Lower Chesapeake Sailing Adventure

NJO: Video and blurb from James O'Keefe's personal YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/user/featherofsteel‎.

Uploaded on May 26, 2009

Memorial Day 2009. Patuxent River across the bay to the Honga river -- and back.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: Obama as Leviathan

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from May 2009, "Obama as Leviathan" (mirrored here):

I made this Obama Leviathan graphic, both with graphic images and without, based on this infamous cover to Thomas Hobbes' classic work, The Leviathan. Alas, the only consistent comment from friends seems to be that they don't initially see 'it' and then when they do I don't hear anything further.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices [sic] to shut down more nationwide"

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from March 2009, "A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices [sic] to shut down more nationwide"

Source: http://benwetmore.com/documents/MCFL/proposals/MCFL_ClinicShutdown-proposal.doc [Now a dead link]

A Plan to save 3,636 babies a year by shutting down 6 clinics and developing a best practices to shut down more nationwide

Massachusetts Citizens for Life

Prepared by: Ben Wetmore

For the Gerard Health Foundation’s consideration

March 30, 2009

People want to close abortion clinics and are not sure how.  Some have been closed, but pro-lifers are not sure what universal tactics work and which closings were instead providential.  Through this grant, Massachusetts Citizens for Life will take the methods used by pro-lifers nationwide and test them, track what works and learn the best ways to close clinics.  The beautiful side effect of this research will be the shuttering of clinics.  We will publish the findings and let pro-lifers nationwide know what worked in Massachusetts.  If the tactics work in a state as pro-abortion as the Bay State, it can work across the nation.

Most of the previous efforts were undertaken by volunteer organizations, and their successes were primarily anecdotal.  But anecdotes are not transferable.  The lack of serious media coverage has also hurt our ability to find out what truly closes a clinic.  The methods have never been measured in a scientific and analytical way, and approached using paid staff having this as a full-time job.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure"

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from March 2009, "A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure".

Source: http://benwetmore.com/documents/MCFL/proposals/MCFL_LaurasLaw-proposal.doc [Now a dead link]

A plan to save 1,170 babies a year in the state of Massachusetts through the passage of an informed consent law utilizing political pressure

Massachusetts Citizens for Life

Prepared by: Ben Wetmore

For the Gerard Health Foundation’s consideration

March 30, 2009

On September 13, 2007 Laura Hope Smith, a 22 year old girl who was 13 weeks pregnant, died during an abortion.  The tragedy of losing both grandchild and daughter was not lost on her mother, who was shocked and angered because Laura had been raised in a pro-life and Christian household.  As the details unfolded, it became clear that the initial decision that Laura made to abort was not the choice she would have made if given the correct information about the risks to abortion, information on fetal development, and the ultrasound picture that the abortionist had already taken.

Informed consent laws have been passed in various forms in 33 states.  Such laws are often non-controversial and not seriously opposed by the abortion industry.  Social science researcher Dr. Michael New has shown that such laws have on average a clear reduction in the abortion rate by .86% in the overall abortion rate on average.  The sporadic judicial nullification of such laws has made it clear as to their impact by showing the subsequent spike in abortions in a year following nullification.  As Massachusetts’ abortion rate is currently 19.9 per thousand women of reproductive age, reducing that through passage of such a law to 19.04 per thousand women of reproductive age would save 1,170 babies a year.

Bailout Prize Patrol

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2009

Taxpayers Clearing House Prize Patrol delivers large checks to Citibank and Amtrak, gets them signed by Sen. Snow, Sen. Schumer, confronts Tim Geithner with wads of cash and delivers invoices to taxpayers.

NJO: Title, video and blurb from YouTube channel RightOrg.

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Jonathon C. "Jon / John" Burns
Ben R. Wetmore
Jordan Young
Audrey Andrews
Roger Masi
Kevin Nedza
Candice Greaux

ACORN breaks into foreclosed homes - criminal trespassing.

Uploaded on Feb 21, 2009

The community group (I use this term loosely) ACORN, breaks into foreclosed homes, moving the previous owners back in. This is criminal trespassing. This story was reported by WJZ TV in Baltimore. The home in this video had already been sold by the bank and had new owners. My question is, why doesn't ACORN use the money that Barack Obama has given them, to repurchase the homes and give them back to the previous owners?

NJO: Title, video and blurb from YouTube channel NAGGERNUTZ. This is the source for the video that James O'Keefe would later cite in this article. I include it here to provide background for the rest of the posts on ACORN.

Men in Skirts Use Women's Restroom at Mass. Marriott Hotel

Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Transgender madness in Massachusetts: The Peabody Marriott Hotel hosted the annual "First Event" transgender conference on January 15-17, 2009. These photos and videos illustrate the insanity that will descend on all of America . . . unless this sexual radical movement is stopped: Seven-foot men in dresses using the women's restroom. Hundreds of cross-dressers swarming the hotel, upsetting other guests (who were not forewarned). A transgender rock concert.
This is what protecting "gender identity and expression" really means.
Mass. Bill H1728 (now before the Legislature) would punish any opposition to such madness with fines and jail time. Even schools would be opened up to cross-dressing children, transgender restrooms and locker rooms, and sports teams. Employers would be subject to new non-discrimination regulations. (At the federal level, ENDA would force this on the country if passed.)

NJO: Title, video and blurb from MassResistance's YouTube channel. MassResistance is an anti-LGBT hate group. The videographer is explicitly identified as James O'Keefe in this footnote on the blog of MassResistance activist Amy Contrada, and also in this post from MassResistance.org.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "Center-right Moral Crusades: 'Get mad, get mad dog mad'"

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from November 2008, "Center-right Moral Crusades: 'Get mad, get mad dog mad'":

Too often those on the right are content to give charts, statistics and pristine figures for our arguments. We let the other side roll out fake grandmothers, women lying about recycling cans for food, fake claims of hate crimes and wonder why, even when these incidents are proven wrong time and time again, we keep losing to people. 
 
Only when one confronts a leftist who is screaming about the tragic death of Matthew Shepherd and points out that it had nothing to do with his homosexuality and everything to do with a drug deal gone wrong, does one understand the mentality of the other side. When they learn the truth they simply don't care, they keep screaming about hate crimes. 

So this isn't a claim to become as irrational as the other side, or merely to parrot back opposing moral outrage to our issues somewhat artificially. No, we ought to set our own real priorities, examine how the proposals on our side and theirs affect real people, and then apply real instances that have a strong emotional appeal for those who are not well educated on our topics. 

The emotional appeals can become a hook from which they learn the facts and the figures and statistics that show that our side is truthful and honest about these problems, but we can't forget that crucial middle point of attracting people in the first place through emotional appeals to become interested in our topics and solutions.

- issue - normal appeal - emotional appeal - leftist rebuttal - addressing their rebuttals Affirmative Action "fairness" and "merit" Whites are pushed out; all races are taught to look down to blacks; blacks are set up to fail in jobs or in colleges they aren't ready for minorities suffered through slavery, and now suffer through unequal access to advancement slavery is about controlling someone's destiny, and now we have the state controlling and managing people's destinies due to race Abortion "Rights" of the unborn The girl who survived an abortion: Gianna Jennssen Back-alley abortions Gianna survived a back-alley abortion, what does that make her? Bureaucracy Inefficiency the the the Business Regulation "Overregulation" the the the Christian Assaults "Freedom" Attacks on nuns, hurting nuns "Separation of Church and State" The state is busy separating the Church from the people, hurting nuns and suing nuns Taxation "Individual rights" and "Capitalism" Business owners who can't afford daycare Poor people need our help If poor people had jobs, they wouldn't be poor, and would be taxpayers Environmentalism High regulatory costs Suffocation of new industry and the creation of new jobs for immigrants, minorities, the uninsured and poor people the the Foreign Wars Usually a mind-numbing pro-war, pro-bombing mentality that does us no good. National bankruptcy; military deaths that will only lead to more future conflicts and, sadly, more deaths Body bags These wars come about because of Democrat policies, and Democrat weakening of the military Immigration "Border Security" Crimes by immigrants, victims of border insecurity, sex crimes Javier who "does the jobs white people won't take" and is just trying to earn money to send back home to Tijuana the Healthcare "Socialism" Deaths due to bureaucracy; elderly deaths due to rationing; denial of care The "Uninsured" the Tuition Needless bureaucratic growth Tuition slavery as undergraduates spend ten years paying off debt Student "services" the

topics we ought to be worked up over: Abortion Abortion activism Abortion healing Academic standards Alternative media Courtship Homosexual therapy Marriage Tuition Unionism and we should develop ways to do grassroots organizing around these topics leftists organize around: Domestic violence Racism Sexism

Pro-life activists not ashamed to use the tactics of the Left against them

By James O’Keefe

In February 2008, Lila Rose and I released our second undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood. We were able to donate money to the organization for the explicit purpose of reducing the number of black babies born in the United States – in line with the intentions of Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger.We carefully chose a dozen or so “one party consent” states, where it is legal to audio record someone without their consent. Not a single Planned Parenthood employee we spoke to was disinterested in the prospect of a donation for our stated purposes. We asked that our donation to be earmarked for minority mothers only. Autumn Kersey, vice president of development for the Idaho division of Planned Parenthood, actually confessed she was “excited” about the donation. We received nationwide news coverage for our sting operation and put Planned Parenthood on the defensive because of its advocacy of black genocide.

While many pro-life organizations across the country continue focusing on development, this investigation was far more effective, as it managed to expose Planned Parenthood’s original intentions and raise awareness using telephones and a public university’s video editing program.

This kind of political technology needs to be further utilized by young conservative activists. When I was editor of The Rutgers Centurion, the conservative newspaper at Rutgers University in New Jersey, I convinced administrators to ban Lucky Charms cereal on the grounds it is offensive to Irish Americans. This was done to satirize political correctness on campuses, using what legendary leftist activist Saul Alinsky called the most effective political tactic of all – mockery. It was a win-win scenario: If they did not ban Lucky Charms, they would appear to be biased against Irish Americans. If they did, they would be branded as ridiculously sensitive, as was the case. Likewise, either Planned Parenthood accepts donations from racists, or they must reject the view of their founder, Sanger, as racist.

We framed the issue in a creative way. We did not tackle abortion conventionally but from the racism angle. Because leftists believe that racism is a cardinal sin, we used their rules against them.

Alinsky believed in doing whatever necessary to disrupt and annoy power structures, applying constant pressure and opposition. Applying some of his tactics from “Rules for Radicals,” we (a) never went outside our own experience, (b) went outside our opposition’s experience, (c) used enjoyable tactics and did not spend too long on any particular one and (d) made people believe we were a 1,000 member coordinated conspiracy when there are really only three of us. Many in the pro-life movement criticize using deceit in exposing the racism and absurdity in the abortion movement, but are willing to condemn Planned Parenthood for what we exposed utilizing those tactics.

Many students around the country have nodded in agreement with my theories on activism, but they fear doing what it takes to make them happen. The movement dies when it becomes boring and risk-averse. The hardest part about being a leader is getting people to focus on action in addition to philosophy. If you must spend time “convincing” anyone of anything, it is that they owe it to their philosophy to take action. In the pro-life movement it has been particularly difficult to find people to believe in these tactics, or have the courage to use them.

Leaders taking on power structures need to be raw, confident, fearless and impermeable. Lila received a letter threatening to prosecute the group for violating wiretapping laws, but it did not stop her from continuing the investigation. After the investigation aired nationally on Fox News, Planned Parenthood could no longer press charges, as Lila would appear the victim.

Activists should always be forward thinking and compound successes immediately. For example, pro-life activists across the country could easily replicate our racism project locally by demanding Planned Parenthood be banned from their respective community or campus. “Shut down Planned Parenthood because abortion is murder,” simply will not work. The demand should frame the issue in leftist terms, making it harder to say no. It could be something like “We strongly oppose racism at Springfield State. To honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, we demand that Planned Parenthood be disaffiliated from campus.” It will be very hard for a town or campus bureaucrat to say “no” to anything that claims to honor MLK Jr.

Most importantly, conservative activists need to be their own media, and use their independent media to obtain their goals. In our situation, You Tube decided to arbitrarily ban Part II of our investigation, which had received tens of thousands of views, because it violated the “Terms of Use.” To my knowledge there was nothing in our videos that constituted a violation. We were more likely targeted due to our message, considering that there are millions of other videos that break copyright laws or contain sexual or violent material that are ignored. It is crucial to maintain independent broadcasting capabilities in print and online to get the word out.

The media coverage gained from our investigations is fun but fleeting. Media is unfortunately thought to be an end, but it should be a means. The purpose of our investigation was not just to get on Fox News but to get Planned Parenthood banned from UCLA. If we are successful, this story will likely make the Los Angeles Times and Larry King Live. This would, in turn, encourage others and lead to results so significant across the country that the mainstream media will not be able to ignore them.

Through all of this, your purpose and goal must be clear. We are not doing this just for fun or to embarrass Planned Parenthood; we want to stop them from continuing their murderous activities once and for all. 

NJO: This was originally posted at newguardmag08.blogspot.com.

 

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "Restructuring Leftist's Fancy Language"

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

On this day, "Restructuring Leftist's Fancy Language [sic]":


If you read enough leftist literature, especially college-oriented texts, you find a variety of words that only make sense in context, ones that you've never heard in normal conversation. Such gems as "heterosexist" and "pseudovalues" or "moral pathologies" or "neocolonization" are bandied about as though, well, as though they're real words.
 
And God bless these leftists, they are incapable of producing one dollar worth of real value, or "value" to our postmodern readers, to the economy but are remarkably creative and productive when it comes to making up words, or, bear with me, "pro-neovernacular construction."

And while these leftists are busy making up new words, we're faced with the challenge of figuring out what the hell they mean, and also dealing with the inherent connotations that these new words bring. We're always playing defense! We ought to go out of our way to define their crazy thoughts with the same flair that they obviously enjoy ridiculing our principles.

This exercise is also pertinent to the longer discussion about the tactics of pivot-point and also the Leesburg grid.

So, in the pro-neovernacular constructionist spirit, we've listed out some fancy new words to describe leftists on the left and would love to hear any input or suggestions that you might have to add to, amend or correct any of the words and phrases. As you can see, we could always use the simple answers to describe them, but the fancy language just makes it sound so much better.

-	their fancy language	-	normal language	-	our fancy language	-
	Marxist		Thief		neocollectivist rationalizer
	Queer		Pervert		anal-centric hypersexualist
	Pro-"Choice"		Pro-Abortion		infant termination apologists
	Clinic Doctor		Abortionist		infant terminator
	Feminist		Man-hater		Woeman - antiphallic gender discriminator
	Postmodernist		Idiotic		pro-definitionless
	Relativist		Coward		subjectivist
	Deconstructionist		Whiner		academically intolerant
	Religious Hater		Atheist		deistiphobic
	Communist		Red Bastard		Genocidal communitarian
	Lesbians		Dykes		vaginal hypersexualist
	Pornographers		Degenerates		sexual addict and social sexual infector
	Neoconservative		Liberal		Democratic Imperialist
	Radical Blacks		Uppity		Afrikan reinventionist
	Racial Instigators		Outside Agitators		Corporate racialists
	Modernists		Modernists		Ageists - elderly intolerant

Non-Gay Men with Girlfriends get Married to Each Other

NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Uploaded on Nov 16, 2008

Two Heterosexual men obtain three marriage licenses in Auburn, Worcester and Southborough, MA. They tell the county clerks they're marrying for benefits sake, they have girlfriends, and they will soon get divorced.

In James' speech to the American Chesterton Society in 2010, he offers some insight into the thinking behind the video:

"When I visit these government bureaus in my investigative videos I find that nothing shocks people anymore. Nothing shocks a bureaucrat. There's a sense of soullessness in the way they conduct their affairs. In other video I got married. Now I am heterosexual, and I got married to a male friend of mine. I got a marriage license saying I want to get married and get divorced in a week; I just want the benefits. And they married me. They didn't blink an eye."

Also the Washington Examiner had a short article about the video in 2010 which has since been scrubbed. This from the archived page:

Say what? O'Keefe tried to marry a man in 2008

[...]

Like a scene out of "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" O'Keefe and his friend Ben Wetmore attempted to legally marry in the commonwealth of Massachusetts for "insurance purposes." But unlike the 2007 film, the two made it clear to city workers and O'Keefe's hidden cameras that they were not gay, and had girlfriends. They said the marriage was merely for benefits and the two intended to divorce.

"I just want to make sure, is it OK that we're not gay?" O'Keefe asks in the video.
When Yeas & Nays asked O'Keefe for comment on the video, he said, "Ben and I were investigating the way soulless government bureaucrats treat the institution of marriage in Massachusetts. 'It's just a piece of paper, right?'"

Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:

Ben R. Wetmore

Ben Wetmore

Ben Wetmore and James O'Keefe are both former students and employees of The Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Wetmore was the Institute's Director of Student Publication Workshops 2004-2006, and O'Keefe was one of its Field Coordinators in 2007.

From the files of Ben Wetmore: "One recent crazy night"

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from November 2008, "One recent crazy night":

A friend asked me to go record a meeting of radical homosexuals at a public meeting, and so I went. It was held at a government high school, after-hours, and the discussion of choice was on how best to structure homosexual activities in middle and high schools. I drove up and parked, walked inside and had a hard time discerning where to go. I saw a man walking with purpose, and decided to ask him. I asked him if he knew where the meeting was being held, and he prompted me to give him which one it was. I told him it was the GLBT one, and he prodded further. It seemed as though he wanted to screen me to see if I was actually going to the meeting or if I was an outsider. After I passed his informal test, he said he was going that way and that I could walk with him.

He was an older man, and the perfect expression of every stereotype of government school administration. He had an underlying personal tension, and his skin even had that awkward dark tint of a man in small authority. His short white hair were little yardsticks of his creativity, suffocated no doubt from years of bureaucracy. It feels awkward to write that, since I'm sure he's a 'good man' and 'everyone around him likes him' and it's uncouth to talk of people in such a way. However, he was also going to give the welcome to a group of people spreading perversion to kids, so I don't feel too bad about it.

As we walked, he asked me what all the initials meant. Never once in my life have I been hit on by homosexuals nor been confused for one, so I tried my best to play along. I avoided being too over the top with the lisp though, not because it's inaccurate, rather, I just didn't think I could pull it off.

I sat down in a cafeteria and tried to look busy. I had arrived early, and the head organizer approached me, surely I looked suspicious. She was nice, but was clearly probing for who I was with. I said half-truthfully that I was writing a story and a part-time journalist. She then left me, as I sat in this long awkwardly extended rectangular cafeteria and proceeded to deal with the refreshments.

Time passed and no one arrived. I thought it odd. Then I realized that everyone had left. The meeting was elsewhere and they decided to leave me in the cold. I wandered around the school for a while, pacing the linoleum, breathing in that strong cleaning agent that every school overuses, and passed the empty classrooms looking for the room I was supposed to be in. I covered almost the entire school, and was about to leave when I saw a very obviously gay man enter the building.

I decided to follow him.

He was lost as well, however, and he was even a speaker. We ran into the same principal and he gave us better directions. Together we walked to the right room, through the maze of the needlessly complex laid out school.

I arrived at the right room, finally, only about 15 minutes late. I entered a room full of homosexuals and transsexuals. They were of all ages, older, middle-aged, younger and even, sadly, high schoolers. I sat there as comfortably as I could, awkward from the environment and also from those tiny blue chairs that all schools buy. In a room full of perverts I started dissecting my own sexuality. A degree of introspection that I can't turn off kept racing in my head and I thought about my similarities to this group rather than my obvious differences.

They were fellow human beings, deserving of respect and rights. But they had serious problems as well. The several men dressed as women and women who had been surgically altered to be men clarified my mental confusion. But, strangely, even sitting there realizing that they were all perverted, I started identifying with them after a time. My own little Stockholm syndrome kicked on surprisingly fast. It's such an amazing topic to politicize and publicize, that I think it lends itself to conversions so easier.

These groups and these interests never promote stable sexual behaviors or lifestyles. The Theology of the Body, a popular Catholic teaching about sexuality, never enters their minds. If abstinence is taught, it's presented as a joke, as something totally unrealistic. Rather, one's taught to do whatever feels good, and to treat the symptoms later, never the disease. In the case of AIDS, that becomes literally true: don't adjust your behavior, agitate for cures to the disease because the behaviors can't be changed.

Which isn't even to say that homosexual behavior must be changed. But if homosexual partners were monogamous and faithful, there would be a next to zero chance to catch AIDS.

One's sexuality is at the core of their identity, and yet so unthought of, so taken for granted. Homosexuals say that and mean that one should 'question' it and eventually become homosexual. I mean that in the sense that stability and order exists because most of us don't question it, and probably shouldn't. So many questions have unfirm answers, and the process of asking a question can lead to doubt. For instance: if you trust someone 100%, and someone asks if you've heard that they've stolen from someone, even though you may still trust them, your trust was never the same. Simply the act of asking the question has changed your opinion. Such is the affect of suggestion, something this group has mastered.

I sat for 90 minutes as they talked about increasing the number of gay-straight alliance groups in high schools, middle schools, and further 'improving' the curriculum in elementary schools. The power of suggestion to tell 11 year old kids that perhaps they're "different" because they're gay.

No, I have nothing in common with these people. And after realizing and appreciating what was going on, it became quite easy to retain my resolve. 

Eric Kaiser Johnson: "Why do I have to vote a certain way?" and follow-up

Uploaded on Jul 24, 2008

You Catholics are all just one-issue voters! Why don't look at the big picture? Find out why we ARE looking at the big picture in this Young Catholic Minute!

Uploaded on Oct 10, 2008

Great comments, here's a little further clarification (based on leftbehind and bmwhvs's comments), and some book recommendations if you want MORE clarification.

NJO: Videos and captions from sometime Project Veritas culture warrior Eric Kaiser Johnson's YouTube channel Young Catholic Minutes.

Cecile Richards Sings Brass in Pocket

NJO: Video and blurb from James O'Keefe's personal YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/user/featherofsteel‎.

Uploaded on Oct 10, 2008

Planned Parenthood President sings Brass in Pocket Celebrating her Career Killing Kids

From the files of Ben Wetmore: Thoughts on beating Obama

NJO: "Benjamin Wetmore: A mentor of mine; a genius", said James O'Keefe in an interview in September 2009. So let's take a look at some of the wisdom of this certifiably mentorial influence on James' life.

Today, from September 2008, "Thoughts on beating Obama":

Watching the news and reading stories, I have two thoughts on how to deconstruct Barack Hussein Obama:

1. Destroy the brand
As much as I hate the politics of personal destruction, Obama's been a master of it in the past getting his surrogates to unseal a divorce proceeding of a former opponent, Jack Ryan, from many years ago. His stature has been blown up so big, that it just needs one solid cut to make a terminal wound in his brand. He needs something that really has a burnt-tongue aspect to the narrative he's crafted. He's a community organizer? Then show somehow that he cheated a welfare mom. He's a Harvard Law Review editor? Show his legal inexperience. Do what it takes to show that the Obama myth is all hope, and in so doing change people's perceptions.

2. Attack his greatest strength: speeches
Disruptions, like this one where they interrupted his speech, are effective at taking apart that carefully constructed moment. If Republicans actually cared about winning, they'd unplug his teleprompter no matter what it took-- hell, get arrested but just make sure he's seen as the empty suit he is when the teleprompter goes dark. He doesn't know what he's saying, he's just reading the scripts.

Now, having said all this, of course I need to restate that I won't be voting for McCain under any circumstances because of stem cells and amnesty. It's important never to forget that Obama may be awful, but McCain still isn't worth voting for when he has no problem killing kids and keeping the borders open.

UCLA Condoms

 

Uploaded on Sep 16, 2008

UCLA Condoms

NJO: Video and caption from James O'Keefe's personal YouTube account at http://www.youtube.com/user/featherofsteel‎. There are actually two copies of the video uploaded on the same day. If there's a difference between them I don't see it.

Another edit of the same video would be uploaded to anti-abortion activist Jill Stanek's YouTube account a year later. There are just a couple of small differences. One, this version is three seconds shorter, and two, where the first video featured Michael Bublé's "Save The Last Dance For Me" at the start and near the end, this edit features an original song by James and his friend Anthony Dini at the start, called "Hot Action":

James O'Keefe: UCLA Berkeley's Orgy Man

Uploaded on Sep 28, 2009

Many now know James O'Keefe for his undercover video sting of several nefarious ACORN outlets around the country. But this was not James' undercover video expose. In 2007 James portrayed himself to staff at UCLA Berkeley's Ashe Center and The Center for Women and Men, supposed student health groups, as a studly student about to embark on a Catalina boat orgy. Reported Live Action's The Advocate (http://is.gd/3Mpoj): In an awkwardly entertaining Live Action Films YouTube video, a student amasses over 100 condoms from the UCLA Ashe Center and the Center for Women and Men. He gets them by detailing his plans for an orgy to the front desk attendants. The receptionists tell him to take just three, but the condom man smirks and explains hell need a lot more for his weekend plans. Were going to Catalina on a boat-ride, he says enthusiastically. Ashe Center staff giggle off camera. Its understandable they might laugh. Less understandable is their encouragement. Can I come? Ashe staff workers ask. Are you going to have fun on the boat? Sex with multiple partners? As our student leaves, clutching his condoms, Ashe staff tell him to raise the roof! However, as health professionals, Ashes staff ought to know some sobering facts. Condoms have about a 12% failure rate, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council. That includes both condom breakage and errors in use. Having made off with 105 condoms in 1 run, the student can expect at least 12 rips and slips at his orgy. Failure could mean pregnancy or STDs. The health center staff mentioned none of these consequences. UCLA health services has failed to fulfill a basic responsibility. Song "Hot Action" copyright James O'Keefe and Anthony Dini. Used with permission. 

NJO: Video and blurb from Jill Stanek's YouTube channel.

"Hot Action", James O'Keefe and Anthony Dini (2008).

My transcription of the lyrics:

Look and you can find
A way to make it right
So you can get your sleep at night

Ohhhh

Listen to my basics
Open your mouth and taste it
Don't be afraid to face it
Give up your comfortable
Hundred K solution
Kickback contribution
For a truer use than
Once you come to know

We need a bit of action
That'll give this the traction
That's a matter of faction
Why don't you do, you'll bring us down (?)
Give some satisfaction
When you take civil action
Need to go and attack them
Need to shock and get the ground, ground, ground...

The song was later reworked to become "Landrieu Dance".