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This is How ABC News Treats Conservatives

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  November 1st, 2010 at 04:59 AM  | 

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ABC News was going to have Arianna Huffington and Andrew Breitbart on TV on election night to discuss American politics, etc. Breitbart, at least, was going to be involved in a digital town hall. The television anchors would regularly go into the townhall, talk to the reporters, talk to Breitbart, etc.

But the left soiled their collectivist shorts over the idea that the man who brought down ACORN would dare get treated legitimately on ABC News. In fact, reporters within the newsroom also complained. It seems bringing down ACORN must have repercussions.

ABC News is backing away from Breitbart, claiming he was never going to be on TV anyway. Of course, one does not put up someone like Brietbart in a very fancy hotel, etc. for just a webcast.

Not only is ABC News backing away, but it is making sure everyone knows what Andrew Breitbart is not. Andrew Morse of ABC News Digital put out a statement saying, “Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst. He is not an ABC News consultant. He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News. He is not being paid by ABC News. He has not been asked to analyze the results of the election for ABC News.”

So what is he? Surely this cannot be about Shirley Sherrod. Why? Because they are not backing away from Arianna Huffington, a woman whose website reported that black people were resorting to cannibalism after Katrina, who got sued by a lady for accusing the lady of sleeping with President Obama, and whose own husband decided he was gay after years of putting up with Arianna.

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  • msbs05

    have once again pushed their weight around and shut down any diversity of thought. Why do we call the left liberals, when there is nothing liberal about them. They demand one voice, one thought and any deviation is swiftly dealt with. Soros funded Media Matters worked to shut Juan Williams up and now they are doing the same with Breitbart. ABC should be ashamed they are so utterly controled by the left that they cannot even make decisions for themselves on who will be on their shows. A really sad statement on the loss of free speech and a free media.

  • tngal

    Breitbart does a very good job of defending himself and laying out what happened yesterday in a piece this morning on Dailycaller. Its two pages but worth the read. And it all comes down to that voicemail tape showing CBS employees are trying to smear Joe Miller.

    _______
    Breitbart railed on Media Matters as well, which apparently had a hand in getting him kicked off election commentary on ABC?s network on Tuesday night after he released this tape. Media Matters, a widely discredited left-wing advocacy group, launched an attack after ABC seemed to announce that Breitbart had been booked to provide on-air election night commentary
    ________

    and this
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    Breitbart refuted ABC?s claims that he was only going to participate in an online broadcast, saying that ?they originally pitched to me that I was going to do a hybrid of both online and broadcast,? but, since Brock (Media Matters) called for the boycott, the story has changed.
    ______

    http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/31/breitbart-sounds-off-on-miller-tape-critics/2/#ixzz141fNzms5

    Side note: Good news–Joe Miller up in new PPP poll. Ahahahahah. Oh, my sides are hurting from laughing so much.

  • SoFiMil

    It’s true, regardless.

  • tngal

    If you like Joe Miller and Sarah Palin you have got to read this article. In the first page (fast read) he explains how he initially put the tape up on his biggov website and then the backlash started against him from WaPo and Politico. The second page deals with media Matters calling for a boycott of ABC on election night because of Breitbart and has those qotes from above, and other stuff.

  • http://twitter.com/Cody_K/ cody_k

    ACORN and Shirley Sherrod both vindicated after Breitbart smears.

    And now since FOX NEWS called out Breitbart and Palin on their Alaska local affiliate BS audio recording story… his cred is shot down as a conservative journo for the third time. ht tp://bit.ly/dz9nwG

    Not to mention the backfiring of his protege Jame O’Keefe and that CNN sex/boat fiasco.

    And NOW he attacks ABC on his own site (all upset cause he was asked to be a “panelist” and he sees “analyst” HAH!) and reveals a private email between them…? He’s toast.

  • tngal

    just wondering. Need someone to do some heavy lifting.

  • tngal

    just wondering. Need someone to do some heavy lifting.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I’m not beefy but pushing a button doesn’t take much.

  • Kudzu

    Is a big time lib/socialist on Twitter (same handle). Twitter libs lost their minds over ABC actually being fair for once in their storied history so much I term it “progging”.

    Progging- the overreaction, often in the form of loud letter writting, boycotts, charges of bigotry,or shrieking invectives by the political left when challenged by conservatives on any social, economic, and political issue.

  • Kudzu

    I ever called New York City. I left a message summarized basically saying ABC was going back to the bottom of the ratings pool, they prove they are nothing but a mouthpiece for liberals and are nothing but a biased source for loberal talking points. Mentioned they lost a lot of viewers and potential viewers…I won’t be turning into ABC as I earlier planned.

  • Praying

    I gave up on the alphabet networks long, long ago. If it isn’t on Fox News or ESPN, it’s not watched in my house!

  • tngal

    That g’bye button finger has been doing extra reps lately. I think Wednesday you’ll really feel the burn in the knuckle. Don’t know why, just get that feeling.

  • JoeG

    so I will watch a little tomorrow night.

  • bobmontgomery

    …..was right about ACORN and he was right abot Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP. The whole story about Pigford hasn’t come out because conservative sites backed away and dissed Breitbart. Also, O’Keefe was right about Landrieu’s office. In fact, there are offices all across the land where the ‘crats have been living large and messin’ with cash for lo these two generations now. The work to be done after Nov. 2 is not just by the incoming congress. As for ABC, turn on the evening news and try to stomach two or three minutes of that .caring, pleading, almost pained act Diane Sawyer puts on. Ditto NBC; dittoCBS. It’s disgusting. It’s soap opera. The American public has been so cheated for the past two generations that the re-emergence of hard news is hard to deal wth. They don’t know how to process it. But they’re learning.

  • Bill S

    His first comment was a sure sign that he was a leftroll. Oh well, better late than never.

  • uhangtight

    doesn’t come on in my house, period. But, when I heard that Breitbart was going to be on ABC, I was actually considering watching them bouncing between Fox and the blogs.

    Oh well, my remote fingers will have a rest, I won’t be bouncing between and will be on Fox all night, now. The collective rational folks need to rise up against these liberal socialist reporters and media outlets. We need to take our dollars else where and let the advertisers and local stations know as well as the Headquarters.

  • utahrepublican

    I just know that God knew we would.

    Isiah Chapter 32 (King James Version:
    5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
    6 For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
    7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

    Don’t know about you, but to me it sounds like Isiah understood today’s liberals [i.e., vile politicos] pretty well.

  • busdriverelizabeth

    I would like also to reference Ephesian 6:12–”For we wrestle not
    against flesh and blood, but against powers principalities. . . against
    the powers of spiritual wickedness in high places.” Perhaps, as we
    are now learning, they are truly anything but liberal–I believe the
    estimable Hilary Clinton said it best, when she said she herself preferred to be termed an “early 20th century American Progressive”.
    How proud they all are of their many achievements–such as the IRS,
    Prohibition, eugenics (Planned Parenthood) & the massive entitlement legacy that is sucking dry the very lifeblood of our nation!

  • GKC

    …take a look at Ecclesiastes 10:1-6 (NIV)

    “1As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. 3 Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how stupid he is. 4 If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great errors to rest. 5 There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler: 6 Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.”

    Or (a very loosely retranslated RedState Version):
    “1The fly in the ointment are these fools (2i.e.leftists) 3 as everyone with common sense can tell you. 4 Be a happy warrior and stand up to the hysteric establishment. 5 One typical bonehead move of the ruling class is 6 to put morons in charge as policy czars and marginalize productive citizens.”