Andrew Breitbart

[bogus info]

Nope. In my non-HQ life, I am a teacher. 3 weeks off in December and 10 off (after I finish summer school) in the summer. (No, we do not get paid for that time off.)

LMK,

Here is an interesting debate regarding teacher's salaries.

Should Teacher's salaries be increased?
Started: 9/2/2008
http://www.debate.org/debates/Should-Te ... creased/1/

[mimi]

[kate520]

mimmers, i cant even see what this is, unless I install flash player. Is there an original source to which you can direct me?

[mimi]

mimmers, i cant even see what this is, unless I install flash player. Is there an original source to which you can direct me?

I never understand where you can see and where you can't see it at?

Anyway... here are some places:

http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-t ... -breitbart

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/201 ... y-sherrod/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-j ... st-in-race

Google for a gazillion more.



I didn't view the Colbert clip yet. But, it's online.

[kate520]

Thanks. The post yu made just above mine is completely blank on the iPad and just a black square on the Mac.

[kate520]

After reading The Hill story, igotta say: WTF?

Did they see the same clip I did? While he skewered the left, he most assuredly did NOT defend notvery. He destroyed him as the asshat he is.

What are they smoking over there? Are they confusing Stewart with Colbert?

[mimi]

Thanks. The post yu made just above mine is completely blank on the iPad and just a black square on the Mac.

Yeah, that's what I mean. You can see the clips at the other places, just not here. So basically any other site that hosts the video. Wonder why?

[mimi]

After reading The Hill story, igotta say: WTF?

Did they see the same clip I did? While he skewered the left, he most assuredly did NOT defend notvery. He destroyed him as the asshat he is.

What are they smoking over there? Are they confusing Stewart with Colbert?

Yes, but an asshat who is honest about being an asshat.

Weird. But I believe that's their point.

Citing as evidence an old clip of Breitbart saying, "I want to be in the history books because I took down the institutional left." Stewart takes on the left for naively believing the Breitbart video. "See, [Breitbart] doesn't want to be ... a paragon of honesty, he doesn't want to be known ... as Arnold B. Truthington of Accuracy Lane!"

Breitbart says "I fucking hate them" in that profile from Wired.

Anybody who thinks he is honest or trustworthy is a fool. The man should never be trusted. And yeah, I think he's dangerous. But so is Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

[Foggy]

Sherrod's firing is Number 21 on the list of "25 Impeachable Crimes and Counting".

[mimi]

Sherrod's firing is Number 21 on the list of "25 Impeachable Crimes and Counting".

haha! who knew? and they all called for her firing.

damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

[mimi]

RT @mpoppel: SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Go Shirley!


ETA: I started a new topic on this in General Politics -
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4546

[joeymac]

RT @mpoppel: SAN DIEGO (AP) - Ousted USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Go Shirley!

In spades!

[Highlands]

Poor Andy. Apparently, the President of the United States of America is perpetrating a vast conspiracy against him.

Breitbart Claims That His Edited Sherrod Video is an Obama Plot to Destroy Him

Andrew Breitbart was on Michael Savage’s show today, where he claimed that his own edited video of Shirley Sherrod is really a campaign by Barack Obama to destroy him. Breitbart said, “I believe that he is orchestrating the campaign to destroy me and my reputation.”

In response to a caller who asked if Obama’s appearance on The View this week is payback for his possibly asking program last week to put on Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart said, “I don’t know, but I think, I’m not going to say I feel bad for President Obama because I believe that he is orchestrating the campaign to destroy me and my reputation.”

Okay, so according to Breitbart, Obama was behind his editing of a 25 year old video of Shirley Sherrod, to give the false impression that she was racist. Obama also told Breitbart to post the video to his own website for the sole purpose of using the doctored video as grounds for firing Ms. Sherrod so that the truth could soon emerge, which would destroy Breitbart’s reputation as a, “credible journalist.” The problem is that even before this Breitbart had no credibility after the ACORN video was exposed as a doctored fraud.

It is revealing that Breitbart did not get to go on Fox News, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh’s radio shows in order to make his case, but that he has been reduced to going on Michael Savage’s show, which is most decidedly part of the B team in the right wing media. It would appear that all of the A list big audience programs are distancing themselves from him. Despite what he thinks of himself, Andrew Breitbart is not important enough for the President of the United States to waste one second thinking about him, much less hatch a plot to destroy him.

[kate520]

The President doesn't have e-fucking -nough to do and now he's out to get you? Think much of yourself, arsehole?

I hope Ms. sherrod prevails.

[Estiveo]

So...it's a conspiracy to destroy his reputation as a lying asshole? How's that work, again?

[mimi]

I thought he got crazier as the video went on. Last couple of minutes especially. He's spitting mad about the election. Sheesh!

NewLeftMedia | July 28, 2010

"Duh! All Television is Edited!"
Digg here: http://digg.com/d31YPgI?t

BREITBART ON EDITING
Breitbart talks about the media and his philosophy on editing:

"They kept hammering: 'these tapes are heavily edited, heavily edited, heavily edited.' 'Propaganda!' ... people with a sense of fear going 'Oh my God, these tapes were heavily edited.' Duh! All television is edited!"

He also says that Barack Obama was elected as a result of "selective editing."

MAKE A MASH-UP
We are giving permission, and encouraging people, to make a mash-up of Andrew Breitbart's interview and edit him to say, well, whatever you want. If there is a really good one, we will put it on our website.

BREITBART ON OBAMA
While Breitbart at first says that conservatives can criticize Obama on the issues--without a need to look into his history--he then says that Obama's history was unexplored by the press, and that had the public had more information about it, they wouldn't have voted for him. Asked for what that information was, Breitbart can only cite things which did come up in the media--Bill Ayers, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and so forth. Oh, and Obama is a Marxist. Surprise.

BREITBART ON MY FAKE JOB
He is also strangely befuddled by my (decidedly non-liberal) University--Wright State, out of Dayton, Ohio--and tells me to come back to him when I "get a real job." (I am a fake American living in fake America with a fake job.)

-- cut back to four paragraphs from the original source in keeping with PJ rules --

Edit: ok, sorry. I didn't think it applied to YouTube decription. Sorry.

ETA: I had only seen Chase do the Tea Party interviews. You know, just asking the TeaBaggers simple questions. He does a masterful job here. He's a college kid. He did an incredible job.

[LM K]

Nope. In my non-HQ life, I am a teacher. 3 weeks off in December and 10 off (after I finish summer school) in the summer. (No, we do not get paid for that time off.)

LMK,

Here is an interesting debate regarding teacher's salaries.

Should Teacher's salaries be increased?
Started: 9/2/2008
http://www.debate.org/debates/Should-Te ... creased/1/

Thanks, Bogus!

That was an interesting debate. The guy who took the Con position is planing to go into teaching. That scares the crap out of me!!

'Cause paying teachers more will mean more people will get teaching degrees thus there will be a spike in unemployment. And getting a teaching degree is so easy that if they raise the pay scale then everyone will want to be a teacher and then everyone will be unemployed!



I'm not at all complaining about my income; I feel that I am paid a fair wage and I have excellent working conditions. The big threat to teachers? Carpel Tunnel! Chalkboard shoulder! Eye strain! (And the occasional off-their-rocker out of control student). I could earn more outside of education, but I love what I do and see that as a huge blessing. I like having so much time off in the summer. But I also earn more than your average K-12 teacher and live in a state where a Master's is required for all K-12 teachers. Frankly, K-12 teachers work way harder than I do. FSM bless 'em.

I am surprised by how many people think that educators get paid to have 3-4 months off each year.

While there are valid arguments for not raising pay scales in the average school district, Mr Soon-To-Be Teacher is about to get his ass handed to him when he gets an actual teaching job! Esp when he discovers that many, many teachers work more than 40 hours a week but are on salary. And that getting a teaching job is incredibly difficult right now.

Oh, and Breirbart is an asshole. I hope Sherrod makes his life hell. He is really playing the victim card.

[muldrake]

Oh, and Breirbart is an asshole. I hope Sherrod makes his life hell. He is really playing the victim card.

Agreed. And there's enough grist for the mill that I don't think Breitbart can get it dismissed promptly, even if (as I think) the actual malice standard would apply. The manner in which the tape was edited, and the manner in which it is clearly deceptive, is itself evidence that it was distributed either with actual knowledge of its falsity, or at the very least, with reckless disregard as to whether it was true or false.

I had originally thought Sherrod's only case was false light, because the actual contents of the video do quote things she actually said, but some legal analyst pointed out that in fact, there are also defamatory captions in the video. So she has defamation claims on those as well. To the extent a third party created the video and gave it to Breitbart, Breitbart also probably has vicarious liability for their actions even if he didn't create them himself.

I am still not particularly optimistic about the likelihood of success. The suit is somewhat reminiscent of Drudge v. Blumenthal, which involved Breitbart's mentor Matt Drudge, and in which Matt Drudge was sued for libel for calling Sidney Blumenthal a wife-beater. It's about time Breitbart got his own taste of the whip. That scum.