let's turn to andrew breitbart of biggovernment.com, well-known conservative activist. we richbted him on this program, he could not do it, said he had scheduling problems. here's what he had to say with fox's sean hannity about shirley sherrod. >> i have not asked that she -- i have not asked that she get fired. i have not asked for an investigation into her. the whole point was to show that for the naacp to spend five days on national tv saying that the tea party is racist without any evidence when we can prove that the central argument didn't happen and the mainstream media won't play it -- >> as you know, joan walsh, breitbart kind of fancies himself as a new media guy taking on the liberal press. how badly has he been damaged by this whole episode? >> you know, that depends on how the media treats his garbage in the future, howie. he should have already been discredited because he did the exact -- or not exact same thing. he did a similar thing to acorn. you know, when law enforcement looked into what he did -- he tried to prove that acorn helped a pimp and a prostitute evade taxes and god knows what else.