If you’re too young to remember Ali vs. Foreman — which most of the people I work with are, damn them — Ali used something he called the rope-a-dope to win. Basically, he let Foreman beat the hell out of him until Foreman got tired, and then Ali swabbed the canvas with him. “Rope-a-dope” has now become shorthand for any strategy where you let your opponent think he’s winning, as you bide your time until you’re ready to strike back.
Breitbart used this technique to great effect during the ACORN sting. He predicted exactly what his opponent was going to do — make statements of fact that they knew not to be true — and allowed it. Then he made his countermove by proving them wrong with hard evidence. He did this over and over, and they fell for it every time.
Has he done it again? We’ve just had a full week of what MSNBC has dubbed, in a masterpiece of understatement, “Watergate Jr.” Big win, right? Well…
I’m no Jack McCoy, but if you’ve got a solid case, don’t you tend to stick around to argue it?
(thx yet again Hot Air lol)
Is James O’keefe wearing panda fur?
I was worried that the bad publicity from O’Keefe’s stunt would hurt any future revelations about Acorn and “others”. He has actually turned this in his favor by exposing the media psychosis about conservatives! Really, this man is brilliant! Rock on Andrew!
Okay, as long as Andrew Breitbart isn’t the master of the soap on a rope, it’s all god.
and it’s all GOOD too.
I apologize for going off topic,but BREAKING NEWS…….an earlier draft of the Constitution has been found….apparently Healthcare and Cap and Trade were included….DAMN!
It had to be said
According to a N.O. paper, Letten recused himself because he was appointed to the US Attorney General’s Advisory Board. Effective…yesterday.
So his new boss is now…Eric Holder. The article says it was a political move to get Sen. David Vitter to lift holds he had on Obama Louisiana criminal justice appointees. Convenient timing, huh?
Think Letten will be probing further in that O’Keefe case with Holder as his new boss?
Hmmmm.
http://tiny.cc/IHPxL
I think a bunch of Mary Landries’s constituents should get down to her office tout suite and have a sit in to find out why she is not answering her phones. This would be the perfect time while all eyes are on New Orleans for Mardi Gras AND the Super Bowl.
If this site is the answer to the Huffington Post, where is all the skin?
I can be there in 20 minutes.
Louisiana Justice is nonexistent as far as im concerned. James will be ok as long as he hires the right lawyer. Im in the 24th District court(yeah the one where all the judges keep going to jail and getting thrown off the bench) right now. The defendant knew a judge, who told her what lawyer to get for the judge hearing the case. Its costing me hundreds of thousands of dollars. And don’t tell me about appeals, because those judges come from the same corrupt good ol boy system. Its a joke.
“… he most likely stepped down because he knows personally and has professional conflicts of interested with one defendant’s father.”
Possible; I suggest a similarly plausible scenario where the young and eligible son of the US Attorney persuaded father to step out of the way because he would like to meet Miss Giles on more salutary terms.
Or, he does not like to lose unnecessarily.
Cheers
“Or, he does not like to lose unnecessarily.”
Well, but resigning from the case doesn’t change his office being in charge of it or responsible for it, it just means someone else in the office makes the decisions. I’m not sure framing it as “losing” makes much sense: not everyone sees or cares about this issue as just a giant proxy war between Breitbart and Keith Olbermann, or whatever. If they decide that there is no case, and drop it, that’s not a win or lose, just what seems appropriate.
The real question in all this is:
DID HANNAH GILES GET MY HOMEMADE VALENTINE’S DAY CARD THAT I SPENT ALL WEEKEND MAKING, AND DOES SHE UNDERSTAND THAT THE TEN CANDIED HEARTS SAYING “I WUV U” WERE HAND PICKED OUT OF THOUSANDS?
P.S. Does anyone need extra candied hearts with various expressions of monosyllabic nonsense for any purpose? Modest shipping and handling rates may apply.
Well a few months ago i brought Letten’s office documentation (emails, recorded phone calls) of perjury and fraud by someone who works in the La State Attorney Generals office. They didn’t want anything to do with it. I don’t think the rest of the country understands the corruption in the Louisiana judicial system. Doesn’t matter if its federal or state, they are all crooks. Sometimes i think im in the third world.
Dunno what the kid was thinking.
He looks nothing like Borat.
Patterico thinks that the U.S. Attorney may have ties with a relative of one of the accused (not O’Keefe). The relative is also with the U.S. Attorney’s office; so to eliminate the appearance, he recused himself.
Besides, you’d never be accused of being Jack McCoy-ish, considering how liberal that character has become on L&O.
Actually, that likely has nothing to do with the case good or bad: he most likely stepped down because he knows personally and has professional conflicts of interested with one defendant’s father.
I’m not too sure much of anything has happened here on either substantive side: what O’Keefe et al did looks to have been a misdemeanor, but it’s not entirely unreasonable that law enforcement would at first take seriously the possibility that someone was fooling around with phones. They’ll most likely give him a minor charge or not bother to bring an indictment at all. The only people who are really going over the top and irresponsibly nuts here are media pundits and partisan yakkers who jumped on the story as if it were a huge deal and speculated/rumormongered and straight out made stuff up.
But then, what else is new.
I know none of the above was funny, sorry.