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Before the corporate media brings its campaign to canonize Andrew Breitbart up to full steam, I thought it would be good to tell the world what I really thought of him...
We're accustomed, and even jaded by the amount of evil that comes from the Republican Party. Sure, Rush Limbaugh is evil, as are Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and countless other deluminaries. But it is in very few places, even among the Republicans, that you can find the kind of pure, black-hearted, demonic malevolence that we saw in Andrew Breitbart.
He was an accomplished liar and brilliant propagandist that would have brought a tear to the eye of Joseph Goebbels. He had the talent for inspiring pure hatred that only the likes of Julius Streicher could match. His fanatical followers on Twitter and elsewhere displayed a mind-boggling level of venom towards anyone Breitbart pointed his finger at.
He left a trail of destruction and demonization in his life that few can equal. Among his innocent victims were ACORN, and Shirley Sherrod. Through the use of low-lifes like James O'Keefe, almost comical ruses, and fiendishly clever video-editing, he turned good people into cartoons, left twisting in the wind before the vultures in Congress. He had a special antipathy towards the Occupy movement, caricaturing them as rapists, dirty-commie-hippies, and called them "freaks and animals."
I'm certain to be harshly criticized for this rant which speaks ill of the dead, and really, I just don't care what people think of me for it. I would just note that Andrew Breitbart committed this sin with glee. When Ted Kennedy died, Breitbart tweeted "I'll shut my mouth for Carter. That's just politics. Kennedy was a special pile of human excrement."
Breitbart lacked compassion, empathy, mercy and the slightest speck of human kindness. He was a malicious, remorseless, conscienceless, soulless, narcissistic psychopath that can only have died by burning out his own heart with hate. I mean it sincerely when I call him "subhuman" because he lacks the very elements of decency that are among the prerequisites of basic humanity.
Andrew Breitbart was a lamprey-mouthed reptilian predator disguised in human skin. He was a murder-succoring cockroach. He was so evil in life that I could be convinced that Satan himself called him down from life last night, to bring him to his law school in the Abyss, and train him to serve as his personal attorney.
I would suggest that an appropriate way to mark his death is not with a traditional funeral, or any ceremony at all. The best way would be simply to cut his bloated corpse into pieces, put them in trash bags and throw them ignominiously into the nearest landfill.
Good riddance to festering garbage.
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Well said...
tjwash
(8,219 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)She was preparing a defamation suit against him, and she'd recently won a ruling. Which makes me wonder if suicide isn't a possibility.
Aside from that, carry on.
rocktivity
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)more likely a heart attack or some sort of hate-filled aneurism.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)"Here Lies Andrew Breitbart...So What Else Is New?"
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)louslobbs
(3,235 posts)Lou
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Some people, by way of their actions in life, expressly give up their claim to be considered as human beings. Breitbart passed that point long, long ago.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Humans have empathy. Humans have conscience. Humans have kindness.
Psychopaths don't.
There is a difference between human beings and psychopaths.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)not even he could come up with as fitting a eulogy for this bag of ass that you did!
K&R.
I can recall when Roy Cohn died back in the mid-1980s, and so many "upstanding, respected journalists" bent over backward to try and make his legacy seem not quite so bad as it was, but one writer in particular (and I'm tearing my hair out trying to recall who it was) had the guts to express himself the way you did, and it made me stand up and applaud.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)piece about such a POS.
Couldn't agree with you more!
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Granted, my rant is but a poor imitation of Thompson, but his spirit lives on!
RZM
(8,556 posts)Although he had a few causes, I'd say one of the biggest was to trash the MSM as biased. Why on earth would the media, which was perhaps Breitbart's favorite target, want to praise him?
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He played the usual right-wing media game. Bash the "liberal media", flak it into swinging right.
At the same time, he was regularly on that media he bashed.
And if you watched CNN this morning, they, yes, are canonizing him. Sickening, isn't it?
RZM
(8,556 posts)But here's the story currently up at CNN's website:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/politics/breitbart-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
It's the standard media report on a public figure's death. It gives what we know about the death itself, reactions from associates, and reactions from prominent people who might have something nice to say about deceased. It also contains a brief outline of his career, with emphasis on Sherrod, ACORN, and Weiner. It ends with a quote from Breitbart himself.
It's all completely normal. In terms of style and tone, it's a textbook death story.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Wish I'd written it.
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HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I was certain I'd get some flames, and I still might, but the compliments are awesome!
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Rex
(65,616 posts)But I think somebody else is.
Raine
(30,540 posts)*sniff sniff* call for pizza!
For all that say the mods don't notice and/or slow...I offer you a one post troll.
He/she didn't even make it out of the starting gate...they didn't troll well because they never got a chance. And cannot reply to my post.
Oh one post troll, we never knew ye. Thankfully.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)For all the complaints about the jury system, here's a place where it worked!
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: This guy is trying to bait people, and frankly has grammar so bad it will lower discourse.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: Nonsensical freeper bullshit, T.S. this douchebag
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: tomb better, but we know he doesn't know his shit.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT and said: I agree with the reason for the alert
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: Fifth Column Troll
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT and said: I learned something today. I thought trolls were those tricking people into believing wacky things, not necessarily with ill purpose. Kinda like a devils advocate. But wikipedia says its someone posting with the intent to disrupt. I was gonna make some snarky comment about not a troll, blahblahblah, but turns out, it is a troll. Good job alerter.
Raine
(30,540 posts)I LOVE it ... TOTALLY agree on EVERYTHING!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)When I heard the news I posted the story on my Facebook page with the comment "may he rot in hell"