Disappearing Breitbart: No Cable News Appearances Since Sherrod Story

by Steve Krakauer | 2:45 pm, September 3rd, 2010

» 45 comments

The day after the Shirley Sherrod story broke 45 days ago, Andrew Breitbart was on every cable news network (and many other outlets) talking about the edited out-of-context video and subsequent overreaction from the government.

But since that day, Breitbart, a media presence on the rise, has been absent from cable news. Did the Sherrod story damage his personal brand?

Fox News and MSNBC did not respond to requests for comment about the story, and CNN tells us there is “no directive” not to book Breitbart. He was only rarely on CNN and MSNBC before the story broke, but he did occasionally show up.

And while he wasn’t a regular Fox News guest, he did appear on the network three times in July before the Sherrod story, on Hannity and Red Eye (according to TV Eyes). Breitbart did not appear on the network during news hours.

We reached out to Breitbart as well to see if his cable news silence was self-imposed, a way to get out of the spotlight until he was ready to return with new ammunition, but he did not respond to requests for comment.

The name “Breitbart” certainly hasn’t disappeared from the cable news airwaves in the last month-and-half. Every network has mentioned the new media star more than a dozen times. And he’s still around on Twitter – although significantly less than he was before the Sherrod story. But the notable absence from cable news seems to indicate the Obama administration and USDA weren’t the only ones hurt by the story.

Breitbart himself has taken a new, more sudued role, in the aftermath so far.

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Big_F-ing_Deal

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I noticed Newt has been hiding under his rock since his latest inflammatory comments too. lol

Oh well, they will still sell books to teaturds and that’s all that really matters to them.
RichardBraincase

This is “Breaking news” for msnbc … seriously?
Big Eddie

He’s just taking a couple of months off . Like the President .
Azarkhan

vacation: a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Big Eddie, you are correct sir. I think he is playing golf with Obama today. He is trying to get Obama to dance with that dog for a video on YouTube.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Hey so nobody makes a mistake, I was not talking about Michele.
Constantly

Big_F-ing_Deal said:

Oh well, they will still sell books to teaturds and that’s all that really matters to them.

you fucks on welfare can be such jealous little bitches
RunSarahRun

Stop it Steve

“Breitbart did not appear on the network during news hours.” What are those hours again? Is Fox and Friends included in that? Is Greg Jarrett included in that? Seriously…. “news hours”? Steve, do you even watch Megyn Kelly’s show or do you just pleasure yourself during it? Almost every single topic on that show is covered from a conservative perspective. If she could figure a way to blame hurricanes on the Black Panthers or illegals, she’d do it. So please stop with the “news hours” crap… if you approach news with a certain bias or perspective… it’s NOT news… it’s your opinion.

now go tell the boss his hair looks GREAT today!!!
Big_F-ing_Deal

Constantly said:
you fucks on welfare can be such jealous little bitches

I wish. Young Single White guys don’t qualify. :-)
Big_F-ing_Deal

RunSarahRun said:
Almost every single topic on that show is covered from a conservative perspective. If she could figure a way to blame hurricanes on the Black Panthers or illegals, she’d do it. So please stop with the “news hours” crap

Quoted for truth.
The Real Royal King

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
roxsteady

Yes, and the power grid here on Mediate would indicate that this is the case. Though, his site’s traffic of well over 2 million to Huffington Post’s well over 12 million has always been the real meter for his lack of significance everywhere else. His introduction to the national stage was an epic flop. He’s now effectively marginalized as he always was to those who knew what he really was all along. A fraud!
Azarkhan

roxsteady said:
Huffington Post’s well over 12 million has always been the real meter

VISITS TO DRUDGE 9/03/10

029,323,441 IN PAST 24 HOURS
785,192,292 IN PAST 31 DAYS
8,704,323,448 IN PAST YEAR
juan

He will return with many more tapes!

You can BANK on it!

Thanks, Breitbart!
Azarkhan

PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.
This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.
It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status…

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/August/Islamization-of-Paris-a-Warning-to-the-West/

Check out story and video. Remarkable. Coming soon to an American city near you.
The Real Royal King

Azarkhan said:
VISITS TO DRUDGE 9/03/10 029,323,441 IN PAST 24 HOURS785,192,292 IN PAST 31 DAYS8,704,323,448 IN PAST YEAR

Well, of course. Where else to get compelling stories about children who lock themselves in refrigerators and eat their toes, dipped in Miracle Whip, to survive? And where else to read headlines completely unconnected to the stories. I personally go to Drudge daily to find out if any more forest fires have been started by chimpanzees drving through and throwing out cigarette butts.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
The Real Royal King

juan said:
He will return with many more tapes! You can BANK on it! Thanks, Breitbart!

Well-edited, no doubt.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
juan

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I noticed Newt has been hiding under his rock since his latest inflammatory comments too. lol Oh well, they will still sell books to teaturds and that’s all that really matters to them.

Gingrich Strategy to Stop Mosque: Make Ground Zero National Memorial

The former Speaker of the House offers a Constitutional solution to the Ground Zero Mosque situation that would not discriminate against one, single religion.

http://www.breitbart.tv/gingrich-strategy-to-stop-mosque-make-ground-zero-national-memorial/

Again, thanks, Breitbart!
The Real Royal King

Azarkhan said:
PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status… http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/August/Islamization-of-Paris-a-Warning-to-the-West/ Check out story and video. Remarkable. Coming soon to an American city near you.

It’s a shame you couldn’t cite a more reliable source like World Nut Daily or News Maxipad.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
notsofast

But since that day, Breitbart, a media presence on the rise, has been absent from cable news. Did the Sherrod story damage his personal brand?”

How many days was he on before this story broke? Not many except when he broke the Acorn story.
Azarkhan

The Real Royal King said:
It’s a shame you couldn’t cite a more reliable source like World Nut Daily or News Maxipad.

Royal, before you die, make sure you order a round casket. Because your head will still be stuck up your ass.
The Real Royal King

Azarkhan said:
Royal, before you die, make sure you order a round casket. Because your head will still be stuck up your ass.

I am relieved to find out you know your source is crap.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
The Real Royal King

notsofast said:
But since that day, Breitbart, a media presence on the rise, has been absent from cable news. Did the Sherrod story damage his personal brand?” How many days was he on before this story broke? Not many except when he broke the Acorn story.

You mean when he fabricated the ACORN story, I assume? We since call that Breitbarting.

Breitbart, O Breitbart,
Where is it thou art?
Marceaux is lying,
Beckerhead’s trying,
But your non-presence
Is lying’s absence.
shootfromthehip

So “Azarkhan” are you admiting that A.) Drudge report is a right wing website and that B.) it is one of the most popular if not the most popular news site?

Good!

Now NEVER AGAIN while like a bitch about the “liberal media.”
notsofast

The Real Royal King said:
You mean when he fabricated the ACORN story, I assume? We since call that Breitbarting.

ACORN is a dead organization. No one, not even a prevaricating lib wants anything to do with ACORN.

Breitbart CRACKED ACORN!
notsofast

shootfromthehip said:
So “Azarkhan” are you admiting that A.) Drudge report is a right wing website and that B.) it is one of the most popular if not the most popular news site?

Good!

Now NEVER AGAIN while like a bitch about the “liberal media.”

We know libs are stupid, but you really push the envelope.

Drudge DOES NOT WRITE ON HIS SITE. He links to other sites.
shootfromthehip

The fuck he doesn’t.

He writes HEADLINES all the time on his website. Go there RIGHT NOW and you will see one that he wrote in BIG LETTERS.

He also chooses and selects WHERE to drive traffic to.

He is the one who selects a “news” story from outlets that are hardly news, but right wing websites.

His strategy is to use the credibility that newspapers that he sometimes links out to such as the New York Times have earned over 100 years of publishing, and then co mingle those links with a link right below it to an outlet such as the “Freedom Works” website.
murf

The majority of Drudge’s are links to Yahoo, Wash Post , CBS , ABC , NYT , Politico etc. hardly conservative sites .
Azarkhan

shootfromthehip said:
So “Azarkhan” are you admiting that A.) Drudge report is a right wing website

I’m saying DrudgeReport is the standard for hits and influence. Clearly Matt Drudge is a conservative, but he links to everyone, including the WaPo, NYTimes and other liberal sites. BTW, he gets tens of thousands of hits from the Senate, House, and White House. Can’t all be from Republicans.
jk76

NYT has credibility? that should be on their front page cause it’s new news

I thought he was taking a vacation a while ago, going out of the country. Maybe he didn’t. Perhaps he got burned out like humans do; or could be chillin for a while or it could even be to go away until midterms are done so as not to hurt conservative chances. I’m sure his mission is still the same; take down the institutional left. He does have a family though, 4 kids i think, so quality time is possible

the right has breitbart, the left has like a dozen tax-exempt orgs (thanks Open Society)
shootfromthehip

“I’m saying DrudgeReport is the standard for hits and influence.”

ok good. Agreed.

Now never ever cry about the “liberal” media again.

Thanks!
Azarkhan

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100903/wl_nm/us_dutch_wilders

Praise Allah for Matt Drudge.
murf

Evil Conservative Yahoo News
Greg

Surprised to see he linked to “prison planet” the other day… But not really…
notsofast

shootfromthehip said:
He writes HEADLINES all the time on his website

LMAO!

If he didn’t, how the FK would anyone know what they were linking to?

You are one retarded lib!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

Breitbart will pop up the next time Progressives needs to be exposed for their lies and their oppressive policies, just like he did with Shirley Sherrod. Breitbart’s main point was not taken out of context, instead the Progressive media deflected away from it and focused on race… as they always predictably do.
Azarkhan

Tony Westover said:
Breitbart will pop up the next time Progressives needs to be exposed for their lies

http://bigjournalism.com/gloudon/2010/09/03/the-truth-about-that-dishonest-vanity-fair-palin-story-from-one-who-was-there/
LisaLoo 622

I think the right wing fringe lunatics under Murdoch are a bunch of idiots and hypocrites. If you spoke out against Dubya Bush you were anti-American, unpatriotic and the secret service probably would’ve tapped your phone. When Obama is president you can clearly see that racism exists, and they too are anti-american and on the verge of well I take that back, Rush, and the rest of them are Treasonists and should be punished. You can’t have it both ways. These opinion spinners lie and their idiot followers believe it without even researching independently on what the facts really are. If Beck cried and said there really is a tooth fairy and drew on his stupid blackboard on why there is a tooth fairy, believe you me those idiots would believe him.
Have you ever noticed when you get into a intellectual arguments with these right wing lunatics, if they get flustered and don’t have an answer to their ideology when they are called on it resort to cursing, and name calling? Do you want to know why? They wouldn’t know the factual truth if it slapped them in their face. They are intellectually lazy, and they are complacent and being led to the slaughter. It is my opinion not a fact they are Godless souls, and God don’t like ugly!
You may not like the president, but respect him, because he is Commander in Chief. The only people in the world that hate Obama are the right wing lunatics, the rest of the world….and I mean the rest of the world like him. That speaks volumes. Foreigners are laughing at them, and us as country as a whole, because we are so polarized that it is just a matter of time before we Americans self destruct.
Pablo

It looks like the LA Times managed a Breitbart sighting. Strangely enough, they found him in his office, working.
Azarkhan

LisaLoo 622 said:
I think the right wing fringe lunatics under Murdoch are a bunch of idiots and hypocrites

Blah, blah, blah, more lies from another leftist asshole.
BlackWidow

I am so disgusted with the media ‘making news’ over stupid, silly, ridicules crap supposedly to prove that nothing this president can do would be okay with the American people. really? Just exactly how badly would you want to have what the president has on HIS plate? domestic, foreign, national, international, health, and so on?
The GOP has spent 19 months repeating the same lies, until people believe and are frightened. Just when exactly do you have to be in the military to be brave and courageous? There are many Americans who are courageous just getting up every day, job hunting, trying to find a way to take care of their families while banks pay pampered CEOs bonuses from arcane math for screwing the rest of us. Every thing the Dems have tried to do to HELP citizens, gets no assistance from Republicans. Just exactly what are THEY doing to earn their salaries? where will they be 9/11? wrapped in a flag somewhere spewing treason.
BlackWidow

LisaLoo 622 I see that one of the regulars on here has responded to you comment by calling you a lier and asshole. This is typical for here. Most who try to have a conversation give up after one or two postings. This is just about calling people names and using foul language for all. It is great to be a lurker. I get my chuckles for the day here.
Joe4more

There is enough hate on this site to win a war!
The issue is A. Breitbart and his ACORN editing friends trying to convince others that using underhanded, deceptive and manipulative misrepresentation of facts to arrive at desired conclusion, even if the outcome is a manufactured LIE, is the “new journalism” of our time. To believe that, one would have to be ignorant and/or stupid.
A. Breitbart has once again proven that zealous ideology has no boundaries. What amazes me is he is being shamelessly defended by his peers! Did I miss something?
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KMLake

Yep everyone now knows (right and left) what a db Breitbart is. Always was and always will be. But…. speaking of dbs…

OK so… has anyone (but me) noticed how soft and sweet Faux “news” has become of late? Could it be that they actually read what we say about them (OH Rupert… you smelly way past dead vampire). But if they are … I mean actually… . listening….. do they know that we….. know about “stacking the deck?” “Stacking the deck” is when a huckster tells you …. Truth-truth-truth-big ole fat lie then-truth-truth-truth. It’s an ole carney trick and always works. But it stops being effective when folks know about it. Sorry Rupert (and Glen). We are not as dumb as you hope we are (close but not actually AS dumb as you hope) and every day we get a little smarter.