A "new" video has been released on Townhall.com featuring everybody's favorite (gag) conservative prankster doing what he does best - editing innocuous conversations into manufactured outrage.
This episode features a conversation between O'Keefe, an associate and New England union officials discussing "Green Jobs". It includes some of the trademark O'Keefe lame humor and attempts to make all unions look bad by taking the comments of two representatives out of context.
If you have to see it, follow me beyond the orange calligraphy cloud.
Here it is, in all of it's lame glory:
So after watching this, the following questions beg to be asked:
Why is this video from May, 2009 being released over 3 years later?
I think he's going deep cuts because the past few attempts he's had at raking muck have been thwarted by quick-thinking people who are well-versed with his tactics. It's getting harder for him to work un-noticed.
I also think they may have had to put something together to attempt to help deflect from the current issues with Romney in the last couple of news cycles.
What was the true gist of the conversation (the jump cuts and edits are so obvious in this video, watching it gave me motion sickness)?
I'm pretty sure that the conversation was on the up-and-up. O'Keefe is representing a business interest trying to work with union labor on public projects. It is not the role of the union leaders to determine if digging and filling in holes is a proper use of stimulus funds. If they were able to get a local or state official who was willing to apply for stimulus funds for that sort of project, they might have something, but this is just plain crap. As usual.