The Internet’s guy who has no beliefs besides his hatred of hippies, Andrew Breitbart, made it known yesterday that he will give $100,000 to anyone who leaks the complete archives of JournoList, the secret underground e-mail chain that cost Breitbart’s close personal friend Dave Weigel his job on Friday for revealing his arsonist tendencies. Journalists are all giggling about the fact that Breitbart thinks their little messages to each other about sports and Orrin Hatch’s outfits are worth $100,000, but then why are none of them willing to leak this meaningless stuff to Breitbart for a cool tenth of a million?
OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE HIDING SOMETHING. Is all the talk of sports just code-speak to disperse the news stories Obama is telling them to write? Is JournoList founder Ezra Klein REALLY Obama himself?
No. Breitbart made the calculation that every blog and media outlet would talk about him for a day if he offered this, and it’s extremely unlikely that more than only a small few people, if anyone at all, has a copy of every JournoList e-mail ever. That’s because JournoList was much smaller at the beginning when it was started by a ten-year-old Ezra Klein with some of his budding journalist friends he met in the AOL Kids Nickelodeon chatroom. And e-mail archiving didn’t exist back then, so nobody has a record, because AOL would delete your e-mails after three days. [Daily Intel]
{ 34 comments }
I wish we could use teh Intertubez to send a 440V power spike to Breitbart’s server.
[re=609398]memzilla[/re]: There’s an app for that.
[re=609398]memzilla[/re]: 12KVA to hiz gonadz, also
Andrew Breitbart is a cold sore on the mouth of the Intertubes, a multi-chinned sourpuss with a chip on his shoulder the size of Rush Limbaugh’s alimony payments. The next intelligent thing he writes will be the first.
Maybe that O’Queaf fella could hack into Ezra’s telephone box, or what that violate his parole?
If I were Andrew Breitbar, I would punch myself in the face every time I looked in the mirror. That’s the level of fail here.
Also, the Michele Bachman eyes are freaking me the fuck out in the bestdrugonline.net banner ad you got going there. Make it stop.
[re=609398]memzilla[/re]: And by “server” I presume you mean ” rectal vibrator”.
Wow, by the sounds of everything, Wonkete comment threads are like, way more interesting than this “Journals List” thing.
I bet his mom used to tie a pork chop around his neck so the family dog would play with him.
Breitbart reneges.
If he doesn’t, then I smell a golden opportunity.
Let’s just take an archive of NRO Online or Atlantic Online and sell it to him for $100,000 and ask him to prove that it’s not the archive. Meanwhile, we can all get talked about and sue him, besides.
I think the milhist-l archive is out there for the purpose. Just search and replace a few names.
Assuredly, after receiving the e-mails and not finding any damning evidence, he would claim it wasn’t complete and refuse to pay a cent.
After having used some of the material for pointing out petty mistakes and making insinuations about the reporters’ sexuality, of course.
A reminder: Breitbart rhymes with “trite fart” and “shite heart.”
And the contents of JournoList appear to be the most exciting find since the Mettering Lists.
lverines!
Breitbart’s just pissed because nobody has suggested that he set fire to himself.
Doesn’t Breitbart spend all of his time railing agianst the left-wing media? The one that’s owned by large coporations?
But of course the likely thousands of internal emails Breitbart and his team of psuedo-journalist undoubtably trade between themselves on how to best shovel their own agenda into the open maws of their base certainly isn’t evidence of any undue collusion. And to suggest so just makes you another damnable LIEberal who needs to get your New World Order UN radio waves off my news box
[re=609432]Oblios Cap[/re]:
Oh noes, my original comment got eated.
How’s that three week campaign to destroy the liberalz that you started two months ago working out, Andrew?
I figured he’s be watching Red Dawn; it was playing on cable this morning. Wo (ealier comment goes here).
Breitbart = yawn. That closet case isn’t worth C-grade snark.
The real story here is that Breitbart can even claim to have a hundred grand to burn, while the guy who puts out house fires and pulls your ass out of a burning building probably has two jobs to make the mortgage. A real working class hero that Breitbart.
Isn’t that an incitement to commit internet theft?
I mean, he doesn’t specify he’ll only accept the list archive from a member of the list. Normally, when you offer a large amount of money to a person for the contents of a file that doesn’t belong to either of you they call that…what is it they call that?….oh yeah, “A felony conspiracy rap”
Five bucks for Breitbart’s personal gmail archive.
[re=609453]dijetlo[/re]: But if it’s in service of uncovering the left-wing conspiring of a bunch of journalists, then it’s in a good cause. It’s Breitbart’s Apache helicopter attack video, or his Pentagon Papers.
It cannot be said enough: Andrew Breitbart should be tied to a chair and placed in the center lane of the 405 during rush hour just below a flashing screen reading EVERYBODY SPEED UP.
Well, hey, it’s not as though there are a whole buncha conservative counterparts to Journolist floating around, several of which existing for the sole purpose of funnelling pieces from politicians to reporters and vice versa, something which Journolist refused to allow because of Ethics, and so we can clearly understand that the outrage, and implication of some liberal media conspiracy at work, expressed by Breitbart and company is 1000% genuine, and not at all self-serving assholery.
Oh, wait. Huh.
I guess it’s also a possibility, however remote, that they’re just all a bunch of hypocrtical twats.
Why would Breitbart want this? It’s not like he has a history of sending sniveling little weasel underlings to hack up people’s out-of-context statements to make it appear they were saying something incriminating, and using that to destroy entire organizations, completely out of spite.
This is why Andrew Breitbart should be immediately disqualified from contention for a Weeping Eagle award. Those awards should go to people who truly deserve them, not to small, terminally angry people who will simply suck up what little attention they might get from winning one.
[re=609439]Oblios Cap[/re]: In Breitbart’s defense, CNN did hire Erick, son of a disappointed father, a mere four weeks after that pronouncement, effectively begging the world to let CNN destroy itself. Let’s chalk that one up to a “push”, at very least.
[re=609465]imissopus[/re]: Wouldn’t everyone stop to read the sign?
Breibart: Next you’ll be demanding that we surrender moose and squirrel. No deal-io.
Jack, are you on the JournoList?
You must not be, because you’d know the first rule of JournoList.
Ezra should offer Breitbart the list and then sue his ass when he can’t pay up.
[re=609433]FMA[/re]: allow me: Andrew Breitbart should set himself on fire starting with his tiny impotent dick.
Its because Breitbart knows that JournoList is really a home-made porn swapping list and he wants some hot Ezra Klein pics. He doesn’t want to post it, its all for his private Ezra Klein wappage/use.
Just send the man a list of random email addresses. What is he goinbg to do, fact check?
Oh, and I get a $10,000 commish for the idea even thought I won’t do a thing to implemenent it.
You know we could fake that shit up and make some sweet, sweet cash, right? This guy is a nutball AND stupid, we could use an old mimeograph machine and he’d post Polaroids of it all over the ‘tubez.
Comments on this entry are closed.