Thanks for promoting this to the rec list. This story needs to be shouted to the world as a prime example of the frauds, shysters, and criminals that are leading the conservative movement and acting as the mouthpiece for the modern republican party.
Update: @KagroX tweeted a moment ago that O'Keefe will be on CNN's Situation Room this afternoon/evening.
So I came across this on the Twitter this morning
Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent
James O'Keefe thought that, in an effort to exact some sort of revenge on CNN for producing a report on young conservative activists, that he would lure CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a boat called the "Pleasure Palace" filled with...
"hidden cams on the boat," and a "tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine."
Among the props listed were a "condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs" and a blindfold.
Here was O'Keefe's plan in a nutshell: He was going to wave a dildo in Abbie Boudreau's face and she would instantly become so filled with lust, that she would lose all sense of professionalism and he would have recorded the greatest "gotcha" moment of all time.
According to the document, O'Keefe was to record a video of the following script before Boudreau arrived: "My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I've been approached by CNN for an interview where I know what their angle is: they want to portray me and my friends as crazies, as non-journalists, as unprofessional and likely as homophobes, racists or bigots of some sort....
"Instead, I've decided to have a little fun. Instead of giving her a serious interview, I'm going to punk CNN. Abbie has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I'm going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she'll get seduced on camera and you'll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath.
"Please sit back and enjoy the show." Boudreau, who has won multiple awards for her investigative reporting, called the comments "ridiculous."
Fortunately, one of O'Keefe's lackeys, had a moment of clarity/sanity, and tipped off Boudreau right before things got creepy weird.
When Boudreau arrived at the address, a house located on a tributary of the Patuxent River, Santa approached her with a tape recorder in her hand and said she wanted to talk in the car, Boudreau said.
"I noticed she had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK," Boudreau said. "The first thing she basically said to me was, 'I'm not recording you, I'm not recording you. Are you recording me?' I said, 'No, I'm not recording you,' and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording."
Santa told Boudreau that O'Keefe planned to "punk" her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up. Boudreau said she would not get on the boat and asked Santa why O'Keefe wanted her there.
"Izzy told me that James was going to be dressed up and have strawberries and champagne on the boat, and he was going to hit on me the whole time," Boudreau said.
I don't even know what to say or think about this. You have the read the whole article. O'Keefe is demented.
