A few days ago, Breitbart, who helped create Huffington Post, was dropped from the front page of the Huffpo, with much scolding and pious declarations of objectivity because of some nasty comments he made about Van Jones at the Daily Caller.
Patterico has a rundown of the situation, which really does reveal the hypocrisy of the Huffpo:
Andrew Breitbart has been among the more unfairly vilified people on the Internet in recent memory, and is a perpetual target for those on the left who wish to silence speech. Their commonly used tactics include distortions, lies, and attempting to squelch speech by hitting their enemies in the pocketbook — such as mounting boycotts, contacting employers, and circulating petitions to influence the publishers of content they don’t like. In Andrew’s case, Media Matters for America and similar goons got Andrew banned from ABC News commentary on election night. They have succeeded in booting him off of the HuffPo front page. In every case, the attacks reveal a blatant double standard which is their hypocritical hallmark.Now the right is fluttering with excitement and salivating at the prospect of dragging up every nasty thing any front page Huffpo writer has ever posted.
Lots of commenting on this topic this a.m.
From the Daily Caller:
his is great news for fans of comedy, because now people get to dig up examples of all the HuffPo front-pagers who’ve indulged in vicious ad hominem attacks over the years. Nelson follows up with a good recap of ad hominems by HuffPo contributors like John Cusack (Republicans are “a league of bastards”; Iraq war supporters are “human scum”), Alec Baldwin (Cheney is a “lying, thieving Oil Whore”), and others. Mickey Kaus looks at HuffPo writer Jason Linkins, who by their own rules should be thrown off the front page. And of course, Breitbart’s Big Journalism site is getting in on the action, pledging to help HuffPo enforce their “ad hominem” rule and providing evidence of such from none other than Van Jones. Remember this one?Lots of links at the articles. What fun.
A cause dear to Breitbart is the Pigford scandal, in which numerous people showed up to claim they had been discriminated against by the government as black farmers. So many people claimed discrimination that the number exceeded the number of black farmers actually farming in the US.
Corruption has been exposed on a deep government level, exacerbated by Obama's extending the deadline from the initial lawsuit. Each person "discriminated" against will receive $50,000 taxpayer dollars.
John Stossel had an amazingly awful special on this last night about freeloaders. He interviewed the lawyer Pires who represented many of these people (and who benefited financially from the "arrangement") who said something like "The majority of people won't cheat and wouldn't want to falsify a federal form." He also said something like white men cannot be discriminated against and didn't need any help. This lawyer is white with flowing white locks. And, needless to say, a very smug attitude.
Fox News has a little article about the "Real Shirley Sherrod Scandal" here:
Want to get a check from the government for $50,000? If you’re black and willing to say you once “attempted to farm,” the money could be yours.
Why? In the 80’s and 90’s, some Black farmers were allegedly discriminated against by the Agriculture Department. Department loan officers supposedly did the opposite of what Shirley Sherrod was accused of: they granted government-subsidized farm loans to whites but not to blacks.Oh, and Rand Paul?
Don't run for president. Please.
Get some experience first.
We have someone in office now who has no experience with leadership.
It hasn't been a good feeling for us out here in the hinterlands.
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