Isn't that a type of bird? LOL!
Posted on 06/07/2011 9:16:53 AM PDT by smoothsailing
June 7, 2011
In an interview with Andrew Breitbart on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer suggested the conservative blogger should not have broken news of the scandal involving Congressman Anthony Weiner: "Did you worry that – you know, as a conservative, you don't want government in people's bedrooms. And so did you stop and have a debate with yourself about that?"
Moments earlier, Breitbart had noted feeling some sympathy for Weiner during Monday's press conference: "I felt so unbelievably sad for this guy." Lauer responded by wondering why that sympathy didn't keep the BigGovernment.com creator from posting Weiner's racy tweet last week: "But if you're sad for the guy then, did you not consider that at some point you might be sad for him when you first posted that photo ten days ago?"
In response to Lauer's bizarre assertion that reporting on the scandal somehow went against conservative values, Breitbart explained: "I'm not the government. You know, he tweeted to, you know, 45,000 people that image. A person sent it to me. I can't think of a world in which that isn't news."
Later in the interview, Lauer was suspicious of a more graphic x-rated photo of Weiner that Breitbart had not released: "Is this, Andrew, some kind of x-rated insurance policy?...Because people have characterized it as something more." Breitbart replied: "I don't like to think of it that way."
Lauer pressed further, sparking this exchange:
LAUER: Under no circumstance will you release that? In other words, let's say Anthony Weiner supporters target you in some other way?
BREITBART: If Anthony Weiner decides to make this a jihad against me for his interpretation of putting me into this situation, you know what, I'll take that as a – you know, you said an insurance policy. Maybe. I can't foresee a circumstance in which I would release that. I don't think I want to put his family through that type of thing. But for instance, I've already started to hear words that Megan, the woman who came forth, people are prying through her private life. And they're-
LAUER: So would you use that photo to protect these women?
BREITBART: That's – you know, I'm not thinking of it that way, but I certainly have it in my possession. And I guarantee you he would use this against me and the people on the left side of the blogosphere would have used this against me. I could have put that out there and his career would have been over today.
In his final question to Breitbart, Lauer wondered: "Had you come into possession of photographs of a Republican congressman that were similar in nature to the photograph you received of Anthony Weiner, would you have been as quick to post that photograph?" Breitbart replied: "Yes....I'm repulsed when it's, when it's, you know, Larry Craig that's involved in these type of behaviors or Ensign, the Senator from Nevada....these guys put themselves in a blackmail-able situation."
Breitbart then added: "The problem is, is that there is the mainstream media. They've got the resources and they're usually there to cover it. My contention, it's my belief, is that there is a double standard in the media in how they treat Republicans and Democrats."
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Full transcript at LINK
You gotta understand how libs think. They think everything belongs to the gov't. Your money, your property, you.
France Matt has no earthly idea about conservatism, so he is wholly unqualified to speak on the subject.
Come on Lauer, use your brain besides something to cut down the echo in your head. Since when does the bedroom extend to the congresman’s office?
Isn't that a type of bird? LOL!
BYMB!
Seems to me, as the facts came out, that Wiener put his bedroom into our government, not the other way around, as Lauer claims.
“All remaining claims to legitimacy for the old media depend upon the crumbling pretense that what they present to the American public is factual and unbiased, rather than contrived and contorted.”
Great post!
Do threats to himself and his family resulting from Weiner's instigation count? I would think they do.
Weiner is was clearly abusing the power of his position at Breitbart's peril and should know that leftist activists would act upon his behalf. Brietbart is being no monstrous media corporation capable of mounting an extensive defense and Weiner knows that too.
I've seen less cause than that wind up in court before.
It most certainly is and you've identified them correctly. LOL!
The liberal mind is a logic-free environment. It resembles a bento box like structure where mutually contradicting ideas can be safely kept from colliding with one another.
In the end, there is only the narrative. And that's whatever they say it is.
Madness.
Andrew didn’t go anywhere near his bedroom. I think I can bank on that. lol
The irony of this whole thing is that the whole "power structure" related to Weiner's official position has been turned upside down. At this point in time, we now have a humiliated U.S. Congressman (Weiner) who will never be able to screw with Breitbart again because of the leverage that Breitbart has with the additional photo(s) he has in his possession.
If the rumor I've seen floating around out there today about this mysterious photo is even remotely true, then the only question left to answer is whether Weiner leaves office by resigning or by doing harm to himself.
Yeah, but the internet is not his bedroom. He caused many woman to be nauseated. That is abuse, and we don’t like it.
And, in the first place, what in the $%#@! would Lauer UNDERSTAND, much less KNOW, ANYTHING about anyone’s Conservative principles.
And worse, as an admission that HE and his media friends are part of government - as in the state media operations they are running for Obama, he equates Breitbart’s release of the Weiner information with the “government” releasing it.
That’s no Freudian slip. That’s Laeur’s idea of who he is coming through in how he thinks of the role of others, like him, in the media.
Put this picture out there and be done with it. I think it is worse, and not particularly professional, to tease it.
That’s okay, Matt. Some blogger out there will be posting your Twitter photos soon...
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