Breitbart Responds

Andrew writes in response to this post:

In the piece you link to and affirm in the Daily Beast, "The Right's Lesser Press," Conor Friedersdorf refuses to interview me as he continues to be my unofficial biographer. (I'm VERY reachable, Conor.) He writes opinion pieces on me purporting to be journalism. He doesn't quote or cite me, he simply assumes and pushes the point of view he thinks I have and makes an argument based on these alleged positions. It's sloppy and you, of all people, should know better. 

Breitbart.com is MOSTLY a news aggregator. It carries the Associated Press, Reuters, even, Agence France Presse, from those dreaded croissant eaters!!! 

It even carries the New York Times on its front page -- a benefit that even Big Government and Big Hollywood don't receive.

Big Hollywood is what it is: a counter-voice to the virtually monolithic Hollywood left. How dare I grant a platform, and a means for the defense of those in Hollywood who would dare go against the strident and intolerant Hollywood left.

Big Government, too, is providing an outlet for voices and ideas that are not proportionally represented in the traditional and mostly biased mainstream media.

When lefties have asked to challenge something written at either site I have granted them the ability to do so.

I have even proactively reached out to others. Recently I asked the authors of "Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong"  to weigh in on Big Government's reporting on the ongoing ACORN scandal story. They refused.

As you well know, I was the person who came up with the idea behind the Huffington Post, and even helped Arianna and Ken Lerer launch the sucker. At the time I did not abdicate my point of view as a right leaning voice. I stated what I believe today: Let's put it all out there, and may the best ideas win.

Is it insignificant that I was behind the left's most prominent blog/media site?

Is it insignificant that I have written for the liberal-leaning Daily Beast which carried Conor Friedersdorf's criticism of me?

I believe that you and Conor would like to paint me into a corner, the one you are currently trying to paint Glenn Beck into. You are trying to marginalize me because of the net effect, pun intended, of the White House/NEA "propaganda" series on Big Hollywood, and the explosive ACORN expose

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