Five Minutes With Andrew Breitbart

Matt Lewis:

Q: Ann Coulter was on Fox recently, saying you were “set up,” meaning that someone intentionally provided you with a selectively edited copy of Shirley Sherrod’s speech. Were you taken advantage of?

A: I don’t believe that I was set up. [The person who provided the video clip of Sherrod's NAACP speech] contacted me back in early April and sent me a DVD, but it didn’t transfer properly. . . . I never followed up on it, but I had it in the back of my mind that [Sherrod's comments at the NAACP] occurred. So I contacted him [the video source] after two or three days of the mainstream media’s colluding with the NAACP [which passed a resolution condemning racist elements within the Tea Party], giving wall-to-wall coverage, negatively branding the Tea Party as racist. I got the tape in two excerpts that were sent to me, because I couldn’t wait to get this story. I knew from past experience that I had a news cycle to get this out.

Q: You say you couldn’t wait to get this story out. Was it your past experience challenging the allegations that someone at a D.C. Tea Party rally used a racial epithet that informed your decision?

A: I couldn’t get any mainstream media to cover that story [Breitbart's offer of $100,000], even though they played up the ‘N word’ allegation. And so, given that we were in day seven of this successful propaganda campaign asking the question, ‘Is the Tea Party racist?’ — and because the standard they set was that someone in an audience expressing a racist thought — like at the Tea Party it was often based merely on an infiltrator holding a [offensive or racist] sign — the [Sherrod] video was evidence. You had people in the audience abiding by her discriminating against a white farmer — clapping and agreeing. That is a [liberal organizer [Saul] Alinsky standard — hold the opposition to the standard that they set.

Q: How does the Shirley Sherrod story relate to the JournoList story where liberal journalist Spencer Ackerman suggested deflecting attention from the Reverend Wright story, which was hurting Obama, by wrongly accusing a prominent conservative of being a racist?

A: That collusion to slander by Ackerman — and the sin of omission of the other 400 people on the list — to abide by that calculated evil — shows that we have a tremendous problem in journalism today — and then they come and ask me about my tactics. I’m trying to end JournoList collusion that goes well beyond the [listserve's founder] Washington Post’s Ezra Klein’s 400 friends and collaborators, and that includes Politico and Bloomberg. Where are they firing people? Where are the questions about this monumental act of journalistic fraud? Where are the mass firings?

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