Posted on 10/05/2010 3:02:25 PM PDT by Sakity Yaks
Heralded last year as epitomizing a new form of “activist” journalism, James O’Keefe now finds himself abandoned by some of the powerful conservatives who championed him. And a multi-million dollar effort designed to offset what many conservatives regard as the leftward tilt of the mainstream media has been undermined by a series of increasingly bizarre incidents....
O’Keefe, 26, became a superstar on the right last year when he and an associate named Hannah Giles released secretly recorded videos on Breitbart’s website showing employees of the liberal community organizing group ACORN supposedly offering advice on setting up an underage brothel. The videos prompted House Republicans to introduce a resolution praising O’Keefe and Giles’ “exemplary actions as government watchdogs and young journalists uncovering wasteful government spending.”
Praise was in short supply last week, though, after CNN reported that O’Keefe planned to secretly record himself acting out an over-the-top seduction--complete with sex toy props, strawberries and champagne--of a female CNN reporter seeking to interview him for a documentary about the increasing prominence of young conservative video activists who use ambush and undercover recordings to expose the left.
...“The joke is that the tables have turned on CNN,” read the memo to O’Keefe. “Using hot blondes to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television.”
The plan, detailed in the memo and emails from O’Keefe’s associates, apparently collapsed when the director of O’Keefe’s investigative non-profit group, Project Veritas, tipped off the CNN reporter...
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Maybe I am just slow today, but I went to the site and read the first page, and I got the impression that there was just chatter among the people in the group about such a stunt and no real plans for O’Keefe to do this. I think people are out to marginalize him because of the Acorn tapes.
Why do supposedly informed participants on FR buy into ‘news’ reported by the democratmediacomplex?
Let’s have a little healthy skepticism here re the actions of James O’Keefe, and not fall for the dem description of his activities.
For starters...the Obama birth certificate issue is a non issue for most people. It’s not a cause that dents his credibility with any but a small portion of the country. Yeah, I know, people don’t want to hear that but there is no powerful movement out there to force release of his BC.
To your second point...don’t be ridiculous. Acorn has fired employees and was forced to go further under ground to conduct their activities. The only people running about claiming that story is now irrelevant are the same people who didn’t cover it to begin with. Damage to Acorn was done and can’t be reversed because James is an idiot.
He is an idiot. The Senate story was slightly damaging for the method used but still could be said to be an investgation with legitimacy and nothing a show like Dateline would be above doing. This latest stunt is just disturbing. There is no journalistic value in what has been described.
It was my idea to turn the tables on Megan Fox to seduce her for the sole purpose of embarrassing her\ sarc
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