Rumor has it that Breitbart and O'Keefe were about to be hit with a bombshell themselves.

[FarLeftFist]

Involving a woman they were using to smear the Occupy movement. The story goes like this: Conservative blogger https://twitter.com/#!/NadiaNaffe agreed to O'Keefe to make up claims of being raped at an Occupy event. O'Keefe picked her up, purchased alcohol, and took her back to his parents house to get prepped, and then when she changed her mind O'Keefe locked her in a barn on his parents property and threatened her, allegedly with another man present as well. She threatened to call police and before letting her out he offered her $$$ to stay silent about what happened and she was on the verge of exposing Breitbart and O'Keefe for making up false rape stories.

You can read one of her tweets here: https://twitter.com/#!/NadiaNaffe/status/174195663205171201

OR click her name to see her complete page.

Current TV's David Shuster broke this story open https://twitter.com/#!/DavidShuster

It was also Tweeted by Anonymous here: https://twitter.com/#!/AnonyOps/status/175097038415990784

For the full story from Current TV see here:
http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/david-shuster-calls-andrew-breitbart-a-publicity-seeking-hack-urges-him-to-get-help

[craigmatic]

1. This story keeps getting crazier and crazier.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Yeah, and BTW this story was all about to happen within 48hrs of Breitbart dying.

These are NEW allegations. When Breitbart yelled "Stop raping people!" he was setting himself up to be the person out front of these "news" stories. Which we know now were all fabricated.

[craigmatic]

7. So you think he killed himself to avoid blow back?

[Warren Stupidity]

10. no I think he was a fat alcoholic stressed out slob

and that is what killed him.

[Amaril]

2. Ah, so that probably explains.......

.....Brietbart's "stop raping people" chant during his infamouse OWS rant. Their devious little plan must not have completely fallen apart yet at that point.

[FarLeftFist]

4. Exactly. He was making himself look like the person with the inside scoop.

They're not just making up news stories, they set themselves up to make themselves look like the beacons of truth before breaking news stories, to enhance their credibility. So they can point and say "I told you so, WE were on the forefront of this news story!". Yet, it was all a lie.

[stubtoe]

34. THAT is beyond slimy.

Good lord.

[Bake]

32. And yet, we're supposed to be sad that he's dead ...

Not me. To quote Samuel L. Jackson (from "A Time to Kill&quot , "I'm glad he's dead and I hope he burns in hell!"

Bake

[russspeakeasy]

36. I wish he was deader.....

[madokie]

40. sooner

[Chiyo-chichi]

42. Boomer!

I think we got that backwards, but I couldn't resist.

[Warpy]

5. Well, that explains why he was wound up so tight

during his shameful screamfest at OWS protestors.

It's really too bad Nadia didn't go to the police instead of Twitter. That she didn't means it's a non scandal. However, Breitbart had manufactured outrage on less and that's probably why he was so unstable by the end.

[leveymg]

6. Hmmm. That explains AB's "stop raping people" tirade, anyway.

He really should have taken that advice about seeking psychiatric help, though. A little late now.

[CJCRANE]

8. Don't they ever get tired of 'creating reality'?

It's much easier to accept reality and work from there.

The RW obsession with 'perception is reality' is starting to wear thin.

[Newest Reality]

12. Well, we can, in a way

be thankful that the RW reality creating kit is more obvious than it used to be.

Actuality is closer to what we are and what is. Reality is based on a the unavoidable generalizations, distortions and deletions that come with conceptualized thought and is often a matter of consensus.

Being trained to live in, and as, the "tool" we use to relate with and manipulate our surroundings is part of our disconnection with what is and all that ensues from it. However, that's the dilemma, yet stubbing your toe or getting wet in the rain hints at it.

[tex-wyo-dem]

28. That's the problem...individual's perceptions are their reality...

And that's why this tactic used by TPTB, the RW, thr MSM, the CIA and so on are so effective...(create the reality). Hell, that's why advertisement and marketing are everywhere. It's really psychological manipulation.

For instance, it's a well known marketing practice that once an individual has seen an advertisement for a product or service in three or more different forms/venues/media, that product or service will sick in people's minds creating the individuals percetion that that product or service is better than others.

Pure psychological manipulation used thousands of times a day in a thousand different ways.

Make no mistake, folks like AB and O'Keefe were TRAINED by higher-ups in the RW how to use this type pf manipulation to create a perception of reality.

[cbdo2007]

9. Here is an interesting post a few days ago on Nadia Naffe's Twitter....

Sheridan‏@OccupyRebellionReply
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@NadiaNaffe Warn your family.The Breitbots are now plotting against you. Document everything and go to the press and police if you have to.


Retweeted by Nadia Naffe

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I think this story is going to get VERY interesting as more facts start coming out.

[gratuitous]

15. It's already VERY interesting

But what's perhaps most interesting of all is the disparity in popular media coverage for the hoaxes perpetrated by Breitbart and O'Keefe versus the coverage when the hoax is revealed to be . . . a hoax. Or when the hoax never quite gets off the ground, as in this case, and the case of Mr. O'Keefe posing as a telephone repairman to get into Sen. Landrieu's office.

[The Doctor.]

21. Not merely interesting,

Telling.

There is very little question, in the face of such an inconsistency, that there is a will behind all of this. That somehow what Brietbart and O'Keefe are doing is approved by those with the power and influence to 'guide' what stories make it to the public sphere should tell us something very, very crucial.

[gratuitous]

25. And how Breitbart and O'Keefe retain credibility

I don't watch the talk shows all that much, but threads here at DU report on just about every time Breitbart appeared on one of the talk shows (and thanks to the folks who post about it, even in the face of the "Why do you watch that garbage" responses), and it's instructive that he never for a moment lost his credibility with producers at Fox (no surprise) or CNN or MSNBC. They'd have him on to offer his deathless pronouncements on the issues of the day, and he was treated as a credible observer instead of the partisan hack of a liar he was. O'Keefe apparently appears less often, but he is still accorded time on the cable shows to bring the sneaky little shit's perspective on things.

[Dawson Leery]

11. This explains his lies about OWS.

[Scurrilous]

13. My fave comment from the Miami Herald (so far) upon the news of Breitbart's passing:

"Awesome, I hope that little skinny kid wears that pimp outfit to his funeral."

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. .

[Jackpine Radical]

20. Dammit, what an idea!! A bunch of guys in zoot suits

crash Breitbart's funeral. What wonderful theater.

[fascisthunter]

22. It'd Be Funnier if he Wore it in Prison

[libodem]

23. snort

Hee hee.

[crunch60]

29. I know, notify the loonys at Westboro Baptist church.. they will give him a fine send off!

[southernyankeebelle]

14. Gee, wonder were his love child O'Keefe going to go? O'Keefe better really watch out now because

daddy isn't going to be there to help him.

[tanyev]

16. Goodness. Young James seems to have quite a penchant for holding women against their will.

Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent

September 29, 2010|By Scott Zamost, CNN Special Investigations Unit


A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.

James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.

The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-29/us/okeefe.cnn.prank_1_hannah-giles-undercover-videos-james-o-keefe?_s=PM:US

[pinboy3niner]

17. More details in Abbie Boudreau's first-hand written and video accounts:

Written account: http://www.cnn.com/blogarchive/siu.blogs.cnn.com//2010/09/29/our-documentary-takes-a-strange-detour/

[hootinholler]

19. It does seem a recurrent theme. n/t

[starroute]

24. I saw this on the AnonyOps Twitter feed last night

It seems that some of the Anonymous people have been taking a particular interest in the Breitbart crew since discovering that they're now working with somebody who was formerly with HBGary -- the firm that Anonymous hacked a year ago.

The full story is far more complex than I can ever quite get my head around, but it involves allegations that the scandal involving Rep. Weiner was partly a Breitbart setup involving a fake schoolgirl. And a member of the same bunch who allegedly set up Weiner, Mike Stack, was the provocateur who burst into the Smithsonian last fall during an anti-war protest, causing the police to tear gas everyone in sight.

These things seem to be completely separate from anything James O'Keefe had been up to. It appears that Breitbart was sponsoring more different dirty tricksters than we've seen since the Watergate days -- only this time intended to smear and undermine the left, not just to win elections. I'll like to hope that his death will mean all of this crap will come out, rather than being swept under the rug.

[frylock]

26. the body isn't even cold yet!!1

can't you just stop and think of his childrens? i thought dems were above all th..... awww fuck it.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

27. BEHAVE!!!!

BEHAVE YOURSELVES! BEHAVE YOURSELVES! BEHAVE YOURSELVES! BEHAVE YOURSELVES!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

37. WE ARE BEING HAVED! HAVED, I TELL YOU!

[fasttense]

30. I'll use Breitbart's own words

"Why do you grant a BULLY special status upon his death?"


This is what Breitbart said when people complained about Breitbart's vile descriptions of Ted Kennedy upon Kennedy's death.

[cyberpj]

43. THANK you! I'm late to this thread but I'm glad someone else remembered that quote. nt

[JanMichael]

31. his heart was frozen a couple of decades

or more ago; I doubt his wife/ children are reading DU.

[kaffy4x4]

33. Fits their previous MO

at least with the ACORN smear campaign.

[GETPLANING]

35. Breitbart may have committed suicide.

If this story turns out to be true, it certainly is a possiblity. He was not the most stable character, and if it is true, his reputation would have been destroyed.

Purely speculation, but I'm sticking to it.

[Odin2005]

38. Holy shit!

[mr.banana.hammock]

39. "Liberal" Talking Points Memo discussion board Mods Censor Criticism of Breitbart

Why won't Josh truck any criticism of his boyfriend Breitbart? I'd expect this from those Red State morons, but from a supposedly left leaning blog?

http://www.dailykos.com/blog/uid:54791

[blogslut]

41. Groan

I think it has more to do with basic civility than what you are suggesting - which is totally insulting and untrue.

[B Calm]

44. Typical behavior for a republican

smear monger. They sit on their big fat hemorrhoid asses, make up shit, and then point their shit stained finger at totally innocent people.

[cyberpj]

45. Is this just a dead rumor now, perhaps 'on hold' because of Breitbart's death, or simply not true.

I haven't heard nor can I find another word about it and I've been enduring an influx of pro-Breitbart email from my conservative cousins that I'd just LOVE to answer - showing them that O'Keefe simply hired yet another girl to help with yet another set-up and that he was most certainly connected to Breitbart.

For now, I'm holding my tongue.

(Which makes it very difficult to eat so maybe I'll lost a few pounds )