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Steele cancels fundraiser featuring Breitbart

July 31, 2010 11:47 am ET by Media Matters staff

We noted this week that RNC chairman Michael Steele was scheduled to appear with disgraced blogger Andrew Breitbart at an August 12-14 fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Politico reports today that the event has been "postponed":

The RNC has postponed a fundraiser next month in California that was to feature party chairman Michael Steele alongside Andrew Breitbart.

A finance official with the party emailed donors Friday night to alert them of "a scheduling change" regarding what was billed as the "RNC Election Countdown" and was to take place in Los Angeles between August 12-14. The email, obtained by POLITICO, said it would be rescheduled for September.

Asked if the event featuring the controversial Breitbart would ever actually take place, RNC spokesman Doug Heye would only say: "We are working on scheduling and we fully plan to have another event based on existing trips to California."

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    • Author by steeve (July 31, 2010 11:53 am ET)
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      It actually will be postponed and not cancelled. In two months, not only will every rightie embrace Breitbart, but so will most of the mainstream media. It won't be long before the Washington Post berates itself for not pushing Breitbart's next scam quicker.
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      • Author by congero6189599 (July 31, 2010 12:23 pm ET)
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        You might be right. There never seem to be consequences for the rights despicable acts.
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      • Author by Porkeater (July 31, 2010 6:51 pm ET)
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        Well, we can hope that Ms Sherrod will keep him in court and his nastiness on our minds for a long time. That should prevent the exoneration through forgetfulness.

        And, should that go through with a nice fat penalty and a thorough exposition of how he works, the stink of truth should follow him for the rest of his natural life.
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    • Author by canaanxing9025 (July 31, 2010 1:17 pm ET)
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      This the beginning of the redemption of Andrew Breitbart. After smearing Ms. Serrod, now he wants to speak to her privately in order to give the impression that he is contrite; or better yet that he is the wronged party.

      It will take the right wingers sometime to redeem him, but they will. Fox and the rest of the right wing will turn this into an attack on them.

      Then Breitbart will appear with Michael Steele. How Mr. Steele can, in good conscience, appear with this slime is beyond me. But hey, anything for a buck.
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 31, 2010 2:14 pm ET)
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      Michael Steele needs to write a book on job security.The title should be;.......How To Get A Job Where Firing You Will Cost Your Boss More Than Anything You Could Mess UP
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    • Author by afisher (July 31, 2010 3:15 pm ET)
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      Breitty is suppose to be in Philly today for a Uni-Tea party, according to TPM. No updates on their website, but if he shows, I am sure the TP will welcome all his rhetorical lies.
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