Gawker deliciously skewers BREITBART, Matt Pudge, DOLLARD, and O'KEEFE

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The PUDGE et al. items are inside the first link. We do know, don't we, that BREITBART is son-in-law to Orson BEAN, was PUDGE's partner in running the PUDGE Report, and that Ariana used him as consultant/developer for the HuffPo?



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Andrew Breitbart's Horrible Track Record of Picking Right-Wing Heroes

.... (Sections on Matt PUDGE (NOT to be missed!1), Pat DOLLARD, Ariana H.)

Andrew Breitbart
Conor Friedersdorf, a smart young conservative who attempted to launch a "Conservative Slate" not too long ago (not a Conservative iPad, fyi), summed up "the Breitbart model" like this:

"The alternative — the Andrew Breitbart model — is to publish poorly reasoned, atrociously edited screeds on the cheap, on the assumption that ideologically friendly readers will keep clicking anyway."

And that is accurate! (It's also wildly successful, of course—the fact that Breitbart's news-aggregating homepage is Matt Drudge's default source of wire stories does help drive the traffic, too.) Breitbart does himself no favors when he opens his mouth, too.

Who can forget his classic column on how he made an obscene gesture at people who were demonstrating against the use of child soldiers because they interrupted his dinner?

He called the White Supremacist who shot up the Holocaust Museum a "multiculturalist just like the black studies and the lesbian studies majors on college campuses."

He mocked the deaths of Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy and repeatedly shouted "Abu Ghraibs for everyone!" for reasons that are still not entirely clear to us. And after we reprinted a Business Insider interview with him that might've slightly misquoted him, he flew off the handle, accusing that site of being a "front" for Gawker.

No one he's championed is really as embarrassing as he is, himself.

Send an email to Alex Pareene, the author of this post, at [e-mail].





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James O'Keefe Gets Thrown Under the Bus

The AP report that he boasted to a conservative think-tank of a big project in New Orleans that they'd soon be hearing about. And they did. Then joined other conservatives in throwing him under the bus.

The good members of the Pelican Institute, who hired O'Keefe to speak last Thursday, have now come out sounding perplexed at his actions. "He just said he had a project going in New Orleans, but he wouldn't say what it was," Robin Edwards, co-founder of the Louisiana Tea Party Federation, told the AP. "I figured it had something to do with ACORN." Or, as alleged in some reports, attempting to illegally wiretap a senator's phones.

Glenn Beck, who championed O'Keefe when he was dressing up as a pimp to expose ACORN for... whatever exactly it was he exposed ACORN for doing, has also now condemned him. If the allegations are true, he said: "you don't do anything illegal. That's Watergate territory. You just don't do that. But besides that, I don't even think you go dressed up. I mean, it's a senator. For the love of Pete, it's a senator."

Even the woman who joined him, dressed as a ho, for his ACORN 'investigation', has her eyes mainly on her own career as a 'journalist'. "I am well aware that following the law is an integral part of being a good investigative journalist," said Hanna Giles in a statement. "I take that responsibility and accountability very seriously. I certainly hope these reports are untrue."

And please hire me in this media market and don't associate me with precisely the kind of spurious, poorly thought-through and ideologically driven 'reporting' that brought me to your attention in the first place. She didn't add.

Send an email to Ravi Somaiya, the author of this post, at [e-mail].

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1. LOL!1 - Ode to my faithfully stalking UnReKKKer!1 (Actually, not LOL, more like HO HUM.)

Dear One,

Guess what, not EVERY thread posted is worth EITHER a Rec OR an UnReKKK!1 And I myself said many times during the Great Debate on UnReKKK that I never look at the Greatest Page and regard it mostly as a tool for Visitors, like media types, who don't have the time to delve through the entrails of DU, but how I DO a lot of Rec-ing (obviously, for OTHERS), both for merit and to keep worthy topics from falling through the cracks.

Ah, you DISAPPROVE of thread after thread!1 Woe, WOE is you, YOU!1 Kisses to make your sour woe all better for you --actually, NOT!1