At the very least, he was explicitly expressing a plan to sexually harrass her. I still don’t really see how, even in his twisted, creepy little brain, he thought that sexually harrassing a CNN reporter was going to make the reporter look bad.
That’s the kind of mistake you make when you’re a fuckwit. And while I’ve never been a CNN fan it’s unfortunate that activists have gotten to the point where they see the press as such a hostile entity that they’ll even attack a news organization while it is publicizing them.
I think **JRDelirious **got it right upthread. He was counting on putting her in a strange, creepy situation in the hopes that he could capture raw footage of some spontaneous reaction that could be creatively edited to make her look slutty, or stupid, or cowardly, or dishonest. And depending on how quickly she figured out what was going on and how deftly she extracted herself from the situation, it could have worked. If she’d gotten pissed off and stormed out, or acted scared and fled, or played along with the joke (the way the ACORN workers did) she could quite easily have given them 10 or 15 seconds of video that could be chopped into something snarky or embarrassing.
If she walked out in a huff, then he would put footage of him asking her tough questions and make it look like that is why she walked out.
If she actually fucked him, he would have asked her to marry him as she would have been the first he didn’t have to pay for.