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Andrew Breitbart dead at 43

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Ausm said:
Kickass article!

Taken from article:"Good riddance, beautiful being.* Don’t let the door hit you on the way out."

Looks like his minions harbor the same kind of hate Breitbart embraced.

UPDATE: Well done, Breitbart fans, well done! In less than 24 hours you’ve hacked into my Wiki page, published my telephone number on Twitter, called the Rolling Stone offices pretending to be outraged “advertisers” (anonymous ones, who hung up before we could figure out which “ads” to pull), and then spent all night calling and texting my phone with various threats and insults, many of them directed at my family. “Better grow eyes in the back of your head,” was one; “I’m going to take a shit on your mother’s grave,” was another; a third called my wife a “piece of shit like you,” and many others called me a “pile of human excrement.”

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...bart-death-of-a-douche-20120301#ixzz1nyVrq3au
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Good old compassionate conservatives!
 
Ausm said:
Yeah I find it quite hilarious that the Rightist in here tend to ignore the fact that hate is what fuels their base while hiding behind the guile of Religion.
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From the Rolling Stones First Paragraph:
So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.
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Pot, meet Kettle.
 
Matt1970 said:
From the Rolling Stones First Paragraph:


Pot, meet Kettle.
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a relatively common reaction to one specific man's death, and not hiding behind religion.

how is this pot and kettle?

you peddle in hate, lies and pettiness, don't expect a swell reception.

It appalls me, frankly, that none of you can get this. you are blinded by your petty bias.


seriously--what would be your reaction if it were Michael Moore? In all honesty?
 
Matt1970 said:
From the Rolling Stones First Paragraph:
So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.
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Pot, meet Kettle.
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From the rest of the article:
But he also had enough of a sense of humor to appreciate why someone like me shouldn’t bother to pretend I’m sad he’s dead. He wouldn’t, in my place. So to use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, beautiful being.* Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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The really crazy thing is that I was sort of trying to be nice to Breitbart – the obit was at least half an homage. Not that I liked the guy, but he did have a few attractive qualities, one of which being the fact that he got a kick out of the nasty things people said about him. He even once had a plan to set up a website encouraging anti-Breitbart abuse, and was going to let it ride for a while, even spending six figures to hire an Obama p.r. flack to make anti-Breitbart posters, until finally revealing that he'd sponsored the whole thing. Would a person like that really expect someone like me to send flowers when he croaked? No way: he’d be insulted if I didn’t give him one last kick in the balls on the way out the door.
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Reading comprehension much? This guy knew Andrew Breitbart better than you ever will. I'll take his assertion that Breitbart would have preferred this eulogy rather than people who hated him kissing his ass in death. Isn't part of respecting the dead respecting their wishes of how they want to be remembered? Breitbart would have gotten a kick out of the negative attention; he ate it up in life, why not continue it in death?

In a strange way, the political commentary from the left calling him all sorts of nasty names is a far better tribute than the conservatives rushing to defend his honor.
 
I am in no way justifying Breitbart or anything the man has ever done, but the tone in this thread here is the exact hatred you Liberals are claiming only exists with Conservatives. Rejoicing over the death of someone who opposes your political views? Come on now. Show some class.
 
eskimospy said:
I am unaware of anyone who believes that racism is okay as long as it is directed at the right targets.

Hatred on the other hand, of course it's okay if directed appropriately. There are tons of bad things in this world that are absolutely deserving of our hatred, and hating them is a perfectly decent response. Conservatives are generally disdainful of moral relativism, so I would think that you would agree with me on this one.
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It's usually called affirmative action, but you knew that.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
From the rest of the article:


Reading comprehension much? This guy knew Andrew Breitbart better than you ever will. I'll take his assertion that Breitbart would have preferred this eulogy rather than people who hated him kissing his ass in death. Isn't part of respecting the dead respecting their wishes of how they want to be remembered? Breitbart would have gotten a kick out of the negative attention; he ate it up in life, why not continue it in death?

In a strange way, the political commentary from the left calling him all sorts of nasty names is a far better tribute than the conservatives rushing to defend his honor.
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I get the article, but his homage of Breitbart kinda gets lost when his article title is “Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche” and your opening paragraph is “So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”
 
Matt1970 said:
I am in no way justifying Breitbart or anything the man has ever done, but the tone in this thread here is the exact hatred you Liberals are claiming only exists with Conservatives. Rejoicing over the death of someone who opposes your political views? Come on now. Show some class.
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Right or wrong its more rejoicing over the death of someone who was a nasty human being. His political affiliation is not the reason.
 
Matt1970 said:
I am in no way justifying Breitbart or anything the man has ever done, but the tone in this thread here is the exact hatred you Liberals are claiming only exists with Conservatives. Rejoicing over the death of someone who opposes your political views? Come on now. Show some class.
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Nobody is rejoicing over his death because he didn't share our political views, they (at least I) am saying that his actions in support of those views were vile and contemptible. He was a serial liar, a peddler of hysterical conspiracies, and someone who exploited those lies and hysteria to push his ideology despite the damage that his methods inflicted on our country.

There are plenty of conservatives that I would be quite sorry to see pass away. Even if I don't agree with their views, they conduct themselves as decent human beings and add valuable voices to our policy discourse. Andrew Breitbart was the exact opposite of this, and I am not at all sorry to hear that he will no longer be poisoning our media.

Long story short: it was his behavior, not his ideology.
 
Matt1970 said:
I am in no way justifying Breitbart or anything the man has ever done, but the tone in this thread here is the exact hatred you Liberals are claiming only exists with Conservatives. Rejoicing over the death of someone who opposes your political views? Come on now. Show some class.
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Oh, you seem to be profoundly confused with the issue.
 
Matt1970 said:
I get the article, but his homage of Breitbart kinda gets lost when his article title is “Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche” and your opening paragraph is “So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”
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that's the point.

still, you don't get it.
 
Matt1970 said:
I get the article, but his homage of Breitbart kinda gets lost when his article title is “Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche” and your opening paragraph is “So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”
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I bolded the part of the quote that you don't seem to understand. The title of the article, the opening paragraph, the main body of the article, the closing sentiment and the addendum all work in conjunction with each other. It's an essay. If you only read the headline and ignore every single word that comes after it except for "fuck him" and "beautiful being," then, yes, I can see why you'd be confused. If you read the rest of it, it begins to paint a fuller picture of how the author feels. It's clear that he doesn't like Breitbart, but he does afford him a measure of respect for what he accomplished and his brazen displays of ballsiness. I'm not sure which part of that is confusing unless you don't understand that you can respect certain things someone did while still disliking the majority of their personality.
 
zinfamous said:
seriously--what would be your reaction if it were Michael Moore? In all honesty?
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I would say something like
Wow, 58 years old, too young. Condolences to his wife, step-daughter and the rest of his family. RIP.

However he was a piece of shit who made a career out of dividing Americans by distorting the truth, manipulating evidence by taking it out of context to give a different meaning, and outright lying. America is better off without him.
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As I said before, I don't care if you're left or right; our society should marginalize these types of people who are getting rich by selling hate.

States want to pass amendments prohibiting two gay partners from calling themselves married?? A better choice might be to prohibit these people from calling what they do "news."
 
shadow9d9 said:
"n Aug 26, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Early this morning, news broke that Sen. Ted Kennedy had passed away after serving in the U.S. Senate for nearly 50 years. Soon after, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart began a sustained assault on Kennedy’s memory, tweeting “Rest in Chappaquiddick.”
Over the course of the next three hours, Breitbart unapologetically attacked Kennedy, calling him a “villain,” “a big ass motherf@#$er,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.” “I’ll shut my mouth for Carter. That’s just politics. Kennedy was a special pile of human excrement,” wrote Breitbart in one tweet."

Just something to think about.
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Wow, he won't be missed outside of his family. Like all good conservatives, was he a Christian? God smites another of his followers? 😕
 
Matt1970 said:
I am in no way justifying Breitbart or anything the man has ever done, but the tone in this thread here is the exact hatred you Liberals are claiming only exists with Conservatives. Rejoicing over the death of someone who opposes your political views? Come on now. Show some class.
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If you think the hatred being thrown in the direction of Breitbart's decomposing corpse is a reaction to his political views, you're almost too far gone to be worth trying to educate.

For the last time: Brietbart was a hate-spewing, intellectually fraudulent, ends-justify-the-means zealot. His ilk are worthy of vilification regardless of their "political views."
 
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shira said:
If you think the hatred being thrown in the direction of Breitbart's decomposing corpse is a reaction to his political views, you're almost too far gone to be worth trying to educate.

For the last time: Brietbart was a hate-spewing, intellectually fraudulent, means-justify-the-ends zealot. His ilk are worthy of vilification regardless of their "political views."
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Don't waste your breath! 😉
 
Pretty bad year for right wing haters of all stripes, first OBL, then this nut, limbaugh or the fall of the taliban soon hopefully.
 
The more I hear about this guy, the more I like him.

He seemed like a mischievous fun loving troll type.

And I'm getting this from some on the left who knew him. They certainly didn't like any of his political views, but seemed to like him personally.

And I'm amused by those hating here claiming it's not his ideology but his methods. Who do you think you're fooling?

Fern
 
Fern said:
And I'm amused by those hating here claiming it's not his ideology but his methods. Who do you think you're fooling?
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The haters that have posted in here have shown their true colors and are no different than what they hate so badly.
 
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