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Andrew Breitbart On Rep. Weiner Presser: ‘I Had No Idea I Was Live On Television’

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It’s been a long day for the main characters in the story of Rep. Anthony Weiner and the illicit photos emanating from his Twitter account. But if anyone had as long as day as Rep. Weiner, it was Andrew Breitbart, who somehow ended up giving his own press conference directly before. On tonight’s Hannity, Breitbart explained how the surreal moment came to be, and how he wasn’t even aware he was on television when answering the media’s questions.

“I walked into the ballroom and a gaggle of reporters surrounded me,” Breitbart explained, noting that he was in New York for a book event and headed over with no intention of speaking. As time still remained for the man of the hour to arrive, and “they said they couldn’t hear me,” Breitbart explained, until reporter Marcia Kramer told him to get on the stage. “I had no idea I was on television,” Breitbart explained earnestly, shutting down speculation that the moment was staged or in any way intended.

Breitbart also took the opportunity to apologize to his family for the stress related to the entire Rep. Weiner story– “I took away their Memorial Day weekend”– reminding them that he needed to be out in public because media rumors that he was the hacker that posted the photo “become truth even if they’re not truthful” when inadequately addressed. And he had conciliatory words for Rep. Weiner, too, telling him that “I’m not enjoying the salacious aspect of this,” even though “he’s not going to believe me.” Breitbart concluded by requesting that the media leave alone the girls coming forth talking about their exchanges with Rep. Weiner in order to discourage them from speaking: “do not go after these girls.”

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Dem4Ever

    Congressman Weiner and the Left’s vast political machine engaged in systematic attempts to destroy Andrew Breitbart and the girls that the Congressman was sexting and who he sent penile prominent photograghs to.

    Weiner and the Left accused Breibart of lying, of hacking Weiner’s account, of paying these girls to invent their stories and of being antisimetic. They accused him of every vile thing under the sun.

    Had Breitbart not defended himself and gotten the truth out there Weiner would still be out their giving interviews saying how he was the victim and trying to destroy innocent people.

    It is a shame that Weiner’s lack of character and his disrespect for his wife and the sanctity of marriage has reduced him to a crying miserable shell of a man, but if he now thinks he is going to get away with trying to destroy these girls he has another thing coming.  As Andrew Breitbart said, “Don’t you dare go there.”

    Breitbart has “ALL” of your pictures Congressman Weiner, and if you mess with him, his family or these girls he will release them.

    Hope you get the picture, so to speak.

  • Bennybombom

    ‘I Had No Idea I Was Live On Television’
    Holy crap…….That’s so funny it hurts……
    Well at least he called for the media to leave the girls alone……that’s good.

  • Pablo

    Andrew Breitbart On Rep. Weiner Presser: ‘I Had No Idea I Was Live On Television’

    That’s OK. It was bursting with win anyway. That was the most fascinating bit of TV we’ve seen in a long time. It even tops Obama letting Bubba take over the Presidentin’.

    Bravo, Andrew.

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  • Big Eddie

    Weiner is an Internet predator .

  • Big Eddie

    Good work nabbing the predator , Andrew .

  • Bennybombom

    What’s with the thumbs down?
    You don’t think it’s funny he said he didn’t know he was on TV?
    Jesus Christ like all the cameras filming him and the mics weren’t there?
    When he was on the PODIUM taking questions?
    Andrew never gave an interview before?
    I think it’s absolutely hilarious just like when he says he just happened to be in the neighborhood…..
    You people have no sense of humor whatsoever. ……
    That being said….for once Andrew didn’t fabricate the story to destroy someone so….sorry Andrew.
    I admit I was one of the people who thought he did…..him being a notorious weasel so….sorry man.
    Still funny.

  • brownsound

    I’ve been saying it for months. The leftist media is out to destroy A Breitbart at any cost. He is exposing their hypocrisy, their coordinated assault on conservatives and they are angry and scared. They are getting their just desserts on this story. Beware MSM, Breitbart (and a burgeoning conservative public media) is watching you

  • Pablo

    Who carried this live? Fox had Cavuto and Baier talking over half of it. What did the rest of the cablers do with it?

  • kit9

    Left Wing Attackers like LittleGreenFootballs went after Breitbart mercilessly even after anyone with half a brain knew Weiner was lying. Charles Johnson went nuts trying to blame Breitbart and defend Weiner-going so far as repeatedly touting some left wing blogger’s so-called(later completely debunked)claim that it was easy to post photos to people’s Twitter accounts. To him and all the others…Koz, etc, on behalf of Breitbart, I say….HA HA! Suck on it, Charles Johnson, suck on it. Your long lost credibility is buried so deep, you couldn’t unearth it with a bulldozer.

  • valkyrie101

    Dem4Ever said:
    Hope you get the picture, so to speak.

    Good one. But the man apparently didn’t really do anything all that bad, dumb yes. He’s been outed as a closet fantisizer of woman other than his wife, yet he claims to not have had a sexual relationship outside of marriage. Most woman would have far less problem with weiner’s kind of problem than any man that has actual physical sex outside of marriage. Big big difference. Ensign’s wife, Sanford’s wife, Spitzer’s wife, Vickers wife all wish they had a husband with essentially just a masturbation problem.

  • Pablo

    Bennybombom said:
    What’s with the thumbs down?
    You don’t think it’s funny he said he didn’t know he was on TV?

    Do you know what the word “live” means, in TV terms?

  • ModerateMan

    Big Eddie said:
    Good work nabbing the predator , Andrew .

    For all we know there is a video out there of Chris Hansen asking Congressman Weiner “Why don’t you have a seat over here?”. Of course MSNBC edited it out of the episode.

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  • Tedderman

    Right Andrew, you didn’t know you were on TV as you’ve never been on TV before. You’d never been told that when the little red light’s on the cameras are on, you’re on, right? You’re a liar (not very)Breitbart!

  • puck30

    Read the top again folks he said he didn’t think he was on LIVE tv.

  • http://www.harropson.com WHarropson

    Francis’
    Beyond the beyond is the description the witheld Xrated picture is. Your text fails to acknowledge that breitbart has one last photo unreleased that is Xrated. That fact, (and you can Bank on Andrew for facts) left out of any of your reporting would be a failure on your part. Brightbart is protecting the public from the sight of it, but it is your duty to include the report in all subsequent versions.

    If this man survives this because of lax reporting, reporters will be complicit.

    My apologies if you have accurately reported this important detail. I haven’t read everything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Prather/100000453933554 Bone Daddy

    English comprehension is a great asset when attempting to understand the comment “he didn’t think he was on live tv.”

    Then again, why let a direct quotation get in the way of your ideology. Simply prevaricate or obfuscate like a Congressman.

  • Pablo

    Tedderman said:
    Right Andrew, you didn’t know you were on TV as you’ve never been on TV before. You’d never been told that when the little red light’s on the cameras are on, you’re on, right? You’re a liar (not very)Breitbart!

    Do you know what the word “live” means, in TV terms?

    Sometimes I get the feeling that people aren’t paying attention on purpose.

  • http://www.harropson.com WHarropson

    Bone Daddy said:
    English comprehension is a great asset when attempting to understand the comment “he didn’t think he was on live tv.” Then again, why let a direct quotation get in the way of your ideology. Simply prevaricate or obfuscate like a Congressman.

    It’s easy to explain, have you heard that tv can be taped or recorded and therefore subject to editing? He’s not so vain yet that LIVE TV follows him and meets him wherever he goes, but along the way answering questions it is more than plausable that live TV hadn’t ocurred to him, recorded? Always! He’s breitbart after all.

  • Calvin

    Andrew Breitbart On Rep. Weiner Presser: ‘I Had No Idea I Was Kicking Ass Live On Television’

  • Tedderman

    Congratulations Calvin, Rep. Weiner proudly stands with Israel too, now go shoot some Arabs at the fence.

  • Calvin

    Yes, how dare Israel protect its borders.

  • Calvin

    Tedderman said:
    Congratulations Calvin, Rep. Weiner proudly stands with Israel too, now go shoot some Arabs at the fence.

    Pete Stark, is that you? You just hate borders being defended anywhere, don’t you?

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Bennybombom said:
    What’s with the thumbs down?
    You don’t think it’s funny he said he didn’t know he was on TV?
    Jesus Christ like all the cameras filming him and the mics weren’t there?
    When he was on the PODIUM taking questions?
    Andrew never gave an interview before?
    I think it’s absolutely hilarious just like when he says he just happened to be in the neighborhood…..
    You people have no sense of humor whatsoever. ……
    That being said….for once Andrew didn’t fabricate the story to destroy someone so….sorry Andrew.
    I admit I was one of the people who thought he did…..him being a notorious weasel so….sorry man.
    Still funny.

    You got downvoted for the same reason you omitted the word “live television” from your second post. It was a facetious bit of criticism, unworthy of much else as a response. That Breitbart knew cameras were rolling is obvious. That he did *not* know studios producers in an altogether different locale had made the decision to send the raw feed down route is just as obvious.

    That you would characterize your being downvoted as an indication of our humorlessness and not a result of your unfair criticism is obvious as well, to anyone paying attention.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Tedderman said:
    Right Andrew, you didn’t know you were on TV as you’ve never been on TV before. You’d never been told that when the little red light’s on the cameras are on, you’re on, right? You’re a liar (not very)Breitbart!

    (Jimmy Stewart voice) And that goes for you too! (/Jimmy Stewart voice)

  • mlb

    Tedderman said:
    Congratulations Calvin, Rep. Weiner proudly stands with Israel too, now go shoot some Arabs at the fence.

    Really? because he was a “no-show” for the annual Israel Day Parade.

  • Dem4Ever

    I hope the Left has put Weiner on suicide watch. I don’t want him to kill himself and get of the hook that easy. He has more apologies to make and a resignation letter to write first.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rocky-Reed/30827782 Rocky Reed

    None of this makes Breitbart legitimate. He’s a lying piece of crap and a race baiter who has lied about and smeared Shirly Sherrod, NPR and ACORN all within the last year and a half.

    And any news organization (I’m looking at you, CNN) that puts Breitbart or any of his sycophants (Dana Loesch) on the air and tries to pass them off as credible sources of information, is just as much of a joke as they are.

  • Son of Sevenless

    Britebart removes exonerates himself from his disgraceful act, by exposing someone else’s mischief. Is that the kind of lesson, you guys want to leave your kids, that they have to screw someone else over to regain their credibility.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: It was a moral thing that Andrew Breitbart did for New York but the liberals see it differently.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Lond/100000950693221 Don Lond

    Love the childish anger over being what the left does best – sexual degredation of the dignity of being a human -whether it’s bio-diversity lie of telling us we’re just another animal, killing off the innocent young of our species with professional guiltlessness, perverting the entier culture and the children it “chooses”to let live, worshipping the environment that our God commanded us to have “dominion”over, destroying family, the constitution from which is ackowleding their God-given rights, seeking to degrade mankind, by claiming rights for trees and rocks, demanding to control every step of our existence -and now with Obamacare-our death, and when they get caught, they do what all despotic folks do -kill the messenger (just read the senseless personal attacks on Breitbart for expiosing the truth.)

  • Big Eddie

    Son of Sevenless said:
    Britebart removes exonerates himself from his disgraceful act, by exposing someone else’s mischief. Is that the kind of lesson, you guys want to leave your kids, that they have to screw someone else over to regain their credibility.

    Please rescribble this , skyfet . No sense makes it .

    Breitbart took down an Internet predator , and for that , he deserves praise .

  • valkyrie101

    Big Eddie said:
    Please rescribble this , skyfet . No sense makes it . Breitbart took down an Internet predator , and for that , he deserves praise .

    So weiner is an internet predator?

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Son of Sevenless said:
    Britebart removes exonerates himself from his disgraceful act, by exposing someone else’s mischief. Is that the kind of lesson, you guys want to leave your kids, that they have to screw someone else over to regain their credibility.

    This is just too rich. So you are not upset with Weiner acting like a narcissistic frat-boy hopped up on Jaeger-bombs and lying his ass off to the country, but Breitbart is the “disgraceful” one for uncovering his behavior?!?!? You obviously forget this was the initial charge of the media in our country, to hold our government leaders accountable. Granted, it is easy to forget in this era of journalistic cheerleading. As for the press screwing someone over to gain credibility, insert Sarah Palin into your formula and get back to me. To get pissy with Breitbart for reporting on Weiner’s screw-ups is the height of humor.

  • Greg

    valkyrie101 said:
    So weiner is an internet predator?

    No, but this fellow certainly is…

    http://biggovernment.com/author/sgrammatico/

  • ChrisNH

    Rocky Reed said:
    None of this makes Breitbart legitimate. He’s a lying piece of crap and a race baiter who has lied about and smeared Shirly Sherrod, NPR and ACORN all within the last year and a half.

    And any news organization (I’m looking at you, CNN) that puts Breitbart or any of his sycophants (Dana Loesch) on the air and tries to pass them off as credible sources of information, is just as much of a joke as they are.

    Liberal self-immolation on parade. Wasn’t this four-year period supposed to be Gumdrop Lane for you Libs? You were all masturbating when Obamo got elected, and now look at you.

  • valkyrie101

    Greg said:
    No, but this fellow certainly is… http://biggovernment.com/author/sgrammatico/

    I have a firm policy never to click on links that advocate big government. Look, the internet’s number 1 business is porn. Weiner should be given that plum internet oversight committee seat.

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    Greg said:
    No, but this fellow certainly is…

    http://biggovernment.com/author/sgrammatico/

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    MartiniShark said:
    This is just too rich. So you are not upset with Weiner acting like a narcissistic frat-boy hopped up on Jaeger-bombs and lying his ass off to the country, but Breitbart is the “disgraceful” one for uncovering his behavior?!?!? You obviously forget this was the initial charge of the media in our country, to hold our government leaders accountable. Granted, it is easy to forget in this era of journalistic cheerleading. As for the press screwing someone over to gain credibility, insert Sarah Palin into your formula and get back to me. To get pissy with Breitbart for reporting on Weiner’s screw-ups is the height of humor.

    The humor is only in your head, clearly Britebart is still suffering from the disgrace he had to suffer last year. He lost all credibility before this, he was seen as liar, who cannot be trusted by everybody. Now he found the holy grail and then spreads it, trying to vindicate himself .

  • lane

    You can tell by watching that he didn’t know he was live, he was just answering questions like you would off-camera. He was answering very informally, directed to the person asking and not the camera. It was very funny, and to me, a very new york media news moment.

    He’ll be on Red Eye tomorrow, so that will provide more backstory details I’m sure.

    People who hate Breitbart should realize some things at this point. First, he’s never stated he has something, and not been able to produce it. Stop thinking he’s bluffing, he’s done this with the ACORN videos and the Weiner saga. If he says he’s got the proof, he does.

    Second, he’s got a good working relationship with ABC news. The next time he obtains ACORN-like videos, he’ll likely would work with ABC News to co-investigate the story. To me, that’s clear. They gain the exclusives, he first presents the story on his big sites, and the vetting process is more credible. Synergy.

    Stop whining about Breitbart. Just be glad Weiner wasn’t blackmailed with all the dirt women had on him.. Let’s hope he had NO access to national security information…

  • lane

    Give credit to Breitbart, but where is the mentions about Dana Bash of CNN in particular. Dana and her producer had a challenging but professional ‘on the capital steps’ interview with Weiner that really moved the story forward before knowing if there was a story. She was really dogged in her questions, and it was very good reporting. Yet, I see no mention of her in all the coverage. Where is her credit?

  • kit9

    Rocky Reed said:
    None of this makes Breitbart legitimate. He’s a lying piece of crap and a race baiter who has lied about and smeared Shirly Sherrod, NPR and ACORN all within the last year and a half.

    Complete and utter bs. Every single word. He did not smear Sherrod. His original post ALWAYS included the redemption part that made clear she’d had a change of heart. The second, longer clip just allowed her to more fully explain how she got there but it was always there and in context. Jesus, even Chris Matthews defends Breitbart on this. Breitbart was the one that was smeared. You angry at someone over Sherrod, be angry at the White House that fired her in an instant. And, you’re actually going to say NPR and Acorn were smeared with a straight face? Breitbart today challenged a room full of journos today, the vast majority of whom loathe Andrew, to come up with one thing he’s gotten wrong/lied about and all he got were crickets.

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