The Donald Segretti School of Young Republicans
Posted: March 24, 2011 Filed under: collective bargaining, Reproductive Rights, Republican presidential politics, Women's Rights, worker rights | Tags: Carlos Lam, Donald Segretti, Jame's O'Keefe, Lila Rose, Scott Walker, Wisconsin 44 Comments
Donald Segretti, professional Republican CREEP circa 1970
One of the things that I’ve noticed about Republican politics and politicians is that they really haven’t given up the Donald Segretti tactics of the Nixon Years. If any thing, they’ve adopted a new version that combines the lunacy of JackAss and the immaturity of early Ashton Kutcher. They film themselves committing cons and use the internet to spread sex, lies, and videotapes. I’ve definitely seen and experienced the sadistic huckster aspect of the fetus fetishists. They’ll lie, stalk, steal, and shoot and harm people to further their crusades. This isn’t opposition research. This is opposition fictional narrative and dirty tricks for dirty Republicans. Anything justifies getting the agenda done.
Now, we have the latest graduate of the Donald Segretti School of Young Republican Morality. Will this email help undo the right wing extremist reign of Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker? One can only hope against hope that the governor responded as eagerly to this email as he did with the suggestions from the fake David Koch which included sending thugs into peaceful labor protests. This is from Wisconsin Watch.
An Indiana deputy prosecutor and Republican activist resigned Thursday after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism uncovered an email to Gov. Scott Walker in which he suggested a fake attack on the governor to discredit union protesters.
Carlos F. Lam submitted his resignation shortly before the Center published a story quoting his Feb. 19 email, which praised Walker for standing up to unions but went on to say that the chaos in Wisconsin presented “a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation.”
“If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions’ cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions,” the email said.
Carlos Lam: Donald Segretti Wannabe
“Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest. Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions. God bless, Carlos F. Lam.”
At 5 a.m. Thursday, expecting the story to come out that day, Lam called his boss, Johnson County, Ind., Prosecutor Brad Cooper, and told him he had been up all night thinking about it.
“He wanted to come clean, I guess, and said he is the one who sent that email,” Cooper said.
He came into the office and gave his resignation verbally, Cooper told the Daily Journal in Franklin, Ind. The resignation was announced after the Center’s initial story was published.
James O'Keefe, professional Republican CREEP circa 2010
Lila Rose, Snookie of the Fetus Festishists, also professional Republican CREEP
We’ve seen a number of people like Carlos F. Lam who will pull any thing. Jame’s O’Keefe is another one of the Segretti wannabes. His antics down here in Louisiana in Senator Mary Landrieu’s office should’ve netted him serious jail time. He was just barely blocked from sexually harassing a CNN reporter. He managed to fatally damage ACORN and create a right wing angst storm on NPR. Then there is Lilla Rose. She’s obsessed with other women’s pregnancies and Planned Parenthood. These two pull outrageous, punk’d style pranks that provide heavily edited outrage content for right wing blogs and pundits. They both are modern day flim flam floosies. The latest evidence of the confidence game is O’Keefe’s fundraising efforts.
We get to now add a third name to the young Republicans gone wild. This crew is the equivalence of the Jersey Show cast. They are over-the-top crazies seeking the spotlight and money doing appalling things. What I want to know aren’t they in jail for running confidence schemes?
peej
Carissa
bostonboomer
ecocatwoman
grayslady
mablue2
JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx
NW Luna
peggysue22
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
So are you alleging, for instance, that the things documented in re ACORN and NPR didn’t happen?
If not, then why is someone who reveals something that happens to be true … an asshole?
If he’s an asshole, then I hope the Asshole Club sends me an Asshole Card soon and lets me go to their Asshole Meetings!
Have you seen the unedited stuff?
No, but I don’t believe in a civil political climate, either. 😉
Smarmy reply though that might seem to be, editing happens all the time. O’Keefe is just … a bit less subtle with it.
Pasting and cutting stuff out of order and passing it off as investigative journalism isn’t exactly what I’d call politics. I’m all for calling people out on what they do, but creative editing via a scam is not hardball politics. It’s borderline criminal. It’s one thing to find documents and evidence of wrong doing. But making shit up is just making shit up.
My second thought is roughly this:
These videos are great. The political process is already so absurd, so insipid, so outrageously idiotic that any honest acknowledgment of how brainless our politics are would result in Bozo the Clown and Peewee Herman being made President and Vice-President for life, respectively.
O’Keefe’s videos are equally idiotic, and probably dishonest, but they are no more idiotic or dishonest than at least 95% of the rhetoric which issues forth from DC, the State Capitals, and the mainstream media (including almost all talk radio). In sharp contrast to these, however, O’Keefe’s videos do not suffer from the flaw of being hidebound by received opinion and are thus an improvement on the political process by the sheer fact of not sucking quite so badly as the political process.
Look up Jack Anderson. Now that was a man that could muckrake. Muckraking is a lost art form. What O’Keefe does is exploitative fiction.
Which is more ridiculous, or at least more dishonest:
1) Editing a video so you look like a pimp
OR
2) Enacting a gigantic bill that gives the insurance companies a captive “audience” whom they can then charge rates that might be better suited for a 400lb, 70 year-old who has smoked four packs a day for the past 55 years and passing it off as “reform?” (Not making a partisan point here.)
QED!
In re Jack Anderson – I know of something even worse than O’Keefe – there are still people running around who think Nixon was really a nice guy.
I think California was or is still considering charging him with a crime for the ‘editing’ the ACORN tapes presented as the real deal. Also, the NPR ones are clearly edited as they have been shown in several sites now.
The Shirley tapes by Brietbart (sp) who is now writing for Huffington Post (Oh, they sold their SOUL didn’t they)were of the same cut and lie meme.
His wire tapping scheme of a Federal Office was not given the seriousness that it deserved and had he been a Muslim ‘media prankster’ he would have been detained and standing naked in a cell next to Bradley Manning no doubt.
People keep losing their jobs over these tapes that are so edited as to be untruthful. It’s like lying pays as long as it supports the oligarchy.
The guy didn’t say anything that wasn’t true, and besides he wasn’t even involved in producing content to go on-air. He wasn’t even a journalist. He was a fund-raiser. The fact that NPR fell for it was ridiculous and embarrassing.
And as for the Landrieu stunt, ANY ACTION that delegitimizes politicians should be answered with a medal and the keys to the city.
Freedom lives and dies by the disrespect shown to elected officials, not by the outraged, schoolmarmly gasps of those who can’t believe that some people see no need to scrape and bow to Ole Massa…
Landrieu isn’t Hosni Mubarek, he can disrespect her without committing several felonies. If not being willing to invade duly elected reps’ offices, interfere with their phones and bug their rooms to dummy up fake edited recordings is an indication of servility, I think most people can live with being servile.
Well said.
What felonies did he commit, and if he committed them, why is he still free?
The feds aren’t exactly shy about prosecuting, and they have a 99.5% conviction rate.
He pleaded guilty actually. The evidently took the charges/punishment down a notch for the guilty plea.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-pleads-guilty-in-landrieu-office-break-in-promises-more-videos/
He still insists he’s an investigative journalist but he’s not on any one’s payroll. Since Breithbart went to Huffpo, maybe he’ll disappear into the Ether.
Dak, it is funny you mention Segretti…on American Experience tonight, they are discussing Nixon…American Experience . The Presidents . Richard M. Nixon | PBS
Remember when Nixon’s name was spelled Nixxon? Remember the eggplant?
I don’t remember either of those. Please explain.
Nixon was sometimes spelled Nixxon on protest signs as a way of linking his name to Exxon.
Also, there was a picture of an eggplant which looked like Nixon which caused a lot of amusement. I can’t find pictures of the original one, so maybe it was a hoax.
I didn’t know that either Branjor…funny and thanks…
I never knew that, thanks! I found a Nixon eggplant. There were a lot of different ones.
http://www.prbarnett.com/nixoneggplant.html
I believe Madeleine Albright had some words for Lilla Rose.
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t [help other women].”
Hello! Madeleine Albright, goes straight to the point…
That is my favorite quote…I have that on my Facebook.
Is the special place in hell for women who don’t help other women right next to the special place in hell for Secretaries of State who think that starving half a million Iraqi kids was “worth it?”
I’m just sayin’…
What on earth are you referring to? who said anything like it’s okay to starve a million iraqi kids? What shark have you jumped?
Wow…not sure where that came from BKilpatrick. Can you explain that comment about Iraqi Kids?
He’s referring to the Madeline Albright 60 Minutes interview:
Is Donald Trump aiming to replace Glenn Beck on FOX???
Whatever one wants to say about tactics, and I have no doubt that both sides employ dirty tricks, it’s stunningly stupid for anyone, and especially a lawyer like Lam, to use email to communicate his dirty tricks. He lacks both scruples and intelligence, and he is an employee of the taxpayers. Wisconsin could tackle its budget crisis by taking idiots like Lam off the payroll.
Lam’s certainly not very bright is he?
Hey, this is OT but get this:
Official: Workers touched water with radiation 10,000 times normal – CNN.com
terrific.
An Indiana deputy prosecutor and Republican activist resigned Thursday after the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism uncovered an email to Gov. Scott Walker in which he suggested a fake attack on the governor to discredit union protesters.
This is priceless…what kind of idiot writes this in an email?….or yeah Carlos F. Lam. This reminds me of the son of the Dem offical who hacked Palin’s into email account….idiots.
At 5 a.m. Thursday, expecting the story to come out that day, Lam called his boss, Johnson County, Ind., Prosecutor Brad Cooper, and told him he had been up all night thinking about it.
“He wanted to come clean, I guess, and said he is the one who sent that email,” Cooper said.
oh so he’s really a stand up guy huh? I guess we can put this down to “youthful indiscretion”
If he was a Dem, he’d be wearing orange right now
I still can’t figure out how O’Keefe isn’t in jail for the Landrieu break in
He completely denied having anything to do with it before finally fessing up, too, did this whole song-and-dance about how his accounts have been hacked in the past and tried to invoke “political enemies.” He had his boss out there claiming it wasn’t him, he had nothing to do with it. How he thought he could brazen it out with easily disprovable, convoluted conspiracy theories–god, what an idiot. The best part is that he claimed “minivan shopping” as his alibi for when the email was sent. Lol
And this moron was able to bring down the CEO of NPR! I still can’t believe they bought into this nonsense.
It’s because he’s Andrew Breithbart’s pet snake.
[…] And yeah, another blogger already made the comparison with Donald Segretti and CREEP. […]
More Republican Dirty Tricks:
You can read Dr. Cronon’s blog and experiences at his blog, Scholar as Citizen
More on the Republicans from Indiana and dirty tricks:
I found it, here is Karl Rove,’in the basement’ running an operation to embarrass people, like this chop and paste tapes are doing today.
Vintage Nixon, Rove campaign footage: Jan. 18, 1972