I wasn't going to write about the death of Andrew Breitbart, because I really didn't want to waste any electrons on the lying hatemonger's arteriosclerotic corpse, but the goddamn tongue-bath he's been getting even from "liberal" mainstream media figures is pretty damn disgusting. To paraphrase the Bard, "I come to bury the douchebag, not to praise him." To ignore the awful negative effect he had on political discourse is to allow his troglodyte followers to write a counterfactual hagiography. Hell, the right wing is trying to make him into a martyr and manufacturing an iconography.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a great piece up about the decedent, and this obituary is a must-read. Finn Finn also had a good post on the guy.
Andrew Breitbart's highest profile exploits were marked not only by their use of deception, but also by racial animus. He used deceptively edited videotape to target an organization which devoted time and effort to registering voters mainly in poor minority communities. His calumnious attack on Shirley Sherrod, a dedicated public servant was an attempt to portray the NAACP as a racist organization in order to deflect criticism from the Tea Party. Breitbart's last big project was an attempt to portray a discimination lawsuit on behalf of poor black farmers who were slighted by the USDA as a shakedown. The guy had a knack for kicking people who were down, and the majority of his targets were African-Americans.
It is often said that race is the "third rail" in American politics, and Breitbart was the rage-filled tweaker lurking on the platform, and hoping to push some poor innocent onto the tracks. He could have looked at the entire video of the Shirley Sherrod speech and said, "She seems like a really good person, maybe I shouldn't engage in character assassination to 'count coup' politically." But he didn't, he considered Shirley Sherrod to be "collateral damage" in the political war he was waging, which was pretty much a race war as well. This was a guy who thought that accusing someone of racism is worse than racism. The guy was hardly a pleasant enough goofball- he did his damnedest to make the country an uglier place.
The world is undiminished by his passing.
The real reason I'm writing this post is that the mothership was down yesterday, and now that it's up, nobody can post comments... is this takedown of Snark Central the big plan the Breitbartisans had cooked up for Sunday?
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get out! i had the same thoughts...about the mothership i mean...
i agree with everything you have said about breitbart...and i am constantly amazed and chagrined (chamazed?) that they initiate these acts of sabotage without provocation, only to prove their world view is better than liberals' and yet, they insist they do it only because the left has somehow forced them to behave in such a manner...
these kind of people, limbaugh included...so i use the term 'people' very loosely, serve no purpose whatsoever if they do indeed believe their divine purpose is to 'expose' the hypocrisy and corruption of 'the left'...
they are not the saviors and heroes they make themselves out to be...they're just agitators...and the wingnut welfare they get for their efforts is much better than any real job...i could probably put up with their shenanigans if they didn't so incessantly fellate themselves and their wingnut overlords and wail that they are the victims here...
The trolls on the one thread were projectile vomiting all over the place.
Pardon me while I snivel:
Where were you yesterday, sadlyno!? I missed you and looked for you, but you weren't here. You were gone. It was more than I could bear, sadlyno! What could I do but worry? And worry. And worry some more. You just disappeared. What?! What, I asked, would I do if you were no more? Oh. The pain. It was very painful that pain, sadlyno! Pain. Sad pain. Pain pain.
Pain.
Now you are on my screen, but deaf to the world. Pain again.
And yet more pain.
I am lonely without you. Don't leave me!
breaks into wracking sobs
gets hanky and tear bucket
blows nose
On the other hand, it's a good excuse to get to work on the garage and to start the beans.
Beans need a regular oil change.
i agree with everything you have said about breitbart...and i am constantly amazed and chagrined (chamazed?) that they initiate these acts of sabotage without provocation, only to prove their world view is better than liberals' and yet, they insist they do it only because the left has somehow forced them to behave in such a manner...
Yeah, that whole "YOU FORCED ME TO BECOME A MONSTER!!!!" schtick really gets old.
"I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson
On the other hand, it's a good excuse to get to work on the garage and to start the beans.
What kinda beans ya growin', wiley?
Beans need a regular oil change.
I usually "refry" them in bacon drippings.
I'm cooking some store bought pinto beans with a little bacon, cumin, bay leaf, salt, pepper, onion.
Not sure I'll be planting any beans. Most of my tomatoes have sprouted. I put the peppers on a warmer mat and one set popped up. I hope I don't end up losing it all. MS is kinda kicking my ass right now and Cloud's car is on the blink.
If I'm not mistaken, Venus looks very much like a planet tonight with the naked eye. Check it out.
It is often said that race is the "third rail" in American politics...
That would be a thing no one dares touch, but the Republicans have been working it since the 1960s.
I'd say it's our "relationship" with Israel that is the 3rd rail in American politics.
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If race is the third rail, and Israel is the third rail and Social security is the third rail, just how wide is this subway tunnel anyway?
Personally, I heartily encourage the BigFranchise twits to keep up the "I AM BREITBARTICUS!" idiocy, as it illustrates quite succinctly just how out of touch they are with reality. Dead or alive, Andrew Breitbart was a mentally-ill griefer-for-pay & his scummy record will bear that out in spades, no matter how hard his fanboys try to sanitize the ugly truth. You want to associate with a dead griefer for some instant ManPoints? Go nuts, kids!
No surprise that Breitbart's getting the hagiography treatment - look at the way the media retconned Richard Nixon the moment he croaked it for comparison. Also noteworthy that right-wing dead bastards deserve only kind words while leftist dead bastards are fair game for the raunchiest attacks = yet another double standard that prejudices the popular culture against liberalism.
As for Teh Mothership? As attacks go (assuming Sadlytown is under siege from wingnut L33T H@XX0RZ) this is some sad shit: the site itself was down for less than a day. There are mall-rats in Nebraska who can do better than this with their Mom's computer in their spare time, damage-wise. If you can still get onto the website being attacked, that's one seriously weak-ass hack. Any good dedicated DDoS attack should kill the target site outright (although it never works for very long) ... looks to me like a lone troll brute-forcing comments closed, probably armed with auto-fill & auto-refresh.
If this IS Andy's enraged man-boy fanclub at work, it demonstrates that they do indeed fear the snark like Dracula fears garlic - & that they have no response to it other than SHUT UP THAT'S WHY. The phrase "pissing into an ocean of piss" comes to mind: an eternal game of cyber-Whack-A-Mole with snarky DFHs? Good luck with that.
The world is undiminished by his passing.
I had to Google him to see who he was! (that's probably pretty bad and not something to be bragging about eh?)
((Hugs))
Laura
I'm cooking some store bought pinto beans with a little bacon, cumin, bay leaf, salt, pepper, onion.
Sounds good- I'd throw a ton of hot peppers in there as well, but I'm one of those people who loves to cry while he eats!
If I'm not mistaken, Venus looks very much like a planet tonight with the naked eye. Check it out.
It's supposed to be a great week for seeing planets. The full moon is tomorrow, and I'll be working at an extraordinarily beautiful site.
I'd say it's our "relationship" with Israel that is the 3rd rail in American politics
That's another one- I heard a discussion about women's rights in Israel yesterday, and the Talmudiban, like our Tealiban, has a disproportionate amount of power.
If race is the third rail, and Israel is the third rail and Social security is the third rail, just how wide is this subway tunnel anyway?
Hopefully it's wide enough so we can all move into the system if the economy doesn't improve and we all lose our homes! Mind the C.H.U.D.s!
Personally, I heartily encourage the BigFranchise twits to keep up the "I AM BREITBARTICUS!" idiocy, as it illustrates quite succinctly just how out of touch they are with reality. Dead or alive, Andrew Breitbart was a mentally-ill griefer-for-pay & his scummy record will bear that out in spades, no matter how hard his fanboys try to sanitize the ugly truth. You want to associate with a dead griefer for some instant ManPoints? Go nuts, kids!
Yeah, he's not exactly a household name, which is all the more reason to point out what a shit he was- the average person only knows what they've seen on the TeeVee Machine, and the panegyrics all seemed to ignore the odious nature of the guy's whole career.
I had to Google him to see who he was! (that's probably pretty bad and not something to be bragging about eh?)
Not at all- the average Statesider wouldn't know who he is. I'd never expect you to know about a Z-list right-wing schmuck from California.
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