The O’Keefe Disney Bombs (Chapter One)
How does O’Keefe do it? Well, actually that’s pretty easy. First, you study the senior executives and try to determine who is the most vulnerable to what bait, and likely why they might be loose-tongued.
A white male executive at Disney who appears to be overdue for promotion and is single, works nicely. By now someone at Disney has told him, “Look, my dude, it’s not happening. Taniqua is getting that job instead of you. Don’t make me say why, because I won’t.” He’s bitter and not without reason. Give him a sympathetic ear and he’ll start babbling.
Michael Giordano Senior Vice President for Business Affairs at Disney is having the worst day of his life. It’s becoming extremely difficult to prove that he exists. He is frantically scrubbing his internet tracks. He will have either announced his resignation by the end of the day or just outright been fired by Disney.
After identifying this potential weakest link they checked for profiles on Tinder, Bumble, OKCupid and finally struck gold with Hinge.
The girls connected with their mark got a couple of glasses of wine into him and acted all impressed when he told them what he does (or rather did) for Disney. “Oh, wow, like you meet actors and stuff, like, wow. Wow. That’s amazing.”
He would also go into how Disney indulges in its hiring practices by mostly using code words and dog whistles. If they are talking to agents they will stress certain things like saying “We’re not looking for the usual suspects.” The agent offers up some coded word salad in reply and they go back and forth until the agent has worked that they want a female-to-male trans lesbian half black, half Latinx with the pronouns Xim/Blrr. Again, no surprises but it’s suddenly in the open.
He then started on his own frustrations at the company. One executive turned down a candidate who was half black but who wasn’t dark enough to be seen in meetings he was going to hold, so Michael had to go find someone else. Not to mention his frustrated ambitions. He knows that a white is unpromotable at Disney under the Iger regime. This isn’t remotely a surprise to you my Darklings. None of this is, but no one has ever been caught on camera spilling the beans like this before.
O’Keefe ended this chapter by saying that next week he’ll go into why you won’t get a C-Suite job at Disney if you’re not Jewish.
In case you’re wondering that’s been a thing for quite a while there. At least since Eisner’s day. There was a reason that Chapek got picked over Keven Mayer.
