- Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch and a good chunk of the Breitbart crew will be at CPAC beginning today. Loesch will broadcast from radio row, is scheduled to receive the AIM award today, present one of the Bloggers’ Red Carpet Award tomorrow, and speak on Saturday at 3:15 eastern. Andrew Breitbart speaks Friday at 4:40 eastern on the topic of “unity.” You won’t want to miss this speech — and won’t have to, as it will be livestreamed on Breitbart.tv

- Media Matters is jealous that they have never been nominated or received an award. They’re trying to bully Sharyl Attkisson from showing up to receive her AIM award. Keep in mind, MMfA mysteriously received (and didn’t disclose) a massive wad of cash from SEIU following the beating of Ken Gladney — around the same time they began vigorously defending SEIU — is criticizing Attkisson for receiving an award for her excellent reporting on Fast and Furious, which Media Matters has wholly ignored. And no, defense pieces for Holder that go against the facts Attkisson discovers don’t quality as “coverage.”

- Is CNN is censor-happy? Now Martin’s Tweets are “homophobic?” Since when the hell is making fun of soccer “homophobic?” Instead of getting angry at drama-happy GLAAD, progressives have blamed … Dana Loesch and Erick Erickson. And probably also George Bush. And Sarah Palin. Also Grover Norquist. And the Koch Brothers, don’t forget them. And Foster Friess. Forgetting anyone?

- Sean Hannity vs Ed Schultz on Twitter.

- Brent Bozell vs Sam Feist on Twitter.

- Even after Roland Martin apologized for GLAAD’s determination to find gay-bashing in a soccer joke, they’re still not satisfied. They want to continue having conversations on how jokes about David Beckham’s underwear can result in LGBT “violence.”

- Dylan Byers: Why didn’t CNN suspend Loesch, Erickson over a joke Martin made that groups claimed was homophobic but wasn’t? Also, when will Loesch, Erickson, apologize for Hurricane Katrina, the Challenger explosion, and Greece’s economic problems?

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As reported by Big Government:

Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), who was the subject of allegations of congressional insider trading, has indicated that he will not seek to extend his term as chair of the House Financial Services Committee after 2012.

Progressive media has fought hard against the story of insider trading, first broken by Big Peace Editor Peter Schweizer with his book Throw Them All Out. Leftist media attempted to discredit the sources and blow off the story, but after President Obama mentioned it in his State of the Union Address, the tactic was turned on its ear.

Earlier this week Joel Pollak discussed how the Huffington Post issued a mea culpa after working hard to encourage dismissal of the story:

Give Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post credit: it takes courage to change one’s mind, and to admit an earlier mistake.

Grim has written that he was wrong to dismiss a November 2011 report by 60 Minutes (based on Breitbart editor Peter Schweitzer’s book, Throw Them All Out) on insider trading in Congress:

At the time, I wrongly reported that 60 Minutes’ poor choice of targets for its report, and its clumsy attempt to connect specific trading to specific legislative action, set momentum for the bill back. Instead, in fact, the report propelled the legislation forward.

Grim had initially reported that the 60 Minutes report “falls short.”

What changed?

Much of the left and the left media–including the Huffington Post, Politico, and Media Matters for America–dismissed the issue of insider trading and tried to discredit both the allegations and their source. Now that Obama has taken up the legislation–with its sponsor, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) obtaining Obama’s explicit commitment to make Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid move it through the Senate–the left is scrambling to catch up.

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- DHS is monitoring Drudge Report, social networks:

A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that since at least June 2010, its national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

The purpose of the monitoring, says the government document, is to “collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.”

- Piers Morgan tells Andrew Breitbart that he’s “evil.” At least Breitbart’s sites have never hacked phones on his watch.

- “Someone had a good time at her double nickel birthday!”

- Gawker: “N word did not get writer fired.”

- Comedy gold: Kremlin’s smear attempt on blogger backfires.

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- Huffington Post said they simply couldn’t allow Andrew Breitbart on their pages due to “ad hominem,” but this didn’t stop them from publishing the same from Bill Maher.

- Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity disagree on 2012 candidates. Malkin: “It’s not ‘nitpicking,’ Sean …”

- Latest ratings show AC360 beating Lawrence O’Donnell’s over-acted Shakespearian drama.

- Screencap of the day: Obamaney

Megyn Kelly joked: “As it turns out they are not the same man. Not philosophically, not ideologically, not in any other way… our apologies for that error.” Some voters would disagree.

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Whenever I think of the Huffington Post newsroom I think of the frat house from “PCU.” That’s the only possible explanation for the is-it-or-isn’t-it-true story posted to HuffPo yesterday detailing how Eric Boehlert firmly believes that the bearded Verizon guy at his house was part of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

A short, bearded man stood outside, holding a clipboard and wearing a Verizon uniform. He asked Boehlert if he’d be willing to take a customer survey. Verizon had, perhaps coincidentally, been at the house a week earlier to handle a downed wire. Boehlert quickly agreed and noted that a Verizon worker had actually failed to show up when he said he would.

But as the survey went on, it started getting strange. “The only weird part before he got to his final question was he started telling me, ‘Oh, you know, it’s really tough out there, the economy, and I’m just happy to have a job,’ and stuff like that, which I thought was weird for a customer rep to be telling one of his customers,” Boehlert recalled to HuffPost.

“So he gets to the last questions, and he’s really reading intently off of his clipboard, and he says something about making the kind of salary I do, working from home, something something about the 99 percenters,” Boehlert said.

The man claiming to be a Verizon representative finally asked his question. “After he mentioned my salary and that I work from home, all the bells went off, and this is not who this guy says he is. Therefore, I kind of lost track of the exact wording of the question, but it definitely was like very accusatory of me and I’m a hypocrite and how do I have this supposedly cushy job while I’m writing about real workers and the people of the 99 percent,” said Boehlert.

“So there was this pause, and I said, ‘You work for Verizon?’ And he just sort of looks back at me and [says], ‘Will you answer the question? Will you answer the question?’ And I said, ‘Can I see your Verizon ID?’ And he wouldn’t produce any Verizon ID, and I think he asked me another time to answer the question. And basically I just said, ‘I’m done so you can leave now.’”

The man started to walk off.

Boehlert decided to follow him to obtain his license plate number. By now he had realized that the man was likely pulling a political stunt, and James O’Keefe’s notorious “To Catch a Journalist” project came to mind as a possibility.

Are you ready to lose more brain cells without the benefit of alcohol? Read on.

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- Jonah Goldberg: “Making the Klan Boring.”

Kevin Boyle, who teaches history at Ohio State University reviewed a couple books on the Klan in the New York Times yesterday. The KKK of the 1920s is a fascinating story. But it is a difficult one to tell in an interesting or accurate way without ever using the words “Democrat,” “Wilson,” or “Progressive,” which is why Boyle’s review is so lame.

- Introducing The College Conservative:

TheCollegeConservative was launched in November 2011 with one mission: to give young conservative activists a platform to be heard across the nation. Our organization is comprised of conservative college writers from across the United States who are tired of being pushed around by “the ninety-nine percent” and the world of academia. TheCollegeConservative seeks to create an environment where conservative thought is shared, discussed, and understood. TCC is committed to promoting the charges set forth in the Constitution and believes strongly in limited government, responsible, yet strong national defense, and the concept of American Exceptionalism. We make no apologies.

- Remember when the media/progressives called Bush a commie, fascist, etc., and said he was planning on controlling everyone’s lives? Hmmm, have you heard the media report how it is Obama who has ushered in more government regulations than Bush? Me neither.

Regulations.

- Sad panda alert: Crooks and Liars left with egg on its face after Wisconsin reprimands doctors who wrote fake sick notes to union protesters:

In short, Karoli’s [Crooks and Liars blogger] snooty dismissal of the initial report was 100% wrong. The doctors were, essentially, writing fake sick notes. According to the report, in order to issue those notes, the doctors were required to do way more than they did.

Lytle said state law “requires pertinent patient history, pertinent objective findings related to the examination and test results, assessment or diagnosis, and a plan of treatment for the patient.”

Basically, the notes were not backed up by real medical evaluations, proper procedure, and a follow up plan. They didn’t keep full records, either. All required by law. The notes were fake. The doctors got off easy. The next step should be to identify the teachers who submitted the fake sick notes so they can face disciplinary action for their illegal participation in a strike.

Andrew Breitbart is owed an apology from Crooks and Liars.

- Fail: While Herman Cain denies the latest affair accusation, his lawyer tells the local television station that broke the story Cain “isn’t talking.”

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No, I’m completely serious. I know.

Mike Malloy, that bastion of bountiful braininess to whom no one would listen if Larry O’Connor didn’t post his remarks on Breitbart.tv, says Andrew Breitbart is responsible for Occupy Oakland violence.

“… this movement is attracting its share of provocateurs I’m sure send by scum like Andrew Breitbart and the rest of these freaks to try to disrupt what is essentially at this point, a peaceful movement.”

So “right-wing pig” Andrew Breitbart sent “provocateurs” to Oakland to vandalize businesses including the Whole Foods, and the brave, peaceful Occupy protesters stopped it. Look at them stopping it:

AP

I ask Mike Malloy now to produce his evidence that Andrew Breitbart himself sent people to vandalize anything or apologize for his rabid insinuation. Yes, I know it’s a fruitless effort, but all the same I’d like to put him on the spot simply by asking.

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You can Google up the Media Matters link if you must. I’m leaving it out as a means of doing my part to help clean up toxic waste. The takeaway is that Media Matters is doing everything it can to push this country as far left as it can, even if it means consistently misleading its readers and members of the media it targets for message dissemination.

This year, Fox has continued to push the right-wing talking point that “America is a center-right country.” In fact, on issue after issue, polls are clear that Americans favor progressive policies.

Fox Hosted Andrew Breitbart To Claim That “We’re A Center-Right Nation.” On Fox Business, David Asman hosted right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart to claim that the United States has a “2-1 ratio of conservatives to liberals.” From the broadcast:

BREITBART: Well, look — well, first of all, we’re a center-right nation that’s — and the media’s controlled by the people on the elite coasts. So they — the way that the minority in this country — and according to Gallup, we’re still a 2-to-1 ratio of conservatives to liberals. Yet, we have these squeakers every election cycle. They’re squeakers and it’s 50-50, it’s so close, because of the media being able to frame who the good guys and who the bad guys are. [Fox Business, America's Nightly Scoreboard, 8/24/11]

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For those of you who might have missed the scandal, JournoList was a place where hundreds of members of the MSM (and those pretending to be conservative journalists)  got together to hone their anti-Republican narratives. In other words, this was where every conspiracy theory those of us on the Right held about the corrupt media was proven true. This was also where the MSM’s ongoing “call them racist” narrative in defense of Their Precious One was likely born.

JournoList might be dead as far as an organized infrastructure (though I suspect it lives on in informal emails, instant messaging and texts), but the corrupt spirit of it all is alive and well, especially at Politico, where no less than three of their “journalists” were members of Ezra Klein’s now infamous JournoList: Mike Allen, Ben Smith and Lisa Lerer.

This sort of background and context is important. We can never allow ourselves to forget what these “objective” news outlets have been a part of. What we know about their past tells us everything about who they are and the deceptions and dishonesty they are capable of.

It also helps to explain Politico’s behavior when they do something like this:

Conservatives looking to delegitimize the Occupy Wall Street protests have a new tactic — targeting journalists.

That is the opening sentence of a front page Politico piece posted just this morning that looks at how those of us on the right, especially this site and Big Government, have exposed the ongoing collusion and conspiracy between members of the mainstream media and the heavily astro-turfed Occupy movements currently stinking up public parks throughout the country.

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Andrew Breitbart at Big Government:

In keeping with the new media notion of crowdsourcing–enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media when trawling through Sarah Palin’s emails–Big Government will be providing readers later today with links to a document drop consisting of thousands of emails.

The email archive, created by a private cyber security researcher, appears to contain messages shared by the left’s anarcho-socialist activists during the strategic and daily tactical planning of the “Occupy Wall Street” and broader “Occupy” campaign this fall.

Big Government received a tip about the existence of the archive, and we were able to contact the individual who compiled and posted it. He will describe the archive, and how he obtained the emails, later this morning exclusively on Big Government.

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This morning, Big Government posted video from an event at the National Press Club at which Faya Rose Touré (formerly Rose Sanders), an attorney from the $2.7 billion Pigford “black farmers” discrimination settlement, revealed major flaws in the claims process. Her statements support previous reporting by Big Government and Big Journalism–reporting which Media Matters ruthlessly and wrongly attacked as false.

At the same press conference, the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and the Nation of Islam (NOI) joined in a barrage of racist, antisemitic, and homophobic rhetoric that went unreported by the mainstream media, though the event took place within their very own clubhouse.

The newly released video confirms much of what Pigford’s critics have been saying, destroying previous attempts by George Soros’s Big Labor-funded minions at Media Matters to hide the truth.

From Breitbart media’s earliest reporting on the Pigford settlement, Media Matters began recklessly hurling accusations of racism, and lying about Andrew Breitbart and others’ writing about the issue, while discounting facts now shown to be correct.

In hindsight, that appears to have been an orchestrated effort to suppress the truth behind Pigford and potentially keep the scandal from surfacing in mainstream media outlets.

It is an effort that has failed.

For example, Media Matters tried to dispel any link between Pigford and the New Black Panther Party (“Race-baiting confluence: On Breitbart site, Adams links Pigford to New Black Panthers“).

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The recent Big Government story revealing Barack Obama’s appearance alongside the New Black Panther Party has prompted Media Matters for America to tear away even more of the flimsy veneer of its “nonpartisan” mission statement. After Matt Gertz’s knee-jerk defensive maneuvers for Obama, Simon Maloy quickly doubled down with an attack on National Review’s Andrew McCarthy. Could someone again explain to me how MMfA is a tax exempt organization?

Media Matters’ Simon Maloy

Mr. Maloy is so excited to “debunk” McCarthy, he engages in the common Media Matters tactic of presenting only snippets of the article he’s critiquing, going so far as to say “I’ll reproduce just the first paragraph of McCarthy’s post, because it’s really all you need” (he later goes on to quote other parts of the article). To stoop to limiting the information presented to his readers, either out of fear that they may read it in its entirety and (gasp!) think for themselves or out of a juvenile need to deprive National Review of traffic, betrays incredible insecurity behind his snide partisan vitriol. Mr. Maloy either knows better or he is lying, saying anything he can to make Andrew Breitbart look bad and distract the media from the story’s implications for Obama’s reelection campaign.

Maloy desperately clings to the objection that the purpose of the Selma march somehow mollifies Breitbart and McCarthy’s main point — that then-candidate Obama was mingling with The New Black Panther Party, doing nothing to distance himself from its radical, violence-inciting leaders. To develop McCarthy’s thought further, if both Rick Perry and the KKK both showed up to a bake sale to benefit children with cancer, that wouldn’t excuse the Republican presidential candidate sharing a podium with the racist group. (more…)

Close your eyes. Picture this. It’s 1999. There’s an event for something significant and then-candidate George W. Bush is attending along with a few members of the KKK. Bush & the KKK members are together behind the podium. The first speaker is a KKK leader, then some others, and finally Bush. Also, the KKK arrived there to make it known they endorse George Bush. A photo shows the KKK and George Bush appearing to leave the event together.

Now imagine it’s 2003 and the photos have been made public.  Do you think an organization like Media Matters For America would give George Bush the benefit of the doubt? Do you think The New York Times or the evening news would brush it aside? If this was any GOP politician do you think this would be ignored? Absolutely not!

But of course MMFA immediately jumps to President Obama’s defense and makes every excuse for him. So far we haven’t heard anything from the MSM about the photos published at Big Government showing candidate Obama with the New Black Panther hate group.

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I’ve finally made it home from TeaCon 2011, where I spoke yesterday morning and fellowshipped with hundreds of conservative activists. It was a great event all around, organized by WIND 560 (amazing hospitality; I broadcasted the DLRS from their studios on Friday), the Illinois Tea Party, and the Chicago Tea Party.

Some photos and video from the event:

Chris Loesch photo

Cain’s post-speech press conference:

I’ve more video here:

Cain Unplugged: ‘I Still Worship In The Hood’

Cain On Romney: ‘Great Hair’

Cain At TeaCon: ‘I Have No Idea Why Other Candidates Aren’t Here’

Unfortunately, Cain was unprepared for his appearance on “This Week” following his showing at TeaCon.

After three years of hateful smear attacks from Janeane Garofalo, Andrew Breitbart hit back.

From my speech Saturday morning:

Chris Loesch photo

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CNN on Sunday invited author Tim Wise to comment on the Berkley bake sale “controversy.”

Unfortunately, Wise whose reputation for falsehoods has eclipsed any notoriety he’s gained as an author, also has a history of threatening behavior towards conservatives, in particular the publisher of this website.

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In complicated times, when even the grown ups can’t get it right, Gen Y TV sat down with new media publisher and New York Times Bestselling author, Andrew Breitbart (Righteous Indignation: Excuse me while I save the world!) to gain insight into the man behind BigGovernment.com, the Internet media outlet best known for breaking the ACORN and Anthony Weiner sexting scandals.  Addressing topics from new media opportunities to the current political landscape, Breitbart discussed each topic with a heavy dose of reality as it applies to Gen-Y, specifically young adults 18-35.

“Gen Y is very much SCREWED!” Breitbart said with conviction, “when it comes to the raw economics of what my generation and the baby boomers have handed to you.” Regarding the future of Generation Y in new media, he took a more positive, yet cautious position, “There are so many opportunities out there if media continues to be free, and if the government doesn’t try to impede and say we’re going to put limitations on you.” Breitbart stressed the innate compatibilities between young adults and new media, and encouraged anyone with a digital camera to report stories from their community that the mainstream media isn’t covering.

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Last week at RebootCongress, I wrote about efforts by progressive propagandists like MOPAG (Missouri Progressive Action Group) and Senator Claire McCaskill to seed their talking points in local newspapers with letters to the editor. The talking points that they’ve set out for this letter writing campaign are designed to smear conservatives:

• GOP are “thugs” working for the wealthy; “enforcers” for the mega-rich, lots of mafia comparisons are possible.
• GOP as terrorists; hostage metaphors are good since they are already prevalent; we should always reinforce the image.
• The Republican downgrade or Tea Party downgrade.
• GOP as tricksters – Tea Party dupes is a related image.

Now, we have an example of how the left plans to push this propaganda. It begins with Washington University staffer Adam Shriver, who tweeted a link Saturday about letters to the editor in the Post Dispatch:

By now we’ve all heard the reprehensible remarks made by Congressional Black Caucus Whip Andre Carson (D-IN) where he told the audience at a CBC Jobs Fair Town Hall in Miami that Tea Party Congressmen would like to lynch black people. Given the opportunity to revise or retract his remarks, Carson instead stood by “the truth” of his comments.

So now it seems pretty fair to say that Andre Carson is a race-baiting bigot who has brought shame upon the U. S. House of Representatives. But any regular reader of Big Government knows that this is not new information. In fact, Andre Carson’s despicable, divisive slander of August 22nd is just the latest of bogus attacks made by the 2nd term congressman against the Tea Party. Andre Carson is the man who told the mother of all race-baiting lies against the Tea Party: That racial slurs were screamed “fifteen times” at he and Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) in Washington DC on the day before the ObamaCare vote in 2010.

The headlines at the time (as well as Topic #1 on cable news and Sunday talk shows) was “Racist Tea Party Yells ‘N-Word’ at Civil Rights Icon John Lewis”. Andre Carson’s name was hardly mentioned in any of the stories. But a Big Government investigation revealed that it was he, in fact, who gathered Capitol Hill reporters around himself on March 20, 2010 and breathlessly told them what had happened “outside of Cannon (Congressional Office Building)” just moments before. (audio courtesy Kerry Pickett, Washington Times)

By now you know the story become part of Democratic Party lore showing up in talking points as recently as just last week as Alan Colmes mangled the “facts” but still was able to perpetuate the lie on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor”. You should also know by now that Andrew Breitbart offered a $100, 000 reward for anyone who can produce video proof o the supposed racial hatred. The only videos uncovered were found by the Big Government staff. They show the exact moment Carson described, “down the steps of Cannon”, from four different angles. Not only were there no slurs heard on any of the videos, but the scene is not at all how Carson described it to Capitol Hill reporters.

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Comrades, many of you wonder why I blog at this hateful website and others owned by the notorious racist Andrew Breitbart. I do so in order to hold Breitbart and his minions accountable to the people, to make him suffer the “free speech” he purports to defend.

In his latest racist attack on black Americans, Breitbart has outdone himself, posting an outrageous video of the Rev. Al Sharpton hosting on MSNBC in prime time this past Tuesday.

In the video, the Rev. Sharpton attempts to utter the prophetic words: “Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins, in the state of Wisconsin, a national drive to push back, or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance. But resist, we must. We must, and we will, about that, be committed.”

The Rev. Sharpton was right: Republicans somehow held on to win in Wisconsin, and so resist we must.

Yet in Breitbart’s video–almost certainly doctored, given his history of deceit–the Rev. Sharpton is shown saying: “But resist, we much. We must, and we will much, about that, be committed.”

The video has gone viral, and Breitbart’s troglodyte teabagger terrorists are whooping it up like London hooligans, claiming that the Rev. Sharpton is incapable of hosting a television show, playing up a familiar and ignominious racist stereotype.

The racism is evident in the way Breitbart presented the Rev. Sharpton’s comments. He follows the footage of the Rev. Sharpton with the names and images of past anchors at NBC: “Huntley, Brinkley, Chancellor, Mudd, Brokaw, Williams”–each and every one of them a white male. He adds an image–surely photoshopped–from the Rev. Sharpton’s past, in which has been made to look overweight and shown wearing a ridiculous outfit.

Breitbart’s aim is clear. Not only does he want to remove a revolutionary, radical voice from the airwaves, but he also wants to destroy MSNBC’s well intentioned attempt to diversify its formerly all-white lineup. The fact that a few dark complexions have been scattered recently among the likes of Dylan Ratigan, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Andrew Mitchell, Lawrence O’Donnell, and so on has infuriated Breitbart.

Even more outrageously, Breitbart has apparently managed to brainwash a few Uncle Toms from the National Association of Black Journalists to oppose the Rev. Sharpton. They echoed false media allegations that the Rev. Sharpton had a conflict of interest just because he had allegedly used his civil rights group to help approve a controversial merger between Comcast and NBC Universal after receiving money from Comcast.

But the joke is on Breitbart in the end. Because we progressives know how to deal with the most racist insults hurled at us by bigots of his deceitful sort. We appropriate their hateful terms, making them our own, stripping them of their racist venom and turning them into weapons against our very tormentors.

In posting that twisted video of the Rev. Sharpton, Breitbart has unwittingly provided us a new rallying cry: “Resist we much!”

Comrades! Stand up for MSNBC’s ongoing attempt at racial integration! Fight Breitbart’s racist attack against the Rev. Sharpton! Smash the traitorous Fifth Columnists from the National Association of Black Journalists! Demand a revolutionary media that organizes the progressive forces of our nation against evil corporations!

In the words of our now-favorite MSNBC host, let us build our movement of national resistance!

Resist we much!

Earlier this week, the Huffington Post published an article suggesting Andrew Breitbart may have doctored a video published here and Breitbart.TV that made CBS’s Norah O’Donnell look like the biased liberal she really is.  Of course, Breitbart did no such thing.  After HuffPo brass was alerted to what their bloggers and editors were up to, they jettisoned the article and posted a correction and apology in its stead.

Attempting to marginalize conservatives is beneficial to the left for at least two reasons: 1) the left doesn’t have a lot of effective arguments, and 2) even if they did, discrediting a person once burns far fewer calories than debating each point they make one by one. It’s easier to call someone a racist/sexist/bigot or a liar than it is to prove your own arguments are intellectually sound time after time; after all, who would take what a bigot or a liar has to say seriously?  By painting a person with that brush, the left has preemptively won any future debate they ever have with the “discredited” person.

In the case of Andrew Breitbart, this is exactly what the left has tried to do.  If people hear that “he’s the guy who doctors videos” over and over, they’ll eventually believe it, even if it’s not true, and will no longer think of one of the right’s most effective communicators as a credible source.  NBC, Media Matters, HuffPo, and countless others have tried for years to employ this guilty-until-proven-innocent method of character assassination.

We’ve heard this story before, and we will hear it again… right now.  From Tuesday’s Adweek:

So there you have it, HuffPo caved to Breitbart.  Not “HuffPo Righted a Wrong Done to Breitbart,” or “HuffPo Retracts a Baseless Attack on Breitbart,” Adweek’s editors want readers to focus on HuffPo’s capitulation to the devious Breitbart and his ability to make the liberal media bend to his will.  The word “caves” implies that HuffPo may have been making an important point, but Breitbart somehow applied such unbelievable amounts of pressure that they had no choice but to let the man have his way. As it happens, the rest of the piece was mostly accurate, but the tone of any article is set by the headline, and that’s exactly why the Adweek editors gave this post the title they did.

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