Sree Sreenivasan ambushed by James O'Keefe

Columbia Journalism School Dean of Students Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) is confronted by conservative activist James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII), of NPR-, ACORN-, and Planned Parenthood-snookering fame, at roughly 11 a.m. EST on Monday, November 7.
I was sitting working on a story when I noticed a couple of people with a camera and a microphone talking with Sree, but I didn't think too much of it until Sree stood up and said that the guy with the microphone was James O'Keefe.
O'Keefe wanted a response to his allegations that a Columbia professor Dale Maharidge had sent him a "profanity-laced" e-mail, and that another had advocated the re-election of Barack Obama.
Afterwards, O'Keefe told me outside the school that he was interviewing Sree as part of his new campaign, "To Catch A Journalist."
"We've caught your professors on tape talking about the need to re-elect the president," he said. "I think it's time for you guys to start practicing a bit of introspection. I think that journalism professors need to not determine what politicians to elect, and they need to do more fact finding in order to let the public determine that."
"You have to excuse me, because I have to go get someone's comment right now," he said.
Filmed by Columbia J-School student Nat Herz (@nat_herz).

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• Columbia Journalism
• Columbia Journalism School
• Sree Sreenivasan
• James O'Keefe

[drmatt2003]

@cvr527 You comments are typical of anti-intellect teabaggers. Your only retort for EVERY situation is "why are you afraid of __________ [insert teabagger]" NO ONE is afraid you radical fascist dolts. You are pathetic losers. You are a joke. You are insignificant. O'Queef proves this point.

[mike2lane]

I love how obviously nervous O'Keefe is at :50 - mispronouncing the most basic of words. Yet another mental rookie the GOP has on a pedestal.

[firstatheist]

This was kind of a flop wasn't it O'keefe?

[SurlytheCLown]

@TheShannon76 He's doing it to make sure O'Keefe doesn't lie about the whole incident like he usually does.

[Euglenium]

haha...I love watching dicks get dicked around!

[Coelacanth1938]

At least James O'Keefe didn't date rape Sree Sreenivasan like he tried with that female reporter.

[marzilyas]

@RosenKrantz666 no, James O'Keefe dresses himself funny. at least the dean didn't try to get a female journalist to go on a "sex-cruise" with him

[marzilyas]

@dubonic11 you forgot about his "sex-cruise" ambush

[UnclePimmem]

@mike2lane He was out of his league, and he knew it.

[UnclePimmem]

Wow. Talk about getting pwned.

O'Keefe was w-a-a-a-y out of his league here, and he knew it.

Going in, he must have thought that Columbia's J-school dean would be an easy dupe. Poor James got his hat and ass handed to him.

[SOBXDWG]

Title should be "Give me my 15 minutes of fame back, I'm James O'Keefe"

[pakaalito]

I think the title should be changed to "James O'Keefe Ambushed by Sree Sreenivasan."