Friday, June 17, 2011

Andrew Breitbart Swarmed by Progressive Mob at Netroots Nation

I don't know. Personally, I don't feel safe around progressives. I kept a low profile at the Noam Chomsky event at UCLA last month, because Students for Justice in Palestine, the event's sponsor, is a Hamas-styled organization. And it's not much different at Netroots Nation. Everybody does video-blogging nowadays, but this Kerry Picket viddy captures the mob's violent rage as Breitbart tried to make an exit:

Also at Gateway Pundit, "Andrew Breitbart GANG-RUSHED By Raging Leftist Mob at Nutroots 2011." And Journo-Lister Dave Weigel, "Netroots Nation: Your Convention Ticket Comes With A Free Andrew Breitbart Ambush."

And at Politico, "Breitbart crashes Netroots Nation":
As Breitbart struck up a conversation with Slate blogger Dave Weigel, Ryan Clayton, who works for US Uncut and blogs on 100ProofPolitics, accosted Breitbart and began screaming questions at him: “Have you kicked your cocaine habit?”

“I have no cocaine habit,” Breitbart told him.

“Have you ever slept with a prostitute?” Clayton asked, almost physically trembling as he worked himself up.

“You prove my point,” Breitbart told him, evidently satisfied that he was again the center of attention in hostile territory.

Another person asked Breitbart if he was credentialed to be there. He admitted that he was not. He tried to walk into the exhibition hall and was turned away by conference organizers.

As he walked back toward the escalator to leave, a middle-aged African-American woman walked toward him and began yelling: “You are racist! … It’s gonna come to light who you really are!”
Breitbart has a crew with him, but most other hot-button conservatives I've met --- David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, for example --- travel with bodyguards.

Chomsky didn't need one at UCLA, of course. The place was filled with communists, hippies, and jihadis.

Added: Blazing Cat Fur links, and there's a thread now at Memeorandum and Wall Street Journal, "Breitbart Sparks a War of Words at Netroots Nation."
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1 comment:

  1. ThomasJune 20, 2011 at 7:43 AM

    Ryan Clayton of US Uncut claims that an employee working for Andrew Breitbart accosted a Muslim woman and then yelled “Breitbart! Breitbart!” Clayton has been unable to provide the name of the employee and has provided no further evidence that such an assault even took place.

    Some sources at Nutroots have privately come forward to suggest that Mr. Clayton himself was the one who’d severely beaten a Muslim woman after getting high on coke with a male prostitute, and when said prostitute asked Clayton what he was into sexually, Mr. Clayton yelled, “Breitbart! Breitbart! Breitbart!”

    More as it develops.

    http://thedarjeelingexpress.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/ryan-clayton-of-us-uncut-hurls-unsubstantiated-charges-of-assault-at-nutroots/

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