A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show.
The plan apparently was thwarted after Boudreau was warned minutes before it was supposed to happen.
"I never intended to become part of the story," Boudreau said. "But things suddenly took a very strange turn."
This story would be laughably pathetic if it didn't reveal exactly how wingnuts percieve both the media and women: as objects to be controlled for political gain.
I'm pretty sure it can be both revealing and laughably pathetic. I mean, I'm laughing pretty hard.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, so schadenbloggily timed. Had you planned on noting the story before your troll name-dropped his Izod-swaddled wannabe-culture-jammer heartthrob?
Naah, was looking at the Balloon Juice thread about it when I came up with the post title and figured I needed to use it.
ReplyDeleteWait, what? I thought this guy was being hit for breaking into a federal building. What the FUCK is he still doing?
ReplyDeleteHopefully, violating the terms of his probation.
ReplyDeleteHe got three years probation, Star. This...really can't be good for that, yeah.
ReplyDeleteHaving read the story, one can only think "Holy hell, what would she have thought if she actually walked into that. On a boat under false pretenses, guy coming on to her in a teenager's mockup of a sex den?"
ReplyDeleteCreepy dude is motherfuckin' CREEPY.
Would have been horrible. And the whole point was to discredit CNN and the reporter as "Liberal media in collusion with desperate Democrats".
ReplyDeleteOnly his sheer stupidity, along with a very intelligent woman, prevented it.
Yeah, good on Ms. Santa for that. IT's fucking funny though how the Veritas Foundation basically stripped any responsibility from her. She was the only one there with some good fuckin' sense.
ReplyDeleteAt least she's still getting paid, but I am doubting that shall not last long.