There have always been propagandists on both sides of every issue. But they can operate with impunity in cyberspace. They keep score by counting page views. For them, truth is quantitative.
But Breitbart is a special case. He is like the emperor who still gets compliments on his new clothes even after his bare butt is exposed.
He was exposed months ago when a hoax perpetrated by his minions, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, unraveled. This pair claimed they were dressed like a pimp and prostitute when "officials" in ACORN offices advised them on how to open a brothel that transported sex slaves across the U.S. border.
Breitbart, who employs O'Keefe, presented the heavily edited fiction on his Web sites. Later, when it was revealed that the pair had never actually dressed that way in the ACORN offices they visited, Breitbart stuck to his guns.
Even after attorneys general in New York, Massachusetts and California discredited the tapes, Breitbart insisted they were "essentially" true.
He failed to acknowledge that ACORN workers in San Diego and Philadelphia had called the cops to report the alleged pimp or that of the eight offices they visited, the Baltimore office was the only one where an ACORN worker could even arguably be said to have believed and aided in the alleged pimp tale.
When confronted with the falsehoods, Breitbart claimed he didn't know the tapes had been edited, which makes him either a dupe or a liar. You choose.
But in choosing, consider what he said in a blog posting about his tactics.
He claims his "strategy and tactics were built around my understanding that the mainstream media would be the enemy of the truth and that we would have to go to extreme measures."
