"James who?" I hear you mutter, "Who's the old fool complaining about today?". Jame's O'Keefe, you ignoramuses, and I'm not complaining, just the opposite. He is the very young, very bright and very crafty leader of a small cabal of under-cover infiltrators who masquerade under different guises in order to gain entry to various organisations and people whom they then secretly film and record. That these organisations are some of the main, Left-wing-liberal bastions of American society and that they are thereby exposed by young Mr. O'Keefe as hypocritical, lying liars adds a shiver-inducing thrill when reading of his exploits. A few months ago he inveigled his way inside the ACORN organisation (former prop. B. Obama Esq.) and showed them up for the illegal ratbags that they are and which resulted in a partial collapse of their network. Now he has struck again with missile-like accuracy.
National Public Radio (NPR) is the rough equivalent of our own BBC, that is, a broadcasting organisation captured in its entirety by Left-wingers who, lying through their fright-white teeth, claim to be utterly neutral in their presentation of the news. Part of their income is derived from Federal grants which the new, and Republican, House of Representatives has been grumbling about and threatening to withdraw because of perceived but unprovable claims of bias. Well, now Mr. O'Keefe has winkled out the truth and as far as the two top honchos of NPR are concerned they have now learned the hard way that 'the truth shall make you free' because they have been forced to resign in disgrace and embarrassment.
O'Keefe and associates pretended to be representatives of a Muslim education foundation with millions of dollars to spend and the NPR bosses took the bait like a salmon hitting a fly. Lunch in a smart restaurant was arranged during which, according to Clarice Feldman of The American Thinker, they were recorded saying such things as:
"the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people."[...]
[S]aying that the Tea Party people aren't "just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."[...]
They expressed disdain for the tea party and non-Democrats, laughed at and expressed pride at the pretend donors' contention that they called NPR "National Palestinian Radio", endorsed the firing of Juan Williams [an impeccably liberal commentator who blotted his copy-book by appearing on Fox News and was fired for it], and seemed comfortable tacitly if not covertly endorsing the view that Jews and Zionists control coverage in the American media.
But best of all, and this is a real three-whinny job, one of these idiots was actually recorded as saying that NPR doesn't really need the Federal grant of $450 million and would be better off without it. Wha-wha-wha! I've heard of turkeys voting for Christmas but not rushing towards the slaughterhouse!
So anyway, look Mr. O'Keefe, I know you have an Irish background and that from time to time I have passed less than flattering remarks concerning your, er, motherland but it's time to let bygones be bygones, old chap, so, please, come over here and do what you do best, starting with the BBC. I can't promise the knighthood but I bet The Screws News of the World would give you a top job in a flash.
"in a flash" would be just the thing for the News of the Screws.
Posted by: dearieme | Monday, 14 March 2011 at 19:52
Sorry David, too late - we've taken Mr. O'Keefe's passport.
As for "exposing" NPR I think they pretty much accomplished that on their own when they fired Juan williams.
I will admit tho' I rather like the way Mr. O'Keefe, Tell's Em.
Posted by: JK | Tuesday, 15 March 2011 at 00:15
Very droll, DM.
JK, couldn't we just borrow him on a lend-lease deal?
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 15 March 2011 at 08:58