ABC DROPS Andrew Breitbart From Election Night Coverage

The Huffington Post
Jack Mirkinson

UPDATE: Andrew Breitbart spoke to Politico about ABC's decision to remove him from its Election Night coverage. Breitbart said that ABC had shown "cowardice" and had bowed to "left-wing pressure...they know they can do it at any time and any place and ABC will bow to pressure."

ORIGINAL POST: ABC News announced Tuesday that it is dropping controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart from its Election Night coverage.

The network announced late last week that Breitbart, who made headlines for his role in the Shirley Sherrod affair, would be a guest during its coverage of the midterm election results. After howls of protest from outside commentators and reports of dissension from within ABC's own newsroom, the network sought to make it clear that Breitbart would only appear in an online forum and would never be seen on any television broadcast.

In response, Breitbart posted internal emails sent to him by ABC producers on his website. He claimed that the emails showed that he would, in fact, be appearing on the air during the network's Election Night broadcast.

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