O’Keefe, Flanagan, Basel and Dai. O’Keefe seems to be getting the most press, it sounds like he was the ringleader and also it follows neatly on the whole ACORN filming episode. He’s trying to be the right wing’s answer to Michael Moore but he’s forgetting, as people on the right tend to, that Michael Moore is a serious, ethical investigative journalist and a brilliant film maker. O’Keefe is just a punk kid with a teabagger agenda.
They all have their claims to fame, though. Flanagan is the son of a U.S. attorney who was in tight with the Bush administration. Basel may be dating Scott Brown’s daughter and Dai wrote a really stupid thing in college called The Penis Monologues which is supposed to be a parody of The Vagina Monologues but just comes across as the miserable whining of a guy who isn’t getting any. The kind of guy who thinks feminist and lesbian are the same thing and any girl who doesn’t want to go out with him must be one.
A stellar crew. And their plan was brilliant. Pretend to be telephone repairmen, go into Mary Landrieu’s office, plant bugs in the phones, and wait to harvest some nasty information. Happens all the time on TV.
Therein lies the problem. It probably doesn’t really happen like that in real life. If the government wants to bug your phone, they don’t send in a bunch of college kids dressed up as telephone repairmen. They have the phone company send out some telephone repairmen.
So, they got busted when some sharp eyed staffer asked to see their credentials. Perhaps even, since O’Keefe was on the news quite a bit during the whole ACORN kerfuffle, someone recognized him. Or realized that the mustache was fake. Or that their toolboxes still had the price tags attached. Or that they seemed too clean and efficient to be actual telephone repairmen.
In real life, there are a million things that can go wrong when you pretend to be something you’re not. On TV, it works every time. These kids have just been watching too much TV.
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