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Breitbart's back bashing law enforcement

March 19, 2010 3:25 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

It's not exactly a conservative value, but when you deal with misinformation and conspiracies the way Andrew Breitbart does, sometimes that means having to trash law enforcement and prosecutors. (If James O'Keefe, Breitbart's star student, is soon convicted in connection to his recent New Orleans caper, look for Breitbart to do a lot more trashing of law endorsement.) 

Here's the most recent: Breitbart, yammering away to a Salon blogger, explaining away his ACORN woes: 

When you look at it you find out that DA Hynes is a member of the ACORN working party's family. This is part of the continuity. 

Oh brother. You can't trust New York prosecutors, claims Breitbart, because they're corrupt. And specifically, you can't trust the Brooklyn DA, Charles Hynes, because he's a "member" of the Working Party Family, which is supported by ACORN, so of course his office recently found no ACORN criminality.

It's all a web of lies

Except that, of course, Hynes is not a "member" of the party. Worse, Breitbart knows that. But I guess when it comes to bashing law enforcement, Westwood, CA-based Breitbart just can't help himself. 

Behold "conservative journalism." 

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    • Author by FGFM (March 19, 2010 3:46 pm ET)
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      I was a Republican (in name only) election judge in the last primary election, so does that make me part of Fox Nation?
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    • Author by MRF (March 19, 2010 4:39 pm ET)
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      As a lifelong NY'er I can attest that Hynes is a standup prosecutor. From going after nursing home fraud in the 70's to creating drug courts and rehab in the 90's he has a holestic view of the criminal justice system.

      Breitbart as usual is taking out his butt. Add him to the roster of conservatives who only care about law and order when it's not them only those "other people" from Dick Nixon, G. Gordon Liddy, Ollie North to Cheney and Scooter Libby.
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