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The revelations about James O’Keefe and his arrest for his role in trying to bug Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office keep on coming. First off, we’re learning a lot about his accomplices, all of whom were involved in various conservative campus organizations and wingnut welfare sinecures.
Joseph Basel ran a conservative publication at his college in Minnesota, using funds from a grant from the “Leadership Institute,” a training organization for young conservatives. Robert Flanagan is the son of the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, William Flanagan. He works for the Pelican Institute, a conservative organization in Louisiana which is located half a block from Landrieu’s office. Stan Dai is another college conservative from George Washington University who has worked with all kinds of conservative organizations, including Cliff May’s Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies and the Young America’s Foundation. He’s part of a strange organization called the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence which reportedly “prepares students for careers in intelligence.” And he wrote in college a really bad parody of the Vagina Monologues.
My Angry Penis
MY PENIS IS ANGRY!!!!!!! You want to know what happened to my penis? Joan happened to my penis! There I was, sleeping peacefully when Joan stormed in and dragged me out for “an educational program.” I thought was going to see Mr. Rogers! But nooooooo! It turned out to be the “Whine-gina Monologues!”
He’s apparently as good a comedian as he is a spy. Justin Elliott has a lot more on the college conservatives involved here.
As for O’Keefe, we’ve learned that he was on the payroll of Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government website. And we’ve further found the actual listening device, in a car a couple blocks from Landrieu’s office, that the Tea Buggers were trying to install.
Democrats in Louisiana are certainly trying to capitalize on this, calling it Louisiana’s Watergate. At the same time, conservatives, who at one point put forward a Congressional resolution honoring O’Keefe for his investigative work, are disassociating themselves as fast as they can.
There is no way this ends quietly. The money trail has only begun to be established, and the FBI will presumably try to flip one of the four Tea Buggers to try and glean more information.
Stay tuned.
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funny how it is not mentioned that he uncovered all the fraud in acorn. That is forgotten. Acorn is corrupt and now we all know for sure. We should all keep that in the news…
Stay tuned.
All that “fraud” which multiple independent panels found uncovered no illegal activity, and which was promoted through doctored and heavily edited video footage. Yeah, it is funny how that’s not mentioned.
Don’t attempt to reason with GOP. Republicans and conservatives merely have a nervous system that reacts only to fear, money and greed. They’re like a junkyard dog that latches onto a bone and just will not let it go.
So I may be on the fringe here, but all of this makes me think of parody gone very wrong. First, these guys try to do a sort of B-grade version of the Yes Men’s successful international guerrilla theater. They bomb. Then we find the link to Angry Penis, which reminds me of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Which when I google, I find that there was once a bar in Adams Morgan called the Angry Inch, certainly from the theater/musical.
This is from Wiki:
Hansel’s mother, Hedwig, gives her child her name and passport and finds a doctor to perform a sex change. The operation is botched, however, and her surgically constructed vagina heals closed, leaving Hansel – now Hedwig – with a dysfunctional one-inch mound of flesh between her legs, “with a scar running down it like a sideways grimace on an eyeless face.”
I can’t help myself.