EXTREMIST (TEA PARTY) REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY AND TRAITORS TO AMERICA by R. Blackbird

Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are selfish, power hungry, hateful of the poor, disloyal to the nation and its people, dishonest, avaricious, scornful of the nation's history, the dignity of its institutions, its standards of political morality, and its vision of advancement for all the people. The Republicans love war as long as they and theirs do not have to put on helmets and carry guns into the fighting. They use lies to start wars that kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and thousands of our own military service people. They love massive war-time profits, unavailable to their rich masters if war is absent.

Those Extremist Republicans hate the rest of us, which they must, in order to pass away from themselves and onto us, the financial burdens and losses their crimes, schemes and thefts cause. They are prolific, incessant, and destructive liars. They are blasphemers for they insist that their hateful and destructive deeds are the work of God. They are apostates for they gleefully attack the poor, the immigrants, the old and the sick, of whom God has commanded all of us to be mindful.

There is no reasoning with them, for all their logic is built on false premises. There is no appealing to them for honor's sake for they have lost all sense of shame and have no honor, there is no appealing to them for the nation's sake for that it what they hate the most.

Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are the enemy.

"Andrew Breibart is one of the great pulsars of our times: a collapsed gravity well of unblinking stare. People innocently walking down the street, are drawn into his orbit, helplessly drawn in by how utterly dense he is. They cannot escape the completely impenetrable mass of evil darkness surrounding his mind and become totally crushed & moronized by him." By a Friend of Religious Freedom

Andrew J. Breitbart was born February 1, 1969. He is an American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, an occasional guest commentator on various news programs. He may be best-known for serving as an editor for the Drudge Report website. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and was employed by her as "the primary developer" of her website, the Huffington Post. He currently runs his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace. Keith Olbermann has called Breitbart "scum" and a "pornographer of propaganda". He is a Shill for Fox News and a very devious and dishonest person

Why Is The New York Times Helping Andrew Breitbart Tell Lies?

Excerpts from an article by Matt Gertz Sourced from Media Matters for America June 27, 2011

In today's New York Times profile, Jeremy Peters writes of Andrew Breitbart's smear of Shirley Sherrod (emphasis added):

The most notorious video he put up -- one that almost ruined his career -- was a two-minute clip of Ms. Sherrod, a black Agriculture Department official, telling an N.A.A.C.P. gathering that she did not help a white man as much as she could have with his failing farm. The headline said "NAACP Awards Racism."

But when the N.A.A.C.P. released a longer version of the video, it showed clearly that Ms. Sherrod's story was about overcoming racial prejudice, and that she did indeed go to great lengths to help the farmer. Defending himself, Mr. Breitbart said that the video came to him already edited, and that the crowd applauded when Ms. Sherrod said she did not help the man.

Critics seized on it as evidence that Mr. Breitbart selectively chooses content that reflects poorly on political opponents. But the episode only seemed to help bolster his status as a rising star on the political right.

Let's ignore how pathetic it is that part of Breitbart's defense is that he didn't care enough about the facts to find the full context of that video clip before he posted it on his website. Instead, let's focus on the way that the Times' Peters allows Breitbart to lie about the content of that clip.

Whether "the crowd applauded when Ms. Sherrod said she did not help the man" is not an opinion; it is an assertion of fact that can easily verified. One can go to Breitbart's website, find that clip, and listen for the alleged applause that Breitbart is citing to defend himself. It doesn't take long to do this bare minimum of fact-checking; the out-of-context clip is only 2 minutes 36 seconds long. Go ahead and watch it. I'll wait.

Did you hear the applause? Of course not: It doesn't exist. But rather than actually attempting to verify Breitbart's claims, Peters simply reports them. Which is a smart thing to do when you're profiling a known liar.

This is not a new defense for Breitbart; he literally has been lying about this for 11 months. In interviews on July 20 and July 21 of last year, after his Sherrod smear had been completely debunked, Breitbart desperately tried to maintain his credibility by making up the applause story. As media began uncritically reporting his new claim, we did the due diligence that they (and Peters) did not, and actually reviewed the tape.

We found that, contrary to Breitbart's claim, the audience does not applaud at any point during Sherrod's story about her interaction with the farmer. We weren't the only ones to come to this conclusion. CNN's Anderson Cooper and NBC's Chuck Todd also checked the video and reported that Breitbart's claim was false.

You know who else debunked Andrew Breitbart's claim? Andrew Breitbart! In his initial post on the Sherrod clip, the one he says was supposed to definitively prove that the "NAACP Awards Racism," Breitbart didn't report that "the crowd applauded when Ms. Sherrod said she did not help the man"; he instead said that their reaction was one of "nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement" (reactions explained by the fact that the clip leaves out that Sherrod previewed her story by explaining that it was one of redemption). If he really thought they were applauding, why didn't he mention that?

Because he's lying. And so we ask again: "Why is the NY Times helping him lie?"

University Officials: Big Government Video Was "Highly Distorted" And "Out Of Context"

Big Government: Videos Prove Professors Teach "Fear, Intimidation, And, Even, Industrial Sabotage." In April, Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment website posted a series of clearly edited videos and claimed they showed evidence of, among other things, professors "instruct[ing] students on how fear, intimidation, and, even, industrial sabotage are important and, often, necessary tools." [BigGovernment, 4/25/11, 4/25/11]

Fact: Big Government Eliminated Crucial Context And Qualifying Statements From Video Excerpts. Media Matters obtained and reviewed the context of remarks highlighted in the video Breitbart promoted. The video clearly excised crucially qualifying statements in a way that changes the meaning of what the speakers were saying, including portions where a professor explicitly rejected violence as an ineffective tactic. [See the truth HERE]

University: Big Gov Videos Are "Highly Distorted Through Splicing And Editing." Officials at the University of Missouri-St. Louis concluded an investigation into the allegations promoted by Breitbart's web sites, and stated:

The excerpts that were made public showing the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) instructor Don Giljum and students as well as the UMKC instructor and students were definitely taken out of context, with their meaning highly distorted through splicing and editing from different times within a class period and across multiple class periods. [St. Louis Activist Hub, 5/9/2011]

Past Investigations Have Criticized Breitbart-Promoted Videos For Deceptive Editing

California Attorney General: ACORN Videos Were "Severely Edited." After investigating James O'Keefe's heavily edited ACORN tapes - which Breitbart aggressively promoted -the California Attorney General's office reported:

Videotapes secretly recorded last summer and severely edited by O'Keefe seemed to show ACORN employees encouraging a "pimp" (O'Keefe) and his "prostitute," actually a Florida college student named Hannah Giles, in conversations involving prostitution by underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes. Those videos created a media sensation.

Evidence obtained by Brown tells a somewhat different story, however, as reflected in three videotapes made at ACORN locations in California. One ACORN worker in San Diego called the cops. Another ACORN worker in San Bernardino caught on to the scheme and played along with it, claiming among other things that she had murdered her abusive husband. Her two former husbands are alive and well, the Attorney General's report noted. At the beginning and end of the Internet videos, O'Keefe was dressed as a 1970s Superfly pimp, but in his actual taped sessions with ACORN workers, he was dressed in a shirt and tie, presented himself as a law student, and said he planned to use the prostitution proceeds to run for Congress. He never claimed he was a pimp.

"The evidence illustrates," Brown said, "that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor." [California State Department Of Justice, 4/1/10]

NY Daily News: Law Enforcement Source Criticizes O'Keefe And Giles For Editing ACORN Tape "To Meet Their Agenda." A March 1, 2010, New York Daily News article reported that "a law enforcement source" said O'Keefe and Giles "edited the tape to meet their agenda." [New York Daily News, 3/1/10]

NY Post: Brooklyn DA Sources Criticize "'Heavily Edited' Splice Job." A March 2, 2010, New York Post article, reported, "The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a 'heavily edited' splice job that only made it appear as though the organization's workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage, sources said yesterday." The Post further reported, "Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said." [NY Post, 3/2/10]

Breitbart Admitted Sherrod Video He Posted Was "Out Of Context." In an interview with Daniel Stone of Newsweek, Breitbart agreed that video he promoted that portrayed then-USDA official Shirley Sherrod as a racist was "out of context":

Stone: But do you agree that the edited video took things out of context?

Breitbart: Well, yes. But I put up what I had. It granted a great portion of her redemptive tale, but not all of it. If I could do it all over again, I should have waited for the full video to get to me. [Newsweek, 07/30/10]

Breitbart Is Widely Discredited For Promoting Deceptively Edited Video

CNN's Cooper: Breitbart Pushed Video That Was "Clearly Edited To Deceive And Slander Ms. Sherrod." CNN's Anderson Cooper said that Breitbart's video clip of Sherrod "was clearly edited to deceive and slander Ms. Sherrod," and that Breitbart's efforts to "weasel his way out of taking responsibility for what he did to Ms. Sherrod is a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse." [CNN, Anderson Cooper 360,7/21/10]

Politico's Ben Smith: "Breitbart's Sites Now Have A Growing Credibility Problem." The Politico's Ben Smith wrote: "The nice thing about the new-media space is how quickly it self-corrects. Breitbart's sites now have a growing credibility problem." [Politico, 7/22/10]

MSNBC's O'Donnell: "I Think [Breitbart] Has Lost His Standing To Present Videos To The Country At Any Time." MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said that Breitbart "has lost his standing to present videos to the country at any time," adding that the ACORN videos promoted by Breitbart were "manipulated in ways that were grotesquely unfair to the people in those scenes." [MSNBC's Morning Joe, 7/22/10]

SPJ Official: Breitbart Is "Someone With A Specific Agenda." Andy Schotz, ethics committee chair at the Society of Professional Journalists, said: "Basic journalism calls for getting information, checking it out, looking for context and trying to get to the truth ... Gathering snippets and putting them out there to see what happens seems to be what is happening here. (Breitbart) is also someone with a specific agenda." [Mediamatters.org, 7/21/10]

Andrew Breitbart Hearts Al-Qaeda? MoveOn Mocks Media With Spliced Video

Conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart admitted in a speech not too long ago that he "hearts" al Qaeda. Or so he does in a new video that was just put online. Okay, it's a video that seems spliced. Fine, it is spliced. And it was put online by MoveOn.org.

In a campaign to reform the standards of broadcast media, the progressive advocacy organization released a spoof clip on Monday demonstrating the dangers -- if not absurdity -- of running clips that appear to be taken out of context for malicious intent.

The foil, naturally, is Breitbart, whose BigGovernment website posted an edited video last week that led to the firing of Shirley Sherrod, the still-former Agriculture official, in the mistaken belief that she had made racist remarks. But the target of MoveOn's video is the media at large.

While Breitbart (at least this week) may be easy to mock, he is likely un-reformable. But the cable news and Internet outlets can still be shamed into treating his reports and similar inaccurate products with the necessary skepticism. Indeed, the short clip released on Monday is part of a broader media-reforming campaign.

"This video is just as truthful as any Breitbart has released, so we hope broadcast media will give it equally as much play as they have given his," said MoveOn spokesperson Ilyse Hogue. "The media has fallen down on their core mission of providing facts to the American people and watchdogging our democracy; if they are going to fail, they should fail in a nonpartisan fashion."

Origins and Personal Life

Breitbart grew up in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Both he and his sister Tracey were adopted. His biological father was a folk singer. His adoptive father was a restaurateur, his mother a banker. He worked as a pizza deliveryperson and car washer. He graduated from Tulane University in 1991. He says he "grew up in Brentwood a secular liberal Jew" who celebrated his bar mitzvah and "has the tape to prove it," but had "an interesting epiphany" during the Clarence Thomas hearings. He now describes himself as "a Reagan conservative" who has "sympathies towards the libertarian side of issues."

His early jobs included a stint at cable channel E! Entertainment Television, working for the company's online magazine, and some time in film production.

In 1995 he saw the Drudge Report and was so impressed that he emailed Matt Drudge. "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do." Matt Drudge introduced him to Arianna Huffington, when she was still a Republican, and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a "Progressive", in creating her website.

He is married to Susannah (Susie) Bean, the daughter of actor Orson Bean, and has four children.

Contributor

Before the launching of Big Government, Breitbart's highest profile venue was the Drudge Report. Breitbart, who once described himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch," selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Mr. Breitbart has guest-hosted the Savage Nation talk radio program on several occasions. He also regularly fills in for Dennis Miller as host of Miller's nationally-syndicated radio show.

Author

Breitbart co-wrote Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon with Mark Ebner, a book that is highly critical of U.S. celebrity culture. The publisher's description says, "celebrities somehow believe that it's their God-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell.... And we're not going to take it any more."

Breitbart's work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and the Weekly Standard Online, among others. He writes a weekly column for The Washington Times, which also appears at Real Clear Politics.

Commentator

Breitbart has appeared as a commentator on Real Time with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. In 2004 he was a guest commentator on Fox News Channel's morning show and frequently appears as a guest panelist on Fox News's late night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Breitbart also appeared as a commentator in the 2004 documentary Michael Moore Hates America.

On October 22, 2009 Breitbart appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He gave his opinions on the mainstream media, Hollywood, the Obama Administration and his personal political views, having heated debates with several callers.

In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy's death, Breitbart called Kennedy a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard,” a “prick” and "a special pile of human excrement."

In February 2010, Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award during the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C. During his acceptance speech, he responded directly to accusations by New York Times reporter Kate Zernike that Jason Mattera, a young conservative activist, had been using "racial tones" in his allusions to President Obama, and had spoken in a "Chris Rock voice." (Because Mattera is from Brooklyn, he was actually speaking in his own dialect.) From the podium, Breitbart called Zernike "a despicable human being" for having made such allegations about Mattera's New York accent.

Breitbart.com

Breitbart currently runs his own news site at Breitbart.com; it is frequently linked to by the Drudge Report and other websites. It features wire stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, PR Newswire, U.S. Newswire, as well as direct links to a number of major international newspapers. Its Blog & "Network" links tend to run to the right within the U.S. political spectrum (e.g., National Review, Instapundit, and Townhall.com). The site also features a search engine powered by Lingospot and a finance channel powered by FinancialContent. In 2007, Breitbart launched a video blog, Breitbart.tv.

Big Hollywood

In 2008 Breitbart launched the website "Big Hollywood," a "group blog" driven by Tinseltown, with contributions from a variety of writers, including entertainment-industry professionals who politically lean right.

The site, an outgrowth of the column "Big Hollywood" that Breitbart wrote for the Washington Times, addresses issues facing conservatives who work in Hollywood.

In 2009, the site accused the National Endowment of the Arts of encouraging artists to create work in support of Barack Obama's domestic policy agenda. The claim was based on excerpts of a secretly recorded conference call, and resulted in the resignation of Yosi Sergant, the agency's Director of Communications.

Big Government

Andrew Breitbart gave notice that he would produce a new blog, entitled "Big Government," to premiere on September 10, 2009. He hired Mike Flynn, a former government affairs specialist at Reason Foundation, as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government.

Further information: ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy

The site started by airing footage of ACORN staffers in Baltimore who gave unethical advice concerning underage prostitution and tax-evasion on-tape to Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe. Within 24 hours of the video's release, the two women featured on the hidden camera were fired by ACORN over the incident. After the release of the second in the tape series, which targeted the Washington D.C. ACORN office, the U.S. Census Bureau severed its connection with ACORN, which had been scheduled to assist in the 2010 census. Five "sting tapes," with Hannah Giles portraying the "prostitute" Kenya, and O'Keefe acting as her boyfriend/pimp, have been released; these feature the ACORN offices in Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and both San Bernardino and San Diego, California.

Breitbart has vowed to "continue exposing" the ACORN organization; on November 22, 2009 he broke a story on Burbank's KFI AM radio about a "document dump" by the National City, California ACORN office. His story claimed that thousands of allegedly incriminating documents were thrown in a public dumpster in the wake of California Attorney General Jerry Brown's investigation of ACORN, only to be recovered by local private investigator Derrick Roach. Breitbart said that he intended to "drip" the documents out in a serialized story, in a fashion similar to the O'Keefe videos. Brown released a report on April 1, 2010 saying that O'Keefe's videos were "severely edited" and contained no evidence of criminal conduct on the part of ACORN employees. On March 22, 2010 ACORN announced that it was disbanding due to insufficient revenues, attributable in great part to the effects of the controversy ignited by Breitbart's investigations.

Big Journalism

In January, 2010, Breitbart launched Big Journalism. He told Mediaite:

Our goal at Big Journalism is to hold the mainstream media’s feet to the fire. There are a lot of stories that they simply don’t cover, either because it doesn’t fit their world view, or because they’re literally innocent of any knowledge that the story even exists, or because they are a dying organization, short-staffed, and thus can’t cover stuff like they did before.

Big Journalism is edited by Michael A. Walsh, a former journalism professor and Time magazine music critic.^[28] One of Breitbart's aims for the site is to shame "traditional media outlets ... into telling the truth." The site has a fictional contributor named "Retracto, the Correction Alpaca" who posts items requesting corrections from the traditional media.

Big Peace

BigPeace.com debuted July 4, 2010, with eight blog posts. The site covers military operations of the world.

Activism

Breitbart often appears as a speaker at fiscally conservative Tea Party movement protests across the U.S. For example, Breitbart was a keynote speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention at Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville on February 6, 2010.

On March 20, 2010, before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Bill was voted on by lawmakers, it was reported that protesters against the bill used racial and homophobic slurs at a rally at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Black congressmen lawmakers John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver said that demonstrators shouted "nigger" at them. Breitbart stated that the Congressmen had taken photographs during their walk but not produced any videos of the alleged abuse, suggested they were trying to "manufacture the false appearance of" racism, and offered to donate $10,000 to the United Negro College Fund if Rep. Lewis provided any evidence of his claims. Later he raised his offer to a $100,000 donation "for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled at Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson" and said that Nancy Pelosi also walked through the crowd "looking to provoke a negative reaction. They didn’t get it. So they made it up." He added, "Nancy Pelosi did a great disservice to a great civil rights icon [Lewis] by thrusting him out there to perform this mischievous task. His reputation is now on the line as a result of her desperation to take down the Tea Party movement."

On April 13, an Associated Press report claimed that "Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white" had also heard the slurs and that Breitbart was relying on a video shot at least an hour after the walk. The AP report regarding Shuler was quickly corrected: "Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the 'N-word'". Shuler did hear the slurs made against Barney Frank. Breitbart says he "was not relying on the one video for proof", and says he emphasized that to the AP writer. Breitbart also says he was relying on the fact that two people with the Democrats had video cameras held over their heads during the walk but have never produced any footage of racial abuse. David Weigel, blogging for The Washington Post, noted that Breitbart and others appear to have won a new media victory about whether the slurs happened, concluding "that the March 20 story will be remembered by conservatives as evidence of how the media accepts attacks on conservatives without due diligence".

Sherrod controversy

Main article: Resignation of Shirley Sherrod

On July 19, 2010, after the NAACP had criticized the Tea Party movement for alleged racism days earlier, Breitbart posted two videos which he said showed the NAACP condoning racism despite publicly opposing it. The videos showed brief excerpts of a speech by Shirley Sherrod, an official with the United States Department of Agriculture, at a NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2009, in which, Breitbart later said, "she expresses a discriminatory attitude towards white people [and] the audience responds with applause". During the ensuing controversy, Sherrod was forced to resign.

Breitbart claims that he posted the clips as he received them from an unnamed source. The NAACP posted the complete video of the speech the next day (as did Breitbart), revealing that the speaker was in fact making an argument against racial discrimination, and said that the editing of the video was deliberately deceptive and that it had been "snookered" by Breitbart and Fox News into believing that it showed a racist comment. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack later "apologized to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod and offered her a unique new position at the agency".

Sherrod said she "would definitely consider" legal action against Breitbart. "As much as he's saying it was about the NAACP, he had to know that it was about me," Sherrod said. "He was willing to destroy me to get to what he thought -- to try to destroy the NAACP." Many media outlets offered their views on Breitbart’s actions: conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called it "great work" whereas ABC News' Nightline program called Breitbart a "provocateur, a rabble-rouser, and a master manipulator". CNN called the episode a "smear campaign" and news anchor Keith Olbermann called Breitbart "scum" and a "pornographer of propaganda".

An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.

“I am public enemy No. 1 or 2 to the Democratic Party, the progressive movement and the Obama administration based upon the successes my journalism has had,” Breitbart said in a telephone interview late Thursday morning as he headed to the airport for what he said was a long-planned, three-day vacation.

Breitbart asserted that liberal media outlets are shifting the focus to the misleading excerpting in the videos he posted — as well as his erroneous statement about the context of the footage — to divert attention from what he asserts is a double standard on racist behavior exposed by the video, which he released Monday to push back against a recently passed NAACP resolution expressing concern about “racist elements” in the tea party movement.

“The desire here is to make it about me and not the Democratic establishment and the NAACP vs. the tea party,” Breitbart said, defending the footage he posted as “a self-contained newsworthy video that established the media standard of pointing out that the NAACP countenanced racism in its own award dinner setting. That was the point. That was the point. And the video proves it.”

He offered no apology to Sherrod but said that she has not been held accountable for the racial overtones of what she said.

"If anybody reads the sainted, martyred Sherrod’s entire speech, this person has not gotten past black vs. white," he said.

Asked whether he would have more thoroughly vetted the original video if he had it to do over again, Breitbart wouldn’t say.

“Let me think about that,” he said. “You’ll have to ask me (later). I am right now about to get out of the car to go to the airport, and I’ll think about this for another time, because I’m being inundated with falsehoods left and right that are making it impossible for me to have a 40,000-feet-above-it-all perspective of what’s going on. All I’m seeing is people right now seeing blood in the water and coming after me. And the amount of half-truths and falsehoods that are out there in the pursuit of taking me down because they perceive that I’m a threat, it’s astounding.”

He did say “I believe that I’m held to a higher standard. If this video showed a picture of a Caucasian talking in the exact same way but talking about a black person with an audience affirming and clapping that behavior, the reporter would be getting a Pulitzer Prize right now.”

The video excerpts Breitbart posted Monday on his Big Government website appeared to show Sherrod, until recently an Agriculture Department official, recalling during a March 27 appearance at an NAACP banquet in Georgia her discriminatory attitude against a white farmer, though - contrary to Breitbart's assertions - there is no evidence of the audience applauding her ostensibly discriminatory sentiments.

The original footage sparked wide condemnation of Sherrod — including from the NAACP — and she was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department.

But, when the NAACP released the full video of her speech, it showed her describing that she actually had set aside her racial assumptions and helped the farmer, while concluding that "there is no difference between us” — prompting apologies from the NAACP, President Barack Obama and others, and an offer to have her job back.

The incident took place while she was working at a nonprofit group — well before she went to work at the Agriculture Department in 2009. It was this issue that Breitbart’s correction addressed.

“While Ms. Sherrod made the remarks captured in the first video featured in this post while she held a federally appointed position, the story she tells refers to actions she took before she held that federal position,” the correction read.

Breitbart described the correction as stemming from “misunderstanding the timeline of the thing based upon (Sherrod’s) after-the-fact (explanation) of when this transpired” so “I offered a correction. Journalists offer corrections.”

Asked if he regretted the error, he said “anybody that issues a correction is offering a regret — it’s manifestly obvious.”

Breitbart insisted that he received only the video excerpts he posted, not the full speech, and he refused to answer questions about the motivations or identity of the source, saying only “I’m protecting that person’s identity.”

On Tuesday, he told Fox News’s Sean Hannity the video came from “an individual in Georgia who is worried of — worried about being exposed and attacked like Joe the plumber reached out to me,” and asserted in an interview with CNN’s John King that he has more similar video, which he asserted shows “even more racism.”

He wouldn’t answer POLITICO’s questions about whether he had doubts about that additional video or intended to post it.

But he did assert that the footage missing from the Sherrod video that he posted didn’t substantively change the story and said that he posted some footage in which she said she realized class was more significant a factor than race.

“The media is misportraying me — deceptively editing this story to make it appear that the video that I put out there, I edited — it’s false, and that’s malicious,” Breitbart said. “They’re also saying that I kept out the exculpatory stuff. The exculpatory narrative is not only in the tail end of the excerpt, but it’s reasserted in my text description.”

Breitbart was equally defiant when asked whether it counted against him that he had to clarify or correct aspects of both of the major stories he’s broken — the Sherrod saga and a video expose of the liberal community organizing group ACORN.

The ACORN videos, which played a major role in the group's demise, left the false impression that Breitbart protégé James O’Keefe was dressed in a cartoonish pimp suit while secretly filming ACORN employees offering advice on how to set up a brothel for underage girls — a claim Breitbart echoed, though he later admitted he “did not know that there was a discrepancy” between O’Keefe’s dress during an introductory sequence in the videos and what he wore during his secretly filmed discussions.

Referring to both the ACORN and Sherrod exposes, Breitbart told POLITICO Thursday “they were extensive stories where the lion’s share — 99.99999 percent was accurate — and that which wasn’t, we corrected the record. And none of it affected the material aspects of the story.”

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