No "legitimate" reason for faking phone workers (which would require accessing the closet), but there is an obvious, rookie reason.
"It works in the movies."
Gee, funny how legislators saw the same movies and outlawed the "con" ages ago, huh?
Remember, when a "con" fails you don't know what the sting was supposed to be.
What we do know....
O'Keefe was trying to tape events in the office during the con. This implies the sting was intended to happen in the office, in person, with the fake phone techs the "hookers" of this con.
A real tap would have been executed solely by the new guys, preferably when the senator was absent. O'Keefe had a meeting with her, insuring she'd be present. He was trying to punk her, not her phones.

Or maybe not. My theory is as good as yours. Better even, because my theory doesn't require O'Keefe and co. to know anything technical about phone systems.

You are a poster child for what all liberals will be like if they legalize pot, awes.

I bet that's why the democrats won't legalize pot. They're terrified their voters would fail to show up in November.

"I got stoned and I missed it...."

Liberals have to operate on taxpayer welfare, Jed. If they had a clue how to earn an honest living they'd be conservatives.

Well that didn't take long. Communist.

See how your life and mood didn't change a bit? "Racist" is just as useless. Folks that are racist don't care, and folks that aren't now assume you're just a moron for pulling a godwin in a political thread.*

For every cross-burner I can show you an idiot trying to decide what we're going to call "those people" this year. Both are racists. Mind your own yard, libby.

*Godwin's law: as an internet discussion continues, the odds of someone being compared to Hitler or the Nazis approaches one. <-- I respectfully submit that "racist" is the new "nazi."

You just saved me the trouble of typing all that myself. :)

So you're saying we should what, shut up?

Either you didn't read this article, or you're trolling in the wrong river. Good luck figuring out where you belong.

I thought neoconservatives where "liberals who've been mugged politically." Wasn't that the definition? Liberals were the ones who tried to paint neocon as a term synonymous with neo nazi, right?

I don't mean to hijack the thread, but I'd really like any misunderstanding on my part cleared up. I see the word used in place of "nazi" and in place of "RINO" and I'm getting confused.

Affirmative action was your party's idea. Reid and Biden have revealed the criteria for backing Obama. He was "clean." He was "articulate." He was "light skinned" and lacked the "negro dialect." No qualifications, no discussion of ideology, just throwing in with an affirmative action poster child for the sake of bragging rights at producing the first black president.

That, sir, is the racism inherent in affirmative action. Giving someone something *because they're black* is RACIST. Like Reid. Like Biden. Like you. Go back to Huffpost and play with your other hood-wearing friends.

Why would you wish that on anyone? California wasn't the worst place to live, but I only say that because I moved there from Detroit. :-)

Six months in a flyover state and you'll never want to go back to the breakfast cereal state.