The day after the Shirley Sherrod story broke 45 days ago, Andrew Breitbart was on every cable news network (and many other outlets) talking about the edited out-of-context video and subsequent overreaction from the government.But since that day, Breitbart, a media presence on the rise, has been absent from cable news. Did...
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A few days ago, the New York Times ran a correction on an article about the Tea Party. In it, they note that there is no proof that Tea Party supporters shouted racial epithets at Congressman John Lewis. Another feather in the cap of Andrew Breitbart, surely, but one news outlet for him...
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Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic is adding a major name to the masthead with news that Conor Friedersdorf is joining the blog as a "senior editor." In addition to Friedersdorf, Sullivan is adding a new staffer--Zoe Pollock--to focus on behinds-the-scene work and to some "underblogging."
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In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper last week, ousted USDA official Shirley Sherrod accused Andrew Breitbart of racism and supporting a return to slavery. On Thursday night, Cooper apologized to his audience for not questioning that claim and letting her "get away with saying things which cannot be supported by facts."
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Deep in the heart of the Shirley Sherrod scandal, the RNC made the eyecatching announcement last week that it would host a fundraiser in Beverly Hills headlined by Andrew Breitbart and Chairman Michael Steele. Today, donors received a letter announcing that the event, sceduled for August 12-14, would be rescheduled for September.
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Could our two-week-long national nightmare be nearing an end? In an interview with Newsweek today, Andrew Breitbart spoke to the magazine about the Shirley Sherrod speech scandal and expressed regret, acknowledged that it has "been difficult for me as well," and claimed he would "be more than happy to meet with...
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Earlier today NBC News White House correspondent Chuck Todd filed a rather unremarkable report about the Obama administration's eagerness to put the Shirley Sherrod story behind them. What was rather remarkable was Todd's reference to Andrew Breitbart as a "conservative propagandist," which is interesting in that it not only marginalizes the...
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Today on MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews tried to debate Salon's Joan Walsh and former Gov. Howard Dean that Andrew Breitbart's version of the controversial Shirley Sherrod speech was completely unedited. Considering there were about 35 minutes missing from that tape, this was wrong for obvious reasons. But if you caught...
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There has been so much reported on Shirley Sherrod and Andrew Breitbart that it's hard to believe that there are actually news junkies out there who don't understand the story, but they apparently exist. What's harder to imagine is that a television news anchor like Chris Matthews happens to be...
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Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who lost her job over a video clip doctored to make her appear to make biased comments, announced that she would sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who publicized the video.
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