Andrew Breitbart of "breitbart.com"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart


Breitbart has appeared as a conservative commentator on talk shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. <2> Breitbart took on a higher profile as a commentator during the 2004 U.S. election cycle after appearing in Michael Moore Hates America <3>, a 2004 movie directed by Michael Wilson that is highly critical of filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary creation tactics and editing style. As a guest commentator on FOX News Channel's morning show on May 10th, 2004, Breitbart explained that "Michael Moore's been lying for ten years. Every time that guy lies he gains a pound. He's like a culinary Pinocchio" and "Yeah, they love him. They love the sort of anti-middle American vibe that the guy gives off because he's from Flint, Michigan, so he can ostensibly claim to be speaking for Middle America. But the guy lives on the Upper West Side, and he's the classic elitist." <4>
News site

He now runs his own news site at breitbart.com, with the motto "Just The News." The site is now frequently linked to by the Drudge Report and other independently run websites. The site features wire stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, PR Newswire, US Newswire and a number of blogs.


In other words, he and Sludge have cooked up a brilliant scam. People go to Drudge to get the latest poop off the wire services. (usually carefully cherry-picked to help promote a right-leaning agenda)

Breitbart's site just cuts and pastes AP, Reuters etc. stories verbatim, then pretends that *IT* is an authentic wire service (it isn't)

About a third of Drudge's links lead to the breitbart versions of media stories. Most people have no idea what they are clicking on, and just assume that breitbart is another news organization.

But when you post links to Breitbart, you are putting money in the Drudge-thug's pocket.

Please, find the original story. Don't give this a-hole any hit$.

Everybody here is probably too young to know who he is (what a horrible thought). He used to be on the more uppercrust game shows, being supposedly witty as opposed to funny. Who knows what else he did besides game shows. His persona was of a Yankee uppercruster.

So he was being interviewed about a month ago and he bragged about two things -- that he is the descendent of Calvin COOLIDGE and that his son in law was this BREITBART dude. He covered the bio, how this dude helped Matt PUDGE get off the ground, how rough it is being a wingnut in Hollywood. This BEAN apparently has abandoned the East coast and resides in Ahhnuld's Caleefourneea.

But Ariana also used BREITBART in getting her Post started.

:shrug:

On Edit: A better answer::

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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050503glaser/

.... Trying to read the tea leaves on the Huffington Post is no easy matter, and the people behind the site would prefer to stay out of the spotlight and not be pre-judged before launch -- now planned for next Monday, May 9. However, a positive preview by The New York Times, with the catchy lead, "Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere," paved the way for slams and even a spoof by the Guardian. ....



But on the plus side, Huffington has surrounded herself with a group that's heavy on satire, heavy on irony and heavy on controversy. She has comedian Harry Shearer doing a journalist-watchdog feature called "Eat the Press" and has tapped former Drudge sidekick Andrew Breitbart to edit the news headline section as he did for Drudge.

Breitbart has worked for Huffington before. He is in an interesting spot, as he co-wrote the 2004 book "Hollywood, Interrupted," a moralizing book on celebs and limo liberals that calls out various group bloggers from Huffington Post, including Rob Reiner and Norman Lear.

Breitbart wouldn't comment for this article, but did make a statement to the blogosphere through Roger Simon's blog.

"I like to go where the action is," he wrote. "Bringing my former boss and longtime friend Arianna's intriguing friends to the blogosphere, the ultimate level playing field, makes perfect sense to me, and I am thrilled to be committed to such a groundbreaking project. Will my pals on the right have a place to offer their two cents at the Huffington Post? Absolutely. Will I agree with everyone's written word? Of course not. But that's precisely the point. May the best ideas win."

Huffington told me Breitbart's news headlines would run on the right side of the home page while the group blog would be on the left side -- perhaps a not-so-subtle play on their political orientation. But the wild card could be the 200 or so people that will be included in the group blog but haven't been trumpeted to the media yet. They could be the swing vote that tips the Post in any direction. ....

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