A Noted Addition From Powerline

Powerline gives a nod to my “10 Most Underreported Stories of 2010” post and points out an unintended omission:

I think that Loesch misses one story that belongs high up on her list. It is a story that, like the others she compiles, was chronicled on one or the other of Andrew Breitbart’s Big sites over the past year. I refer to the exposure of the “Tea party protesters scream ‘nigger’ at black congressmen” story as a vicious con job.

Breitbart did not merely chronicle the story. He played the indispensable role in demonstrating that the story, reaching to the top ranks of the Democratic congressional leadership, was a falsehood calculated to indict the resistance to Obamacare as — what else? — racist. Breitbart performed the difficult task of proving the negative with something like metaphysical certainty. If Pulitzer Prizes were handed out on the merits, Breitbart would be packing up to collect his this year.

I absolutely agree. Consider it on the list.

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