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Katie says she can't stand Borat because it's inherently dishonest but somehow is less critical with O’Keefe?

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Give her a break. She has just heard about this story. At the time even the NY Times assumed O'Keefe dressed like that when doing the interviews and later issued a correction

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Don’t believe anyone has ‘just heard this story’. This story is OLD and BIG. Nobody is forgetting Weiner, Breitbart or ACORN.

I enjoyed the retelling but can’t pretend any of it was new (aside from Weiner being back)

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I didn’t know much about the Acorn thing and remembered nothing at all about Breitbart. It was all new to me.

I was aghast at the Sabrina Carpenter stuff.

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I've just heard it for the first time on this podcast, so maybe do believe it?

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Okay, anyone who had even a vague interest in news and US politics in 2009 knows of it.

I mean I’m sure there are some people who’ve never heard of WW2 but that’s not a serious position to advocate. Hell even Jessie and Katie are talking about it’s perpetrator in the very prior podcast when they talk about the Laura Loomer back story. One week it’s ’oh Yeah, James O’Keefe’ next it’s ’I Can’t recall, tell me (a BS version of the story).

Nah. The ACORN story was the biggest story in politics for weeks so sure if you had no interest in the news you might not know it but otherwise I’m not buying it.

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They've been very critical of O'Keefe on this podcast before. Also, this story is old enough to drive, some people don't know or remember the finer details.

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It was 16 years ago. I remember it, but some people are young.

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