Would a “crazy” person videotape himself with a “condom jar”?
Written by Simon Maloy
Published
By now you're all likely familiar with fake ACORN pimp James O'Keefe's alleged ill-conceived plot to trick a CNN reporter into climbing aboard his very own love boat for some strawberries, champagne, and good-natured sexual harassment, so the details don't need to be rehashed here.
What I will do, however, is reproduce these paragraphs from the unintentionally comic document O'Keefe's associate reportedly put together detailing the scheme:
My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I've been approached by CNN for an interview where I know what their angle is: they want to portray me and my friends as crazies, as non-journalists, as unprofessional and likely as homophobes, racists or bigots of some sort. Abby, who works for Anderson Cooper at CNN, a network notorious for journalistic malpractice, wants to lull me into thinking she's my friend so she can use me and hurt my career.
Instead, I've decided to have a little fun. Instead of giving her a serious interview, I'm going to punk CNN. Abbie has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I'm going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she'll get seduced on camera and you'll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath.
So let's get this straight: O'Keefe's associate didn't want him to appear as a “crazy” and “unprofessional” “non-journalist” on CNN, so the proposed solution was to videotape O'Keefe pretending to “seduce” a CNN reporter with a “condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs,” and then post that video online for all the world to see.
Because that's exactly what a sane, professional journalist would do.
(O'Keefe, by the way, has claimed that “he wasn't really going to follow through with the plan” but CNN's Abbie Boudreau wrote “that does not appear to be true, according to a series of emails we obtained from Izzy Santa, who says the e-mails reveal James' true intentions.”)