Yeah, it made me yawn, too (Jinfeng Zhang/Dreamstime.com)
James O'Keefe has lost his groove. Forget about the fact that the guy who he attacked in his latest video is leaving the organization he hoped to smear (for reasons unrelated to the video), the video is boring as hell.
I gave up watching it after five minutes. What a snooze! O'Keefe needs to bring the pimp back, and while he's at it, he should try to have a sense of humor (think Koch/Walker or Palin/Sarkozy).
But the difference between those videos (Koch/Walker and Palin/Sarkozy) isn't just that they are funny while O'Keefe's latest one is not, it's also that they target individuals who have the power of a public office. O'Keefe and his copycats are trying to attack organizations through ad hominen attacks of individuals. They are trying to argue that organization X (I won't do O'Keefe the favor of naming his target) has a bad apple, so therefore organization X is rotten. Even if it did have a bad apple, there's no necessary logical reason to believe it proves organization X is rotten.
As for whether or not there is a bad apple in organization X, is anyone really surprised that somebody said there's racism in the tea party? (And is anybody disputing that obvious fact?) And is anybody surprised that a guy responsible for fundraising buttered up potential donors?
Bottom-line: when the O'Keefes of the world go after organizations with these kinds of tactics, it's because they don't want to deal with the merits of their actual argument. They are just going for something sensational and emotional to score political points. They are no more newsworthy than a press release.