The future: ACORN video producer says revolution has just begun

Say hello to the future of journalism, the 25-year-old says.

“This is what ’60 Minutes’ ought to do, but they don’t, because they have become irrelevant,” O’Keefe told Yeas & Nays Tuesday at cocktail party for Big Government blogger and Washington Times columnist Andrew Breitbart.

“They are all about protecting whoever they want to protect, and this is the new form of journalism.”

O’Keefe and his 20-year-old faux prostitute partner Hannah Giles were in Washington to reveal how they busted the Philadelphia Association of Community Organizations fore Reform Now office and quiet the organization’s claim that they were asked to leave. They released the video Wednesday morning at the National Press Club.

The two organized their now well-known “pimp and prostitute” scheme over Facebook. Giles, who had seen O’Keefe’s previous work — recordings he made in 2007 of Planned Parenthood workers — had an idea on how to take down ACORN.

“Hannah sent me a message and said, ‘James what are you up to?’ ” O’Keefe recalled to Yeas & Nays. ” ‘Not much, I’m doing some new videos, do you have any ideas?’ and she said, ‘Actually I have an idea, what if you went to ACORN as a prostitute?’ ”

With the plan hatched, the two recorded their experiences with ACORN, trying to get the organization’s East Coast offices to become accomplices in prostitution ring schemes.

O’Keefe told Yeas & Nays he recorded the audio from ACORN visits using an iPhone application called iTalk. And he borrowed his “pimp” shrug from his grandmother. The videos were produced with only $1,300.

But now that he’s getting national notoriety from the videos and has been slapped with a lawsuit from ACORN, has the exposure ruined future attempts to out more lefty organizations?

“That’s the biggest myth ever,” O’Keefe said. “If you look at anyone who does similar work, whether it by the ‘Yes Men’ or Sacha Baron Cohen, they get away with it over and over again — the revolution has just begun.”