Christopher Ruddy: Main pusher of the universally debunked "murder" of Vince Foster
James Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon): Male escort given extraordinary access to the Bush White House in order to lob softball questions during press briefings
Andrew Breitbart: Serial video faker
James O'Keefe: Employed by Breitbart, fake pimp, another video faker...
And now total and complete creep (as if he was ever anything otherwise).
A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
By the way, those ACORN videos?
The videos led to some of the employees being fired and contributed to the disbanding of ACORN, which advocated for low- and middle-income and worked to register voters.
But prosecutors in New York and California eventually found no evidence of wrongdoing by the group, and the California probe found the videos had been heavily and selectively edited.
For the record.
The plan revolved around getting CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau into a boat (a "pleasure palace"). In the boat would be video equipment (hidden, of course, so as to be able to video the upcoming tryst) and some other props:
condom jar
dildos
lube
porn
candles
viagra
fuzzy handcuffs
blindfold
Which he was gonna use to seduce Ms Boudreau and video it. Misogynist, creepy, disgusting.
This is the current state of Conservative Investigative Reporting, ladies and gentlemen.
UPDATE 6:BRESMA orphans arrive in Pittsburgh. Story here.
UPDATE 5: Overnight BRESMA update here (1/19/10, 3:00 AM ET)
UPDATE 4: Report from Bob Mayo's blog here. (For those coming to this blog from outside Pittsburgh, Mayo is an excellent and reliable reporter from WTAE.)
UPDATE 3: Best advice from Chris Potter (Slag Heap at Pittsburgh City Paper) here
UPDATE 2:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story here. [Completely new article, same URL]
UPDATE:KDKA is reporting on a "secret mission" (well, not so secret if they broadcast it on their noon news). They report that 60 more children will be flown to the US from the BRESMA orphanage. A plane left Pittsburgh today with Rep. Jason Altmire, and ten doctors from UPMC and McMutrie family members. See the video here.
WPXI story here. __________________________________________________________________
First, let's state from the start that the media has been mistaken in some of their reports; most notably when they claimed that all 150 children from the Brebis de Saint Michel de L'Attalaye (BRESMA) orphanage in Port-au-Prince -- run by Pittsburgh (Ben Avon) sisters Jamie and Ali McMutrie -- had received clearance to leave Haiti and come to Pittsburgh.
The children are in various states in the adoption process and many were never slated to be adopted in the US to begin with (for example, we've received numerous hits from France and the Netherlands in the last couple of days).
What's most important to know now is that the situation at BRESMA is still dire. Getting water and food into the walled-off orphanage is dangerous because there are Haitians understandably desperate for supplies surrounding it. At this point, the BRESMA orphanage probably needs security as much as supplies.
Those following the situation on Twitter at #BRESMA know that rumors abound and that people are "retweeting" old information. Virginia Montanez at her That's Church blog took the extraordinary step of removing several older blog posts so that people would not stumble upon outdated information, post rumors, or give out too much information in their comments which could possibly lead to breaches of security that could endanger the orphans. (I'm seeing GPS coordinates being tweeted publicly which I'm sure is a bad idea!)
What we all need to understand in this era of texting, IMing and tweeting is that the old saying, "A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on" is more true now than ever before.
That said, three sources -- CNN, WPXI and the KAS in Haiti blog -- are all reporting that five children from BRESMA have been evacuated to the US. These children were apparently all well along in the adoption process and had the most documentation available. Note that there is one main source for all these stories: Diana Boni. She has worked with BRESMA Orphanage directly for five years and is the Haiti Coordinator for Kentucky Adoption Services. However, CNN has actual video of children leaving Haiti on a military plane.
You can see WPXI's interview with Boni here (they've been repeating parts of it this morning). Her blog is here. She is quoted in Time Magazinehere.
You can view the CNN update on BRESMA here (original CNN story here):
I would still highly recommend going to That's Church, @JanePitt on Twitter, and Ali Pace's Facebook page for McMutrie Family-verified information. It may be slower in coming, but that is because their top priority is the safety of all those concerned and because they are busy working to get all the kids out. .
UPDATE: Most recent news here (1/18/10, 6:30 AM ET).
10/17/10, 4:30 AM ET, from the sister-in-law of the McMutrie sisters:
10/16/10, 10:27 PM ET: An APreport which was apparently also mentioned on CNN yesterday made it seem as though all 150 children from the Brebis de Saint Michel de L'Attalaye (BRESMA) orphanage in Port-au-Prince -- run by Pittsburgh (Ben Avon) sisters Jamie and Ali McMutrie -- had received clearance to leave Haiti and come to Pittsburgh.
There may be some movement on getting some children out of Haiti, but nothing seems to be truly settled as of now. The children and the McMutrie sisters are all still in Haiti and no one, at this point, knows exactly if and when they will get out and exactly where they will end up if evacuated. The complications in getting all the orphans out of Haiti are numerous because of the differing status of the children. Some are far along in the adoption process, but many more are not. Additionally, the adoptive parents are scattered throughout the US and the world.
A small bit of good news: according to Ali Pace, who is a sister-in-law of the McMutrie sisters, the orphanage received a small amount of water and supplies last night. They had run out of water entirely on Saturday.
Also, the donations of goods received at the drop-off point in the North Side of Pittsburgh yesterday was a great success and no more donations are being accepted as of now. You can still donate to the orphanage at: http://www.centeroflife.net/haiti. .
UPDATE 3: Most recent news and CNN's update here (1/18/10, 6:30 AM ET).
UPDATE 2: They are sick and out of water. See here, here and here. please keep pressuring anyone you can.
Brebis de Saint Michel de L'Attalaye (BRESMA) orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti run by Pittsburgh (Ben Avon) sisters Jamie and Ali McMutrie covered by CNN:
DONATIONS NEEDED: (Drop off in Pittsburgh) UPDATE:NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING DONATIONS!
There is a need for:
•diapers (infant, baby, toddler) •powdered baby formula •crackers/snacks (appropriate for small children) •warm coats/winter clothes/shoes (baby, toddler, children) •bottled water.
There is no need for:
•toys •books •baby food •or summer clothes at this time.
If you would like to drop off items you can do so (after 11 a.m.) at 1212 West North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15233. Please proceed through the gate. Leave your donations in the right front apartment (1212) on the first floor. The doors will be unlocked. There will be a sign that says “BRESMA Donations”. [map]
A few you may have missed over the holidays from the cable news networks.
1) Some Republican hack tries to make excuses for the "magic negro" song "satire" on MSNBC, but host Tamron Hall lets her know thatit wouldn't be funny if someone called her "Tamron Hall the magic negro anchor lady."
2) Also from MSNBC: Mika's daddy insult's Mika's boss. Or, for those of you who don't watch Morning Joe: while discussing the Israel/Palestine conflict, Zbigniew Brzezinski tells Joe Scarborough, "You have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you."
3) From CNN on New Year's Eve: Kathy Griffin (co-hosting with Anderson Cooper) responds to a heckler on air with "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth."
4) And also on New Year's Eve, Fox Newsallows "magic negro" message to be broadcast on crawl at bottom of the screen.
10/16/10, 10:27 PM ET:
An AP report which was apparently also mentioned on CNN yesterday made it seem as though all 150 children from the Brebis de Saint Michel de L'Attalaye (BRESMA) orphanage in Port-au-Prince -- run by Pittsburgh (Ben Avon) sisters Jamie and Ali McMutrie -- had received clearance to leave Haiti and come to Pittsburgh.
