ACORN Bug Out

The whole James O'Keefe/illegal wiretap on Sen. Mary Landrieu's office story is getting far more interesting.  It seems Andrew Breitbart of Big Journalism, the website that "broke" the faked ACORN story, isn't exactly denying he had some sort of financial arrangement with James O'Keefe to publish any dirt he dug up as an exclusive in an interview with Hugh Hewitt yesterday.

AB: ... So when he puts a story out there, it's on the Brietbart sites, the Big sites, that he can tell people what transpired. So...


HH: Do you pay him for that?

AB: Yes.

HH: And are you free to tell me how much you pay him?

AB: I'll...perhaps at another date, but he's paid a fair salary.

HH: Is he...so he is an employee?

AB: I'm not sure that's technically the thing, but yes, he's paid for his life rights. And he's, you know, he's still...we reserve the right to say yes or no to any of the stories that he puts up on our site as we do to any other contributor who comes to the site.

Interesting.  And it seems James O'Keefe's cohorts knew each other...three of the four of them, including Keefe, founded conservative college alternative newspapers.

Gosh, it's almost like there's a rather decent-sized little effort here to attack Democrats through internet gotcha journalism.