Andrew Breitbart: Glenn Beck ‘Threw Me Under the Bus’

[CatWoman]

According to conservative pundit and website guru Andrew Breitbart, he and Fox News' Glenn Beck teamed up to edit remarks that USDA official Shirley Sherrod made before the NAACP and rebroadcast them in a more racially charged light. After Beck indignantly played the edited version on his radio program and attacked Sherrod, he made a big show of not going after her on his Fox News show later that same day. Soon thereafter, he went on the offensive, blaming Breitbart for the trumped-up controversy and demanding an apology. (Beck has done a good job of washing his hands of the issue, but Media Matters has the evidence.)

"Next thing I know, I'm under complete attack without the support of Glenn Beck, who I thought was somebody I could count on," Breitbart told the Observer. "He threw me under the bus." Breitbart even implied in the Observer interview that he may be involved in a lawsuit over the issue, although that's unclear. Either way, Glenn, this is not a guy you want to piss off as you launch into the newest phase of your career. He may not have the hugest audience in the world — but if you were to draw a Venn Diagram of the people who listen to him and the people who listen to you, there'd be an awful lot of overlap.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/04/andrew_breitbart_glenn_beck_th.html

[Richardo]

1. Lesson: Scumbags can't trust scumbags

:nopity:

[Bunny]

7. Really.

You teamed up with Beck to perpetrate a fraud and now you're upset that he double-crossed you? LOL.

[SpiralHawk]

14. There is zippo honor among scumbags (R)

as if any decent person had any doubts...

[Uncle Joe]

20. What's the world coming too, when scumbags can't trust scumbags!?

:cry:

[spin]

2. Beck has had far more than his fifteen minutes of fame ...

and it looks like it went to his head.

He's turning into a caricature of himself. A buffoon writing with chalk on a blackboard playing a buffoon writing with chalk on a blackboard.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Glenn Beck is an apolitical conman

He doesn't give a good goddamn about conservative issues or his idiot conservative fans. he wants money. He's like those guys that go around the south conning whole church congregations out of money. They pretend to be ardent Christians while they're selling fake bonds and other nonsense, but they really just want the Corvette and the beach front home. Beck's that guy, but just on a national scale. He doesn't care about any of it, Obama or Bush or anything else. If he could pile up millions inventing wild conspiracies about the Boy Scouts, or vegetarians, or Cubs fans, or chocolate retailers, he would.

It just turned out that American conservatives were the biggest suckers of the decade, so he conned plenty to live off comfortably from the biggest suckers. It's not complicated. The confidence man goes to where the most pathetic marks want most badly to believe. That's Glenn Beck. He has no commitment other than raking in cash from suckers.

[Richardo]

8. One of the best Beck posts ever

:applause:

[CatWoman]

28. ......

[Richardo]

30. DJ!!

You dirty guy!!



:hi: CW! :loveya:

[bullwinkle428]

11. Funny thing about Beck - he ADMITTED this YEARS ago, and

still, his "ardent followers" apparently pulled a "Jerry Lewis" (la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you), and kept ridin' that crazy train until the boiler eventually ran out of steam and it coasted to a pathetic stop on the tracks.

[MineralMan]

4. While you're under there, check the bus's brakes and driveline.

OK, you moron? Try doing something useful for once in your life.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Get a taller bus.

Make more room for new additions.

[ET Awful]

6. Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood.

She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look lady, you knew I was a snake when you picked me up."

Hey Breitbart - if you lie with snakes, you eventually get bitten.

[CatWoman]

9. Hey Buddy

:hi:

how's your kitties? :loveya:

[JHB]

10. Note for Blackbart: slugs are _always_ under something

It was your choice to edit that tape to make a hit job. And from what I can tell you haven't suffered a bit from it, so kwitcher whining.

[Skidmore]

12. Not to worry, Andy. The roadkill truck will be along shortly

to scrape your sorry teabagger sludge off of the road.

[Erose999]

13. No honor among conmen, lol

[JuniperLea]

15. No honor among theives... thugs...

Or RW asshats.

Glenn did it too!! WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Is Briebart the guy who supported or sponsored the guy who dressed up as a pimp?

[GReedDiamond]

23. Yes, Breitbart is the guy...

...who funded James O'Keefe, the fake journalist/pimp.

[GoCubsGo]

17. That squeeking sound you hear is from the World's tiniest violin.

Cry me a river, Breitbart.

[Dappleganger]

18. Eating their own.

Happy to supply forks and napkins.

[EstimatedProphet]

19. If only it were a real bus...

The real meaning of his complaining is that Beck did it to him, before he had a chance to do it to Beck.

[PurityOfEssence]

21. That would be the Bozo Bus, by the way

Just follow the yellow rubber line.

(Apologies to another DU poster who uses that moniker and to the Firesign Theater for the inspiration.)

[Kurovski]

22. K&R. (nt)

[UTUSN]

24. K&R #12 for, BWAH-ha-ha-HAH !1 You find the BEST stuff, CW!!1 n/t

[CatWoman]

29. hey you!!

:hi:

[intaglio]

25. How I wish that was not metaphorical n/t

[progressoid]

26. Aww geee...

:nopity:

[formercia]

27. Put them both in the same cell

they were made for each other. At least, it would give the Prison staff some entertainment.

[CRK7376]

31. beep, beep, beep....

is the sound of the trash truck backing up...bumpity bump is the sound that trash truck makes rolling over you Breitbart....

[Kalun D]

32. Bringing Up Brietbart

How come Obama let Brietbart send Acorn under the bus without nary a peep?

makes you go... hmmmm.

[Nickigrace]

33. I could have sworn they are coming to St. Louis together

heard something about it on KSHE the other day (local rock station) that they are doing some Take America Back bs at the St. Charles Family Arena

[xchrom]

34. conservative canabalism -- may it become the new new.

[joeybee12]

35. It's called honor among thieves

In other words, there is no honor.

[DCKit]

36. I'll pay closer attention after Beck has backed over him a few times. nt