{"id":644945,"date":"2010-01-27T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=74920"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:05:30","slug":"james-o%e2%80%99keefe-mocks-people-with-giant-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/644945","title":{"rendered":"James O\u2019Keefe Mocks People With Giant Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before James O&#8217;Keefe recorded his undercover ACORN videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S4hrnbhIHDY\">he cut this Yes Men-ish video for Right.org<\/a>, in which his &#8220;Taxpayers Clearing House,&#8221; mimicking the Publisher&#8217;s Clearing House, conducted a series of stunts to attack the bailouts. They drove up to the homes of ordinary people, seemingly awarding them enormous checks, then informing them that the checks were for corporations &#8212; the taxpayers got $20,000 &#8220;invoices.&#8221; They tried to deliver the checks to corporations, unsurprisingly getting rebuffed.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-74920\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing I saw in the video occurred at the 4:00 mark, after one of the pranksters has been &#8220;detained by the police.&#8221; It looked as though O&#8217;Keefe was taping the phone call from the officer with a device in his right hand.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74926\" title=\"Picture 88\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-88.png?resize=288%2C275\" alt=\"Picture 88\" width=\"288\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S4hrnbhIHDY\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before James O&#8217;Keefe recorded his undercover ACORN videos he cut this Yes Men-ish video for Right.org, in which his &#8220;Taxpayers Clearing House,&#8221; mimicking the Publisher&#8217;s Clearing House, conducted a series of stunts to attack the bailouts. They drove up to the homes of ordinary people, seemingly awarding them enormous checks, then informing them that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HMl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}