Jersey Boy Helps Bring Down Corrupt Liberal Crime Syndicate

Let's hear it for James O'Keefe, the best pimp to come out of North Jersey since Silvio Dante. He's the one on the left, in case you're a member of the antique media who hasn't heard of him yet (I'm looking at you, Charles Gibson).

It seems O'Keefe is the most upstanding Irishman from Jersey since, well, me. OK, enough with the humility.

Remarkably, the staunchly liberal rag known as the Star Ledger has a favorable write-up of the new Public Enemy No. 1 of the Democratic Party. O'Keefe honed his chops at the People's Republic of Piscataway, also known as Rutgers University. How he escaped there with his faculties intact is a mystery, so I'll chalk it up to good parenting.

Here's a link to the SL story and a snippet.

Back in 2004, when he was the editor of a conservative magazine at Rutgers University, James O'Keefe III mounted a satirical campaign to ban Lucky Charms cereal from campus dining halls on the premise the breakfast fare was offensive to Irish-Americans.

The operation, which included a hidden-camera video with a Rutgers dining services official, was intended to demonstrate what O'Keefe saw as the absurdity of political correctness.

Two years later, while a law student in California, the Bergen County native took on larger prey, using the same undercover tactics to expose crooked counselors at Planned Parenthood.

Now, with a string of shocking hidden-camera videos on the national group ACORN, O'Keefe has scored his biggest coup, stirring up a tempest that has resulted in a criminal investigation of ACORN employees, a denunciation of the group by the White House and congressional action to cut off millions of dollars in funding.

"The tone of my videos is unique," said O'Keefe in a telephone interview last night. "I'm not just reporting on something, I'm becoming something I'm reporting on."

And to think that, O'Keefe, 25, had planned to spend his year studying for an MBA at Fordham. Grad school will have to wait, said his father, James O'Keefe Jr.

"This has become his work full-time," the elder O'Keefe said yesterday in a telephone interview from the family's Westwood home. "He's an extremely conscientious, hard-working young man, and we're proud of him."

The younger O'Keefe, a former Eagle Scout who graduated from Westwood High School, and a friend, 20-year-old Hannah Giles, a journalism student at Florida International University, spent their summer traveling to ACORN offices across the nation. The group -- formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- helps the poor seek housing help from the government and conducts voter-registration drives.

The kid knows how to bust chops. My kind of guy.

A couple of points though: I don't recall the White House denouncing ACORN and it was the Senate that has voted to cut off funding for this criminal gang. The Queen of the House, we'll remind you, is supposedly unaware of attempts to cut off funding.

The notion that the White House has distance themselves from ACORN is, well, laughable.