Andrew Breitbart

Yesterday the king of idiots, Andrew Breitbart, started claiming that James O’Keefe and his pack of Little Rascals were denied access to an attorney for hours. Let’s think about that for a minute. These guys were caught on federal property, without authorization and carrying electronic devices in a post 9/11 America. Talk about something that could set off the terrorist alarms. If Bush was still President then they would end up at Gitmo.

Watch this exchange yesterday between David Shuster and Andrew Breitbart:

I’ve had some Republican friends watch this and they all thought Breitbart was a complete moron. I hope we can see more of him on TV. Let’s start selling him as the new voice of the Republican Party. He can seriously become our biggest ally this year.

This is just to priceless:

The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group's credibility.

FBI Special Agent Steven Rayes alleges that O'Keefe aided and abetted two others, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who dressed up as employees of a telephone company and attempted to interfere with the office's telephone system.

A fourth person, Stan Dai, was accused of aiding and abetting Basel and Flanagan. All four were charged with entering fedral property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.

James O’Keefe is a blogger for Andrew Brietbart’s BigGovernment web site and was one of the filmmakers who “exposed” ACORN. Over night O’Keefe became a hero of the right. I wonder how they will treat him now?

It’s becoming very obvious that Andrew Breitbart is getting his jollies off by twittering about fisting and other sexual acts. Just check out his feed:

What is your favorite @mmfa Soros-funded 'senior fellow' moment of '09? #fisting #watersports #acorn #mao #yosisargent #infinity 6 minutes ago from web

My fave 09 Soros senior fellow @mmfa 'R U EFFIN KIDDIN ME' defense? 1st Grade rough sex book, teen fist class promoting O SafeSchool Czar. 9 minutes ago from web

Fist-Happy Senior Fellows @mmfa claim Ornamentgate - their term - a dud? How? Mass killer Mao - on WH XMAS Tree? http://tinyurl.com/y9pcnjh about 1 hour ago from web

It goes on like that for days – literally.

Andrew Breitbart has obtained a leaked memo stating that the detainees at Guantanamo will be moved to Illinois. Senator Dick Durbin and Governor Pat Quinn are applauding the move, but government officials are saying that no final decision has been made yet and the memo is only a “draft”.

This brings me to another issue – the leaked memo. We are dealing with a leaked government document that deals with national security. Should the Obama administration take the Bush approach and investigate the leak? Hell why not put Breitbart under oath and force him to reveal how he got it? This practice was championed by people like Breitbart when it was done under Bush’s regime, so he should welcome it again, shouldn’t he?

What happens when a commenter on a right wing blog disagrees with the rest of the people there? Easy – they are tagged as some “leftist invader”. Now Andrew Breitbart is on the war path against these “leftist invaders”:

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

We must not let that go unanswered.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of George W. Bush.

Political leftists play for keeps. They are willing to lie, perform deceptive acts in a coordinated fashion and do so in a wicked way - all in the pursuit of victory. Moral relativism is alive and well in the land of Hope and Change and its Web-savvy youth brigade expresses its "idealism" in a most cynical fashion.

Two of the biggest righty blogs out there are Hot Air and Michelle Malkin. Head on over to those blogs and try to comment. What? You can’t? That’s because the only way to comment on these sites is to be invited.

Now let’s compare that to one of the major lefty blogs out there, Crooks and Liars, a blog I am intimately familiar with. We allowed anonymous people to comment on the blog until November of last year. Now you must be registered, but anyone can do so. Have we seen our fair share of “righty invaders” there? Sure. But we don’t instantly mark everyone who disagrees with the position as some sort of “invader”. Dissenting opinions are welcome. If they get nasty and try to start flame wars or thread hijacking, well then our site monitors warn and/or ban them. It’s called vigilance, and I spend a great deal of my development time for Crooks and Liars improving the tools we have to deal with problem commenters. As matter of fact a big new upgrade to that system will go into effect this week.

That’s a stark difference from the way right wing blogs do things. Instead they actually welcome such comments, then people like Breitbart jumps on them to paint the entire right wing blogosphere as some sort of victim to a bunch of evil lefties. Just think back to the original challenge I issued in this post; commenting on sites that are by invite only. If you must be invited to comment on these sites, then how are these invaders getting in there? Well duh!!!!

Actually its the right who started using site comments as a weapon in this “war”. Michelle Malkin started it a couple of years ago by picking out comments on the HuffPo. It was when there was a suicide bombing in Afghanistan while Cheney was there and some people said things like “darn they missed”. Instantly she pushed out this story and the media even picked it up.

Well that started something new, and the blogs on our side started watching the righty comments and highlighting the insensitive ones they put out (see here for an example). Of course the righty bloggers instantly claimed that “those aren’t our opinions”. Funny how that applies to them, but not us.

When you got a bunch of dissension among the ranks of invite only blogs, which represent the party in the fastest decline of membership, then you can’t admit the facts. Instead you create a strawman to mislead what is really happening. That’s exactly what Breitbart did in this article.