Andrew Breitbart is at it again. Already widely known as the racist mentor of soon to be convicted criminal James O'Keefe, Breitbart is again in hot water with the mainstream media, this time for using a "mislabeled" YouTube video to try and prove that John Lewis and Heath Shuler are lying about having heard Teabaggers yell the n word at black congressmen during the passage of healthcare.
Of course the Teabaggers did. They've been doing it for months.
But Breitbart puts the cherry on top by trying to pull a repeat of his O'Keefe stunt by using fake video footage, and he gets caught... again.
A reconstruction of the events shows that the conservative challenges largely sprang from a mislabeled video that was shot later in the day.
Breitbart posted two columns on his Web site saying the claims were fabricated. Both led with a 48-second YouTube video showing Lewis, Carson, other Congressional Black Caucus members and staffers leaving the Capitol. Some of the group were videotaping the booing crowd.
Breitbart asked why the epithet was not captured by the black lawmakers' cameras, and why nobody reacted as if they had heard the slur. He also questioned whether the epithets could have been shouted by liberals planted in the crowd.
Breitbart, being the out of the closet racist that he is, tries to argue that nobody in the Teabagger movement uses the n word in 2010, because even racists (like himself) know better.
"It didn't happen," said Breitbart, who wasn't there. "This is 2010. Even a racist is media-savvy enough not to yell the N-word."
Breitbart needs to stop projecting his own "media-savvy" brand of cyberacism onto the knuckledraggers in the Teabagger movement. After all, they don't all live like friendless hermits in the Hollywood Hills like Andrew. And they don't all spend their days holed up in their basements figuring out ways for savvy racists to navigate the world of online media. Most of them just go outside and start acting like what they are these days.
In any case, I guess Andrew "forgot" about Dale Robertson, one of the founders of the Teabagger movement, probably in the same way the YouTube video got "mislabeled"... unless his argument is that Teabaggers don't technically use the n word - because they can't spell it: