3 Arrested for Bugging Landrieu Have Campus Newspaper Past

Three of the four men arrested yesterday by the FBI for a bizarre attempt to bug Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans got their start, one might say, as editors at campus newspapers that they helped form in response to alleged dominance or misdeeds by liberal papers. Two were started with grants from the Leadership Institute's "Balance in Media" project. One of the young men, of course, later came to national fame and infamy portraying a pimp in videos that exposed (or, if you will, entrapped) ACORN workers. That's James O'Keefe. He started The Centurion at Rutgers. Another man is Joe Basel, former chief of Counterweight at the University of Minnesota (Morris). Then there's Stan Dai who was the editor-in-chief of The GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper at George Washington U.

Here is an interview with them at CampusReform.org posted two weeks ago in which they (O'Keefe and Basel) talk about their college days. O'Keefe says: "Don't just respond to news, but actually create your own headlines." More from O'Keefe:

The more bold you are, the more opportunities will be open to you. The less bold you are, the less opportunities in life will be open to you. The less calculated risk you take in college, the more you're going to be looking for a job.

But the more you put yourself out there and you take those calculated risks--the contrary of what people actually think is going to happen--you're actually going to get opportunities.