{"id":673142,"date":"2010-02-23T13:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77441"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:13:52","slug":"james-o%e2%80%99keefe-and-joseph-basel-the-early-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673142","title":{"rendered":"James O\u2019Keefe and Joseph Basel, the Early Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal St. Louis blogger passes on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VW_x3frSEmg\">November 29, 2009 <\/a>video of James O&#8217;Keefe and Joseph Basel &#8212; who would be <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74832\/acorn-investigator-james-okeefe-arrested\">arrested two months later<\/a> for a still-mysterious hidden camera operation they attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.).<\/p>\n<p>Blogger Adam Shriver <a href=\"http:\/\/stlactivisthub.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/newsflash-james-okeefe-is-not-nice.html\">argues<\/a> that the video reveals the activists to be &#8220;jerks&#8221; who moved conspiratorially around a rally protesting the Catholic Church&#8217;s donations to an anti-gay marriage initiative. I&#8217;m just wondering what Basel was doing there. We know that O&#8217;Keefe was in St. Louis <a href=\"http:\/\/thedanashow.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/29\/letting-off-steam-the-st-louis-tea-party-1128\/\">on November 28<\/a> to speak at a Tea Party rally. But here we see O&#8217;Keefe and Basel working together &#8212; on an apparently unsuccessful project &#8212; long before New Orleans.<span id=\"more-77441\"><\/span><\/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\/VW_x3frSEmg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal St. Louis blogger passes on this November 29, 2009 video of James O&#8217;Keefe and Joseph Basel &#8212; who would be arrested two months later for a still-mysterious hidden camera operation they attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). Blogger Adam Shriver argues that the video reveals the activists to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-673142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P78","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673142","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=673142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}