Comedy gold: Breitbart and Shuster yell at each other over James O’Keefe; Update: Shuster lied to me to get to appear, says Breitbart
posted at 4:00 pm on January 28, 2010 by Allahpundit
In which Breitbart gets grilled about journalistic ethics by a guy who was reprimanded by his own network this very morning for “inappropriately” jumping to conclusions about O’Keefe and whose career highlights include telling the Olby faithful that he was “convinced” an indictment of Karl Rove in Plamegate was on the way. A question from AmSpec’s Philip Klein: If, as Shuster suggests, it’s not appropriate to accuse someone of criminal behavior until formal charges have been filed, how come the left feels so chill about calling Bush and Rumsfeld war criminals? Food for thought as you watch. In Shuster’s semi-defense, he does grudgingly retract his own hasty judgment about O’Keefe — which, as of this writing, is more than can be said for CBS and the LA Times.
Needless to say, this is the stuff cable news dreams are made of. Oh, almost forgot: Right after Breitbart was cut off and this segment ended, Shuster brought in Eric Boehlert of Media Matters to play a few minutes of softball about what a shady guy Breitbart is. If you follow AB’s Twitter feed, you know that he regularly taunts Media Matters — and Boehlert particularly — for propagandizing for the left. I’m sure having him on here and giving Breitbart no chance to respond to him was pure coincidence.
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Update: You’ll be pleased to know that David Shuster has no horse in this race.
As I am signing off here, I have just been informed that MSNBC has admonished Shuster for “inappropriate” twitter comments. But what about Shuster’s obvious lie that he has no “horse in this race,” a lie he used to try to get me into the Obama-stimulus-infused, bias-laden MSNBC eco-system? Could there be a greater admission of a journalist’s political investment in a storyline than divining (”the truth is, you intended to tap her phones”) a subject guilty of a crime he has not even been accused of? Remember, Shuster has sold out Olbermann and Maddow as the ideologues in the newsroom. If Shuster is their idea of journalistic neutrality, I can continue to sleep well acting as a journalist who openly admits that he comes to the table with a unique political perspective.
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Someone’s feeling awfully charitable this afternoon.
BadgerHawk on January 28, 2010 at 4:02 PM
I have sympathy for O’Keefe, but as a silver lining look what the left is reduced to, attacking some kids in his twenties to vindicate themselves, its really quite pathetic.
rob verdi on January 28, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Why are Shuster’s nostrils always flaring like that? Is Olbermann just off camera farting?
tetriskid on January 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM
I’m gonna brag a little, I made it to around the 5-minute mark. Shuster is simply a disgrace.
LastRick on January 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM
talk about setting up.
upinak on January 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM
With his fingers crossed behind his back, I’m sure.
SouthernGent on January 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM
In this clip, Shuster certainly doesn’t sound like a guy who has no “horse in the race“.
LastRick on January 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM
MS–who…?!?!?
Ragspierre on January 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Shuster knew he was caught and tried to worm out of it. Breitbart should have smacked him up along side the head.
rplat on January 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Breitbart is a superhero.
Shuster must condone child prostitution. What a creep.
The democrat establishment in the media is sick.
daesleeper on January 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM
What i find most appalling is that ACORN somehow feels vindicated by this. Why? The tape is what it is. I see Mrs. T on the networks claiming victory and I told you so.
rjoco1 on January 28, 2010 at 4:10 PM
As Ace would say, Shuster’s face looks like a cup of pudding.
BadgerHawk on January 28, 2010 at 4:10 PM
ala…Pot (Shuster) calling the Kettle (Breitbart) black
hawkman on January 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM
Schuster’s an idiot. He’s just upset because his “Watergate Jr.” probably isn’t going to pan out as intended. Defending ACORN in the way that he did is just silly. Some journalist he is. What’s hysterical is that his lack of “reporting” is what ives rise to the O’Keefe’s of the world. If Schuster and his ilk were doing their job, then ACORN/Landrieu/et al wouldn’t need to be “stung”.
volnation on January 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM
You just know Shuster sniffs his fingers…
Seven Percent Solution on January 28, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Today’s journalists throw out anything they can to get attention and desperatley hope “thier” story gets a lead, ala Woodward.
It is their guiding light.
Facts, slander, revenue be damned!
Odie1941 on January 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM
Doesn’t Shuster kind of remind you od Pee Wee Herman?
Jed_Eckert on January 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM
Good to see Andrew’s getting to ‘em. Shuster gets dressed down in his own segment about getting dressed down by his bosses the same morning!
Christien on January 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM
I guess we will need to bring Tom Brokaw in and tell the MSM how to do their job of filtering sewage by sitting on this story for 2 weeks before reporting on it.
Electrongod on January 28, 2010 at 4:14 PM
I made it to 6:04… Shuster is too annoying.
journeyscarab on January 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM
Breitbart is the Man!!!!! This is great video. Must see TV as they call it at NBC. I am sure this will turn away moderate Republicans and Independents but so what. That is how you fight the left. Take it to them. As Reagan said “When can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat”.
chief on January 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM
You’d think Shuster had stumbled onto Watergate.
Indeed, flipping channels last night, I noticed that Olby had John Dean on last night to yack about this episode.
Who the h*ll cares what John Dean thinks about anything?
BuckeyeSam on January 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM
It’s inherently ‘unfair’ and ‘mean-spirited’ to call libs on their stuff.
Facts, BTW, are inherently racist. Unless the Left decide what facts are ‘proper’.
Two weeks of the Left imploding, though trolls here might want to convince us of otherwise with their cherry picking.
Liam on January 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM
The only viewers msnbc has are the ones of us who watch clips of guys like breitbart handing toolbags like shuster their asses.
ted c on January 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM
It seems like O’Keefe was trying to do a Michael Moore-like stunt but it failed spectacularly.
Speedwagon82 on January 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM
Holy cow! That’s what MSNBC tries to pass off as an interview?
kregg on January 28, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Listen, I’m glad to see someone — anyone — call these MSM-democrat operatives out on their partisan hackery. I have watched the MSM for too damn long as one David Schuster after another acted as nothing more than a spokesman for the DNC, which Schuster clearly is, and never, ever being challenged by anyone. It’s about damn time someone called him — and others — on it in plain sight with the viewers watching.
I also loved it the other night when Marc Thiessen called out CNN’s despicable Islamofascist apologist Christine Amanpour for LYING about waterboarding on the air. Her stunned, elitist response of “Excussssse me?” was priceless. Queen Christine was very, very upset to have someone from the unwashed masses question her righteous propaganda, and it was stunningly clear to anyone who watched it.
These slimy little partisan sell-outs never thought anyone would ever challenge their dishonesty, but it’s a Brave New World, baby. I’d like to see a whole lot more of it.
Rational Thought on January 28, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Good question. I’d suggest that it’s because we feel free to toss around ideas about guilt or innocence after a trial is over or when we think that they will never be brought up on charges. And Bush will never be brought up on charges.
Or – rather – I know I certainly feel free to say “I think he’s guilty as hell” about this or that person that I suspect will never faces charges or after a trial is over (Polanski, O.J., that Clintonista that shoved secret documents in his socks whose name I can never remember.) And I suspect I’m not alone.
dieudonne on January 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM
He reminds me of the Clutch Cargo cartoon characters–no facial expressions but the lips move like real humans. I think they actually superimposed moving lips in the cartoons.
BuckeyeSam on January 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM
Can’t wait to see if Shuster makes it into an episode of Red Eye’s Robot Theater.
TugboatPhil on January 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM
How can anyone in their right mind single out Fox News for bias when they have sh*theads like Schuster at MSNBC? Are you kidding me?
NathanG on January 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM
And what’s indefensible is how Shyster goes on for 5 minutes how ACORN must be innocent since they were never charged with anything. Which Breitbart points out says a lot more about our federal and state governments and the rampant corruption there than it does about ACORN itself.
If this wasn’t MSDNC we were dealing with here, I’d say it’s a new low for journalism.
Doughboy on January 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Why is Shuster on location in New Orleans? They are treating this like it is the crime of the century.
Mark1971 on January 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Want to defeat the trolls?
Ask this of any of them who post here:
“How will my life improve under your ideas and under Obama? And, if so, when?”
Liam on January 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM
We being people in general. Not leftists in particular.
Things just get stranger, and potentially much more bitter, when politics enters the picture as well. Bitterness makes it even easier.
dieudonne on January 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Ugh. John Dean should be in jail. Miserable old fart son of a b!tch.
NathanG on January 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM
Is it me or does anyone else think ever time Shuster speaks he looks like he constipated .
thmcbb on January 28, 2010 at 4:22 PM
It’s not just you. I’m pretty sure he’s full of s**t clear up to his eyes.
TugboatPhil on January 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Comcast weeps…
d1carter on January 28, 2010 at 4:27 PM
AB is awesomely awesome, and appears to be totally fearless. His late night twitter ramblings are not to be missed.
Clownballoon on January 28, 2010 at 4:27 PM
I applaud O’Keefe for his actions. I applaud anyone who attempts to bring down these Progressive Pr!cks… By whatever means necessary.
ronnyraygun on January 28, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Why does anyone with even a nanogram of gray matter wants to appear with anyone of MSNBC or NBC ? Why? Its not like too many people are watching those channels. Whenever these orgs. say/ do something which is illegal/libelous/lie, just send their corporate bosses a legal notice to retract and apologize, on air, and then play those clips of retraction online ! Stop feeding these trolls !
macncheez on January 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Breitbart pretty much answered that question in this interview. MSDNC is the mouthpiece in the MSM for the Obama Administration. Their current CEO(until Comcast takes over) is Jeffrey Immelt who is an economic advisor to Obama. GE has billions at stake with crap-and-betrayed and Obamacre. And GE has also received bailout money.
So put that all together, and it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. ACORN is on the verge of being wiped out for good. Their “get out the vote” efforts are essential for the Democrat Party. O’Keefe’s arrest may be the only shot they’ve got to salvage the reputation of this organization(and it’s a long shot at best). So MSDNC has to do everything it can to make this a huge story in order to delegitimize those videos O’Keefe and Giles made.
Doughboy on January 28, 2010 at 4:32 PM
I never even heard of David Shuster until just now, They have got to feel threatened by the likes of Andrew Breitbart and fox news. For Shuster to try invoking O’Reilly’s insanity comment as a legitimate argument shows how vapid Shuster really is.
fourdeucer on January 28, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Dammit I was going to say that LOL.
alohapundit on January 28, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Schuster is about selling a product. He’d be off the air if truth in advertising laws applied to the MSM, and maybe in jail for Federal violations.
Liam on January 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM
you know, this is like the 3rd or 4th time you write that in a thread… It’s gross and makes me think that is what you do…
CCRWM on January 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Go to Breitbart and listen to Rush’s letter to Obama he read on air today. Awesome!
silvernana on January 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM
I love the “You just got reprimanded today” crack.
Iblis on January 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM
Not knowing all the details, but I don’t see much difference in what O’Keefe was doing in what Michael Moore or 60 minutes has been doing for years. I thought mudrakers were just speaking truth to power, blah, blah.
Oh I forgot, whistle blowers don’t count if it’s a Democratic politician that’s involved.
Hummer53 on January 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Ain’t that the truth
macncheez on January 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM
TugboatPhil on January 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM
That would make a hilarious Red Eye Robot Theatre episode! I will bet that Shuster will be the one to bring the lotion!
AB totally pwned Shuster, nicely done sir!
Do I win a prize for watching the whole video? In all fairness, I had an accident and I am pretty painkillered up so it was not that hard to tolerate it for once. I wonder if I can ask the doctor (or Obama will give me blue or red pills) for an extra stash, you know, in case I ever have to watch MSNBC, CNN or network television,
margategop517 on January 28, 2010 at 4:44 PM
who controls the media?
True_King on January 28, 2010 at 4:44 PM
In Schuster’s crazy, liberal worldview, Hitler was not prosecuted so he must have been not guilty? The guy is surreal in his logic.
Acorn was not prosecuted by an Obowma supported AG Eric Holder, as were the two Black Panthers in PA at the polling location. They were not sentenced as Holder dismissed their case even though they were to be prosecuted for voter intimidation.
What a buffoon.
dthorny on January 28, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Do tell, Do tell?
thomasaur on January 28, 2010 at 4:48 PM
No doubt. Shuster doesn’t look any better in the day light out of the studio.
portlandon on January 28, 2010 at 4:50 PM
And so you shall RT. As the liberal Democrats and their minions in the MSM continue to meltdown this summer, Allah will have plenty of fresh material like this. Little Davy Shuster’s days are most likely numbered (along with Crissy and Olby), when the shareholders at Comcast start looking at the real numbers these idiot are producing in the market share. Advertisers will bail sending these loony cheerleaders for the Dem Party into Obama’s unemployment lines. Expect popcorn stocks to soar.
Rovin on January 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Shuster is a total tool.
Here’s a twitter exchange with a (former) fan who tries to help him out on a story, and he then mindlessly twitter-disses her (“you’re lazy and stupid) and they have a flame war – until he apologizes.
aquaviva on January 28, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Typical libby reporter: So frigging biased he’s gotta lie to get that interview.
The idiot also made the mistake of doing this with Breitbart who OBVIOUSLY has learned how things work with these bozos. Document everything, keep copies, screen caps, etc. of EVERYTHING because it WILL come in handy.
It’s kinda hard for them to lie about what they said/did when you got the emails and screen caps to prove it.
Gotta love a “news” group that’s so biased they’re Twittering their plans to the world. Good work, MSNBC! You never disappoint!
Mad Mad Monica on January 28, 2010 at 4:56 PM
That announcer is all mouth.
seven on January 28, 2010 at 4:57 PM
In Shuster’s semi-defense, he is full retard.
Kasper Hauser on January 28, 2010 at 5:04 PM
You do.
MarkTheGreat on January 28, 2010 at 5:14 PM
I try to watch Shuster but I am so distracted by the way he can inhale- alternately using one nostril then the other. An amazing feat! But even with a gun to my head, I couldn’t tell you what he said.
NightmareOnKStreet on January 28, 2010 at 5:17 PM
PW actually has talent. Shuster doesn’t.
Del Dolemonte on January 28, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Covering the Saints?
Del Dolemonte on January 28, 2010 at 5:19 PM
I was hoping someone would run up to Shuster and knock him out. That guy is the biggest POS on the planet. Kudos to Breitbart for going on and handling him well. I don’t understand why he would go there, though.
Narutoboy on January 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM
“thank you for coming on and trying to state your case”
Et tu, Brute?
Ugly on January 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM
I’m still mesmerized by his nostrils… Slap a couple of circulating brushes in those puppies and I bet he’d do a super job getting the grudge off my driveway.
NightmareOnKStreet on January 28, 2010 at 5:24 PM
I ate a bad leftover burrito the other day, and I was shustering the whole next day, sick as a dog.
RBMN on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 PM
cannot watch the shyster…
the man makes my skin crawl…god bless breitbart for dealing with that puke…
cmsinaz on January 28, 2010 at 5:30 PM
AAwww..but atleast you weren’t maddowing from the other end !
macncheez on January 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM
RBMN on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 PM
macncheez on January 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Tied for most hilarious thread post! Nicely done!
margategop517 on January 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM
I loved the bit RedEye did back during the first wave of tea parties when Schuster was using the 30 different analogies regarding teabagging. Jimmy Norton said he looked like Charlie McCarthy and you just knew that Olby had his sleeve rolled up and shoved up his posterior. Bill then calls Schuster a meat puppet. It gets even more awesome from there.
di butler on January 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM
In fairness, AB had to know that email was a lie but went on anyway so he could expose Shuster for the assclown he is.
Jim-Rose on January 28, 2010 at 5:53 PM
No other business model would ever let a franchise like MSNBC continue based on its abysmal ratings. It proves that they are merely the propaganda wing of the Left and NOT a news organization.
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot on January 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Shuster – just another media water carrier for the corrupt liberals.
docdave on January 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Only conservative wacko reporter on FoxNews I’ve seen do that is Shep….Oh wait.
Caper29 on January 28, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Right around 5:36, Shuster basically says that “No one found that to be criminal behavior” in referring to ACORN employees assisting in setting up an underage prostitution ring.
Amazing.
Where’s the journalism here? Who is this Shuster guy? Why is he taking up space posing as a journalist?
You’ve got Brietbart basically giving a detailed account, a step by step account, of ACORN individuals assisting in establishing underage children being used as prostitutes on a video that can be viewed by any freaking person on the planet for free, and all the so called journalist at MSNBC can say is “No one else found that to be criminal.”
JellyToast on January 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM
Shuster is a ferret-faced liar. He makes me want to shoot the TV, and I love my TV.
Philly on January 28, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Ha, ha. Everyone’s getting uppity with these DNC media hacks. Here, Sen. Judd Gregg calls out MSNBC-babe and noted democrat-talking-point robot for being “absurd” and “irresponsible” with her lies. Watch till the end when she looks over at her equally worthless co-anchor, as if to say, “OMG. Who is this old guy criticizing me. I am sooooo gonna put this as my Facebook status tonight right after I watch ‘Gray’s Anatomy.’”
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Rational Thought on January 28, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Especially after pulling them out of Olbermann’s ass.
xblade on January 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM
dieudonne on January 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM
That’s why a lot of the political talk is really, really boring to me right now. We know we’re going to be outraged and then nothing’s gonna happen anyway. The thing that was exciting about Scott Brown’s win was that something different actually happened. Now he’ll go to Washington and become what everybody else becomes when they go to Washington.
It’s all just an exercise in futility until we have a way to make it have an impact when we find out somebody’s broken the law.
Sort of like the Harry Reid “light-skinned” comment. The talkers talked about it forever, but it could have all been summed up this way: Live by your own standards, dems.
We all knew nothing would happen; nothing ever does when it’s the dems. The stink was just to show the hypocrisy. Well, the Scott Brown showed us that people can see the hypocrisy, but what good will it do us in the long run?
The dems can pass health-care “reform” by reconciliation, following whatever they are willing to say the rules are and mean, and then they give the bill to Cass Sunstein to put into regulatory form, where he makes it into whatever he wants it to be.
Unless and until we can hold every crook in Washington responsible when they lie, cheat, and break the rules and laws, this Constitutional Republic could just as well be a dictatorship.
If the pols can just shut off their phones, then they have a good 3-4 years where they are almost entirely uncontrollable – the only one where they even think about being accountable at all being the one where they’re up for election.
Somehow we’ve got to break up the cozy affair between the Washington media and politicians, and revamp our law enforcement system so that the public can have some real bite when politicians break laws.
justincase on January 28, 2010 at 6:40 PM
I think the key here is just telling the truth. Not just referring to Shuster`s lies here, but the broader picture.
Papers don`t sell well lately, but that really means illiberal lies don`t sell. And we are not buying it anymore. Literally. I would venture that conservative magazines and newspapers (Washington Examiner for example? Any other conservative papers out there?? Please fill in the blanks!) sell because they are trying to tell the truth. Same applies to CNN and MSNBC down the tubes with FOX up.
As a society we are really beginning to realize that the truth is in short supply from the personal to organizational and governmental levels.
The truth is now a rare commodity and if you find it, a big taste of fresh air. A cooling breeze that brings you back for more.
Yeah, I think it is almost that simple.
Anyway, papers and magazines and news networks will do much better by telling the truth to the best of their ability and retracting mistakes fast.
NOT ALWAYS blindly and blanketly aligning your organization with a given political agenda is key here.
The truth brings credibility. People will buy credibility.
And if your organization is devoted to a certain stance, then just say so and the chips fall. That is, don`t be a CNN or NPR pretending to tell the truth and tricking viewers and listeners into thinking you don`t have an ideology when you really do have one.
The conservative blogs, for example, are just doing a better job of telling the simple truth. Telling it like it is.
I feel as if I am giving the liberals some real hints here as to how to improve themselves and their organizations. Maybe I should not do that.
But I just did.
The truth really sells these days because there is a big market for this shrinking commodity.
That old saw: “Honesty is the best policy,” really has real merits.
Sherman1864 on January 28, 2010 at 7:26 PM
Brietbart, you were knowingly about to be interviewed by the cerified loudmouth assclown David Shuster.
What the hell were you expecting, a pleasant chit-chat about the weather?
pilamaye on January 28, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, why is MSNBC sending an over the top, obviously biased, factual challenged “journalist” to cover this story?
If the “Twit on Twitter” couldn’t read and comprehend the FBI statement, how the flock is he going to be able to report on such a complicated story?
Does this idiot know when reports on a “crime” story, he has to use “alleged” in his story lest he damage the case against the accused?
DSchoen on January 28, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Breitbart kicks butt. I think Shuster regretted trying to ambush him by the time that exchange was over.
conservnut on January 28, 2010 at 7:39 PM
i loves breitbart.
eh on January 28, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Thanks for posting this! I needed some comic relief after last night’s dreary SOTU from the defiant one.
Buy Danish on January 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM
How could you not know that David Shuster has a horse in this race?
SoulGlo on January 28, 2010 at 8:05 PM
Shuster is a piece of work.
yoda on January 28, 2010 at 8:39 PM
..LOLOL,..Love Breitbart!!!…as for David,…his mission=FAIL!
christene on January 28, 2010 at 10:56 PM
To David Shuster: stupid, lazy, loud, and arrogant is no way to go through life, son.
sulla on January 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM
All MSNBC personnel fit that description. LOL
ddrintn on January 29, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Isn’t Microsoft even a little bit embarrassed by this partnership?
I mean, I could understand if this was G(oogle)NBC, but I’d think that someone at Microsoft would blurt something out off the record by now.
Shy Guy on January 29, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Shuster strikes me as the kind of guy who would scratch the fumundah cheeze from BHObama and then immediately sniff his own fingers.
44Magnum on January 29, 2010 at 1:28 AM
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