James O'Keefe video sting hits Ohio Medicaid office

[babsbunny]

James O'Keefe video sting hits Ohio Medicaid office

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_m30/video-okeefe-medicaid.html

The same conservative investigator who tried to embarrass the community-organizing group ACORN by posing as a pimp and prostitute on hidden video has brought his camera to Charleston. James O'Keefe recently sent an actor to the Department of Health and Human Services offices in Charleston and Summerville posing as an Irish Republican Army supporter seeking health care assistance for about two dozen others he said were hurt in overseas gun battles. Video purportedly showing his visits, and interactions with state workers, was posted online Tuesday, including on YouTube. In the lengthy recording, an actor who goes by the name Sean Murphy is wearing a kilt and Celtic garb and walks into a government office to talk of seeking emergency Medicaid assistance for the men whom he says are in a local hospital convalescing. During a telephone interview Tuesday, O'Keefe said the film is part of his investigation into Medicaid fraud. He chose South Carolina in part because the state's consent laws allows for filming individuals without their permission. He also said he wanted to expose weaknesses in the system by laying out a seemingly outrageous story of terrorists seeking help and not being called on it by cooperative employees. "These people aren't shocked by anything," he said of the account the actor gives, which includes discussion of owning expensive bullet-proof luxury cars and exporting arms. <1> Undercover citizen journalist James O'Keefe is at it again, this time capturing on video an Ohio government worker helping a "drug dealer" commit Medicaid fraud. Posing as Russian drug smugglers who drive an exotic, $800,000 sports car and hire out their underage sister as a prostitute, O'Keefe's operatives reportedly applied for Medicaid assistance for their father with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, where government employee Traci Daniels told the applicants to omit listing their expensive car as an asset and report their line of work as "babysitting."

[Bunny]

1. Hm. Irishmen wear kilts?

Who knew?

[XanaDUer]

2. Sorry, but I am assuming these Medicaid workers thought they were

lunatics who needed help. Just think if they denied them, and it turned out they were delusional and needed help - then they 'd be suing them and everyone who hated "entitlements" would be yelling about how the people who are supposed to help people aren't even doing that.

This is SO STUPID - there has to be skeletons in O'Keefe's closet and I would love to see them exposed.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. I'm going to bet on kiddie porn. O'Keefe looks the type.

Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know there is no "type" but seriously:

[booley]

3. So let me see if I can predict how this will go.

Fox news leads with this story for weeks.

GOP congress critters make speeches about how Medicaid is being used by terrorists

The rest of the MSM joins in.

A few voices in the wilderness point out discrepancies in O'Keefe's "proof"

Medicaid funds get cut.

A little while later it's shown that O'Keefe was lying, used edited footage and just basically was full of shit.

Neither the MSM nor the GOP or pretty much anyone except those same voices in the wilderness from before, ever mention this fact.

Oh and a side note, right wing trolls will bring up this Medicaid scandal" as proof that Liberals are evil or some such, long after it's been discredited.

Hmm, so who wants to bet me this is how it goes down?

[shraby]

4. Maybe O'Keefe and minions should be charged with trying

to defraud Medicaid?

[Fuddnik]

6. The poor caseworker has to listen to him, and take his information.

They're not allowed to throw out every nut-job that walks into their office.

[XanaDUer]

7. Thank you.

No one ever says that - they have to, at least, listen to them. The lawsuits would be flying if they didn't!

[SteveM]

8. Here's what will happen, in order:

(1) Someone in Medicaid will get fired/demoted;
(2) O'Keefe will be found to be punking around; and
(3) Persons fired/demoted will STAY fired/demoted.

That is all.

[spanone]

9. funny how the sting on marcus bachmann was of no interest to the media

or, not so funny

[jberryhill]

10. "These people aren't shocked by anything,"

It's called professionalism, nitwit.