Ethics

Keyes: Please Pay Attention To Me

By Ed Brayton

There's an old cliche about former celebrities who have fallen so far out of the spotlight that they "can't even get arrested." Things have gotten almost that bad for Alan Keyes, the perpetual campaign loser who couldn't even the freaking Constitution Party to nominate him last year. He can get arrested; he just can't stay in jail.

His latest plea for attention was to go to Notre Dame and protest President Obama's commencement address so he would get arrested. He actually announced that he intended to get arrested. And he did. But then someone bailed him out and they let him go - against his will.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).