Cable News Network reporter Abbie Boudreau, focusing on a series about young conservative activists, became the target of right wing punk “journalist” James O’Keefe. O’Keefe, who made a name for himself for a destructive portrayal of ACORN, a liberal voter advocacy team under false pretenses, hoped to hurt the authority of Boudreau’s news series by … wait for it … attempting an Austin Powers-like seduction and distributing it on video. She was able to escape from the ordeal by an unlikely ally. A lady working for O’Keefe came to her senses and informed Boudreau of the plot.
Abbie Boudreau stays away from O’Keefe’s innovations
Abbie Bourdeau is an award winning investigative journalist. Lately she’s been focusing on a piece with right wing video producers, reports CNN. Boudreau wanted to attend a video shoot that incorporated O’Keefe. The director of the video told Boudreau that she had to ask O’Keefe if he would consent. O’Keefe wanted to use this opportunity so he asked Boudreau to meet him alone in person to talk about his video “Project Veritas.”. He was preparing to get Boudreau to go with him to a place that was being filmed and had a lot of champagne, condoms and sex toys. O’Keefe just assumed he’d easily be able to manipulate Boudreau to the room. He was hoping to get a viral video by capturing it all on camera. He may have ruined his personal career within the process instead of hurting Boudreau’s like he had prepared.
O’Keefe’s self impression is dangerous
O’Keefe’s’ plot was thwarted by one of his own, executive director of Project Veritas, Izzy Santa. Boudreau did not get on the boat after Santa stopped Boudreau and warned her as she was going in. O’Keefe is being made fun of for his plan already. It is something the media is enjoying. The Los Angeles Times had Jon Healy reporting on it. He said that O’Keefe was definitely “beyond brain dead,” when he came up with his plan to embarrass liberals. As outlined by Healy, it would have ended up being more like sexual harassment caught on camera anyway as O’Keefe doesn’t have the best seductive techniques in the world. He explained his plan on camera. O’Keefe said, “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 view the awkwardness and also the aftermath.”
Information from
CNN
cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/index.html?npt=NP1
Los Angeles times
opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2010/09/james-okeefe-cnn-abbie-boudreau.html
