Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:28:51 pm
Chris Lehmann really captures the essential creepiness of Breitbart "News" in this piece for The Baffler: The Breitbart Betrayals. The abject failure of a news organization to back up one of its own reporters was so shocking—and so poisonous to the already shaky morale of the Breitbart newsroom—that few paused ...

Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 5:40:16 pm
A group of Stanford computer scientists have developed an algorithm that supposedly can detect trolls by analyzing as few as five comments. Today, Justin Cheng at Stanford University in California and a few pals say they have created just such a tool by analyzing the behavior of trolls on several ...

Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:26:05 am
One of the most disgusting of the many disgusting stunts pulled by far right agitator Andrew Breitbart was his unconscionable smear of USDA official Shirley Sherrod. Breitbart used an edited video to falsely portray Sherrod as a "racist," but the unedited video showed very clearly that this claim was false ...

Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:58:11 pm
Could SWAT-gate Be Another Right Wing Prank? Posted on June 16, 2012 by Matt Osborne So we know how these types of games get played: right wing activists make the news they want to see with a sinister stunt, the right-wing blogosphere goes ballistic, spends weeks roaring about their victimization, and ...

Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:10:18 am
This is shocking news: Andrew Breitbart passed away early this morning in Los Angeles. We were friends once, but that ended when I could no longer stomach the right wing extremism that Andrew chose instead to embrace. I'm a bit sad that he won't be ranting any more on Twitter about ...

Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:39:21 pm
Things aren't going very well for Andrew Breitbart in the defamation lawsuit filed against him by former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, and now Breitbart and his lawyers have been scolded by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon (a George W. Bush appointee): Federal Judge: Blogger Likely 'Overreaching' With Anti-SLAPP Motion. In ...

Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:06:10 pm
William Jacobson, one of the first wingnut bloggers to spread the ridiculous talking point that Sarah Palin got it exactly right with her absurd distortion of Paul Revere's ride, is now outraged -- outraged, I say! -- that I'm not going to apologize to Andrew Breitbart: Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Charles Johnson: ...

Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:12:41 am
Joan Walsh makes an excellent point about the "Weinergate" idiocy -- even if it turns out that Rep. Weiner did send that penis picture that has driven right wing blogs into a frothing frenzy, there's one lesson that should not be learned: Lessons I won't learn from Weinergate. However, there ...

Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:32:24 am
The target of one of Andrew Breitbart's most despicable smears, Shirley Sherrod, is going back to work for the USDA, in a contract job to help the USDA improve its civil rights record. Sherrod will be a contract employee leading one of three field programs designed to bolster relations between ...

Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:38:32 pm
In Andrew Breitbart's extremely hostile and combative interview with Martin Bashir, the most newsworthy moment is when Breitbart reveals that he actually believes in the world's stupidest right wing conspiracy theory -- that President Obama's first book was secretly written by former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers. And amazingly, Breitbart even ...

Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:10:49 am
TPM has details on the lawsuit filed against Andrew Breitbart by Shirley Sherrod. Three defendants are named: Breitbart, Breitbart.tv head Larry O'Connor and a "John Doe," who allegedly edited the original video of Sherrod's speech, and "whose identity has been concealed by the other Defendants," according to the complaint. The complaint ...

Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:13:18 pm
In July of last year, Shirley Sherrod said she was going to sue Andrew Breitbart over the deceptively edited video that falsely portrayed her as a "racist," and yesterday at CPAC she made good on that vow. Andrew Breitbart, the owner of several conservative Web sites, was served at the ...

Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:13:00 am
Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site is promoting another outrageous outrage today, claiming that reporters for Alaska TV station KTVA were caught on tape plotting to damage Joe Miller's campaign. After Breitbart's smear campaigns against ACORN and Shirley Sherrod using edited and out of context recordings, what are the odds that this ...

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:25:36 pm
Tim Blair is a funny person! Now he's demanding an apology from me. What will he think next? This time he dug up an LGF post from the presidential election, in which I quoted some excerpts from Barack Obama's autobiography about his prejudice toward white people, earlier in his life. (As ...

Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:45:42 pm
That was quick; after the bizarre racist and sexually obsessed writings of Dr. Kevin Pezzi were revealed earlier today by Media Matters, Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" website has pulled down all the anti-Shirley Sherrod articles he wrote, and issued this statement that doesn't mention Pezzi by name. Earlier this week, ...

Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:56:18 am
Wow. Just ... wow. Dr. Kevin Pezzi is a new writer for Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" website, contributing two pieces yesterday that continue Breitbart's smear campaign against Shirley Sherrod. He says Breitbart asked him to write for Big Government. And you may not believe how completely bugeyed insane this guy is: Meet ...

Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:59:08 pm
And now the Republican National Committee is slowly backing away from Breitbart. Washington (CNN) – The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about ...

Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:34:15 am
Confirming everything I’ve written about them, the delightfully vindictive John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com takes a poll of the right wing blogosphere on their attitudes toward race. It’s as bad as you might imagine. Get a load of Hawkins’s title: Polling Conservative Bloggers On Race, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, & False Accusations ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:05:35 am
At the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Shirley Sherrod said she is going to sue Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, meanwhile, is continuing the smear campaign, and today at his “Big Government” site, Greg Gutfeld actually whines that somebody needs to apologize to the Tea Party movement. It’s the ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:12:17 am
Remember Jeffrey Lord’s rank piece of race-baiting at the American Spectator saying that Shirley Sherrod’s story of the lynching of a black man was a lie, because the man wasn’t hanged? Well, that disgusting little rationalization brought some heavy criticism down on Lord, as you might imagine. So today he’s moving ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:15:37 am
Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser Van Jones (another person who was forced to resign after a dishonest right wing smear campaign) has an op-ed in the New York Times about the zero-sum politics of personal destruction: Shirley Sherrod and Me. UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:10:52 am
It should be no surprise to find American Spectator, the magazine that plays host to white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, running an absolutely vile 4000-word attack piece on Shirley Sherrod today. Jeffrey Lord says Sherrod lied in her speech to the NAACP when she talked about the murder of a ...

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:54:27 am
By now, you can predict right wing tactics almost to the letter. Whenever Fox News, a Tea Party group, or a Congressman from Texas is caught saying or doing something stupid, misogynist, racist, or kinky, the tactic is: pick out an irrelevant or minor point in the criticism that can ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:14:32 pm
The LA Times’s Jim Rainey has pretty much the same take on the Shirley Sherrod affair as I do — there’s a villain in this little play, and his name is Andrew Breitbart. Certain media outlets have played the story and the political ramifications for the Obama administration (and there ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:01:23 pm
The must-read for the day: The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod’s Dad. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, ...