{"id":4088,"date":"2010-09-30T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2010-09-30T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T22:40:08","slug":"young-conservatives-hoisted-on-their-own-retard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"Young Conservatives hoisted on their own Retard! UPDATE:"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Young%20Conservatives%20hoisted%20on%20their%20own%20Retard%21%20UPDATE%3A%20%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Now can we say &#8220;so long&#8221; to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/09\/29\/okeefe.cnn.prank\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\">non-journalist slime<\/a> that is James O&#8217;Keefe?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> O&#8217;Keefe prank partner tries to defend themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/james-okeefe-cnn-scandal-093010#ixzz113RjGKVs\">in this\u00a0Esquire\u00a0piece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ESQ:<\/strong> <em>People are accusing you of misogyny and worse. What did you hope to achieve?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Ben Wetmore]:<\/strong> It was humor. There was a joke to it \u2014 James isn&#8217;t a lothario of sexual conquest at all. It was going to be awkward, not sexually aggressive. It was meant to be outlandish and ridiculous. When you dissect and sterilize a joke, it&#8217;s not funny anymore \u2014 when you read the transcript of an\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em> skit, you&#8217;re not going to laugh, but you do when it&#8217;s performed. It seems one way in print, but the video would&#8217;ve looked very different&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, The reason why you wouldn&#8217;t laugh at a transcript of SNL is because.. well&#8230; Ben, SNL has not been very funny in many years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ESQ:<\/strong> <em>But your work is political. Was there an ideological point to this? Are you trying to be a <\/em>Daily Show<em> of the right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BW:<\/strong> It was a comment on CNN&#8217;s methods \u2014 how they get stories versus how those stories turn out&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That makes absolutely no sense. How exactly is luring a female reporter under false pretenses onto a boat filled with dildos and a dildo \u00a0 &#8220;commentary&#8221;&#8230; Oh, I get it&#8230; \u00a0No, wait, no I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;In the grander scheme, the overall story that&#8217;s unfolding is somewhat ironic. And there isn&#8217;t an antecedent we&#8217;re trying to replicate. James is doing his own thing. &#8230; I may give him some ideas from time to time, but he&#8217;s his own man and mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guys, learn to quit while you&#8217;re ahead!&#8230; Or, in this case, less behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Young%20Conservatives%20hoisted%20on%20their%20own%20Retard%21%20UPDATE%3A%20%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Now can we say &#8220;so long&#8221; to the non-journalist slime that is James O&#8217;Keefe? UPDATE: O&#8217;Keefe prank partner tries to defend themselves in this\u00a0Esquire\u00a0piece: ESQ: People are accusing you of misogyny and worse. What did you hope to achieve? [Ben Wetmore]: It was humor. There was a joke to it \u2014 James isn&#8217;t a lothario [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}