Andrew Breitbart Was 'In Talks with CNN over New Show with Anthony Weiner' When He Died

MAIL ONLINE: Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand and new media pioneer who died suddenly at just 43, had told friends he was poised to take his jihad against the Left deeper into the mainstream media with a regular show on CNN.

Last weekend, Breitbart told friends he was in early talks with CNN about a Crossfire-style show in which he would argue from the Right alongside former US House representative Anthony Weiner taking him on from the Left.

Such a show could have been a blockbuster. In what was perhaps his finest hour, Breitbart was the man who ended the political career of Weiner by revealing that the married congressman he had sent lewd photographs sent to young women via Twitter.

Articulate, outspoken and - before his fall from grace - a darling of the Left, Weiner was one of the few liberals who might have given Breitbart a run for his money.
It would also have been a dramatic move for CNN, which previously brought in disgraced Eliot Spitzer, who resigned as New York governor after his trysts with a high-end prostitute were revealed, for a show that was subsequently dropped. » | Toby Harnden | Thursday, March 01, 2012

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Barred US Shock Jock Michael Savage Appeals to Gordon Brown to Get into UK
THE GUARDIAN: Controversial talkshow host blacklisted by former home secretary Jacqui Smith claims his views have never incited violence

US "shock jock" Michael Savage has appealed to prime minister Gordon Brown to remove his name from a blacklist of people barred from entering the UK.

The controversial radio talkshow host has already announced he will sue former home secretary Jacqui Smith for libel for placing his name on the list alongside former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black, a Hamas MP and the leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang.

Savage said his letter to the prime minister, which comes after Smith stepped down from the cabinet last week ahead of the reshuffle, provides Brown with an opportunity to stop his £100,000 lawsuit.

Savage, real name Michael Weiner, said that his inclusion on the blacklist was "arbitrary and based on soundbites taken out of context", adding that he had already approached the new home secretary, Alan Johnson, asking for his case to be urgently reconsidered.

In his letter, he described Smith's claims that he fostered hatred and provoked crime as "entirely untrue and extremely damaging".

"I am advised that these allegations are serious and that should I press my claim, I am likely to recover a very substantial award in damages," he added.

Describing himself as an admirer of "the land of Magna Carta, the mother of parliaments and the great Winston Churchill", Savage said he was "shocked and astonished" to chosen for exclusion. >>> Jason Deans and agencies | Wednesday, June 10, 2009