Posted on 09/29/2010 9:03:07 AM PDT by worst-case scenario
James is my hero.
Go to YouTube and watch the video where he goes to the University administrator and tells her the “Lucky Charms” insult Irish Americans. It’s a classic.
A “vested interest”? That’s a “Personal stake, or expectation of personal gain, that underlies a strong commitment to maintain or influence an action.”
Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/vested-interest.html#ixzz10wf4WEHe
I’ve got no personal stake at all, except that we both graduated from the same university (20 years apart) and his antics makes RU graduates look like jokes.
This is an embarrassment to Conservative causes. If O’Keefe is a real journalist, he can find plenty of pressing issues to uncover instead of trying to stage fake ones.
Why do you ask that, anyway? Do you have a “vested interest” in seeing him succeed?
Is it possible that, all along, O'Keefe has been attempting to embarrass conservatives?
No, he and Breitbart have crippled ACORN and any “embarrassment” is simply a phantom created by the media.
If that’s true, Breitbart and Fox News have been taken for a big ride. I think the kid is just a naive opportunist who’s confused easy fame with success and accomplishment.
Looks like his fame has gone to his head. He`s jumped the shark with this one. As far as I`m concerned, this crap stunt undermines all the good he did in exposing ACORN for what it is.
“Have you seen the outrageous 1970s SuperFly pimp and hooker outfits those two wore?”
Yup. His outfit was straight out of Superfly or Shaft. It`s amazing he thought pimps nowadays actually dress like that. lol Well, he`s certainly now given Chris *Tingles* Matthews and Bathtub Boy Olbermann a lot of cannon fodder.
He’s just a kid whose been told by people older than him that he’s smart, funny, genius.
He’s not. He’s a kid whose ego has been fed by older people he admires.
He needs to spend 12-18 months in Iraq, and then, because the food and the tactics are different, another 12-18 months in Afghanistan.
He’d come back 3 years older and a hell of a lot older and wiser.
Forgive him, he’s just punked himself, as young people so often do.
The problem here is that it’s causing the other “news organizations” to go back over O’Keefe’s other activities, *including* the ACORN stuff. And the argument is being made in the other outlets that that ACORN videos were selectively edited to make it *appear* as if they were trying to help them set up an illegal brothel - but that the full unedited tapes show nothing of the kind.
So for all the good that he might have done by helping destroy ACORN, it looks like he might end up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again. What good will it do for the Conservative cause if it appears to be creating scandals out of whole cloth, by manipulating video and then drumming them up on Fox?
This might end up harming Breitbart most of all - not only because Breitbart ran O’Keefe’s ACORN videos, but because Breitbart used the “deceptively edited” Sherrod video. (It had been edited - whether deceptively or not is the question.)
Is Breitbart not vetting his stuff enough? When it comes in across the transom, should he be investigating it more thoroughly? He might have to, or lose his credibility, even among Conservatives. If you couldn’t trust the source - even if you like them philosophically - how does that make you approach their stories?
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