One of the statements in this AP article is a lie *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Jun 07 2011 at 3:24 pm | Filed under: Media matters
I don’t have time to check the video, but as a logical thinker, I can assure you that one of the two highlighted sentences in an AP news report about Andrew Breitbart is a lie:
The conservative blogger who reported that a photo of a man’s crotch had been sent from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account to a woman college student says he has an X-rated picture he’ll publicize if the New York Democrat attempts reprisals against him.
Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart of the website BigGovernment.com tells NBC’s “Today” show he considers the image “an insurance policy” against attacks from Weiner, who on Monday admitted the crotch photo was of him. The married Weiner also acknowledged he had engaged in inappropriate contact with six women over three years through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and occasionally over the phone.
Breitbart told NBC Tuesday that if Weiner wants to open himself to further investigation, “there are a lot of women” who could come forward. Asked directly if he considered the purported unpublicized picture an insurance policy, Breitbart replied, “I don’t like to think of it that way.”
UPDATE: As I suspected, but couldn’t confirm because I wasn’t checking the video, Indigo Red explains in the comments that AP was guilty of criminally careless writing:
Both statements are true. Breitbart appeared on Hannity and when asked if he had more photos said in an off-hand manner that he had a photograph, a Blueboy Magazine type photo, that he was keeping as insurance against reprisal. That’s the first AP quote. The second is not incongruous with the first. The photo is insurance, but Breitbart doesn’t ”like to think of it that way.” I’ve a friend who is fat, very fat. He’s also smart. He knows he’s fat, but he doesn’t like to think of himself that way. He prefers “well rounded.” One statement is a fact, the other a preferred thought.
Maybe Indigo Red, whose explanation is a model of clarity, should consider a career in journalism.
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I guess AP is now telling Breitbart what he’s really thinking? Thank you, Sky Fairy, for sending us moral and intellectual superiors in the leftist media!
[...] Nice catch — these sentences appear in consecutive paragraphs in the same AP story: [...]
Personally, this reminds me of the Edgar Allen Poe poem, “The Telltale Heart” – Weiner has got to know that there is more out there and he’s just waiting for it to hit. As the old phrase goes, he’s turning up the sweat pumps. Breitbart is also serving notice on people that in the future, if he comes out with something, he (maybe. . . . maybe not) will have more waiting.
I think my memory is correct but didn’t Weiner really come down hard on Breitbart after the ACORN sting hit the NYC office? Paybacks are hell and an ambush is a real bummer.
Payback is a medevac.
Or, perhaps, you identified the small part of the AP article that may actually be true.
Both statements are true. Breitbart appeared on Hannity and when asked if he had more photos said in an off-hand manner that he had a photograph, a Blueboy Magazine type photo, that he was keeping as insurance against reprisal. That’s the first AP quote. The second is not incongruous with the first. The photo is insurance, but Breitbart doesn’t ”like to think of it that way.” I’ve a friend who is fat, very fat. He’s also smart. He knows he’s fat, but he doesn’t like to think of himself that way. He prefers “well rounded.” One statement is a fact, the other a preferred thought.
Black mailing these Democrat sexual predators is pretty easy. That must be how PillowC and Clintons did it.
In one of these reports AndrewB threatened to release more photos if (Weiner, associates, dems) started trashing the women (re: Clintonesque references to trailer trash, etc.).
If Breitbart can lean on Wiener with threat of publication, so could anyone else with that kind of leverage. Think foreign governments.
Any hostile foreign power who neglects an opportunity to blackmail government officials doing these stupid things is down right incompetent. Have we already forgotten about that cute red-headed russian chick? She could have wrapped him around her finger. Weiner is a national security threat.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/democrats_are_rightits_not_about_sex.html
Thank you, Book. That’s high praise, indeed.
Brietbart said in in his warm up act for Weiner’s press conference that he was holding onto it and not publishing it for W’s family’s sake. It is a hardball tool for AB to get Weiner to right the wrong he perpetuated by calling AB out for hacking his twitter account which he did not do. If you watch that press conference you will see his decency and his intent for this photo.
Three Lies of Andrew Breitbart
http://gawker.com/5810425/the-three-lies-of-andrew-breitbart
Zach, Zach, the partisan hack
All atwitter on Breitbart’s back
Rumor, innuendo, nothing cleaner
Desperate to distract from Anthony’s Weiner
I’m starting to think you’re a political operative, Zach.
Mike Devx: Desperate to distract from Anthony’s Weiner
Not at all. You are more than welcome to fixate on Anthony’s Weiner.
From my limited digging and from comments above, it appears Weiner did nothing illegal in sending his various photos via the Internet mechanisms he used.
So what we’re left with is dubious and unwise and sleazy conduct. Is this really the best we can expect from supposedly 535 of the best people that are supposed to exist across this country? You might expect a *bit* of a higher standard from our highest elected officals. It’s like finding out that George Washington used to chain his slaves down in rows on the lawn at Mount Vernon in midnight moonlight so they’d be forced to watch while he disrobed in front of them and danced naked, hootin like an owl and waving his arms in the air, whiskey jug in hand.
Are things really so much worse and corrupt these days than they’ve been in the past? There’s always been corruption, but our elites appear totally out of control now.
Well, you get the government that you deserve, they say. This does not reflect well on today’s voting public.
I’ll focus on the greatness of Breitbart, Z-Team. You can believe all the distortions on your side that you wish, including the “lies” in the link you posted. What a fluff piece of innuendo.
Actually, Mike, Washington’s preferred bird call when he was cavorting skyclad in front of the slaves was the northern cardinal, which according to one website makes ”cheer cheer cheer,” “whit-chew whit-chew” and “purty purty purty” whistles.
Mike, with Z it’s almost a reflex action. Somebody here says “Alpha!” and Z compulsively shouts, “Omega!” then runs out to find an Omega site with Omega sayings and maybe even some bonus Omega links.
Very predictable.
He’s sinking pretty low. Didn’t Mr. HOmosexual Sullivan salivate over at Gawker once before.
Jose,
It’s not like Z or Demoncrats ever cared about national security. Only their bank account security, yes.
Mike Devx: It’s like finding out that George Washington used to
You’re probably thinking of Thomas Jefferson.
Mike Devx: You can believe all the distortions on your side that you wish, including the “lies” in the link you posted.
Breitbart was on camera, then claimed he didn’t know there were cameras. He showed the picture to nearly everybody he had contact with, not just at the radio station.
Breitbart bad. Breitbart topic of this thread. Get Breitbart! Must deflect from Weenie!
Z-Team @ 20 :
Mike Devx: It’s like finding out that George Washington used to
Z-Team: You’re probably thinking of Thomas Jefferson.
Well, my satirical outtake on G. Washington portrayed as a bacchanalian reprobate – where in truth he was a man actually conscious of the effects of his every action, verbal and written word, and with an eye always to posterity – obviously went right over your head.
It does help explain your difficulties in another thread, getting your head around the Klavan video satires.
Mike, which reminds me that physicists have developed a new meaurement, akin to a parsec, called the OZH (“Over Zach’s Head”). It is a measure of astronomical humorlessness. In the subset of their science, called Mirthless Physics, 6.3 OZHs = 1 Dukakis. A Kilodukakis = 1 abc.