Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The lights are all blinking red.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

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Andrew Breitbart is still dead

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That big thing he was claiming to have that was going to change everything?  The one kept going on about before he ragegasmed himself to death?

It seems to be a site redesign.

And not even a very good one.  All of the sites, Big Government, Big Hollywood, Big Peace, all redirect to Breitbart.com  It looks like the internet circa 1998 with a news aggravation aggregation feed.

So we have survived Breitbartocalypse II, The Reanimation.

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UPDATE: H/T to commenter Dave that Breitbart’s site has hit the new redesign.  It looks they stole CSS from Daily Kos’ advertising background thingamjig and stole Talking Points Memo’s CSS for the foreground.  Still no video of Obama eating kittens at Harvard or whatever they were claiming to have.  And yes, their big blockbuster story is that Barack Obama went to see a play about Saul Alinski 14 years ago.

I shit you not.

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  4. 4.

    r€nato

    I got into a debate on FB with some douche who was defending Rush Limbaugh’s ‘slut/prostitute’ comments by madly pointing the finger at a laundry list of right-wing bogeymen and women: Pelosi, Michael Moore, Olbermann, some liberal somewhere who said something mean about Palin. I am surprised he forgot to bring up some anonymous MoveOn member who compared Bush to Hitler.

    But the cherry on the frosting on the cake was when he brought up Breitbart. I sure had fun reminding that drooling cretin of what Mr. B. said about Ted Kennedy when he shuffled off this mortal coil.

  5. 5.

    Trentrunner

    I’m deeply offended that you speak this way of the dead, even if you disagreed with his politics. In this day and age, we need MORE civility, not less, and…

    …ah, fuck, who am I kidding? I’m glad that fucker’s rotting underground right now and his voice is silenced forever.

  7. 7.

    Spaghetti Lee

    In solidarity with the dearly departed Mr. Breitbart, today I got drunk and wandered around town in my bathrobe, calling everyone I met a whore. I hope you all did something similar.

  8. 8.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    there is unintended comedy in the doug giles brietbart post. when you consider superconservadad of the year couldn’t have loved seeing his daughter walk a walk that was more method than acting, nearly as much as i did.

    sure he praises breitbart, but the denial and outright bullshit of it all, makes a finer point in the sublime than any combination of words he might have strewn across the page.

  9. 9.

    Svensker

    From the front page: Occupy Oakland Preparing to Intimidate Israeli President Shimon Peres at Temple

    Oh noes! They are going to make him so so scared. Maybe he’ll cry. Or nuke them. One or the other.

    That is one of the ugliest pages I ever did see.

  13. 13.

    Chris Muir

    For John Cole:

    You were one of the first to kindly note day by day cartoon, back in 2002.

    Whatever our politics, to see your site devolving over the years, to postings under your aegis such as this…

    My sympathies,

    Chris Muir

  17. 17.

    Soonergrunt

    @Chris Muir: I see you finally took an anatomy class and started drawing female characters with reasonably humanoid features. At the rate it took you to do that, we can expect something approximating humor sometime around 2018, right?

  18. 18.

    Mike G

    Some people make the world a better place, then pass on.

    Some people make the world a better place by passing on.

  19. 19.

    geg6

    BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh fuck, is this hilarious.

    And then that ass Muir drops by, having a sad because John Cole doesn’t love him any more.

    Cole, you slut.

    BWAHAHAHAHA! Best laugh I’ve had in months.

  20. 20.

    sharl

    @Chris Muir:
    Oh, hey, it’s Day By Day “artist” Chris Muir.
    THIS IS SO AWESOME! (sample…also, too).

    Say, do any of those hawt, half-nekkid chicks you draw – you know, the ones with the severely bent spines – actually exist in real life?

    ETA – Soonergrunt at #17 informs me that my information is out-of-date. My apologies Mr. Muir, and congratulations on achieving some measure of self-improvement. Always a good thing!

  23. 23.

    UncommonSense

    I thought he had some video of Obama doing or saying something Muslamic or socialistic or Kenyan or something.

  24. 24.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    So when does the “Harvard” tape comes out, or did Seal Team Six take it on the orders of the president after AB was taken out on a predawn commando raid, complete with black helicopters and trained attack chupacabras!

  26. 26.

    Suffern ACE

    Ok. Green balloons until the Harvard tapes come out. If they never come out, then we never have to mention him again.

  27. 27.

    Soonergrunt

    @UncommonSense: I think if they’d had that, they’d have capitalized on Breitbart’s death and put it out there as quickly as they could.
    There IS some half-assed story associating a lot of famous lefties with left-leaning thoughts and actions, and also too, Obama is a Kenyanmuslimsocialistfascist. But no film of anything.

  28. 28.

    Betty Cracker

    @Soonergrunt:

    At the rate it took you to do that, we can expect something approximating humor sometime around 2018, right?

    You’re SUCH an optimist!

  29. 29.

    Dave

    Looks like the 1998 version of the site was a placeholder, because it looks much different right now (10:45pm EST) than it did half an hour ago.

  30. 30.

    Brian S

    What’s the over-under for how long the site continues to exist before going bankrupt without Breitbart around to get money out of people? 6 months? 3?

  32. 32.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    So, there really is no tape of Obama at Harvard doing or saying something evil? Well, I’m sure the frothing far-righters will insist the O. administration confiscated and destroyed the evidence — all part of the on-going (and very scary!) progressive destruction of our great country. tee-hee….

  34. 34.

    Citizen_X

    do any of those hawt, half-nekkid chicks you draw – you know,the ones with the severely bent spines – actually exist in real life?

    I was wondering if any of them are sluts–i.e. use birth control–because we don’t see them surrounded by the rug rats any honest woman would be producing, at the rate of one per year. But since these women are Muir’s fantasies, they don’t have to obey the laws of physics, or biology, or anything.

  35. 35.

    Suffern ACE

    Well, since this is the OT, I thought I’d post this Bloomberg Story about Indian democracy. Found it odd that 35% of the candidates running have various charges against them, but that could just be that it is a common tactic to use the court system against political adversaries. But the idea that someone can keep their office and run again while serving a sentence in prison seems unique.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    Wait, Chris Muir is still publishing? I guess that wingnut welfare gravy train keeps chugging along regardless of talent or ability.

  39. 39.

    Soonergrunt

    @gnomedad: He’s the second C-list conservative I’ve had troll one of my threads. The other one is Tucker Carlson’s low-dollar rentboy, Jim “Traffic Cone” Treacher.

  40. 40.

    Suffern ACE

    @West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.): OK. The promise was to release the tapes “within the next ten days” so that would be sometime late next week. The site redesign was a different thing. That was a “I’ve got something big happening this Sunday” and it turns out to be a site redesign. A lot of folks were confused. The Harvard Tapes were supposed to come out much later. The release of those were moved up. But I have no idea what those are. My guess is that Breitburt wired himself when he went to Ayers’ super bowl party (he won that invitation in a charity auction) and Ayers did another one of his “sure I wrote the biography and my wife plotted his career” jokes. Or they have Obama sitting on some student panel from his law school days talking in absolutist terms like students tend to do sometimes.

  42. 42.

    Liberty60

    I’m not getting out of the boat.

    Does the new site have a flaming skull or flashing red light for breaking news?

  43. 43.

    Brian S

    @Suffern ACE: Plus, it takes time to doctor those files so they say something other than what they originally did. I mean, that’s got to be the starting assumption with anything he touched at this point, right?

  45. 45.

    mai naem

    I was flipping channels on XM yesterday and I ran across David Webb’s show. Yeah, yeah, I didn’t know who he was either but he’s apparently a B-list conservative talk show host. Anyway, he was talking to some guy from Breitbart’s website and they’re sharing memories of the great man Andrew Breitbart and they took callers. And, I am feeling secretly guilty about this because I am making fun of these people in my own mind. So, Webb starting talking about the Black farmer reparations story that Andrew broke and Andrew had not gotten credit for this blockbuster story yadayadayada… he then starts in on Shirley Sherrod and in fact what I hadn’t put together until that point was that the Shirley Sherrod story which was the black farmer reparations. At this point, all my guilt was gone. Screw these people. BTW, the Breitbart is dead thread from Friday is one of the most entertaining threads I have ever read on BJ.

  47. 47.

    Liberty60

    @Chris Muir:
    Dig your hip, irreverent cartoons.

    They’re almost like that Mallard Fillmore guy all the kids are talking about nowadays.

  48. 48.

    geg6

    Soonergrunt @22:

    Forgiven? Hell, you’re my new virtual boyfriend now. ;)

    I heart a guy who can make me belly laugh. That’s how my John got me IRL.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Soonergrunt: Dude, you need to up your game. If you keep getting shitty trolls like that, you are going to be teased mercilessly in the FPers lounge.

  50. 50.

    Suffern ACE

    @Brian S: Well, that’s what they said. That they were “carefully reviewing the tapes” and “continuing Breitburt’s work on them” as if there were 100s of hours of the things, which I doubt. I mean, maybe one of the lawyerin’ types could fill me in on law school – what on earth could one do in Law School that would produce 100s of hours of tape recordings.

  53. 53.

    Sad Iron

    Today, the part of Sad Iron will be played by Andrew Sullivan: “Will you stop saying mean things about Andrew Breitbart, you intolerant leftist! He liked The Pet Shop Boys and was nice to me once.”

  56. 56.

    Soonergrunt

    @Tom Levenson: The hell of it is that you, Sir, do far more to make the world a better place, both in your meat-world job, and in the effort you put in here than I ever will. You DESERVE the better trolls, but being trolls, I think they come to my threads because they think that since I’m the slow child of the front pagers, I’m low-hanging fruit or something.

    And come to think of it, Andrew Breitbart, craptastic human being that he may have been, did have far more affect, for good or ill, on this world than I or either of my new buddies Jim or Chris will ever have. The difference between them and me is that I happen to know this.

  59. 59.

    Tom Levenson

    @Soonergrunt: I can’t even begin to dismantle the false consciousness here (hey–I grew up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s; I can’t help it if I talk this way sometimes), so I’ll just say, aw shucks.

    But given what you do, I’m not going to take this comment lying down, no sirree…

    And with that, good night. It’s past my 53 y.o. bed time by something of a margin.

  61. 61.

    Soonergrunt

    Eric Bolhert just tweeted:

    if i’m following this RW blockbuster correctly, 14 yrs ago Obama went to play abt Alinsky. @dloesch is that right?

    in regard to BigDeath’s “expose” on how Obama was a community organizer.
    Shocking, I know.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    @Soonergrunt:

    The hell of it is that you, Sir, do far more to make the world a better place, both in your meat-world job, and in the effort you put in here than I ever will

    I call foul on this. I know what you do IRL, which is more than most people can say they do for our veterans in their lives.

    Or wot he said.

  63. 63.

    Chuck Derperton

    @Chris Muir:

    I forgot you have been making the damn thing that long.

    I thought you would have been able to fit time in to take an art class by now.

  65. 65.

    Soonergrunt

    @Soonergrunt: @Brian S: It’s official.
    From Eric Bolhert again:

    yes, @Dloesch confirms that her site’s blockbuster story is about how Obama went a play 14 yrs ago (!) about Alinsky; #holdthephones

  69. 69.

    Boots Day

    I read a book on Saul Alinsky a couple of weeks ago. Does this mean that I’m a…. (gasp)… a Communist?

  70. 70.

    Soonergrunt

    @Boots Day: The funny thing is that Alinski hated the Communists. He thought they wanted to replace one form of repression with five other forms of repression and particularly that they had no sense of humor.

  71. 71.

    scav

    @Boots Day: Consider yourself lucky, I’m a few threads over reading up on Epictetus and that must mean I’m a (gasp) crippled Slave / Philosopher and dead for centuries on top of it!

  72. 72.

    Vixen Strangely

    Um, I read “The Vetting” at this point and am sort of puzzled. Did anyone notice that Barack Obama was a liberal community organizer, got into politics and then spent the last three or four years as president of our country or something? He watched a play back in the 1990’s about Alinsky. In the 1990’s, I was attending a Catholic university. That’s why I’m a part of the open-secret LGBT-Atheist wing of Opus Dei right now.

    And if you’re interested, I have this investment opportunity regarding gold and Ron Paul’s delegate count that will blow your mind. In other words, I’m not really sure what Breitbart was on about, but I saw the same cast of “associations” in 2008. And FWIW, it’s still dumb.

  75. 75.

    sharl

    Charles Johnson tweet:

    The BREITBARTOCALYPSE is upon us! Aieee! {link to Breitbart thingee}

    Yeah, I hopped out of the boat briefly, and glanced at “The Vetting, Part I: Barack’s Love Song To Alinsky”. A sample of the pathetic offerings of old sinister doings (wingnut version), from Breitbart’s “expose”:

    Studs Terkel: A sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace in 1949, which was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions.

    That’s right, a Commie reference, with a multi-step connections to the eebil, eeeeebil Mr. Terkel.

    Gosh, I wonder if the follow-on parts will be equally riveting? While waiting, I might go back and read this one in the voice of Count Floyd of Monster Chiller Horror Theater.

    This is an entirely appropriate final act for a pathetic creature. What a sad way to go out, and what a precautionary tale this guy’s final years provides for anyone who will take its lesson.

  76. 76.

    Mnemosyne

    @sharl:

    What kind of sad, low-rent fantasy world do you live in when you have to cast Studs Terkel as one of your enemies?

  78. 78.

    Egg Berry

    … because the media does not want you to know that the president is a radical’s radical whose presidency itself is a love song to a socia1ist “community organizer.”

    Obama really is a Rorshach test.

  79. 79.

    Egg Berry

    … because the media does not want you to know that the president is a radical’s radical whose presidency itself is a love song to a socia1ist “community organizer.”

    Obama really is a Rorshach test.

  84. 84.

    Stranger

    If this is the Big Scoop that Breitbart was hyping before his death, are we completely sure he didn’t actually die of embarrassment?

  85. 85.

    Mnemosyne

    Not being willing to give page hits to andrewbreitbartisstilldead.com, I instead went to Tbogg to get the precis of the terrors inherent in this revelation and they are this: this one time, Obama participated in a panel discussion about Alinsky. Studs Terkel was there, too.

    The end.

  86. 86.

    Mark B.

    So, not only was most of the content on his website stolen, but so is the design and the code. Not unexpected, but still sad.

  87. 87.

    Mark B.

    So, not only was most of the content on his website stolen, but so is the design and the code. Not unexpected, but still sad.

  89. 89.

    Schlemizel

    John – please tell me that in addition to being a talentless clod Mr. Muir is also a big fat liar. Please don’t tell me you EVER thought that effluent that he excretes was funny. I think too highly of your common sense and intellect to imagine you saying nice things about him or directing people to his sewage other than to ridicule it.

    I could believe Sully I can even sort of see the Leak Of Odoriferous Gentlemen but Chris F’ing Muir? SAY IT AINT SO!

  91. 91.

    Suffern ACE

    @Mnemosyne: A monsignor was there. As was the clerk of the city of chicago.

    I get Studs Terkel and Scoop Jackson confused, although I know they were very different people. This was going to be Breitburt angling into Beck’s conservative blackboard space.

  92. 92.

    Mark B.

    Ducks, not being mammals, do not have tits. However, given the average right-winger’s grasp of biology, I wouldn’t put it past Tinsey to try to draw some. And fail.

  93. 93.

    Rathskeller

    @Brian S: well, he went to Columbia, which is a Great Books school. One of the required courses there (Contemporary Civilizations) would mandate that he read Marx. I know next to nothing about a Poly Sci degree, but I imagine reading Marx, Alinsky, et al., is pretty standard stuff at every real school.

    I just checked the syllabus for this year’s CC class, and the Qu’ran is on there. Dun dun dun. That might not have been true in 1982 or so, however.

  94. 94.

    Shadow's Mom

    I had an exchange with Sarah Goldstein on Twitter yesterday:

    Sarah C. Goldstein ‏ @sarahcgoldstein
    Breitbart.com is relaunching on Sunday. Huge social media platform. Come debate! #gop #teaparty #andrewbreitbart

    3 Mar kdpca ‏ @ShadowsMomCA
    @sarahcgoldstein um debate requires two sides engage in Analysis of a question. Your site more like propaganda

    3 Mar Sarah C. Goldstein ‏ @sarahcgoldstein
    @ShadowsMomCA intolerance of the left once again

    3 Mar kdpca ‏ @ShadowsMomCA
    @sarahcgoldstein not intolerant, merely pointing out that debate, by definition requires opposing views. Will u invite progressive voices?

    Sarah C. Goldstein ‏ @sarahcgoldstein
    @ShadowsMomCA I asked democrats to come join us. We would love to debate you.

    So, the new Breitbart.com is open for business and they would love to debate with progressive democrats.

    :)

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne

    BTW, it’s hilarious to see all of the scolds in the comments section of the LA Times clutching their pearls because lefties are talking about Breitbart the same way that Breitbart talked about people like Ted Kennedy and Whitney Houston.

    They really don’t have any concept of “hypocrisy,” do they?

  96. 96.

    samara morgan

    darn, i was having a good gaming night and missed the celebrity guest troll.
    @Chris Muir: some people have adequate substrate to become liberal. if you wanna know why you can read Chris Mooney.

    @Soonergrunt: i have to admit i feared Big Science and Big Education were going to be part of the new site build. inshallah those abominations will never see the light of day.
    ;)

  98. 98.

    Soonergrunt

    @samara morgan: For that to work at all, they’d need people trained in, or at least versed in those fields. That’s why you’ll never see it.
    @samara morgan: They might have lost the ban filter in the swap over.

  99. 99.

    samara morgan

    @Soonergrunt: no, they just need anti-experts. Big Science would be an attempt to take Science back. 24/7 climate change denialism, the Discovery Institute and crap like Expelled.
    Big Education would be an attempt to take academe back from the liberal indoctrination of college students.
    Big Hollywood was a attempt to take pop culture back, Big Journalism to take the media back, and Big Government to take government back.
    i got no clue about Big Peace cuz ive never read anything there.
    Peace through war maybe?

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