One Year After Debunking Breitbart's "Slander," CNN Welcomes Him Back As Newsmaker

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/eric-boehlert/36523/one-year-after-debunking-breitbarts-slander-cnn-welcomes-him-back-as-newsmaker

Proving once again that there's no standard by which many mainstream media outlets are willing to hold sloppy propagandist Andrew Breitbart, CNN this afternoon invited the discredited blogger on the air to discuss the Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY- D) Twitter story.

Conveniently setting aside the fact that virtually every attack campaign that Breitbart has launched in recent years has collapsed under the weight of modest scrutiny, CNN presented the fatuous blogger as some sort of expert who could walk people through the Weiner story, which he's been hyping for days. (The whole right-wing blogosphere launched itself into a creepy tizzy over the holiday weekend regarding the story.)

The invite was odd because last summer CNN's Anderson Cooper helped debunk Breitbart's shoddy Shirley Sherrod attack and announced the clips of Sherrod that Breitbart posted online "were clearly edited to deceive and slander Miss Sherrod." Cooper added that Breitbart's behavior was "a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse."

And on CNN today, the anchor had to ask Breitbart why, in the wake of last year's Sherrod fiasco, anyone would take his claims seriously.

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Remember kids -- facts and research are for losers!

people who "create" news, gripe about how no media is covering them, and then they get invited on said media..

the STORY here is the fact that so many camera-hungry nutcases are wandering around creating news...not "covering" news that occurs.