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Breitbart And Shuster Battle On-Air Over O'Keefe (VIDEO)

Rachel Slajda | January 28, 2010, 3:20PM

MSNBC's David Shuster just battled with Big Government's Andrew Breitbart on-air over the arrest of James O'Keefe and friends for allegedly trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office.

Shuster has been covering the story on location from New Orleans. Breitbart has ties to O'Keefe, having posted the latter's ACORN sting videos on his web site and paying him as a contributor. (Breitbart maintains he was not involved in what happened at Landrieu's office and has no knowledge of it beyond what's been reported in the news.)

Breitbart attacked Shuster and MSNBC for "slandering" O'Keefe by saying he had wiretapped Landrieu's phones and demanded Shuster retract the wiretapping claim, which he did. He also attacked Shuster for tweeting that O'Keefe "intended to tap [Landrieu's] phones."

The interview quickly turned into a shouting match about journalism ethics.

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