Last Report on the Breitbartocalypse

Here it is, our last report on the disaster that is the Breitbartocalypse. We've got more from our in-the-field reporter, as well as an exclusive interview with the Policy Director of the Institutional Left™...

continued with videos at http://sumofchange.blogspot.com/2010/03/our-final-breitbartocalypse-report.html

dude stop it

what is happening

colombians be on some bullshit

I don't understand the sudden Breitbart thing. The dude's a completely empty noise machine, arguing with him would be like arguing with a toilet.

By "thing" I mean a fawning article in Wired about how he "hacks" political discourse or some blah blah, also ridiculously lengthy, uninteresting Slate piece.

he ba$ically talk$ in inflammatory pull quote$ that al$o make attention grabbing headline$ and generate lot$ of click$ for blogger$

search engine optimization, the right wing noise machine, what's the difference?

that slate piece was appalling

It's hacking because he does all that while rolling and listening to Orbital.

colombians be on some bullshit

^^^otm lolz

RIP.

Died "of natural causes" at the age of 43.

Guess this is already being discussed on two other threads...

BUMP

like a crack rock

OH

2/12/12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o

Wish I was capable of this kind of charity, but I'm not.

Whoa. At age 43, Andrew Breitbart reportedly died of natural causes last night. My condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.

For obvious reasons, namely our polar-opposite politics and wildly divergent set of professional ethics, I was not a fan of Breitbart, and I cannot say that I felt his contributions to the national dialogue were constructive or positive in any way. He hurt people, shamelessly and wantonly, for political gain.

I didn't know the man personally, and what I knew of him I did not like.

But I am not glad he's dead. I would have preferred instead that he'd lived long enough to change his mind.

it's not really a change-mind thing though is it? it's not just his politics that were distasteful, it was his entire presence and manner of discourse.

i mean it would make about as much sense to say that you wish andrew dice clay would change his mind or something.

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1 Mar 2012 11:17 AM
The Sickness On The Left

There were few taboos or grudges or feuds or pointless partisan fooferaws that Andrew Breitbart didn't leap into; and so one can imagine his own glee/fury at the following Breitbartian headline:

Liberals Celebrate Death Of Andrew Breitbart

Nonetheless, the content of some of those tweets reveal something quite rotten. A man has died at a painfully early age. He has family and friends and colleagues. They are in grief. Yes, he was a public figure, who doled it out relentlessly. But his family is human. We can too easily forget they exist.

i mean it would make about as much sense to say that you wish andrew dice clay would change his mind or something.

except of course for the Diceman persona being a comedic persona

Is that K-Lo or Goldberg? xp

lol http://gawker.com/5889618/breitbarts-death-the-conspiracy-insta+theories

Sully

xp

pulling out tweets/blog comments by randoms is such an entry level ploy

unless its to serve lolz like the gawker link I posted of course

Ok, I read Tom Clancy. Breitbart was definitely assassinated.

'the sickness of the left' as evidenced by some guy on twitter

you would be hard pressed to find similar celebration if a liberal died

Yes, he was a public figure, who did exactly the things I'm accusing the left of being sick for doing. But his family is human. We can too easily forget they exist.

his family is most likely assholes fwiw

^quote that righteous scolds

put it on yr bloggggggg!

I assume Clancy guy is joking.

His father-in-law is Orson Bean! That tripped me out.

"Dad I want to marry this jerkface."

"...okay."

Poe's Law in action.

I assume Clancy guy is joking

Hardcore Clancy fans are very special people.

Anthony Jeselnik ‏ @anthonyjeselnik

So sad to find out who Andrew Breitbart was this morning.

haha damn

lol

xpost Am I wrong in recalling that Breitbart is one of those dudes that did change their mind, from left to right? Like Michael Savage or (sort of) PJ O'Rourke?

can't change what you never had. Breitbart was all spleen.

lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 1, 2012 11:07 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpost

I don't believe that speaking ill of the recently dead is a great practice mostly for your own state of mind but, with that in mind, in case anyone might be feeling guilty about doing this:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/26/57997/breitbart-kennedy-twitter/

http://www.tobytoons.com/td/files/toons/2012/20120301_breitbart.jpg

"...and we mean EVERYTHING."

how did hitchens get up there

I am so very sorry... and in shock... to hear of Andrew's passing. We have lost a shining star, and a vital voice in the conservative movement. Rest in peace, Andrew.

Note to trolls: Please have the decency to keep your slimy comments to yourselves for the time being. Thank you.

MancowMuller ‏ @MancowMuller

My friend Andrew Brietbart MURDERED?!?? Or rumor?

MancowMuller ‏ @MancowMuller

Me with my friend @AndrewBreitbart #Breitbart He said he had something that was going to bring down Obama...Just sayin' pic.twitter.com/6PUsCNAL

MancowMuller ‏ @MancowMuller

Still don't know what killed Whitney. IMMEDIATELY it's Brietbart dead @ 43 of Natural causes?

Don't talk to people if you can help it tbf. They'll usually just disappoint or piss you off.

Has anyone else noticed that a number of MSNBC shows and Keith Olbermann have not even mentioned Breitbart's death? What gives? Not wanting to give ammo to their adversaries?

Young Turks (on Current TV) did a lot of negative stuff on him, though they interviewed him about two weeks ago.

Young Turks (on Current TV) did a lot of negative stuff on him, though they interviewed him about two weeks ago.
― President Keyes, Friday, March 2, 2012 8:52 PM (6 minutes ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot them...thanks

I've been trying to figure out who he reminds me of, and I think it's David Hemmings with beard:

http://disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AndrewBreitbart.jpg

http://www.redtelephone66.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/happens-thumb1.png

He looks like a conductor in that shot, actually. Someone needs to shop in a baton.

Bill Maher didn't say a single word about beetbort on his show last night. I kind of dug that.

But weren't they buddies, at least to an extent? Maher seems like just the sort of hypocrite to lay off the smarm when it's a buddy of his.

I don't know if they were pals, but Maher always seems to appreciate batshit conservative fuckfaces, at least when they're bringing the lols on his show. I fully expected a maudlin, drawn-out, excruciating "tribute" to Breitbart last night, but fortunately, nothing of the sort transpired.

Has anyone read Friedersdorf's response?

But I found myself thinking of the great injury he must have ultimately done himself,

do they mean in terms of his political credibility?

cos we have know way of knowing how A.B. perceived himself or whether it "took a toll" or whatever. i mean he died at 43 obvs but that could be a congenital heart defect or just a lot of drugs and alcohol and not taking care of himself.

also are we supposed to feel bad for bad actors because their bad actions make them pariahs? i mean, if that happens, that means society is, you know, _working_.

Why did I just read the comments on tha Atlantic article o_0 Boggled at the women commenters vigorously defending Limbaugh. its like that batch of tweets from women welcoming Chris Brown to hit them. Good luck usa.

Also ugh, beetbort looks scarily like a bitter, abusive long ago ex of mine with that fat face and tiny, mean little mouth. Makes me feel ill.

do they mean in terms of his political credibility?

I think they mean in terms of the damage done to his soul.

Driftglass:

The Conservatism Retrovirus left us open to infection from a whole suite of  opportunistic wingnut disease, and from Falwell to Limbaugh to Beck, Conservatism has permitted each of them and all of their mutant imitators to breeze past democracy's natural antibodies -- an educated electorate, an honest press, a respectful politics -- and settle in for a nice, long parasite feast.

Andrew Breitbart was just such an opportunistic disease: another ratfucking bastard child of Lee Atwater and Roy Cohn who took a sociopath's glee in the wide, pestilential path he carved through America's political media. He destroyed people and pissed on their graves for fun and profit and prospered because he completely understood and embraced what a collection of monsters and meatsticks the Right truly is.

Mr. Breitbart didn't just get things terribly wrong: he was an able and eager leader of the dregs of American culture whose flock giddily embraced darkness and evil.  As I wrote back in 2010:

The People of the Lie

"Narcissists...project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others." 
— M. Scott Peck, "People of the Lie"

It will come as no surprise to anyone who has paid any attention whatsoever to the Conservative Movement for the last 30 years that the Breitbart BigGovernmentMiscreant site has quickly rallied itself to respond to the glaringly indisputable fact that its owner is a lying shitbag.

I hope you weren't waiting for an apology...

Here's the headline:

From JournoList to Shirley Sherrod: The Left’s Default Response Is Fascism

by John Nolte...

Since I don't link to sites run by liars and frauds, if you want any more of Nolte's scintillating defense of his meal-ticket, you'll have to Google it yourself. Suffice it to say, you'll probably want to have a Kevlar sick bag on hand.

I post it here today (along a few of the comments it generated) to underscore a larger, sadder and much more important point: sooner or later, Liberals as a Movement must come to terms with the fact that people like Breitbart -- who operate with a free hand and a blank check at the very heart of the Conservative Movement -- are not simply crazy or misguided or possessed of a strange but equally sincere ideology, but genuinely evil.

And the reason we keep banging our heads when trying to cope with evil is that evil renders our entire Liberal toolbox worse than useless.

Evil doesn't care about policy or governance. At. All. Which is why we are so often reduced to a spluttering "But don't they realize...?" incomprehension when the Right stomps on the throat of the weak and defenseless...again. While smiling...again

Evil does not have a conscience which can be appealed to, or a sense of shame which can be invoked.

Evil doesn't give a shit about fair play or reason or causality or the niceties of democracy.

When faced with positive proof that what it is doing will harm others, Evil says "Go piss up a rope, hippie."

"Evil deeds do not make an evil person. Otherwise we would all be evil. If evil people cannot be defined by the illegality of their deeds or the magnitude of their sins, then how are we to define them? The answer is by the consistency of their sins. While usually subtle, their destructiveness is remarkably consistent. This is because those who have "crossed over the line" are characterized by their absolute refusal to tolerate the sense of their own sinfulness." — M. Scott Peck, "People of the Lie"

What evil has in place of a conscience is vanity, megalomania, greed and an all-encompassing fear that they will be found out and ridiculed for being the wretched, little scuttlefish that they are. 
They live in terror that someone might see the sorry state of their mingy soul, which is why they band together for protection under the banner of an ideology which glorifies cruelty and heartlessness, and why they reserve their most furious hellfire for kindest of people.

This is why they hate Shirley Sherrod -- a woman they did not even know existed a week ago -- with such hysterical, berserk fury, why they eagerly swallow every ACORN lie that churns out of the Breitbart/Beck/Limbaugh Paranoid Conspiracy Factory and beg for more: to Evil, those who advocate publicly on behalf of kindness, justice and compassion, and who -- by lesson and language -- implore their fellow citizens to assay their souls in a clear and Christian light are the sources of scalding pain.

Every act of decency rubs Evils' nose in the horror of its polluted existence, and every public gesture of confession and humanity threatens extinction.

Faced with these threats, Evil has no recourse but attack!attack!attack! 
...
The estimable Ta-Nehisi Coates puts the matter more kindly here:

... That is what took me to sadness. I have experienced curiosity as a primarily selfish endeavor. It originates in the understanding of the brevity of life, and the desire to see as much of it as possible, from as many angles as possible without doing too much damage to my morality. The opposite of that -- incuriosity, dishonesty, the opportunistic deployment of information -- is darkness. Breitbart died, like all of us will, in darkness. But as a media persona he chose to also live there, and in the process has impelled countless others to throttle themselves into the abyss.

I have heard it said by some fellow liberals that Breitbart was in fact a good person, that his public persona was not the same as his private. This kind of praise is so broadly true of most controversial public figures as to be meaningless. And it is irrelevant. Breitbart may well have been an excellent father and a great friend but that is not why we are talking about him. We are noting his death because of the impact he had on our politics and our conversation. It must be said that that impact was for the worse. Any talk of his private life, is an attempt to change the subject and avoid discomfiting truths. ...
but I believe however gently we choose our words, the moral of Mr. Breitbart's brief and ugly life is blunt and clear.

The children Mr. Breitbart tragically left behind are his progeny.

But the lesson that he left behind -- that among Conservatives is now considered a noble thing to turn a buck selling comforting lies to moral degenerates -- is his true and tragic legacy.

I'd forgotyten he was the guy who torpedoed the vile fuck Weiner.

so even an evil man can do some great good. RIP

i am sorry that 99.9999999% of the world does not satisfy you. unfortunately this is the only one you'll ever know.

nowhere near true, am. it's politics that are pure shit.

In his final column, he takes on...Chicago storefront theater!

lol that column is the incoherent ranting of a crazy person

Also in 1937, Despres and his wife delivered a suitcase of “clothing” to Leon Trotsky, then hiding out from Stalin’s assassins in Mexico City.

lmfao

"Despres worked with secret Communist and Soviet spy Lee Pressman to support strikers at Republic Steel in Chicago in 1937; the strike ended in tragedy when 14 rioting strikers were killed and many wounded in a hail of police bullets. "

charitable of him to call it a tragedy i guess

And with a hail, farewell and an acid-dipped shiv:

http://gawker.com/5890660/andrew-breitbart-big-deal-big-coronary-big-corpse

damn mobutu

Can Shirley Sherrod continue with her defamation lawsuit against his estate? Or is that suit now dead? I'd hate to think that he managed to screw her one last time by dying.

Apparently the suit is continuing, last I checked. It'd be appropriate if his own videotaped snippets resulted in him losing.

And with a hail, farewell and an acid-dipped shiv:

http://gawker.com/5890660/andrew-breitbart-big-deal-big-coronary-big-corpse

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:19 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ouch. i think they relation the acorn stuff poorly (taibbi was better on this), but otherwise OTM.

i think breitbart fans are trying to use the #war hashtag on twitter?

matthew yglesias' book has 205 1-star amazon reviews now, haha damn who are these people

Jesus, that Gawker piece is brutal.

ok damn

https://twitter.com/#!/margaretjoskow

His mom was a malfunctioning copyright twitter bot?

he really was king of the trolls

i think this guy is behind it

http://twitter.com/#!/morganwarstler
http://twitter.com/#!/morganwarstler/status/175674803343204352

huh, he is

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=13358#comments

read the comments, if you have hold no real value to your time, like i do, apparently

good find. fuck that guy.

Kurt Schlichter ‏ @KurtSchlichter Close
The person who is going to come along and carry on for #Breitbart is reading this. it's you. Don't you see? That's Andrew's message. #War

i saw that comment on the site and thought man, what kind of failure of decency and ambition is it to want to carry on for beetbort?

xpost -- In that case I surrender.

tbh i think engaging w/those dudes is basically giving them more clout, they thrive on the conflict and w/o it they're nothing.

http://www.oneinchpunch.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/war_jet_li_jason_statham.jpg

really doesn't speak well of this man's moral sense

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=13516#comment-142231

though if u check the troll feed right now it's... pretty funny

http://twitter.com/#!/margaretjoskow

a caricature? nice commitment to your trolling i guess

thats some vile shit

i know, justin bieber isn't even dead

rip biebs

http://patdollard.com/2012/03/breitbart-news-names-executives-who-will-run-company-in-wake-of-andrews-death/

fuck that guy btw

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jotp11p51rpy179o1_500.jpg

https://sites.google.com/site/forourposterityvenividivici/