{"id":330703,"date":"2010-02-17T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76802"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:48:44","slug":"james-o%e2%80%99keefe-may-make-it-to-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330703","title":{"rendered":"James O\u2019Keefe May Make It to CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/blogs\/yeas-and-nays\/Bustin-loose--84528327.html\">talk to the anti-ACORN filmmaker<\/a>, who&#8217;s trying to make it to Washington to join Hannah Giles &#8212; who played the prostitute in his sting &#8212; and accept the \u201cXPAC Annual Award for Impact\u201d on Friday night. He&#8217;s &#8220;in the process of petitioning his parole officer to let him cross state lines to make the big event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re having this e-mail exchange right now, actually,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said about his correspondence with his parole officer.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Keefe isn\u2019t on complete lockdown \u2014 he did spend Presidents Day on the ski slopes of New Jersey. But for a trip to the District for CPAC to join his cohort Hannah Giles, he\u2019ll have to beg.<span id=\"more-76802\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut hopefully I should be able to make it down to D.C. on Thursday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If he can\u2019t make an appearance, he plans to do a prerecorded or satellite interview with Town Hall\u2019s Kevin McCullough that will appear Friday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76779\/acorn-sting-honors-at-cpac\">noted earlier<\/a> that O&#8217;Keefe and the other players in the ACORN sting were not getting official tributes at CPAC; unofficial tributes like this, however, will be enough to make news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri talk to the anti-ACORN filmmaker, who&#8217;s trying to make it to Washington to join Hannah Giles &#8212; who played the prostitute in his sting &#8212; and accept the \u201cXPAC Annual Award for Impact\u201d on Friday night. He&#8217;s &#8220;in the process of petitioning his parole officer to let him cross state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}