Great moments in accountability.
First, how they rearranged the deckchairs on the SS Blustery Breitbart:
Breitbart News Network, LLC, which oversees Breitbart.com, reported today that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Bannon (pictured at right) as Executive Chairman and Laurence Solov as Chief Executive Officer/President, effectively immediately.
Breitbart, the company’s founder, held these positions at the time of his unexpected passing on March 1st. Other positions: Joel Pollack will be Editor-in-Chief; Alexander Marlow will be Managing Editor and Ben Shapiro will be Editor-at-Large.
So the Breitbart brain-trust posts Jason Matteras’ Extreme Fail Bono video in which it is fairly obvious that Mattera isn’t interviewing the real Bono and when asked about it, Editor in Chief Pollak takes full responsibility. Hah ha. No, he doesn’t:
“We went through a vetting process on this and appropriate questions were raised and appropriate answers were given,” Breitbart.com editor Joel Pollack assured us this afternoon by phone. “But the videographer then asked us to take it down, so we did.” But Pollak said he would “neither confirm nor deny” that mistaken identity was the reason for the scrubbing.
These are the guys who are going to #vettheprez.
Back to square one Breitards, so here you go.
This is Bono hugging a black man:
Go get him…






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The tears of zombie Breitbart taste like…like…rainbows!
Wait – I haven’t heard anything about this, so gotta ask…do you really mean the Breitbartians couldn’t recognize the real Bono from an imitation? What do you suppose they mean by “vetting.” Have they heard of Google image? Let’s see, google “Bono singer not Sonny” and get, oh, 1,767,852 images? (disclaimer: not intended to be a factual number, pulled it out of the air)
Who funds these asshats? I mean, I can see why the Kock brothers give money to a useful media apparatchik like FOX news but you’d have to be hella stupid to think the likes of Virgin Ben and co. could actually convince people of your general message of cutting taxes for Paris Hilton and shitting on old and/or brown people.
I believe Matteras could be a serious contender for a Mr. Peabody Award this year. His relentless pursuit for the troof makes him a valued member of this enterprise.
Hannity, aka most stupid man on the planet, was supposed to air Jason’s video and discuss it tonight.
Anybody know what happened?
So I visited the website of Pavel Sfera, the Bono double. Heck, I would have been fooled, too.
(Doesn’t mean Mattera isn’t a douche, though.)
I used to watch such dull-witted looking fellows who lived near the lead smelter board the short bus. There is something wrong environmentally or genetically, its not just the politics, these are stupid, savant-like human beings.
Vetting? I don’t think that word means what they think it does. Schmucks.
If Steven Bannon is as smart as he looks, the Brightfartian Empire is in good hands! Fail power. Get some. Bitchez.
/or/
Get sumbitches.
Not just any black man, but a well-known convicted criminal terrorist who successfully undermined the government of one of this country’s closest allies.
I am convinced that the top photo is an outtake from “The Jukes and the Kallikaks Visit Larry King Live.”
Bannon looks like a really fat Andy,
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2012/03/images-103.jpeg
He won’t be around long.
Breitbart really was the smart one among all of them. Shudder.
Who’s that mysterious, bearded, hat-wearing figure in the background? Must be a secret Muslim!
Maybe Breitbart is in Hell, and his punishment is watching Ben Shapiro run his beloved media empire into the ground…forever!!!
Better gear up, libtards. It’s #WAR.
Kidding! Thought I’d see if there is some kind of thrill or buzz associated with typing stupid shit they way they do: uh, no. You just feel inane, not to mention in need of a hot bath.
Shapiro and Pollak look like evil, stupid versions of Bert and Ernie.
Also, too, isn’t Stephen Bannon the guy who either directed or produced the blockbuster comedy “The Undefeated”, starring Sarah Palin?
I thought it looked like something SNL set up. And not during one of their “funny” periods.
Sadly, I’m not old enough to remember SNL having any funny periods. My grandparents have told me stories about them, though.
The title to this post brought a smile to my lips.
Ouch.
When I see that picture it makes me think: Now we know what happened to Beavis and Butthead when they grew up.
Not to threadjack, but there’s nothing anti-Glibertarian about murdering a black kid because hey, legal expert Blenderella is now on the case:
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/03/21/fearing-for-your-life/#comment-18651
isn’t Stephen Bannon the guy who either directed or produced the blockbuster comedy “The Undefeated”, starring Sarah Palin?
Ding-ding-ding! I believe you are correct!
I’m getting more of a Beavis and Butthead vibe.
I caught a few minutes of Hannity’s radio show yesterday. He had J. Mattera on, and in his best heh-chuckle manner, Hannity was basically saying “Just what kind of a dumbfuck are you?”
Yeah, but Sfera, by his own admission, doesn’t even work at talking like Bono — he just limits his imitation to the look.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/jason-mattera-interviews-someone–is-it-bono/2012/03/21/gIQAPIz7RS_blog.html
I know. My bones just started to creak after reading that.
#vetthebreitfart
I got the first season on disc a couple years ago to, you know, show my kids what “real” comedy is. Thing is, SNL wasn’t all that funny back then-the music was great, though.
SNL got funny the second season when Chevy left.
Oh, and back to the post…I do see the mark of the beast there with the rockstar and the President. I can’t wait for Brietbart.com to do an expose on playing “Pride (In the Name of Love)” backwards.
Gotta say that guy on the right (Stephen Bannon) is the douchiest looking person I have seen in awhile. Just sayin.
The fuck? McMegan’s wondering if the reason the guy wasn’t arrested was because maybe they didn’t think they could get a conviction? Is that how police departments operate? I figured arresting someone who killed an unarmed teenager was a no-brainer in this case, but then I don’t come from an intellectually-intimidating family, nor do I won a ThermoMix. What the fuck do I know.
In typical McMegan style she just keeps doubling down. The Thermomix must have run away from home… nothing to keep her from trolling the toobs.
Hannity basically saying “Just what kind of a dumbfuck are you?”?
ouch.
Guy on the right is Pollak, not that it makes him looks any less douchey.
That photo… that photo…
…it could be the centerpiece for a movie poster, announcing some wacky ‘comedy-of-the-year’. I dunno, Doofuses on Wall Street, or Jackass Meets (Political) War Room, or something.
Will Ferrell would play the guy on the right.
The guy on the left? I’m coming up blank on him. A younger Tom Cruise, letting his Scientology freak flag proudly fly, maybe? But there’s gotta be a young actor out there who kinda-sorta looks like that, and could play doofus-in-a-suit.
Heh. If little Jason sees that photo, poor Nelson Mandela is going to be subjected to an interview including questions about why he won’t produce a birth certificate and why he wants gas prices to go up.
Only after he ran the interview as authentic, of course. What a putz.
This guy: http://content8.flixster.com/photo/72/59/00/7259006_ori.jpg
Yes, back in the day, Richard Benjamin might have pulled it off. But being born in 1938, he couldn’t today. Also, whoever takes the role needs to be capable of that malevolent playground rictus that characterizes Shapiro. Age (b.1955) and possible inability to casually exhibit minor-league evil are why I also eliminated Rowan Atkinson as a possibility.
Benjamin’s turn in “Diary of a Mad Housewife” qualifies him in the creepy category but age-wise, I agree, it won’t work. That just leads me back to Beavis. Or is it Butthead?
And let’s just take this back to SNL, is Adam Sandler available?
If they run it far enough into the ground won’t it eventually reach hell and then Andy takes over the joystick again?
(I slept through most of Sunday school)
The formerly Virgin Ben is going to be an editor? Bless his heart…
Dumb & dumber, only really sleazy & pretty perverted (and not in a good way)…
Is Brietbart even dead? Why is there no cause of death yet? The tests to determine if too much hate was in the bloodstream must take a long time to get back from the lab.