ALEC had more to do with the Voter ID law changes than O'Keefe ever did, because his videos proved no voter fraud was taking place. Well, no voter fraud except for the voter fraud O'Keefe and his associates committed, anyway. Maybe not so odd, now that I think about it.

Be disruptive! O'Keefe is counting on the demise of mainstream media in order that all news consumers will simply choose a silo and cling to it. This enables dishonest reporting, which is O'Keefe's specialty. James would like for the more respected (and I use the term loosely) media outlets to look to people like him, and of course, the Franklin Center for their news. Just for fun, click that image to your right for a look at the current landing page. The last story is dated March 3rd, and there are two tributes to Andrew Breitbart on the front page.

News, just the way you like it.

World Domination, Pinky! - Rules 1 and 2 on steroids.

Tinker, Change, Repeat - Let's ask ACORN, NPR, Planned Parenthood, the SEIU and the NYU School of Journalism how they feel about this one. Also, Bloomberg, given that the soda story appears to be the latest target of tinkering, changing, repeating.

Make Media Cry - You get the media you deserve, I guess.

I expect we will be seeing much more of Mr. O'Keefe in the days and months to come. After all, he has a book to pimp, wingnut welfare to earn.

Snark aside, when I hear Ted Cruz tell a bunch of bloggers who are partying down with Foster Friess at CPAC that mainstream media is no longer the gatekeeper, I worry for our democracy. Citizen journalism is just fine, but O'Keefe's style of citizen journalism will send us down a rabbit hole we will never escape.

O'Keefe hasn't reformed. He's just gotten more confident about being the guy who shouts into the echo chamber first.