"Authorities Arrest Anti-ACORN Alumnus"

They sure did. Fucking brilliant. I wish I knew this guy.

This news is a few days old, but I've been super busy with more important things. I should be busy with those things right now, but I just had to post this. So good.

I didn't realize the guy who did the ACORN crap went to Rutgers, let alone is the guy who founded the Centurion. For those who don't know, which means anyone who may possibly see this with the exception of Alissa, the Centurion is the conservative paper at Rutgers. It is basically Fox News in print form, but dumber, while paradoxically appearing under the guise of an intelligent, thoughtful periodical. Even if you put aside the prominent spelling errors and repeated problems with spacing and layout, it's still of incredibly low quality. What you get in this magazine is the standard self-congratulatory group masturbation in which conservatives so often and gleefully engage. There is not really any news, just a lot of arrogant, reactionary commentary and a good amount of bellicose chest beating, fluffing out all their feathers as though there are more than ten of them on campus. They essentially hate everyone and everything that isn't them or their idols, want to harken back to a "golden age" that never was and mystifyingly proffer that global warming is a myth. Jesus.

If you take a look at their most current issue, you see that they accomplish such daring feats as banging on a black man who has been dead for more than thirty years, actually referring to Bill Clinton as "Slick Willy" and deriding women's studies. What they put forth as "news" is readily available in a more in-depth form at virtually any news outlet and their commentary is trite and simplistic. That's what you get from zealots, I guess.

Anyway, so yeah, the guy who started it is in jail. Funny stuff. I'm sure they will lionize him and talk about him as a political prisoner, but the reality is that what he was doing was patently illegal, regardless of political affiliation. The next issue should be incredible.

Here is another story about it that shows some of his other fearless exploits, armed with that conservative dogma and video camera:

Despite a pretty good run through four years at Rutgers, O'Keefe regularly attended student government meetings even after graduating, a former student who attended during O'Keefe's time at the school tells TPM.

"Most memorable" to her was in spring 2007 when he attended a meeting where members wanted to go into closed session to elect a new member for an open seat in government. She said leaving the room was standard polite/privacy measure for the candidates.

O'Keefe "refused to leave the room and took out a video camera, videotaping our attempts to have him leave the room," she says. She said he sat there and refused to move and "ultimately campus police had to escort him out of the building."

What a hero he is, fighting that good fight against the oppressed, heavily editing his interactions with low-level employees of communist groups or whatever he thinks they are, and even the newspaper he founded. I also like the fact that he seems to have been terribly reluctant to have to graduate Rutgers. I wonder if that's a violation of his "rights." Sounds like he would have stayed forever if he could have. Maybe they offer some correspondence courses he can take while in federal prison.

The Lucky Charms are still there.