MSM broke 0 Obama Scandal :toast

[sjacquemotte]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/06/06/Mainstream-Media-Did-Not-break-Even-One-of-Four-Obama-Scandals

[TeyshaBlue]

breitbart.com? Really? Might as well cite thinkprogress or alternet. http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/smilies/facepalm.gif

[DarrinS]

Political reporting is dead.

[sjacquemotte]

breitbart.com? Really? Might as well cite thinkprogress or alternet. http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/smilies/facepalm.gif
I understand your dismissal because of their williness to push conservative news but what is inaccurate?

[clambake]

really?????

[Nbadan]

I understand your dismissal because of their williness to push conservative news but what is inaccurate?

All of it. Read some of the forum.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

I understand your dismissal because of their williness to push conservative news but what is inaccurate?
You mean their agenda to push conservative news?

[BobaFett1]

You mean someone will not kiss Obama ass.

[TeyshaBlue]

I understand your dismissal because of their williness to push conservative news but what is inaccurate?

The premise.

[boutons_deux]

Inside the Collapsing Media Empire of Deceased GOP Sleaze-Peddler Andrew Breitbart

In the year after Breitbart's death, his heirs have produced a string of grotesque episodes that have embarrassed even their own impossible-to-shame allies on the right

Breitbart, of course, had nothing in common with the comedians whose anti-establishment spirit he claimed to embody. Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce came up from poverty and overcame anti-Semitism and entrenched, violently enforced racism to wield their wit against powerful forces. Bruce was hounded throughout his career by the FBI, local cops and eventually blacklisted from nearly every comedy club in the United States. Whereas Breitbart collaborated (http://gawker.com/5850054) with the FBI and New York police to spy on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Perhaps the only thing Bruce had in common with Breitbart, who spent his career in a mostly uncritical national limelight, was his untimely death at age 40 while in the throes of paranoia and emotional collapse.

Breitbart, the adopted son of a wealthy West Los Angeles restauranteur, used his privilege to immiserate the most marginalized, impoverished, widely demonized groups of Americans. He was a faithful errand boy for rich, Scrooge McDuck tycoons like Peter Thiel, Foster Friess, and the Koch Brothers, wielding smear journalism against anyone or any interest that threatened their power — usually African-Americans or groups like ACORN, serving impoverished, neglected inner city communities.

There was nothing innovative or new about Breitbart's smear operation. Indeed, he walked a trail blazed by the now-forgotten snitches and smear artists of the McCarthy era – quasi-eccentric figures like Matt Cvetic and Henry Matusow. Cvetic drank himself to death a few years after McCarthy's fall; while Matusow recanted, was jailed for perjury, and spent the last decades of his life begging for money and working as a clown for children's parties. Breitbart, for his part, collapsed on a sidewalk outside his home in Brentwood at the tender age of 43.

In the year after Breitbart's death, his heirs and associates produced a string of grotesque episodes that have embarrassed even their own impossible-to-shame allies on the right, including:

Spreading the lie that Chuck Hagel took money from a non-existent group called "Friends of Hamas." What began as a New York Daily News reporter's burlesque joke-hypothetical question to a Senate staffer was recycled by Breitbart.com editor-at-large Ben Shapiro [see below] and reported as fact from "Senate sources." From Breitbart, the reporter's joke traveled onto the Senate floor and nearly sank Hagel's confirmation as Obama's new Defense Secretary. Even after the story was completely debunked and disavowed even by fellow right-wingers, Breitbart.com remains the only media outlet in the world that continues to stick by its debunked story;

In mid-March, Breitbart published a straight news story claiming that Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy. The story was sourced from an online news parody site, The Daily Currant (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/11/breitbartcom-runs-with-satirical-story-about-kr/192996);

Also in March, Breitbart's most famous protege, video smear-artist and convicted criminal James O'Keefe, wasforced (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/07/local/la-me-0308-acorn-20130308) to pay a six-figure settlement to one of the victims of his heavily-edited ACORN videos, which was deceptively re-edited to give the impression that ACORN employees were willing to participate in sex trafficking. ACORN was once a powerful community activist organization working in mostly poor minority communities. O'Keefe's video, which was heavily promoted by Breitbart, helped destroy ACORN and ruin the careers of many of its employees. Other lawsuits against Breitbart associates continue, including one filed by Shirley Sherrod, an African-American employee of the Department of Agriculture who was fired after Breitbart pushed a heavily-edited video manipulated to make Sherrod appear as if she was anti-white. O'Keefe's work has been underwritten by everyone from billionaire libertarian Peter Thiel (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/09/acorn_videomake.php) to the billionaire Koch brothers (http://americansforprosperity.org/nebraska/newsroom/meet-james-okeefe-at-afp-citizen-journalist-training-sept-12-and-13/) and the billionaireFoster Friess (http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/inside-the-planning-of-a-james-okeefe-sting);

At the most recent CPAC conference in 2013, Breitbart.com's sponsored panel bashing Muslims was considered too hateful and extremist by CPAC's organizers and banned from the official CPAC agenda — despite the fact that Breitbart News Network is a major sponsor of CPAC.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/inside-collapsing-media-empire-deceased-gop-sleaze-peddler-andrew-breitbart?akid=10400.187590.OPkdKJ&rd=1&src=newsletter835498&t=7