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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:00 AM
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Acorn Sting "Pimp" is Rutgers Alum Who Hates Lucky Charms
Edited on Sat Sep-19-09 09:06 AM by a kennedy
Hope this isn't a repost.....

By JENNIFER MILLMAN

The man who posed as a pimp to expose the Brooklyn office of ACORN's housing scandal is a Rutgers University alum who once campaigned to have Lucky Charms banned from campus dining halls.

In 2004, James O'Keefe III launched a satirical protest to have Lucky Charms ousted from the cafeterias, claiming the sugary cereal was offensive to Irish Americans. He even recorded a hidden-camera video with a Rutgers dining services official in his effort to illustrate what he perceived to be the lunacy of political correctness, reports NJ.com.

Having conquered the dining hall, O'Keefe moved on to bigger and better things. While a law student in California, the New Jersey native employed the same undercover sleuthing tactics to out dishonest counselors at Planned Parenthood, according to NJ.com.

Exposing ACORN -- in Brooklyn and in offices nationwide -- has been his biggest take-over to date, however; his undercover videos resulted in a criminal probe of employees, a repudiation of the organization by the White House and legislative action to take away millions of dollars in federal funding.

"The tone of my videos is unique," O'Keefe told the Star Ledger "I'm not just reporting on something, I'm becoming something I'm reporting on."

full article: <http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Acorn-Sting-Pimp-is-Rutgers-Alum-Who-Hates-Lucky-Charms--59613912.html>

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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:03 AM
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1. I thought the anti-Irish movement was over.
Isn't America over that and on to the anit-Mexican movement? Hands off my Lucky Charms, amigo.
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Epiphany4z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:08 AM
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2. someday someone will
catch him on film paying a prostitute for sex outside an abortion clinic while eating lucky charms.....lol....or I have just had to much coffee this am
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:10 AM
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3. In other words, he is yet another NUTBAR.
they seem to be breeding like rabbits.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:14 AM
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4. Play With Fire...Eventually You're Consumed By It...
"I'm not just reporting on something, I'm becoming something I'm reporting on."...a disastrous trait for someone claiming to be a "journalist". If you're "becoming" something then you have a preconcieved agenda in becoming that something and thus can't be objective, instead using your "art" to come to a predetermined outcome or conclusion.

I'm hoping someone involved with ACORN sues this shitstain and let's open up his ways and means of his "exposure". Let's see the "dry" footage (the entire tapes, not his edited parts), let's see whose financing his ventures and see how on the "up and up" his work is.

The wingnuts think he's the new Michael Moore...sounds more like the new Floyd Brown.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-19-09 09:15 AM
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5.  Bring back NINA...
No Idiots Need Apply
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