{"id":7677,"date":"2010-02-01T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2010-02-09T21:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T05:44:23","slug":"questions-for-gop-propagandistcon-man-andrew-breitbart-as-ap-investigates-nytimes-fawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7677","title":{"rendered":"Questions for GOP Propagandist\/Con-Man Andrew Breitbart as AP Investigates &#038; NYTimes Fawns&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/OKeefe_Breitbart_ConMen.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">AP&#8217;s investigative unit produces an <i>appropriate<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2010\/02\/landrieu_caper_prep_whole_lotta_typin_goin_on.php\">criminal investigative report today<\/a> on the background of the Republican Party operatives &#8212; and there appear to be more than just four &#8212; behind James O&#8217;Keefe and Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7667\">&#8220;TeaBugger&#8221; operation<\/a> at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu&#8217;s (D-LA) office in Louisiana last week.<\/p>\n<p>Compare and contrast <i>that<\/i> with the shameful, fawning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/31landrieu.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=all\">2,250 word Sunday <i>New York Times<\/i> article<\/a> attempting to turn the accused federal felons into folk heroes.<\/p>\n<p>And, again, as we have in our coverage to date, we&#8217;ll ask the following simple questions, among others, which everyone should be asking &#8212; <b>loudly<\/b>:<\/p>\n<div width=\"33%\" style=\" clear: both; height: 8px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><b>1)<\/b> When will GOP operative\/propagandist\/con-man Andrew Breitbart tell his <a href=\"http:\/\/BigGovernment.com\">BigGovernment.com<\/a> readers and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; dupes that he&#8217;s been lying to them, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7668\">his employee<\/a> James O&#8217;Keefe <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7675\"><b><i>never appeared as a pimp<\/b><\/a> in the offices of ACORN<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p><b>2)<\/b> When will snake-oil salesman Andy release O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s complete, unedited, illegally-obtained ACORN video tapes publicly?<\/p>\n<p><b>3)<\/b> Why hasn&#8217;t he done so already?<\/p>\n<p><b>4)<\/b> Could it be because <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7600\">two independent investigations<\/a> found they were heavily-edited, likely illegally-obtained, heavily over-dubbed, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proskauer.com\/files\/uploads\/report2.pdf\">showed [PDF]<\/a> &#8220;no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><b>5)<\/b> When will <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7671\">&#8220;Orly Taitz&#8221; Andy<\/a> share the existence of <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2010\/01\/29\/teabugger-okeefe-liberate-the-tapes-no-not-those-tapes\/\">Marcy &#8220;emptywheel&#8221; Wheeler&#8217;s evisceration<\/a> of his employee O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s failure of a cover story for the alleged Louisiana &#8220;TeaBugger&#8221; felonies with his own readers? He claims to be a &#8220;journalist&#8221; (ironically enough) decrying the &#8220;biased&#8221; &#8220;Liberal Media,&#8221; who selectively report things, right?<\/p>\n<p><b>6)<\/b> Why does GOP operative Andy think <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7668\">his employee O&#8217;Keefe<\/a> should be presumed &#8220;innocent until proven guilty&#8221; as he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewbreitbart\/status\/8328050981\">tweeted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewbreitbart\/status\/8353533637\">time<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewbreitbart\/status\/8429139600\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewbreitbart\/status\/8433895104\">again<\/a>, when he&#8217;s shown no such benefit of the doubt for ACORN, ACORN employees, or even Gitmo detainees who may face punishment of death?<\/p>\n<p><b>7)<\/b> Why is ACORN itself &#8220;guilty,&#8221; according to Angry Andy, of something or other, based on what he believes their employees did, but faux &#8220;journalist&#8221; Andrew Breitbart, who admits accused felon O&#8217;Keefe is on his payroll, is somehow <i>not<\/i> &#8220;guilty&#8221; of <i>anything<\/i>?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are, of course, many more such question that the cowardly and professionally-deceptive Mr. Breitbart won&#8217;t be answering. But I thought it&#8217;d be nice to give Andy &#8212; and perhaps the &#8220;Liberal MSM&#8221; &#8212; a chance to start ignoring the above right away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> We have sent the above questions to Andy, with a promise to post his answers in full here, if he cares to offer them. Unlike his political hit-man &#8220;Big&#8221; sites, we have no interest in being unfair to <i>anybody<\/i> here, and have no fear of sharing all sides of any story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP&#8217;s investigative unit produces an appropriate criminal investigative report today on the background of the Republican Party operatives &#8212; and there appear to be more than just four &#8212; behind James O&#8217;Keefe and Andrew Breitbart&#8217;s &#8220;TeaBugger&#8221; operation at U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu&#8217;s (D-LA) office in Louisiana last week. Compare and contrast that with the shameful, [&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":[192,393,448,52,169,449,199,188,447,148,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-ap","category-dirty-tricks","category-james-okeefe","category-louisiana","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-mary-landrieu","category-new-york-times","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","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=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}