Oh well, that explains everything and I'm sure federal prosecutors will immediately drop charges against O'Keefe and his three prankster pals. Because if right-wingers want to allegedly go 'undercover' and enter a federal building under false pretense and then film the inside of a senator's phone closet, while monkeying around with the senator's phone (i.e. if they're tagged with an intent to commit a felony), well, who is the FBI or the U.S. Marshall's Office to stop them right?

According to O'Keefe's mentor, Andrew Breitbart, the pranksters were simply trying to make somebody look “foolish” and they will be “vindicated.” (i.e. They did nothing wrong.) So of course, established laws should not apply to them. Being a “conservative journalist” means the rules don't matter, I guess.

After all, if in our post-9/11 world, if four liberal, Arab-American twentysomething activists went undercover and sneaked their way into a GOP senator's office and filmed their escapade, fact-free folks like Breitbart would have no problem with that, right? They would never demand a DOJ investigation or try to connect imaginary dots to the Obama White House, right?

Fact: The stench of hypocrisy surrounding Breitbart and his protégé's other apologists is becoming truly pungent.

UPDATED: Maybe Breitbart should listen to his readers:

He [O'Keefe] should be prosecuted for anything he did that was illegal, period. We can't hold ourselves to a different standard, and I do have to admit that I'd go ballistic if I heard some lib filmmaker was being suspicious in a republican senator's office.