Louisiana’s Watergate: With the Right it’s Deja Vu All Over Again

With the right it really is deja vu all over again. Tuesday federal officials charged four men with plotting to tamper with the phone system of Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu. Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe was one of the men charged in the break-in.

You may remember O’Keefe. He reached a level of notoriety after dressing as a pimp and secretly recording members of the community group ACORN as he asked for advice on how to set up a brothel. While some employees took the bait (and were promptly fired by ACORN once the incident was brought to their attention), despite the public fury the group was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing. However, that didn’t stop 31 House Republicans from signing a resolution in O’Keefe’s honor in connection with the ACORN stunt stating that O’Keefe and his partner “displayed exemplary actions as government watchdogs and young journalists” and “are owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States. Seriously.

If this sounds familiar, it should. The Watergate scandal was the result of a break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. As news of the scandal broke, Watergate veteran and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan brushed the incident off as a youthful prank.

No, Buchanan. This is not a youthful prank. It’s a felony. A couple of them, actually.

Buchanan’s response, and the O’Keefe’s earlier embrace by Republican lawmakers illustrates a disturbing and dangerous trend by the right– the use and defense of blatant lawlessness as a means to a political ends.

As of yet those 31 Republicans have yet condemn this crime or pull their support for their resolution lauding O’Keefe. This is simply unacceptable, unless of course they stand by those kinds of actions and in fact endorse this kind of behavior. Let’s find out for sure. Sign the Care2 petition and demand they withdraw their support for their resolution and condemn the crimes in no uncertain terms.

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donald b.

1:59PM PST on Jan 31, 2011

Doyle D rocks!!

send a green star

Ellinor S.

10:55AM PDT on Mar 16, 2010

thank you

Michael C.

3:22PM PST on Mar 2, 2010

It seems that even the celebrated "ACORN scandal" was the result of deceptive editing, as shown by the complete tapes recently being uncovered. Truth, it would seems, means nothing to these people - rules only apply to everyone else.

Patricia S.

8:54PM PST on Jan 30, 2010

Sorry to disappoint you. Check out the lastest on this story.

Robert W.

5:56PM PST on Jan 28, 2010

Chicanery!!!???

Robert J.

7:48AM PST on Jan 28, 2010

Patricia - it's not relevant "what the left-wingers have been up to". Someone else committing a crime is NOT an excuse for you to commit a crime. Typical right wing defense "WAH he did it too" it don't matter if 13 democrats, an independent, and a martian did it. What they did is NOT the subject - FOCUS. This is about some more republican crooks in office.

BobJ

3:27PM PST on Jan 27, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123267

Click on the above site to find out what the left-wingers have been up to!!!!!!!

James J.

1:00PM PST on Jan 27, 2010

It makes one wonder, how many times have they done this sort of thing and NOT been caught?

John A.

12:54PM PST on Jan 27, 2010

Is anyone surprised?

Patricia H.

11:41AM PST on Jan 27, 2010

AND~~~ the hero of the republicans didn't even bother with his 'pimp' suit...didn't need it to prove who he is and who he represents.O'keeefe: you may have stepped in it this time, a case of karmatosis?