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Battling the Media Complex: What Would Breitbart Do?

Published on May 5, 2015

NJO: Title and video from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Whine some more about being hard done by, liken himself to a soldier in a trench fighting a war again, get all het up again, die of anger a second time? That's just me hazarding a guess. Do James and these other Serious People take a crack at answering their titular question? I'm not about to watch the whole thing to find out.

"Never met a guy who emailed his buddies every sexual experience he's had w/ a women."

NJO: Source: Nadia Naffe's Twitter account.

2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
Can't help wondering if @AndrewBreitbart would still be alive if he hadn't exasperated himself fighting O'keefe's battles. @ElectMarcoRubio

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2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
No thanks. Last time I did that they wound up at @politico. Today is a day to respect the dead. RIP Andrew Breitbart. @ElectMarcoRubio

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2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
Yeah, I know. All the dirty details, money trails, tactics are in his emails. It's enough to give a man a heart attack. @ElectMarcoRubio

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2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
Would prefer you email me msgs. A convicted criminal (O'keefe et al) have been stalking my twitter. @ElectMarcoRubio

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2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
I'm too busy to care. Didn't know Ryan had been fired from PV. He never could keep staff longer than 6mo. @ElectMarcoRubio @davidshuster

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Nadia Naffe ‏@NadiaNaffe
Never met a guy who emailed his buddies every sexual experience he's had w/ a women. Incl the ones he had by himself @ElectMarcoRubio

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2 Mar
Nadia Naffe @NadiaNaffe
To sue for defamation O'keefe would have to prove I've made a false stmt. His own emails will prove I havent @ElectMarcoRubio @davidshuster

Landrieu Dance

Uploaded on Apr 18, 2011

Get Landrieu Dance on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/land...

Check out VICTICRAT featuring James O'keefe :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPqmJ...

Directed by Christian Hartsock. Produced by Eric Elder. Performed by James O'Keefe and Anthony Dini. Starring: Dori Russell, Amy Bissonnette, Stacy Fratelli, Jacqueline Gage, Renee Reres, Vanessa Ross, Jessica Lynne Smith, Nick Gust, Shaughn Adeleye, Brian Lloyd, Eric Johnson, Ethan Czahor, Tara Ketterer, Ryan Sorba. Associate Producer: Alvaro Day. First Assistant Director: Adam Weinberg. Director of Photography: Andrew Hrera. Lightly Edited by: Victor Shklyar. Production Designer: Rae Deslich. Costume Designer: Jacquelynn Nicolle Remery. Set Photographers: Andrew Kim, Brandon Williams. EPK/DIT: Robert Deltour. Steadicam Operator: Aaron Smith. First Assistant Camera: Casey Todd. Sound Mixer: Phillip Bladh. Gaffer: Brody Culbertson. Best Boy: Ronnie Gotch. Set Dressers: Vinny Chance, Caroline Louis. Caterer: Chris Holm. Production Assistants: Alexander Haberbush, Gabriella Hoffman, Kelly Steele. Special Thanks: Daniel Smith, The City of Pasadena. POV PICTURES. DIONYSUS PRODUCTIONS. THE PROJECT VERITAS.

Contact:
EricElder@povpictures.net Christian@DionysusProductions.net.

NJO: Video and blurb from Christian Hartsock's YouTube channel. The song is a reworked version of an earlier O'Keefe and Dini jobby called "Hot Action" which was used in James' "UCLA Condoms" video. Here's my transcription of the lyrics:

Take, take, take your time

Hope that you can find
A way to make it right

To get your sleep at night

Listen to my basics
Open your mouth and taste it
Don't be afraid to face it
Give up your comfortable
Hundred K solution
Kickback contribution
For the truer use than

What you come to know

We need a bit of action
That will give this the traction
That's a matter of faction
Why don't you bring, we kick the door (?)
To give some satisfaction
When you take civil action
We'll go out and attack them
Investigate and hit the ground

Corruption all around

Hard to pin it down

Blinded by your lie

Truth is my disguise

Try to call us racists

Makin' up stupid space lists
All them haters faceless
Well they ain't in the know
Gonna interrupt 'em
Fraud and waste and corruption
Find you, make you famous
So let's start the show

(Chorus x2)


Familiar minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Christian Hartsock
Eric Kaiser Johnson
Shaughn Adeleye
Ryan Jeffrey Sorba
Lila Rose

James O'Keefe email to Nadia Naffe, Subject: "Fwd: brainstorm of sorts, here..."

From: “James E. O’Keefe III” Date: January 13, 2010 12:21:54 PM EST To: xxxxxxx@gmail.com, xxxxxx@aol.com Subject: Fwd: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?…


Your thoughts Nadia?


————— Forwarded message —————From: Heather Higgins Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Subject: Re: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?… To: Steve Friess , James O’Keefe xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, Andrew Breitbart Cc: Foster Friess

Andrew and James, I’m forwarding what could be a very clever idea from Steve Friess in response to the intel below from John Fund re SEIU’s intentions in Tuesday’s election in MA. Don’t know what it would cost, but you all should talk.

Warmest regards -Heather Higgins


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Steve Friess wrote:

Wouldn’t it be great if a “ACORN sting video” could be produced about these busses?

Dad - maybe bounce this off Breitbart?

Some black /Latina conservatives could be wired for video, and get picked up on one of these busses, and show what goes on. My guess -they are offering cash, (which I am pretty sure is illegal), and I also would wager that at least some of these busses are making more than one stop with the same people - ie getting them to vote twice -though I don’t know the mechanics of that.

Perhaps some private detective types would be needed to help track down the busses, and a block or two ahead of them to drop our cameramen off…

Too much to dream? Imagine pulling this off - legal / image problems for SEIU would be a good thing… think there’s upside to this?

Brietbart would know, and Fund would know - ‘if we catch them doing X, it could mean Y’ - I just don’t know what the stakes are…


On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Heather Higgins wrote:

Foster —See below from John Fund re SEIU -Acorn is in MA as well. It would be hugely helpful if you would assist with our non-glamorous but highly effective GOTV effort. If you could possibly let me know today, that would be helpful to our planning. This is such a great opportunity for making trouble in the best sort of way - I hope you can help us really capitalize on it.

Many thanks, Heather


———— Original Message ————Subject: FW: John Batchelor From: “Fund, John” Date: Tue, January 12, 2010 8:25 am To: ‘Michael Thielen’

Tip from Boston source (normally reliable)

Seiu contracting for buses on election day and heading to roxbury, mattapan, roslindale and jamaica plain. If you’re black or brown they’ll rope you in and take you to the polls, registration can be worked out.


Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

NJO: Source: Buzzfeed.

Heather Higgins email to Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Steve Friess, Subject: "Re: brainstorm of sorts, here..."

From: Heather Higgins Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Subject: Re: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?… To: Steve Friess , James O’Keefe xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com, Andrew Breitbart Cc: Foster Friess

Andrew and James, I’m forwarding what could be a very clever idea from Steve Friess in response to the intel below from John Fund re SEIU’s intentions in Tuesday’s election in MA. Don’t know what it would cost, but you all should talk.

Warmest regards -Heather Higgins

NJO: Source: Buzzfeed.

Steve Friess email to Heather Higgins and Foster Friess, Subject: "brainstorm of sorts, here..."

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Steve Friess wrote:

(Subject: brainstorm of sorts, here - far-fetched? Maybe not?…)

Wouldn’t it be great if a “ACORN sting video” could be produced about these busses?

Dad - maybe bounce this off Breitbart?

Some black /Latina conservatives could be wired for video, and get picked up on one of these busses, and show what goes on. My guess -they are offering cash, (which I am pretty sure is illegal), and I also would wager that at least some of these busses are making more than one stop with the same people - ie getting them to vote twice -though I don’t know the mechanics of that.

Perhaps some private detective types would be needed to help track down the busses, and a block or two ahead of them to drop our cameramen off…

Too much to dream? Imagine pulling this off - legal / image problems for SEIU would be a good thing… think there’s upside to this?

Brietbart would know, and Fund would know - ‘if we catch them doing X, it could mean Y’ - I just don’t know what the stakes are…

NJO: Source: Buzzfeed.

Exposing ACORN: Introducing James O’Keefe

NJO: Source: The archived page from biggovernment.com.

by Andrew Breitbart 
 
When James O’Keefe came to my door in August, I was shocked by how young he looked. Kinda like Matthew Modine circa “Vision Quest.”

“Come on in,” I said, and I took him to my basement command center. He opened his laptop computer and showed me the very-hard-to-believe independent film investigative journalism project he had described to me over the phone

How can I describe the video I watched? Is it a put on? I almost can’t believe what I am seeing. But with regards to ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, I am quite cynical. So I do believe it.

But I still find myself wanting to believe it is fake.  It’s just too weird. It’s too wrong. But James continuously reassures me it’s real.

So who is James O’Keefe?

Morley Safer meets Sacha Baron Cohen, I think. Not precise. But you get the point.

This isn’t your mother’s “60 Minutes.” But then again, why would a twenty five-year old even think straight journalism? His crowd doesn’t even know who Don Hewitt is. They need it quick cut, set to music and packaged to go viral on YouTube.

From what I gather, James wants to speak to his twenty-something peers who have been asked to pay for unaccountable big government ventures like ACORN on their maxed-out generational credit card.

To the tune of potentially billions.

Maybe James thinks, like I do, that baby boomer elites like Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams could care less. Their generational zeitgeist – and the knowledge that their kids are personally immune from monster deficits – is all that matters. And they look the other way while believing all organizations on the left – no matter how extreme – are working towards their goals.

What is immediately clear to me is that James is passionate and wants to expose corruption.  As is his gutsy partner in exposing crimes, Hannah Giles.  James is like me: he’s idealistic, right–leaning, and doesn’t pretend he’s a neutral and objective journalist.  (No one’s “objective.”)

But I also know how my journalist friends are going to react.  And so my advice to James is this:  You can put this thing out your way, but you should also offer the full audio and full transcript so that people can hear and see them in their entirety – sans edits.  So they can judge for themselves.

James agreed and has posted them on his website.  We have posted the audio here:


View the complete transcript here.


Tags: "60 Minutes", ACORN, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, Don Hewitt, Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe, journalism, Katie Couric, Matthew Modine, Morley Safer, Sacha Baron Cohen, YouTube
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 6:41 am in ACORN, Culture, Exclusives, Media Criticism, News, Politics | Comments (244)