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ACORN Pimp: I'm a Victim of "Journalistic Malpractice"

James O'Keefe wants you to know that he did not try to bug a senator's office—he just wanted to make sure her phones were working. This according to a self-defense piece O'Keefe posted on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment Friday. O'Keefe says he and his three co-investigators (two of whom were dressed as phone company employees) didn't try to "wiretap or bug" Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. All they wanted to do was "ask the staff if their phones were working," because O'Keefe had heard that the senator's office wasn't taking constituents' phone calls. The result, of course, was the arrest of the four men and a tongue-lashing from Landrieu. O'Keefe does admit that, "On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation." But the thing that bothers O'Keefe most about this situation isn't his own lack of judgment, it's the "journalistic malpractice" that's been committed by the mainstream media. O'Keefe rattles off the names and crimes of several news organizations—MSNBC, the AP, the Washinton Post—that got facts about the story wrong. He finally invites "the public" to decide "whether reporters who can't get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist."

Read original story in BigGovernment | Friday, Jan. 29, 2010