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Buchanan on O'Keefe's arrest: "if this is true this seems like an absurd action"

January 26, 2010 6:01 pm ET

From the January 26 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

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Previously:

ACORN Videographer Reportedly Arrested By FBI In Alleged "Plot To Wiretap" Senator's Office

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    • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (January 26, 2010 6:05 pm ET)
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      Seems Like? Are you kidding me? Seems like he's an arrogant man who believes he's above the law.
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    • Author by mjh (January 26, 2010 6:20 pm ET)
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      Buchanan on O'Keefe's arrest: "if this is true this seems like an absurd action"


      Hey, Patty -- tell me which one sounds more like an "absurd action":

      A. Arresting a homeowner on his OWN PROPERTY after he's identified himself as living on that property [i.e., Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]

      OR

      B. Arresting a filmmaker for attempted wiretapping of a US Senator on Federal property [i.e., James O'Keefe]


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      • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (January 26, 2010 6:34 pm ET)
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        It's probably important to remember that Pat Buchanan worked for Nixon, he knows all about illegally wiretapping Democrats. I feel for your soul Pat Buchanan, it's got to be confusing being you.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (January 26, 2010 6:23 pm ET)
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      Ooooh...I wonder what kind of tattoo O'Keefe's going to get in prison?
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (January 26, 2010 6:30 pm ET)
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        I hope he gets a good roommate...
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        • Author by dogbreath (January 26, 2010 8:01 pm ET)
             
          Hopefully, he'll be a large man who ACORN signed up to vote in the last election :)
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      • Author by Sharpe (January 26, 2010 8:13 pm ET)
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        I hope i see him on one of the upcoming prison documentaries on MSNBC. That should be interesting.
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    • Author by Daveygeek (January 26, 2010 6:59 pm ET)
         
      In Buchanan's defense (which I am loathe to do), it is the act of wiretapping this congressperson that he is calling absurd, not the fact that O'Keefe was arrested.
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    • Author by The_Cat (January 26, 2010 7:06 pm ET)
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      If this is true? IF this is true?! What the heck do you mean with your 'If this is true?'

      Show O'Keefe of the Pimp & Ho Show exactly the same thoughtful, objective analysis that FOX Propaganda gave to ACORN. He's been arrested, so he's obviously GUILTY! Then proceed to pound that assertion into the ground for the next six months!

      IF this is true. Hah!
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    • Author by liberalXtian (January 26, 2010 7:30 pm ET)
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      Absurd act? So dressing up as a seventies pimp and secretly taping and trying to fool some low level Acorn employees is normal?
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (January 26, 2010 7:55 pm ET)
         
      Too bad Patrick " Racist " Buchanan is banned from my television screnn. Imake sure my cablevision box recors my switch to FOX just in case they record for culling ratings..
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (January 26, 2010 8:06 pm ET)
         
      Buchanan on O'Keefe's arrest: "if this is true this seems like an absurd action"

      Lesson: Don't dress like a pimp, if you do not even know the style to dress or behave like one.

      KARMA!
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    • Author by Sharpe (January 26, 2010 8:11 pm ET)
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      The right wing will give this more coverage than the left? Either they will cover it as little as possible or they will somehow spin it into a positive. Likely, they will somehow spin this their way and claim acorn is still guilty of "crimes" and then, whine about all the press this is getting from the other stations when they should be covering (fill in issue here)
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