Having done his best this week to smear and destroy an innocent woman, Andrew Breitbart is heading off to vacation. But first he gave an interview to Politico, to boast about his wonderfulness and direct some more race-baiting smears at Shirley Sherrod.

“I am public enemy number 1 or 2 to the Democratic Party, the progressive movement, and the Obama administration based upon the successes my journalism has had,” Breitbart told POLITICO in a telephone interview late Thursday morning as he headed to the airport for what he said was a long-planned three-day vacation.

Breitbart asserted that liberal media outlets are purposefully shifting the focus to the misleading excerpting in the videos he posted – as well as his erroneous statement about the context of the footage – to divert attention from what he asserts is a double standard on racist behavior exposed by the video, which he released Monday to push back against a recently passed NAACP resolution expressing concern about “racist elements” in the tea party movement.

“The desire here is to make it about me and not the Democratic establishment and the NAACP vs. the tea party,” Breitbart said, defending the footage he posted as “a self contained news worthy video that established the media standard of pointing out that the NAACP countenanced racism in its own award dinner setting. That was the point. That was the point. And the video proves it.”

He offered no apology to Sherrod, but said that she has not been held accountable for the racial overtones of what she said. “If anybody reads the sainted, martyred Sherrod’s entire speech, this person has not gotten past black vs. white,” he said.

Asked if he would have more thoroughly vetted the original video if he had it to do over again, Breitbart wouldn’t say.

“Let me think about that,” he said. “You’ll have to ask me (later). I am right now about to get out of the car to go to the airport and I’ll think about this for another time, because I’m being inundated with falsehoods left and right that are making it impossible for me to have a 40,000-feet-above-it-all perspective of what’s going on. All I’m seeing is people right now seeing blood in the water, and coming after me. And the amount of half truths and falsehoods that are out there in the pursuit of taking me down because they perceive that I’m a threat, it’s astounding.”

He did say “I believe that I’m held to a higher standard. If this video showed a picture of a Caucasian talking in the exact same way but talking about a black person with an audience affirming and clapping that behavior, the reporter would be getting a Pulitzer Prize right now.”