David Chalian has just been Breitbarted.
NewsBusters does it again.
And don’t forget Rush.
As my colleague Stacy McCain notes
in his column this morning on a new film on the late Andrew
Breitbart (I still have a hard time writing “late”), in the wake of
his death Andrew’s last name has become a verb. As in: To Breitbart
— to reveal the left’s ongoing game of bias in the media and
general shenanigans everywhere. You can put that priceless ACORN
undressing in the “Breitbarted” column. The film focuses on
Andrew’s war against leftist media bias (among other things) and
not by chance has Matthew Sheffield of NewsBusters discussing
Andrew.
As we were
saying earlier this week, NewsBusters has become the
indispensable source for tracking the left-wing bias media game. A
game which consists of pretending to be objective and an above
board referee when in fact said media are vital team players in
advancing the liberal narrative.
A bare two days after that column ran, NewsBusters caught out
the Yahoo Washington bureau chief, David Chalian, in a typical
example of how the game works. The NewsBusters story,
here, outed Chalian as saying of Mitt and Ann Romney — on a
live mic — that
They aren’t concerned at all. They are happy to have a party
with black people drowning.
The reference, of course, was to Hurricane Isaac bearing down on
New Orleans as the GOP Convention prepared to open in Tampa. And of
course, it was an updated version of the disgusting theme from
Katrina that George W. Bush let people drown because they were
black. In other words, more racial garbage from the Party of
Race.
The story was broken by, yes, Matthew Sheffield. The same
Matthew Sheffield who appears in the Breitbart film. And the same
Matthew Sheffield, as we also noted in our earlier column, who
played a key role in getting the Media Research Center’s NewsBuster
site up and running in 2005.
Then something else occurred.
As Stacy notes, Matthew had his breaking story up on the
NewsBusters site at 10:22. By noon, Rush Limbaugh was on the air
and began to talk about it. Chalian’s appalling joke was
everywhere.
The New Media model was on the job.
Within hours, David Chalian was out of a job.
Now. We have no grudge against Mr. Chalian. To lose a job
anytime is not fun, and in the Obama economy especially.
But the real lesson here, dating perhaps from the day in 2004
that Dan Rather’s story about Bush and the National Guard was
revealed by the folks at Powerline to be an utter phony, the
conservative media — the New Media — is here to stay.
NewsBusters is watching.
Rush is watching.
Sean Hannity and Mark Levin and all of talk radio are
watching.
Fox is watching.
The American Spectator and our colleagues in
conservative magazines and newspapers and blogs are all
watching.
The old game of the Old Media is over. For good. As Mr. Chalian
has now found out in a highly personal fashion, those who choose to
play this patently dishonest game are now risking paying the
ultimate professional price — their jobs and reputation.
Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart is laughing.
Breitbart is here.
