Last year, O’Keefe and a female companion went to several ACORN offices, asking for help in creating a house of prostitution. Some ACORN staffers rejected them immediately, but a few talked with them briefly, before taking no action. (The latter subsequently were fired, merely for talking with the poseurs.)

Remember when conservative activist James O’Keefe posed as a pimp and asked ACORN aides to help him start a bordello? O’Keefe made a secret video of his visits to offices of the agency that helps slum families. His film became a smash hit playing repeatedly on right-wing Fox News and he was hailed as a Republican hero. Now O’Keefe faces felony charges because he attempted to bug the New Orleans office of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. His accomplices posed as telephone repairmen and O’Keefe secretly filmed their work. Office workers grew suspicious, and U.S. marshals collared the conspirators. This silly political mess shows the extremes to which some partisans will go in efforts to damage the opposition party. For years, Republican le …

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