The Yes Men Call O’Keefe, Breitbart ’Sad And Pathetic For Targeting ACORN

[Hissyspit]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0330/yes-men-breitbart-okeefe-sad-pathetic-acorn

The Yes Men call O’Keefe, Breitbart ’sad and pathetic’ for targeting ACORN

By Sahil Kapur
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 -- 10:28 am

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The duo's 2009 movie The Yes Men Fix The World chronicles the real-life efforts of anti-globalization activists Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum to expose corporate malfeasance in unorthodox ways.

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Such tactics have now been emulated by conservatives such as James O'Keefe, who famously went undercover and unveiled the dodgy dealings of some ACORN employees last year, the video clips of which were vigorously promoted by writer and publisher Andrew Breitbart.

"For O'Keefe and Breitbart to be targeting ACORN is incredibly sad and pathetic," 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."

In a videotaped conversation with blogger Mike Stark 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.

But it's not his and O'Keefe's tactics that The Yes Men take issue with; it's who they're taking aim at, and the now-extinct community group didn't deserve the treatment, Bonanno alleged.

"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."

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. These guys are great. What these right wing douches did was a bad imitation

of the Yes Men.

[arcadian]

2. Bwahaha - James O'Keefe holds he Yes men up as one of his role models.

Yes Men to O'Keefe - You're doin' it wrong