James O'Keefe is the young man who made a bunch of undercover videos that ended up taking down ACORN and resulted in the resignation of an executive working for NPR.
Well, he was financing these undercover investigations out of pocket.
And now, he needs money.
He has accrued something on the order of $50,000 of credit card debt in his efforts to make these heavily and deceptively edited performance art pieces that he has mistaken for investigative journalism.
Now, he is hoping that his fan base of Ayn Rand reading rugged individualists will donate money to him to get him in the black again.
That's a shame.
I'm sorry for Mr. O'Keefe but all my resources are tied up in keeping a roof over my head, my car's fuel tank filled to the tune of $4 per gallon, and food in my pantry.
Recently, a similar fate befell regional initiative advocate Tim Eyman. He put a mortgage on his house to finance one of his recent initiative efforts. And he made a plea to his political supporters to become his financial supporters recently. Link here.
Interesting.
The conventional wisdom has always seemed to be that conservatives were inherently better at handling money than liberals. But these guys appear to be really bad at managing their money.
Getting yourself into a financial bind and then asking strangers to bail you out is many things, but fiscally conservative is not one of those things.
I do my own video work, as local residents and my youTube account will bear out, but I have yet to put myself into any debt in my efforts to perform that work. And whatever expenses I accrued for such efforts were expenses that I either had to figure out how to cover ahead of time or just forsake accruing those expenses in the first place.
Not bad economic sensibilities for a leftist, Marxist, socialist liberal spendthrift, huh?
Well, he was financing these undercover investigations out of pocket.
And now, he needs money.
He has accrued something on the order of $50,000 of credit card debt in his efforts to make these heavily and deceptively edited performance art pieces that he has mistaken for investigative journalism.
Now, he is hoping that his fan base of Ayn Rand reading rugged individualists will donate money to him to get him in the black again.
"It cost us about $50,000 when all is said and done to produce the NPR video," O'Keefe said. "If you help us raise over $50,000, it will go toward our next video -- after we pay off our credits cards, of course."
from TalkingPointsMemo post.
That's a shame.
I'm sorry for Mr. O'Keefe but all my resources are tied up in keeping a roof over my head, my car's fuel tank filled to the tune of $4 per gallon, and food in my pantry.
Recently, a similar fate befell regional initiative advocate Tim Eyman. He put a mortgage on his house to finance one of his recent initiative efforts. And he made a plea to his political supporters to become his financial supporters recently. Link here.
Interesting.
The conventional wisdom has always seemed to be that conservatives were inherently better at handling money than liberals. But these guys appear to be really bad at managing their money.
Getting yourself into a financial bind and then asking strangers to bail you out is many things, but fiscally conservative is not one of those things.
I do my own video work, as local residents and my youTube account will bear out, but I have yet to put myself into any debt in my efforts to perform that work. And whatever expenses I accrued for such efforts were expenses that I either had to figure out how to cover ahead of time or just forsake accruing those expenses in the first place.
Not bad economic sensibilities for a leftist, Marxist, socialist liberal spendthrift, huh?
As had been the case with the claimed troubles of Tim Eyman, so also for O'Keefe my heart bleeds for the most recent trustifarian going "WAAAA!, HELP ME!".
ReplyDeleteAbe Jacobson
Bellingham