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Breitbart railed on Media Matters as well, which apparently had a hand in getting him kicked off election commentary on ABC’s network on Tuesday night after he released this tape. Media Matters, a widely discredited left-wing advocacy group, launched an attack after ABC seemed to announce that Breitbart had been booked to provide on-air election night commentary.

“George Soros, in his plane, a private jet, a global warming jet, flew and dropped money on Alaska on a series of left-wing bloggers and infested it, the Alaska media, with an anti-reformist agenda,” Breitbart said. “The Republican Party up there is corrupt, the media up there is corrupt, the Democratic Party up there is corrupt and George Soros has helped to sully it. This is why Sarah Palin had to step down – because they were trying to assault her using fake journalism in order to assassinate her character because they saw that she was a threat, a huge potential juggernaut.”

Media Matters CEO David Brock called on people across the country to not watch ABC’s election night coverage because he said ABC was “credentializing a proven liar and racist serial right-wing hoaxster. Too many in the media have been taken in, including now ABC. I’d rather watch Fox on Election Night than be subjected to ABC’s Mickey Mouse news standards.”

“The public in Alaska needs to know the truth so they are fully and correctly informed before they cast their ballots Tuesday. Palin has a responsibility to release the full, unedited tapes publicly and to all media,” Brock said in another statement.

Media Matters spokesperson Jess Levin said in an e-mail to TheDC about Brock’s second statement, “This is especially true in light of KTVA’s statement today.”

ABC spokesman David Ford said Breitbart had been scheduled to participate in a town hall meeting in Arizona, broadcast only online, and he took pains to distance the network from the conservative publisher. “Mr. Breitbart is not an ABC News analyst,” Ford said in an e-mail to TheDC, adding that ABC News is not paying Breitbart. “He is not an ABC News consultant. He is not, in any way, affiliated with ABC News.”

Breitbart refuted ABC’s claims that he was only going to participate in an online broadcast, saying that “they originally pitched to me that I was going to do a hybrid of both online and broadcast,” but, since Brock called for the boycott, the story has changed.

“They [the media, in general] want to use this to deny my existence in their world, especially for retribution because of the success of the ACORN story,” Breitbart said. “We will continue to fight you, we will continue to call you out for hackery, we will only get bigger and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Politico’s Ben Smith did not return TheDC’s request for comment.