Word that the Breitbart News Network is being audited by the IRS doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of lamestream media attention, but happily Crooks & Liars gave Matt Osborne of Breitbart Unmasked a wider platform to explain the charges:
Brietbart News, LLC announced Tuesday that they are being audited by the IRS. This is absolutely not a surprise to anyone who has paid attention to their business practices, but of course the website proclaims that the whole thing is a sinister plot by the Obama administration to shut them up…
It’s worth noting that the IRS is reviewing the site’s finances for 2012, which is the single most interesting period of time they could investigate, as it’s the year Breitbart died in the middle of an important transition.
A proud C student, Breitbart made sure he was the smartest person in the room by hiring low-rent people who would eat from his hand. He was also an authoritarian whose hand guided everything. This became readily apparent shortly after he died in 2012, when the ‘Big’ sites were all suddenly changed to Breitbart.com without redirecting the old URLs, cutting off search engine and social media traffic to the old content.
This move had been poorly-planned before his death, and was poorly-executed afterwards. Not only was it a preview of mismanagement to come, my sources suggest the switch was made to avoid tax liabilities related to the way Andrew had avoided his contractual liabilities after 2006.
The Next Gen lawsuit is also interesting because it names Andrew’s wife as a co-defendant. He died intestate, having never bothered to give her any kind of legal cover, so she remains the responsible party to answer legal action against his estate. And his fortune might have been considerable in 2012: Andrew reportedly collected almost $10 million in venture capital funding from two big donors a few months before his death, but it’s not clear what happened to that money, and the organization has done everything possible to keep anyone from finding out…
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Much, much more at the link. Apart from enjoying the schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Roger Moore
Deal with a lot of bullshit. Not a problem for somebody for whom bullshit is their stock in trade, like Breitbart.
mai naem mobile
I say, I am shocked. Shocked I say. Also too, this is excellent news.for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Trollhattan
And he’s still dead–twofer!
Howard Beale IV
Betcha Orson Bean’s probably none too happy seeing what’s happening to his daughter here….
Mnemosyne
Special home-for-the-day edition of my blog: Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise (1933). NBC Universal is threatening to put the kibosh on my clips (I did ask for a “fair use” exemption), so read it while the clips are still working.
And I’m getting ready to drink my prep liquid to start the whole lovely process. I’ve been frickin’ starving all day — the only thing that helped was some Isopure (though it tastes nasty if you don’t like Splenda), which at least had enough protein to fool my stomach into thinking it was getting food.
Jay C
Ooooh, oooh, ! I know! OBAMA STOLE IT!!!!
geg6
Tee hee hee.
Hahahahhahaha.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Snort.
Okay, I’m better now.
Okay, not yet.
AND HE’S STILL DEAD! LOL!
Now I’m done.
MattF
So, Breitbart turns out to have been careless with money. I don’t feel that surge of surprised awareness that comes from learning things I didn’t expect.
raven
@Mnemosyne: Hang tough, it’ll be over soon. It’s worth it.
Roger Moore
@geg6:
You are so mean! It was completely beyond Dimbrat’s control that he was unable to cover his tracks better than he did.
BGinCHI
If they sold their tears to make money I might buy them.
hueyplong
Not sure there is an “apart from enjoying the Schadenfreude” tonight. This Breitbart thing will suffice for at least one evening. In the eyes of his followers, Big Gubmint will have both killed him and taken all his money.
Hard for them to spin this as a win, though they’ll undoubtedly shake their little fists and promise vengeance.
As Pierce would say, Jesus is definitely my amigo right now.
AxelFoley
Well, well:
Islamic State using leaked Snowden info to evade U.S. intelligence:
washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/4/islamic-state-using-edward-snowden-leaks-to-evade-/?utm_content=…
Dude. Bro.
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne:
I’m enjoying the blog. (One clip seems to be missing from Trouble.)
Good luck with the prep! As everyone says, the actual procedure is nothing.
Eric U.
what a mess. I hope everyone takes this opportunity to make out a will, because an amazing number of seemingly smart people don’t have one at all. And it’s really a mean trick on the heirs to die without one.
Roger Moore
@AxelFoley:
You’re relying on the word of NSA as relayed through the Moonie Times, which makes even this Snowden skeptic question the veracity of the claims.
EthylEster
@AxelFoley: I would take stuff written by the Washington Times with a grain of salt.
Mark S.
@Jay C:
AND USED IT TO FUND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
Trollhattan
Reading the incident reports from a fire not far east of here, that began Saturday and blew up yesterday.
Harrowing stuff.
Mike in NC
Vampire? Werewolf? How about just plain leech?
BGinCHI
@Mike in NC: I heard he was being treated for a lack of empathy.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@gogol’s wife:
D’oh! I think that may be the clip that got officially flagged, but I’ll see if I can fix it later. Thanks!
Botsplainer
Middle daughter is spending a month wandering around Colorado with her fella. She called today, surprised that I had been right about there being an ugly strain of conservatism infesting the state everywhere that Denver isn’t.
She was horrified at what she’s been hearing on local radio out there. She said they cut the mike on dissenting calls, and regrets taking for granted how progressive the Louisville Metro Area is.
Roger Moore
@Botsplainer:
That’s a bit of an exaggeration. The university towns (Boulder and Fort Collins) are tolerably liberal, so it’s not just Denver. The real thing is that you also have Colorado Springs, which is home base for some of the worst Talibangelicals.
boatboy_srq
@Jay C: Proof positive that there’s no legitimate
grand larcenygrifting of the rubes that that won’t fall victim to the IslamoFascoSoshulistfraud investigationsoppression of Real Ahmurrcans™.boatboy_srq
@EthylEster:
FIFY.
Villago Delenda Est
@MattF: Careless with facts, careless with money, careless with intoxicating substances, careless with his health..
Careless, period.
Still glad the vile shit is dead.
Doug
“…of course the website proclaims that the whole thing is a sinister plot by the Obama administration to shut them up…”
Because what else are they gonna say?
Botsplainer
@Roger Moore:
I know – they were just burrowing in when I went to USAFA.
Howard Beale IV
@AxelFoley: Now that you have demonstrated how easily and so thoroughly you have been conditioned by the government and the Moonies, you can now be safely ignored as a slackjawed nanocephalic imbecelic lower-class coffin-nose malodorous idiotic twit.
Rather impressive and amusing, in its own way. Of course, the fact that the article and your agreement with it is 100% wrong, well, keep smoking whatever it is what yer smoking…..
Howard Beale IV
@EthylEster: Gains of salt? Try Salt blocks…..
Howard Beale IV
@Roger Moore:
Mostly because of the Air Force Academy, where some of the worse sexual abuses have occurred. Also, too, it is where that harpy Michelle Malkin and the infamous ‘Dr. Chaps’ lives.
WaterGirl
I tried searching for “jacy” in all of today’s threads. Have we heard anything about the results of the surgery, and somehow I missed it in my search?
Howard Beale IV
@gogol’s wife: Back when I first had an endoscopic procedure they used Demerol and Valium.
THAT was good shit.
Last endoscopic procedure I had they used Versed and Duragesic. Yeah it worked, but wasn’t like Demerol and Valium was.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@WaterGirl:
I think it was scheduled to start at 6:30 am. Since she has to be in the hospital at least overnight, I don’t know if she has access to the internet.
bago
TERRORISTS HAVE THE POWER OF IMAGINATION!!!!
skippy
i grew up in denver (aurora) back in the 50’s/60’s.
nothing to add, except to say how weird it is for me to see the words “loiusville” and “metropolitan area” in one sentence.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@raven:
So far, my review of the prep is “meh.” Physically, I’ve felt worse after eating too much dairy (lactose intolerant). Right now boredom is my main problem.
SixStringFanatic
@skippy: Louisville is considered metropolitan because they all actually wear shoes.
Roger Moore
@Howard Beale IV:
I think Focus on the Family is much more to blame than the Academy.
moops
@Roger Moore:
Boulder and Fort Collins are still mostly red. The liberal students are not all that engaged, and the resource industries are very much all about lowering taxes no matter the cost.
Roger Moore
@moops:
Bullshit. They may not be as blue as Denver, but CO-2 is still a D+8 district, and that’s despite containing little blue territory outside those two cities. It isn’t crazy liberal, but it did manage to elect a gay Jewish man as it’s Representative.
Pogonip
Stop dissing Louisville. They have a nice little zoo. As has Indianapolis, which has a nice, though small, collection of snakes.
How do zoos feed their snakes? Herpers feed their snakes by taking a dead pinky mouse in a pair of tweezers and waggling it in front of the snake. You’d need pretty big tweezers to do this with a 15-foot anaconda, but I doubt you’d want to toss a live rabbit into the cage and risk your specimen getting hurt. So how do they do it?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne (iPad Mini): I see frequent visits to the bathroom in your future.
Ogilvy
@Roger Moore: Boulder resident chiming in to second this, and further observe our gay Jewish congressman’s campaign HQ was next door to a medical marijuana dispensary.
SFAW
Wait a minute, are y’all trying to tell me that Andy Breitbart is dead?
I blame Obama.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Mnemosyne:
Hopefully you won’t need another one, but they make collagen powder that can be dissolved in clear liquid. Good stuff.
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Oh, I’ve set up camp in here. Kindle, phone, iPad, drinks, even a blankie to stay warm in the AC. Not fun but, like I said, not as bad as a nasty IBS episode.