It seems like only yesterday that Andrew Breitbart’s boy was being hailed as a “pioneer in journalism” deserving of a Pulitzer, an American hero — who Glenn Beck praised as the new right-wing Woodward and Bernstein.
Alas, the National Review now says it was all a big mistake.
This CNN episode ought to convince all conservatives that not only should O’Keefe’s behavior be condemned, but conservative leaders and organizations need to do a better job of assessing the maturity level and character of the people they hire, support, or praise.
Right, because as we all know, wingnut media types are notorious for their maturity level and character.
I mean, you wouldn’t want to elevate a pill-popping sex tourist or someone who stalks children or mocks a woman’s miscarriage on live radio or is a degenerate gambler or browbeats his employer with sexually-explicit insults and jerks off while talking to her on the phone, or say, tells a gay man to die of AIDS on national teevee.
I mean, golly, what would become of the conservative movement if people like that were allowed in?



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Thanks, you gave me some chuckles. You might want to fix this sentence
typo police;
[modnote: fixed, thank you.]
mr country, I owe you a beverage, I am told coke can now be had with real sugar cane
Sorry, I missed this one before. It might be worth fixing.
Oopsie…trouble in paradise. Maybe O’Keefe got The national Review mixed up with The Nation and tried to compromise them somehow.
Reading about O’Keefe makes Tim McVeigh seem a lot less creepy.
The guy is only 26 years old! How does one get so effed up in just 26 short years?
Maybe this will be the end of the snot-nosed little twit…but I doubt it.
Telling sick people to die on national television means this man would be better off getting his head straight under the care of a doctor. Now that we know that medical marijuana is an effective co-therapy (from “Pre-Clinical Study Shows Marijuana Compound Inhibits Tumor Size, Growth and Metastasis of Human Cancer“), if we legalize it in his home state, he will have the option to chose the compassionate care he appears to deny everyone else.
Boy, it’s a sign of how bad things have gotten when National Review becomes the voice of reason and maturity.
W managed it but he had Babs for a mother. Maybe O’Keefe’s mother was a child molesting sociopath too.
Guys like O’Keefe become guys like Karl Rove. Then they play tricks that make airplanes fall out of the sky. Or tricks that make a single bullet hit six targets. And they get usually away with it.
found a few definitions for “movement”. In regards to one that calls itself conservative, I would say it should be placed under
7A, and B.
movement [ˈmuːvmənt]
n
1.
a. the act, process, or result of moving
b. an instance of moving
2. the manner of moving
3. (Sociology)
a. a group of people with a common ideology, esp a political or religious one
b. the organized action of such a group
4. a trend or tendency in a particular sphere
5. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Horology) the driving and regulating mechanism of a watch or clock
6. (often plural) a person’s location and activities during a specific time
7. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology)
a. the evacuation of the bowels
b. the matter evacuated
Don’t believe the drugs needed to cure his disease have been discovered yet.
Yes, Brazen Billo browbeat his employee to beat the band.
One shudders to think what mommy could have done with the little Rove-wannabe.
Surely, his victim Abbie Boudreau was lucky to escape with her life.
Zipping my lip and self moderating here…. :)
We get your drift.
He never got laid? Well maybe he has but only with the help of date rape drugs?
I thought you might and the moderators don’t have to hate on me. :)
Red State also was after him
Sure he gets laid. Every time Brietbart’s around.
EDIT: Probably sends a thrill up Tweety’s leg too.
For some reason the O’Keefe pic reminds me of Lee Harvey Oswald.
He does look like Oswald. And has the intelligence of a rock.
“…only yesterday that Andrew Breitbart’s boy…”
Oh no, now you’ve done it, BT, expect a call from Andrew’s lawyers any minute now.
On second thought, you didn’t write “crew” so maybe that gets you off the hook.
Well, a really SLOW rock, anyway. :)
If there ever was an argument for birth control…no I just can’t go there. In the immortal words of Monty Python “every sperm is sacred…”
He might be bi this story of seducing the reporter sounds more like a justification for hetro rape this sounds like stalker behavior. It sounds like he has no idea how to seduce a man or woman or at least no idea that does not involve date rape drugs.
I don’t get why the wingers are distancing themselves from him though. They are all at least as slimy and some are much more so but are still in good standing with the Republican establishment. There must be something else about to break. That’s the only thing that makes sense.
Reminds me of Tim McVeigh.
Even the ones that cen’t swim unless they’re wearing water wings?
Has the MSM been covering this story? I bet the Lake could find clips of Tweety and a few other praising James as a new breed of reporter.
I can sort of see that too. Is there a factory somewhere stamping out hard-eyed sociopaths? If so, we need to find it and break the mold.
Especially the “special” ones…otherwise, how does God bring such “gems” like O’Keefe into the world?
Oh I’m sure anybody who could stomach a few hours with Tweety could find such. I’m not that person though. Ugh!
James is on probation possession of viagra that alone can put him in jail. The girl who ratted him out is talking to CNN I expect an on camera interview news about planed rape filming the rape, date rape drugs etc are probably being saved for Prime Time.
Hard to figure out how the little dog-paddlers manage to win the race. Must knee-cap their opponents somehow before it starts.
Me neither but thats why Jane pays the front pagers they earn their cash.
Did anything ever come of H. Res. 809?
BT is right the GOP has a problem they keep employing their perverts until they can’t ignore the problem anymore.
Pedophile Mark Foley gave us control of the House before Obama got elected that election set the stage for a Dem comeback granted we helped.
But look at our sex scandals I had a troll bringing up Clinton sex scandal and impeachment from over 10 years ago on a totally unrelated diary. Why they are obsessed with sex and they really don’t have much dirt on us.
Go ahead name a Dem sex scandal. Then name a Dem besides Bill who has had a sex scandal and is still active in the party or working in the media.
We had a Dem rep quit because he sexually harassed a male staffer. We had Rahm bully that Rep earlier in the year nakid in the shower. Our sex scandals quit theirs avoid jail time.
I’m have to shower just thinking about that.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/27/national/main1753947.shtml
Rush we all know about the drugs the reason you don’t tell and we don’t want to know well who goes to a country with the second or third highest AIDS rate in the Western Hemisphere looking for women or men?
Scary to contemplate, no?
Stuck in Committee.
Just how many millions did bill lose gambling? You say your husband is not addicted to gambling?
Ma’am after you spend or lose a million dollars on gambling, coke, seducing CNN reporters ( just how much did James spend on his plan) well there is no doubt you are an addict.
It has taken control of your life the long hours gambling spent away from work and family the obsessing over gambling when you are not gambling.
Tell me what would you do with an extra million dollars? An extra several million?
Maybe GOPers would be for tax increases if we made them spend a week in Vegas every year all losses go to the government?
I’m pretty sure that O’Keefe was inspired by his Right Wing Hero- Duke “TOP GUN” Cunningham.
Especially the hot tub parties on the Duke-Stir:
That’s a role model for a young conservative….
I’m all sex-scandaled out, to be honest with you. I remember when Great Orange Satan completely lost their shit over Eliot Spitzer’s call girl pecadillo. Some folks were arguing castration, and this guy had the balls to go after Wall Street. Now I’m of the opinion that if it doesn’t involve a felony, and it’s consensual, who gives a fuck, especially if it’s one of our own good guys? For example, if we hear that Russ Feingold’s social life is as busy as Derek Jeter’s, more power to Russ…if Kucinich is stepping out on his wife (i know, i know, i’ve seen his wife), who’s business is it but their own?
O’Keefe OTOH, (maybe) planning to date rape a CNN reporter is (if true) definitely felonious…and that little creep should be investigated for child-porn possession.
Other than that, let’s let folks be as freaky as they want, provided its in the privacy of their bedrooms.
Special Book Salon up with Ryan Grim’s This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America hosted by Scott Morgan
O’Keefe apparently didn’t know the difference between playing a pimp on home video and actually thinking you are one!
To be fair, Spitzer was doing hookers & blow when he was investigating hookers & blow as AG. That said: yeah, not so freaky & at least consensual, as was Clinton. And for Repubs, who freak out about teh gheyz, one could say that at least what Spitzer & Clinton did was hetereo with a consenting adult female. Pretty tame.
The so-called “family values” crowd? YIKES. Pedophilia, gay sex (not that there’s anything wrong with it unless you’re passing strong anti-gay legislation), adultry with illegal pay-offs of the cuckholded spouse, hookers ‘n diapers…. and so on and so forth.
And now we have the Millenial Gen of Young ReThugs, and they take an even nastier and seedier and ickier and date-rape-ier step futher… all with their “family values” constituents cheering them ever-onwards. It’s actually pretty creepy… all of it. One giant ICK factor going on over there.
Breitbart is a just scum. Beneath scum. And this O’Keefe: cut from the same cloth. ICK.
I knew guys like Breitbart and O’Keefe from my fraternity days. Still surprised to this day I haven’t seen their names in the paper yet for being arrested on some kind of sexual assault or financial crimes charge.
O’Keefe’s still working on his thousand-yard stare.
I have a feeling he’ll get there.
I hadn’t thought of O’Keefe looking like Lee Harvey Oswald. I was leaning more toward O’Keefe looking like Timothy McVeigh, but Lee Harvey Oswald fits, too. Anyone viewing these three in a police line-up would probably have a hard time telling them apart.
And with O’Keefe’s plan apparently involving plying Abbie Boudreau with champagne once she was lured onto the boat, with O’Keefe’s goal of seducing her and using her in a floating sex chamber to embarrass her and CNN, then I’d be highly leery of O’Keefe ever offering a drink to me. And it wouldn’t matter if I ever was a target of one of his right-wing hit jobs or considered one of his “friends” with whom he wanted to have a drink. No way. Who knows what might be in any drink this right-wing nutjob would be offering.
James O’Keefe is awful, a misogynist and a horrible human being. But as long as we’re casting stones, look at Matt Taibbi’s early career. The following is from his and Mark Ames’s book, “The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia”:
“We’d ask our Russian staff to flash their asses or breasts for us. We’d tell them that if they wanted to keep their jobs, they’d have to perform unprotected anal sex with us. Nearly every day, we asked our female staff if they approved of anal sex. That was a fixation of ours. ‘Can I fuck you in the ass? Huh? I mean, without a rubber? Is that okay?’ It was all part of the fun.”
Taibbi also pulled a number of O’Keefe-like “stunts”, often with similarly misogynistic undertones. In his years writing for the Russian expat paper “The Exile”, Taibbi falsely claimed to have slept with the wife of an enemy, and collaborated with Ames to hit another enemy in the face with a cream pie full of horse semen. During the 2004 presidential elections, he tried to get an interview John Kerry while wearing a gorilla suit for obscure reasons. I’m not saying liberals are equally as bad as conservatives; that’s CLEARLY not the case. I’m just saying we’ve got at least one James O’Keefe on our side, too.
National Review AND Red State!!
That makes me suspect that there is additional (even worse) info about O’Keefe making its way around conservative circles.