Media Matters: Breitbart Wants "Closure"? Tell It To ACORN

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Breitbart wants "closure"? Tell it to ACORN

August 06, 2010 11:27 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Andrew Breitbart this week uncorked his favorite whine about how Tea Party members have been falsely portrayed as racists and he can't sleep at night knowing that injustice has been done; that he's on a mission for "closure," and that as God as his witness blah, blah, blah. 

You can read the whole production here. It's really a piece of work. (He's so dramatic.)

Of course what's so comical about the plea for justice is that Breitbart himself is coming off one of the most bungled smear campaigns of all time with regards to the Shirley Sherrod case, which means Breitbart is probably the least convincing person in America today to be demanding restitution in terms of clearing people's names.  

But also keep in mind that Breitbart's original claim to fame, as it were, was last year's ACORN video hoax in which he falsely portrayed community advocates and smeared them as corrupt and incompetent. The entire point of the ACORN hoax was to condemn the organization and its supporters. But because neither Breitbart, nor his acolytes James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, were able to get the goods on ACORN during their undercover video sting, the three of them colluded and improved the sting by blatantly and purposefully presenting the tapes in such a way so that a false, albeit pleasing right-wing, story was told. 

To this day, Breitbart refuses to release the unedited ACORN videos because, I suspect, the real story does not match the one he told last year. Thankfully, we've had independent reviews of the tapes and those conclusions have been clear: The Breitbart videos were selectively edited in order to tell a damning story he wanted to tell. 

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[marmar]

1. Of course he wants closure now that he's been exposed as a liar and fraud......

He is a mound of mierda.

[txlibdem]

2. I want closure for Brietbart

The kind that comes from closing a prison cell door with him inside.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. If he can't sleep at night, it's about time

Karma's a bitch.

[Lint Head]

4. Closure? The toilet lid needs to be closed and the fecal matter

he vomits needs to be flushed. Then he needs to be publicly shunned