Politics | Andrew Breitbart GOP Cancels Fundraiser Featuring Breitbart, Steele Sherrod incident makes conservative blogger radioactive By Kevin Spak Posted Aug 2, 2010 9:10 AM CDT Copied In this Feb. 11, 2010 file photo, conservative online publisher Andrew Breitbart is seen during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) The GOP has suddenly gotten cold feet about Andrew Breitbart, canceling a fundraiser later this month in Beverley Hills where he was to appear with Michael Steele. The RNC tells CNN the event was just being rescheduled for the fall, during one of its already planned trips to California, to save some dough. Right. We're sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the Shirley Sherrod controversy that turned the conservative blogger into a national villain, and will probably get him sued. Nothing at all. Read These Next And ... 23,000 pages of Epstein files are now out. Trump commuted his sentence. Now he's headed back behind bars. Breaking Bad creator's new show is wowing critics. Chaos for travelers who are abruptly booted as startup falls apart. Report an error