http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/abc_news_clarifies_andrew_brei.htmlGo anywhere near Andrew Breitbart and you're bound to get burned. ABC News, under fire over the news that Breitbart had been tapped to do election night commentary, clarifies his role in a statement from Andrew Morse, the executive producer of ABC News Digital:
Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst.
He is not an ABC News consultant.
He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News.
He is not being paid by ABC News.
He has not been asked to analyze the results of the election for ABC News.
Mr. Breitbart will not be a part of the ABC News broadcast coverage, anchored by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos. For the broadcast coverage, David Muir and Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg will contribute reaction and response gathered from the students and faculty of Arizona State University at an ABC News/Facebook town hall.
He has been invited as one of several guests, from a variety of different political persuasions, to engage with a live, studio audience that will be closely following the election results and participating in an online-only discussion and debate to be moderated by David Muir and Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg on ABCNews.com and Facebook.
ABC claims above that Breitbart "has not been asked to analyse the results of the election for ABC News." But Breitbart's Web site had announced that "Andrew Breitbart will be bringing analysis live from Arizona."
Whatever Breitbart's role, it appears ABC's political team wasn't given a heads up about it, for whatever reason. As I noted here earlier, according to a newsroom source, much of ABC's political team had been "blindsided" by the Breitbart announcenemt, and "not in a good way."
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