Why Andrew Breitbart Is A Conservative

This is probably more EVIDENCE of you-know-what media bias, but ...

Breitbart, who has emerged as a star of the "tea party" movement, loves telling his apostate's tale in the italicized, frequently profane manner that is his trademark. Three epiphanies stand out:

1. The Black Dorm Moment. In 1986, Breitbart was a freshman at Tulane University when his friend Larry Solov, a sophomore at Stanford, happened to mention his school's African-American-themed residence hall.

"He just matter-of-factly said there was a black dorm and I was like, 'What the friggin' hell? Are you kidding me?'" said Breitbart, who is now business partners with Solov, a former corporate litigator. "And then, when I found out that it was not segregation in the sense of white people doing it, I was like, 'What are you talking about? Why aren't we working toward the colorblind ideal?'"

2. The Clarence Thomas Moment. In 1991, he was riveted by Supreme Court hearings in which the future associate justice was grilled by hostile Democrats .

"I remember the mainstream media telling me, 'Bad man! Really bad man! Sexual harassment bad man! Worst-bad-man-in-the-history-of-the-world bad man!" he told a Philadelphia tea party rally in July. "By the end of the week, I said, 'What did this man do? This man is an American hero!' … It was a cavalcade of Caucasians asking this man about his very private video rentals!"

3. The Kurt Cobain Moment, around 1994. "In essence, the media was saying, 'Hey, see that guy, that's your generation's spokesman,'" said Breitbart, not a fan of . "I was like, 'This guy seems like a world class [screw-up].' And I just started to have the awkwardly pedestrian revelation that my parents were right."

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We're no fans of "grunge music" ourself ("Grudge nusic" is more our style.) but we've no idea why anyone should give the proverbial crap about media presentation of any pop music thing, idol ("Grunge music's suicidal prince." Sheesh!) telebision programming or much else cultural. Certainly not enough of a crap to conclude that the problem w/ media is that it's somehow too leftist.

And that's it for us. No desire to read the no doubt even-handed (Cough. Hack. Expectorate.) item. But: Reaction! (We'd like to think running coverage of a comment thread is objectively worse than noting that this item appears in almost identical form elsewhere.)