Andrew Breitbart’s not the type of guy to get easily tongue-tied. Unless you ask him about Glenn Beck. “Let me start over if you don’t mind,” he told Yeas & Nays, looking frustrated while trying to explain the bad blood that emerged after Beck did a flip-flop on Breitbart over the Shirley Sherrod video.
“I’m waiting for the call,” he said, and again pauses. “That’s it, I’m waiting for the call.”
Breitbart was in town Thursday night to promote his new book, “Righteous Indignation,” at a party at Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform headquarters.
There he told us about the parts of his media tour that have gotten the most attention, mainly interviews with MSNBC’s Martin Bashir and ex-MSNBC broadcaster David Shuster. “They want to have fights with me, give me a break,” he said. “The one thing you need to know is they want to hate me, they like that they don’t know me, and then when they meet me, I’m the exact opposite of what they think. That I enjoy so much. I just like screwing with their heads.”
Surprisingly, though, after the Bashir interview, the two men were cordial. “Martin, I even shook his hand afterward,” Breitbart said. Not so surprisingly, Breitbart truly respects MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, who got flak from ex-colleague Shuster for going easy on Breitbart in another recent interview.
“Dylan Ratigan and I get along, and that’s in a straight way, there’s no irony,” Breitbart said.
