Andrew Breitbart Dead

[dbacks fan]

I love it when Teatown is 6 bowls and a six-pack down, and making thoughtful commentary.

I found where he works in Northern California........



http://www.yelp.com/biz/hemp-connection-garberville

[Teatownclown]

DB caught in the act .... same profession as AB!

[Teatownclown]

Andrew Breitbart: Death of a D o u c h e

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-dude-20120301

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! love him. I couldn't be happier that he's dead.

I say this in the nicest possible way. I actually kind of liked Andrew Breitbart. Not in the sense that I would ever have wanted to hang out with him, or even be caught within a hundred yards of him without a Haz-Mat suit on, but I respected the shamelessness. Breitbart didn't do anything by halves, and even his most ardent detractors had to admit that he had a highly developed, if not always funny, sense of humor.

For instance, it would be dishonest not to tip a hat to him for that famous scene when he hijacked Anthony Weiner's own self-immolating "apology" press conference, and held up the entire event by standing at the lectern and congratulating himself at length, before Weiner could let the humiliating healing begin.

For that one, brief, shining moment– still one of the most painful-to-watch YouTube spectacles of all time, right there with Mitt Romney's priceless attempt at singing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" with a group of black voters in Florida in 2008 – Breitbart could legitimately claim to have the biggest, hairiest balls on earth.  

Watching Weiner apologize to Breitbart later in that same event was certainly chilling for a number of reasons (if I were Weiner, I wouldn't have apologized to that tucker even under torture) but it was hard not to appreciate the deliciousness of the scene from Breitbart's point of view. Watching Weiner pause, swallow hard, and make the extraordinary decision to plant his lips squarely on the loathsome Breitbart's donkey on national television, that was like the ultimate Mona Lisa masterpiece of right-wing media provocations. That the outrageous Breitbart was standing right there, looking gorgeously gassy in his unbuttoned shirt, bloated Joey Buttafuoco cheeks and splendiforous silver half-mullet, made the humiliation of the trim and neatly-groomed Weiner even more abject.

Furthermore, the ACORN videos made by Breitbart and his two young acolytes, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe – it's hard not to see the inspired humor behind their elaborate stunt. And anyone who's heard their proposals before ACORN staffers to bring underage girls over the border as part of a white-(or nonwhite-) slaving startup firm, and doesn't think the ACORN responses (or non-responses, as it were) were shocking, they're deluding themselves. In the Baltimore office, they ran the whole underage hooker-den spiel past an ACORN staffer, and got the following response: "You are gonna use three of them – they are gonna be under 16, so you is eligible to get child tax credit and additional child tax credit."

That is seriously messed up material. Did they edit the videos heavily? Hell yes. Did they make ACORN's behavior out to be a lot worse than it was? Absolutely. But there's no way to watch the raw footage and not grasp how totally nuts some of this ACORN "counseling" was. We have to give Breitbart that.

Breitbart has written some nasty things about me personally, once contrived to publish my private emails online, and even teamed up with Rush Limbaugh to humorously mis-identify me as a behind-the-scenes marionettist of the "media-Democrat industrial complex" (Breitbart thought I was improperly advising Occupy leaders), but all that's okay. I think today, it's safe to stand back and simply recognize that while many people go through their lives without leaving distinguishing marks, Andrew Breitbart definitely had his moments.

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, chicken lover.* Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

* See the following Breitbart quote: "I like to call someone a raving bundt every now and then, when it's appropriate, for effect... 'You chicken lover.' I love that kind of language."

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 smile on your mother's grave," was another; a third called my wife a "piece of smile like you," and many others called me a "pile of human excrement."

Those last ones to me were the most interesting because that quote is lifted directly from Breitbart's own obit of Ted Kennedy, which like me Breitbart ran just hours after his subject died. So that means the writers of these letters knew that what I did was exactly the same as what Breitbart had done, and yet they still found a way to be unironically outraged on Breitbart's behalf. I thought: "These people don't even get their own jokes."

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.

But I guess no homage is complete without a celebration of the whole man, and the whole man in this case was not just a guy who once said, "It's all about a good laugh," but also someone who liked to publish peoples' personal information on the internet, hack into private web sites, tell lies in an attempt to get his enemies fired, and incite readers to threats against his targets and their families, including death threats. I left all of that stuff out of my obit, but now, thanks to you readers, that's all in there as well, leaving, for posterity, a much more complete picture of the man.

Both Limbaugh and AB go down in the same week. One by his physical condition and the other by his lack of shame.

[dbacks fan]

DB caught in the act .... same profession as AB!

Yeah, thats what a lot of people do with the smile that you spout, try to sort through it to see if it's even worth it, the rest of the time we just walk away and ignore it.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Not feeling it - for a guy who describes himself as Matt Drudge's bi*ch.  

His kids will be better off without him.  At least they can maintain the illusion that he was a decent human being without having his reality rubbed in their nose as they grow older...


Edit;
The word magic machine replaced Breitbart's last word in the above phrase with "grumble".  Just want to keep the quote as accurate as possible, so not accused of excess...

[Teatownclown]

Get ready because this coming week you'll start to hear the conservative skeptics come out and claim AB was murdered because he had damaging evidence against POTUS OBAMA....I hear the sound in the distance of toes tapping as well. What was AB holding?

[Ed W]

Get ready because this coming week you'll start to hear the conservative skeptics come out and claim AB was murdered because he had damaging evidence against POTUS OBAMA....I hear the sound in the distance of toes tapping as well. What was AB holding?

Where have you been?  The conspiracy wingnuts were talking about this within a few hours after his death.  But maybe we'll get lucky and Nancy Grace will sink her fangs into the story.

[guido911]

Glad to see the Daily Kos has weighed in. Kinda makes you think about those in here ripping AB.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/01/1069835/-Let-s-Help-Andrew-Breitbart-go-out-In-Style-Get-Westlake-Baptist-Church-to-Protest-Him-

[Townsend]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/breitbart-obama-college-video-turns-dud-sparks-race-172252336.html

Breitbart's Obama college video turns out to be a dud, sparks race debate

Andrew Breitbart's promised video of Barack Obama's college days at Harvard University was released in full on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Wednesday night—and unlike the late conservative provocateur's other video hits, this one appears to be a bit of a dud.

The video—which sent some conservatives into a frenzy when Breitbart told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last month that he had the footage—shows Obama, then a Harvard law student, introducing former Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell, who Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak called the "Jeremiah Wright of academia."

Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree had the footage from 1990 and is shown presenting it to an audience after the 2008 election. "We hid this during the 2008 campaign," Ogletree can be heard saying. "I don't care if they find it now."

Pollak and conservatives contend that the video is another example of Obama's history of chumminess with radicals, and the proof of the left's continuing efforts to cover it up.

But as PBS' Andrew Golis noted, "there's nothing new about the clip or Obama's role in the controversy at Harvard Law School."

"In 2008, as a part of our quadrennial election special The Choice 2008," Golis wrote, "Frontline ran the same footage of the speech as a part of an exploration of Obama's time at Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1991. It's been online at our site and on YouTube since then." Golis added that Frontline obtained the footage from the archives of WGBH, PBS' Boston affiliate. (More on the back story.)

"Is that it?" Soledad O'Brien asked Pollak in an interview on Thursday morning. "What part of that was the bombshell? Because I missed it."

Pollack responded: "The bombshell is the revelation of the relationship between Obama and Derrick Bell ... [Derrick Bell] passed away last year, but during his lifetime he developed a theory called critical race theory, which holds that the Civil Rights movement was a sham and that white supremacy is the order and it must be overthrown."

The interview quickly devolved into an argument over the definition of critical race theory, with Jay Thomas, a Sirius radio host and a panelist on O'Brien's show, jumping into the fray.

"Can I say something as a white person?" Thomas asked Pollak. "What are you frightened of? Are you frightened that some black people are going to do something to you? ... What do you think Barack Obama's going to do? Is there a secret black movement that's going to start killing white people?"

The conversation got worse from there. "I'm glad you played the racism card," Pollak fired back. "You've accused me of being a racist. You've accused me of being afraid of black people. And it doesn't deserve a response. But let me respond anyway. I'm not afraid black people are going to be violent and take over the country. What I'm pointing out is that there's a pattern in Barack Obama's associations with Derrick Bell, with Reverend Wright, and it carries over into his governance because his Justice Department won't treat black civil rights violators the same way it treats white civil rights violators."

Journalists took to Twitter to poke fun at the controversy. "Breitbart's CPAC speech = Lana Del Ray's 'Video Games' video," Slate's Dave Weigel wrote on Twitter. "Actual Obama tape = Lana Del Ray on 'SNL.'"

On CNN, Pollak promised more footage and more bombshells from Breitbart's archives. "This is the beginning of a vetting process that begins with Andrew Breitbart's probe into Barack Obama's time in Chicago and will continue," he said.

[AquaMan]

Maybe I'm missing something. Obama, as a Harvard law student, introduced a former Harvard Law professor at a Harvard celebration. It turns out the professor may have been a racist though there is dispute about his writings, but the bottom line is Breitbart and Pollard think this is bombshell stuff?

Do they mean that a black man who introduced a racist lawyer, who thought the civil rights movement was a shame, was somehow in support of his racist views and now promotes discrimination in favor of blacks?

Never followed Breitbart's lunacy. Doesn't look like I missed much.

[nathanm]

Looks like Pollak may want to get his hearing checked. I don't see anyone call him a racist in that transcript. It was an effective deflection of the question, though, which boiled down to "why does this matter so much to you".