Here’s a classic example of the kind of dishonest tactics used all the time by the right wing demagogues at breitbart.com, who are increasingly looking like clueless fumbling idiots without their founder Andrew.

Yesterday on Twitter, breitbart.com “Investigative Writer/Researcher” Mandy Nagy (aka @Liberty_chick) was busily tweeting insults and personal attacks at me, instead of responding to my challenge that she produce proof for her claims that racist comments were being “planted” by liberals at their websites.

In the course of this diversionary blizzard of nonsense, she attracted the attention of the lovely people who stalk me around the web, one of whom tweeted something so ugly that she felt compelled to retweet it:

RT @OldLineTexan: @Gus_807 I have daughters about @Liberty_Chick age, and I wouldn’t want an aging creep like @Lizardoid stalking them….

— Mandy Nagy (@Liberty_Chick) March 29, 2012

Yes, that’s right — Ms Nagy was apparently amused by a tweet calling me a stalker. Posted by a stalker.

I responded by copying her retweet here, just to have a record of it:

RT @Liberty_Chick I have daughters @Liberty_Chick age, and I wouldn’t want an aging creep like @Lizardoid stalking them. #StalkerCharles

— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) March 29, 2012

Here’s where it turns into a truly massive fail. Because this morning when I checked Twitter, I found Ms Nagy raving at me again, demanding a “retraction” and claiming that she never called me a stalker:

@Lizardoid Retract that immediately, please. I NEVER wrote that you were “stalking” me.

— Mandy Nagy (@Liberty_Chick) March 30, 2012

When I looked through her timeline to find her retweet of the “#StalkerCharles” post, imagine my total lack of surprise to find that she had deleted it. She was demanding a retraction from me, when she knew very well that she had indeed posted exactly what I said she did — and she tried to hide it by deleting the retweet. Amazing.

But unfortunately for Ms Nagy, she left a trail of evidence a mile wide. Here’s a screenshot of her retweet:

And this breitbart.com “investigative researcher” apparently was not aware that even if you delete a tweet, it can still be accessed through Twitter’s oEmbed endpoint (as documented here). And here’s the link to the XML version of the tweet she deleted. A screenshot of the data:

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To sum up, Ms Nagy retweeted a post that I was “stalking” her, then deleted it, then demanded a retraction, knowing full well that she had tried to hide the evidence. She was lying, and she got caught.

Just one more massive fail for the mini-Breits, in what’s becoming a new tradition for them. Never thought I’d say it, but these people make Andrew Breitbart look like a genius.

I must retract the accusation that Ms Nagy deleted her retweet, and apologize to her; for some reason it did not show up in her timeline when I wrote this post, but it’s clearly visible now. Tweetdeck was offline most of the day to fix a bug; it may have had something to do with that. But in any case, I was wrong about the deletion, and I do apologize for that.

I do not, however, retract the accusation that she was lying about not calling me a “stalker” — she obviously did do that. And I do not withdraw my challenge to her to back up her claim that racist comments are “planted” at breitbart.com; that’s a larger issue that remains.