Former congressman and now-McCain primary opponent J.D. Hayworth is standing behind his embrace of birtherism.
I’ll know McCain is feeling the heat when he starts calling the president “Barry”.
There are a slew of angles to Wing-Nerd Journo Super-Hero team that tried to bug the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA). But a key part of the story is a little-known conservative think tank called the Pelican Institute.
Three of the four suspects in the alleged plot to tap Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phones have roots in the gonzo world of conservative campus journalism.
House Dems say they’re ready to go with Plan B … if the Senate is ready to do it with them. Must read.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) promises no outbursts during tonight’s State of the Union address: “I am a gentleman.” That and the day’s political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Andrew Breitbart, whose “Big Government” website was the platform for James O’Keefe’s ACORN pimp sting video last year, released a seemingly categorical statement yesterday saying he didn’t have anything to do with O’Keefe’s alleged tampering with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phones.
But things got a lot fuzzier in a radio interview Breitbart did with a sympathetic Hugh Hewitt late yesterday. Read More
[ed.note: As TPM was among the first to report, it does not appear that O’Keefe and his gang were trying to bug Landrieu’s office, contrary to original reports. All that we know for sure is that the government alleges they entered a federal office under false pretenses with the intent to commit a felony. So for the moment the precise nature of O’Keefe’s criminal conduct is unclear. For the latest on the story see our on-going coverage at TPMMuckraker.com.]
Beyond the criminal activity and brazenness of the act, one of the questions we were wondering yesterday afternoon about the WingNerd team down in New Orleans was, just what were they thinking? O’Keefe was allegedly using his cell phone to film the attempt to bug Landrieu’s office as it happened. And that’s not too smart since that amounts to filming your accomplices in the process of committing a felony.
And it goes beyond that. Let’s say their ‘operation’ was a complete success. And let’s say they got something really juicy off of Sen. Landrieu’s tapped phone line. What exactly were they going to do with it? Read More
TPMMuckraker’s Justin Elliott just went on David Shuster’s show on MSNBC to discuss the James O’Keefe/Mary Landrieu story. Ironically, they teamed him with Sol Wisenberg, one-time member of Ken Starr’s Lewinsky investigation team. See the video after the jump … Read More
TPM Reader PHB points out just how over their heads O’Keefe and company were in their failed attempt to bug the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu, not realizing that the GSA has a bunch of different security protocols meant to resist espionage, let alone twenty-something right-wing cranks … Read More