It’s taken a long time, but Huffington Post/AOL founder Arianna Huffington and Huffington Post/AOL editor Roy Sekoff have finally acknowledged that I am not a racist–despite the popular left wing website’s campaign to frame me as one.

From a letter crafted by Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff to the Daily Caller:

…I want to make it as clear as possible that neither I nor Arianna believe that Andrew Breitbart is a racist.  If we did believe that, we never would have allowed him to blog on HuffPost — let alone featured him on our front page.

I am grateful for Huffington and Sekoff’s true courage to go against many of their partisan bloggers and ideological editors, many of whom threatened to quit if I wasn’t ousted from its “progressive” waters.

For the last six months the Huffington Post, recently purchased by AOL for $315 million, has been running a vengeful propaganda campaign led by a far left wing anti-free speech organization called “Color of Change,” created by former Obama White House “green czar” Van Jones – whose resignation was sealed, to a great degree, by facts revealed in reporting at one of my websites. (more…)

The political contrast between MNBC and its cable counterparts tonight is striking.

All evening, on CNN, Anderson Cooper has been moderating a diverse panel of both Republicans and Democrats, including conservatives like Red State’s Erick Erickson along with Mary Matalin and  Bill Bennett who counter-balance liberals such as James Carville, Paul Begala and Elliott Spitzer.

Over at Fox News, hosts Bret Baier and Megyn Kelly have talked to guests as diverse as Bob Beckel, Geraldine Ferraro, Juan Williams, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, and Mick Huckabee.

MSNBC, however, is an absolute echo chamber of fevered leftism with only Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Eugene Robinson, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow, and the occasional lefty like Howard Fineman and Governor Ed Rendell. Sure they had Rep. Michele Bachmann on but only to try and humiliate her (which backfired beautifully).

Good grief, MSNBC won’t even allow a squish on like Joe Scarborough. Even CNN gave Kathleen Parker a seat at the table. (more…)

Two years ago today, William F. Buckley moved on to the great Firing Line in the Sky where he is, no doubt, still debating the wisdom of turning over the Panama Canal with the Gipper. Buckley’s legacy lives on, not only in the remarkable generation of writers that he spawned after he first dared to stand athwart history and yell stop but, in an odd sort of way, in the manner in which some of the liberals he defied over the course of five decades seem to pine for the great man’s genteel ways.

On a personal note, Buckley was one of the two great influences in the creative life of this particular – not particularly humble – correspondent. The other was that irascible Chicago newspaperman/Everyman: Mike Royko. It’s difficult to imagine an odder couple, but Buckley and Royko shared at least a couple of common characteristics. One took them on at one’s peril (and very few ever successfully did so) and neither could be neatly constrained within an ideological box. Royko was classically liberal, but he openly scorned the liberal elite. Buckley became the symbol of the conservative movement, but he refused to let the movement define him, cutting his own path through the ideological jungle when necessary, most famously when he argued for the legalization of many illegal drugs. Agree or disagree, both Royko and Buckley were thinkers, and honest thinkers to boot, who had a knack for expressing their thoughts with the kind of panache that left their readers breathless in awe. (more…)