Glenn Beck backs away from Louisiana ‘Watergate’

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James O’Keefe has lost Glenn Beck.

O’Keefe, the young video warrior who surreptitiously taped employees of ACORN offering advice to him, dressed as a pimp, and his friend, dressed as a prostitute, had the backing of Fox News Channel’s Beck all the way. Beck pursued the ACORN story with a vengeance, and it led to congressional calls to cut off the group’s federal funding. But O’Keefe, now accused with three others of posing as telephone repairmen in the New Orleans office of Democratic Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, won’t find any comfort from Beck’s corner. O’Keefe and friends face federal charges for the incursion in the senator’s office. ‘If they were doing that, it’s Watergate,’’ Beck said on the radio today. ‘That’s insanely stupid, and illegal - if it’s true. -- Mark Silva Read more in The Swamp

File photo of Glenn Beck from March 02, 2009 by Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times