# ACORN "pimp" arrested for illegally accessing Senate office; tampering with phone system **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 26, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586 "2010-01-26T23:13:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/21 "2010-01-27T03:02:53Z")
I’m kind of concerned as to his other activities, now. Has he tapped anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/22 "2010-01-27T03:07:08Z")
If that’s not a typo, I think his frat buddies will be more than happy to rat him out for anything and everything they know once they start hearing words like “federal offense,” and “ten years.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/23 "2010-01-27T03:25:28Z")
Actually, I’ve been reading the conservative blogs. Most have been condemning (to the point where one accused the others of throwing O’Keefe under the bus unfairly); Michelle Malkin, in fact, deliberately said that this was no time to joke or to accuse Democrats/liberals of a setup. Mostly, they seem concerned that this will tarnish what O’Keefe did with ACORN, and the fact that the whole thing was so clearly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/24 "2010-01-27T03:31:22Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Actually, I’ve been reading the conservative blogs. Most have been condemning (to the point where one accused the others of throwing O’Keefe under the bus unfairly); Michelle Malkin, in fact, deliberately said that this was no time to joke or to accuse Democrats/liberals of a setup. > > Mostly, they seem concerned that this will tarnish what O’Keefe did with ACORN, and the fact that the whole thing was so clearly stupid. B… but… Obama! Jack-booted thugs! Jesus Christ, this one has a fuckin’ BOW on it! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/25 "2010-01-27T03:35:36Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > B… but… Obama! Jack-booted thugs! Jesus Christ, this one has a fuckin’ BOW on it! Beck-Wept, you’re right…! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/26 "2010-01-27T03:52:38Z")
[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438089/posts](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438089/posts) The freepers take on this. _They smell a setup!_ ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/27 "2010-01-27T03:58:51Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > I wonder if Fox News will disavow him now. Yeah, Fox News frowns on[criminals](http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/oliver-l-north/)helping them out. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/28 "2010-01-27T04:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=Lobohan] The freepers take on this. They smell a setup! [/QUOTE] That thread is hilarious! Did you notice that the OP was asking for donations to their board? 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/29 "2010-01-27T04:07:04Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > [ACORN foe James O'Keefe arrested by FBI in plot to bug Landrieu's office](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438089/posts) > > The freepers take on this. _They smell a setup!_ This is my favorite: > [@](#): > > O’Keefe started off doing something extremely brave and very dangerous. He reached and threatened the very heart of the Demonrat power structure. Maybe he got carried away with his initial success, and maybe he was framed. I know one thing: The Left is utterly ruthless and merciless. Poor guy. Yes, what a poor, poor guy. Framed by the merciless left. Note; Vinyl Turnip called it at 6:40 my time - the above joke of a post was at 6:54 ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/30 "2010-01-27T04:08:28Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > That thread is hilarious! Did you notice that the OP was asking for donations to their board? 😛 > > -XT My personal favorite response: > [@](#): > > Can you say political prosecution? James O’Keefe is getting a little “payback” from the Justice Dept. minions of the Kenyan Usurper. There are three or four nested levels of crazy in that quote. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/31 "2010-01-27T04:10:50Z")
My own personal favorite: > [@](#): > > O’Keefe isnot a conservative if he deliberately and brazenly breaks federal laws. > > He’s in big doo-doo now. His ego has outweighed his common sense. I love it…‘big doo-doo’. 😛 This was also pretty funny (ETA: simu-post :)): > [@](#): > > Can you say political prosecution? James O’Keefe is getting a little “payback” from the Justice Dept. minions of the Kenyan Usurper It seems that, while the SDMB has a few folks who are off the deep end, that on this other board the whack-jobs run the nut house… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/32 "2010-01-27T04:16:19Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > [ACORN foe James O'Keefe arrested by FBI in plot to bug Landrieu's office](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2438089/posts) > > The freepers take on this. _They smell a setup!_ And Mary Landrieu is HIP DEEP IN IT!!! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/33 "2010-01-27T04:23:59Z")
Regarding the ACORN affair, virtually ignored by many right wingers was what I call a “Balloon Boy “it was for a show”” moment. It was when the last revelation tape on acorn was posted and it was found that the acorn worker talking about murdering her husband produced evidence that she was pulling a “[Colbert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report)” on the intrepid pimp, that evidence was simply showing that her ex was alive and well. Remembering how even on the early tapes the ACORN workers insisted to him that she should report her work as a “performer” I wonder now if the workers fired in that fiasco also saw through the “pimp” and the “hooker”. The workers most likely saw those guys as really actors in a play, what the workers did not know was that the play was a political one. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/34 "2010-01-27T04:26:45Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > My own personal favorite: > > I love it…‘big doo-doo’. 😛 > > This was also pretty funny (ETA: simu-post :)): > > It seems that, while the SDMB has a few folks who are off the deep end, that on this other board the whack-jobs run the nut house… > > -XT seriously, are there any voices of reason and sanity on that board? I don’t mean liberals or even moderates necessarily, just non-crazy conservatives who ever put the brakes on and say “hey, wait a minute, you guys are getting WAAAYYY too carried away here.” I guess if they do, they probably get insta-banned. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/35 "2010-01-27T04:31:53Z")
Damned if I know, DtC…certainly I’m not seeing any in that particular thread, and honestly that’s nearly the sum total of my personal experience with that board. Based on that thread, however, I’d have to go with ‘no’ as the general answer to ‘seriously, are there any voices of reason and sanity on that board?’. After laughing my ass off reading through the thread I started to get this hinky feeling, thinking about how crazy they all seemingly are. I mean, I know there are some bat shit nutters out there, but seeing them in such a concentration is bound to give anyone pause… -XT ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/36 "2010-01-27T06:31:48Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Are you one with Landrieu? They are not of the Body! ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/37 "2010-01-27T08:59:08Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > After laughing my ass off reading through the thread I started to get this hinky feeling, thinking about how crazy they all seemingly are. I mean, I know there are some bat shit nutters out there, but seeing them in such a concentration is bound to give anyone pause… Remember, there’s a 27% crazification factor. The US has 300 million residents; that’s about 83 million wing nuts. If one tenth of 1% of that group had ever participated on the freep boards, that would be 83 thousand folks. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/38 "2010-01-27T10:10:37Z")
Oh Lord, some conservative punk (who did do good with the ACORN stunt- I still like that) decided he was gonna be G. Gordon Liddy! I’m glad I’ve rarely gone to the Freeper board. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/39 "2010-01-27T11:13:05Z")
Clearly this is further proof of how evil and corrupting ACORN is - after only brief exposure to them, this poor honest lad turned to a life of crime. Is no one safe from these monsters? Won’t someone please think of the children? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586/40 "2010-01-27T14:19:05Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > (who did do good with the ACORN stunt- I still like that) You like doctored video and right-wing hysteria? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-pimp-arrested-for-illegally-accessing-senate-office-tampering-with-phone-system/526586.md?page=3)