Breitbart To Spitzer: Opie And Anthony Co-Host ‘Assure[d] Me There Are No Cameras’

It’s been another day of Andrew Breitbart having to explain how, through no fault of his own, another nail just pierced Rep. Anthony Weiner‘s political coffin, and after releasing a statement earlier today explaining how he lost control of the one photo of Rep. Weiner he promised not to release, he appeared alongside host Eliot Spitzer to detail how the radio shock jocks breached his trust to publish the photo.

Before it was somehow eclipsed by the stranger-than-fiction reality that the Congressman’s wife is pregnant, the extremely graphic photo of the Congressman’s genitals was by far the top news of the day, less than 24 hours after Breitbart promised not to release it. And, he told Spitzer, he didn’t break that promise. “If you listen further in the video,” Breitbart tells Spitzer, “[show co-host] Jim Norton assures me that there are no cameras.” He explains that he needed to show the photo because it was proof, and that the radio hosts themselves “admitted that they took this photo surrepticiously.”

Spitzer did not challenge his assertions. “I’m absolutely willing to take your word for that,” adding that Breitbart hadn’t profited from the photo in any way that would indicate he wanted it released. He then asked how far the investigation would have gotten had Rep. Weiner been forthright about the situation. “I don’t think I would [have continued] because I think the story would have died,” Breitbart explained, noting that the only reason he had continued investigating was because he was being accused of fabrication: “I was in the process of trying to find information that would exonerate me.”

Ultimately, Breitbart didn’t feel comfortable calling for Rep. Weiner’s resignation– “I don’t want to be the arbiter”– but noted that he didn’t see Rep. Weiner “doing any favors to the American people” and that the lying was the clear problem: “I’ve never been part of the morality police.”

The segment via CNN below: