I don’t really understand what they were trying to do. My [probably feeble] understanding is that they wanted to invite the reporter to meet on a boat (which anyone who’s seen a horror movie from the 80s or a porno from the 70s knows can never end well) on the pretense of giving her an interview about young conservatives, but once the reporter was there, the guy was going to pull some “seductive” Austin Powers bullshit that would make any woman either freak out or laugh uncontrollably. The Allen Funt cameras would be rolling, and somehow this would make the CNN reporter look bad (but not the creepy fuck with the strawberries hitting on the CNN reporter??) and would thereby damage the credibility of CNN?

If that’s more or less accurate (and the email they reprinted seems to bear that out), then SOMEBODY needs to see a doctor.