Breitbart.com “investigative journalist” Matthew Boyle, whose exceedingly creepy EXCLUSIVE BOMBSHELL exposing the President’s daughters’ vacation location was covered yesterday at LGF (now with more than 1400 hits via Twitter), is not ashamed of his ugly article and he’s not backing down one bit. That’s the Breitbart way — race-baiting followed by aggressive counter-attacks when criticized, followed by repetition of race-baiting. A winning formula for the right, apparently.

Today Boyle continues stirring up hatred for the President and his family on Twitter, in the same vein as his BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE:

Curious: who supports President Obama’s decision to allocate secret service to daughters’ Bahamian vacay over ordinary kids’ WH tours?

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) March 26, 2013

@geoffm33 you’re missing the point. Why did they need to go in first place? Cost would cover WH tours for weeks at least

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) March 26, 2013

@westernlandman not sure. But we’re investigating to find how much taxpayers are on the hook for here.

— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) March 26, 2013

I had to ask a rhetorical question of my own:

@mboyle1 Dude, what is wrong with you?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 26, 2013

Related:
Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle Stalks the President’s Daughters, Incites Racial Hatred

Also see:
Joan Walsh: How Not to Seem Like a Racist

The theme of most right-wing stories on Sasha, Malia and Michelle Obama’s vacations and leisure-time activities seems to be that they’re entitled princesses, when they do exactly the same kinds of things other presidents’ families have done throughout history. There’s only one difference I can see.

The Daily Caller’s hit piece on Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez is blowing up in their faces, as more evidence emerges that their big exposé was a fraud: Dominican Official Links Daily Caller to Alleged Lies About Menendez.

A top Dominican law enforcement official said Friday that a local lawyer has reported being paid by someone claiming to work for the conservative Web site the Daily Caller to find prostitutes who would lie and say they had sex for money with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.).

The local lawyer told Dominican investigators that a foreign man, who identified himself as “Carlos,” had offered him $5,000 to find and pay women in the Caribbean nation willing to make the claims about Menendez, according to Jose Antonio Polanco, district attorney for the La Romana region, where the investigation is being conducted.

The videotaped claims of two women, made with their faces obscured, were posted last fall on the Daily Caller. The site reported that “the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000-acre resort in the Dominican Republic. . . . They claimed Menendez agreed to pay them $500 for sex acts, but in the end they each received only $100.”

The Daily Caller issued a statement Friday saying that the information allegedly provided by the Dominican lawyer, Melanio Figueroa, was false.

The Daily Caller said: “At no point did any money change hands between The Daily Caller and any sources or individuals connected with this investigation, nor did anyone named Carlos travel to the Dominican Republic on behalf of The Daily Caller. As recently as two weeks ago, Figueroa was on record with another news outlet as saying the women he represented were telling the truth about their initial allegations against Senator Mendendez.”

Seems like it was only yesterday that Breitbart editor John “Murder the Liberal Teachers” Nolte posted a lengthy gloat about the Washington Post falling for a satirical story at The Daily Currant, slamming author Suzi Parker for not recognizing a parody and ending with this memorable sentence: “[Palin] drives members of the elite media so crazy that the blindness of their hate overwhelms common sense to a such point that they turn into public laughingstocks overnight.”

…never one to let facts get in the way of a good Narrative, the “we-meant-to-do-that” Post merely added a correction, changed the headline to “Sarah Palin tries to stay relevant,” scrubbed the Al-Jazeera references (the original post can be read here), and still ripped Palin for, uhm, being so desperate to stay relevant.

If Parker had a shred of self-awareness, integrity, and dignity, she would have changed the headline to “Too Good To Check,” and under it posted an essay about how shallow, smug, bitterly angry partisanship can blind you to common sense.

Yes, all the Washington Post did was add a correction, in bold text, right at the top of the article.

When Breitbart.com editor Larry O’Connor fell for yet another Daily Currant story today about New York Times economist Paul Krugman filing for bankruptcy, how did the excellent right wing journalists at Breitbart handle it?

They just deleted it with no correction or explanation at all: Breitbart.com Runs With Satirical Story About Krugman Filing for Bankruptcy.

A screenshot of the deleted page:

Paul Krugman says he’s been Breitbarted.

OK, I’m an evil person — and my scheming has paid off.

On Friday I started hearing from friends about a fake story making the rounds about my allegedly filing for personal bankruptcy; I even got asked about the story by a reporter from Russian television, who was very embarrassed when I told him it was fake. But I decided not to post anything about it; instead, I wanted to wait and see which right-wing media outlets would fall for the hoax.

And Breitbart.com came through!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas.

You know how right wingers love to give each other awards with lofty-sounding titles? Well, I do believe we have an all-time winner for the Most Ludicrous Right Wing Award Award, as the dumbest, most unprofessional right wing blogger of them all, Jim Hoft, will receive the Accuracy in Media Award at CPAC.

DERP

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2013 - Accuracy in Media will honor Catherine Herridge of the Fox News Channel for her outstanding achievements in investigative journalism, and Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit for his groundbreaking contributions to New Media in a ceremony taking place at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 14th. The Reed Irvine award is named for AIM’s founder, America’s first media watchdog. …

Irvine praised Jim Hoft, the proprietor of GatewayPundit.com. “His dedication to a free America and his personal devotion to democracy that has led him to cover freedom movements from inside Iran to the streets of Azerbaijan, have propelled GatewayPundit into one of the country’s top resources for right-of-center news and commentary.”

What a fantastic snapshot of the modern right wing! One of the country’s “top right-of-center news” sources is a borderline illiterate religious fanatic with absolutely no journalistic standards, who promotes every single fake outrage and demented conspiracy theory that bubbles up from the wingnut base, lies outright for partisan reasons, has a nauseatingly vicious and racist comments section, and is wrong more often than any other blogger in the history of the web, yet never, ever admits or corrects a mistake.

Right wing journalism at its finest!

(h/t: Right Wing Watch.)

After being exposed as hacks without standards this week (again), the gang at Breitbart.com went completely ballistic, posting one article after another bashing Chuck Hagel in a crazed, desperate attempt to scuttle his nomination for Secretary of Defense.

Currently on the front page at Breitbart.com, we find no less than 13 anti-Hagel articles. They really went all out:

Hagel 2007: U.S. Acting Like ‘Schoolyard Bully’; ‘08 Candidates Too Hard on Iran
House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman: Hagel Pick ‘Impossible’
Rubio: Hagel Bad for Israel, ‘Temperament,’ ‘Judgment’ Issues
As Demand for Transparency Heats Up, Polls Turn Against Hagel
Graham Asks Hagel About ‘Apartheid’ Comment on Israel
Hagel 2007 Speech: North Korea ‘Moving in the Right Direction’
Hagel Blocks Access to University of Nebraska Archive
In ‘Friends of Hamas’ Story, Media Fail to Pursue Full Disclosure From Hagel
Liberal Democrat Lanny Davis: Cruz ‘Absolutely Correct’ to Call for Hagel Disclosure
GOP Senators Urge White House to Withdraw Hagel Nomination
CNN: ‘Private Grumbling’ Among Democrats About Hagel
Hagel Declined to Sign Schumer Letter in 2007 Asking Arab Allies to Recognize Israel

But then, after all this hard work smearing and vilifying:

Republicans Set to Cave on Hagel

I’m just glad someone is providing this kind of quality inadvertent humor on the web for free. Don’t ever change, Breitbrats.

The now thoroughly discredited hacks at Breitbart.com are in a serious rage today, lashing out at everyone who mocked them over their “Friends of Hamas” fake story and posting at least nine articles so far today attacking Chuck Hagel even more rabidly than before.

The most ridiculous one of the bunch may be “editor” Joel Pollak’s pathetic, whiny complaint that the media aren’t pushing for Hagel to prove Breitbart’s fake claims wrong. Yes, that’s right — he actually expects the media to chase after the figments of his imagination: IN ‘FRIENDS OF HAMAS’ STORY, MEDIA FAIL TO PURSUE FULL DISCLOSURE FROM HAGEL!!!

Breitbrat Ben Shapiro apparently just made up a story about Chuck Hagel receiving donations from a group called “Friends of Hamas,” because as Dave Weigel reports, the group does not actually exist.

As with all these fake stories from the Breitbart crew, it immediately spread throughout the right wing echo chamber, repeated by Mike Huckabee, Redstate.com, the National Review, Fox News, etc. — none of whom ever bothered to check on the group’s existence.

Here’s the problem: There’s no proof that “Friends of Hamas” actually exists. At best, it’s an organization so secret that nobody in government has thought to mention its existence. At worst, it’s as fake as Manti Te’o’s girlfriend. The Treasury Department, which designates sponsors of terror, has done so to many charities tied to Hamas. “Friends of Hamas” is not among them. The State Department doesn’t designate it, either. And a bit less holistically, a Lexis search for the group reveals absolutely nothing.

I’ve been unable to find any Senate staffer who knows where the “Friends” rumor came from, and Dave Reaboi, communications director for the (generally conservative) Center for Security Policy, shared my confusion about the alleged group. “Looking back to the 1990s, there were several groups (some affiliated with Holy Land Foundation, some not) that functioned as fund-raisers,” he said in an email. “I wouldn’t put it past these people to refer to it this way in private, but I doubt highly that they’d actually call a legit group ‘Friends of Hamas.’”

[…]

This morning I wrote Shapiro to clear up the accusation. “Have you found any more proof that this group exists?” I asked. “Is it just shorthand for some people who might support Hagel, or a real group?”

“The original story is the entirety of the information I have,” he said.

The wingnut crowd has been frantically casting about for a way to defend Daily Caller “journalist” Neil Munro’s crass behavior at yesterday’s White House announcement, and some of them are comparing Munro to Sam Donaldson and his famously tough questioning of Ronald Reagan. Donaldson responded to these comparisons today:

What this man did yesterday is something new, to me wrong and unusual. I think it is probably the result of the growing incivility of the times, the competition among reporters and news organizations to be noticed not only for the work product but for the theatrics of the gathering…and there is one more factor, let’s face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

Kudos to Sen. Sherrod Brown for giving CNN contributor/Breitbart.com loon Dana Loesch exactly the amount of respect she deserved, when she popped up like a malevolent jack-in-the-box at the Netroots Nation conference.

“Sen. Brown, do you have time for a question?” - me “Not from you I don’t.” - Sen. Sherrod Brown #nn12

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 9, 2012

The wingnut blogosphere won’t take this deadly insult lying down, of course. You can expect the crazies to start cranking out the phony persecution rhetoric any minute now. First out of the gate — Michelle Malkin’s fake news site Twitchy.com: An Inconvenient Tweet? Al Gore Quickly Deletes His Retweet of Dana Loesch.

Al Gore may have gotten cold feet (or made a political calculation), but I’m not running for anything … and I’m not deleting my retweet:

Awesome! RT @DLoesch “Sen Brown do you have time for a question?” me “Not from you I don’t.” - Sen. Sherrod Brown #nn12

— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) June 10, 2012

…or my message of congratulations to Sen. Sherrod.

.@SenSherrodBrown Just wanted to say thank you, for extending to Dana Loesch the amount of respect she deserves.

— Charles Johnson (@Lizardoid) June 10, 2012

Dana Loesch isn’t going to be fair in her “reporting” — that’s absolutely proven at this point, many times over. She’s not a journalist, she’s a hyper-partisan hit woman. Her only purpose for being at conferences like Netroots is to find something/anything with which to smear and attack the President, the Democratic Party, and liberals in general, and anyone who doesn’t realize this, and behave accordingly, is being played for a fool.

Sen. Brown said, “I’m not going to be played for a fool.” Way to go, Senator.

Here’s a truly stunning example of Fox News’s total lack of journalistic ethics — a vicious four-minute attack advertisement pretending to be news, on Fox & Friends.

The perfect follow-up: Jon Stewart’s opening segment from last night, with an epic rant about Roger Ailes.