Andrew Breitbart is Dead

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Uncensored....can't let a day go by without telling others what they think, what they believe, what they do.

Gotta put people in little boxes. Just gotta or can't cope. Really.

So Judge Wopner is on at 3:00, huh Shortbus?

 

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I searched and didn't see a thread on this already. This was very unexpected. I wonder what happened.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

gawd decided to enact justice?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Andrew Breitbart is still Dead. Isn't it time to move on?

what of his defenders here and the bullshit they've pedaled over the last few years?

 

[nitroz]

what did he do in hollywood, exactly?

His position?

 

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what did he do in hollywood, exactly?

His position?

bottom

 

[Full-Auto]

what did he do in hollywood, exactly?

His position?

bottom

The little bitch in you is consistent.

 

[manifold]

I searched and didn't see a thread on this already. This was very unexpected. I wonder what happened.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

gawd decided to enact justice?

Perhaps his Kennedy fix wore off.

 

[mal]

I searched and didn't see a thread on this already. This was very unexpected. I wonder what happened.

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

gawd decided to enact justice?

Perhaps his Kennedy fix wore off.

2 for the Hell Express...



peace...

 

[BlindBoo]

Is he still dead?

 

[mal]

Is he still dead?

Or is he?



peace...

 

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The Life And Death Of Andrew Breitbart


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Mr. Breitbart was a ubiquitous presence on and off the Web, though not one who ever managed to have significant business success there. His star rose along with the Tea Party, of which he was an early and frequent defender.

But he cut an odd figure for a conservative, holding forth with lectures on political theory that name-dropped Michel Foucault and other leftist thinkers. He could also be mordantly funny. (His Twitter avatar was an echo of the apocryphal Jesus imprint on a piece of toast.) Matt Labash, senior editor at The Weekly Standard, described him as “half right wing Yippie, half Andy Kaufman,” in his column after Mr. Breitbart died.

In 2011, while various religious groups boycotted the Conservative Political Action Conference because of the inclusion of gay Republican groups, he helped hold a party for the gay groups.

He was conversant in pop culture — the Cure and New Order were particular musical favorites — and thought nothing of wearing in-line skates, his longish hair trailing behind him, as he confronted protesters at a rally outside a conservative event hosted by David and Charles Koch in Palm Springs, Calif., in 2011. Once he was done berating the protesters, he took some of them to dinner at Applebee’s.

Mr. Breitbart took in life in big gulps, but he spat out even bigger portions of bile. The day that Senator Edward M. Kennedy died, he called him “a special pile of human excrement” and tweeted, “Rest in Chappaquiddick.” Matt Yglesias of Slate returned the favor after Mr. Breitbart died, tweeting: “Conventions around dead people are ridiculous. The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBreitbart dead.”

Many of his familiars called him a “happy warrior,” but worried about his health because he never seemed to unplug.

“If Twitter ever killed anyone, it was Andrew,” said Mr. Labash of The Weekly Standard. “Andrew was a magnet for hatred, and he used Twitter for a full frontal assault, a tool of combat,”

Friends and colleagues described Mr. Breitbart as both jester and provocateur, one who enjoyed soy lattes (a family friend sprinkled coffee grounds from Starbucks onto his grave) almost as much as waging war on what he saw as Democratic hypocrisy.

“Andrew was a kind of human pinball, always doing something while doing something else, but he never took himself all that seriously,” said Greg Gutfeld, the host of “Red Eye” on Fox News, who frequently booked Mr. Breitbart as a guest. “He was the least serious, serious person I ever met.”

A student of the tactics of the leftist organizer Saul Alinsky (if not his politics), Mr. Breitbart played defense by giving offense, subscribing to Alinsky’s theorem that “the real action is in the enemy’s reaction.” He wielded a network of conservative sources, including a number of members of Congress, four of whom spoke at his Washington memorial, to sow mayhem opportunistically.

As is often the case, there is no more ferocious advocate than a convert.


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