fuck this guy.

5 He admits to getting in their under false pretenses which is already illegal and then was apparently colluding with dudes that were, at least, acting like they were GOING to tap a phone. 

Now, give me one good reason for that. 

Even if he had some non-retarded goal, he was acting very stupidly. 

6 Well if he admitted it, then yeah he's a dumbass (Not for admitting it, but for actually doing it).

I don't know why he would think it a wise idea to do something totally illegal, though. Didn't someone try to bring charges against him for the ACORN stings? I would think that would make a rational person seriously evaluate the legality of further investigative action.

But yeah, he's a dumbass.

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and, according to the comments over at the head moron's, he aint exactly a conservative, no matter his good work on Acorn. supposedly a follower of Alinsky...

still, more details need to be known before any assumptions should be made.

8 Let me stress again, MP: we don't have all the details, so let's just hold on and wait before throwing him under the bus--we're not part of Club Obama's Travel Club ("See the country by undercarriage!"), after all.

9 Allah's update is insinuating the theory about general incompetence on behalf of the the government.

I think that is a stupid goal, but I'm of the opinion that if there is a reasonable goal (rather than this stupid conjecture) then that makes this impossible to ignore.  Also he's not a journalist, he called himself an activist several times, and this was a stupid sting and a stupid goal (seamingly)  But I have a question.

What the flying eff is a noone doing alone in the office of a governor, with only one staffer/witness present?   I think that if this is just a gimmick to draw attention to something else involving the governor or the governors office staff, then he must be sitting on something significant.

In my opinions, he just hired the wrong people to do a job that shouldn't have been done to begin with, and was supremely stupid, but if he actually has a different endgame rather than what the story as it exists is, then I hope it's worth the short term hit.

And you are right, activists of this kind and "investigative journalists" are scum, fundamentaly disloyal to all things that aren't themselves.

That doesn't mean that this wasn't a part of something else entirely.

10 What is really unfortunate about O'Keefe's involvement in this is that everything he was involved in before is now tainted beyond any redemption.  Breitbart was on record as having more tapes that have yet to be aired, and he said he would wait until just before the 2010 elections to bring them out if authorities refused to investigate what all the previous tapes insinuated.

Everything O'Keefe was connected to is now completely useless.  It doesn't matter what the outcome of this investigation shows.  James O'Keefe is now damaged goods and is through.

Andrew Breitbart must be the most pissed off guy on the planet right about now.  I know I would be if I were him.

11 He admits to getting in their under false pretenses

Clearly, he did not watch this,

12 Apparently, Patterico says that a law enforcement official admitted Jimmy wasn't trying to wiretap. I guess this should be filed back under "Developing...".