{"id":6680,"date":"2012-03-17T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2012-03-23T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:09:18","slug":"delusional-bravado-james-okeefe-dodges-imaginary-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"Delusional Bravado: James O’Keefe Dodges Imaginary Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JamesIf there is a more pathetic representative of the cartoon-brained right than video con artist James O’Keefe, I cannot think of who it might be. Despite the fact that he is a convicted criminal who is best known for producing deliberately falsified videos and a sleazy attempt to seduce a CNN reporter on his “Love Boat,”<\/em> O’Keefe continues to make himself the subject of news reports that exacerbate his already tawdry reputation.<\/p>\n

O’Keefe was recently accused of harassing a female colleague<\/a>, Nadia Naffe, by holding her against her will in a barn at his home in New Jersey, possibly drugging her, and later disparaging her publicly. Naffe has now published her own account<\/a> of her encounters with O’Keefe in the first part of a series on her blog. That posting resulted in an exchange between O’Keefe and Tommy Christopher of Mediaite.<\/p>\n

Christopher sought a response<\/a> from O’Keefe about the allegations made by Naffe, but characteristic of a narcissistic bully, O’Keefe responded by continuing to smear Naffe:<\/p>\n

O’Keefe:<\/strong> The outcome of the probable cause hearing speaks for itself.<\/p>\n

If you refuse to publish the fact this person was arrest for domestic violence in 2001 \u2014 public record, and you refuse to publish the fact this person sued the Bush\/Cheney campaign in 2004, you will be acting in willful disregard for the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christopher obliged O’Keefe by noting the events O’Keefe mentioned, as well as noting that there were no findings of any wrongdoing by Naffe and that O’Keefe was merely evading the issue by bringing up unrelated matters that have no relevance to the allegations pending against him. To which O’Keefe responded:<\/p>\n

“No, informing you about the existence of public court records \u2014 that speak to possible motive \u2014 was not my only comment to you. For the record, I break a huge story about dead people getting ballots in Vermont. You ignore this and two days later you bring up this issue which was dismissed months ago. You journalists cleary (sic) want my scalp by running lies and fabrications. This is a blatant smear, But it’ll take a bullet to stop me. My price is my life.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, the easy part: If his price is his life, that gives us an idea of just how cheap this SOB is. What’s more, I don’t know of anyone who would consider wasting a bullet on this rapidly disappearing media fluke. He’s nearly invisible now with nobody paying attention to his griping but rightist blogheads and smartasses like me who do it for the joy of mockery.<\/p>\n

More to the point, O’Keefe is suggesting that Naffe’s motive for her allegations of harassment had something to do with events that occurred many years ago before she ever met him. That makes no sense whatsoever. Then he whines about people ignoring his non-story about dead voters in Vermont where he proved that the only perpetrator of voter fraud was himself. That’s his idea of a “huge story.”<\/em> Finally, he completes his evasion of the issue that he had originally agreed to discuss with Christopher by declaring it moot because it was dismissed (due to a jurisdictional technicality). I wouldn’t get too cocky if I were him because the judge also informed Naffe that she could bring the matter up again in a different court with the proper jurisdictional authority.<\/p>\n

Clearly O’Keefe has an acutely inflated view of himself as some sort of heroic citizen journalist. That impression clashes with reality in that his brand of journalism is nothing more than a childish impersonation of Borat (minus the humor), combined with the delusional notion that anybody cares about his carnival side show antics. That said, I’m still looking forward to the next chapter in his “Adventures of the Asinine,”<\/em> because I’m beginning to believe that he’s about to reveal his true identity. And when he does we will know that the reports of Andy Kaufman’s death were a hoax.<\/p>\n

[Update 3\/22\/12]<\/strong> Part two of Nadia’s story<\/a> has been posted. It goes into greater detail about the incident in the barn, but the real juicy material is contained in legal documents that Naffe posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there is a more pathetic representative of the cartoon-brained right than video con artist James O’Keefe, I cannot think of who it might be. 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