The new tone: Surround your political opponents in a public space and pester them, and then talk about how the content published on his sites creates a bad “following.”
Even though that content keeps turning out to be right?
Update: Dave Weigel (I know) witnessed the exchange. The cocaine question is remarkable, coming from people who supported the first known confessed cocaine user to be elected POTUS.
Breitbart was tailed by a three-man camera crew and a growing pack of reporters and bloggers. I happened to be at the bottom of the escalator when he arrived, so I started asking him about the legends liberal bloggers were telling about him and about Weinergate.
In swept Ryan Clayton, a progressive activist armed with a Flip camera and a couple of questions.
“Do you have credentials to cover this conference?” asked Clayton.
“No,” said Breitbart.
“Maybe you should leave, then,” said Clayton.
“Okay. If you want to get someone to escort people out of your conference, there are progressives at…”
“So it’s okay for you to be here without paying?”
Downhill from there. Clayton asked Breitbart about a man who harassed two Muslim women in the city last night and claimed to be contacting Breitbart for help. (I’ve seen video of part of the incident, but all evidence suggests the guy was just bluffing.)
“Who is this person?” asked Breitbart. “You’re a great reporter. Who is this person? Your journalism is vitriol! You can’t even tell me who the person is.”
“Have you kicked the cocaine habit?” asked Clayton.
“Did I hire you to prove my point about Netroots nuts?”
You didn’t have to, Andrew. They do that for free.
Hacks?
Hacking is breaking the law, I believe a felony.
Do you mean “crash”? As in show up uninvited to an event open to the public and enter anyway?
I’m using hacked ironically, since the left accused him of hacking Weiner’s twitter feed and everyone riffed about him hacking Weiner’s first presser. I guess if you have to explain a joke, it didn’t work.
Now you’re doing something even more unfortunate – putting the words ‘hacking’ and ‘Weiner’ next to each other in a sentence. Have some sensitivity to your male readers, old boy!
Hey, blame the Weiner who did it first!
Worked just fine Bryan. Remember, jokes are useless to those without humor. We can call them VICTIMS. Keep up the good work.
Tell it to these guys, they got it right:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/17/video-breitbart-crashes-netroots-nation/
Curiouser and curiouser … (can you guess the reference?).
Wow, are you out of touch. A “hack” is a unexpected and creative technical solution; the media use of the term is an error.
Technically, you’re correct, Charlie. However, I would submit that forty years of misuse of the term has de facto changed its definition. Computer enthusiasts have been attempting for decades to get the media to use the term “computer cracker” instead of “computer hacker”. Outside of tech press, I’ve never heard “computer cracker” used.
It’s probably for the best. In these heady days of post-partisanship, you’re likely to deeply offend somebody by calling them a “cracker”.
+1 from a former NASAnik. Or whatever we’re called.
+1 from a geek who’s done his share of hacks (by the original definition Charlie gave)… even though some of them turned out to be kludges.
Since we’re talking about words, I thought you might be interested to know that kludge is thought to have come from an old Scots word kludgie, which means outdoor toilet.
That actually makes sense. In geek terms, a kludge is a solution that may not be pretty–in fact, they’re typically just the opposite of pretty–but they work, at least as a temporary fix until a more permanent fix can be found or created.
I can see how the definition might have changed over the years.
Back in the early ’70s, when I was working for Control Data Corp., we spoke of such things as “kluges” (pronounced “kloojes”), which was the German word for “clever”, iirc….
Minneapolis was taken over by morons in 1998. I went on a long trip out of the country and when I came back to Minneapolis, people who moved and had eyes and all the outward signs of actual thinking human beings had somehow insinuated themselves into the population.
In reality they were just morons.
It’s some kind of colony now. I wouldn’t stay long if you ever go there.
I love it, The clowns that have never broken a single story, Breitbart who has no gum left on his shoes being questioned by lazy ass gov’t supported so called journolisters Ha!
i love being part of “THAT KIND OF FOLLOWING”
Hey loser buy yourself a clue we don’t follow anyone.
By “keeps turning out to be right”, do you mean keeps lying and publishing falsehoods as folks on the right and in the media keep fallingfor it? As in when he lied about O’Keefe’s phony ACORN “pimp” hoax?: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7705
And when he was forced to admit to the scam months later by independent journalist Mike Stark?: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7719
Mike Stark. There’s a credible source. Isn’t he the guy who tried to generate some sort of gay smear last fall? Why don’t you ask him about that.
But no, I mean when you lefties accused Breitbart of faking or hacking Weiner’s twitter account. Remember that?
I did no such thing.
And I guess you didn’t bother to click the links to find out. The “source” is not Mike Stark, it’s Andrew Breitbart himself. First in his Washington Times column where he lied, and then on video where he admits to it.
Other than that, I am aware of no such incident with Mike Stark having done what you suggest. Feel free to share your evidence, rather than pulling shit out of your ass.
read a few comments on the blog page
much overuse/misunderstanding of irony
just a tip:
irony involves the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
please inform the drones
I’ve noticed people in the UK use the word irony to mean what we call humor. Which is ironic since humor as a style probably originated in the UK (the west Europeans were big on irony; not humor).
Wait a minute? Friedman, you got schooled long ago for flogging those false claims and you are still doing it? Not someone to be attacking others’ credibility, Brad.
A lefty misrepresenting the truth? Say it ain’t so!
Nice try, but the only false claims were those made by Breitbart and O’Keefe when they lied about their ACORN videos.
As to my “false claims”, you’ll have to actually offer evidence as to what the hell you are talking about. Or, you can take the Breitbart/O’Keefe route and just make shit up. Looks like you’d prefer the latter.
Waaaaaa. Some victim needs his binky. And why are you here? Oh, yeah. VICTIM
love the broad believing she’s having some sort of brilliant epiphany by suggesting one claim she work’s for brietbart and then throw out racial epitaphs
also love all the people looking through their smart phones and “observing” rather than engaging
except for the tool with a copy of rules for radicals up his butt as he “films/grills” brietbart in that clipped, high pitched falsetto common in many lefty men
They just can’t stand the cred and guts the Big B has shown, their envy just oozes, look at the way they look at him. I bet secretly they walked away and when they spotted themselves in a mirror saw the glow emanating from their faces, just as when Moses (Heston) came down from the mount. They probably have a few grey hairs to boot, just from being in the presence of such greatness.
You know what this makes plainly obvious , is that these lefties REALLY want to believe in the warped nihilistic PC garbage they were taught in school, they look as if they are desperately trying to hang on, grabbing for the straw as they are drowning. Acorn, child prostitutes, Pigford, Lee Stranahan, Mamet, … never happened.
I bet each one of them goes back to his Hotel room tonight and while they lay themselves to sleep they bask in the thought that they stood close to The Big B.
Even though that content keeps turning out to be right?
BECAUSE that content keeps turning out to be right?
Brad needs to start walking down that long road wherein he meets Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, Theodore Dalrymple, Melanie Phillips, Bat Yeo’r, Mark Steyn, Spengler, Horowitz…..
Breitbart’s hair is starting to look like a powdered wig..
He should start going for the George Washington look.
Andrew The Bee sho’ do put a stangin’ on them Left-handed boyz. Like mchammer said, “Youcaint touchdis…” Hammer down, Andrew.
Ahhh, there’s nothing like asking a question with only false answers and then yelling the equivalent of “gotcha” while breaking your own arm to pat yourself on the back.
It was amazing how all these attendee’s swarmed Breitbart and had theirs camera’s out to catch whatever they could. It was like a liberal feeding frenzy. Most people have cell phones but this group carries them like they are weapons. The one who was engaging Breitbart showed a lot of hostility and aggression, it was palpable. It is as if the left can’t argue their position but will instead attack you for yours. Then the group moved in sync with Breitbart’s movement, I heard the song me and my shadow playing in the background.
Really? I thought I heard echoes of the Horst Wessel Lied.
I really thought that Breitbart should have been signing autographs during this exchange. I think that would have captured the mood of the moment.
BTW, it’s an odd world where light is urine in the media’s cheerios.
Ah, yes… Obama’s coke habit. Once an addict, always an addict, wasn’t that what the left always said before Obama got swept into office?
As Lincoln said when someone snitched US Grant was a drinker, ‘find out his brand, and send a barrel to every one of our generals’ –if AB has a coke habit, we should all get busy getting one of our own.
Anyhoo, no wonder they don’t want a reporter around –if you had bankrupted the western world, poisoned the American culture, confused the language, trashed the government, schools, churches, family life, and any chance for most folk to pursue happiness, if you had spoiled the past, present and future, and set the world adrift toward depression, famine, pestilence, and world war, would YOU want Andrew Breitbart around?
And if he came around anyway, wouldn’t YOU accuse him of perhaps knowing someone who may have said something that someone might be able to call ‘racist’?
Sure you would –otherwise, someone might say ”busted Dollar” or ”unpayable debt” or ”fannie & freddie” or ”egypt” or ”arab spring” or ”stimulous” or ”waivers” or ”gunwalker” or ”Macondo” or ”unemployment” or ”energy subversion” or ”double-counting obamacare savings” or ”ACORN organized crime” or one of a hundred other highly embarrassing –to them who are capable of such –similar gifts from Netroots and the like, to the American people.
Someone might say it, and you can’t have that, dontcha know.
You should see what happens when I walk into my university gym and set my copy of Ann Coulter’s “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America” on the treadmill and begin my workout. You can actually sense the tension among the young budding nutjobs rise.
Bryan, you mentioned Dave Weigel was there: he was indeed, even posted vid of the encounter under his own account on YouTube. But over on Slate, Dave did a curious thing in his online account of the incident. He says he asks Breitbart about liberal Breitbart legends and Weinergate rumors and then Clayton sweeps in with a couple of questions. Dave Weigel then blithely omits details of the rest of the confrontation. He leaves out the “racist” epithets and Clayton’s shrieking. Then Weigel ends his posting about how Breitbart was chased out by people chanting, “coward”. If those reading that post don’t watch the vids taken of the encounter, they won’t get the full measure of the NutRoots venom, which Weigel’s manicured report mostly avoids.
“love the broad believing she’s having some sort of brilliant epiphany by suggesting one claim she work’s for brietbart and then throw out racial epitaphs”
I thought her point was that it was ridiculous to try to place blame on Breitbart for some schmue doing nasty things and then claiming to be a Breitbart ally. I thought she was kinda brave, doing that surrounded by NetRootNetNuts.
(How did AB “hack” the conference? I know the common “hack”, and I know the proper “hack”, but it seems like AB just “attended.” Has culture passed me by again, with some new consensus third “hack”?)
((And who the eff is this brad Freidburg dude who keeps linking to his own blog with long vids of three-second AB quotes strung together to prove . . . what? Sure as heck not what bradguy is claiming, although I’m still not sure what he’s claiming. AB said, remove the funny branding intro, and this means the Acorn videos are, like, “heavily edited lies”? O’Keefe is “an accused Federal felon”?))
Pssst: Brad – GW Bush was actually an ugly transvestite! What a story! Quick – Run with it!
What a maroon.
Bobby B -
Yes, the ACORN videos were, in fact, “heavily edited lies” , as confirmed now in one official independent investigation after another. Including investigations by the Brooklyn DA, the California AG, the former MA AG, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and, just this week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Look ‘em up, chief. That’s why the ONLY charges brought to date in regard to the videos are the ones currently pending against O’Keefe and Giles in San Diego where they are being sued for violations of CA’s Invasion of Privacy (Wiretap) Act by a former ACORN worker who they secretly taped.
As to O’Keefe as “an accused Federal felon,” yes, that’s precisely what he was at the time of the article where you read that. He has since retained high-price GOP attorneys and plea bargained the charges down to a misdemeanor to which he pled guilty in federal court. So now he is merely a federal criminal, currently under probation, unable to leave the state of New Jersey without the permission of a federal judge.
You’re welcome!
FYI, the rather upset gentleman from 100ProofPolitics.com in this confrontation just responded to BigGovernment.com’s demand for an apology:
“My Apologies to @AndrewBreitbart” on @opednews http://bit.ly/l7V6yG