phxated_gratehouseThat ABC would decide to have noted serial fabricator and racebaiter Andrew Breitbart provide election night coverage was appalling enough but jeez Louise did they have to rub salt in the wound by having him do it from ARIZONA???

ABC News has confirmed Breitbart’s announcement that he will be bringing analysis live from Arizona on election eve, along with Dana Loesch, the editor of Breitbart’s Web site Big Journalism.

The news kicked off a round of criticism from liberal bloggers who pointed out that Breitbart is an unabashed right-wing activist with a known history of trafficking in distortions and falsehoods, most recently the heavily edited and subsequently debunked video supposedly showing racially-charged comments by Shirley Sherrod.

As a Facebook friend of mine put it: “What does he have to do to get banished, shoot a puppy on live TV?” IOKIYAR.

UPDATE: For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Mr. Breitbart’s oevre Media Matters has compiled a catalog of his yellow smear merchantry.