To Catch a Journalist, Part 1.5: Ken Vogel and Nadia Naffe

NJO: The following stills are from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals, accessed via the peek-at-stills-from-private-videos URL trick.
 

The Mary Landrieu thing

to do

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Joseph "Joe" Basel
Stan Dai
Robert Flanagan
Ben Wetmore

The Destruction of Feathers of Steel

NJO: The blog called Feathers of Steel at liberabit.blogspot.com was wiped into oblivion on this day, per the Daily Kos.

ACORN Philadelphia (Recorded on this date)

NJO:  to do

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Hannah Giles

Brokeback Priests: Priests tell Gays to Stay Gay

Ben and James go undercover in Boston and get homosexual advice from two Reformed "Catholic" Franciscan Ministers.

NJO: A video titled "Brokeback Priests: Priests tell Gays to Stay Gay" was uploaded to James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals in the summer of 2009 but was later made "private". As with the Love Thy Prisoner Campaign video, its content was recorded at Boston Gay Pride 2009. The above caption is from the archived YouTube page. The 3 still frames are taken from YouTube via a bit of URL trickery.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Ben R. Wetmore
Anthony Pombal

Contracts ironic bowtie

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And the reformers have won largely, especially at more orthodox law schools, where races are probably represented exactly as they would be throughtout the general population, professors old fashioned socratic methods are watered down by Deans Circles and Queer Groups and reform-facilitators who can't handle a man in a suit telling them their wrong.

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NJO: Originally posted on the blog Feathers of Steel at liberabit.blogspot.com. The only surviving pieces of this post that I could find were 1) the title, surely incomplete - possibly some kind of listing-off of things that Real!James was finding irksome about law school, unless a "contracts ironic bowtie" is an actual self-contained thing I just haven't heard of and 2) the above sentence, creatively spelled and grammared as it is. As for the date, yes, it's from August 2007, but the day is conjecture. Credit for saving this goes to "goodidealist" in this post on The Daily Kos.

Update: Duh. The title simply denotes in present tense the action of contracting a bowtie that is being worn ironically. Of course. Just seeing that now.

Update: Hey, how about the racism in this snippet though? That is some primo racism going on there, just real straightforward, open-and-shut, shave-my-head-and-call-me-Heinz racism. You know how racists with aspirations to respectability usually try to hide it somewhat, with code words and shit? And right here he's just letting it all hang out. Of course, we can't know the full context of that sentence. But I bet it would just turn out to be a bigger load of whiny-faced racism-tinged shit.

James O'Keefe shows up at a meeting of Rutgers University Student Assembly

RUSA President David Cole called the police on CENTURION founder James O’Keefe on February 13th, this time, for “Disrupting” (attending) a “closed-body” (illegal) meeting.

Cole (and the lawyer he forked over) must be “sourd-muet” to N.J.S.A. 10:4-6 to 10:4-*2, which establishes the right of all citizens to attend meetings at which any business affecting the public is discussed or acted upon.

Rutgers police officer Paul F. Fischer did show up, kindly asking the suspect in mention to leave. But not before remarking, in confidence to James, “If you weren’t that guy from the CENTURION I’d have you in handcuffs. I’ve seen the online videos and I’m a huge fan, so I’ll let you go.” We’ll have the video up soon to prove it.

*Veritas vos Liberabit*... Such a motto rings very true here.

Originally printed in The Centurion, March 2007 issue, printed March 2, 2007. The video of this happening is nowhere to be found on the web.

Dixie

 
Special thanks to the 4000 dollar 60 inch HDTV monitor LI bought me to produce and edit movies.

NJO: Originally posted on the blog Feathers of Steel at liberabit.blogspot.com. "LI" is The Leadership Institute. There was probably a bit more to this post, but the above title and sentence or sentence fragment are the only bits of it I could glean from the webs. Credit here goes to "wanderindiana" in this post on Daily Kos.

The matter of the Leadership Institute's role in providing James with video equipment is dealt with in further detail in this 2009 blog post (mirrored here) by Ben Wetmore.

The relevant paragraph:

"All the good things at the Institute while I was there happened despite the management, or by going around them. I was nearly fired, as was my boss Cong. Steve Stockman, for buying the initial video equipment that James used. It was a maddening place to work, frustrated by reality, exasperated by managerial incompetence but buoyed by hope and ideology that kept people working in the worst of circumstances usually until they were forcibly expelled."

The title of this post - either "Dixie" or "Dixie Special" - could therefore possibly be some sort of reference to Steve Stockman and/or Ben Wetmore, who are both from Texas.