I think Matt Osborne sums it up perfectly:
I am not celebrating the death of Andrew Breitbart. I do object to his elevation in death, however. If you read the Huffington Post today, everyone from Arianna herself to the staff at Media Matters is expressing sadness at his passing. By this time tomorrow, his martyrdom will be incorporated into the right-wing canon and everyone will forget he was a serial fabricator.
Sure, his family deserves to mourn without answering for his actions in life, but media eulogies will likely gloss over his libelous treatment of Shirley Sherrod or his selective editing of ACORN videos. In a strange cultural inversion of Shakespeare’s take on Julius Caesar, American media tends to minimize the crimes of the living and tell only the good about the dead. This will encourage the martyr cult among his fans, for whom Breitbart will become a greater hero in death than life.
That’s about all I have to say about the subject.
UPDATE: I have more to say on the subject, actually (given that the full-blown hagiography even on the left is in full swing). I feel sorry for his family, especially his four kids — and that’s it. I don’t have a kind word to say about the man because he wouldn’t have had a kind word to say about me or anyone I care about. I’m not celebrating his death, but I’m not going to be solemn, either. Let’s not forget who he was and what he stood for. And if the only reason to not talk about who he was and what he stood for is that conservatives might use liberals’ words to highlight our purported incivility, then I say who the fuck cares? Seriously. I’m not a fan of crude jokes on the day of someone’s death, but I’m not going to ignore the racism and misogyny he promoted practically every time he opened his mouth. And, I’m not going to forget that Breitbart lied about Shirley Sherrod (which I wrote about here). If we can’t talk about his political positions and why they were poison to the political discourse and this country, then what are we even doing writing or discussing his death? Let’s just ignore it like we do so many others.
[via Osborne Ink]
[cross-posted at ABLC]
Cluttered Mind
He was a monster and the world is better off without him. I see no reason to ignore the truth of the man just because he’s dead. I’m sorry that his kids will grow up without their biological father, but I am not sorry that they will grow up without Andrew Breitbart as a father. For that, I am glad.
Delia
Sounds like you’ve about summed it all up. I’m going to wait now until the results of the autopsy are denounced as a liberal cover-up.
Catsy
Bingo. As I wrote earlier on the GOS:
Ben Cisco
Repeating what I said at your place:
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J
In a crowded field, he stood out as one of the most loathsome people in public life. Deliberately, by lies and slanders, he strove to fan the flames of racial suspicion and hatred in order to advance the interests of a narrow group of economic royalists. He was a living reminder of what fascists must have been like in their era.
Klaus
Yup. As with Hitchens. He was an asshole too who died. So people would praise his assholishness and call it good and right.
me
Taibbi is more direct.
Brad
Who knew karma was fatal?
Egg Berry
I posted this on an earlier thread, but it fits here, so:
The entire village lined up to eulogize that cancer on the body politic (he helped give us Drudge AND HuffHo!).
ploeg
Looking at the bright side, death should not keep Andrew Breitbart from voting in the 2012 election. Or somebody who poses as Andrew Breitbart.
maya
In a little over 48 hours he should be rising from the dead, shouldn’t he?
If not, Rushbo’s got his graveside eulogy already scripted.
blahblah
This is such a tragedy. I was really looking forward to Breitbart’s eventual gay prostitution scandal.
A life snuffed out too soon.
Billy Beane
lol…abl 2.01-5 writes a blog post about how other people are elevating Brietbart. How does abl 2.01-6 do that? By writing about Brietbart of course and pretending she is just some fly on the wall passive observer. Not actually participating in the freak show. She suffers from the same dillusions of most like her right on up to real journalists who actually make a living at it.
Mark S.
I still wonder what could’ve killed him at such a young age.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie
Yevgraf
*guffaw*
Arpaio’s “cold case posse” (translate: a bunch of stupid old white wingnut fuckers wasting air and social security/cop retirement/millitary retirement benefits) have determined from their review of every bit of wingnut testimony that Obama’s birth ceritificate is forged.
It’s fucking hysterical. I want some death panels for stupid.
Suffern ACE
O.K. y’all front pagers can stop now. He’ll be just as dead tomorrow as he is today. Can’t we spread out these endless Breitburt posts over the next six months?
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
He would have cheerfully ordered the execution of every single person who has ever voted for liberalism, and would have insisted on pulling the trigger himself.
He ruined lives. He died a raving, unhinged lunatic who was a danger to every person around him. I feel no more sorrow at his passing than I do when Animal Control shoots a rabid coyote.
Catsy
@Billy Beane:
I can’t decide what’s more painful: your stupidity or your illiteracy.
Scott
@Billy Beane:
You again? Troll, you’re way lazy. Up your game or get back to RedState.
Mark S.
@Billy Beane:
Shouldn’t you be worrying about how not to come in fourth in your division this year? Moneyball was a long time ago, boy genius.
Mnemosyne
@Ben Cisco:
Is Sherrod’s lawsuit really dead? I assumed she was suing his media company, not him personally since he published the slander on one of his media company’s websites.
Trentrunner
It makes Sully upset that we’re being so vulgar.
That ALONE is reason enough to be glad that Andrew Breitbart’s disgusting body is finally rotting today just like is soul did for the previous 43 years.
Fuck you, Sully, you cunty git.
JPL
So why another post on him?
Bubblegum Tate
Or, as one wingnut said today, “Lost in that controversy was that Sharrod did make racist remarks while speaking for the NAACP, which was Breitbart’s intent to demonstrate.”
See? Accepted Wingnut Truth. Those idiots internalize lies like a sponge internalizes water.
scav
@Catsy: “dillusions”? Hallucinating pickles? With a name like billy bean? Idiot’s clearly preggers and needs to be put in a lock-down situation until it’s achieved its biological function.
Warren Terra
A New York Times Obit from yesterday describes the passing of a true hero, a woman who I can assure you lived the best life you’ll hear about ending this week. I’d much rather contemplate her time on earth than that of Mr. Breitbart.
Trentrunner
@Bubblegum Tate: This morning ABC said that Breitbart broke the “ACORN child sex ring scandal” story.
I shit you not.
The hagiography has already started.
Mnemosyne
And, you know, I’m going to say the thing that will really send Sully and his pals around the bend: I really don’t care. Honestly. It makes no difference whatsoever in my world whether or not Andrew Breitbart is in it. He made no real difference while he was alive, and his death doesn’t change that. I am completely indifferent to his passing, except a generic sort of feeling that his family will probably miss him. After a certain point, he wasn’t worth hating any more than you hate the mosquito that dive-bombs you while you’re trying to sleep.
Jamie
He will not be missed
Martin
I just don’t care. People die every day. Breitbart was one of them.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
Republicans are going to lionize, idolize, worship, iconicize, people like Brietbart. for myself, I will miss him, a poster child for what is wrong with the GOP, and too stoopid to not broadcast that to the world. EVERY.WAKING.MOMENT..
This is a giant loss for democrats and liberals. Few could personify the agency of hate like Andrew. He was a cardboard cutout with a foamy disposition that just screamed to anyone with a soul, I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS HATEFUL MOTHERFUCKER. WHERE DO I REGISTER DEMOCRAT?
You can think want you want. Tally Fucking Ho!!
Montysano
Although Obama seems like a nice guy, in reality he’s the Ghostface Killah who popped a cap in Breitbart’s ass.
Loneoak
Hi public life was just a giant sneer at others’ humanity for committing the crime of existence. About all that is owed by those of us whom he sneered at is that we don’t personally harass his family, unlike what the Reichwing has personally done to an innumerable lefty public figures.
honus
@Klaus: Hitchens did have some good years and some good points, even to the end. I can’t say the same for Brietbart.
I guess that outburst at occupy people was a symptom of something.
I’m not going to celebrate, but I’m not going to cry myself to sleep, either. Oh, what the hell, I am going to have a couple beers to celebrate his absence.
Mike G
The media is a circus whose rasion d’etre is to attract attention. Breitbart attracted tons of negative attention with his bullying, angry, mendacious antics. Not something that any mentally-undisturbed person would want to be known for, but he was good for businesss in that sense.
I’ll always remember him for giving the finger to a march against child slavery in Africa, because the sight of regular people expressing their opinion in public, without the consent of rich, powerful and conservative institutions, was repulsive to him no matter the cause, their humanity something to be stomped into the ground.
Billy Beane
@scav: Clearly I hit a nerve. Check!! Thanks for the great feedback my little groupies. Now I know what I need to do more of. Abl 2.01-5_e3 always did bug me with her single dimensional all racism all the time. Obviously I need to speak my mind about it even more. The stronger the reaction the more I know I am on the right track with this.
Besides, Not Republican Cole is too boring these days now that he is on prozac or whatever and doesn’t have a lot of gloom porn to get excited about.
Hey Cole, how is that “The Dow is down to 11,000 with no end in sight” workin out for ya?
dr. bloor
But only among his fans. The rest of the world will have forgotten him in three months, max, and he won’t be around to keep trashing the lives of those with whom he disagreed.
He always called to mind that line from “Tombstone,” where Doc Holliday tells Earp his anger comes from being born. Let’s hope he has more peace now, wherever that might be.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
Hate is hate and is not diminished by political affiliation. I will say a small prayer for his kids, they had no choice in the matter.
JPL
@Warren Terra: The Washington Post has a nice article too. She was amazing and stories like hers reaffirm my faith in mankind. link
She’s my hero.
Tokyokie
@Egg Berry: I worked with a guy who worked with Buchanan way back when at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and Bob said Buchanan was an asshole back then, too.
Bubblegum Tate
@Trentrunner:
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Next up: Politifact rates ABC’s statement “mostly true.”
Jim C.
He’s dead. I’m glad he’s dead. Good fucking riddance. The world is better off without him.
If Sean Hannity up and croaked tomorrow I wouldn’t grieve or express condolences to his family either.
Some people are just selfish assholes who are BAD PEOPLE who make the world a worse place while they’re here. Breitbart was one of them. He was a hatemonger, a demagogue and a cynical propagandist.
He held no intellectual honesty, was not interested in fairness or the truth, and whose sole purpose and goal in life was to lie and mislead. Novel thought, if you want the world to be sad when you die, don’t spend all your waking moments fucking the world over.
I repeat, good riddance to the hack.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
I can’t honestly say I’m sorry he died young, because I’m not.
gaz
@Billy Beane: awww, big kiss, sweetheart.
Cluttered Mind
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero): His kids will hopefully end up better off now. The world doesn’t need any more James Murdochs, Bush Twins, Track and Bristol Palins, Jonah Goldbergs, or Bill Kristols. For every one Ron Reagan Jr., there’s a couple dozen who end up like the ones I just called out. It may be politically incorrect to say so, but those kids stand a better chance of becoming decent adults without Breitbart as their father.
starscream
No conspiracy theory about how he was killed before he could release those secret tapes he had?
EDIT: Never mind, read the Buzzfeed link. It’s already started!
Frank
@Trentrunner:
Do you or anyone by any chance have a link to that?
If true, that is beyond the pale, even by MSM’s poor standards.
Pococurante
If he wanted a decent legacy for his children he would have lived decently.
It’s sad for his kids, but ultimately this is sins of the father that I doubt will ever cascade onto them. In other six months no one will remember him so his family will be just fine.
Birthmarker
The comments in the Gawker post the above Osbourne post links to are hilarious.
Billy Beane
Oh btw…Not Republican Arrianna Fluffington can go fuck herself too. Fuck that phony bitch and her vacations with Newt, hanging out with various other professional right wing shit stirrers and critisizing the Prez under the guise she is a progressive. Fuck her with a red hot cattle prod!
http://extremeliberal.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/newtarianna.jpg?w=500&h=411
Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity
Ahh, the giveaway. Welcome back, Derf.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I guess I’m alone in not really caring. He was a nasty and probably mentally unbalanced man, the only real influence he ever had was was ACORN, which is more about the gullibility and cowardice of the nonFox MSM than Breitbart or his weird little protégé, and our media remains stupid and corrupt, and there will be other ACORNs now that Breitbart is dead (case-in-point, Tweety is using Olympia Snowe’s retirement as an excuse to have “moderate” Blanche Lincoln explain that Democrats are too far to the left, and I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen Olly compared to Ben and Joe, her fellow martyrs to extremism). Shirley Sherrod was a victim of Tom Vilsack far more than of Breitbart.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mark S.: I’ve been figuring prescription drugs
Jim C.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No you’re not alone in not caring. See my comment above.
Ben Franklin
@starscream:
WTF is Buzzfeed? A bloggers Entertainment Tonight?
Never seen as much blood splashed at feeding time…
Billy Beane
@Democratic Nihilist, Keeper Of Party Purity: Urrrum…and your point being? First of all….so sad for you that you even care. Second of all what was your first clue genius. Let me give you a little advice, posts like that one don’t make you look any smarter…mmmkay…
Oh, and speaking of other handles……how many do you have at the same time, don’t recall this handle as one of my loyal little furry groupies so clearly there seems to be some hypocrisy here. If not then I will be glad to add you. Just keep it the same so I know who you are…mmkay.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
@Cluttered Mind:
Maybe, who knows. But for now, they have a huge hole in their young hearts, and that is reason enough to be sad for them.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Klaus:
Bit unfair to Hitchens; big difference between sometimes an asshole to professional, full time asshole for the sake of being an asshole.
And their death’s were telling; Hitchen’s had cancer and soberly maintained his (lack) of beliefs to end so forcefully the Right had to posthumously baptize him for Hitchen’s elevation to the sainthood. Brientbart died during a midnight temper tantrum because someone on the intertubes hurt Brientbart’s fee fees.
ladies auxiliary fuckhead (f/k/a eemom)
I know it’s weird, but for some reason the “up and died” part cracks me up.
scav
@Billy Beane: No, you hit a funny bone as cheap target of opportunity. I’m into low humor when I’m feeling lazy and you are indeed bang on target for that. Anybody seen one of the worthwhile squeaky toys yet?
Kyle
He contributed nothing to the world but hate and personal destruction, not even having the decency to turn his personal demons inward.
I don’t know but I imagine he treated his family as he treated the world, a bully with unbounded arrogance, anger and selfishness.
tomvox1
Sure, I feel bad for his kids. They had no choice of who their father would be. But his wife? Not so much. No more than I would the widow of some tin pot dictator or career white collar criminal if they kicked the bucket. She made her choices and she must have known he was a scumbag. But she still married him. Feeling bad for Breitbart’s wife is like feeling bad for Imelda Marcos or Callista Gingrich. Boo fuckity hoo.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think you’re right — and dr. bloor too. This might be one of those situations in which spending time on political blogs warps one’s perceptions. Most people don’t have the foggiest clue who Breitbart was, and it’s not like he invented yellow journalism or douchebaggery, so both the hagiography and haterade seem a little excessive. Save the happy dance for when Rush dies on the crapper.
Mark B
I don’t feel good about rejoicing when an evil person dies. I do it, but I just don’t feel that good about it.
different-church-lady
@Billy Beane: You entertain exactly one person: yourself. What kick you find in it I’ll never comprehend.
Cluttered Mind
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero): That I will not argue with or try to dispute in any way.
gaz
@Billy Beane: keep talking like that, you’re turning me on.
I know most people don’t see it, but when I look past the geriatric stench and stare deeply into those big, dumb cow eyes of yours, I know that beneath beats the pace-maker assisted heart of a a true culture warrior.
Come here, my little hover round hero. I’m gonna make your night.*
* With the price of petrol being what it is under obama, I’ll have to substitute good old prison lube. Sure you won’t mind?
scav
Holy Shit, they interpret their misspellings as major contributions in the fight for their sacred cause. Talk them off the colledge? Nah. Up and died.
ladies auxiliary fuckhead (f/k/a eemom)
@Suffern ACE:
Naw, I think this is gonna be a one hit wonder kind of event. Unless there turns out to be something particularly scandalous and/or ghoulish about those “natural causes,” he’ll be buried — so to speak — under an avalance of republican primary nonsense by the weekend.
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
I think that the most respect we can show to Breitbart is to speak the truth about him. If that makes him look bad, then that’s because of the way he chose ot live his life. It’s because of what he chose to do and say.
I don’t think we liberals should throw a party or go out of our way to say nasty things about him; the truth is we don’t have to. He lived his life the way he chose to, and he rode good people down every day. He trashed their names. He helped to tear down an organization htat many poor people needed. He lied and he cheated and he wrecked people.
We should do nothing more than to point to the things he did and said for the last 5 years or whatever it’s been. That’s all we have to do. If conservatives tell us that we aren’t being “civil” or “respectful” or that we’re “dancing on his grave” or any other such bullshit, we should answer that we’re doing nothing more than to point out the very things he himself chose to do and say.
If he’d rather that he not be remembered that way, then, well, that’s too bad. He had his life to live any way he wanted, and that’s what he chose.
And conservatives, knowing what he did and how he did it, chose to count themselves with him. That, too, was a choice, one they freely made. Conservatives love to talk about “taking responsibility”, but they don’t believe they should have to do it themselves. Well, now they get to. They get to deal with hearing about how their friend and colleague chose to live. They won’t like that, but we, too, have a respnsibility. It’s our responsibility to tell the truth. We have a duty to make these people own up to what they’ve done.
I don’t think it’s mean or uncalled for. I don’t think our country can afford to let Breitbart go to his grave mourned as some well-meaning, dedicated, decent guy who just didn’t see eye to eye with us. We need to remember him for what he was: a liar and a man who trashed blameless, guiltless people for money. If it makes him look bad, that’s too bad for him. I feel a little sorry that he isn’t here to try to undo some of the harm he wrought, but he had 43 years to do the right thing. He chose not to.
Satanicpanic
Yay, round 2 of grave dancing! Seriously, fuck all the handwringing on the internet today. He was a public figure, his family can’t very well expect that everyone had something good to say about him. The Dalai Lama’s family can’t expect that. Fuck Breitbart, and fuck the other 9 people on my I Hope They Die list, I hope I outlive them too.
Anonymous
Don’t forget how he reacted after Kennedy died. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/26/57997/breitbart-kennedy-twitter/
AnotherBruce
@Warren Terra: Amen to that, thanks for posting this.
cinesimon
Very, very well put ABL.
My feelings mirror yours.
cinesimon
Billy Bean – you really ought to be heading back to the kindergarten. Maybe you’ll meet some tea partiers. You’re much more likely to get on with them than anyone else.
Oh – and I see you never bother to read much of ABL’s writing. Hence your ignorance as to what she writes about.
AnotherBruce
@Betty Cracker: I’m under the impression that Rush hasn’t taken a crap in years. So I think you’ve correctly predicted his demise.
The Populist
@Billy Beane: Hate to break it to you but when you need to pat yourself on the back it means you lost.
I find those who can argue a point, even when proven wrong with facts that are easily checked, are at least consistent and humble people.
You are just another troll who thinks it’s so important to win even if you lie.
The Populist
@scav: Ooh, ooh be careful there, he might think he’s WON some more because you “pwned” his ass.
Chris
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):
When coming to political awareness, one of the earlier warning sign that all wasn’t quite right in conservatives’ heads was the absolute flood of people who believe to this day that “McCarthy was right!” and lionize him as a hero fallen under the bullets of liberal traitors.
The saddest thing about Breitbart’s death is the thought that fifty or sixty years from now, my grandkids may have to hear the same thing about Breitbart. (Though probably not – he wasn’t that important).
The Populist
Oh, and speaking of other handles……how many do you have at the same time, don’t recall this handle as one of my loyal little furry groupies so clearly there seems to be some hypocrisy here. If not then I will be glad to add you. Just keep it the same so I know who you are…mmkay.
Hi Cornerstone! I see you’ve made up yet another lame moniker to spread your dysfunctional thought process.
Catsy
@Billy Beane:
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is all you need to know in order to add this sad little ratfucking troll to your pie filter.
Billy Beane
@different-church-lady: Thanks for entertaining me with your opinion my little groupie. I am so very happy that you have been “entertain”ed.
Amir Khalid
Damn, my comment got eated. Anyway, I wanted to say that Matt Taibbi pretty much captured what I think of the late Mr Breitbart: despicable ethics, but a love of the fray and a great sense of political theater. None of which is enough to redeem him in the eyes of the Juicitariat, and I agree. Still, he left a widow and four young orphans. For their sake if no one else’s, wait till the funeral is over and the mourners gone before you form a queue to piss on his grave.
Billy Beane
@Catsy: oh damn I have been found out. You are so sharp.
Seriously people, are you really this dumb? Getting you people to bite is easier than getting my cat to chase around a string.
Mnemosyne
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Just as a point of correction, I doubt Hitchens had a sober moment in his adult life, up to and including the days leading up to his death. Let’s not re-write history to make him some kind of teetotaler — he was a drunken sot from beginning to end.
Billy Beane
@The Populist: You people are just as predictable as the people holding out their hand asking for money on that orange site on a daily basis. Thanks for amusing me my little furry groupie.
Oh and needs to be said more around here today. Fuck Brietbart and fuck every spineless phoney asshole who tries to pretend they are somehow being a saint for pretending not to try spite him in death as they would have in life. All that says is you are not willing to stand for anything which means you will fall for everything.
Yea, I’m looking at you Cole.
Matt Taibbi Wrote
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.
To use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, cocksucker. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301
The Populist
@Billy Beane:
Funny, seems the only predictable one around here is you. I love the Cole bashers. You guys are so full of yourselves.
dead existentialist
Haven’t read the thread but figured somebody might find this amusing, shall we say.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4ce276af14/andrew-breitbart-has-sex-with-goats
You can see what it is, now go see what it is about.
ricknro
When the time comes, I will ask my maker for forgiveness; when the time comes.
I cannot deny or lie about how I feel about the departure from this world of Andrew Breitbart. I truly am glad that he is no longer here to inject his brand of poisonous, hateful “journalism” into our political discourse. I do not wish death upon anyone, save Osama bin Laden his ilk. And it’s truly sad that 4 children are now without a father and a loving wife is without a husband…condolences to his family. But I’d be a lying if I said that I’m not glad that Andrew Breitbart is no longer here to continue his efforts to drag our discourse to the lowest depths.
I don’t celebrate the death of Andrew Breitbart. I celebrate the elimination of his poisonous rancor, his character assassinating firebombing and his openly bitter disrespect of those he disagrees with. I don’t celebrate his death. I celebrate the death of all his reprehensible and deceitful tactics. I would have preferred that Andrew Breitbart could have woken up one morning with an epiphany, travelled to Tibet or wherever, came away with a new enlightenment and set out to be a better man for the rest of his days. This way, his family would still have a father and husband. But that didn’t happen.
I’m not happy that the man is dead. But I am happy I will no longer have to witness his toxic and hateful dialogue. If that is wrong in the eyes of my maker, I will ask for forgiveness when the time comes.
Billy Beane
@dead existentialist: Just as funny now as it was 1 year ago. If any of you disagree then go fuck yourself….
oh and btw…… fuck Brietbart. Mean’t it then and still mean it now.
Sad Iron
I think the phrase “What he said” applies in this case, meaning, Brietbart’s words about the death of Ted Kennedy will now be rightly applied.
Ben Cisco
@Mnemosyne: Politho says you are correct.
brendancalling
I don’t feel sorry for his kids. they’re better off without him, and the disgusting hateful things he would teach them.
He was a bully and a drunk: how do you think THAT played out at home?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Darnell From LA
Just how big of an asshole does one have to be in this life for the fact to be noted after one’s death?
Do we have to say nice things about Dick Cheney, once he assumes room temperature too?
After Kurt Vonnegut died Fox News called him a bitter old man. No big deal?
Breitbart himself called Teddy Kennedy a “piece of human excrement” after Kennedy passed away. Also no big deal?
And I don’t remember the GOP being offended when Michael Savage said the only reason Bill Clinton survived his heart surgery was because “hell was full.”
Breitbart was an asshole. Period. The fact that he was loved by his family and some deranged bloggers with facist tendencies doesn’t change the fact that he was an major, major asshole. Hell, even Hitler was loved by Eva AND a dog. Do I need to preface my disdain for Hitler with “I am so sorry for Eva’s loss?”
Patricia Kayden
ABL 2.0 hit the nail on the head. Why should liberals care that conservatives are using our comments as proof that all liberals are bad? They hate liberals anyways.
samara morgan
Bravo ABL.
THIS was his real effect.
im gladgladglad hes dead.
for me it was just like when gollum fell into mt. doom clutching the One Ring.
he didnt have any redeeming virtues that i could see. he created a whiole new venue for conservative ressentiment.
and i hope that on Big Hollywood and Big Government traffic slows to a crawl, and mrs breitbart cant pay the server tab and both sites get colonized by v1agra spammers.
Darnell From LA
@samara morgan:
maus
Why wouldn’t Huffington say good things about him? They were good friends and she has always been a conservative.
Soonergrunt
@Darnell From LA: Exactly.
Ruckus
@Betty Cracker:
I’m hoping Limpdick does a Mr. Creosote. On camera so we can watch more than once.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
I wouldn’t have waked across the street to piss on him if he was on fire, not going to stand in line to water the flowers on his grave.
Uncle Ebeneezer
It was just a matter of time before this brave man would sink to the depths of that sensationalist, gotcha journalism, like that practiced by the Katie Courics of the world.
Geeno
Okay, I’ve let enough threads go by.
My take on Andrew Breitbart is that if his wife went home tonight, murdered her children and committed suicide, I would sleep like a baby.
That asshole made it his personal, and well publicized, mission to destroy as many people as possible. He’s only remembered fondly by conservatives, because of the filter he applied, but for his own purposes, I honestly believe that it didn’t really matter to him who he destroyed, as long as he was destroying someone.
Sociopathy can be congenital; that makes his children suspect in my eyes.
I have little more feeling for his death than that of a rabid dog put down by animal control. What additional feeling I have is negative.
Captain C
@Trentrunner:
Somewhere, a Russian who lived through the Soviet era is thinking to himself, “Pravda had nothing on this…”
blehmann
You know, my husband at 44 suffered a cardiac arrest in Jan. and it was only because I was RIGHT THERE that he survived. He isn’t a cokehead, a rageholic, or an alcoholic. He had an electrical problem with his heart.
So yeah, people can just drop drop in their forties. My point is that there’s plenty enough to talk about without speculation on what other factors may have caused his death.
He was an asshole. No argument there.
Kobie
Billy … what, exactly, are you doing here besides trolling? Get a fucking life.
And as far as Andrew Breitbart is concerned — nothing of value was lost. He was a professional smear merchant.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Amir Khalid: Do you want us never to have any fun, sir? Though I understand your larger point.
Captain C
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): A Speaking for the Dead, a la Ender. And a well done one at that.
brantl
@Billy Beane: eat me. eat me twice.
DelcoMuckraker
He was an asshole. Now he’s a dead asshole. That’s all we need to say.
Cain
@gaz:
Can I have a turn after your done? Unfortunately, I only have glass bits for lube.
different-church-lady
@Billy Beane: And your reading comprehension leaves something to be desired as well.
If you were a cat, you’d be licking your own crotch right now.
DW
@Matt Taibbi Wrote: Taibbi was too kind. Breitbart was damned just for the whole Sherrod incident, never mind anything else. He’s being treated with kid’s gloves for the same reason Hitchens was. Both posed as rebel outsiders but both were well connected and friendly with the establishment. Read Huffington or Weigel on Slate and you’ll see that clearly. So both were praised in death and neither could be attacked, unlike that war criminal Jan Berenstain. Seriously, how weird is it that Slate treats her death with more venom than Hitchens or Breitbart? Breitbart was part of the club and thus officially a great loss. If a genuine rebel like Krugman should die, there would be far less appreciation.
I feel sorry for Breitbart’s family and for all we know he might have been a loving father and husband – public and private morality don’t always match. But in the end the world only lost a less talented Hitchens, another sleazy performance artist.
oldswede
This death could almost make me believe in the power of prayer. If I ever actually prayed, that is.
gravie
Couldn’t agree more and I will feel the same when Dick Cheney finally gives up the ghost. Now I’m going to go back to saying nothing.
Paul in KY
To me, he’s rotting in Hell with Barbara Olsen, Micheal Kelly and that fat bastard they used to call ‘the prince of darkness’ (Robert Novak).