Chamblee54

Chamblee54 has avoided, until now, comments about the Dave Weigel/journo list affair. It all seems a bit too “inside baseball”, not to mention the whole liberal/conservative mudfight. Whoever selected the bits to leak has talent…the thing about Matt Drudge caught the eye. While the rumors about Mr.D come and go, setting yourself on fire is just a bit too kinky.
This does not deter Andrew Breitbart (spell check suggestions:Breathing, Breadbasket )from mixing things up. Mr. Breitbart is number 15 on the worst conservatives list. He facilitated an expose of ACORN, which has largely been discredited. This is part of what he is squealing about in the video above. At the very least, he seems like a very unpleasant, loud, showboat.
Mr. Breitbart offered $100,000 for anyone who had the archives of the now defunct Journo List. When Andrew Sullivan (who has a skeleton or two in his own closet, and possibly a fire extinguisher) heard about this, he had a few harsh words to share with his close electronic friends.
Where it gets bizarre is the counter response of Mr. Breitbart. After some huffing and puffing, he wonders : “Why was Mickey Kaus not excoriated for breaking the sacred JournoList bond when he posted a series of leaked emails that showed collusion against not-liberal-enough New Republic editor Marty Peretz for his crime of sticking up for Israel?” Hmm, maybe because no one reads his column. ( PG looked through some of these messages, and could not make heads or tails of them. Anything about Israel was stuck in a message after PG gave up. Maybe the Israel thing was a red herring to get a few more people to pay attention.)
The “hypocrisy” piece by Mr. Brietbart is not well written. There are some ninety degree turns, like when he says, out of nowhere, “I would never divulge an individual’s sexual secrets.” ( perhaps Weigel and Drudge had a “hot” romance).
The article goes completely out of control two paragraphs down. The section about to be quoted is above a (possibly posed) picture of Sarah and Trig Palin playing.
“The election of Barack Obama was facilitated by a corrupt Fourth Estate. It didn’t get corrupted by accident. The political left, on its self-proclaimed Long March Through the Institutions, walked in the front door, took control, and since has done everything in its power to keep it, including secretly massing on the Internet, sharing notes, sharing ideas.. and wishing death to their political enemies.”
Holy rhetoric, Batman.