How David Shuster Lied to Get Me to Appear on MSNBC
by Andrew BreitbartToday is the day that I have been invited to go on MSNBC for the very first time. At no point during the ACORN story was I put on the hot seat to defend the work of James O’Keefe. My thesis from day one has been that the mainstream media is biased in favor of the left and MSNBC is its most obvious case study.
So when MSNBC led the charge on Tuesday against James O’Keefe when he and three others were arrested in New Orleans at Senator Landrieu’s office, it came as no surprise that the cable network seized upon a narrative that presumed O’Keefe’s guilt, falsely extrapolated that he was being charged with felony wiretapping and instantaneously coined and repeated endlessly the new buzz phase, “Watergate Jr.”
Thus it came as no surprise to me that Keith Olbermann’s super sub, David Shuster, called me early Wednesday. ”Watergate Jr.” pushed MSNBC to send Shuster down to New Orleans to own the destruction-by-media of James O’Keefe and anyone in his proximity. I immediately told Shuster that I had been getting emails about his absurd, over-the-top and rush-to-judgment journalism. He told me that I had him confused with Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, that he has “no horse in this race.” He asked that I come on his show and that he would give me a fair interview. He proceeded to send me the following emails to formalize the request. See below <strong>(emphasis mine)</strong>:
As you see, Shuster is attempting to lure me into this story based upon the false premise of his objective neutrality on the issue. Notice he says, “As I said, I don’t have a horse in this race.” A simple Google search of David Shuster and James O’Keefe immediately finds that Shuster went into a Twitter frenzy to tar and feather James O’Keefe and propogated what are now provably false lies about the Landrieu case.
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(Read the full post and watch the video of the interview at BigJournalism.com)
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Just saw your performance with Shuster. I believe that you, Mr. Breitbart, are quite insane.
Good Gawd, Shuster is an absolute loon! He didn't even let you talk, wow….who is running MSNBC???
YOu are a complete moron. You have no idea what your employees are doing? What an embarrassment.
You looked like a flaming queen on there and came across sooooo bad. Give it up. You looked very unsure of your facts. People are starting to see that you and Drudge are just conservative mouthpieces and no longer take you seriously. What a joke!
How could you tell? I could barely hear him over shyster.
Shuster didn't give you a "fair interview" as he said he would. But that comes as no surprise. Decline all future invitations from this leftwing boy wonder. Good God that was painful to have MSNBC on the TV.
Wow. No wonder nobody watches MSNBC. Lie after lie after lie. You did great under the circumstances.
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Good work Andrew — Shuster is nothing but a socialist booster!
He was suspended by MSNBC for pulling for Obama over Hillary in primary.
No horse in the Race? GE is pushing to make billions through and energy tax, and adviser to Obama.
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How right you are. Why he didn't sound half as logical or truthful as Obamao or Barney Frank.
Shuster was suspended by msnbc for being an obama booster.
Shuster the booster — never disapoints!
Andrew,
Why would you even dignify that clown with even the time of day?
You should put a TROLL TRAP warning on these threads, because they are full of them.
Shuster is an absolute tool and member of the liberal JournoList™/Townhouse crew. He misreported all kinds of stuff about the Scotter Libby trial, he's the Jason Leopold of MSNBC.
Aren't "flaming Queens" most likely Democrats? Just "axing"………………….REV Wright
Looks like lil' schusy has sent the brainwashed troll minions, mindless drones(being charitable) that they are flying out of mommy's basement to descend upon us with irrational tripe and childish ad homs. Here we go. Where's mika,syn-g,fonz,johnny knoxs and dhasselhoff?Won't be long. Bring it, ain't skeered……………….Hanzo
I think Shuster is great because he wants the ACORN people to help save the planet like Obama and to make the social justice by giving child prostitutes a chance to be trafficked to this country to help the ACORN people.
Shuster is like an avatar! He's a super avatar — connected to Obama's brain so he knows just what he wants!
Ellie Light
Marxville, USA
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Well Andrew, thanks for the heads-up. You're a big boy, I'm sure you can deal with the smallfry.
Oh. Right wing comments only or I am a troll? Do you comment on any left wing blogs? I am highly idependent, your man looked like a fool. That is a fact.
Go back to your fox den.
apparently you watched. ???
Instead of felony wiretapping, the charge is felony tampering with a phone. Only a lost little punk boy would make such a big deal of this minor mistake. I saw Breitbart on Shuster and he used anger to attempt to deflect the truth. If he is involved with this felony, he will learn of our broken prison system. He will also have a sore ass. If he really wants to serve our country, why doesn't the punk join the miliitary like many of us did.
Christian child molester would be more appropriate.
I can't even put MSNBC on my TV. I can't beleive that the left audiences are so blinded that they are bashing Andrew and do not see the truth. It is apparently the kool-aid they are being given.
My first time. Never again.
I WATCH MSNBC BECAUSE FOX ONLY GIVES ONE SIDE.PLUS THE FOX CREW IN THE MORNING ARE COMPLETE MORONS.AS FOR THE BREAK IN IDIOTS OR AS I CALL OKEEFE MR DRESSUP A BUNCH OF HALF WIT AMATEURS NOW FACING FELONIES AND BIG BUBBA IN JAIL.
go ahead and turn the channel back to fox news.
Hi Brett(flaming Queen), why don't you check ratings before you spout off from the comfort of mommy's bosom? What's wrong, mommy take you off the breast too soon? 15 years wasn't enough?I'm sure lil' davy's ratings received a solid boost for once, only because AB was on this POS program ,not in spite of it.Talk about a joke, facist!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hanzo
Andrew walked into the insane asylum under the false premise he was allowed to speak to the inmates . Now we know for sure the inmates also run not only the government, but MSNBC. No wonder basic cable doesn't even list the station here.
I like David Shuster because he works at MSNBC with Keith and Rachel and they are all like avatars connected to Obama's brain which is easy to do because his head is so big.
I can't wait until tomorrow because his head gets bigger very day.
He has to have a big head because he always thinking about the social justice for things like the child prostitutes coming to America for a better life as another one of the ACORN people.
I wish everybody could be an Avatar and be connected to Obama's brain!
Ellie Light
Marxville, USA
Truth is this guy went to a Senator's office with two guys in telephone repairman uniforms wanting access to the phone room. This kind of crap is ridiculous. Your side does nothing wrong, the other side is nothing but criminals. Kool Aid, yes, has been passed all around, you sound like you have had some.
Hi turdner, why don't you get your facts straight before regurgitating sophmoric pap someone else told you to say? These guys were not sent down there in any official capaity to represent AB or any of his sites. Jealous much? I would say what an embarrassment you must be to your parents, but they must have had some hand in creating such a deluded, deranged, out of touch sycophant as yourself. Go home, boy…………….Hanzo
I'm sorry but doesn't most liberal comments sound like its a pimple faced 13 year old posting them. Who the hell uses the word "owned" except a frustrated 13 year old who can't get a date. Go crawl back under your rock.
God bless you Andrew and the truth will set James free.
Instead of separation of Church and State it should be separation of School and state, and throw out the unions out of our schools.
I am not saying Breitbart *deserved* to get raped, but he certainly brought it upon himself with his immodesty.
Pssst.! Hey MSM, whadda ya think about that John Edwards "Love Lips" sex scandal?
You all sure carried water for that sorry POS.
are conservatives still upset about avatar?
Well, judging by your churlish, petulant comment we would naturally assume that you are a mindless drone with no rational, cognitive thought process.Now go back to whatever rock you came from under and stick your head back into your rear end………………….Hanzo
Apparently you didn't, jackazz?………………hanzo
I watched MSNBC once before…Once…
I turned to MSNBC on January 19, 2010 because I just had to hear the Massachusetts Special Election called for Scott Brown from Keith Olberman's mouth.
GOD! That was sweet!
says the fat, balding, conservative. Really dude you shouldn't put your picture up. 13 yr old kids with pimples have a better shot at getting a date.
You are highly "idependent"? I think you meant mentally stunted, fool. That is a fact, Turdner………………Hanzo
O'Keefe was hired and was being paid by Breitbart. Did Breitbart just pay him and then let him run loose around the country? Does he seem to be that naive. I don't think so. Sounds like little Watergate to me.
I haven't seen the performance yet, but it ought to be great fun. By the way, I see that Andy's employee, Mr. O'Keefe, has been ordered to live with Mom 'n Dad. Now that is truly amusing. Will he now be blogging and Tweeting from his parents' basement?
What is MSM? Is that one of those secret Southern inbreeding clubs?
"S*** pushed in"? Kind of like you do on a nightly basis by your boyfriend? Is his name David Shuster?
………………………Hanzo
says the fat, balding conservative.
yeah being bald and fat is worse than being 13 with pimples.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………..*Yawn*
I love to see Breitbart and OKeefe incriminate themselves.
I would love to see them defend their position vigourously. Just more evidence for a jury to hear.
What's really funny is how marginalised all of these pukes truly are. Schusters ratings are so low he's not even a blip on the radar screen of the msm, and that's saying something……….Hanzo
Andrew, I think there is a plus on this for US Americans for the James Okeefe… we the people want DISCOVERY of the ACORN documents, remember? This is good!
Liberals are children. Children should not run things. Period.
Look at their attacks. Adolescent and baseless. Playground name calling is the only thing to compare it to.
Never forget, many of these "progressives" are narcissists. You can manipulate this disorder to extract information. Bait them just enough to keep them talking and frustrate them. They will reveal much if given enough time. There is no sweeter sound to a liberal than their own voice. So let these commenters rant, rant and rant some more. We learn about them from it. Knowing the enemy if essential to defeating him.
What's really funny is that Breitbart is on the federal court's radar. Your hero is going to be bunked next to Bubba soon.
Hmm. You might want to pose that question to Larry Craig, Ed Schrock, Matt Drudge, Mark Foley, Charlie Crist, David Dreier, and Ted Haggard.
well this sure brought out the rabble…
Next to their hatred of the erstwhile O'Keefe is their mega hatred of Mr Breitbart. You see, all of the failed actions and negativity focused on Obama and his Obambot legions can only have one reason-
You guessed it- the former pizza delivery guy with the little internet site from California. Yep, that's it. He's the reason.
Let's get him!
As the man says, Good luck with that…
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I fell like I'm an avatar connected to other avatars on the internet and we're all connected to Obama's brain!
Shuster is a super avatar!
It's so awesome because it's like being connected to the world through C-SPAN all the time seeing child prostitutes trying really hard to come here with the helpers so they can become the ACORN people.
ACORN people are also connected to Obama's brain — so they're already avatars!
Ellie Light
Marxville, USA
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If Schuster is that bad what does it say about the guy whose very bone marrow he just plundered?
Or how about posing that question to yourself?………………..Hanzo
There was no "mistake." At the outset, it wasn't clear exactly what the charge would be, and it was reasonable for reporters to speculate that it was wiretapping. Now that we know for sure that it was intent to tamper, it's been reported as such. There is no problem, except for Breitbart's employee and his friends, and (depending on the details) maybe Breitbart himself.
Andy, you'd better hope that you didn't have any conversations with your employee about how neat it would be to do something like this. That's called "conspiracy," and you don't have to be one of the tamperers to be guilty of it. Hope you've got yourself a good lawyer.
Uh..I don't know what interview you all were watching but Shuster was so nervous his voice was quivering. Everytime Andrew tried to make a point he talked over him, thats not winning an argument, thats like being 3 yrs old and sticking your fingers in your ears and saying "La la la la, I cannnn't hear youuuuu!" I mean this is suppose to be a reputible news org right? I seriously asked who was running the show for MSNBC because I really think it's bananas how some of these so called journos act. Shuster was acting like Andrew has some part of this (obviously not learning his lesson of saying something without a shred of evidence) When Andrew stated quite clearly he had nothing to do with it. IMO, this is the real reason the dems and the left are imploding, they can't handle being in power, they have shown that over and over. Let the elections begin…time to clean house!
Breitbart, I am going to give you a compliment. I oppose you but your website allows me to post comments. Thanks for that.
Thanks for making the point and proving the point, "dude"…………………..Hanzo
We're all avatars! Except for Shuster — he's a super avatar!
Are you still crying about being 13 and having an acne problem?…Hanzo
You should stick to internet. You looked like a complete fool. Fool.
Major *YAWN*…Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
.MSM is mass socialist media — it's the spiritual tree for the Obama avatars.
Did your mommy give you her laptop and let you run your mouth in a most nonsensical fashion, in order to prove what an idiot you are?………………………..Hanzo
oh no! The U.S. is a socialist country!
You mean like you are? Looks like you did a doo doo and stepped in it. Now go get mommy to clean your foot .
Sorry you took the bait! I didn't see your interview, I don't watch MSM anymore. After the Obamafest of 08/09 I gave it up. Don't let it get you down!
No. it's a SanFranFreako inbreeding club, like the one where you were conceived, this is too easy……….Hanzo
I don't watch MSNBC so I have a question. Is Schuster supposed to be a journalist or a commentator? Either way, I stopped reading his tweet after "Wingnut." He immediately lost credibility with that.
Bill Clinton, Chris Dodd, Dead Teddy, Nelson Rockefeller, Chuckie Schumer, most of Hollywood…
Uhhm, ok.Kewl dude……………Hanzo
And where were you when ACORN got busted promoting illegal child prostitution?
Probably standing in line at one of their offices for yours….
Just watched the show. Breitbart is pathethic.
I am disappointed to learn that Breitbart's blog is accepting of blatant antisemitism such as BenInNy's thinly veiled corruption of Shuster into Shyster.
you are enjoying this- aren't you, nitwit…
The fact that Breitbart and O'Keefe have exposed criminality, and near treason by your heroes means, of course, nothing. ACORN is a criminal thug operation. Stop drinking the spiked Kool-aid and Wise Up…
Wow you did great,. You're a hero. God bless you Andrew and the truth will set James free..
Damn, and that idiot up top said we sounded like 13 yo kids. The whole bunch of you have Repubic syndrome.
it's why Rush won't do TV interviews, other than maybe Greta. He learned the hard way…
This is too easy. Obviously Schuster went to the local Junior High School and recruited pimply faced, "angry at the world because mommy didn't give them enough attention" dweebs to invade the site. Not even a challenge. Boooooooring.If they even had a modicum of rationality it would be fun, but they don't………………..Hanzo
What is it with you communist trolls and asses? Fetish much?
Breitbart is a complete fool.
MSM isn't slobbering all over Edwards like you guys are over O'Keefe. The list of Conservatives keeps growing and growing and growing when it comes to this "entrapment journalism" and how stupid this punki was for doing what he did. Breitbart appears to be the only one feverishly defending this kid's illegal actions and it's starting to become obvious who pulled this kid's strings.
Were are like Avatars for Obama., connected to the Obama brain as one — it's so awesome!
We are so awesome.
Is it just us? … little help…… does Michelle really have great arms?
Ellie Light
Marxville, USA
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If you have any brain cells, other than those required to cut-n-paste what Obalexrod tells you, you'd know that Jesus had no commandments; those came from God…
So the tweet from Shuster is from January 25th and the BBM mail was sent to you on January 27th and you STILL went on the show? Hello?
Blah blah blah……………………..
It's David Shuster's ball and his backyard. He'll set the rules or he won't play.
(Management reserves the right to change those rules at any time without prior notice)
Adults who believe that all websites, tv shows, and personalities are out for money except for the stooge they choose to follow are worse than any teenager I've ever met.
Breitbart is a clown whose schtick was no match for a guy with a real eduation.
I'm sure you would, since you're retarded in your cognitive thought process…………………Hanzo
What's naive is Shuster's tweet was from the 25th and the e-mail from Shuster to Breitbart was from the 27th. If Breitbart knew this was Shuster's view from 2 days ago, why the hell did he go on the show? And if he still agreed to go on the show, why the hell is Breitbart whining about it?
Shuster is a shyster. He has to admit he lied but then calls in a hack from Media Matters after you to call you a liar. These GE/NBC/MSNBC crooks are beneath contempt. In fact, they give contempt a bad name! Shuster was one of the first to throw the "teabagger" term out there as well. The good news is that hardly anyone watches these loons. (I only tuned in to see you make him eat his lies)
Syn,
Now, there YOU go, again.
I'd beg to differ with you on this one. Go back and look at the posts. WE, aren't slobbering over O'Keefe,YOU ALL are. You are the one with the "man crush". You are the one with the O'Keefe avatar.
Are ye a tad wee bit obsessed with the lad…………?
Hey baddy……………………….YOU are the insane one and obviously off your meds.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………..
You are right – he should have known that once someone shows the are a piece of crap, they aren't going to change over night – kinda like you, we know you are going to say unintelligent, foolish, childish things…
I rest my case.
The problem is GE is too big of a Business. There should be a crackdown on big business and big media, as long as it is not News Corp.
Well, who let the dogs out? After wading through the comments on this site (which normally is so civil), I feel like I need a shower. There are times when I wish BG would moderate comments more zealously than they do – but, on the other hand, it's telling to let them froth at the mouth here. Makes me appreciate my superior upbringing.
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