{"id":7671,"date":"2010-01-28T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:46:13","slug":"video-crazy-andy-breitbart-blows-himself-up-on-air-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7671","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Crazy Andy Breitbart Blows Himself Up On Air. Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/AndrewBreitbart_DavidSchuster_012810.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Matt Drudge&#8217;s poodle, anti-ACORN propagandist, GOP operative, and deranged wingnut Internet <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7547\">death threatener<\/a>, Andrew Breitbart, is apparently hoping to become the new Orly Taitz.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s insane interview with David Shuster on MSNBC, discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7667\">felony arrest of his employee\/operative<\/a> James O&#8217;Keefe for allegedly attempting to manipulate the telephones of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) earlier this week, goes a long way towards that goal.  Lookin&#8217; good, Andy! Keep up the brilliant &#8220;journalism&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/that_was_entertaining.php?ref=fpblg\">Josh Marshall notes<\/a> about the interview that it was &#8220;truly the most unhinged performance I&#8217;ve seen since Shuster made a laughing stock of and pretty much put an end to the fifteen minutes of fame of [Queen of the Obama &#8216;Birthers&#8217;] Orly Taitz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At some level I admire Breitbart&#8217;s insistence on turning any question about anything into an attack based on why the federal government hasn&#8217;t turned itself over entirely to investigating ACORN,&#8221; Marshall adds, &#8220;But this performance was definitely in shark-jumping territory. For the ages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Though despite Crazy Andy&#8217;s seething rage about a lack of criminal convictions against ACORN, even as two recent independent investigations found <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7600\">no criminal wrong-doing<\/a> by the pro-voter, pro-American Dream community group in the highly-doctored, and apparently illegally-obtained video tapes that Breitbart and O&#8217;Keefe posted for the U.S. media to broadcast widely, he&#8217;s adamant that the rest of the world needs to retract, um, everything, while his continued, unsubstantiated allegations against, um, everybody else are just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Shuster didn&#8217;t ask Andy about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7668\">admissions that he&#8217;d made on the night of O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s arrest<\/a>, when he concurred that &#8220;Lots of people work for lots of corporations, and do dumb and sometimes illegal things that are not within the scope of their employment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wingnut that he was concurring with, Hugh Hewitt, was talking about Crazy Andy&#8217;s employment of the accused felon O&#8217;Keefe. But the irony that they&#8217;d both just explained why ACORN isn&#8217;t necessarily responsible for an employee of theirs who defrauds ACORN itself &#8212; who is turned in by ACORN themselves to officials for prosecution &#8212; apparently escaped both geniuses as they panicked to try and save Breitbart&#8217;s quickly crumbling propaganda empire.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the video of Shuster with Crazy Andy &#8220;jumping the shark&#8221; on MSNBC today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc71d766\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=35129506&#038;width=420&#038;height=245\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc71d766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=35129506&#038;width=420&#038;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>BTW, for those who wonder why we should bother with this guy and his freak show at all, it&#8217;s because, like Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh, etc., he serves, pathetically enough, as the &#8220;assignment desk&#8221; for the U.S. Media &#8212; not just the Rightwing media, but the entire <i>U.S.<\/i> Media &#8212; and he needs to be discredited and revealed for the ticking time-bomb lunatic of a wingnut operative that he is.<\/p>\n<p>He is anything but a legitimate &#8220;journalist,&#8221; no matter how much he enjoys tricking his gullible tea baggers into believing just the opposite. He is the master of projection and deception, and where, in one sense, he shouldn&#8217;t even be allowed anywhere near a legitimate TV interview, like his fellow GOP propagandist and deceptionist Ann Coulter, he needs to be outed for the lying little scam artist that he is.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he went a long way towards doing that to himself. Again. And everyone needs to know about what a deranged whackjob he is. Not that that will keep otherwise &#8220;legitimate&#8221; corporate news organizations from giving him air time to peddle his various scams.<\/p>\n<p>But we can only do as much as we can here. And, as Andy is currently one of the leading media scam artists in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/ACORN\">years-long assault<\/a> against ACORN for having the temerity to help register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/index.php?id=12439&#038;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22383&#038;tx_ttnews[backPid]=12387&#038;cHash=41ba018b65\">millions of <i>legal<\/i> low and middle-income voters<\/a>, the least we can do is point out who these scam artists actually are, and how phony their well-funded campaign actually is.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 4:18pm PT:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/201001280062\">Media Matters details<\/a>, in reply to Breitbart&#8217;s false claim that his apparently illegally obtained and highly-doctored ACORN videos &#8220;clearly show in every &#8212; in almost every single office, the employees at ACORN helping aid and abet the establishment of an underage prostitution brothel.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8230;in six of the eight heavily edited videos produced by O&#8217;Keefe and Giles and distributed by Breitbart, either the activists did not clearly tell the ACORN employees that they were planning to engage in child prostitution; or the ACORN employees refused to help them or apparently deliberately misled them; or ACORN employees contacted the police following their visit.<\/div>\n<p>No doubt &#8220;journalist&#8221; Crazy Andy will be demanding a retraction from himself immediately!<\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. 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Today&#8217;s insane interview with David Shuster on MSNBC, discussing the felony arrest of his employee\/operative James O&#8217;Keefe for allegedly attempting to manipulate the telephones of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,393,448,169,449,199,188,447,33],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-dirty-tricks","category-james-okeefe","category-louisiana","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-mary-landrieu","category-msnbc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}