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Soundbite: Breitbart Is Expert In Making Journalism Industry His Bitch

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It’s not just the nightly news, You’re also getting television shows that reflect the same worldview, where Republicans are always the bad guys. Al Qaeda’s never the bad guy. The Republican is always the bad guy.”

From anyone else, this would be just talk — or talking points. (No terrorist bad guys on TV? Really?) But Breitbart is one of the people who rams those points into the popular consciousness. Until last September, the beefy 41-year-old with graying blond hair was a largely covert power in the right-wing media, the hidden hand behind the popular Drudge Report who also, weirdly, cofounded the liberal Huffington Post. But then he struck out on his own. Today his collection of Web sites draws more than 10 million readers a month. He has a book deal worth more than half a million dollars, and he’s a regular presence on Fox News — where he’s headed later tonight, in fact. The covert thing is out the window.

From Wired‘s longish profile on Andrew Breitbart, whom the magazine describes as being an “expert in making the journalism industry his bitch.” And if you follow his Twitter feed you may agree this is not too far off a description. You can read the entire thing here.

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  • MichelleF

    Absolutely love him!

  • homie

    So, does perpetrating a fraud on ACORN and the United States Congress constitute “making the media your bitch”?
    Because, clearly, the fake ACORN “sting”, in which Andrew Breitbart is entirely complicit, are now, without any doubt whatsoever, exposed as the hoax that they have been from the beginning.

    Excerpt from report by nonpartisan media watchdog, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

    Ignoring calls from numerous critics, the New York Times refuses to own up to mistakes in the paper’s coverage of the now-famous right-wing videotapes attacking the community organizing group ACORN. Instead, the paper’s public editor, Clark Hoyt, is relying on an absurd semantic justification in order to claim the paper does not need to print any corrections.

    [T]he story the Times continues to tell is wildly misleading, as a review of the publicly available transcripts of his visit (BigGovernment.com) makes clear. O’Keefe never dressed as a pimp during his visits to ACORN offices, seems to never actually represent himself as a “pimp,” and the advice he solicits is usually about how to file income taxes (which is not “tax evasion”). In at least one encounter (at a Baltimore ACORN office), the pair seemed to first insist that Giles was a dancer, not a prostitute.

    In the case recounted in the March 2 Times story, the transcripts show that O’Keefe did not portray himself as a pimp to the ACORN workers in Brooklyn, but told them that he was trying to help his prostitute girlfriend. In part of the exchange, O’Keefe and his accomplice seem to be telling ACORN staffers that they are attempting to buy a house to protect child prostitutes from an abusive pimp.

    Throughout the months the Times covered the story, it made a major mistake: believing that Internet videos produced by right-wing activists were to be trusted uncritically, rather than approached with the skepticism due to anything you’d come across on the Web. O’Keefe and the Web publisher Andrew Breitbart refused to make unedited copies of the videotape public, and with good reason: A more complete viewing, as the transcripts show, would produce a much different impression.

    The videos were in fact a hoax, and the Times was duped. Its readers deserve to know as much–and ACORN, which suffered serious political damage as a result of the false stories, deserves an apology.

    http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4043

    So much for Breitbart “making his media his bitch”.

  • homie

    Breitbart himself is a fraud. To his credit, he is also a joke and everyone loves a good joke.

  • m

    If Andrew Breitbart is John Romero, then it’s no surprise that everything he does looks like Daikatana.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Andrew Breitbart is a liar and a con-man. See above.

  • MichelleF

    Hey bill, if you are interested, Breitbart will be hosting savage’s show today 3/6 ET

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