Breitbart only did what the left has done for decades, questioned authority. To get rid of such 'questioners' the left's MO is to call them 'racist'

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"'Call Them Racists'," to shut them up said Journolist member.

3/4/12, "Andrew Breitbart's Questions and Legacy," Breitbart Big Journalism, by James Hudnall and Val Mayerik

"Andrew Breitbart has been vilified by the left for doing what they’ve been doing for decades: Questioning authority. But when it comes to the left you aren’t allowed to be contrary with them. You’re supposed to accept their propaganda, their deceit, and tyrannical overreach without dissent. This is one of the many reasons they are so unAmerican. All Andrew wanted was some very fair and reasonable things. A truthful media and an honest government. It’s what we all want and don’t get.

But Andrew wouldn’t accept the plate that was put in front of him. He sent it back and asked that they get it right.

For that he has been attacked by the very people who don’t want us to live in a free, open society. The people who characterize average Americans as stupid and worthless and who believe we should all accept the government telling us what to think, eat, and believe. Or else. The people who claim to believe in fairness and equality but who spend every waking moment trying to insure no one has it. The very wannabe elites who mock the rest of us and act like they’re the moral authority while brazenly committing crimes, mendacity and deception on a daily basis.

They tried to make Andrew look bad for exposing the corrupt organization ACORN which was involved in vast amounts of criminal fraud while receiving millions in tax dollars. They tried to make him look like a liar for telling the truth about Anthony Wiener until Wiener himself had to confess. The big sites constantly expose the lies and disinformation of the left for the simple reason that we expect those in power to be honest with us. It’s a perfectly sensible request. Certainly one that doesn’t merit the scorn and attacks it’s gotten.

Their attacks and behavior shows the world what they really are. The monsters have let their masks slip. We see the sickening, pox ridden horror that’s behind them. The “beautiful people” aren’t. The so called truth tellers are liars. The lawmakers are crooks. And none of them want their illusions shattered. But its happened and the best is yet to come.

If you can judge someone by their enemies, Andrew Breitbart showed he made all the right ones. He exposed the crooks, frauds, and creeps that have infected the body politic. What Andrew Breitbart did was shine the light of truth in those dark places that didn’t want to be illuminated. And for that his legacy as a great American is secured in history.

Andrew Breitbart was the every man who fought the system and won. Many of us will be carrying on his fight.

Join us."

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Journolist knew how to silence news or dissent from the right: "Call them racists."

3/4/12, "PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Repeat after me: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading.”, Instapundit, 10:51AM

3/3/12, "Saturday Night Card Game (Repeat after me: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”)," Legal Insurrection, W. Jacobson

"No, it wasn’t. And the people who say otherwise either never actually read Andrew’s original post, or are miserable lying pricks. Just to be clear, here. Key point: “What really was going on was that the crowd reaction to the Sherrod’s comments caught on the tape was very damaging to the NAACP and those who attacked the Tea Party movement as racist. The crowd cheered when Sherrod recounted her long-ago hostility to the white farmer, and that crowd reaction was the real story. Focusing the debate on the editing of the tape was

• a convenient distraction.”" (item at end of post)

Sign at grassroots rally, est. 2009-2010

7/20/10, "Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright," Daily Caller, Jonathan Strong

"In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote,... — and call them racists.”"...

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This was fine for 'civil public discourse:'

George Bush burned in effigy via Zombietime.com. Alleged anti-war people now shown to be pawns and fakes. Above, November 3, 2004 post-election anti-Bush rally in San Francisco. More anti-Bush hate signs at newsbusters.org. Media fine with it.

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