BREITBART GETS BUSTED AGAIN

His promotion of videos supposedly showing that a a labor-studies instructor engaged in very inflammatory talk should be another stain on his record.

Missouri Campus Officials Absolve Labor Instructor in Video Controversy

By Peter Schmidt
May 10, 2011

Top officials at the University of Missouri at St. Louis say that a labor-studies instructor who had been videotaped purportedly advocating union violence actually was the victim of selective and misleading video editing and that he can continue working there.

In a letter sent out to faculty and students at the campus on Monday, Thomas F. George, the campus's chancellor, and Glen H. Cope, its provost, denounced the highly edited videos of the instructor's labor-studies class posted online by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. They said the instructor, Don Giljum, "remains eligible to teach" there.

The two videos on Mr. Breitbart's Web site, which ran roughly seven minutes each, were derived from about 30 hours of lecture footage that had been taped as part of a distance-education course and uploaded onto the university's Blackboard course-management system. The two videos appear to depict the two instructors advocating violence by union members, but clearly are pieced together from unrelated snippets of classroom footage.