{"id":7774,"date":"2010-03-30T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T07:48:07","slug":"okeefe-breitbart-sad-pathetic-assholes-for-targeting-acorn-say-yes-men-raw-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7774","title":{"rendered":"O’Keefe, Breitbart ‘Sad, Pathetic, Assholes’ for Targeting ACORN Say ‘Yes Men’: RAW STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Sahil Kapur at RAW STORY<\/a>:
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The ends justify the means, say The Yes Men, but only as long as you’re going after the right people.
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\n“For O’Keefe and Breitbart to be targeting ACORN is incredibly sad and pathetic,” [Yes Men co-founder Mike] Bonanno told Raw Story. “Most of its members are lower-income home owners, so these are model Americans — pull themselves up by their bootstraps type of people — people who are often very poor.”<\/p>\n

In a videotaped conversation with blogger Mike Stark<\/a> at last month’s CPAC convention, Breitbart, probed about the morality of O’Keefe’s actions, pointed to The Yes Men as an example of progressive activists using similarly questionable means to attain their goals.<\/p>\n

But it’s not his and O’Keefe’s tactics that The Yes Men take issue with; it’s whom they’re taking aim at, and the now-extinct community group didn’t deserve the treatment, Bonanno alleged.<\/p>\n

“It’s why you’re lying and who’s gaining and who’s losing as a result,” he said. “There are liars and there are assholes. What James O’Keefe is doing is making a lot of lower-income people lose, unfortunately. And it’s supported by a bunch of very nasty, mean-spirited people.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Here again is the video referred to above, which The BRAD BLOG originally published on March 1<\/a>, where Andrew Breitbart invokes The Yes Men near the very end after he’s already been forced, by journalist Mike Stark, to toss his own employee, James O’Keefe under the bus<\/a> for having duped him — or so Breitbart, an accomplished and acknowledged liar<\/a>, is now claiming…<\/p>\n

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Via Sahil Kapur at RAW STORY: The ends justify the means, say The Yes Men, but only as long as you’re going after the right people. … “For O’Keefe and Breitbart to be targeting ACORN is incredibly sad and pathetic,” [Yes Men co-founder Mike] Bonanno told Raw Story. “Most of its members are lower-income home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,449],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-james-okeefe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}