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Breitbart: ‘What’s in Your Closet, John Podesta?’

By | 02.20.10 | 10:07 am

In a short conversation after his speech — which was taped by a film crew that was hovering around us — Andrew Breitbart chided me for asking Giles about the “no outrageous costumes” attack, saying that it was a “distraction” thrown up by the Center for American Progress and Media More…

Breitbart Mocks ACORN Tape Critics: Pimp in Video Wasn’t Flamboyantly Dressed, ‘I’m So Sorry’

By | 02.20.10 | 9:47 am

That headline might not sound like news, but the war between Media Matters and Andrew Breitbart has new developments every week. The liberal news watchdog group has been demanding retractions from anyone who reported that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles wore outlandish outfits inside of ACORN offices. They dressed more More…

The New Conservative Hierarchy

By | 02.18.10 | 8:49 am

Ken Vogel previews CPAC by highlighting the new power and prominence of people like Erick Erickson of RedState, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, and Andrew Breitbart, who don’t share the baggage of the leaders who “flocked to Washington after their efforts culminated in the election of President More…

CPAC Will Honor Ed Morrissey, Ron Kessler With Journalism Awards; Breitbart and ACORN Sting to Receive Unofficial Tributes

By | 02.17.10 | 9:34 am

There was some buzz last year about Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe receiving some sort of honor at CPAC as a show of gratitude for the ACORN video sting. At the moment, they’re definitely getting honors, but almost certainly not from the American Conservative Union and the conference More…

Tea Party Convention Marks Coming Out for a Movement

By | 02.08.10 | 6:00 am

NASHVILLE — In the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips didn’t do much talking to the media. The founder of Tea Party Nation, the chief organizer of the conference alongside his wife Shelley, was buffeted by attacks from Tea Party activists who accused him of More…

Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention

By | 02.06.10 | 11:00 am

NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives in back of the room grumbling audibly about what he was hearing.

After he introduced the evening’s closing entertainment More…

Media at the Tea Party Convention

By | 02.05.10 | 1:22 pm

NASHVILLE — The National Tea Party Convention’s early reluctance to give credentials to reporters — a decision that came after some negative commentary on the event’s cost and critics — was short-lived. Reporters are swarming the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and, with little exception, getting press passes. When I checked it More…

Conservative Media Mogul Plays Defense on Racism Story

By | 02.05.10 | 11:00 am

On Wednesday morning, Salon.com published “James O’Keefe’s Race Problem,” an article by author Max Blumenthal that dug into the past of the 25-year-old activist whose hidden camera sting of ACORN offices devastated the community organizing group. Blumenthal described O’Keefe’s career as “a series of More…

Clarification — and Mea Culpa — on James O’Keefe and ‘Race and Conservatism’

By | 02.05.10 | 8:38 am

On Wednesday, I wrote a post reacting to Max Blumenthal’s story “James O’Keefe’s Race Problem” and was too quick with a description of the August 30, 2006 Robert Taft Club event on “race and conservatism.” Specifically, I wrote this:

A zoomed-in headshot of James O’Keefe (after the jump),

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James O’Keefe: Not Working for Big Government, But on the Payroll

By | 01.27.10 | 10:31 am

Justin Elliot catches Andrew Breitbart giving a factual-but-tortured explanation of how Big Government was not responsible for James O’Keefe’s bungled phone plot against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). The interviewer is Hugh Hewitt — for what it’s worth, a veteran of the Nixon administration who once ran the 37th president’s More…