Jonathon Burns: St. Louis Conservative Activist in on Prank to Punk CNN

• Conservative Guy writes: "Gee, your (RFT) your journalistic integrity shows through with your impartial writing" James O'Keefe describes himself as a "journalist." Perhaps his journalistic standards -- lying, misrepresenting himself, making up stuff -- are more to your liking. Oh, wait. You don't really want journalism, do you? You just want stuff that agrees with your preconceived ideas about the world, even when they are so obviously wrong. James O'Keefe punked himself. Too bad you're not a little smarter. Then you might finally have enough brains to be ashamed of yourself.

• Warned. Ambushed. Sabotage. Gee, your (RFT) your journalistic integrity shows through with your impartial writing style. Where is your "This ad paid for by" note,?

• I really don't get this guy. What does he want? Attention?

• Their plan had a fatal flaw - there's no way a girl that pretty would go anywhere with 2 idiots that look like they do.

• If I recall, John Burns was the only guy in Florissant to make his own "No on Prop A" signs and post them in his lawn. The best part is, the Burns family, much like most people, probably don't use Metrolink except when they have tickets to a sporting event downtown. Anyone who agrees with Burns' insane belief that "no one uses the transit system" is so myopic to to how many people depend on the bus for transportation. They are the people who we depend on to do all the things we ourselves would not do. They cook our meals, they clean up our trash, they connect our calls. They guard us while we sleep. (Yeah, that was a paraphrase from Fight Club, but it is the brutally honest truth.) Many of the people who allow society to function are the people who take the bus everywhere. Since John Burns is not one of those people, nor has an appreciation for them, it is up to those people who Burns has no appreciation for to speak their minds to him and his ilk.

• I think for O'Keefe's next media fiasco he should build a time machine, go back to 2009 and stay there forever since he's never going to reproduce the magic he created with his ACORN video. He captured America's imagination with the twist ending at the end of his first effort: *SPOILER* The twist was that absolutely none of it was real. But since then his pranks have just been a series of failed attempts that has only proven that he is a one-trick pony. The sad thing is people are going to go see his videos just because his name is attached and financiers are going to keep giving him money for new stunts because he is profitable. I haven't seen this most recent attempt, nor do I plan on it; all early reviews indicate it's just going to be another tired story with dopey dialogue, an outlandish premise, a love story that would never work in the real world and then the same twist ending as all the rest of his work. I also heard that after he was done filming everything he decided to make it 3-D and as a result it looks really bad. Until O'Keefe learns that as an artist you need to evolve and grow and stop releasing the same thing that made you famous a few years ago, Americans are going to increasingly dislike the work he makes.

• I as a woman I can think of many other words for Johnathon Burns and I got a lot of friends who agreee!

• I think "punk" is far too light of a word to describe what they were doing. They were trying to lure a woman, alone, onto their boat while they would videotape themselves "pretending" to harass her.

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