NBC Profiles O'Keefe for ACORN Sting, Mentions Planned Parenthood Racist Phone Call Story

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On Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Mara Schiavocampo filed a report based on her interview with video producer James O’Keefe, famous for his recently released video clips which exposed the willingness by a significant number of ACORN employees to give advice on breaking the law to O’Keefe, who posed as a pimp, and his friend Hannah Giles, who posed as an underage prostitute. But Schiavocampo also mentioned some of O’Keefe’s past work, including audio clips of Planned Parenthood employees reacting with indifference to the expression of racist views as O’Keefe posed as a potential donor to the abortion provider who requested that his donation go toward eliminating the birth of black children.

After relating that O'Keefe had gone from producing videos as pranks to targeting Planned Parenthood in what Schiavocampo referred to as "more outrageous political fare – like calling Planned Parenthood to see if they would accept donations to abort black babies," a clip of one such phone call was played:

AUDIO CLIP OF O’KEEFE SPEAKING TO A PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEE BY PHONE: There's too many black people in Ohio, so I’m just trying to do my part.

AUDIO CLIP OF UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE EMPLOYEE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Okay, whatever.

Last year, FNC shows like The O’Reilly Factor were among the few places in television news where viewers could hear the series of audio clips that focused on the acceptance of racist comments by employees of Planned Parenthood, an organization which was in fact founded in the 1920s by eugenics proponent Margaret Sanger, who wished to eliminate populations she believed to be inferior.

Below is a complete transcript of the report from the Wednesday, September 23, NBC Nightly News:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Tonight, an NBC News exclusive. In his first broadcast network news interview, the young man behind the Candid Camera-like spoof that has caused so much backlash against the group ACORN, he tells his story. ACORN has now filed a lawsuit over his hidden camera video that got two of its Baltimore office employees fired and touched off a big internal investigation. NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo has our story.

MARA SCHIAVOCAMPO: This is how most of the world was introduced to James O'Keefe, as a young video producer dressed like a pimp for a hidden camera investigation into ACORN – the community advocacy group whose voter registration efforts in disadvantaged communities were targeted by President Obama's opponents last year. And this is how I met him, as a soft spoken self-described radical dealing with an awful lot of new attention-

UNIDENTIFIED MAN TALKING TO JAMES O’KEEFE: We think you’re unbelievable.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: -that's caught him completely by surprise. Did you expect all these repercussions when you started?

JAMES O’KEEFE, VIDEO PRODUCER: No.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: Posing as a pimp and prostitute, O’Keefe and Hannah Giles – a friend he met on FaceBook – caught ACORN employees in five cities appearing to give advice on tax evasion, human smuggling and prostitution.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEE: If you’re just taking money from underage prostitutes, oh my God, that doesn't sound good.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: O’Keefe says he and Giles spent about $1,300 to fund their trips, though he won't say how many offices they visited. Do you consider yourself a conservative?

O’KEEFE: I consider myself a progressive radical. I don't really want to conserve anything.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: How do you define yourself? As a journalist, as an activist?

O’KEEFE: I don't have a business card. I mean, I'm too busy doing what I do. I let other people frame it the way they want.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: It's a controversial style O’Keefe has been honing since his college days at Rutgers University. He started with pranks like complaining about Lucky Charms being served in the dining halls-

O’KEEFE, IN VIDEO ADDRESSING A SMALL GROUP: As you can see, we’re not all short, green. We have our differences of height, and we think this is stereotypical of all Irish-Americans.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: -and moved on to more outrageous political fare – like calling Planned Parenthood to see if they would accept donations to abort black babies.

AUDIO CLIP OF O’KEEFE SPEAKING TO A PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEE BY PHONE: There's too many black people in Ohio, so I’m just trying to do my part.

AUDIO CLIP OF UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE EMPLOYEE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Okay, whatever.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: O’Keefe plans to release more ACORN footage in the coming weeks, and has already started thinking about his next project.

O’KEEFE: I would hope to be able to do more of these types of things and expose more corruption and do more investigating, absolutely. I would love to be able to do it. It would be a privilege to be able to do this for a time.

SCHIAVOCAMPO: His hope, that this introduction to the public is the beginning of a long relationship. Mara Schiavocampo, NBC News, New York.

—Brad Wilmouth is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Oh Well

I wouldn't expect the the Extreme Media to look at this any other way except to imply racism!

"AUDIO CLIP OF O’KEEFE

"AUDIO CLIP OF O’KEEFE SPEAKING TO A PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEE BY PHONE: There's too many black people in Ohio, so I’m just trying to do my part."

 Yep, implied racism.

Oh, wait, it was a part of his schtick.

Well, then that makes it alright.

Darn you - evil  MSM! 

yes it does

just like the same kind of attitude and willingness to help when it came to breaking laws in the area of underage prostitution or setting up a brothel, right?  Those people could care less about what's right and what's lawful.

-Jon

  "AUDIO CLIP OF

 

"AUDIO CLIP OF O’KEEFE SPEAKING TO A
PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEE BY PHONE: There's too many black people in
Ohio, so I’m just trying to do my part."

 Yep, implied racism.

Oh, wait, it was a part of his schtick.

Well, then that makes it alright.

Darn you - evil  MSM!

You really are a dishonest person. You know damn well what he was trying to do, yet you have to spin it in a different direction because it places your side in an indefensible situation. Go ahead, keep trying, but only someone brain dead will be persuaded by your crap.

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

Let us for a moment accept

Let us for a moment accept your ridiculous premise that James O’Keefe is an actual racist. How does that then excuse the action of the Planned Parenthood employee who was so willing to accommodate that racism in order to get a donation?

You really believe that don't you?

Barry- Are you saying that O'Keefe was seriously trying to set up a brothel too?  I mean, by your logic, because he said he wanted to bring up 13 year old girls from El Salvador he must REALLY mean it.  Couldn't be that he was working to undercover the organization's real motives, right?

It's sad, but you are the poster child of the people who voted for BO. 

"Voting for someone because he's black is as racist as voting against someone because he's black. "

→ Adam

He believes what he sees in the movies, too.

Based on what you're saying

Based on what you're saying O'Keefe had to say those things in order to uncover the "truth" behind Planned Parenthood.

No, it wasn't a gratuitous embellishment of his real fake persona.   

I'm sure the entire sting weighed on wether or not O'Keefe got to make his statement regarding blacks in Ohio.

Oh, and that comment added SO MUCH to the overall storyline. It truly was essential. 

→ Barry

It really bothers you that your Religion of Humanism is exposed as inviting all the depravity even you are squeamish of.

Your problem with all this is that ACORN showed unfairness and wasn't asking for them to smuggle in little boys too.

→ Barry

You know Planned Parenthood is a racist cause.  But it's a facet of racism you're comfortable with 

Oh, and that comment added

Oh, and that comment added SO MUCH to the overall storyline. It truly was essential. 

Then what would be the storyline without Planned Parenthood's obvious acceptance of racism in this sting then, doofus?

“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)

NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo

NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo has our story - and we're sticking to it.

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Word of advice to NBC and

Word of advice to NBC and Briam Williams.

When you find yourself in the bottom of a deep hole.

Stop digging.

HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. (Charles Gibson of the dead media.)

Maybe if the so-called MSM

Maybe if the so-called MSM did their job, he wouldn't have to.

 

as i see it, we are missing the big picture

 

James was not "pimp" per se (side note don't you love when people say "for say"....idiots)  he was her boyfriend who wanted to use Hannah and thses 15 girls in a brothel to make money for his....POLITICAL CAREER. he said he was running for congress.

and they told him how to do it, thye told him how se these gilrs to make money for him.    How many other politicians did they give "advice" to.   How many other current politicians have used ACORN's advice right now.

 

 

 

 

 

lib-think:

Male/female gender roles, especially the desire of women to be mothers, are purely social constructs.  But homosexuality - and every other sexual proclivity - are immutable, ingraned biological desires that cannot be questioned

...

Not surprising, Williams didn't play the audio of the Planned Parenthood employee who responded "sure, of course" when asking to have his money directed to the aborting of black babies.

 

"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything."
  --  GK Chesterton

The Smear of O'Keefe

A couple of great postings on the smear of James O'Keefe by the Washington Post's Darryl Fears:

The Sum of All Fears:  http://www.powerlineblog.com

Nothing to Fear But Fears Himself: http://www.powerlineblog.com

So the old media smears one day, and then issues a very weak correction much later. Meanwhile their lies go out across the world, picked up by AP and hundreds of other newspapers, that likely do not pass on the correction. And the writer Darryl Fears appears to have a history of doing this kind of smear.

 

Down Is UP

This disgusting example of cut-and-paste attack journalism against those whom the MSM hates is an old story, and like all old things, it's near death. People have seen it all too many times, and as one poll just released showed, at least 50% of Americans have permanently stopped watching and reading MSM news sources. That started with the way the MSM got Obama elected, but now crap like this isn't even being seen. It used to be that the "alternate" news media wasn't seen, but the tables have turned. This was inevitable.

Pretending to BE a racist to EXPOSE racism is GOOD

Pretending to BE a racist to EXPOSE racism is GOOD.

 

What part of that can people NOT get!?

 

I mean, if I want to infiltrate the Klan, and I pretend to share their values to get the goods on them - is anyone going to crucify me?  (well, besides the Klan?)

 

Sure, he showed that Planned Parenthood would accept money from racists for the express purpose of killing black unborn children.


A moral organization would have turned him down flat - but THAT's the point - they didn't turn him down.


And PP is the same organization that that Rose girl exposed as covering up sexual molestation of little girls.

 

And the MSM is .... doing WHAT to combat these problems?


Steven