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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Learns Andrew Breitbart is No Michael Jackson
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | April 21, 2011 | Jeff Dunetz

Posted on 04/21/2011 12:09:58 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative

You have to hand it to Andrew Breitbart; he doesn't avoid "enemy" territory. The political activist/web entrepreneur/ showman is on tour hawking his new book, Righteous Indignation. Yesterday, the book tour took him to Martin Bashir’s program on MSNBC. But instead of having an opportunity to discuss his book, Breitbart walked into an ambush where the TV host tried to pin false charges of racism on the author.

For those of you who are not familiar with Bashir, he made his name in 2003 with a "news" special called Living with Michael Jackson. After spending eight months as part of Jackson's entourage, Bashir conducted a series of interviews with the pop singer. The final edit of the interview was widely seen as an example of yellow journalism, deliberately skewed to make the entertainer look like a bad parent and child molester.

It was obvious that Bashir exploited the friendship he developed with the singer to further his own career. Following the broadcast, The New York Times called Bashir's journalism style "callous self-interest masked as sympathy."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewbreitbart; michaeljackson; msnbc
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The leftist media is used to only interviewing idiots. Breitbart throws them a curve.
1 posted on 04/21/2011 12:10:00 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Conservatives (politicians and commentators) should be taking notes on how to deal with heavily biased interviewers, whether its on TV, radio or in print. Knowledge of their tactics is power. The power to, at the least, spoil their planned ambush interview and, at best, show them as the biased leftists they are.


2 posted on 04/21/2011 12:18:53 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: HorowitzianConservative

AB, conservative hero.


3 posted on 04/21/2011 12:25:09 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: HorowitzianConservative

But Michael Jackson was a bad parent and a child molester.


4 posted on 04/21/2011 12:25:23 PM PDT by Patrick1 ("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Well, it’s for sure Andrew Breitbart is no Michael Jackson. Thank heaven for small favors.


5 posted on 04/21/2011 12:25:23 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam...but I repeat myself.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Never come to a gun fight with an empty weapon.

Sure he read the book, right. He got a highlighted copy from Media Matter$oro$.

Pray for America


6 posted on 04/21/2011 12:33:01 PM PDT by bray (Hey Oboehner stop crying and start fighting?)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

The closing statement “prescription drug abuse in every american home” said with a British accent.


7 posted on 04/21/2011 12:38:24 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Now THAT was worth watching.

What a contemptable weasle Bashir is.

8 posted on 04/21/2011 12:41:26 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Patrick1

Yes Michael Jackson was an evil twisted person.

I think the point of the comparison is to show this guy can essentially live with someone like MJ and pretend to be his friend, and then do a complete 180 and trash him in the media.


9 posted on 04/21/2011 12:48:51 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Listening to this sanctimonious Bashir made me again wonder why so, so many of our news people and commentators, even and especially on Fox, are from other countries originally. What the heck happened to Americans listening to native born Americans for news and commentary?


10 posted on 04/21/2011 1:01:51 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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Why would he want to be?


11 posted on 04/21/2011 1:21:53 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Breitbart is a terrific ... media-person ... or whatever exactly he is. He’s in liberals’ faces showing that they’re liars, gibbering idiots, or both. I love it.


12 posted on 04/21/2011 1:27:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Tornado relief: http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/North-Carolina/Tornado)
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13 posted on 04/21/2011 2:06:32 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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“What the heck happened to Americans listening to native born Americans for news and commentary?”

Probably we figured out we can’t inherently trust American journalists not to lie to us, so what’s the difference?


14 posted on 04/21/2011 2:06:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: dagogo redux

Our homegrown “journalist” haven’t been born and bred in the socialist environment to the extent of these “imported” robotrons. Why waste millions of dollars on half pints when you can have a full pint right out of the tap.


15 posted on 04/21/2011 2:10:38 PM PDT by Bud Krieger (Another President , another idiot......)
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To: dagogo redux

From Wikipedia

“Although he was born to a Muslim family, he has identified himself as a “committed Christian.”

Hmmm, sounds like he and a certain TOTUS have the same spiel.

I have noted that MSNBC and CNN seem to be gearing up as Muzzie mouthpieces to compete with Al Jazeera.


16 posted on 04/21/2011 3:12:17 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
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“Although he was born to a Muslim family, he has identified himself as a “committed Christian.”

sure he is.... it says in the Koran that you can lie, cheat and murder in the name of jihad to slay the infidel and the non-believers. His family and all his little followers would be killed by the followers of the "religion of peace" if he were to stand up and broadcast that he had been BORN A MUZZY AND CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY....what a pantload.

17 posted on 04/21/2011 3:57:45 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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But Michael Jackson was a bad parent and a child molester.

I'm not so sure he was a bad parent.
Well, not counting that little dangling-the-baby-over-the-balcony incident.

18 posted on 04/21/2011 4:06:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Tax-chick

“media person or whatever”...he sure is fun. I love to see him skewer the leftists. Hope he sends out his undercover kids again to blow the lid off more Marxist scams.


19 posted on 04/21/2011 4:11:11 PM PDT by Palladin (Sarah Palin in 2012!)
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To: dagogo redux
What the heck happened to Americans listening to native born Americans for news and commentary?

Scumbags like Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw, Couric, and Jennings? (Okay, Jennings was a Canadian.) The point is, the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms don't care what country their communist anchor scumbags come from.

20 posted on 04/21/2011 4:11:41 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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