Back in the series' heyday, there was an episode of The Simpsons in which the people of Springfield go on a frantic search for millions of dollars in buried treasure, only to find out after they've started digging that the treasure does not exist. Undaunted, they continue digging until eventually they're trapped at the bottom of a very large hole. Faced with the question of how they will escape, Homer enthusiastically says: “We'll dig our way out!” They resume digging, only to have Chief Wiggum nonsensically chastise one of his fellow excavators: “No, no, dig up, stupid.”

I can't help but think of this when I see Andrew Breitbart desperately try to spin his way out of the Shirley Sherrod fiasco, which was entirely of his making and has blown up squarely in his own face. On Good Morning America, Breitbart tried to convince everyone that this whole affair was never about Shirley Sherrod being a racist, even though George Stephanopoulos was right there with Breitbart's original post in hand, quoting the several instances in which he attacked Sherrod as a racist.

Then Breitbart went off on a series of tangents about the tea parties and spun wild conspiracy theories about “infiltrators” holding up racist signs, all the while insisting that he had done nothing wrong and never had any second thoughts about posting a deceptively edited video that unfairly cost a woman her job. The point from the beginning, Breitbart said, was that the NAACP audience was racist. Or something like that.

Essentially, Breitbart's response to falsely smearing an innocent woman as “racist” is to attack other people as racists.

“Dig up, stupid.”