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Breitbart, much the the scorn of the Left, has an impeccable record of reporting the facts.

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Breitbart repeatedly claimed that the videos depicted "illegal activity," with O'Keefe and Giles likewise accusing ACORN of aiding in "criminal" actions. But investigations by California's attorney general, Brooklyn's district attorney, and an independent investigator hired by ACORN all determined that the videos showed no such illegal activity.

After Brooklyn prosecutors cleared ACORN, Breitbart embarrassingly backtracked on his previous accusation of ACORN criminality, tweeting that the "ACORN tapes were less about 'criminality' than facility with which employees all knew how to work system for any lowlife wanting govmnt $."

The California and Brooklyn investigations also shined a spotlight on how Giles and O'Keefe had deceptively edited the tapes to "meet their agenda." California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the videos created a "highly selective editing of reality."

Meanwhile, a central pillar of the ACORN attacks -- that O'Keefe "dressed as a pimp" during his meeting with ACORN officials -- was unraveling. Breitbart eventually acknowledged that he himself had been unaware that O'Keefe had entered the offices dressed in slacks and a dress shirt, not the outlandish pimp costume O'Keefe wore in the tapes' opening sequences.

Numerous right-wing media figures backed away from O'Keefe following his arrest, while Breitbart -- who had previously acknowledged that he paid O'Keefe "a fair salary" -- denied any knowledge of his activities, then accused the U.S. attorney of having "frame[d]" O'Keefe "in media." O'Keefe later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for his role in the incident.

In July, the NAACP released a resolution calling on Tea Party activists to repudiate the movement's racist elements. In retaliation, Breitbart posted a 2 minute and 36 second clip that he claimed showed Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod telling a "racist tale" to an NAACP audience about her supposed past discrimination against a white farmer.

But when Sherrod and the farmer she had supposedly discriminated against came forward to tell their stories and the NAACP released the full video of Sherrod's comments, it became clear that the clip Breitbart posted had been ripped from context, and the smear completely dissolved.

With his concocted smear on the rocks, Breitbart began hurling a variety of bizarre (and false) accusations in hopes of preserving his credibility -- all while alternating between declaring himself "sympathetic" to Sherrod's "plight" after the media supposedly "made it about her," and continuing to suggest that Sherrod is a racist.

The scandal took on a new light after Dr. Kevin Pezzi was invited by Breitbart to repost two pieces accusing Sherrod of racism on BigGovernment.com. After we exposed Pezzi as a racist who claims to be responsible for "over 850 inventions" and schemes such as a "magic bullet" for cancer, a "robotic chef," and sexual inventions like "penile enlargement techniques" and "ways to tighten the vagina," Breitbart pulled Pezzi's posts from his site and apologized.

Unimpressed with his wild claims, media of all stripes condemned Breitbart as untrustworthy and his actions as "a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse."

From top of the world to too toxic for network television -- Breitbart has come a long way in a year. But while he's lost credibility with virtually everyone else, he's still a welcome member of the conservative media elite.

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Weiner's arrogance and selfishness are what I see as the most glaring issues. That he staunchly denied this stuff for 10 days, and admonished reporters who were trying to cover the story, even going so far as to call one of them a jackass.

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She also wonders how so many people in positions of authority can be so stupid about emailing lewd pictures, hitting on staff, etc. I agree.

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weiner had an apology for breitbart because weiner allowed the media to personally attack bb .... actually, i think the whole story....after looking at it....is nothing

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It's on par with stepping up on a soap box in the middle of a square and screaming to anyone who'll listen that you don't think that what you're yelling about should be paid attention to, by anyone, so everyone should just go about their business and not pay any mind to what ever the the hell it is you're screaming about...

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You want to write a 'column' , or blog your views ? Go post them on your own Firefly log. Or even better, keep your views to yourself, and then we'd not have to hear about the story that's not a story, but you felt it worthy enough to point out that it wasn't a story, making it a story anyways...

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