Salon: Fox "friend" O'Keefe vanquished by CNN

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The right-wing prankster got caught in his own trap -- not that you'll ever hear about it on Fox News
BY GENE LYONS

It gets curiouser and curiouser, this buzzing electronic cacophony that's supposed to represent the national conversation. Consider the rapid rise and meteoric fall of one James O'Keefe, the right-wing prankster whose "Candid Camera" stunts made him a "journalist" hero to the Fox News crowd.

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He used to be their hero. Sean Hannity once hailed O'Keefe as a "pioneer in journalism," and Bill O'Reilly wanted to nominate him for a congressional medal. There were mentions of the Pulitzer Prize. Even Glenn Beck took time out from his busy schedule of likening Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler to call O'Keefe "courageous."

All this for dressing up in a ludicrous pimp costume O'Keefe pretended to wear into ACORN offices to make the anti-poverty organization's employees look like fools and criminals. It was all an elaborate hoax. Real people, however, lost their jobs; the organization lost its funding and disbanded.

Alas, it appears that O'Keefe's admirers have now forgotten his name. According to MediaMatters.org, Fox News has scarcely mentioned how CNN's Boudreau, cautioned by an O'Keefe aide with a guilty conscience, frustrated his bizarre scheme to lure her aboard a boat tricked out like Hugh Hefner's boudoir for the purpose of sexual humiliation.

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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/10/06/james_o_keefe_fox



"an elaborate hoax. Real people, however, lost their jobs; the organization lost its funding and disbanded"

I wish someone would sue this bastard for everything he has. To think that this geek who looks like Timothy McVie but with a huge nose could ever "seduce" an accomplished woman just shows how out of touch with reality he is!

[Brother Buzz]

1. Just another youthful indiscretion

Nothing to see here, move on.

[RandomThoughts]

2. That bad for him, that is not something I would do.

Did he have a good reputation in all the bars where he spends time? That might have helped him, then again, such a ploy is not something most people, nor I would do.

On a side note, some people with some bent filters think the same thing about posts I make. LOL

Funny how that is.

[KittyWampus]

3. "prankster"?

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4. O'Keefe did what he was paid to do

Now it's on to something else. Hey, didja hear all the Republicans whining about the politics of personal destruction? Let's all find out what's up with that! Some of them are saying that Democrats are being mean, wanting to know what specific cuts they'd make to the budget. It's Valley Forge, Fort Sumpter and Pearl Harbor all rolled into one!

[dennis4868]

5. As CNN's Anderson Cooper always says....

"both sides do this stuff." WTF???????????