While looking for something else, I stumbled up this interview by Prof. Glenn Reynolds and the Insta-Wife of Andrew Breitbart from February 2010. It may be the best interview of Andrew I've ever seen. And it's as relevant, if not more so, now as it was back then. There's...
I followed Shirley Sherrod's lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart and Larry O'Connor over an edited video of Sherrod's speech to an NAACP chapter very carefully early on, demonstrating beyond doubt that the core of Sherrod's claim, that she was falsely portrayed in a short video Breitbart released,...
As Lee Stranahan notes, it took the NY Times to vindicate Andrew Breitbart against the attacks led by Media Matters: Many have noted the irony of Andrew Breitbart's tireless work to expose the fraud and corruption in Pigford being vindicated by the liberal New York Times--but...
The Editors of National Review have an excellent entry today in which the Pigford scandal is explained, Pigford Forever. Here is a key point which is not often understood, that the payments were tied to Obama's political maneuvering (emphasis mine): But as the Times reports in great...
I don't claim to be real good with the computer and the internet. So it is entirely possible that I missed Media Matters' mea culpa and apology now that even the NY Times has vindicated Andrew Breitbart on the Pigford fraud. Please help me find Media Matters'...
New York Times finally pays attention...
When a popular Democratic politician leaves office under the cloud of scandal and disgrace, the foremost question on his mind is when–not if–the media will begin reconstructing his career for him. There was the lionized Bill Clinton, who was impeached. Then there was former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose rehabilitation included a CNN show and a regular spot in Slate, where he proved to be an utterly conventional polemicist and shallow political thinker. And now we have the effort by the New York Times to resuscitate Anthony Weiner, whose congressional career was marked by erratic public temper tantrums and an inability to control himself or the volume of his voice. He left Congress after being caught in a sex scandal involving a college girl, and then falsely accused conservatives like Andrew Breitbart of making the story up. At every step in the scandal Weiner chose the least honorable path. Before the scandal ended his congressional term, Weiner was considered by some to be a favorite for the next New York City mayoral election. Now, two years after the scandal, he says he still wants to be mayor, and may in fact run for the Democratic nomination this year for the fall general election. Could he actually win?The NY Times rehabilitation of Weiner comes at the expense of reality, which is that Andrew Breitbart was the one who held Weiner to account, and Weiner fessed up only after lying and accusing others, and only when there was no choice:
.@nytimes How many editors had to "massage" that article to confuse the timeline and misstate critical events to get Weiner his Hero Moment?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013
that deliberately falsified timeline @nytimes piece quoted here: ace.mu.nu/archives/33900…
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 10, 2013
I just saw a movie review in The Washington Post from last fall regarding Hating Breitbart. I haven't seen the film (but Anne did, her review is here), so I can't comment on the review itself, although it does bear an unmistakably snide tone to it, as...
Rush Limbaugh's broadcast a year ago on the day of Andrew Breibart's death, March 1, 2012. One of the best memorials I've heard. (h/t Stix Blog) For background on the lies told about Breitbart's Shirley Sherrod tape, and how it supposedly was misleading, see my post Repeat after...
Andrew Breitbart's mother died last night, In Memoriam: Arlene Mae Breitbart, 1925-2013. One year ago today, at 9:35 a.m., I posted the news which had just begun spreading throughout the blogosphere: Andrew Breitbart dead Very sad news to report, just breaking. Andrew Breitbart is dead. Via Big Journalism: Andrew passed...
There is good news for those of you who were unable to see Andrew Marcus's excellent Hating Breitbart documentary, released late last year. It has just been announced that the movie will be released in theaters and on DVD and video-on-demand on May 17. After I...
Today would have been Andrew Breitbart's 44th birthday; he passed away last year on March 1, 2012. I think there's another facet of his experience that we ought to appreciate on his birthday. Andrew spoke often of his conversion from living a life outside of the political...
Have been away a couple of days, flying and driving and sitting and thinking. As well as taking a pilgrimage to a shrine: It all reminded me of something I wrote after Andrew Breitbart died: Since my wife called this morning to let me know of Andrew’s death, it...
Andrew Marcus, producer of Hating Breitbart, After Election 2012: WWBD -- What Would Breitbart Do? Everything that Andrew predicted in my film, Hating Breitbart, played out in real-time during the election right before our eyes. From Candy Crowley interrupting and taking Obama's side in the...
That's been the theme for Videos of the Day this week and for the next few days. This one deserves special attention. It's Ryan Clayton, a blogger at US Uncut, confronting Andrew Breibart at Netroots Nation 2011 in Minneapolis. (language warning) More videos of people confronting Breibart from Netroots 2011...
Last night I attended the opening night of the Andrew Breitbart documentary Hating Breitbart in St. Louis, MO. Seeing Andrew again on screen was a reminder of just how irreplaceable he is. Already I was starting to forget just how intelligent he was, how courageous, how...
So is the panic over yet? It shoud be, because there never was a reason for panic to begin with. Operation Demoralize went viral at the urging of the mainstream media, some Republicans and conservatives caught the fever, and for a weekend people lost their minds. Remember...
This past Saturday, Tea Party activists from Ohio and around the country converged on Cleveland for the Occupy the Truth for Peace and Justice rally and march. Organized by Andrew Marcus of the upcoming documentary, "Hating Breitbart," the march centered on Andrew Breitbart's charge to...
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