Andrew Breitbart's Olde Tyme Anti-Democrat Minstrel Show

Yet another web log loves Leno, & certainly not because he does or doesn't sport Old Glory in his lapel.

Now if the mainstream media would just catch on that it is their job to report on it. Once upon a time this kind of story would be irresistible red meat for the media. What happened?

We have to wonder, if the mainstream media is indeed stumbling, uninsured, from emergency room to emergency room seeking treatment for its self-inflicted wounds,  why the worry about the boner pill & denture cleanser users (18 million or so, total?) who watch the monolith of objective nightly news broadcasts, or the however many who read the national newspapers & network websites, & the maybe five million shut-ins (We're one!) watching the cable news nets? (And around half of them are literal aging shut-ins, permanently tuned to FOX until dinner at 4:30.)

Suddenly, a stirring is felt. The WaPo wakes!

*Update: The Washington Post lives. This morning's paper carries this background story on the sting:

Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp, walk into the offices of the ACORN community activist group, openly admit to wanting to buy a house to run as a brothel, and see what happened. [. . .]

O'Keefe, 25, packed his grandfather's old wide-brimmed derby hat from his swing-dancing days, his grandmother's ratty chinchilla shoulder throw, and a cane he bought at a dollar store, then drove from his parents' home in northern New Jersey to the District to execute the idea with Giles, 20.

In the words of a wrasslin' announcer from 198?, "That was despicable! Let's look at it again!!"

O'Keefe, 25, packed his grandfather's old wide-brimmed derby hat from his swing-dancing days, his grandmother's ratty chinchilla shoulder throw, and a cane he bought at a dollar store, then drove from his parents' home in northern New Jersey

Did they think blackface would have been over the top?

Thanks to Pundit & Pundette for leading us to this. We wouldn't ordinarily have bothered. And the story isn't exactly the narrative whichever Pund is responsible thinks it is.

Consider: Two obviously nutty twenty-nothings, one of them carrying a stick & wearing "his grandmother's ratty chinchilla shoulder throw" walk into a community center or whatever. Would one tell the guy w/ a stick he's nuts & ask them to leave, or play along hoping they'd leave w/o having to bum rush them & receive a beat-down? Come on.

Indeed:

In Philadelphia, Neil Herrmann, ACORN's lead organizer there, said the couple was kicked out after talking to a counselor "for a few minutes." They called to set up an appointment the day before the visit.

"At first when the counselor came," she wasn't going to take them back," Herrmann said. "But they had made an appointment. When he mentioned the 13-year-old girls, they were asked to leave."

O'Keefe disputed Herrmann's account, saying "we talked to them for more than a few minutes."

ACORN emailed a copy of a Philadelphia police report dated July 24 to The Post to verify its account that police were called and the couple was shown the door. O'Keefe is named on the report.

Of further note:

The wanna-be hooker's father. Rad. Refreshing. Confrontational. How he makes his living. What Li'l Pimp has also been up to. And, democracy under the pimp hand:

Though O'Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans.

"Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization," he said. "No one was holding this organization accountable. No one in the media is putting pressure on them. We wanted to do a stunt and see what we could find."

That awful democracy, it beats conservatism every damn election, at least the elections where people's votes are counted.

Mr. O'Keefe, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to stop the engine of democracy, or at least stand athwart it, shouting loudly.