MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Learns Andrew Breitbart is No Michael Jackson

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | April 21, 2011 | Jeff Dunetz

[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."

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Funny that the Liberal Media would be upset with Andrew Breitbart

After all, he is one of the founders of the Huffington Post

Then again, with those lawsuits from their bloggers....maybe not friendly anymore

[Tax-chick]

My favorite thing was when he offered the hugh reward for recordings of Tea Party demonstrators using racial slurs or assaulting Congressional Black Caucus members, and there wasn’t any, anywhere.