Smart take, Boehlert!
As Twitchy noted earlier, a New York Times investigative report on the Pigford settlements scandal has vindicated Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart’s mission to expose the massive fraud and injustice earned him contempt and criticism from the Left. He was repeatedly smeared as a liar and racist.
Leading the pack was Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert. In March of 2011, he shared an oh-so-brilliant idea with Breitbart: “He should have a mock, Mardi Gras-style funeral this wk for his Pigford crusade. Cuz it’s dead/buried.”
Take a moment and enjoy that one, then read more from the Senior Fellow of Crow-Gobbling.
Watching @andrewbreitbart bloggers beg people (someone/ANYONE) to pay attention to Pigford nonsense is just sad; http://bit.ly/eiVpgn
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 10, 2010
Note to @andrewbreitbart: When even Fox News won't bite on your pointless Pigford "reporting," it must be really lame. #tcot
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 10, 2010
You're welcome: @mmfa reads @andrewbreitbart's Pigford (Zzzz) nonsense so you don't have to; http://bit.ly/f0mWyU
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 14, 2010
But what I want to know is what do protests in Egypt mean for @andrewbreitbart's Pigford crusade? #curiousminds
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 29, 2011
Is @andrewbreitbart Uninformed About Pigford Or Just Lying?; http://bit.ly/ih4Nib #tcot
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 11, 2011
From bad to worse: Is @andrewbreitbart Trying For "Stupidest Conspiracy Theory" Award With Pigford Allegations? http://bit.ly/hCwn65
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 15, 2011
I just can't figure out why the MSM is ignoring @andrewbreitbart's Pigford crusade, can you? http://bit.ly/hehrLs #lostcause
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 15, 2011
No. of @andrewbreitbart Pigford posts in lst yr: 100+. No. of Pigford mentions in NYT in lst yr: 2. Great media campaign!! #lostcause
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) February 15, 2011
But Eric totally knows what he’s talking about! A couple of weeks before Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress, he predicted Weinergate and Pigford were two peas in a pod.
Weinergate now = Pigford; only @andrewbreitbart bloggers care about it; http://bit.ly/ih4AOI
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 5, 2011
Fellow Media Matters tool Oliver Willis sneeringly called the Pigford scandal a “non-troversy.”
Pigford: A Tragedy and a Non-Troversy http://bit.ly/dJaujo interesting debunkery of @andrewbreitbart and @stranahan's "work"
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 15, 2011
And as Breitbart.com’s John Nolte notes, Media Matters was all over this one.
.@Ericboehlert called Pigford "Brettbart's wildest conspiracy theory." #Liar #Racist #Thug
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 26, 2013
Media Matters' Frenzy of 20 Stories to Discredit Breitbart's Pigford Investigation http://t.co/vFq2XCoxVL via @BreitbartNews
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 26, 2013
Using their own search engine, you can find at least twenty stories written by the Soros-funded, 501 (c)(3) welfare queens at Media Matters for America that were explicitly meant to discredit Andrew Breitbart’s investigative efforts into what became known as Pigford — a four-alarm scandal involving the U.S. Department of Agriculture
So, MMFA flunkies, how do y’all like your crow? We’re givers, so we’ll gladly serve it to you while you’re in this position:
Right now, @EricBoehlert is curled up in the fetal position crying that Andrew Breitbart and Lee @Stranahan were right about Pigford.
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 26, 2013
Any comment, Eric? Or is your mouth full?
https://twitter.com/jerrywilson_7/status/327810705363447808
No @mmfa stories about today's @nytimes front-page vidication of @Stranahan and @AndrewBreitbart on #pigford? @owillis
— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) April 26, 2013
https://twitter.com/RightWingNerd/status/327799488334946307
Time to point and LOL at @EricNoehlert, @owillis and all the other stooges at @mmfa! #Pigford
— Sean O (@Sean_for_3) April 26, 2013
Paging @ericboehlert >> NY Times: Federal Spigot Flows as Farmers Claim Discrimination http://t.co/VVp5kJVX0r #Pigford
— Mandy Nagy (@Liberty_Chick) April 26, 2013
@mmfa Don't you just hate it that @AndrewBreitbart was right all along? #Pigford #RentFree
— Sean O (@Sean_for_3) April 26, 2013
NYTimes vindicates Breitbart on Pigford, Fox News most trusted network per HufPo poll, @EricBoehlert's existence proven a total failure.
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) April 26, 2013
Has @EricBoehlert called the NY Times racist yet? #Pigford
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 26, 2013
Patience. He’s a little busy crying into his tear-stained diary right now.
