I'm not one to credit Andrew Breitbart's stable of “citizen journalists” with much in the way of competence. After all, these are the people who saw secret union messages in Robert Gibbs' purple bracelet and suggested the president stole the Nobel Prize winnings he hadn't even received yet. But is it too much to ask that when they claim that President Obama has a secret agenda, they at least demonstrate an understanding of the definition of “secret”?

BigGovernment.com regular Larry O'Connor claimed he'd discovered Obama's “radical agenda” regarding renewable energy in a video address Obama made for Organizing for America (OFA). To quote O'Connor:

The latest string of emails sent out by OFA have been talking points about renewable energy and the BP oils pill. The latest of these solicitations had a video address embedded in an email from the President specifically asking for OFA's support to “rebuild our nation's economy on a new foundation” of renewable energy. He tells OFA members that we must “seize this moment,” to pass comprehensive energy reform or we will “miss our chance.” It appears that President Obama would never say something like this in a Presidential address from the oval office but when it's “just us,” he has no problem divulging his true agenda.

The obvious problem with this is that Obama did use this exact same language in an Oval Office address. But let's take a step back and look at the premise of O'Connor's argument -- that Obama has a secret radical agenda that was revealed in a videotaped address sent to millions of people via e-mail.

This might be a good time to review good and bad conspiracy practices:

GOOD CONSPIRATORIAL BEHAVIOR: Maintain a secret, radical agenda, but tell everyone publicly that you're doing something completely different. Never, ever tell anyone about your true plans even as you're enacting them. Sit back, twist mustache, and cackle maniacally. Repeat as necessary.

BAD CONSPIRATORIAL BEHAVIOR: Maintain a secret, radical agenda, and lay it out in a pre-taped video address which you then e-mail to people all over the country and post online, working under the assumption that the only people who will see it are those already clued into the scam -- “just us,” as O'Connor termed it.

Now, I don't want to tell a crack “citizen journalist” how to do his job, but people with secret agendas tend not to post YouTube videos of themselves talking about their secret agendas.