NPR Needs To Borrow Rachel Maddow's Balls

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Wow, tell me if you've heard this stupid story before.

James O'Keefe comes out with a video that has an ostensible "liberal" (defined herein as someone who believe the earth is round and Jesus did NOT, in fact, ride a dinosaur into Jerusalem) saying something that sounds "teddibly uncivil".

The liberal institution recoils in horror and fires said target of Mr. O'Keefe's video.

Days pass.

Unedited version of the video appears effectively exonerating the target.

Hunh! Well, hoocodanode!

I can distinctly remember hearing about the Shirley Sherrod thing driving through western Colorado.  I was thinking to myself, "Self... who gave the OK to fire this woman after a few hours or hyperventilating media coverage."  And Self could not come up with an answer.

When she was exonerated by the subsequent release of the unedited tape, I thought to myself, "Self, James O'Keefe will now join Pauly Shore, Yasmine Bleeth and Screech from Saved By The Bell in the scrap heap of people who were famous for no fucking reason."

But once again, Self was woefully ignorant.  When O'Keefe surfaced again, like a roach when the light is flicked on in a Motel 6 in Pensacola, I thought to myself, "Self, no one is going to believe this asshat, right?"

Oh, Self, when will you learn?

So, O'Keefe targets NPR. NPR responds as any good liberal institution does by firing anyone associated with this, including people who have the same last name as the dude in the video.

Then, we find out  O'Keefe judiciously edited his video to make the dude look bad.

Two things.

The next time James O'Keefe releases a video, the media should treat it the way they treat an opening of a WalMart in Wichita.

And the next time O'Keefe comes after a "liberal" institution, that institution should say, "James O'Keefe is a lying punk.  We stand by our employees when they are attacked by mendacious little pricks.  If O'Keefe has tape of our employees, we can safely say that these tapes are fabrications.  Our lawyers will be handling this, and any other shit O'Keefe has in store from now on."

Really, Ira Glass was right.  You have to fight fire with fire a bazooka.

Oh, and NPR?  If you're taking hardass lessons from Ira Glass?  You've already lost.