Brent Bozell: "Andrew Breitbart is going to be fine. He's done nothing wrong"
July 29, 2010 2:00 pm ET by Simon Maloy
Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, has issued a proclamation regarding Shirley Sherrod's announcement that she will sue Andrew Breitbart:
Andrew Breitbart is going to be fine. He's done nothing wrong. I wonder if Ms. Sherrod, who is such a champion of transparency, will publicly disclose who is putting her up to this. And I also hope this champion of honesty will stop lying about Fox News. I'm also waiting for Ms. Sherrod to publicly apologize for accusing anyone opposed to nationalized healthcare of being racist. Last time I checked, that was more than half the country.
Now, I'm no lawyer, and neither is Bozell, so I won't weigh in on whether or not Breitbart's going to make it through this one unscathed. But why does Bozell automatically assume that someone put Sherrod up to this? Does he really think she's not smart/outraged/savvy enough to do this herself?
The answer, I'm guessing, is that Bozell has so thoroughly convinced himself of the liberal media conspiracy to destroy conservatives in America that Sherrod's forthcoming lawsuit against Breitbart is necessarily the brainchild of George Soros or John Podesta or Ezra Klein or whoever.
But idle speculation aside, it's revolting that right-wingers have the gall not just to defend Breitbart's behavior, but to portray him as the victim in this affair. Not surprising, since there are few things conservative media types enjoy more than playing the victim, but revolting nonetheless.
I salute Ms. Sherrod's courage for taking on this nest of vipers, and I hope she cleans them out.
So be it.
I'm all for First Amendment rights, but Bozell and his cowardly ilk have thrown rocks while hiding behind it for decades. If nothing else, perhaps this Sharrod case will finally demonstrate there's a legal limit between free speech and speech that literally injures.
Oh, and what you are REALLY afraid of is that the country is going to find out who put Breitbart up to this.
Who put her up to this? Andrew Breitbart. He's the one that published the badly edited video making it seem like she was a racist, when she wasn't, and isn't one.
What has she lied about in regards to FoxNews? Oh, wait, nothing...
Breitbart has done nothing wrong he tells us? And to justify this he pulls in Sherrod's stance on healthcare? One has what to do with the other?
As I've said before, go back to counting the number of naughty things you find in an episode of Family Guy, Bozell. You're thoughts and opinions on all other matters, particularly after this piece, are not needed, and hardly valid.
let me ask: How can someone like these pathetic southern idiots on the right NOT SEE HOW WRONG THEY ARE????
btw, I'm from the Southern home state that this webpage comes from, so I can call them idiots... LOL
Both parties will get bloodied...but many of Andrew Breitbart's wounds will be self-inflicted. The guy has a stupid, big mouth...
There, fixed it for Bozell.
Personally, I don't think he will settle.
Breitbart and his attack on Sherrod completely dominated the news of last week, which was a very good one, in terms of policy achievements for the President. The Administration, top to bottom, turned yellow in the face of right-wing media.
It seems to me that the wrong guy won the power struggle between Rahm Emmanuel and Howard Dean, and the sooner Emmanuel is out of D.C. the better it will be for the Administration, the Democratic Party, and the country.
I think this will go to trial, and I think that there are a lot of folks in high places sweating big old bullets right now.
The letter writer complained that Factcheck doesn't do enough media monitoring.
The reply? They said that one should go to Media Matters for the "liberal" take on things and to MRC for the right-leaning take on things.
Of course that's nonsense! Media Matters doesn't give people the LIBERAL take on things - they give people the FACTUAL take on things.
And MRC? They try to allege liberal BIAS - the intent of a person or group, which is NOT factchecking, which is what the reader wanted Factcheck to do!
MMFA DOES that. MRC does NOT! Yet Factcheck asserted that one could find info equivalent in value from either group!
Let's all hope Mr. Peck-er, I mean Bozell-has melted marshmallow poured all over him soon.