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May Fortune Smile On Andrew Breitbart

Posted on | January 6, 2010 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Historians will study the history of journalism and engage in thumb wrestling matches about when it devolved into such a stream of effluent that Red Eye can feature canned robotic cartoons and get a laugh. That HotAir clip ought not to be funny in the slightest, and, yet…

Breitbart is one of those rare collisions of both genius and integrity. I shudder to think of the damage he could do if he went over to the Dark Side. His latest Big * offering, Big Journalism, kicks off with a story about a phone conversation between Andrew and Bertha Lewis, the head banana at ACORN. The C-SPAN link to the Press Club appearance has a 06 Oct 09 date. While “some time ago” by modern ADD standards, this story of the Giles/O’Keefe videos and the (credit where due) impressive damage control efforts of the mainstream media is a logical launch pad for the site. A taste:

I respected [Lewis] for staying on the phone when she had no reason not to hang up. I even believed her when she claimed she wasn’t Obama’s personal guest in their White House residence even though in the last four months Bertha Lewis rarely uttered a statement in public that wasn’t a provable lie.
And her friends in the press did everything they could to pretend they didn’t notice her lies – and repeated them often to ensure the group didn’t completely implode.
ACORN was the underdog for the media from the word “ho” – and African-American ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis was chosen over Caucasian ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson because Bertha Lewis, a former theater gal, played the perfect victim.
So when, at the height over the furor of the ACORN videos last fall, Bertha Lewis, the embattled “chief organizer” of the corrupt community organizing group, spoke at the National Press Club, she was given an introduction by the club’s former president, the hopelessly politically correct Bloomberg reporter, Jonathan Salant, that might have befitted the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing spoke more eloquently about the unholy alliance of the Democrat-Media complex. Nothing spoke more eloquently about how PC has hindered free and independent inquiry. Nothing spoke more eloquently about the sorry state of the contemporary American news media.
Challenging the party line now is akin to showing one’s John Birch Society membership card. It’s a form of intimidation that creates timidity in those not ideologically in line, and grants free rein for leftists to use establishment journalism as a cudgel with which to beat their ideological opponents. In one year there have been too many administration lies and too many media cover-ups and passes to treat the future as anything but a hostile environment.
Welcome to Big Journalism.

RTWT.
While talking to Stacy earlier today, he allowed that he might encounter Breitbart at a reception tonight. Hopefully that comes to pass, and Stacy either updates this post or writes another full of juicy tidbits. ISTR Breitbart mentioning (in a DC Examiner article?) a Big Education site set to launch this year.
There is probably some tasteless joke about a Big Johnson site, but this blog wouldn’t engage in such tomfoolery any more than it would be caught on the webby-tubes in a Speedo.

Category: Journalism

Comments

4 Responses to “May Fortune Smile On Andrew Breitbart”

  1. Joe
    January 7th, 2010 @ 3:22 am

    I still this this picture Breitbart put up is an homage to Stacy McCain.

  2. Joe
    January 6th, 2010 @ 10:22 pm

    I still this this picture Breitbart put up is an homage to Stacy McCain.

  3. Joe
    January 7th, 2010 @ 3:35 am

    There is probably some tasteless joke about a Big Johnson site, but this blog wouldn’t engage in such tomfoolery any more than it would be caught on the webby-tubes in a Speedo.

    Speedo you say?

  4. Joe
    January 6th, 2010 @ 10:35 pm

    There is probably some tasteless joke about a Big Johnson site, but this blog wouldn’t engage in such tomfoolery any more than it would be caught on the webby-tubes in a Speedo.

    Speedo you say?