Report: O’Keefe took $100 from man claiming to be crack pipe dealer

[meegbear]

Conservative media prankster James O'Keefe accepted $100 from a man who claimed to be a crack pipe dealer during the RightOnline conference, according to a report in the notorious Buffalo Beast.

Of course, the man wasn't really a crack pipe salesman: he's Ian Murphy, the gonzo journalist who posed as billionaire David Koch in a phone call with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

In his latest coup, Murphy set up a fake conservative persona named Jay Mitchell Huntsman, after an alias used by the famous con-man James Hogue, then went trotting about the RightOnline conference in Minneapolis apparently out of curiosity.

His claim to fame: a fake conservative blog Murphy called Eagles, Guns & Eagle-Guns.

Then, he spotted O'Keefe. Playing off the fanboy angle, Murphy writes that he offered to buy him a meal, which O'Keefe accepted. As they walked together, Murphy told him about the Eagle-Guns blog, which O'Keefe pulled up on his phone.

"So you’re in construction?” he reportedly asked, looking at Murphy's fake profile.

"Right," he replied. "But that’s not where I get most of my money…”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/22/report-okeefe-took-100-from-man-claiming-to-be-crack-pipe-dealer/

[Blue Owl]

1. I'm liking this Ian Murphy fellow more and more with each prank call

He's given us more information about the RW/GOP than the entire M$M combined!

:kick:

[Gregorian]

2. His blog even contains the requisite spelling errors.

Well done.

[brewens]

3. I'd like to see Sasha Baren-Cohen as a teabagger, lobbyist or

big money GOP donor. Maybe two of the three if they could pull it off.

I'd like to see how deep someone like that could get in before a background check would spill the beans. We know they only really talk class warfare and racism around people they trust. Get the right mole going around for a couple years and they would be toast.

[Newsjock]

4. WHY DOES JAMES O'KEEFE PAL AROUND WITH CRACK DEALERS?

I'm sure CNN will get right on that.

[Wait Wut]

5. Mr. Murphy...

...hats off to you, sir. You're a far better troll than I.

/bow

Doing this type of thing online or even in a phone conversation isn't too difficult, pulling it off face to face? I'd screw it up by laughing.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

6. Eagles, Guns, & Eagle-Guns!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This guy should write for Colbert, perhaps he does.