Smitten by her blonde curls and still blissfully unaware of how cruel the world could be, at the age of eleven I called my first crush on the phone fully confident it would end with the beginning of a lifelong romance. Yes, I had watched many a friend go down in a flaming ball of fail in similar situations, watched them die slow deaths brought on by awkward pauses and fits of panic blanking the mind. But that wasn’t going to happen to me. I had learned from their trauma. There was no way anything could go wrong because I … had written a script that laid out every possible conversational scenario…

If you’re wondering how my pathetic little phone call went, watch Laura Flanders’ sorry attempt (video here) to confront Andrew Breitbart. Methinks that the moment Flanders learned she would be on national television seated next to Breitbart, visions of liberal glory popped off in her fevered mind as she plotted to publicly demand he apologize to Shirley Sherrod.

Train meet wreck. Ooh, that left a mark. But the truth usually does.

I was in the audience last night (pretty sure that’s Alex Marlow and I clapping all by our lonesome at the 11:05 mark), and while the crowd (who took our solo applause in stride) was obviously on Flanders’ side politically, her humorlessness eventually cost her their sympathy. Throughout the night, she tossed out one wet blanket after another with her joyless left-wing talking points that violated the spirit of the conservation. Eventually, in the “Overtime” segment, Breitbart turned to her and said:


“I think you need to apologize to the audience for making everything such a downer and political.”

If you listen, the left-wing audience almost applauds before remembering which side they’re supposed to be on.

This is what you call great television.

As you can see from the full conversation, the left-wing “Racers,” as they’re appropriately being called now, have decided to double down against anyone who dares question Barack Obama’s background — these being the very same people who demanded to see George W. Bush’s National Guard records three years into his presidency. But don’t be fooled into thinking this is a Racer attack only against Donald Trump. This is a warning to us all.

What Leftists and their media allies are now doing is sending a message out to anyone who’s even thinking about doing what the MSM should’ve done in 2008, and that’s properly vet the man who would be president. Bring up Bill Ayers, you’re a racist. Bring up Obama’s preacher problems, you’re a racist. Bring up this video the LA Times refuses to release of Obama at a dinner with Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi, you’re a racist.

Whoops, did I just do that?

Gee, you think if John McCain attended a dinner with Timothy McVeigh, Bill Maher and the MSM might be interested?

The real pleasure of last night, though, was meeting John Waters, a true iconoclast and a man who is as genuinely kind and hilariously vulgar as you hoped he would be. I’m a fan but Breitbart is an unashamed fanboy and before and after the show the two of them got along like they’d been friends since childhood. I’ve already ordered his book “Role Models,” which sounds fascinating, and delighted in every second of his appearance last night.

I disagree with 95% of what Bill Maher says, but both he and his staff are never anything less than professional and genuinely gracious to all of us. They also give Breitbart a national platform and if you’ll notice, Maher always lets Andrew have his say and get his points across.

If we could only say the same for the mainstream media.