Sunday Funnies with Jimmy O'Keefe

Yes, people like Chuck C. "rage furby" Johnson are annoying, but I for one am in favor of keeping them guarded and tethered outside just for their unique brand of entertainment value.  We provided the link to Chuck's website since he's been banned from Twitter or don't follow Charles Johnson you tend to forget who he is. Go there to find out.

You may recall that Jimmy made his first big splash in the world of investigative journalism (to James and his ilk) or "confusing stunt journalism" to most everyone else was the great ACORN Sting Operation of 2009, where he gorged on the attention with such intensity that it actually ate his brain.

Thus, his next more popular public display of brainless mediocrity was the Telephone Man Sting, when everything went way south of la frontera.  He duped a lot of reporters into believing him a conservative boy wonder, until Telephone Man.

To those unfamiliar with Telephone Man, James believed a political colloquialism ("our phone lines are jammed with callers") to be a statement of fact, along the lines of a speech "tossing red meat" to foment rage in a crowd of partisans.

The idea was to go undercover wearing the orange vest, and somehow examine Senator Claire McCaskill's office switchboard or something and victoriously announce someone was able to put a call through. Or something.

Anyway, our border related laugh of the day is Jimmy's repeated attempts to wade across the Rio Grande in an Osama Bin Laden costume and, we assume, pat himself on the back when nobody shoots him.

Meanwhile we suppose a group of curious onlookers gathers, wondering what the hell he was doing that for.

The only thing Jimmy accomplishes with this particular antic is to distract Border Guards from noticing maybe seven raftloads of weed going by and several drownings-in-progress a few miles downriver.  We certainly hope not, but neither can border agents be everywhere at once.  It must be hard to pull away from a spectacle.  It's just hardwired in humans to be amazed by the strange.

Daughter: Papa, ¿Por qué el payaso está en el río?

Father: él es probablemente loco.

Si.