Anderson Cooper Gives Breitbart Cover by Painting the Left With the Right's Insane Brush

[babylonsister]

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Anderson Cooper Gives Breitbart Cover by Painting the Left With the Right's Insane Brush
By karoli Friday Jul 23, 2010 2:00pm
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Anderson Cooper needs to stick to oil spills and hurricanes because when it comes to political commentary he's as lame as the Fox journalists. There's only one story to be told when it comes to the Shirley Sherrod fiasco: Andrew Breitbart lied. That's all. Andrew. Breitbart. lied.

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He could have even said Andrew Breitbart just lied, but we all know that would be too good to be true. His next segment is where he falls off the edge of the planet into Outer Journo space:

And that's how ideologues think on the left and on the right. Post a video clip that's misleading? No problem if it helps you make your argument, if it helps boost visitors to your Web site. Make false claims about a person? Why not, if it gets you more Web traffic?

That is where we are today. Andrew Breitbart is conservative. But, as I said, there are liberals online and on TV who do the exact same things. They cherry-pick the facts that prove their arguments, not the facts that reveal the truth.

Oh, really? If you know of any liberal blogger who has intentionally edited a video clip to mislead and cause entire organizations serving poor folks to crumble, post a comment with a link, please. Anderson Cooper's equivalence sounds oh, so lofty until you sit down and ask yourself where exactly are these misleading video clips posted from the left that destroy people?

Where are they? Where is the left saying that an entire organization on the right loaded up voter registrations with bogus Republicans? I've only seen proven allegations with a criminal record to back them up.

Where ARE those lefty videos? Please, show them to me.

Of course, you can't. Because there are none. Huffington Post, which is probably the closest thing to Breitbart's sites, has nothing like that video. This site doesn't. Daily Kos? FireDogLake? I don't see any there. So please, tell me where are these videos?

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Actually, Anderson, here's a news flash for you. I've met Andrew Breitbart and he doesn't sit behind a desk all day. He sits in a bottle a lot, though. Why not call him what he is? A bully, an idealogue, a liar and a likely lush.

This isn't a question of "both sides do it." What Breitbart did, by his own admission, was use a government employee as a weapon to stir racial tension. The fact that it worked at first is another issue entirely. He lied to get a reaction. Andrew Breitbart lied. Repeat after me: Andrew Breitbart lied.

Where I come from, that's dishonest antagonism. Not journalism.

[The Magistrate]

1. Exactly, Ma'am: Liars Have No Place In Any Marketplace Of Ideas

Any more than perpetrators of any fraud have in any marketplace.

[winstars]

2. He should stick to talking to Fat Billy and Cue-Ball!!!

For the last two nights he has done the FALSE EQUIVALENCY thing. As stated above, WTF is he talking about AND who is he talking about????????? I peruse these internets pretty throughly and can't for the life me understand who he speaks of. Anybody got a link to Hurricane Cooper so we can ask him????

[Hissyspit]

3. Same old bullshit false equivalence. Where is HIS evidence that THAT is true?

I quit watching Anderson Cooper a LONG time ago.

[OHdem10]

4. For openers, Biebart is a RWer. To have a Moral Equivalency

the TV News Media must First start putting a LEFTY
or a Left WINGER on TV Programs as Guests.

It seems to be verboten to have a true Democratic
View on Television much less a Lefty.

The Right Wingers are a Dime a Dozen on TV and the
only view permitted.

This really sets me off. Cooper and MSM are so afraid
of the Right Wingers that the develop some strawman
of supposed left in order to evern question the right.

Could the MSM anymore even identify a real Democrat
--how about a Lefty. Lefties of today are not the
Lefties of the 60s. The Lefties of 60s became yuppies
and are living the Wall Steet good life.

Thanks for listening, I am sick and tired of being sick
and tired. Just because the RWers say Obama is on the
Left, does not make it true. They cannot even identify
the center. OK, I will stop.

[Sugarcoated]

5. He says "but liberals do it, too"

every other sentence. Doesn't Arianna Huffington call that equivocation? From an article she wrote about the Liz Cheney/politifact dishonesty: Because this kind of hedging-your-bets thinking runs rampant in our media and political circles, and allows the corrupt no-accountability status quo to continue wreaking havoc on our country . . . " GFY Cooper, you're lame.

[tiny elvis]

6. wolf blitzer just reported a claim that supposedly liberal journalists conspire

to slander random conservatives
the title was 'vast left wing conspiracy?'
maybe a response to the anderson cooper challenge?
or just continuing to balance out the breitbart fiasco
wolf said he had more information on bad liberals coming up
maybe there will be a video link soon

[FrenchieCat]

8. They are cleaning the air of the Right Conspiracy with this story.

I saw it, and they are going to cover Leftwing Conspiracies on "Reliable Sources" on Saturday/Sunday.

So now the general public has seen with their own eyes (via the Sherrod story) that the Right Wing Conspires, it's time for the Right Wing Corporate media to give them cover. That's all this "new spin" is about! Sad!

[teenagebambam]

7. Hmmmm. He might have to stop being my secret boyfriend.