No kidding. That's what it says on his blog, and on his CBS Channel 4 web site, Keller@Large.

And does he ask tough questions! Like this one he asks Green-Rainbow governor candidate Grace Ross at a recent press conference.

Keller: “I have been told that the Healey campaign helped you get your signatures, is that true?”

Ross: “Well, that's fascinating, not that we know of. I mean, all of our volunteers are Green-Rainbow volunteers that I know of.”

In other words, NO, it's not true that Healey helped us!

Mr. Keller takes that as a “Yes.”

“There's nothing illegal about gathering signatures for a candidate you think might pull votes away from your opponent in November,” he purrs, “but it's also no wonder that candidates are reluctant to admit to the practice.”

He lets Ross give her side of the story. …if they did help her, thinking she might draw votes from the democrats, they were wasting their time. “The assumption that we pull votes somehow that belong to somebody else... I don't know anybody who owns votes yet. Maybe our system is getting corrupt; I don't think it's that corrupt yet.”

Look back at that paragraph, and notice how Mr. Keller mixes his own indirect quote with Ms Ross' direct quote to make it seem that she is saying, “So what if we did?” Oh, that witty Mr. Keller!

But then he adds, “Does all this matter?” (Of course not! you’re supposed to think.) “Four years ago, Jill Stein won nearly four percent of the vote. Democrat Shannon O’Brien lost to Mitt Romney by just five percent. You do the math.”

Why Jonny can't add

OK, but what math? Let's see— five candidates on the 2002 ballot. The vote— Romney 49.77 %, O’Brien, 44.94 %, Stein 3.49 %, Howell 1.05 %, Johnson 0.70 %.

Are you supposed to think that Stein didn't matter because she “spoiled the election” for O'Brien? Or that Stein didn't matter because she didn't “spoil the election?”

Hey, you know what? It really doesn't matter what you think.

Jon Keller would be the first to tell us that our votes are sacred. But those votes “matter” only when they are returned by rite to their rightful owners, the Republican and Democrat parties.

Though Mr. Keller is neutral as to which of the two parties you choose, he is not neutral on issues. He is “smart” and “tough” on the issues.

Issues like illegal immigration.

On March 8, the Boston Globe asked Ali Noorani of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRAC), to comment on a recent roundup of low-income illegal immigrants in the Boston area. Here is his quote.

“There's some validity that they're out of status and they have not obeyed orders. But the overarching issue is I'm not sure that Greater Boston is any safer after the people were picked up yesterday. I think I would rather see those dollars spent on finding terrorists and making sure our country is safer.”

Mr. Keller commented by lecturing Mr. Noorani on the state of citizen outrage at illegal immigration: “you can either drop the knee-jerk characterization of this anger as racist or xenophobic and engage in productive dialogue with the critics, or consign yourself and your cause to political oblivion.”

Notice that Mr. Noorani never voiced the views attributed to him by Mr. Keller. Do we see a pattern here?

The Civilized World vs. THEM

Keller has repeatedly described the “War on Terror” in exactly the words used by the Bush Administration.

On Saturday, September 2, he wrote, “Don't forget the deplorable situation that existed before 9/11—a growing Islamofascist cancer that had gone virtually unchecked by the civilized world for decades, the oppression and slaughter of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq by said fascists, and the mushrooming of their threat to the global economy.”

Plainly it is not MIRAC, but the GRP, which puts “War on Terror” in quotes because it’s really about grabbing the land and resources of Islamic countries. The GRP also says that all immigrants should have legal rights.

No wonder Solomonia, Boston's right-wing Zionist blogger, immediately picked up Keller’s “signature” story. He asked mockingly— “Could it be that the Green-Rainbow Party (GRP) got help from Fascists in their signature drive?”

Solomonia—and only Solomonia, so far—seized on this slander because his line is that the GRP "is the most openly anti-Semitic party operating in the American political mainstream today.”

Despite his disclaimers, he knows that GRP is not anti-Jewish. The problem is that it supports Palestinians' right to resist Israel and their right to return to their homeland.

Immigration and the War on Islam are not the only issues that Mr. Keller has with the GRP. Another one is rent control.

What, rent control too?

Keller's opposition to rent control is long-standing and shrill. He is a real bug on the subject.

He was the reporter who asked the rent control question in the 2002 gubernatorial debate. The Greens’ Jill Stein was the only candidate who gave a clear answer, and that answer was “yes.”

But Mr. Keller's wit backfired on him that time. Stein was widely praised for being clear and honest on this "controversial" subject.

Keller was also the reporter who asked the rent control question in the Democrat primary debate. Liberal Robert Reich's sharp “no” won him the endorsement of the Boston Herald.

Chalk another one up for the Democrat Party in Mr. Keller's ledger. Even their most liberal and progressive candidate is against any effective defense of tenants' interests.

But the GRP supports rent control, full immigrant rights, and Palestine. Jon Keller is against all those things. Lets see—

You do the math.