Andrew Breitbart, who helped James O’Keefe spread his ACORN smears by giving him a forum on his web site, now thoroughly disapproves of O’Keefe’s plans to punk a female CNN reporter by getting her on to a “pleasure palace” boat and seducing her in front of a camera, calling it “patently gross and offensive.”

Because dressing himself up like a 70’s pimp and a female associate as a whore and parading in to a variety of offices trying to solicit help in committing tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution; selectively editing the videos to make them look incriminating; and then spreading them so as to destroy an organization which worked to provide voter registration, health care, housing, and neighborhood safety for lower-income families… well, that was just a class act. Breitbart says that he “proudly” stands by the ACORN fraud, which he called a “groundbreaking investigation.”

And O’Keefe’s attempt to illegally enter the offices of a Democratic senator by fraudulently claiming to be telephone repair workers, then asking for access to the office’s “phone closet” (but, they claim, not so they could tamper with it, no, they’d never do that)–well, that was just a big misunderstanding, all they wanted to do was to force some kind of situation that would embarrass the people involved. Breitbart, apparently, thought that was just fine, and vigorously defended O’Keefe on his site.

But seducing a CNN reporter on camera? Well, that just lacks the professionalism and finesse of O’Keefe’s earlier work.

I have to say, the right wing is just brimming with sophistication and integrity.