Juan Cole: Dear MSM: Andrew Breitbart was not a Blogger

[babylonsister]

http://www.juancole.com/2012/03/dear-msm-andrew-breitbart-was-not-a-blogger.html

Dear MSM: Andrew Breitbart was not a Blogger

Posted on 03/01/2012 by Juan


Dear Mainstream Media: Andrew Breitbart was not a blogger. He was a political trickster, a serial frame-up artist, a con man, a fraud, a flimflam man. In the Nixon days he would have been called a “plumber.

A blogger is an independent observer, a citizen journalist. Breitbart tinkered with video to falsify what people said and staged interviews so as to falsify peoples’ views. He generally polluted the information environment with fraud.

Andrew Breitbart was many things, and in Britain would have been in jail for libel on several occasions. But he was not a blogger.

—-
P.S. Mr. Breitbart believed in speaking ill of the dead.

[ibegurpard]

1. amen!

[progress2k12nbynd]

2. He was not a blogger, but neither is a blogger an...

"independent journalist." in fact, I don't know that I've seen a journalist in any medium these days who is "independent.". They're all catering to "their crowd," whether it's the clowns on Fox Snooze or Rachel or Keith.

[G_j]

3. true nt

[Erose999]

4. He was NOT a blogger. What he was: a buggerer.

[malaise]

5. Well said Juan Cole

Rec

[Tom Ripley]

6. He was a ratfucker

[Octafish]

7. A Disinformationist

A speciality in authoritarian systems, the guy was a tool for liars in service of War Inc and Big Money.

[matmar]

8. Here's the best part -- he's dead.

[Gruntled Old Man]

9. Right on!

durec

[rusty fender]

10. He was as despicable as almost all

other Republicans.