Lunatics and Liars
by digby
As most of you probably know already, ABC made the mistake of hiring an unstable hoaxter for its election night coverage and it’s cause a bit of a kerfuffle. They can’t can him because the entire right wing will immediately vomit green pea soup and start speaking in tongues at the mere hint of the MSM destroying yet another fine patriot for the “crime” of being a conservative. (Indeed, the media should recognize that the rules have now changed — conservatives are unfireable.)
But here’s what ABC gets for hiring from the lockdown unit of the GOP asylum, (from Media Matters):
Breitbart is in complete meltdown mode and his sites are posting a series of increasingly incoherent rants against ABC News. You really ought to read them though, as they perfectly distill the paranoid mind of today’s right-wing movement and its almost complete addiction to victimization. (Breitbart’s been blacklisted! Or something….) Plus, you’ll learn all sorts of interesting facts, like how it’s Media Matters’ fault that ABC seemed to walk back its TV invite to Breitbart. And George Soros’ fault, and the fault of Obama, Center for American Progress, the FCC, Keith Olbermann, Charles Schumer, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Huffington Post, NPR, and George Stephanopoulos.
And he’s still going to do the appearance, as far as I know. All ABC did was try to distance themselves from his ranting lunacy by saying he would be online rather than on TV. It’s not as if they shut out all the screaming, incoherent, wingnut wackjobs. They even kept his mendacious factotum, Dana Loesch on their in-studio guest list as an “analyst” with Cokie Roberts and Donna Brazile. But that’s not good enough for Breitbart, who is milking his semi-martyrdom for all its worth.
I know I won’t be watching ABC and certainly Breitbart’s audience won’t be — they watch Fox exclusively. So all that’s going to happen is that a bunch of casual viewers will tune in and they’ll see a babbling liar on the TV show and a few Facebook users over 65 will wander into the trainwreck that is Breitbart online. I sure hope his “edgy” commentary was worth all the trouble.
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