Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson “mischievously” bid on a dinner with none other than the “Bonnie and Clyde of the radical left,” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. And, of course, he invited pal Andrew Breitbart to come along. “It was Look Who’s Coming to Dinner, Part II,” Breitbart joked.

Andrew Breitbart and Piers Morgan have made up since the time Morgan joked the former was “evil.” Not that he didn’t joke about it last night, but with that tension out of the way, the two– and a panel including Amy Holmes and Michael Reagan got to the business of just how conservatives could like Newt Gingrich again, of all people, and came to a strong conclusion: conservatives want someone to defend them from the mainstream media.

A couple of nights ago, during CNN’s New Hampshire coverage, there was an incredibly uncomfortable moment when Piers Morgan asked Andrew Breitbart a question while jokingly saying that he was “notoriously evil to people.” Breitbart misunderstood Morgan’s very British use of the word evil and reacted angrily. It was very tense but, fortunately, Morgan explained the misunderstanding an hour later in an email, the two made up, and Breitbart tweeted that they were “all good.” The end.

…until last night when Breitbart went on FBN to talk about how horrible Morgan is.

There was a whole lot going on last night and somehow we missed this little gem; During CNN’s New Hampshire coverage, Piers Morgan had a satellite chat with Michael Reagan and Andrew Breitbart. Morgan tried to ask Breitbart how badly the candidates were breaking the 11th Commandment of Michael’s father, jokingly referring to his guest as being “notoriously evil.”

In the world of the microscopic news cycle, a year is a mighty long time. Think “dog years” on steroids. Over the course of the past year, in thousands (around 7,500 ) of articles and millions (between 3 and 4 million) of words, Mediaite has covered the ups and downs of that whizzing, ricocheting media world. In case you lost track in that sea of information, we’ve compiled a list of 2011 Media Winners and Losers that we hope will be the start  of a conversation, not the end of one. Here, in no particular order, are Mediaite’s 2011 Media Winners and Losers.

Liberal watchdog Media Matters published an item yesterday showing that Andrew Breitbart‘s Big Journalism website repeatedly published an altered version of an anti-Semitic  Nazi-era propaganda cartoon. Breitbart responded that his blog had taken down the cartoon, prior to Media Matters‘ report, when editor Joel Pollak flagged the image as possibly offensive (the cartoon remains, at this writing, on three other Big Journalism posts). Neither party is content, as Media Matters continues to pound Breitbart, and Breitbart…well, that’s where this goes to 11.

Glenn Beck is very much not a fan of Newt Gingrich. If anyone didn’t yet know that from this interview, he made it very clear Saturday on Fox Business Network when he alleged that Gingrich was so similar to President Obama in his “progressive” ways, that the only reason Tea Partiers would like him over the President would be because of his race. Unsurprisingly, this has caused some anger. Even less surprisingly, one of those angry voices is Andrew Breitbart, a man who is very much not a fan of Glenn Beck.

The gay conservative group GOProud ignited a firestorm earlier this week when, in response to Rick Perry‘s latest campaign ad attacking LGBT soldiers, they issued a statement rebuking Perry pollster Tony Fabrizio for exhibiting “the height of hypocrisy” in being both gay and a Perry staffer involved in this. The problem in their comment was the fact that Fabrizio’s sexual orientation was not public knowledge, and now Advisory Board member Andrew Breitbart is resigning over the “intentional infliction of vocational and family harm” inherent in the practice of outing individuals who do not publicly divulge their sexual orientation.

Appearing on Fox News’s Red Eye Friday morning, Andrew Breitbart chided the Republican presidential candidates, calling them hypocritical for refusing to attend Donald Trump‘s Newmax debate, but continuously appearing on MSNBC. “What’s so frustrating is the people who are saying no to Donald Trump are the people who say (yes) every single week to the MSNBC’s of the world and are willing to sit there as Chris Matthews berates them, sets them up, and now they can’t stand Donald Trump when he is probably one of the only successful capitalists out there haling the economy which is a capitalist economy. These people are taking the wrong stand at the wrong time. If these guys have any integrity they say no to MSNBC — but they go after the only capitalist out there.”

Last night during America’s Nightly Scoreboard on Fox Business Network, Andrew Breitbart appeared to discuss possible union responses to California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed pension overhaul. As is typical these days, the conversation turned to the Occupy protests (“Occupy Wall Street or Occupy LA or whatever the heck they’re occupying,” as host David Asman put it). After Asman asked Breitbart if the unions would use the protests to “create another Greece,” Breitbart replied that, no, they won’t be looking to that nation. He claimed that they were instead getting their inspiration from Hamas.

On the heels of his “To Catch A Journalist” sting video, conservative activist James O’Keefe sat for a nearly 30-minute interview for Mediaite on Monday, discussing his attacks on Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, and his discrediting of Rutgers Professor Jeff Keefe. Toward the end of our interview, I asked O’Keefe if he would mind answering a few nagging questions about his previous work, specifically the CNN sex boat “caper,” and the racial subtext of his ACORN pimp costume.

Given the many comparisons between the Occupy Wall Street protests and its satellites and the Tea Party movement, it was about time the leaders of one movement collided with the other. On Follow the Money tonight, Tea Party veteran Andrew Breitbart gave his testimony of his experience walking around the Occupy Los Angeles protests, where a union member followed his every move and avowed socialists told him of their conversions.

Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart is at it again, continuing a years-long effort to falsely tie President Obama to the New Black Panther Party, favorite big black bogeyman of the conservative media. The big story this time is that New Black Panther leader Malik Zulu Shabazz photobombed then-Sen. Barack Obama at a commemorative march in Selma, Alabama, in 2007, and that the two “shar(ed) the same podium” at the event. Let’s count the lies and distortions together.

Over the weekend, Andrew Breitbart posted a profane speech he gave at a Tea Party conference attacking Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Janeane Garofalo. Many found the language inappropriate, but on tonight’s Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell took the opportunity to psychoanalyze Breitbart as a little boy who never made it in Hollywood, taking swipes at the “honorable and decent” Garofalo out of envy.

Andrew Breitbart has, once again, gone too far. At a speech this weekend at Tea Party convention TeaCon, Breitbart attempted to serve the crowd red meat while being wildly profane, going off on Rep. Nancy Pelosi for being a “bitch” and joking that chronically irrelevant liberal person Janeane Garofalo was “Hollywood’s sympathy f*ck,” therefore negating the validity of her opinions. In doing so, Breitbart crossed a fairly thick line: there is a way to give the crowd red meat without slaughtering one’s own reputation in the process.

Andrew Breitbart has posted an email purportedly from Joe McGinniss that seems to show that even he didn’t think he had enough facts to back up the controversial claims in his Sarah Palin book, The Rogue. Ironically, though, in trying to nail McGinniss for allegedly spreading unfounded rumors, Breitbart does the same, printing a Todd Palin rumor that didn’t end up in McGinniss’ book.

Conservative media provocateur Andrew Breitbart, speaking to a Tea Party crowd of over 60 people in Lexington, Ma. on Friday, got a little bit carried away with his own patter. He told the crowd that he sometimes thinks to himself, “Fire the first shot” in a hypothetical civil war with liberals, explaining that “We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns.”

Although Brietbart told the crowd “I’m not kidding,” in response to their laughter, he probably was kidding, and probably shouldn’t have been.

It’s been an exciting week for Rep. Ron Paul celebrity endorsements. After the Daily Caller caught up with songwriting legend Barry Manilow and found out the crooner agrees with “just about everything” on the Paul platform– and that mere days after this patriotic American went to bat for the obstetrician/Congressman– Rep. Paul got a very special introduction at the Liberty Political Action Conference from actor Vince Vaughn. Which begs the question: is Libertarian Hollywood the new Liberal Hollywood?

It was a confrontation for the ages. Earlier today, conservative media titan Andrew Breitbart, Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, and Big Government editor Mike Flynn ventured into the Washington, DC headquarters of liberal media watchdog Media Matters, reputed lair of billionaire boogeyman George Soros. Their quarry? A copy of Media Matters‘ IRS 990 disclosure form. Media Matters has released video of the confrontation between the conservative trio and Media Matters Executive Vice President Ari Rabin-Havt.

The opinion news media (and, ahem, those who cover it) have experienced something of a love/hate relationship to the debt crisis. On the one hand, it’s nearly impossible to create engaging, insightful commentary on the fact that something is still not happening. But, then again, the opinion news machine is nothing if not creative in what it elects to report on and the narratives spun out of these headlines. So let’s take a moment and analyze those in the media who came out on top in their coverage of the debt discussions, be that coverage straightforward reporting or subjective analysis, and those who dropped the ball somewhere along the way.

Undercover filmmaking personality James O’Keefe is perhaps defined by his aversion to the mainstream media, that bastion of liberal thought that shields the corruption his life’s work is dedicated to expose. So the New York Times isn’t the first place one would expect to find a glowing five-page look behind the scenes of his latest stunt, a Medicare hoax starring fake IRA and Russian mafia members. And yet here it is– O’Keefe, glorified in the pages he reviles as he takes a Times contributor along for the ride as he scuttles across New Jersey in search of wasted taxpayers’ dollars.

Get ready for another cycle of Sarah Palin news (just in time for the late July news doldrums!) The trailer for The Undefeated, the documentary featuring the political career and biographical story of Ms. Palin, has just been released and its certain to please pretty much everyone who watches it, regardless of one’s political persuasion.

With the rise of Rep. Michele Bachmann and the media’s coverage of Sarah Palin, the targeted sexism, as some perceive it, against conservative women has become as semi-permanent staple in American politics. On this morning’s Fox & Friends, Andrew Breitbart weighed in on what he considered a double standard that makes female and minority conservatives’ lives “a permanent game of Jeopardy!”

Andrew Breitbart is trying to cash in on Weinergate– for charity. The conservative web proprietor has taken to Twitter to promote Troopathon– a fundraising extravaganza that serves to collect money for care packages and other services to American soldiers. Breitbart, one of the event’s hosts, is offering in exchange for donations all sorts of “services,” including a roller-stake performance, a Weiner-style “manscaping,” and getting punched in the face by Alec Baldwin.

Andrew Breitbart paid a visit to Sean Hannity‘s show Monday evening to discuss what happened during the recent Netroots Nation convention in Minneapolis. You’ll recall that, last Friday afternoon, we showed you footage of Breitbart being harassed, questioned and eventually chased out of a public area of the Hilton hotel where the Liberal convention was being held.