Viewpoint Hall Of Shame: Andrew Breitbart

In response to Keith Olbermann suspending Worst Persons In The World again, I'm going to start posting nominations to the Viewpoint Hall Of Shame. Whenever I see something worthy of a "Hall Of Shame" entry, I will blog about it here.

Today's nomination goes to the late Andrew Breitbart. Primarily because he'd acquired the tapes and even though he passed away before they were released, it is just another example of the kind of work that he made famous.

Back in college, Barack Obama praised the first tenured African American law professor at Harvard University, Professor Derrick Bell. The right chooses to portray Bell as a racialist, a radical. Sean Hannity showed the footage on his Fox News show last night, and this morning, Joel Pollak, Editor in Chief of Breitbart.com appeared on CNN to proclaim the bombshell. But Soledad O'Brien, much like myself, couldn't see any bombshell information in that footage.

What Breitbart and the others on the extreme right seem to forget is that life is all about growing, progressing, going forward, not going backwards or standing still. The people who are most looked up to are the ones who moved forward, not backward.

There is growing distrust about official media, corporate media and government information, but that doesn't mean you have to belive the first conspiracy theory that comes along. People who propogate these theories often have something to gain by promoting it. So be equally wary of those who claim that only they have the real knowledge. This smacks of desperation by a right wing media machine that knows the Republican candidates for President this year are the weakest ever. And even Mitt Romney, who is the strongest of the candidates, is seeing himself get weaker and weaker because he is being forced to go further to the right now, at the cost of attracting independents and moderates, the REAL mainstream of American politics, later.

That's why Andrew Breitbart posthumously gets nominated for the Viewpoint Hall Of Shame.