Supposedly, this is what the teabuggers were up to. I don’t believe it, because it doesn’t make any sense.
Mystery solved? NBC is reporting that James O’Keefe and his three companions were carrying out a plan to gauge how the staff of Sen. Mary Landrieu would respond if their office phone system were disabled, following complaints by conservative constituents that anti-health reform calls were not getting through to the New Orleans office.
Three days later, this is what they’re coming up with. Does that make any sense to you?
Here’s the key part of the new NBC report, which at least partly backs up a theory first raised by Marcy Wheeler:
A law enforcement official told NBC News that the four men were not trying to intercept or wiretap the calls.
Instead the men, led by O’Keefe, wanted to see how her staff would respond if the phones were inoperative, the official said.They were apparently motivated by local criticism of Landrieu — some voters reportedly felt it was too difficult to get through to her office to register their views.
Citing law enforcement officials, Keith Olbermann said on the air last night that O’Keefe wanted to see whether Landrieu’s staff responded to a broken phone system by laughing it off, or by expressing concern about the plight of constituents trying to make their views known in vain.
Ummm….wouldn’t the office staff just ask the telephone repair guys that were already in the building to repair the phones? Wouldn’t the staff clue in that phone guys just came and now the phones don’t work? I guess I just don’t buy this explanation – it doesn’t make any sense. It sounds like brain-damaged squirrels thought of it.