Mutt See TV - Andrew Breitbart On Bill Maher Tonight

10 P.M. (HBO) REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com; Amy Holmes, a contributor for CNN; and Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy,” are at the round table. Ann Druyan, creative director of the Voyager Interstellar Message Project at NASA, and Richard Tillman, a brother of Pat Tillman, the former National Football League player killed by allied fire in Afghanistan, are guests. - NYTimes

I asked Breitbart, via web chat, for his reaction to Sherrod’s lawsuit threat. He declined to comment directly, instead sending me a series of quotes from others evidently meant to demonstrate the righteousness of his cause. One was from Sherrod herself, delivered to CNN’s Tony Harris on July 20: “…The NAACP has not tried to contact me one time and they are the reason why this happened. They got into a fight with the Tea Party, and all of this came out as a result of that.”

Considering what happened last time Breitbart quoted Sherrod with limited context, you’d think his lawyers would advise him against this line of defense.

Andrew Breitbart responds to Sherrod’s lawsuit threat’s by quoting Sherrod out of context again

Greg Mitchell - RT@jeffbercovici 

Andrew Breitbart is going to be fine. He’s done nothing wrong.

Brent Bozell, Media Research Center President and Founder

Matt Lewis 

Doing nothing “wrong” and doing nothing “illegal” are two totally different matters. Only wingnuts who never admit to any wrong doing say Breitbart has done nothing wrong with the Sherrod story and Bozell fits into the wingnut category quite nicely.

A little noticed statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s press conference yesterday was his admission that Shirley Sherrod tried to alert the USDA last week of the tape’s existence…

This is rather curious. Did Breitbart actually call Sherrod for comment last week? Did whoever leaked the tape inform Sherrod they were doing so?

Who Tipped Off Shirley Sherrod Last Week? - Time 

I talked with Shirley about the fact that she had e-mailed the office the Thursday prior to this video being – coming an issue. I did not receive the e-mail because it was not addressed properly to me.” - Tom Vilsack during yesterday’s mea culpa press conference.