Yes, it took Andrew Breitbart and company more than a month to respond to claims that his video activists who visited the Philadelphia ACORN office had sparked a call to the police. No, Breitbart's presentation yesterday did nothing to undercut the ACORN claim that a police report was filled out. Yes, Breitbart released an undercover video that had the voices of ACORN workers muted out. And yes, Breitbart's pals refuse to release all the unedited ACORN videos.

But gee, other than that why should reporters covering the latest chapter in conservative “journalism” be skeptical?

From Washington Independent:

Breitbart, ACORN Foes Release Strange Video of Philadelphia Sting

From the Philadelphia Weekly:

Philly ACORN's claim that it detected the scam while it was in progress has been out there for weeks. The police report would seem to back it up. Why wait weeks to respond? And why do it with video that even Fox News observes had “audio portions of the video … missing or edited in some portions”? Something doesn't quite add up here. [Breitbart's] BigGovernment.com might be overplaying its hand.

From Washington Post's Carol Leoning, appearing on Fox News:

"I dont' think he's [O'Keefe] got the goods to say ACORN lied."

Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:

I think tactically, they would have been better not to hold this press conference today.

I think my favorite passage came from the Washington Independent:

The muting of the ACORN worker's voice led to a strange presentation; O'Keefe simply told reporters what Conway Russell was saying whenever the audio cut out. Blogger Mike Stark asked Breitbart if the whole, unedited video would be released.

“James O'Keefe is the producer of it,” said Breitbart, “and since he's in a lawsuit, I can't have that discussion with him right now. But I would certainly be open to that possibility.”

How's that for a convenient dodge about why the activists refuse to release all the unedited ACORN videos for everyone to see? (Even conservatives have raised a red flag over the fact that Breitbart continues to sit on the tapes.)

Answer: O'Keefe's being sued so Breitbart can't even talk to him about releasing the clips.

Whatever you say Andrew.