Over the past week, media outlets have given significant coverage to conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, who, with Townhall.com columnist Hannah Giles, dressed up as a pimp and prostitute and secretly videotaped ACORN employees providing them with counseling. But this is
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not the first time O'Keefe has engaged in such activities in support of conservative causes; as a Rutgers University undergraduate, O'Keefe videotaped a classmate distributing to a Women in Culture and Society lecture a handout that emphasized that a "good wife always knows her place."October 2005: O'Keefe videotapes
distribution of "good wife's guide" to Women in Culture and Society
class
O'Keefe's magazine says he was
"chased ... out" after
he and a colleague "attempted to distribute literature." In an article for its October 2005 issue,
The Centurion -- a Rutgers University conservative magazine at which
O'Keefe served as editor-in-chief -- reported:
[Centurion reporter] Greg Walker and James
O'Keefe attempted to distribute literature (below left) in Professor Munem's
Women in Culture and Society lecture. They felt that this literature would be of
interest since it involves one aspect of the role of women in our culture and
society. However, Professor Munem felt that the literature was "inappropriate"
for her class and chased them out. She accused them of interrupting her lecture
even though they had asked - and had been granted - permission to enter, and had
done so immediately prior to the start of the lecture. Considering that many
other organizations, from the Eastern
Service Workers' Association to Free Palestine to NJPIRG, are allowed to distribute their
literature unmolested, we feel that her actions constituted ideological
discrimination.
posted on The Centurion's website is a copy of a May
13, 1955, article in
Housekeeping Monthly titled "The
good wife's guide." The article urges readers, among other things, to "[b]e a little gay and a
little more interesting for him" and not to "ask him questions about his actions
or question his judgment" because "he is the master of the house" and "[y]ou have no right to question him." The
admonition "[a] good
wife always knows her place" is circled.
www.rucenturion.com." In the video, O'Keefe tells Munem, "We just want to inform women, like, we just want to inform
them, and we want to add to the
diversity of the dialogue." When asked for his name and school, O'Keefe gives his name as "Tom Smith" and says that he
attends "Worker's College."
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