The Curious Case of Breitbart's Banishment from HuffPost

Well, that didn’t last long.

WaPo‘s Greg Sargent initially reported Wednesday night that HuffPost would stick by Andrew Breitbart, the conservative publisher of BigJournalism, despite a campaign to have his posts removed from Arianna Huffington’s site. A group called Color of Change had launched a campaign against Breitbart, who they say “poses as a journalist and then uses his position to gin up race-based fears, protect racists, and demonize Black political leaders and institutions.”

But it seemed that HuffPost wasn’t paying the criticism any heed.

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