Did Breitbart Lie About ABC Election Night Role?
Andrew Breitbart, the Fox News darling already known as a proven liar and rightwing propagandist (is there a difference?) may have added a few inches to his nose in the past day or so. Yesterday morning the front page of his blog, bigjournalism.com, featured an announcement that “founder and head of the Breitbart empire Andrew Breitbart will be bringing analysis live from Arizona” on election night. Since then, not only centrist and leftwing bloggers, but members of ABC’s newsroom, have been up in arms. However, it turns out Bretibart has not been hired by ABC. Funny how he sat back and let everyone come to the conclusion that he had been, isn’t it? Screenshot after the jump. Here is what an ABC executive had to say early this evening: Since conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart announced on his website that he was going to be a participant in ABC’s Town Hall meeting at Arizona State University, there has been considerable consternation and misinformation regarding my decision to a
