Media Matters exposes Breitbart writer as racist/con man. Breitbart pulls all posts by writer

[ck4829]

Earlier today, we pointed out that Andrew Breitbart's Big Government published posts from Dr. Kevin Pezzi smearing Shirley Sherrod as a racist.

Pezzi is rather overtly racist, and has repeatedly used racial epithets like "Japs" and "Chinks," and claimed Native and African Americans should have been grateful for their subjugation by whites. Additionally, Pezzi is a doctor/"sex expert"/author/inventor/huckster, who, among other things, says he has "beaten Bill Gates" on a math aptitude test, is "bigger than some porno stars," and stumbled upon a cure for cancer. Pezzi has also apparently created a series of at least six fake MySpace profiles of women claiming to be big fans of his sex books.

In response to our posts, Big Government has now disappeared Pezzi's articles. If you attempt to visit the pages for his posts and bio, you are greeted with an error. While Big Government has disappeared Pezzi from their website, they posted the following "Editorial Note" from "Publius," which doesn't mention Pezzi by name:

Earlier this week, we read an on-line column which provided one of the most thorough and well-researched examinations of the many controversies surrounding former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod. We asked the author of the column for permission to reprint his article. Since publishing the articles, we have been made aware of other writings from this author which do not reflect the principles and values of this site. Because of this, we have removed the articles from Big Government. While we stand by the information contained in the articles we published, we do not wish to see the underlying issue confused or diminished by other work the author has done. We regret the error.

So, let me get this straight: After Breitbart and his "Big" websites became the focus of well-deserved criticism and national ridicule for posting a misleadingly edited video and smearing Shirley Sherrod as a racist, their defense was that Breitbart merely posted the video he was given, and he didn't bother doing any extra research. (Breitbart later conceded that the video was out of context and that he "should have waited for the full video.")

Yet in the wake of this embarrassment, Big Government sought out posts from a guy smearing Sherrod as a racist without doing any research into his background. Notice a pattern here? Breitbart and co. are so eager to cover their tracks and somehow "prove" that Sherrod is a racist that they have long-since abandoned any pretense of responsible behavior.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008050053

[FiveGoodMen]

1. K&R

[gratuitous]

2. I hope someone got some screen captures

Media Matters did a great job today exposing Dr. Pezzi and his little cottage web industry in self-promotion. It would be ironically delicious in the extreme to watch Mr. Breitbart subjected to an ACORN/Sherrod-style exposé with the added advantage of being 100% true in his promotion of such a bigot.

[3waygeek]

7. You might want to check out

the Wayback Machine web archive.

[blogslut]

3. Pezzi is hilarious

His "sex advice" site is a hoot!

I would love to know exactly where this "MD" is employed.

[Spazito]

4. Not surprised at all...

Breitbart is an out and out racist and would 'publish' anything that would smear Ms. Sherrod yet again while catering to his fan club, other out and out racists.

I wonder if Ms. Sherrod and her lawyer can use this 'publishing' by breitbart as further evidence, to show a pattern of behavior on the part of breitbart, in her civil suit against him? I sure hope so!

[RainDog]

5. breibart is a total pig

there's nothing, absolutely nothing worthwhile about him.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. At this point ANY news org that uses Breitbart's exclusives should be ridiculed and scorned

by the rest of civilization. He is a ridiculous fraud and racist asshole with ZERO credibility. If it comes from Breitbart, it is a lie.

[applegrove]

8. The only colleagues they can attract or either stupid or hucksters. What does that

say about how they feel about their base?

[Blue Owl]

9. that Breitbag is a real piece of work

He's the poster child for crony/propaganda journalism.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ck.