By Perry Bacon Jr.Washington Post Staff WriterSaturday, October 31, 2009

Andrew Breitbart blew into Washington recently for what amounted to a victory lap.

The Internet entrepreneur spent last week soaking up accolades from conservatives for having offered guidance to the two twenty-somethings who posed as a pimp and prostitute and took a hidden camera into several ACORN offices. The pair filmed workers from the national liberal community group appearing to aid them as they inquired about starting a brothel -- a move that has put ACORN on the defensive and made the activists, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, instant conservative heroes.

But in the end it's Breitbart who may be the biggest winner.

It was the 40-year-old Breitbart who masterminded the strategy of...