James O'Keefe busted again, banned from Yale forever.

[Archae]

Ha!

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/james-okeefe-detained-and-banned

[Gothmog]

1. O'Keefe is a fraud and liar

[geardaddy]

2. Awesome!

[msrizzo]

3. I don't even understand what he was trying to do.

Does he really think that liberals go around tearing up copies of the constitution and sending the pieces to each other? Or did I read that wrong?

[riversedge]

9. Here but read all of it as

a cutting and pasting cuts out too much.


http://ithacavoice.com/2015/11/right-wing-groups-video-paints-cornell-as-anti-constitution/

[msrizzo]

11. So they just cooked up an entrapment scheme?

Well this whole thing clearly exposes their tactics and it should be widely shared. They should have ZERO credibility.

[riversedge]

16. From what I have gathered yes.. the yale issue was a bit ago but fox, RW and

Daily caller jumped on it ---yelling free speech is dead on campus---with the Missouri incident that just happened--and is happening.

[Turbineguy]

23. He's trying to make a living the only way he knows how.

Pedaling bullshit to gullible rubes.

[eggplant]

27. Sadly, it is an effective way to make a living.

Just ask PT Barnum.

[KamaAina]

4. Boola boola!

I'm sure Harvard will welcome him with open arms.

-KA, Y'85

[CTyankee]

12. Oh, you are a bad boy, KA!

So, I am gonna miss The Game this year here in the Bowl. Dang, I came down with this vicious case of shingles and am treating myself like a leper and it scares ME to look in the mirror. Not much to do about it but take my acyclovir and a nice Percoset at night. But I'm mostly out of it (Hayden, not Hadyn, comes to mind...).

Hoping to come back to life by Thanksgiving...but the doc says it's he worst case he's ever seen. That not what I wanted to hear...

Do you think the Bulldogs have a chance this year in the Game? I was at that loss to Columbia and thought our fate was sealed (Columbia!). But they came back against Brown....

[KamaAina]

15. Ugh.

Both shingles and football. I suppose it depends on whether Hahvahd is any good.

[CTyankee]

17. and having my ex husband bring a video of The Game to play for us at Thanksgiving and

thrilling us with tales of his Hasty Pudding days while at that institution. Our daughter finally said "Enough! No more discussions of the Harvard-Yale Game at Thanksgiving!" As you might imagine, it had gotten ugly...

[KamaAina]

18. What could you possibly have been thinking?!

Mixed marriages never work out!

[CTyankee]

25. Me? Carnegie Mellon?

[Divernan]

28. You've scared me into getting a shingles vaccine!

Which my Doc's been pushing for the last 5 years. Hope you're better soon!

As to The Game, my son was an undergrad (Pierson) in 1983 when the 100th game was played, and somewhere I still have a souvenir painter's cap with a bulldog's face printed on the top and 100th Game printed on it. Best parenting decision I ever made was encouraging him to apply to Yale. Loved the droll cheer: P is for the P in Pierson College, I is for the I in Pierson College, etc. He was there during the Bart Giamatti years, and graduated summa cum laude, with distinction in the major, and played varsity soccer (in addition to on-campus jobs and tutoring 4th graders in New Haven). Bright college years, indeed.

Some very interesting historic notes on some of the football games, and the reasons games were not played in certain years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harvard%E2%80%93Yale_football_games

Harvard's won the last 8 years, so I really would like to see the Elis win this year's match.

[CTyankee]

29. I was here in the Giamatti years...have had some memorable moments in the Bowl.

Mostly good, but some not so wonderful. Folks who get in their cups and start saying stupid stuff...not so much about the game but personal stuff I'd just as not hear. I call them Yale Bowl Confessions.

I'll probably still be sidelined for the Game this year. The thrill last year was at the Army game and Army Rangers parachuted into the Bowl carrying the game balls. They all went right down on the field, no problems. It was very cool.

Please DO get that shot, tho. I am so miserable and I look so horrible I won't be going anywhere much until Thanksgiving. Saw my doc last Wednesday and he said it would be one month before it was all healed. So I'll still have this red blistered over skin on my right side, albeit less horrible, when I see family on turkey day. A nice neighbor his doing some shopping for us and husband is tasked for getting gas and mailing bills due to his disabled back.

[riversedge]

5. The Daily Caller must be having a sad.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Drudge needs copy.

[ryan_cats]

7. Wait

Wait, this really happened? Despite today's fluid definition of literally, is there un-edited video?

According to Project Veritas, O'Keefe and a second video journalist were waiting on campus to ask administrators about catching Jason Killheffer, Yale's director of academic integrity programs, literally ripping up the Constitution, then asking Dean Holloway to have it removed from campus.

I remember reading something about this but as soon as I saw O'keefe mentioned, dismissed it. Why do I find it hard to accept that O'keefe or his videographer was able to record such a thing when people know what he looks like and his tactics?

[starroute]

10. I've been googling and finding only right-wing sources

I assume it was one more of these staged or deceptively edited videos. Either that or someone pretended to be a student who was hysterical and the administrators offered to shred the pocket Constitution as a way of calming them down. But haven't been able to find anything aside from O'Keefe's own version of the story -- and that he apparently pulled the same stunt at Cornell and Syracuse.

[starroute]

13. Here's the closest thing to an objective account I could find

It makes it clear that the videos involved a fake student pretending to be in a state of extreme emotional distress: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6953

Here's the Cornell response that it mentions:

http://mediarelations.cornell.edu/2015/11/05/vice-president-joel-malina-on-todays-project-veritas-video/

Joel M. Malina, Vice President for University Relations, issued the following statement:

“The Project Veritas video released today would have you believe an employee was helping a student make a political statement by denigrating the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the video shows a “reporter” misrepresent herself as a student with a mental health crisis. Under the guise of addressing her mental health issues, the “student” asked the employee to help her shred the document she brought with her that was the apparent source of her anguish. Whatever personal views she may have shared in order to connect with a “student” who appeared to be in crisis, as an employee of Cornell University she was appropriately focused on addressing the apparently urgent need of the person before her and not on any larger political context.”

[Contrary1]

8. Props to the officer for the verbal smackdown...

"Got your camera in there? To make things fair, we'll all record."

[Bubzer]

14. Outstanding!!!

[Jack Rabbit]

19. I still think he belongs in reform school

Somebody told me he's thirty, but that doesn't matter. Some people never grow up.

[MisterP]

21. out of Yale, eh?

[tishaLA]

22. these wingnuts don't understand the idea of "private property"?

I thought they loved the entire concept!

[SunSeeker]

24. Reality banned him a long time ago. nt

[randys1]

26. Airport, me, hot cup of coffee, O'Keefe and Rove are walking toward me, and i trip

most people have sexual fantasies

[HubertHeaver]

30. That coffee wouldn't be hot enough.

Or voluminous enough.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. Are they wearing white?

[dogknob]

31. Wouldstein n/t