The New School Bully

The Village cool kid clique has a new transfer student this semester, Andrew "I killed ACORN" Breitbart, over from Winger Blogger High. For his next trick, Andy's going to try to make himself class president by promising to put vending machines in the classrooms and getting rid of Obama...or something like that, as Steve and NMMNB points out.

If you do powdered drugs, at a certain point you get a tad antsy -- you get worried that you won't be able to sustain your high. Andrew Breitbart has recently had the profoundly enjoyable experience of unleashing the ACORN videos on the nation and watching them become a moderate-sized scandal (and no, I wouldn't go further than "moderate") -- and now Andy wants more.

So he's saying LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME -- which I strongly suspect he wouldn't be doing (he wouldn't have to) if what he had next were going to have anything resembling the impact of his ACORN stories.

Mike Flynn and John Nolte, writers for Breitbart, wrote yesterday, in a post titled "Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call,"

Tomorrow at noon ET, explosive new information....

No, really -- LOOK! LOOK! I desperately need the attention!

Is he going to have something? Oh, sure. The huge hint being dropped is that this will be in connection with an earlier story Breitbart broke, about a National Endowment for the Arts conference call in which it seemed that artists were being encouraged to work on the Obama agenda.

Wait...artists? Who the hell cares? This is the big story that will bring the corrupt Obama administration down in flames?

Then again, the focus on artists might be Breitbart's obsession. After all, the ACORN story broke on his new site, BigGovernment.com, but for a few years he's been running BigHollywood.com, a site devoted to the alleged suffering of right-wing artistes, and the site has been much mocked and little quoted. (The current teaser is at BH, not BG.) And in today's Washington Times, Breitbart has an op-ed in which he tediously boasts about his brilliant technique for breaking the ACORN story ("Thus was born a multimedia, multiplatform strategy designed to force the reluctant hands of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post. Videos of five different ACORN offices in five separate cities would be released on five consecutive weekdays..."), and what does he call the piece?

The politicized art behind the ACORN plan

Damn you people! I am Michael Moore! I am Karen Finley! I am making great political art!!!

So he's a transfer art student from Blogger High. That explains it, he's the new emo kid on the block.

In all seriousness, when you're writing stories about your own press, you've jumped the shark. Big time. All we need to do now is watch him crash and burn...especially when the Village figures out Breitbart and the Wingers don't want to rule the Villagers, they want to replace them.