Via Lindsay Beyerstein’s of Big Think and other sources, it’s being reported that Republican activist James O’Keefe conspired to film himself having sex with CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau in order to somehow embarrass her and her employers.

It says a great deal about O’Keefe that he and his colleagues would cook up a stunt like this.

It says considerably more that they agree he’s such unutterable scum that having sex with him ought to be a career-ending humiliation.

Sheesh! And these are the kind of people who go around saying feminists hate men!

Here’s that story by the way.

Dirty trickster James O’Keefe’s foray into gonzo porn has ended disastrously for him. O’Keefe schemed to seduce CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau in front of hidden cameras. The right wing media activist, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of attempted phone tampering, tried to lure CNN’s ace investigative reporter to a small boat, excuse me, a “floating pleasure palace,” stocked with sex toys, strawberries, champagne, hidden cameras, and Mr. James O’Keefe.

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The memo argues that Boudreau deserves what the conspirators hope she’s about to get: “The joke is that the tables have been turned on CNN. Using hot blonds to seduce interviewees to get screwed on television, you are faux seducing her in order to screw her on television.”

O’Keefe feared that Boudreau might get the better of him as a journalist, so he plotted to destroy her with sex. Once again, male privilege and misogyny eclipse common sense.

She said it here.

I think Beyerstein’s right that the episode exposes the roots of misogyny and privilege in the daft but deep conviction that men are fundamentally unlovable and unloved. That combined with the equally deep, and equally flawed conviction that only broken or damaged women desire sex (or conversely that desiring sex damages or breaks women) breeds the desperate and self-fulfilling resentment that fueled O’Keefe’s stunt.

And just to be really, really clear here, while the conspiracy says volumes about O’Keefe and his fellow Republican’s entirely juvenile inability to shed the both of bogus Two Rules of Desire it reveals no more about their intended victim that if O’Keefe had instead planed to meet her wearing a belt filled with explosives.