Let me be the first to say that the article is rather stupid.
And a different Perspective: this Article is stupid.
But soylent green is corporations are people, too!
As long as it is "Us vs. something" everybody is a Republican.
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On a boat!
(ACORN videographer/liar O'Keefe in more wacky gotcha journalism hijinks.)
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6: When a lady shows up at a dude's place and sees a bunch of dildos, it's impossible for her to control herself, so you can see where he thought that might work.
I love that the whole thing was premised on him going "Dude. She totally wants me."
Next up: O'Keefe tries to ice Larry King.
6: this man will be a federal legislator in max 8 years.
Anything I might be able to add would be a mere gloss on #5
When the Proletariat is no longer an abstraction, all that is solid melts into air.
Sed in media res...
To 6 again, now that I've read the document with the "plan" that was leaked to CNN, I can't figure out what the point of this exercise was supposed to be. It's clearly meant to be super-sleazy, rapey behavior. Are they trying to see how far the reporter will put up with this in order to get the story? Will she tolerate the pawings of a terrifying sociopath in order to get some scoop on something about how racist Republicans are, which will be so awesome because it will reveal how racist CNN is? I don't get it.
12: I am not sure the thinking went further than "I am so cool" and "Bitches be sluts."
Every time O'Keefe does anything, I am forced to confront the fact that we somehow reside on different planets.
Tabloid journalism-- attention is money, and a famous woman in trouble brings attention. I think that the economics is no different than the stalkers with cameras anywhere.
It may not be the only operational mode for these guys, but why listen to what they say, they're attention whores.
I can't figure out what the point of this exercise was supposed to be.
"Abbie has been trying to seduce me." Yeah, sure she has, dude.
16: "Abbie has been trying to seduce me." Yeah, sure she has, dude.
Well, giving him the benefit of the doubt (because, I'm a liberal, dammit!), he may mean this in the sense that she was trying to seduce him emotionally, so he would open up to her. I think reporters generally try to do that.
Us vs. The Corporations indeed.
Call me old fashioned, but I'd strike out "corporations" and substitute "malefactors of great wealth." I think hating on corporations tends to depersonalize the conflict.
And has anyone noticed that the Ritholtz piece is really stupid?
6 & following: "James should have a more sleazy persona than normal." Good luck with that.
Every time O'Keefe does anything, I am forced to confront the fact that we somehow do not reside on different planets. How I wish we did and I never had to encounter his remarkable sleaziness.
17: EVERY JOURNALIST WHO IS NOT TOO STUPID OR TOO FULL OF HIMSELF TO NOTICE WHAT IS GOING ON KNOWS THAT WHAT HE DOES IS MORALLY INDEFENSIBLE.
20: And yet the major news outlets in the US stand today as willing co-conspirators in his most notorious hit job (ACORN)--for many the only official "lesson learned" being that they were late to the party. And I suspect they will never revisit it (just as the NY Times never acknowledged its role in the original sin of Jeff Gerth's "Whitewater" coverage). For instance in this NY Times editorial from August on the government *finally* enforcing some provisions of the motor voter law (I actually agree with the editorial) they cheer how it could also reduce the impact of advocacy organizations whose role in registering voters caused such a furor in 2008 (gee, you already helped kill it--such a messy organization, so unlike us), and conclude,
When advocacy groups sued Ohio and Missouri to force their public assistance offices into complying, huge groups of new voters surged onto the rolls -- more than 100,000 in Ohio, and more than 200,000 in Missouri. Nationwide enforcement by the Justice Department could add millions more. The more people who have access to the ballot, the better the country will be.while convenently neglecting to mention that it was ACORN who sued.
When I imagined it, I didn't count them. They were arranged like flowers in a vase, and all of them looked previously used.
If they looked like flowers, I should say they were previously used and then some.
And you don't bring me flowers, anymore.