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Is Dodd Ending Too Big to Fail?

by Larry Kudlow

Surprise, surprise. Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial-regulation proposal raises the possibility of substantial progress on the road to ending “too big to fail” (TBTF) and bailout nation for banks and other financial institutions.

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How the Dodd bill will play out in the final details remains to be seen. But when you read the Dodd fact sheet, there are a few key items to like.

First, under the Dodd scheme, large complex companies will have to submit plans for rapid and orderly shutdowns should they go under. These are called “funeral plans.” Then, in terms of these orderly shutdowns, the bill would create an “orderly liquidation mechanism for the FDIC to unwind failing systemically significant financial companies. Shareholders and unsecured creditors will bear losses and management will be removed.” Good.

Then comes the “liquidation procedure.” This spells out that the Treasury, FDIC, and Federal Reserve must all agree to put companies into the orderly liquidation process. “A panel of three bankruptcy judges must convene and agree — within 24 hours — that a company is insolvent,” the bill goes on to say. It also states that the largest financial firms will be assessed $50 billion for an upfront fund that will be used if needed for any liquidation. This is a kind of debtor-in-possession safety net for the bankruptcy-liquidation process. Also good.

Finally, under the heading of bankruptcy, the bill stipulates that most large financial companies are expected to be resolved through the normal bankruptcy process. This is the key. However, it is not an airtight case for bankruptcy. It is possible that a government-resolution process could keep big banks alive or in conservatorship, such as with Fannie and Freddie. That would be wrong. Very wrong. In fact, one of the flaws in the Dodd bill is that there is no mention of Fannie and Freddie.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, bank bailout, bankruptcy, Chris Dodd, Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Posted Mar 17th 2010 at 10:59 am in Congress, Economics, Obama, Politics, federal spending | 9075064 CommentsIs+Dodd+Ending+Too+Big+to+Fail%3F2010-03-17+17%3A59%3A16Larry+Kudlow

Thread: Breitbart Guest-Hosts ‘The Savage Nation’

by Publius

UPDATE: Listen to full show here.

Andrew Breitbart guest-hosts Michael Savage’s mega-national radio show, 6pm to 9pm EST. Debate, discuss, and live-blog in the comments.

Also, Happy 21st Birthday to Hannah Giles.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Michael Savage, The Savage Nation
Posted Mar 16th 2010 at 3:04 pm in Open Threads | 90866117 Comments2010-03-16+22%3A04%3A41Publius

Court Dismisses ACORN Suit vs. ‘Pimp’, ‘Hooker’ and Breitbart.com

by Publius

Ben Sheffner, at Copyrights and Campaigns Blog, has the breaking story:

A state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN’s lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com LLC after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within Maryland’s 120-day limit.

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It was with great fanfare that ACORN, along with two recently-fired employees of its Baltimore office, sued last September over thesurreptitious taping of the employees advising O’Keefe and Giles on running a prostitution business out of a house. ACORN’s general counsel, Arthur Schwartz, told the Washington Post at the time that the defendants, young filmmakers O’Keefe and Giles, plus Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart.com LLC, which disseminated the videos, had committed “clear violations of Maryland law” against audio recording without consent from all parties. But ACORN appears to have lost interest in the case since filing it, confirming my suspicion that it was little more than a press release on pleading paper.

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN lawsuit, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Andrew Breitbart
Posted Mar 11th 2010 at 11:35 am in ACORN, Justice/Legal, News | 87882134 Comments2010-03-11+19%3A35%3A21Publius

Internet Lays Foundation for GOP Rebirth

by Mytheos Holt

As anyone who has any recollection of the aftermath of the 2008 election cycle knows, the GOP is hopelessly behind on the internet, cannot possibly marshal any web resources on its behalf because it’s stuck in the 19th century politically and will be eclipsed by the forces of Web 2.0 as surely as Democrats were eclipsed by talk radio.

Or at least, that’s what the Mainstream Media force-fed to people after the 2008 election cycle. Naturally, like most Mainstream Media memes, it was an abject lie, but still, somehow the fear worked its way around establishment GOP circles to the point that a veritable avalanche of hysteria crashed down on party activists. “Why, if the internet swings to the Left,” many supposedly “concerned conservative” commentators opined, “then surely our restrictive, overly ideological makeup will make it impossible for us to attract anyone!”

One can’t blame them for buying an argument which was made with such nauseating frequency. Yet, as recent events since the Obama election have shown, the idea that conservatism cannot capture the internet is not at all accurate. What few people may realize, however, is why this argument was so inaccurate, and more importantly, why it took a Messianic bumbler like Obama to expose its falsehood. With respect, therefore, I must disagree with my fellow contributor’s rejection of youth culture as something irrevocably tainted by liberalism, though I understand his frustration entirely.

However, as I mean to prove, the current youth ethos embodied by internet subculture is fundamentally conservative in character, even if its denizens have not yet caught on to that fact. In order to prove this, I will draw on knowledge that I have gained both as an avid internet user and as a member of a generation for whom digital communication is a second language – knowledge which would require investigating not only the harmless environs of Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, but also the darkest, least talked about nether-regions of the internet – websites which produce 90% of the internet’s cultural references, and yet are so riddled with perversity that their own patrons take it as an unspoken rule never to talk about them.

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Tags: 4chan, Andrew Breitbart, andrew grossman, Barack Obama, conservative grass roots
Posted Mar 7th 2010 at 1:21 pm in Culture, News, Politics, Uncategorized | 84110166 Comments2010-03-07+21%3A21%3A25Mytheos+Holt

What Happened to That ACORN Investigation Jerry Brown Promised?

by Derrick Roach

California Attorney General Jerry Brown seems to be getting a lot of reminders from his gubernatorial challengers Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman about his failed governorship of the state from 1975-1983 when Californian’s endured high unemployment, home foreclosures, large scale labor strikes and fuel shortages at the gas station. Recognizing the failed policies of then Governor Brown, California voters revolted and passed Proposition 13 which is a landmark initiative that limited politician’s ability to arbitrarily raise taxes on California residents.

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Over a week ago, Attorney General Jerry Brown got yet another reminder, this time coming from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The report “Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies” focuses public attention on AG Brown’s failed investigation of ACORN. While some of Brown’s gubernatorial challengers talk of the need for a California Governor to have a spine of steel, AG Brown has instead crumpled like an aluminum can cowardly hiding behind state bureaucrats and a wall of state agencies.

On October 1, 2009, Jerry Brown publicly announced that an investigation had been opened concerning undercover videos that were obtained by citizen journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles who videotaped ACORN employees at two California offices. ACORN employees were filmed providing advice regarding tax evasion, prostitution and human smuggling of underage girls. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was informed by AG Brown in a letter that he had “opened an investigation of both ACORN and the circumstances under which ACORN employees were videotaped.” Since that announcement, AG Brown has found himself at the center of a controversy surrounding the mismanagement of the investigation as well as a potential scandal due to a double standard involving one of his own state employees secretly recording conversations with reporters.

Shortly after ACORN had been alerted to the immanent investigation as a result of AG Brown’s public announcement, ACORN employees at the San Diego, CA office were caught engaging in a massive document dump on October 9, 2009. Those records were retrieved from an unsecured shared public dumpster where they had been thrown revealing sensitive personal, financial and banking information for both clients and employees in addition to revelations about the political inner workings of ACORN’s relationship with major U.S. banks and labor unions.

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN document dump, ACORN San Diego, acorn scandal, ACORN videos
Posted Mar 1st 2010 at 5:27 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, State Politics | 8130688 Comments2010-03-01+13%3A27%3A41Derrick+Roach

Did Andrew Breitbart ‘Breakdown’ At CPAC?

by Andrew Marcus

Several videos of Andrew Breitbart attending CPAC 2010 are making the rounds on the interwebs. Salon.com has posted an article entitled “Breitbart’s breakdown: A video tour”, based on four of the clips floating around.

In these videos, a visibly angry Breitbart tears into Progressive writers Max Blumenthal, Mike Madden, and others, in response to their baseless charges and innuendos of racism surrounding Breitbart, Hannah Giles, and James O’Keefe.

Apparently, Salon.com doesn’t think that anger and outrage are normal reactions for a human being to have in response to being falsely smeared and branded a racist.

Salon.com sees the videos of an angry Andrew Breitbart as not much more than an opportunity to ridicule someone with whom they disagree.

By using these videos in this particular way, Salon reveals that it considers the righteous indignation of a man falsely accused to be funny. A real knee-slapper.

That’s very revealing because the videos that the folks at Salon.com are promoting clearly demonstrate why Breitbart is so furious. He explains it to their cameras repeatedly. Perhaps the editors at Salon.com are too politically tone deaf to hear the message.

Just in case, we’ve produced a little video to help illustrate what we’re talking about.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, CPAC, Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, Max Blumenthal
Posted Feb 26th 2010 at 5:31 am in Culture, Exclusives, Featured Story | 80814307 Comments2010-02-26+13%3A31%3A52Andrew++Marcus

Max Blumenthal, You’re Being Booger-Boarded

by Andrew Breitbart

Max Blumenthal has an amazing thesis: All conservatives and Republicans are beneath contempt. He also has an amazing line of work. He is underwritten by various media organs to prove his thesis.

In a previous era, Blumenthal and said media organs (Salon, Independent Film Channel, Huffington Post, etc.) were able to get away with this pathetic arrangement. But now, we are on to Max, the spawn of Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal – he who attempted to ruin Monica Lewinsky’s life by falsely portraying her as Bill Clinton’s “stalker.”

The Blumenthal operation is now under the extremely close scrutiny of a camelid named “Retracto.”

The movement formerly known as the “Tea-Baggers” (with their flip cameras and new media skills) and various conservatives who have had enough with the excessive Alinsky tactics used most egregiously by Max and Sid but representative of main stream media’s odious guilt-by-association, repeat-the-same-lie-until-it-sticks, smear-any-conservative-as-racist-sexist-homophobic skill set, are now fighting back.

If the last two weeks have not humiliated him enough — and this Huffington Post rage-fest from yesterday with its title “Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and the Crazy Mob” suggests they have not – then perhaps this coup de booger will tell him that we say what we mean and we mean what we say.

Max gallivanted around CPAC looking for prey. He was treated with respect as he sought to make good and decent people look foolish on camera. He decided he would go after a 20-year-old girl, one Hannah Giles. And perhaps due to sexism or ageism he underestimated her ability. Max should have called Bertha Lewis before he went after this young heroine. Instead, he went to a gunfight with a knife – and a dirty nose.

Ladies and gentlemen, the much awaited, “Max Blumenthal Picks a Booger Out of His Nose at CPAC” video:

Max Blumenthal, this is what you do for a living. I can do it too (**wink **wink** Independent Film Channel).

Salon has already corrected his initial attempt to paint James O’Keefe as a White Nationalist. They corrected his baseless assertion that O’Keefe planned the “Race and Conservatism” forum held at Georgetown Law Center, but he continues to hold that James O’Keefe is a racist, and that he was in some way involved with the “execution” of the forum. His source for this claim? Daryle Jenkins, whose credibility was recently eviscerated by Kevin Martin from Project 21.

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Tags: "gotcha journalism", Andrew Breitbart, Bertha Lewis, Booger-Boarding, CPAC
Posted Feb 24th 2010 at 6:45 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, News, Politics | 80026247 Comments2010-02-25+02%3A45%3A04Andrew+Breitbart

CPAC: Conservatives Get Ready For Battle

by Sergio Gor

Yesterday, the Conservative Political Action Conference featured some of the best known conservative elected officials. Among the elected officials, Rep. Steve King and Rep. Mike Pence gave some of the most memorable and passionate speeches.

With approximately 10,000 registered attendee’s, this is by far the largest conservative conference in the nations capitol.

Today, the final day of the conference will feature additional speakers, including Andrew Breitbart, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck.

Washington News Observer has been covering this conference, several highlight reels are below.

The second clip features Rep. Ron Paul, Attorney General John Ashcroft and newly elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Ann Coulter, CPAC, John Ashcroft, Michele Bachmann
Posted Feb 20th 2010 at 11:36 am in Congress, Defense, Economics, Politics | 77634198 Comments2010-02-20+19%3A36%3A26Sergio+Gor

EXCLUSIVE: Talking Tea (NSFW)

by Andrew Marcus

Founding Bloggers is proud to present our latest short video, “Talking Tea,” produced while on location in Nashville at the National Tea Party Convention. (WARNING: NSFW)

The convention attracted Tea Party organizers, activists, and supporters from around the country, as well as some of the more prolific bloggers on the subject of the Tea Party movement.

Founding Bloggers invited some of these top Tea Party bloggers to sit down with us to talk tea. They graciously agreed to spend some time with us, and “Talking Tea” is the 9 minute result.

Below is the full length clip; however, we have also broken out a couple shorter segments for your viewing convenience:

1) Breitbart On The Republican Establishment – (WARNING: NSFW)
2) Breitbart On Destroying CNN and NYT

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Dana Loesch, Evan Maloney, Gaylord Opryland, Glenn Reynolds
Posted Feb 15th 2010 at 10:52 am in Media Criticism, News, Politics, Tea Party | 75586109 CommentsEXCLUSIVE%3A+Talking+Tea+%28NSFW%292010-02-15+18%3A52%3A38Andrew++Marcus

What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention

by Publius

Glenn Reynolds in Saturday’s WSJ:

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There were promises of transparency and of a new kind of collaborative politics where establishment figures listened to ordinary Americans. We were going to see net spending cuts, tax cuts for nearly all Americans, an end to earmarks, legislation posted online for the public to review before it is signed into law, and a line-by-line review of the federal budget to remove wasteful programs.

These weren’t the tea-party platforms I heard discussed in Nashville last weekend. They were the campaign promises of Barack Obama in 2008.

Mr. Obama made those promises because the ideas they represented were popular with average Americans. So popular, it turns out, that average Americans are organizing themselves in pursuit of the kind of good government Mr. Obama promised, but has not delivered. And that, in a nutshell, was the feel of the National Tea Party Convention. The political elites have failed, and citizens are stepping in to pick up the slack.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, budget deficit, federal budget, federal debt, Glenn Reynolds
Posted Feb 12th 2010 at 7:36 pm in News, Politics, Tea Party | 7451491 CommentsWhat+I+Saw+at+the+Tea+Party+Convention2010-02-13+03%3A36%3A04Publius

Breitbart’s Keynote Address To The First National Tea Party Convention

by Andrew Marcus

Below is the entirety of Andrew Breitbart’s remarks during his Keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville last weekend.

During Breitbart’s 33 minute long address, he threatens to upend the entire media establishment, calling them out on their hypocrisy while demanding they change their ways, or else.

The entire speech is available in this post and is broken down into four parts, but if you would like to view some of the highlights, you can click on any of the eight links below:

Full Address Parts 1-4:

Part 1

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Contessa Brewer, Founding Bloggers, James O'Keefe, Key Note Address
Posted Feb 9th 2010 at 7:19 am in ACORN, Culture, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Politics | 7251478 Comments2010-02-09+15%3A19%3A21Andrew++Marcus

Liveblogging Sarah Palin At the Nashville National Tea Party Convention

by Jim Hoft

HERE WE GO–

Andrew Breitbart just introduced tonight’s speaker SARAH PALIN.

Mindy and Madison were excited to hear Sarah Palin. They blogged this weekend, too.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, National Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Tea Party Convention
Posted Feb 6th 2010 at 10:13 pm in Tea Party | 71274271 Comments2010-02-07+06%3A13%3A15Jim+Hoft

Andrew Breitbart at National Tea Party Convention to Media: “It’s Not Your Business Model That Sucks, It’s You That Sucks”

by Jim Hoft

Andrew Breitbart raised the roof at the National Tea Part Convention this morning in Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking to the dozens of reporters assembled in the back of the room, Andrew said this:
“It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.”

Andrew finished his speech with this warning to the media:

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Contessa Brewer, mainstream media, MSNBC, National Tea Party Convention
Posted Feb 6th 2010 at 10:07 am in Featured Story, Tea Party | 70814411 Comments2010-02-06+18%3A07%3A01Jim+Hoft

Sorry, Wade: James O’Keefe’s Actions Don’t Excuse ACORN

by Kyle Olson

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ACORN founder Wade Rathke has been gloating on his blog about the recent arrest of James O’Keefe in Rathke’s hometown of New Orleans.

Andrew Breitbrat and his www.biggovernment.com site stopped pretending that James O’Keefe, bungler-in-charge, was not his boy, and realized that he needed to stop shouting and start ‘splaining.

Breitbrat? Zing! How adult of you, Wade.

Similarly, current ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis issued a statement upon the news:

The recent arrest of James O’Keefe, is further evidence of his disregard for the law in pursuit of his extremist agenda. From the day that O’Keefe’s undercover “sting” videos came out, ACORN leadership pledged accountability for its own staff while pointing out that the videos had been shot illegally and edited deceptively in order to undermine the work of an organization that has empowered working families for four decades.

It’s as if O’Keefe’s problem somehow is vindication for the corrupt web of organizations she oversees.

Bad news, Bertha: it’s not.

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN embezzlement, ACORN videos, Andrew Breitbart, Bertha Lewis
Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 2:17 pm in ACORN | 69466219 Comments2010-02-03+22%3A17%3A03Kyle+Olson

NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ Profiles Andrew Breitbart

by Publius

From NPR’s “All Things Considered”:

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Conservative Blogger Faces Criticism Over Protege, by DAVID FOLKENFLIK

The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers. During a recent visit to his home on the west side of Los Angeles, Breitbart, 41, is working from his own basement. Barefoot. At the beck and call of his own kids.

But that basement is light and airy, with a decent view of the city. A young assistant works there with Breitbart to help funnel wire service stories to Breitbart.com, his main news aggregation site. And his reach, thanks to a brawling rhetorical style and a protege who taped the undercover ACORN videos last year, is only expanding.

Over the past year, Breitbart has hired editors to run a new network of conservative blogs called BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com and BigJournalism.com. No matter the focus, the media are a prime target throughout. (more…)

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Tags: 'All Things Considered', Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com, Clark Hoyt, DAVID FOLKENFLIK
Posted Feb 2nd 2010 at 8:36 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism, News | 6911884 Comments2010-02-03+04%3A36%3A39Publius

U.S. Attorney Steps Down From O’Keefe Case

by Publius

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The same day the man who first published James O’Keefe’s explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to his defense Monday, claiming the conservative filmmaker “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney” while the prosecutor made his case to the media, the U.S. attorney involved stepped down.

O’Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney’s office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday.

Hours later, Jim Letten, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, recused himself from the case.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, bugging, James O'Keefe, Jim Letten, Mary Landrieu
Posted Feb 1st 2010 at 6:45 pm in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics | 68254240 Comments2010-02-02+02%3A45%3A24Publius

Lawyer: Phone Scheme Meant to Embarrass Senator

by Publius

From the Associated Press:

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with a senator’s phones were just trying to record embarrassing undercover video of her staff ignoring phone calls from constituents angry that she supported health care reform, one of their attorneys said Thurday.

The four, including activist James O’Keefe, known for posing as a pimp and using a hidden camera to target the community-organizing group ACORN, were arrested Monday after targeting Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in a New Orleans federal building.

Attorney J. Garrison Jordan denied they were trying to disable or wiretap the phones in Landrieu’s office.

“You’re dealing with kids,” he said. “I don’t think they thought it through that far.”

Instead, Jordan said, they hoped to get embarrassing video footage of Landrieu’s staff handling constituent calls. Her office received complaints last month that callers opposed to her health care stance couldn’t get through.

Landrieu was not impressed with Jordan’s explanation.

“Attorneys are hired to spin for their clients,” she said Thursday in an interview in Washington. “Good luck.” (more…)

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Tags: "Hee Haw", ACORN, Andrew Breitbart, Benjamin Wetmore, J. Garrison Jordan
Posted Jan 28th 2010 at 4:03 pm in ACORN, Media Criticism, News | 66766321 Comments2010-01-29+00%3A03%3A56Publius

Crime-Tolerating Left Pounces on Apparent New Orleans Stunt

by Kyle Olson

Let me first say, if what is being reported in the media is accurate, a dumb prank was attempted in the New Orleans office of Sen. Mary Landrieu by James O’Keefe and his comrades.

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There should be zero tolerance for crime, regardless of who does it. If O’Keefe is guilty of what the FBI is alleging, he should be held accountable. The Left believes that now, but where were they six months ago?

It’s interesting to observe, and personally experience, the hypocritical way the Left is treating this situation. Consider two unsolicited e-mails I received Monday night from a few liberal wackos with too much time on their hands. Here’s the first, which was accompanied by the subject line, “Republicans are As—-es!”:

Hey as—-e, why don’t you talk about the son of a bitch who broke into Senator Landrieu’s office in LA? Yeah, scumbags like you don’t care about the law.

The other, titled, “James O’Keefe is going to jail! YOU FAILED!”:

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Tags: ACORN videos, Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe, leftists, liberal media
Posted Jan 28th 2010 at 7:37 am in ACORN, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 65978227 Comments2010-01-28+15%3A37%3A20Kyle+Olson

The Republicans’ ‘Hip Gap’

by Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI)

It permeates the public’s consciousness and Big Media obsessively promotes the perception to our detriment. Yet, like a canker on a suitor, polite Republicans won’t discuss it. No longer, however, can we pretend the issue doesn’t exist. It does and, though painful to admit, we must confront the truth.

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Republicans have a “hip gap.”

This is not to say Democrats are hip. People who squander their precious breaths of life poring over Das Kapital, practicing rhythmic chanting with Kindergarten lyrics, chaining themselves to national monuments and/or writing memoirs prior to accomplishing anything are utter stiffs. They can only pass themselves off as cool in comparison to…well, us.

Oh sure, we’d like to think this is just another slanderous Leftist attack on Republicans. But, let’s be honest: a large gaggle of GOPers have yet to put a toenail into the Twenty-First Century’s cultural crosscurrents – or, for that matter, the Nineteenth’s.

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Tags: 78 rpm records, Alice Cooper, Andrew Breitbart, Big Hollywood, C. Montgomery Burn
Posted Jan 26th 2010 at 5:21 am in Culture, Featured Story, News, Political Humor, Politics | 65294194 CommentsThe+Republicans%27+%27Hip+Gap%272010-01-26+13%3A21%3A32Rep.+Thaddeus+G.+McCotter+%28R-MI%29

Urgent Appeal — Please Help Us to Help the People of Haiti!

by Eric Haymes

I reached out to Andrew Breitbart over the weekend with a simple plea: Haiti needs assistance. Can you help? Within seconds, I had the answer I was hoping for — a resounding “Yes!”

I own a jet charter service that operates a fleet of Boeing 737s. Haiti needs medical supplies, surgeons, nurses, rescue workers, food, water and the only way to get it there quickly is by air. Haiti needs to Medevac the critically injured to US hospitals, and orphans need to be flown to homes in the US. The vital link in all the countless ways people are providing help in Haiti is air transportation.

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This is our mission, to support the ongoing relief effort in Haiti with air transportation logistics.

We have three Boeing 737’s and two King Air turbo props. What we don’t have is fuel (yet).

We need you. We need immediate donations to cover our fuel and related expenses. Fuel costs money.

Please visit www.airlifthaiti.org and give. Time is of the essence and many lives are precariously hanging in the balance.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Boeing, charity, Eric Haymes, Haiti
Posted Jan 19th 2010 at 12:05 pm in Featured Story, News | 6195841 Comments2010-01-19+20%3A05%3A27Eric+Haymes