Crass Newsweek's Brown on NPR 'Morning Edition': Breitbart Was 'Right-wing Radical Blogger' Who 'Recently Dropped Dead'
Appearing on the April 16 "Morning Edition" to discuss what NPR tagged as "the contributions of journalists to global culture," Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown worked in a gratuitously crude and error-laden slam of the late "right-wing radical blogger" Andrew Breitbart, who, Brown reminds us "dropped dead in [his] early 40s."
Apart from her crass description of Breitbart's sudden death, Brown got the underlying facts of her complaint wrong, furthering the meme that Breitbart deliberately took Shirley Sherrod out of context and hence was responsible for destroying her career:
During Hitler’s Germany, there were 50 foreign correspondents in Berlin, which is an incredible index of the golden era of journalism. What we have, of course, in the era of today with Andrew Breitbart – the blogger, the right-wing radical blogger who just recently dropped dead in the early 40s – was, of course, the absolute opposite. It’s really the degradation, in a sense, of the journalistic ideals of a William Shirer. It was the absolute opposite. Breitbart didn’t report anything. What really what Breitbart did was he was a provocateur. He was a death by 1,000 tweets. He, you know, was quite happy to take the flying sound bite – any sound bite – and misapply it in its context and create an absolute mayhem for the person concerned like he did for poor Shirley Sherrod who was the obscure official in the Agriculture Department. He gave the impression by the cutting of her words in a tape that he released that she was giving racially motivated financing decisions when actually she was doing the very opposite. So this was really using a kind of bastardization of journalism through the format of Web and tweeting and, you know, just simply using the Internet as a tool for activism.
But as my colleague Matthew Sheffield noted last month, that meme is completely false. Breitbart did not selectively edit the Sherrod video:
That Breitbart has been blamed for people not reading his work is really one of the most absurd instances of liberal bias in recent memory, especially since no one has ever proven that Breitbart was the one who edited the clip in question to take out Sherrod's spoken account of realizing that discrimination was wrong. To my knowledge, no one ever asked Breitbart who edited the clip down, something which his critics ought to have done rather than spread baseless innuendo about him.
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ANOTHER LIBERAL TACTIC!
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:01pm.
Once the person you want to attack is dead you can say the most vile things about them because they cannot defend themselves!... Tina Brown you are TRULY a VILE person.
Vile and
Submitted by EvilCon555 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 7:37pm.
A coward. Her mother ( or the Petrie dish she was conceived in) must be so proud.
Sorry Mr. Breitbart, for all the crap you've had to take in life, and now in death. I pray you are in a better place watching over those you love.
My sympathies to the Breitbarts. And please know, in my heart I believe that there are more Andrews in the world than Tina's. Thank God.
EvilCon
EvilCon555
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table" Ronald Reagan, Jan 21, 1981
A despicable human being
Submitted by mdwsgl on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:08pm.
I heard this dropping my kids off at school this morning and told them point blank that the "lady" on the radio was lying. I was so freaking angry, but not surprised at Inskeep nodding in approval. She is a complete idiot. This is exactly why I have my "I don't Believe the Liberal Media" bumpersticker!
Despicable!
Submitted by CoolShades on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 5:41pm.
The word "despicable" was pounding in my head while reading this post. I'm comforted to know I wasn't the only one thinking it. Spot on, mdwsgl. What a despicable thing to say. I guess there is no room for human decency in Tina Brown's world.
Only crass hate filled people
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:11pm.
Only crass hate filled people are happy that somone is dead. I don't have any respect for Obama at all, but I don't whish him dead or harm. I pray he is not re-elected and just goes away. I know once he is not re-elected the MSM will have tributes to him and want a statue erected in honor of him and want a federal holiday for his birthday etc. etc. Which I wish they would not do.
Ugly and hateful~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:22pm.
I agree with you, ForeverOnTheRight.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Look at Me!! ME! ME! ME!
Submitted by swim-r-sink on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:29pm.
Yea Mz.Brown,I guess it is hard keeping your blithering Idiot head a float with NewsWEAK! Maybe you can consolidate your loses and sell out to Ariana Huffington of Pulitzer Prize winning Fame who made her fortune from free reporters. I hear she will consider a bid of 55 Cents as an opener and keep you on board as long as you work on the cuff also! NEWS FLASH!! No One Is Buying This Leftist Progressive Crap anymore STUPID! By by Clown!
She isn't worth comment.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:37pm.
She isn't worth comment.
She isn't worth comment.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:37pm.
She isn't worth comment.
She isn't worth comment.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:37pm.
She isn't worth comment.
She isn't worth comment.
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:37pm.
She isn't worth comment.
LAM~
Submitted by GG_NB on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:41pm.
Yet you commented on it four times.
Just teasin' ya -- struck my funny bone. ;)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG
Submitted by Rukus on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 4:14pm.
I think he really, really, really, really meant it!
Hitler's radical left-wing Socialist Germany
Submitted by AFVet on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:41pm.
Here we go again with another leftist bringing up Adolph Hitler, but not going into depth about who he really was. Hitler was a radical left-wing socialist who dabbled with fascism by allowing a very few people to own their own companies but then regulated them to the hilt and only allowed them to keep very little in profit. Other than that Hitler was an evil socialist who massacred millions in his attempt at world domination. To think that Hitler was pro freedom of speech and pro freedom of information is not only delusional it is just proves the pure absence of journalistic integrity coming from the leftist like Tina Brown and the rest of the leftist loving MSM in this country. But what should we expect from these leftists, they believe in the same things as Mao, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Mussolini, Jong-il, Ortega, Chavez, and other dictators, communists, fascists, and socialists.
Heartless.
Submitted by Soldat44 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 3:45pm.
Heartless.
Breitbart would be proud
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 4:07pm.
He always said that he enjoyed the hatred thrown at him by the Left. He wanted to get under their collective skin.
And after his death, his name still angers them.
Lets do lunch
Submitted by Tomorama on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 4:58pm.
Tina, Tina, Tina, I realize you didn't mean it, tell you what, lets do lunch to discuss and you buy, See U next Tuesday.
Ok?
An Abbreviated Round-Up of Gross Incivilty in Obamaland
Submitted by berlet98 on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 5:34pm.
An Abbreviated Round-Up of Gross Incivility in Obamaland
We all want to be civil, right?
Just last year, with the deepest sincerity, our president implored Americans to engage in more civil discourse, to be more tolerant of disparate opinions and less confrontational, to “sharpen our instincts for empathy,” and to search our souls for answers to America’s disunity following the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Either many of Barack Hussein Obama’s rabid supporters didn’t get that civility memo or they interpreted it as a veiled call to arms since they immediately ratcheted up their uncivil, vile, mean-spirited invective after the president’s Tucson speech in total disregard of his heart-felt appeal.
Almost three years later, with a national election looming, Obama’s armies have taken to even more reprehensible rhetoric and, to supplement their words, have launched an unprecedented wave of deadly violence.
Cynics like Robin Leach foolishly think the president of the United States craves that gross incivility and mindless violence serve as tools to create civil unrest and a possible race war to help pave his way to a second term. He may be right.
A few selected instances reflecting the ratcheting but precious little soul-searching:
. A tourist in Baltimore was assaulted by a black man and, adding severe insult to his injuries, he was beaten, robbed, and stripped naked on a public street by a crowd of blacks who later boasted about the crime they had committed.
. Former world heavyweight boxing champion and disgraced, convicted felon Mike Tyson weighed in on the Trayvon Martin affair by opining that “It’s a disgrace that man [George Zimmerman] hasn’t been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn’t been shot yet is a disgrace.”
. Obama buddy, black Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree, suggested on Al Sharpton’s National Network Convention that whites would be given preference had a black killed a white man instead of the half-hispanic Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21516.)
She hain't had no.......
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 6:44pm.
She hain't had no good upbraingin', the purr thang.
- My Granny
Two things.....
Submitted by gwalt on Wed, 04/18/2012 - 8:41pm.
1) We need her out there as much as possible. She and Poodle DWS DNC mouthpiece are awesome for our side.
2) Why are Liberal women so ugly? I'm not including the Gwyneth Idiot or Cameron Ditz variety, but this woman is supposed to be ---smart? She isn't and I'm sorry, but she looks unhinged. Her one brow looks oblong and against the other one looks uneven----reflects her brain?
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
Yeah, right.
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 7:25am.
Poor Shirley Sherrod, with her taxpayer's millions lining her pockets.
In a perfect world she would be in prison.