Interviewed with alleged accomplice, O'Keefe offers advice to youngsters: “The more bold you are, the more opportunities will be open to you”

Written by Karl Frisch

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Earlier this month, James O'Keefe and one of his alleged accomplices in a plot to interfere with the phones* at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office, Joseph Basel, were interviewed by The Centurion -- a right-wing student publication at Rutgers University which, coincidently enough, claims O'Keefe as “founding editor.”

Much of the interview is what you'd expect from O'Keefe, though there are a few gems worth highlighting (emphasis added):

Campus Reform: One final question. As you guys got more involved in student publications, what has been your experience with networks and professional opportunities?

O'Keefe: The more bold you are, the more opportunities will be open to you. The less bold you are, the less opportunities in life will be open to you. The less calculated risk you take in college, the more you're going to be looking for a job.

But the more you put yourself out there and you take those calculated risks--the contrary of what people actually think is going to happen--you're actually going to get opportunities. Especially with someone like Hannah [Giles], who is a college student in Florida, you know, everyone telling her 'Oh, don't dress up like a [explicit]. Don't do that, you're going to ruin your career.'

Well, now she's working for Andrew Breitbart! And she's a journalist for Breitbart doing investigative journalism for the new site BigJournalism. So, I would encourage everyone to take on the challenge in college of being as assertive as you can possibly be in going after the truth.

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Correction: This post originally misattributed the source of O'Keefe's interview; O'Keefe was interviewed by Adam Weinberg for CampusReform.org.

*Correction: This post inaccurately stated that James O'Keefe was arrested in an alleged plot to wiretap Sen. Landrieu's office. The error was based on media reports (such as this one). The FBI affidavit actually alleged that O'Keefe and the others arrested were engaged in a plot to “interfer[e]” with Landrieu's telephone system. We regret the error.