Neo-Con Agenda: Louisiana Watergate!

Remember the guy and gal who decided it would be a good idea to dress up as a pimp and a prostitute so they could trick ACORN into helping them get money to start a brothel?  That embarrassingly obvious example of neo-con entrapment and political theatre resulted in a GOP witch hunt against this organization.  One can imagine the GOP needed someone on whom to take out their anger after being squashed in the 2008 elections, so they took it out on this grass-roots organization, and even managed to go so far as to cut their federal funding (a matter which the courts will no doubt take issue with).

Since then Mr. James O'Keefe (the Pimp) has become a conservative media darling, making appearances on Fox News (sometimes even dressed in his pimp outfit) and is a regular contributor to the ironically named "news" site, Big Government.

Well Mr. O'Keefe got himself into a little bit of trouble recently when he entered the Louisiana offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu and attempted to bug her phone.  For those individuals old enough or educated enough, yes, this should ring eerily familiar to another neo-con attempt at political espionage at a certain hotel in Washington D.C.  No one is really sure what they were looking for or why they chose to pull such a stupid stunt, but the results in the media are hardly surprising.

The neo-con noise machine at fox news and their surrogate neo-con contributors on MSNBC and CNN seem down right melancholy over the whole ordeal.  They have managed to come up with only stall tactics and innuendo where they were so eager to hang ACORN out to dry only a few short months ago.  My the right has a short memory, or perhaps its another example of political favoritism/cronyism that we have come to expect from the fringe of the american right-flank.

On Fox News, Fox and Friends couldn't bring themselves to mention anything about this incident other than "This story probably needs a lot of context."  This after immediately dubbing O'Keefe their "power player of the week" for his actions at ACORN and anointing him an "investigating journalist."  Perhaps next time they wont be so quick to commend faux-journalists for damn near criminal activities.  They might end up being criminals.

On MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan even went so far as to blame Mary Landrieu.  Mr. Buchanan openly wondered why James was there in the first place if there was nothing suspicious going on, as if the attempt of criminal neo-con political espionage was reason enough to conclude that Mary Landrieu must be doing something bad.  He suggested that people should be looking into Sen. Landrieu to find out what James was seeking to find in her phone conversations.

As far as I'm concerned this guy got what was coming to him.  He pushed his brand of vigilante, entrapment faux-journalism too far and he got nailed for it.  I hope he gets a hefty fine and I wouldn't be opposed to seeing him get a few months in prison.  Maybe someone can find a chalk board on which he can write "I will not commit illegal political espionage."

Common Sense