Occasionally I will hear someone exasperated at his tactics describe O’Keefe as a kind of terrorist. This is not wise and it’s not true. He doesn’t use violence; he’s an “entrapment journalist,” as Steve Meyers of Poynter put it. But having been targeted, I can see one thing in his methods that is akin to terrorism.

As I said, when someone asks to sit it on my class, I say “come on in.” But my students are now shocked and angry that their learning environment has been invaded by a trickster like O’Keefe. I need to prevent that from happening again. But the only way I can do so is by closing my classroom to all outsiders, or by looking into the background, motivations and character of potential visitors, which is creepy and offensive. O’Keefe has struck at a pedagogical strength–the openness of my classroom–and changed it into a weakness. In that precise sense, and no other, he is like a terrorist.

—Jay Rosen on shitheel rightwing shill and useless idiot James O’Keefe, who’s latest stupid prank took aim at Rosen and Clay Shirky. Rosen is right not to equate O’Keefe’s boring idiocy with actual terrorism even if O’Keefe is perfectly emblematic of the awful things that can happen when heinous people abuse true freedom.