"For the former Bush speechwriter David Frum, itÕs been an example of whatÕs worst about the conservative media scene:

There will be no apology or statement of regret for distributing a doctored tape to defame and destroy someone. There will be not even a flutter of interest among conservatives in discussing BreitbartÕs role. By the morning of July 21, the Fox & Friends morning show could devote a segment to the Sherrod case without so much as a mention of BreitbartÕs role. The central fact of the Sherrod story has been edited out of the conservative narrative, just as it was edited out of the tape itself.

When people talk of the Òclosing of the conservative mindÓ this is what they mean: not that conservatives are more narrow-minded than other people Ñ everybody can be narrow minded Ñ but that conservatives have a unique capacity to ignore unwelcome fact."

(Quoted by Tobin Harshaw in the NYT)