Alternate Headline: “HuffPo Brass Admits Breitbart Not a Racist, Publishes Articles Portraying Him as One Anyway”
Andrew Breitbart was banned from the the front page of AOL/Huffington Post because he called the cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak Van Jones a “cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak.” In my background post from last week, I promised to provide examples of other Huffington Post bloggers unleashing ad hominem attacks. Here are some examples of these emotive, anti-intellectual smears against Breitbart himself published at… the Huffington Post itself
I did a good-faith search through the (AOL/)HuffPo archives to isolate ad hominem they have published against Breitbart. I went through a mere 150 or so of the hundreds of HuffPo articles that mention the Big Journalism publisher by name. All of these examples are published within the last two years up until the end of last year (there could be some fresher stuff I’ve missed). Here are some of the highlights of what I saw that are easily packaged into bite sized pieces; within the (AOL/)HuffPo archives there are even more examples than what you see below.
For brevity’s sake, the attacks are light on context, so all the links are provided so you can jump over to (AOL/)HuffPo to see the hate foment in it’s natural habitat. After the list, I explain the alternate headline. And remember: these are (AOL/)HuffPo bloggers, not commenters.
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Chez Pazienza, Editor of Deus Ex Malcontent, Author, in his piece “ABC News to Redeem Guy With No Redeeming Qualities“:
[Breitbart] is, as Bob Cesca put it perfectly, a serial liar and a scam artist.
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… he’s a raging maniac…
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… he’s ignored facts, knowingly created phony scandals, willfully aided, abetted and perpetuated hoaxes engineered by irresponsible con-men like himself…
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He’s a pompous schoolyard bully…
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…jackass…
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Bob Cesca in his piece, “The Summer of Republican Race-Baiting“:
The far-right machine and a serial con-man named Andrew Breitbart…
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… Breitbart discredited as an overzealous attention-whore, white rage and white resentment was successfully fueled by conservatives across the media spectrum.
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James Rucker, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org, in his piece “Victory — ABC News Drops Andrew Breitbart”:
This is a huge victory against Breitbart’s brand of race-baiting propaganda and lies.
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Chris Kelly, Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher, in his piece “Why You Don’t Care About JournoList“:
And where Andrew Breitbart is Biko, and revolutionary political power doesn’t come from a gun, it comes, under TV lights, out of the puckered, anus-like mouth of a whining pink face.
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Craig Aaron, Managing Director, Free Press in his piece “Jon Stewart vs. the Perpetual Panic Conflictinator“:
…mainstream outlets are turning over their megaphones to charlatans like Beck and Andrew Breitbart…
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Jack Mirkinson in his piece “ABC DROPS Andrew Breitbart From Election Night Coverage“:
James Rucker, director of the African American political website ColorOfChange.org… praised [ABC] saying in a statement that the network had “taken a giant step in helping to wash our collective hands of the fear mongering and race-baiting that have no place in our political discourse.”
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Richard (RJ) Eskow, Consultant, Writer, Senior Fellow with The Campaign for America’s Future, in his piece “Our Historic Stand Against the Bank Cabal’s Coalition of Darkness“:
Right-wing fraud Andrew Breitbart…
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[ACORN exposé] a level of racism worthy of the bigoted and violent white Southerners who fought the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Back in those days the news media rightfully condemned the bigots.
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Alexander Zaitchik, Southern Poverty Law Center, “Hatewatch”; Author, “Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, in his piece “Does Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” Advocate ‘Race War’?:
Breitbart is the Obama-bashing propagandist…
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Allison Kilkenny, Radio host, journalist, allisonkilkenny.com, in her piece “Alan Simpson: Totally Lucky He’s Not a Democrat“:
Conman and professional loudmouth, Andrew Breitbart…
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Mike Bonifer, Author of Gamechangers — Improvisation for Business in the Networked World in his piece “Breitbart’s Game“:
Impressively balancing a thick databook on a chunky thigh…
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Breitbart’s “righteous indignation” is a performance pose — the character lurking behind the pose is vengeful, self-loathing and apparently easily aroused.
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Tina Dupuy, Nationally syndicated columnist and award-winning writer, in her piece “Living in a ‘Post-Racist’ Society:
Racial agitator Andrew Breitbart…
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Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Professor at the USC Annenberg School, in her piece “The Best of All Possible Americas“:
Afraid of bad names like “lamestream” and “liberal,” our news media, rather than treating Andrew Breitbart like Lee Atwater — a partisan propagandist and smear-merchant — instead amplified his lies…
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William Bradley, California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com, in his piece “Harsh Realm: The Post-Press Era and Meg Whitman“:
…far right Internet huckster Andrew Breitbart…
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Peter Dreier and Christopher R. Martin, in their piece “Why Does Anyone Take Andrew Breitbart Seriously?“:
Breitbart is a con artist…
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Mark Potok, in his piece “Shirley Sherrod and the Right: A Day That Will Live in Infamy“:
Andrew Breitbart, a particularly vile propagandist…
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Bob Cesca, in his piece “Fooled Again by Breitbart and the Wingnut Right“:
Breitbart has only succeeded in underscoring how much of a buffoon he is…
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David Fiderer, in his piece “How Reporters Provide Cover for Darrell Issa’s Lies on the Countrywide ‘Scandal’“:
…where professional liars — Andrew Breitbart, James Inhofe, Karl Rove — are given an unfettered platform…
BONUS: That post got removed because it “did not meet [Huffington Post's] blogging guidelines.”
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Needless to say these twenty-plus examples from HuffPo bloggers employing ad hominem against Andrew Breitbart, who was the primary developer of the space they use to smear him, is the tip of the ice berg. We’ll leave it to the AOL/HuffPo team to see to it that these people are held to the same standards to which Andrew Breitbart was held and never get frontpage (digital) ink on the Huffington Post ever again.
Regarding the alternate headline: You probably noticed these attacks follow a certain pattern: a substantial portion of the examples above portray Breitbart as a racist. One refers to Breitbart’s “white rage and white resentment,” a couple more allege “race-baiting,” he’s called a “bigot” and a “racial agitator,” and the ACORN exposé for which he’s perhaps best known was “a level of racism worthy of the bigoted and violent white Southerners.” And believe me when I say there’s even more where these came from.
So the left is trying to marginalize a prominent conservative by portraying him as a racist… what’s the surprise? The surprise is that the Huffington Post bigwigs, i.e. Arianna and editor Roy Sekoff, know that Breitbart isn’t a racist and still have been AWOL when it comes to defending him publicly from these hideous charges. This week, Sekoff mentioned to the Daily Caller that he knows Breitbart isn’t a racist, and as for Arianna, would she have allowed Breitbart into her inner circle, much less into her home with her family, if she thought Breitbart was one?
Still, Sekoff and Huffington allowed for this narrative they knew to be false to play out on their high-value online real estate. Even Color of Change, the very organization that twice targeted Breitbart for blacklisting for his “right-wing racism,” was free to use the Huffington Post to try to forever stigmatize Breitbart as a racist.
Then there’s this one last eerie detail to the story: nowhere amongst all of the dozens of posts published on the Huffington Post that I read was Breitbart actually called a “racist.” “Race-baiter”? Sure. “Racial agitator”? Youbetcha. But “racist”? Now that apparently crosses the line. How could it be that each and every author who writes for this most vitriolic blog resist the temptation to deploy the most caustic descriptor in American life at their perceived enemy? Certainly the left didn’t abandon calling conservatives “racists” all of a sudden, did they? Clearly there’s an editorial policy in place which dictates that HuffPo bloggers are not to call Breitbart a “racist.” But of course, this editorial policy doesn’t protect Breitbart from being portrayed as one.
The phoniness, the monumental dishonesty in allowing bloggers to frame Breitbart as a racist so long as they don’t ascribe the specific word “racist” to him boggles the mind. But then again, there’s been a lot of duplicity going around AOL/HuffPo these days…
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All this tells me is that Andrew scares the crap out of them…..
"Needless to say these twenty-plus examples from HuffPo bloggers employing ad hominem against Andrew Breitbart, who was the primary developer of the space they use to smear him, is the tip of the ice berg."
It certainly is the tip of the ice berg. I'D LOVE TO SEE a list of the ad-hominem attacks against ANYONE at all. It must be a list that wouldn't fit on a 1,000 sheet roll of toilet paper written in prison style micro-print~!…….
What about that POLICY HUFFINGTON???…….Tell the truth….Breitbart got JAUNED~!
Hey – this Breitbart dude sounds like my kinda journalist!
Thanx, HuffPo!
The truth hurts.
Sermons to the choir, since we are to believe you can be part of the congregation for years without hearing the preacher's sermon.
Huffpo tries to dress themselves in grownup conservative civility when they wish to deride Andrew, but secretly strip for profit within their own website. In the end they fool noone – we knew they were partisan whores all along.
Stay the course, Andrew. You are standing above the crowd.
Aint that the truth?
Like the old saying "any publicity is good publicity".
A whole class of 8th graders standing around whining trying to figure out what to do now that the cool new kid has moved into town. Good times.
Good Morning, Petro..
still playing with your Tonka toys?
This shows what Breitbart is doing is striking at the very heart of the progressives,they ( progressives ) have one nerve left and Breitbart is jumping up and down on it.
ABSOLUTLY!
"Dumb Chicks Who Think" starring HuffPo Bloggers is always coming to a cinema near you.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if the left got half–or even a third–as worked up over genuine threats to the country in which they live (terrorist attacks, crime, rising energy prices) as they do over a person on the right voicing an opinion?
The Fu*kington Post sucks asss.
This, combined with Media Matters' declared war on Fox News, is the left showing real fear. They're desperately afraid of the truth finally dawning on some of their less committed numbers… as well they should be.
It's diaper-loading time!
Red diaper doper babies strike again.
You seem to know a lot about prison style micro-print, Grafic!
And congrats for the first public use (after suggesting it, of course) of juaned. Couldn't wait to see if the rest of us remembered, ohh, no, had to do it yourself! 
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“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” George Washington
Who cares? Stay focused on educating your freinds & neighbors.
Had to think about a TU on that comment for a sec, Dirtt, then I realized what a dumb chick who thinks would actually say! Oh yeah, that's a good un'! Not there aren't a lot of dumb guys who say dumb things. They even get elected!
You know, of course, Alex, that Airheadianna will insist this is HuffPo's new position now that it has merged with AOL. That's if she offers any explanation at all. I didn't check to see if these attacks were after the sale or before.
Hmm, Wonder what Ms. Arianna Huff will have to say about THIS ??? Something like "Oh, this is different dahling, Freedom of Speech, you know." Yep.
The only time I watch MSNBC is early morning weekends when they have 'Lock Up' on instead of what they call "news", hence my knowledge of micro-print. (knowledge that may indeed be useful to me in the government re-education camps one day) ;-Q
As for the use of juaned, I keep hearing a voice saying "if you use it they will follow"…..dunno if I should tell my doctor about this or not~!
The PuffHo crowd; racists of a different color.
LOL!!!
So let me get this straight. Arianna Huffington and her #2 Roy Sekoff know for a fact that Andrew Breitbart is NOT a racist. Ms. Huffington considers him a friend. Has him over her house to hang out with her family.
And they STILL allow this sh!t to be published about their friend?? They let a-holes lie through their teeth about their friend?
Hey Andrew, you need new friends because these people are scumbags….
Wow, that's breaking news, so HuffPo writers and readers are hypocrites? *rolls eyes* Come on, I get that you want to point out that they are . . . well, hypocrites, but you're preaching to the choir. We know that. That's why we don't go there (or want to read their drivel here, frankly). Breitbart is a ten times better man than any of them can hope to be, but you'll never convince them. Why bother?
Yup~! All that Hank, and yet those blogger's STILL grace the front page at HuffPo. Apparently the "no ad-hominem attack anywhere or your out" policy doesn't extend to anyone approved by Color of Change and Van Jones.
(by the way, whats the color of your change?…..mines silvery chromish, except for the pennies.) Thanks O~!
If I treated a friend like that, I'd fully expect a punch in the mouth. And I'd deserve it.
Van Jones is poison. Arianna and the rest of those back-stabbing liars deserve him.
That would cause hysterical anaphalactic(sp) shock.How do we do this?
Because even an idiot knows the left have NEVER had the population numbers they claim to represent.Where I live,we had a black man claim that the only way he would be defeared for sheriff is via racism.Not the 80 percentile range of his loss.He JUST assumed the election was his because he IS black.He GENUINELY was shocked and outraged because the didn't attain the the divine "right" to rule over all of us as dims think.,
Maybe the Huffer would not be so cranky is she'd get that yeast infection cleared up.
Why bother? Because it's likely Instapundit and other popular bloggers will link to this article, reaching more people. Inevitably it gets outside the bubble and must be dealt with by those "outside the choir".
AB getting banned from HuffPo's front page is an opportunity to expose them for what they are. Why pass it up just because the first step of a post is viewed mainly by like-minded people?
For a bunch of elites who think they're the smartest people in the world they seemed to be pretty petty children.
Always a good rule of thumb to steer clear of anyone with anything positive to say about the racist Truther Vanjones. I hope Breitbart learned a lesson from this: stay far far away from PuffHo.
As Ann Coulter said (paraphrasing): When arguing with liberals, if you don't make them get hysterical……..You're Not Doing It Right!
You Are Doing It Right, AB.
Libunatics attack anyone and everyone who stands up to their communist agenda for America.
The more visible the opposition, the stronger the attacks.
It's fun watching the extreme left in this phase of the meltdown process. I think it's only going to become more entertaining over time.
Who gives a damn!!?? Huffpost and it's throngs of illiterate marxists are ignorant, vile AND have no sense of honor? Wake up and smell the coffee, man! Why are we obsessed with the obvious fact that our enemy treats us poorly? They are our enemy!!! Instead of lamenting treatment at the hands of the commie establishmnet, how bout focusing 100% on the promotion of BREITBART sites and not the useful idiots at the competition? God it's like even the best of us never effing learn!
This is why I call the HuffPo the PuffHo. They are a bunch of literary blowhard hoes. I guess this would qualify me for their front page, if I were allowed to blog there- yes I was banned by the PuffHo from posting on their site. I was too critical of the loons who populate that site.
You nailed it right on the head. They are pissed Andrew was the one that helped get Acorn shut down. They are pissed his readership grows and people are no longer accepting the status quo from the media. When he was only focusing on Hollywood no one had a problem as that is a non issue debate. But when he directly targeted the media and the governement directly with the other Big sites thats when they got scared.
Look at the level of attacks and dates. Before Big Journalism and Governement he would be refered to as Conservative Andrew Breitbart. But once those sites started up now you get the smears.
Andrew keep up the good work. you have them on the ropes and on the run. Time to sharpen the blade and go in for the kill. Ohh wait I can't talk like that as a liberal might think I am condoning violence.
no disrespect to Andrew Breitbart..but, when you lay with dogs..you're gonna get fleas. Arianna Huffington is a former conservative…who was married to a bi-sexual who left her for another man…Can't help but think that unfortunate experience screwed her head up….You don't go from being a 40 something conservative to being a rabid leftist unless you either had a brain-damaging accident or some traumatic life experience that hard-wired the brain differently….She had the latter. The woman is a babbling fool if you listen to her. She had some money that was invested into the written version of the View, basically….She serves liberal junk food to liberal junkies……Not sure why Andrew Breitbart finds it necessary to canoodle with this woman…..Move on, Dude…you are better than this.
While Breitbart has been a pioneer in the new media Huffington has become a joke.
IMO, Andrew Breitbart's honesty has Huff-
HoPuff beat hands down.Arianna Huffington's web site is nothing less than a Progressive hoax. AOL got snookered!
There's no room for opposite opinion, so let the snakes there eat each other.
Hey Admin: Silflay Hraka!
Cancelling AOL 9 years ago was a pretty smart move Im thinking!
Sticks and Stones will break my bones but words will never harm me. . . . . .Huffington Pile can dish it out but can't take it. . . . . . .
HA! they are light wt. I would do better, but why bother Andy is as consequential as a pimple on a roach's @ss!
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