{"id":467814,"date":"2010-03-24T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80385"},"modified":"2010-03-24T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:16:33","slug":"one-more-time-on-james-o%e2%80%99keefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467814","title":{"rendered":"One More Time on James O\u2019Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patterico <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/03\/24\/brad-friedman-combines-a-brand-new-lie-with-some-old-familar-lies\/\">brings to my attention<\/a> this argument from blogger Brad Friedman:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[I]n mid-February of this year, after we\u2019d called out O\u2019Keefe as a liar for misrepresenting himself, Giles admitted to Washington Independent reporter Dave Weigel that <strong>the \u201cpimp\u201d concept was added-on<\/strong> with footage that was shot later and edited in. The \u201cgaudy\u201d costume seen in the videos was meant to convey \u201cthe whoring out of the American people,\u201d she told him Weigel [sic].<span id=\"more-80385\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never claimed that he went in with a pimp costume,\u201d Giles admitted, \u201cthat was b-roll. It was purely b-roll. He was a pimp, I was a prostitute, and we were walking in front of government buildings to show how the government was whoring out the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, as Giles admitted, and as O\u2019Keefe\u2019s own unauthenticated text-transcripts show, <strong>the entire \u201cpimp\u201d concept was added on as an afterthought, and edited in later<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In two words: Uh, no. The pimp <strong>costume<\/strong> was added as an afterthought, and O&#8217;Keefe screwed up in the media blitz after the tapes were released by not correcting the impression that he wore the crazy costume inside ACORN offices. But the videos and transcripts clearly show O&#8217;Keefe and Giles seeking extra-legal advice on how to hide prostitution profits from the IRS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patterico brings to my attention this argument from blogger Brad Friedman: [I]n mid-February of this year, after we\u2019d called out O\u2019Keefe as a liar for misrepresenting himself, Giles admitted to Washington Independent reporter Dave Weigel that the \u201cpimp\u201d concept was added-on with footage that was shot later and edited in. The \u201cgaudy\u201d costume seen in [&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-467814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467814","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=467814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}