This was posted at 5 pm last night, but I missed it. Sorry. NOVEMBER 2, 2010, 5:00 PM
ABC News Disinvites Breitbart From Coverage By BRIAN STELTER ABC News said Tuesday afternoon that it had rescinded its invitation to the conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart from the town hall event he was supposed to attend. Mr. Breitbart was to be a participant at an election night event in Phoenix. The event will be streamed live on ABCNews.com from the Arizona State University campus on Tuesday evening. In a letter to Mr. Breitbart on Tuesday afternoon, the executive producer for ABC News Digital, Andrew Morse, said "we feel it best for you not to participate." There was an outcry on social networking Web sites after Mr. Breitbart's role was reported last week. Mr. Breitbart, who runs a series of right-wing Web sites, is highly controversial, as critics say he spreads lies and distortions about liberals. His fingerprints were on the Acorn video tapes last year and on the video clip of Shirley Sherrod last summer. ABC initially played down Mr. Breitbart's role, saying that he would be appearing only online and that he was not being paid. But that prompted Mr. Breitbart to publish ABC's original invitation and state "with absolute certainty that the verbal pitch to me to participate was punctuated by the opportunity to appear as part of ABC News' broadcast television for the night." Mr. Morse said in the e-mail message that "we have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook." Mr. Morse cited Sunday's rebuttal as an example of miscommunication between the two camps. "As we are still unable to agree on your role, we feel it best for you not to participate," Mr. Morse wrote. Mr. Breitbart had already arrived in Phoenix for the town hall. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Regards, KGB ----- Kevin G. Barkes Email: [email protected] KGB Report: http://www.kgbreport.com Commentwear by KGB: http://www.commentwear.com National Temperature Index: http://nationaltemperatureindex.com DCL Dialogue on line: http://www.dcldialogue.com Random Quotations Generator: http://www.goodquotations.com Over 13,000 searchable quotations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
