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Andrew Breitbart’s Still Pissed Off About That Piers Morgan Thing

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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 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 the incident.

RELATED: CNN Segment Gets Uncomfortable After Piers Morgan Refers To Andrew Breitbart As ‘Notoriously Evil’

“It was strange. I almost didn’t think that I heard it right. You know, I think that I have to take these blows. I have to go into the ring with the mainstream media. I’m not your typical pundit or journalist. I don’t really go after the politicians to the degree that I, as a person, go after the mainstream media and Hollywood. I go after the cultural left. And so these people take it very personally when I point out their bias and their mistakes. This isn’t the first person to ambush me when I’ve been on a show and the problem is, they don’t know me.”

Breitbart went on to explain that he was a “goofy, lighthearted guy.” He followed that up with his theory that the producers of people like Morgan and Martin Bashir are all plotting to destroy him because he is a threat to old Mainstream Journalism.

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  • huffnnoccupyn

    *yawn*

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Andy Breitphart has a remarkably high opinion of himself. An opinion few others share ….

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503513894 Josh Reynolds

    Seriously. Yawn, indeed. 

  • Anonymous

    You’d think Breitbart and Morgan would have gotten along better, they’re practically the same the same shady and unpleasant person.

  • Ronald Gagnon

    This guy is sereusly twisted. I mean like I see visions crazy. Just laughable

  • Anonymous

    “I have to go into the ring with the mainstream media.”

    Yes, I’m willing to put everything on the line to protect myself, my job, my family, my very life. I climb into the cage with tigers bent on the destruction of myself and all of America. It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make to bring the truth to the everyone at Fox News and its affiliate newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, satellite networks and websites. The mainstream media is like a giant, monolithic, many-headed monster and every day I go into battle thinking today might be my last day. It’s difficult and sometimes I wonder if I’ll survive. My bruises are many. But they eventually heal and I emerge ready to fight again. It’s an honor and a charge I take seriously for you…the good conservative viewer. I thank you.

  • http://twitter.com/DolefulLions Doleful Lions

    “I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death
    threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should,
    and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first
    shot.’ Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win
    a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in
    this country, and we have the guns… I’m not kidding. They talk a mean
    game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re
    dealing with.-Andrew Breitbart

  • Anonymous

    Those on the left think he’s evil because he makes it his business to call out wrongdoing by the left.  Its awfully juvenile, its like a trouble-making kid hating cops because cops are keeping an eye on the trouble-making kid.  I wish the left would let up, stop making him the story.  If you stop propping him up by attacking him for no good reason then the only time he’ll be in the news is when he makes news by reporting significant news the MSM is ignoring.  If you look at his reporting, his batting average (for truth) is pretty good, certainly much better than hacks like Bashir and Morgan.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    speaking of pissed off (or should i say pissed on), did you hear that Obama has his own little Abu Ghraib brewing. can’t wait for all the liberal outrage and cries of WAR CRIMINAL to descend upon Obama, Biden, and Panetta.
    http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2012/01/12/marine-video-why-doesnt-the-media-blame-it-on-obama/
    http://patdollard.com/2012/01/cnn-reports-criminal-investigation-launched-over-urinating-video/

  • Anonymous

    But Andrew! Nobody, cares. I means no one gives a damn.  

  • Anonymous

    Quite a martyr he is. He could be the bravest man in American history.

  • Anonymous

    Is he related to Glenn Beck?    This media conspiracy crap is an old sorry excuse for not being able to take on the questions that expose his inconsistencies. 

  • Henry Wood

    Might be the cocaine…

  • Anonymous

    andy is a drama queen, low intelligence piece of useless humankind. . . the only person that thinks he’s great is himself. . . .

  • Anonymous

    He should just splice together some unrelated audio of Piers Morgan to make it sound like he’s a racist bigot who likes whores.  That will teach him to mess with the all-mighty narcissist Breitbart.

  • LibelFreeZone

    You got that right, StripedSquirrel.  

    For readers not fully aware of Morgan’s “credentials,” he was an entertainment reporter for The Sun (1989–94), and editor of News of the World (1994–95) and the Daily Mirror (1995–04). He did plenty of damage to people’s reputations at all of them, and laughed about it all the way to the bank. Lying, gossip, unfounded innuendo, going for the jugular…­the whole ball o’ wax.

    After having practically been run out of Britain on a rail (Iraq photo hoax), Morgan took Simon Cowell’s advice and moved to the U.S. where American viewers don’t really know his tawdry tabloid history. Now Morgan’s sordid past is being exposed along with every other low life at NOTW, etc. Without a public acknowledg­ement–inde­ed, an apology for deceiving the public during his years as a presence at not one but three notorious British tabloids–­I don’t think Morgan will ever be able to wash the stink off himself from being mentored by Rupert Murdoch and Kelvin Mackenzie, both repulsive yellow journalist­s. Now he’s trotting himself out as a quality but “dangerous­” mainstream interviewe­r on CNN. Shame on CNN for hiring this disreputab­le and lame excuse for a journalist­. It’s a sad day for journalism when Piers Morgan is considered “quality journalism­.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    I still want to know what “notoriously evil” means in England.  I somehow don’t think it’s that much better.

  • Hout Bosques

    Not “might be” at all.

  • Anonymous

    Sociopath. I wonder if there’s something in Matt Drudge’s semen that causes mental illness.

  • Hout Bosques

    Looks from that summary the two were made for each other. Get a room, boys!

  • Anonymous

    Shirley you jest.

  • Hout Bosques

    You really have no clue about chain of command issues, do you Chief? Hard to believe your claim to being a vet – & in fact, I don’t.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I certainly hope all of the rightists, including Dana Perino, so anxious to attack Representative Wasserman-Schultz for her hair go after Brightphart for his.

  • Anonymous

    I think he is great, kind of like Limbaugh. Trailblazers in different media pointing out what pretentious pseudo intellectual drooling idiots you folks on the left really are.

  • Anonymous

    Not enough outrage and pissed off chicks on Fox, so Beritbard generously offered his little rant. Thank you!

  • Anonymous

    That’s probably why you’ll never be a thinker, only a gop robotonic. . poor dear. . .
    “pretentious pseudo intellectual drooling idiots “, even though its true, you shouldn’t talk about your people like that. . . . I love it. . when confronted, you personally attack. . . that’s about all you’re good for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    LOL!

    If Breitbart’s influence was so inane or innocuous you wouldn’t have this type of reactionary pandemonium breaking amongst Obama’s fellow Marxists, now would you?

    lol!

  • Anonymous

    Breitphart??? Really? Was poppiepants taken? Maybe he’s rubber and you’re glue? Do you guys need a time out during recess?

    I kid…

  • Hout Bosques

    I explained this in an earlier thread on the same theme.  

    It’s in the Brit national humor to say that when, and ONLY when, the social consensus is that it’s clearly not true. In Merrye Aulde Albion, interviewers get very low key, extra wary, & dead factual with actual evil-doers like Gaddaffi & Cheney, & that attitude represents a social signal to the viewers that this line of questioning is extremely serious about potentially deeply disturbing matters (IOW the sorts of things Gaddaffi & Cheney & their ilk tend to do … because they LIKE it). But say a Brit interviewee has a guest on who’s in the light vein, say a pop music star or a film star or a pro athlete; then they’ll ‘take the mick’, or ‘take the piss’, short for ‘taking the mickey out’, meaning saying something so outrageously OTT ridiculous that it puts their guest at ease. Celebrity guests actually EXPECT it, to the point that if someone isn’t ‘taking the mick’, they figure they get uncomfortable during interviews. The entire nation’s humor is based on popping balloons of pretension.  

    What are you going to do? It’s a different country than this one. Furriners, right? Can’t shoot ‘em (Oh wait …).

  • Anonymous

    Interesting, Andy is of low intelligence, Shukov is not a thinker, check. Andy is useless person, shukov is only good for personal attack, check. Are we special or do you just use the same template for any conservative that you happen to run accross?

  • Anonymous

    I would be beware around intelligent useful conservatives, else you might come off looking like a pretentious pseudo intellectual drooling idiot.You will be fine with the stupid useless ones tho.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    and i can’t believe your more than two years old. you must choose to be totally ignorant about how the liberal media laid the entire blame of Abu Ghraib at the feet of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld as if they were the soldiers themselves committing the abuses. now that the same types of bad behaviour is being done while Obama is C-in-C now we want to talk about chain-of-command. too bad Bush didn’t get that same kind of defense. you libs are so effing predictable!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    “Notorious evil” is a control mechanism within us. We recognize the evil within us, we admit to it, and we work to rise above it. It is part of the natural condition of all humans. It is Jungian in nature, and it is rather like Rose Sayer (Katherine Hepburn) saying to Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) in the “African Queen” the wonderful maxim, “Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” One of the keys to British humor is to overstate. Morgan is right.

    “Notorious evil” is also a phrase used in the “Devil and Daniel Webster”. The context there is sinister and outward. But, that would be American, and Morgan distinctly said he was using it in the British context.

  • Anonymous

    Is Piers Morgan considered “the left” now?  He made his career working for Rupert Murdoch (i.e. owner of Fox News).  Although, from what I’ve seen of him his only bias seems to be towards furthering his own career/self image.

    Also, is CNN considered the “MSM”?  They are like the lowest rated cable news station.  If they are MSM then Fox is about as “MSM” as you can get (something which, of course, conservatives will deny left and right because they love to play the persecuted victims).

  • Anonymous

    Memo to Andrew: You have more important things to worry about. Right now your number one concern should be how much time the Captain of the “Love Boat” is going to receive for his latest escapade in New Hampshire? He got a break in New Orleans, but merely requesting a ballot is a felony. Not only is he looking at a felony, he can still be charged with a probation violation. In either event, this skinniy little white boy is going to be someone’s bunk muffin. I realize this does not apply to you, unless Jimmy Boy becomes a stool pigeon. You did not give him any travel funds did you? You better hope not. But don’t be surprised if he claims you did, even if you did not.

  • Anonymous

    other than your continuing personal attack makes no sense. . . if you fall over an intelligent useful conservative, give them a holla. . . you don’t even make sense in your insulting, empty insults.

  • Anonymous

    ANDREW BREITBART,
    Piers Morgan needs to take a long walk on a short pier.  Now, that is a joke.  He was not joking when he spoke to you.  Let’s play hangman.  Piers Morgan is a B_ _ _ _ _ _.  If anyone ever talks to you like that, STAND UP, SPIT IN HIS EYE, tell him to go to H_ _ _,and tell him to work on his “jokes.” Get out of the their studio!  If you want to skip the “spit in the eye,” you will be able to sue him.
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Remember those kids in high school that would pick on everyone, but the minute you would pick on them they started crying and saying it wasn’t cool?? That’s Breitbart!!

  • Anonymous

    What is this breitbrat whining about now. Go away you racist pig.

  • Anonymous

    That’s sound advice, Delores. I hope Breitbart takes it.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Come on Norbit.
    Only 1 buzzword?

    You’re more talented than that.

  • Anonymous

    I wish they would both go away. I’d like to see piers interview himself about when he was cellphone tapping in England.

  • Anonymous

    Breitbart:  “I go after the cultural left. And so these people take it very personally when I point out their bias and their mistakes.”

    Translated:  “I attack media bias even though I’m openly biased!”

  • Anonymous

    Waaahhh!  Yawn.  Who cares?   Nobody cares.  The only people who care are nobodies.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Norbit?! For certain?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Have you seen the news from his good buddy?

    AG Investigating Undercover Filming at Nashua Polls

    James O’Keefe, widely known as the undercover “pimp” who exposed ACORN,
    takes issue with New Hampshire’s lack of required ID at the polls. The
    state, in turn, is taking issue with his methods.

    http://nashua.patch.com/articles/conservative-activist-shoots-undercover-footage-at-nashua-polls

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Breitbart…..what a stupid pathetic waste of white skin.  Tea bagging idiots like Breitbart are just another result of anal intercourse.  This loser and that drag queen Ann Coulter should get together and tea bag each other.  Othewise, he and that loser Glenn Beck might make for a cute couple.

  • bob ross

    Well he got the “I’m a Goofy Guy” part right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Breitbart please shrivel up and go away. You are a worthless waste of space.

  • Anonymous

    He’s the kind of trailblazer who will inadvertently burn down the entire forest with his recklessness.

  • Anonymous

    Poppiepants? Is that a heroin reference?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Breitbart’s ambition is to be the modern day Joe McCarthy, a master of smear and propaganda.

  • Anonymous

    It would nice if O’Keefe actually goes to jail this time.  Serial law breakers should be incarcerated

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if anyone asked him how Shirley Sherrod suit is going.  I know he lost the round.  That settlement will be pretty

  • Ben

    Yup.

    I also always drink beer.

    *drink*

    Cheers.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, he wasn’t one of the people requesting the ballot, but, if one can prove he had foreknowledge, then he can be charged with 4 counts of conspiracy.  Definitely a probation violation….as is filming unaware people in New Hampshire, apparently.

    O’Keefe is more slimy than Breitbart is

  • Anonymous

    Why do you hate gay people so much?  Awful lot of homophobic language in your post.  Should be more open minded.

  • Anonymous

    Guess there’s no spell check for poopie…..

  • Anonymous

    And who provided him that tape ?  (He didn’t edit it, they did ! – a rather clever set-up, don’t you think ? )

  • Anonymous

    There were several more templates in the Occupy Travel Kit, but it seems they’ve been misplaced.

  • Anonymous

    I am aware he may ultimately be charged with conspiracy. I just checked the RICO predicate acts and unfortunately, this is not one. Since the election had federal implications, the Justice Department may go after this little twerp. As a result, he will have a date with Bubba.

  • expatpatriot

    Poor wittle Andy. What a twit.

  • Anonymous

    In your leftist nutbar dreams. He recorded voter fraud, the democrat ace on the hole for re-electing Obama. This video will embolden those pushing for voter ID. When this goes public, of course not on the state media, but public enough to convince most people, the canard that voter ID is about voter suppression will be exposed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jones/100003248967001 Fred Jones

    Shirley?

  • Anonymous

    sorry…I was just so happy when I realized how much a conspiracy charge will help here

  • Anonymous

    voter fraud which represents, according to a recent Brennan reports, less than .006% of eligible votes. There were 4 cases!

    Why don’t you do yourself a favor and prove voter fraud exists in numbers greater than one half a percent of the vote.  Certainly no state can and neither can the Justice Department. 

    Fever dreams of nutters….disenfranchising people just like the days of Jim Crow 

  • Anonymous

    No one pulls off that wino look better than Breibart. Except maybe a wino.

  • Anonymous

    Based on the information we received on election day and the information obtained on the video, we are undertaking a comprehensive review of voting procedures with the Secretary of State’s office,” assistant New Hampshire attorney general Richard Head Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/12/okeefe-video-prompts-probe-by-new-hampshire-attorney-general/#ixzz1jI0QvvA3

  • Anonymous

    Excuse me but one of the poll workers knew one of the decedents and called the police. So their little plan went awry and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. After all, that is what a good conservative demands for every law breaker.

  • Anonymous

    How be you post evidence that they called Police. Your voter fraud gig is up!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KYBC4OZ5RR3ZRCKKCCEQYCELPY Gomez Addams

    God Bless Andy Brietbart.  Liberals are terrified of the truth he prints.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KYBC4OZ5RR3ZRCKKCCEQYCELPY Gomez Addams

    Why wouldn’t Obama allow pictures of himself and the military in Baghdad?

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/book-depicts-cranky-obama-on-baghdad-visit 

  • Anonymous

    Oh my goodness, what a couple of sooks.  I can’t believe the guy says he went to a luncheon for Fidel Castro but critisizes the other media personalities who were there (they were fawning up to him, while he sat there, lunching, apparently).  Honestly, where is the ambition to grow up and become a man. A man would interview Piers Morgan directly and ask him what he was doing, not Brietbart.

  • Anonymous

    he’s “openly”…THAT’S FOR SURE

  • Anonymous

    I must say, that is one of the more amusing misspellings I’ve seen in quite some time.

  • LindaLeigh

    Breitbart is not one that I read or watch but every time I happen to see him he seems angry.

  • Anonymous

    Breitbart best be careful, the left may snark and sneer him to death!

  • Anonymous

    The very first time clip Breitbart released of the Shirley Sherod speech provided the context in which she expresses her change-of-heart. She wasn’t taken out of context. The group of people he was going after–the NAACP leadership and the NAACP members in the audience who applauded Sherod’s statement without foreknowledge of her latter redemption–he got. I know it’s pointless to argue these things because everyone’s view has hardened fast along ideological lines.

  • Anonymous

    I appreciate your last sentence – it is very true of everything here.  However, as much as I would like to empathize with your point of view I cannot reconcile it with the words Breitbart posted in his site “Big Government” accompanying the video (among others):

    “We are
    in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA
    Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the
    NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her
    meandering speech to what
    appears to be an all-black audience, this
    federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays
    out in stark detail, that
    her federal duties are
    managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.”

    I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume from that opening paragraph that Breitbart was implying she practiced racism currently in her position – and nothing about how the story was meant to be an allegory on race relations.

    And Breitbart’s handling of the Sherrod case is not his only sin…

  • Anonymous

    You mean it’s not OK to stage a kidnapping/rape of a journalist, in the name of journalistic integrity? 

    http://wonkette.com/424143/james-okeefe-tries-to-get-cnn-reporter-onto-his-dildo-lube-boat

    (Seriously though, give him time. He’ll wind up behind bars soon enough.)

  • Anonymous

    I strive to make sure my spelling is correct.  Yet, I too like the way it looks on the page, sereusly.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll admit there are idiots on the left, there’s little point in denying it.  If you think idiocy is only to be found on one side of the political spectrum, it reflects poorly on your perception.

  • http://twitter.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    And how do we know it’s joking?  Why, because Piers is a lefty.  Call up Don Imus and ask him about that “he was joking” excuse.

  • J T

    When he said ‘notoriously evil’ he didn’t mean it literally he was using an exaggerated term for comic effect.  We do that a lot in Britain, I thought you did that in the USA too.  
    Breitbart does come across as a moaner and a hater though.

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