Project Veritas does the kind of investigative journalism that we would have expected the MSM or even the FBI to do years ago.

James O’Keefe has been slandered for his tactics, which make a lot of people uncomfortable because he secretly records people as they confess some of the most awful things. And his tactics do ride the line. But if you watched 60 Minutes in the 70s or 80s Mike Wallace was using the same tactics.

These tactics are the only way to catch people on camera admitting to shameful and destructive things, and they are literally no different than what law enforcement routinely does to catch criminals. In fact, O’Keefe doesn’t go nearly as far as the FBI does many times, as the FBI actually encourages people to break the law in order to catch them in or just before the act. FBI agents will actively participate and even plan crimes.

The attacks on O’Keefe’s tactics serve a single purpose: to distract from what he uncovers. Again and again he roots out corruption in our institutions, and those institutions fight back by accusing Project Veritas of using unethical tactics. A CNN producer can admit to distorting the truth, and the MSM’s response is to attack O’Keefe for catching the guy admitting it.

The latest example is Project Veritas’s exposé of a private High School Dean discussing the disgusting and disturbing sexual “education” in his school, and how satisfying it is to teach children how to use sex toys and engage in unsavory sexual practices.

BREAKING: @fwparker Dean of Students Brags About Bringing in LGBTQ+ Health Center to Teach "Queer Sex" to Minors

"Passing around dildos and butt plugs…kids are just playing with them…that's a really like, cool part of my job."#ExposeGroomerspic.twitter.com/nxsNDXmlvV

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) December 8, 2022

I am long past the point where such things shock me. Given the decline in moral sense and ethics in our cultural elite I have come to assume that people at the top of the food chain in the educational establishment are perverts and groomers. It is a relatively safe assumption.

What mildly surprised me was the response of the school to the revelations. Normally a school would at least pretend to be shocked by this man’s clear glee at sharing sexual discussions with his students, and his clear intention to recruit students to engage in a particular form of sexual practice. You don’t discuss the relative merits of lube vs spit in using butt plugs in normal conversations.

But of course the school made the wrong decision. I should have known better.

BREAKING: Fracis W. Parker School in Chicago, IL – where the Dean of Students Joseph Bruno was caught on video talking about giving students butt plugs and dildos- sent out this email to parents saying that they stand in full support of the Dean. pic.twitter.com/isHOxfLEQK

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 8, 2022

As you can see, the issue is not the behavior of their employee who works with minors. It is Project Veritas, which had the temerity to catch and expose him. A “right-wing fringe group” catches a Dean admitting to grooming students, teaching them how to use sex toys in “queer sex.” The group, not the Dean’s behavior, is troubling.

Exposing the grooming behavior is rude, I suppose. Geez. These people are disgusting.

The school’s response is, by the way, a textbook example of an ad hominem attack. Attacking Project Veritas for its politics instead of addressing the real issue is a classic case.

I hope that the school uses their response in their rhetoric and logic classes as an example of a logical fallacy that still can work rhetorically.

I think we can be assured that most parents will be A-OK with all this, because they are from the richest and most privileged class and wouldn’t want to appear to be anything but wholeheartedly queer-embracing. Tuition and fees range from $35,720 for kindergarten to $40,950 for grade 12; that almost certainly means that the parents own a piece or two of Balenciaga fashion.

I keep on harping about how awful our cultural elites are. It’s not just a hobby horse for me. This matters. When the most elite schools in the country are doing this, you can rest assured that they are setting an example for the public schools.

What happens in the prestige institutions filters down. That is how culture works.