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Curtis Morrison, the guy behind the recording of a Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session, has confessed to the deed in a lengthy post at Salon. The wisdom of doing so while the FBI convenes a grand jury on the matter is one thing. Morrison's somewhat deluded overestimation of his actions is another thing entirely.

A co-founder of Progress Kentucky, a PAC dedicated to ousting McConnell, Morrison describes how he ended up standing in the hallway outside a meeting during which McConnell's opposition research team presented its findings about Ashley Judd. It was a cold day in February, he writes.

I didn’t want to go outside — I didn’t want to go anywhere — but I remember thinking if McConnell’s launch was so close to my home and I spent the day hibernating, then I suck at both journalism and activism. And since I don’t have aptitude or passion for much else, that would be problematic for my self-esteem. So I put on my coat and shoes, grabbed my Flip camera, and headed out the door.

He and a friend entered the building where McConnell's campaign was hosting an event. They walked past an empty desk, and up to the second floor where Morrison's "source" reported the event was being held.

The voices were coming from the other side of a nearby door, which had a window. I pulled out my Flip camera and started to record.



I don’t need to tell you what a weapon the pocket video camera has become.

He tells you anyway. It's sort of how the piece goes, aw-shucks humility followed by dramatic descriptions of his actions and the significance of his self-appointed journalism. Over the course of the story, Morrison compares himself to Julian Assange, Anonymous, Scott Prouty (the man who leaked the "47 percent" tape to Mother Jones), and John F. Kennedy. He says "I will not paint myself as a victim," and then details losing his job (because he was writing for a local blog) and his home (because he was renting from a relative of the friend he went to the meeting with). He refers to himself in the first person more than 100 times.