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The Hastily-Conceived Andrew Breitbart Edition

What time is it? TIME TO HEAL, ASSHOLES!

BREITBART: THE FINAL MELTDOWN

IT'S THE BIG "--30--" FOR
RED-BAITING SENSATIONALIST HACK
ACORN ALREADY SUSPECTED IN DEATH

And now, here's our own special video tribute to this titan of American journalism:

BREAKING: Andrew Breitbart's BIG Announcement

BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG!

DC Tax Day Tea Party: "Don't Look, Ethel!"

Ray Stevens' Love Song To Military Breaks Smarmometer, Victoria Jackson Ensures Place As Stupidest Saturday Night Live Cast Member Ever



Mike Flugennock writes at the Washington DC Independent Media Center:

I came away yesterday evening feeling somehow disppointed; sure, there were the obligatory birthers, flat-taxers and other assorted nutbars, and yes, there was the obligatory smattering of amusingly misspelled signs, but somehow -- yesterday's crowd just wasn't as flat-out batshit as I was hoping and expecting. Michelle Bachman was her usual shrieking, shallow, ingnorant self, yet she vomited none of the off-the-hook weird statements that endear her to me; Andrew Breitbart exhibited his usual over-the-edge delivery, but neither of them seemed to really bring the crazy yesterday.

They hated socialism, yet most of them looked old enough to be on Social Security and Medicare. They hated corporations, they loved capitalism. They hated the expansion of government power into their lives, they loved the expansion of government power into Iraq and Afghanistan. They hated Saul Alinsky -- and they loved Saul Alinsky. Go figure.

Speakers galore shuffled across the stage -- so many speakers, in fact, that it almost seemed like a right-wing version of an ANSWER rally, only with music. And, oh, what music. Almost without exception, every musical performer worked to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded instrumental backup track instead of a live backup band. Ray Stevens, late-60s Jesus-rock star famous for his '70s novelty hit "The Streak", proffered a sappy, cloying love song to the military which pegged my Smarmometer™ so hard that it damn' near broke the needle off. Former Saturday Night Live fixture Victoria Jackson, who dropped out of SNL in the '90s to pursue a career as a born-again Christian nutcake, cemented her position as Stupidest SNL Cast Member Ever with "There's A Communist Living In The White House", a song featuring a tedious guilt-by-association litany of the "communists" in Barack Obama's life which, to her and all assembled, proved that the DLC corporate centrist hack currently in the Oval Office is, in fact, a dangerous Marxist.

Then, at long last, came the man I waited all evening to hear from -- Little Andy Breitbart. He only seemed to go through the motions last night, with his prerequisite loony attitude, but there just wasn't enough of the Breitbart zaniness that guarantees a full-tilt steaming-ears meltdown. This could be due to the fact that it was a "friendly" crowd without the possibility of his being confronted with any inconvenient truths, thus precluding any chance of Breitbart going over the edge. Most of his evening's rantings were spent making excuses for Clarence Thomas and bitching about MSNBC and "union thugs" -- in other words, a standard-issue rap which had none of the brilliance of his ravings at the recent CPAC conference in March. More's the pity.

Video is also downloadable as 32.8mb mpeg4 file from the DC Independent Media Center

O'Keefe: Profile of a Right Wingnut in Facebook Pictures

"Hell is other people." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Hey, asshole: big ballers don't shop at the Men's Wearhouse.

Ravi Somaiya writes at Gawker:

James O'Keefe, the Teabugger/conservative rapscallion is pleading guilty to reduced charges for sneaking into a Senator's office to do... something. He once "investigated" ACORN. So we've conducted an in-depth, O'Keefe style psychological "investigation" of him, using only his Facebook pictures... >more

Comedy Break: Breitbart Says Gay, Black Lawmakers Deserved Taunts of "Nigger", "Faggot"

Little Andy Sails Off Edge of Earth; Claims Racist, Homophobic Abuse "Provoked"


Ravi Somaiya writes in Gawker:

Andrew Breitbart watched Tea Partyers call black lawmakers 'nigger' and Barney Frank 'faggot' over the weekend. He was outraged. That the lawmakers had the temerity to provoke a "peaceful" middle-American crowd. The black caucus should be ridiculed, he says... >more

New York Times Publishes Lame Mea Culpa On ACORN "Sting" Reporting

Closes Barn Door After Horses Escape; "Oops, Our Bad", Sez Mealy-Mouthed Op-Ed



Clark Hoyt mumbles in the New York Times:

THE Times reported Saturday that Acorn, once considered the nation’s largest community organizing group for the poor and powerless, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy. It has already ceased operating in many states, including Maryland, where two conservative activists pretending to be a pimp and a prostitute used a hidden camera and recorded Acorn employees advising them on how to conceal the source of illegal income and manage 14-year-old Salvadoran prostitutes in the country illegally: “Train them to keep their mouth shut.”

The Times was slow last fall to cover that sting in Baltimore, similar ones at Acorn offices in Brooklyn, Washington and other cities, and the resulting uproar, including criminal investigations and votes in Congress to cut off funds for the group. But the paper finally described how a succession of Acorn employees had advised the pair on obviously improper activities and how, as a result, many of the group’s allies had deserted it. Now Acorn and its supporters say The Times got the story wrong and, by failing to correct it, has played into the hands of a campaign that has pushed the group near extinction.

Since the story broke, Acorn’s contributions have dried up, its national staff has been cut by more than three-quarters, services for the poor have been suspended, and chapters have closed or reorganized under other names, even though a district attorney found that Acorn employees in Brooklyn did nothing illegal and a federal judge ruled that Congress acted unconstitutionally in cutting off funding as punishment.

Acorn’s defenders say it was all because of an unethical, even illegal prank that is now unraveling. “A groundswell of public indignation is gathering strength in calling for the retraction and correction of the reporting of this story by the NYT,” wrote Joseph Holder of Manteca, Calif., one of hundreds of readers I’ve heard from since liberal groups like FAIR — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting — took up the cause. They argue that The Times was wrong when it said that James O’Keefe, who shot the videos, was in the “gaudy guise” of a pimp when he accompanied Hannah Giles, dressed as a streetwalker, into Acorn offices, and that the paper mischaracterized what happened in the offices. O’Keefe didn’t present himself as a pimp, the argument goes, but as a clean-cut young man, sometimes a college student, trying to rescue his girlfriend and under-age girls from an abusive pimp. The Times’s version of events, FAIR said, was “wildly misleading.”

With two associates, Michael McElroy and Rebecca Ruiz, I have reviewed the entire available public record, including the O’Keefe videos and what are represented on a conservative Web site as the full transcripts and audio of his visits to the Acorn offices. It is the same record from which FAIR and others are getting their alternative interpretation. I have talked with Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Web entrepreneur who arranged the release of the videos; Bertha Lewis, the chief executive of Acorn; and Scott Harshbarger, a former Massachusetts attorney general, and his associate, Amy Crafts, who were hired by Acorn last year to investigate what happened and to evaluate the group’s management.

Here is what I found: O’Keefe almost certainly did not go into the Acorn offices in the outlandish costume — fur coat, goggle-like sunglasses, walking stick and broad-brimmed hat — in which he appeared at the beginning and end of most of his videos. It is easy to see why The Times and other news organizations got a different impression. At one point, as the videos were being released, O’Keefe wore the get-up on Fox News, and a host said he was “dressed exactly in the same outfit he wore to these Acorn offices.” He did not argue... >more

ACORN Cleared of Wrongdoing by NY Prosecutors

Phony O'Keefe Video Smacked Down; Breitbart Becomes Engineer Aboard the FAIL Train

Daryle Lamont Jenkins writes at One People's Project:

You have got to love the crowd that comprises Andrew Breitbart's internet entourage. See, they can never be wrong, even when we play by the rules they are setting for everyone else. That means conservative propagandist James O'Keefe can be busted with photos at a white supremacist forum, and Breitbart will throw a temper tanrum at a prominent political conference whining about the audacity of associating the two of them with racism saying that doesn't mean anything, but one of Breitbart's websites will feature an article afterwards saying that the group ACORN is akin to the Ku Klux Klan... >more

Fire up the Jiffy-Pop; it's time for a Breitbart Meltdown Mashup!

Self-styled "journalist" goes off his meds at CPAC

Here we are, gang; the feel-good movie of the year, and it's only February! One look at this footage, and you'll be saying "Time for your Seroquel, Andrew!"




...and, for your further entertainment and edification:

at Media Matters: James O'Keefe and the Myth of the ACORN Pimp
at Gawker: James O'Keefe Pals Around With White Supremacists
at Breitbart.com: American Renaissance White Supremacists Call Selves "Race Realists"

James O'Keefe and the Teabuggers: The Continuing Saga

The Envelope, please...!

This week James O'Keefe, famous for his "investigative reporting" on ACORN consisting of wearing a really bad pimp outfit and doing a really bad job of impersonating a pimp, was arrested with three others for the attempted bugging of Senator Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans -- and videotaped themselves doing it while doing really bad impersonations of telephone company workers.

What with the media shitstorm breaking loose over this, we at the TW thought this might be a good time to pore over all the juicy nuggets of media goodness, and present the best to you -- thanks and big ups again to one of our faves, Gawker:

01.26.10: What We Know About The Republican Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight:
So who are the four geniuses who got arrested by the FBI yesterday for—apparently—trying to tap the phone of a sitting U.S. senator?

James O'Keefe, Robert Flanagan, Stan Dai, and Joseph Basel, were arrested by U.S. Marshals yesterday for "entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony" after they allegedly dressed up as telephone repairmen and attempted to tamper with the phones of Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office. O'Keefe is 25 years old, the rest are all 24... >more

01.27.10: Teabuggers, Day 2: Let's Not Jump To Conclusions...
When it comes to the arrest of James O'Keefe, patron Andrew Breitbart is not jumping to conclusions. The MSM may want to convict O'Keefe, but Breitbart is waiting for the facts, so that he can ignore the inconvenient ones.

Here's Andrew's first full blog post on the O'Keefe's little plot to "interfere" with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office, after he gave a couple ass-covering statements about having no idea what O'Keefe was up to:

I'm sure [the liberal media] would like to believe O'Keefe is stupid enough to try to "wiretap" a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera. And they'd like you to believe it, too.

But there is absolutely no allegation in the criminal complaint that "wiretapping" or "bugging" is any part of this case, just the charge that O'Keefe and the others entered Sen. Landrieu's office in New Orleans "for the purpose of interfering with the office's telephone system."...>more

01.07.10: Drudge Protegé Andrew Breitbart "Goes To War":
Here comes BigJournalism.com. Drudge protege Andrew Breitbart has just launched his new media site and he's ready for war.

Breitbart, the Washington Times columnist and mogul of news aggregator Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood and Big Government, made his name as a Drudge Report editor.

Breitbart told us in a phone interview that he's going to war with biased old-media — and even new media types, from The New York Times to Anderson Cooper to the Huffington Post — with his new site.

He said: "I'm trying to fill a huge market void for original reporting and fact based journalism" for the "silent minority around the world" (that would be the right).

"This metaphorical warfare. This is not real bombs, but this is word bombs."...>more


And, now, gang, let's go out to the movies!

For our opening feature, we see that Fox News is devestated -- devestated -- by the arrest of Andrew Breitbart's little boy O'Keefe for breaking and entering on Government property:




...and, to ice off this lip-smacking good Media Nugget Cake, here's Matt Drudge's butt-buddy Andrew Breitbart, melting down in an MSNBC interview: