It sure looks like way. (So much for free speech within the right-wing blogosphere.) Because five days after the humiliating story broke about how Andrew Breitbart's protégé reportedly planned to lure a CNN reporter into some sort of faux sex den and was going to videotape the entire sting, there has been, aside from Breibart's belated acknowledgement of the mess, complete silence from bloggers at the Breitbat sites. It appears that nobody who writes for Breitbart has a single thought to share about the headline-making news about O'Keefe.

Nobody.

Either that, or an an internal edict went out, forbidding bloggers from touching the thorny topic.

I realize the story's an embarrassing one for conservatives who have championed O'Keefe's dubious work in the past and rallied around him as a hero of “conservative journalism.” (Then again, he's a perfect fit for that comical role.) And I understand that because it's so embarrassing, not many right-bloggers want to touch it.

But as I noted last week, if you look at Breitbart's Big Journalism and Big Government sites, they list nearly 800 contributors. And apparently, over the last five days as the two sites have posted dozens and dozens and dozens of items, none of those contributors wanted to weigh on the O'Keefe alleged blunder.

I don't buy it. I think marching orders went out forbidding bloggers from writing about O'Keefe.

If so, here's my question for Breitbart's bloggers: What else are you forbidden from writing about? And aren't you embarrassed to have to play dumb for somebody like O'Keefe?