So it turns out it's BigGovernment.com's birthday, and the Breitbart-spawned website is celebrating in grand fashion with editor-in-chief Mike Flynn's look back at how BigGovernment has, in the past year, become the most powerful news outlet in all of human history. After all, Flynn credits his collection of third-rate bloggers with putting an end to the “time when news organizations like the Post and the Times could set the national agenda.” Apparently that doesn't happen anymore -- who knew?

And as one would expect, Flynn singled out for meritorious recognition what he felt were the very best pieces of BigGovernment “journalism,” starting (where else?) with the ACORN videos: “After the second day of our video release the U.S. Senate voted to defund ACORN and the Census Bureau severed all ties with the embattled organization.” True enough! Conveniently omitted, of course, was any mention of the fact that those videos were “severely edited,” that James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles routinely lied about their interactions with ACORN employees, and that subsequent investigations found that ACORN employees had not engaged in any criminal acts.

But what of the other stories Flynn claims BigGovernmnet has “broken”? He lauds “Jim Hoft's great expose on Kevin Jennings, Obama's 'Safe Schools Czar' ” as a shining example of BigGovernment's peculiar brand of journalism. Hoft, of course, is a blogger with Gateway Pundit who can neither read dates nor count to two, and his “expose” on Jennings was actually little more than a rehash of homophobic smears cooked up by an anti-gay hate group.

I found it curious, though, that Flynn would revisit all the BigGovernment stories that had an impact this year, but leave out the one story that earned them more notoriety than all the others. After all, it was a huge story, complete with damning video, and it resulted in a government official losing her job. It was all over TV and the newspapers for weeks, and everyone was talking about how BigGovernment started it all. You remember which one I'm talking about, right? Funny that he wouldn't even mention it...

Anyway, that wasn't the only story that failed to make Flynn's final cut, and as a die-hard BigGovernment fan, I'd be remiss not to supplement Flynn's piece with an addendum of my own enumerating the various BigGovernment moments from the past year that, to me, best represent the website's unwavering commitment to journalism and the destruction thereof:

• Their hiring -- and rapid firing -- of racist sex wizard (and MySpace sockpuppeteer) Kevin Pezzi.
• Their “exclusive” report that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis visited the White House days before the ACORN videos were released, which later fell apart when actual journalists determined it was a different Bertha Lewis, prompting Breitbart to issue a semi-correction (which he later disavowed).
• The debut of Michael Moriarty, the former Law & Order star and current barking-mad conspiracy theorist.
• James O'Keefe's spectacularly lame “exposé” of minor errors on census workers' timecards.
• Kyle Olson's speculation that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' purple bracelet was a secret coded message to the SEIU (it turned out to be an expression of support for the cancer-stricken daughter of a friend).
• Their suspicion that Obama had stolen his own Nobel Prize winnings (that he hadn't even received yet, and eventually donated to charity).
• And, of course, their brilliant exposé of the White House's Maoist Christmas tree ornaments, which actually featured images of Andy Warhol's famous parody of Mao, and were decorated by local community groups, not the White House.

Happy birthday, BigGovernment! Hope your second year is just as successful as the first.