In Which Mediaite's Tommy 'We Got Him!' Christopher Fails To Get MSNBC's David Shuster To Attack Andrew Breitbart

That’s a sadder-but wiser David Shuster you see in the following teaser video on “media bias” from Mediaite, responding to off-camera questions from someone named Tommy “We Got Him” Christopher. Watch in amazement as a chastened Shuster dodges, weaves, and rope-a-dopes Christopher as he simultaneously pacifies, propitiates and generally makes nice with Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keeffe, adamantly refusing to take the bash bait.

Shuster, you may recall, rather famously did battle with Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe over the latter’s arrest for his alleged involvement in an attempt to “maliciously interfere” with the telephones at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. In this preview of our interview, I asked Shuster for his take on the position of people like Andrew Breitbart, Matt Drudge, and James O’Keefe in journalism. His responses were rather surprising.

Shuster’s demeanor, for some reason, brings to mind this famous number from The Music Man:

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