ACORN faker James O’Keefe is back in the news with a plan so bizarre I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it. O’Keefe planned to “seduce” on-camera a CNN correspondent to prove she was trying to show him in a bad light. (I KNOW! Right?)
A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating “palace of pleasure” and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.
Apparently O’Keefe is involved in some kind of music video. He’s promoting a right-leaning band and CNN was covering the story. O’Keefe requested the CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau meet him in person to discuss the story. The plan was to lure her onto a boat and hit on her, while recording the interaction.
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.
A short time later, O’Keefe emerged from a boat docked behind the house. In that brief conversation, Boudreau told O’Keefe that he did not have permission to record her, and reminded him that the meeting was solely to discuss the upcoming music video shoot, and he had never mentioned that he wanted to tape their meeting.
Check this out – it’s a list of the props they planned to have on the boat:
Why a boat? I assume so she couldn’t leave easily. I have no idea why they thought this would embarrass CNN. Wouldn’t they have video of Boudreau looking really uncomfortable and trying to leave?
Here’s how he explained the plan to his co-plotters.
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.”
This sounds really sinister. What exactly was O’Keefe going to do with Boudreau once they got her on the boat?