You are following Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #5, I see: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
You are so dumb you don't even realize it.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Meanwhile, while we "follow the rules," the Left finishes us off.
Breitbart had already won everything. He got an on-air apology by the awful Weiner, which was the equivalent of getting Yassir Arafat to utter the word "Israel" on international television.
He had won the whole situation, and done it playing by the rules.. Now the victory is tainted, and the MSM will never let it be forgotten.
The only argument that makes the least sense is that he knows the MSM hates him, will do anything to discredit him (as they did in the Sherrod case), and that they deserve not an inch in terms of "following the rules." I don't agree with that, and I don't think it will work out well in the long run, but that does make a sort -- a sort -- of sense to me.
He also loses the leverage he claimed to have to keep Weiner, or other communists in the U.S. Congress, from coming after him or the women with whom Weiner carried on. That could be a significant error, in the long run. We'll have to see.
The ironic thing about your post is that Breitbart is a master of using Alinskiesque tactics AGAINST the Left, which is awesome!