NTY has a story up about James O’Keefe’s work on the ACORN nonsense that has gone down over the past two weeks, and I found their history of him interesting and at times really amusing (aside from the fact that the title of their article “A Political Gadfly” means we have to talk about it). I thought that this was rather funny (the cereal in question is Lucky Charms):
In 2004, at a buddy’s suggestion, he and a few fellow Rutgers students set out to satirize what they saw as a pious sensitivity to ethnicity on campus. The result is still there to see on YouTube: Mr. O’Keefe protesting to a slightly befuddled university dining official that the leprechaun on the cereal box “appears to be an Irish-American.”
“As you can see, we’re not short and green — we have our differences of height — and we think this is stereotypical of all Irish-Americans,” Mr. O’Keefe deadpans, as the official earnestly scribbles notes.
The story goes on to detail his work on exposing some of the Planned Parenthood racially driven eugenics (thank you Margaret Sanger) that their workers agree to, and actually, I think that such work is at least as important as exposing ACORN. Whatever he is doing, however, O’Keefe seems to have a good eye for the scoop, a good sense for what organizations are easy catches, and the artist’s eye for dropping the story in the most effective manner. This sort of effective use of media is a welcome addition to the conservative arsenal: we all know that conservatives know how to shoot shotguns, but film?
UPDATE: Ed Morrissey notes that Paterson has suspended $400,000 of contracts with ACORN in New York pending an investigation. Good news indeed. And while ACORN says that the removal of these funds will do little damage to thier operations because of their deep pockets and donor resources, one has to wonder…Consider that the Catholic Campaign For Human Development also stopped giving funds to ACORN last November, and you know that they have to be hurting.
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