Sleezebag O'Keefe

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Anyone see CNN's program last night?



James O’Keefe and a media movement gone mad


September 30, 2010 10:12 am ET by Eric Boehlert

What is wrong with these people?

That’s a refrain that goes through my brain many times each week, and I’m sure goes through the minds of my Media Matters colleagues as we monitor the right-wing media and continue to be dumbstruck by what passes for content. Granted, players there have never gotten bogged down in details, and have rarely let the facts get in the way of a good, liberal-hating yarn. This is, after all, a team that’s led onto the field everyday by a chronic liar, Rush Limbaugh.

So the bar has never been set very high. But since Obama’s Inauguration, there has been a frightening, wholesale change within the oxymoronic world known as “conservative journalism.”

Bottom line: There’s no adult supervision, which allows the likes of James O’Keefe to rush to the front of the right-wing media line. And to be honest, he doesn’t look that out of place standing along side such committed fabricators as Glenn Beck or Pam Geller or Jim Hoft or Andrew Breitbart, or Fill In the Blank for whomever is making right-wing headlines these days describing Obama in the most fanatical and hateful way possible.

This is what the right-wing media now looks like. It looks like O’Keefe and his reportedly skeevy plan to lure a reporter into some pseudo sex den for a gotcha punk. It looks like Glenn Beck warning about progressive “killers” who loom on the horizon. And it sounds like Rush Limbaugh spitting out “Ayatollah Obama,” when referring to the President of the United States on the AM dial

And folks, that’s just from just this week.

more:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009300012

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1. Sleezebag MISOGYNIST O'Keefe

Even the wingnut rats are now abandoning his ship in droves...

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2. "Shock Jock" Syndrome

In the late 80s, after Howard Stern and others had become radio stars with outrageous shtick soon every market had a "morning zoo". Each jock felt they had to out shock the next one...first with language, then sex and other taboos. At first it got a lot of attention but over time the shock value worn thin and the shock jocks had troubles toping their last stunt to get attention.

The new "shock jocks" work in hate radio and with a different audience and limitless "horizons". The noisy wheels get both the grease and the power. Rushbo leads the way as no matter what he says...no matter how racist or blatantly false, his job and radio stations are all but secured. Others either echo him or try to top him. Then there's the hidden world of "religious" radio where the "Obama is a muslim" types live who spout their lies under the radar that is picked up by thousands of their ilk. The landscape is wide and this enables the latest smear to emerge relatively autonomously and then become the latest "poutrage".

O'Keefe is this syndrome at its worst...and to those who want to believe no matter what this shitbag does they'll have his back. It's not what he was trying to do that is getting denounced. It's getting caugh. Again. The wingnuts are upset at the slipshod rather than the original intent. Be assured if he had come up with tapes of Mary Landreu making a deal or the CNN nuzebabe in all her "glory", they'd be patting him on the back for being a "journalist".