Why is somebody always fired after a Breitbart video is put on the Internet or Fox News?

[ck4829]

Breitbart makes obviously edited video
Person who is 'star' of obviously edited video loses job that was a lifelong career
It then comes out just how obviously edited the video was, often what was really said was the exact opposite of what's in the video

This seems to be the standard formula for a Breitbart smear operation.

Now, you give a frog a bee and when it tries eat it, it'll get stung. But it will learn pretty quickly to stop trying to eat bees. That's right, amphibians are at a faster learning curve than us. Scary.

This goes to show that the real villain here isn't Breitbart, it's our culture and our media. If Breitbart's cut-and-paste videos can repeatedly stir the people to kick people out of lifelong careers, then what is the upper limit of this? What would people more skilled and charismatic than Breitbart be capable of?

[plumbob]

1. Plus, he's proof of how non-violent most of the population is.

In a violent country, he'd end like Mussolini, hanging upside down from a telephone pole, shot full of holes.

[Zax2me]

2. Define 'always'

How many times has this really happened -

[ck4829]

3. OK

There's the Shirley Sherrod video.

There's the ACORN videos.

There's the recent example of the video of the University of Missouri professors.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. And the NPR exec?

[KharmaTrain]

4. He Picks His Targets...

The first reaction of a public official...be it a congresscritter or a university administrator to any bad news or publicity is to find a scapegoat. Deflect blame and find someone to take the heat while you try to figure out what's really happening. If there's a shistorm brewing, get rid of whose creating that storm...knee-jerk reaction in an attempt to placate a growing media feeding frenzy. It seldom works and that's where Breitbart gets his PR.

He tailors his marks for maximum media effect that he gets in spades by the corporate media. His doctored pictures and edited content are only exposed AFTER the shock value is exploited. He creates what the corporate media craves...manufactured "news" and controversy to fill up hours of airtime. This slimeball knows how to play the media and its short attention span matched with hubris and the lack of any real accountability. In the end we'll hear the media once again "tak tak" Breitbart but they'll be right there ready for his next stunt.

Sadly real people...hard, working and dedicated people are stomped on in the process. They become props in the ongoing theatrics and are left to fend for themselves as their privacy is destroyed and the media circus tramples over their lives. Shameful...and so damn predictable...

[rfranklin]

5. Perhaps its time to Mussolini him?

Just a figure of speech.

[nonperson]

6. The other side of the coin

A complete scumbag like Scott Walker gets snookered into revealing, WITHOUT EDITING, that he is using the governorship of his state to do the dirty work of even bigger scumbags like the Koch brothers ... and NOTHING HAPPENS.

[nebenaube]

8. Thank you for noticing... n/t

[Snoutport]

9. someone should creatively edit some Breitbart videos and see how he likes it :0)

[Peacetrain]

10. Because people are dumber than a brick and jump at the first story

instead of waiting to see what is around the corner on that story. Stuck on Stupid..

[Hissyspit]

11. Amazing, isn't it?

And disgusting.