CNN's Abbie Boudreau has a documentary on now that, to this blogger, is totally annoying. It's supposed to be a kind of expose against young conservative activists.
But on its surface it seems like an excuse for Abbie Boudreau, who's described as one of the
"hottest reporters" on CNN to be around young attractive white guys.
Oh, and to talk about escaping the production of a sex tape with her in it.
Abbie Boudreau And The Sex Tape Caper
That's the big news we get out of this? This CNN Documentary called
Right On The Edge? That Abbie Boudreau 'escaped" the obtuse Anti-ACORN James O'Keefe's "sex den" boat called "Cinco" where he planned to seduce her on camera and make a sex tape from it? Oh boy. Fire up the Feminist bloggers!
So what? So we need this episode to be reminded of how creepy this group is? That's not news! And what's more idiotic is how the blogs just pick up the story without questioning how they're being manipulated into paying attention to this crap without a critical eye.
Even Cord Jefferson at the black-oriented news website
The Root fell for this, accusing O'Keefe of exhibiting white privilege, but failing to note that Abbie, who's white, was
trusting enough of O'Keefe to drive to the boat by herself to board it, rather than refuse his invitation altogether. In other words, she trusted an attractive young conservative white guy enough to consider meeting him
on his boat alone.
If it were not for O'Keefe's assistant in the sex tape prank coming forward to warn Abbie beforehand, there would have been another sex tape for Harvey Levin at TMZ to get a hold of.
As Abbie stated herself, Izzy Santa essentially saved Abbie from the trip to the boat. Had she not done so, Abbie was prepared to go along with James. The point here is that it should not have taken Izzy Santa's intervention. The assertion is that Abbie was too trusting of James because he fits all of the cues that for Abbie would cause her to trust him: young, attractive, and white.
And the reason for her story in the first place.
Just Wants To Be With The White Guys
Moreover, in the documentary, CNN's Abbie Boudreau prances around in skin tights and generally arousing dress, while the guys she talks to are all clean-cut, white, young, athletic types. Get the image?
I'd have far more respect for
Abbie Boudreau's work, and would be a fan of her work, if she, as a white reporter, produced a documentary on black political activists in Washington DC.
This blogger doesn't buy the idea that a black person should do that story because that idea is segregationist. Doing it would show that Boudreau has a real curiousity that extends beyond her skin, and bring a new, untold story to America's view.
Yes, Abbie Boudreau has done good, award-winning, journalistic work - but not
great. Much of it cements stereotypes about myopic and ineffective government and questionable military policies hampering soldiers.
What
Right On The Edge does is just serve as an echo chamber to
show us white young conservatives that people who pay attention to politics have already known about. And what this
blogger is tired of is how these people are being turned into household names by CNN, and by reporters like Abbie.
It's socially irresponsible to use media communication to reenforce, rather than change, social patterns. Abbie's work only serves to make young conservatives look cool and sexy. That James O'Keefe may have some sexual fetishism is not likely to diminish how attractive his overall approach may be to a conservative sympathizer in the television audience.
Who may have their own fetishisms.
Toward Good, Revealing News
Meanwhile, the story of reporting what happens to Democrats in Congress and why it can't get out its message to the public, suffers. Problems of how the Democratic message to African American and to the public isn't getting out there. A problem that Rep. James Clyburn talked about at length in a meeting with black bloggers, and ignored by CNN and undoubtedly not known to Abbie Boudreau.
If she were curious, she would have known about it.
In fact, Abbie should have been the only white person in the Clyburn meeting, if only to see another side of America that this blogger bets she routinely ignores.
