Breitbart and Perry: A Fleeting Friendship?

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Texas Observer 8/8/10
Breitbart and Perry: A Fleeting Friendship?
Back in January, the controversial conservative was the keynote speaker for a Perry event

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But even Rick Perry might not be brave enough to drop in on his former buddy. Nope, not Arnold or even Jon Voight. My friends, I am talking about Andrew Breitbart.

Oh come, surely you remember Andrew Breitbart! You know, the Matt Drudge sidekick who went on to publish the doctored pimp-and-ho video that took down ACORN and the edited, misleading video that created a USDA-NAACP controversy and left Shirley Sherrod without a job. This guy is not without enemies, shall we say. In fact, after his most recent dramas, even the Republican National Committee recently canceled a Breitbart fundraiser (although they've invited him to speak at a later date.) And let me remind you, the RNC is the group headed by Michael Steele, a leader memorable for his gaffes.

But where the RNC fears to tread was once familiar territory to Perry. Breitbart was the keynote speaker in Perry's "Twitter Summit," held back in January, while he was still battling Kay Bailey Hutchison. A few months ago, you say. Back then Breitbart might have been calm and mild-mannered.

No, indeed. You see I was there, along with fearless reporter Reeve Hamilton, to report the entire event for The Texas Tribune.

I certainly didn't pay attention to this. How about that Perry/Breitbart connected by the Twitter. Who knew. :shrug:

[PDittie]

1. *ahem*

http://brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2010/01/following-up-two-recent-posts.html

Please follow some of the links in the first segment, particularly the ones to the right-wing bloggers and the Pajamas Media video.

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2. Thanks PDittie

I missed this connection. I knew about James O'Keefe and Rick Perry connection but I guess I guess I forgot about Andrew Breitbart.

I see that you posted this thread back in January
Rick Perry's connection to James O'Keefe

That MSNBC video on your link above is really hard to watch - Andrew Breitbart is a screaming ass!

:hi:

[PDittie]

3. Yeah. I got a ration of shit for that

over at DKos; a few took exception to what they saw as a tenuous connection of 39% to AB to JO'K. Said it strained their credulity.

O'Keefe will make a comeback at some point. Dirty tricks are embedded in his DNA. Brietbart, like Beck and others, will be with us in high-profile capacity for some time to come. Then again, he's one angry fellow; he could die suddenly of a coronary or a swiftly-metastizing cancer of the anus or something. Not that I'm wishing ill upon him, mind you ...