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backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 04:08 PM Mar 2012

A eulogy for Andrew Breitbart.

Last edited Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:08 PM - Edit history (1)

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.

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A eulogy for Andrew Breitbart. (Original Post) backscatter712 Mar 2012 OP
Rec for your (appropriately) dark eloquence. Sinistrous Mar 2012 #1
Bravo!! Flashmann Mar 2012 #2
I hope they bury him under a large oak so that he can be pelted by acorns forever tjwash Mar 2012 #3
LOL!!! Nostradammit Mar 2012 #23
Shirley Sherrod was the one Breitbart got fired, not Sherrod Brown. rocktivity Mar 2012 #4
I stand corrected! backscatter712 Mar 2012 #5
read he collapsed while taking a walk so suicide seems unlikely Voice for Peace Mar 2012 #11
and a tombstone epitaph alterfurz Mar 2012 #6
"He disrupted poorly." n/t backscatter712 Mar 2012 #7
K&R tallahasseedem Mar 2012 #8
No harsh criticism so far. Well Said and thanks for saying it. louslobbs Mar 2012 #9
You have nailed it. hifiguy Mar 2012 #10
Ain't that the truth! backscatter712 Mar 2012 #12
I think Keith Olbermann is probably banging his head against the wall at this moment, knowing that bullwinkle428 Mar 2012 #13
Such a beautifully written Carolina Mar 2012 #14
I was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's sendoff of Richard Nixon... backscatter712 Mar 2012 #15
The part about 'canonizing' makes absolutely no sense RZM Mar 2012 #16
He was part of the media. backscatter712 Mar 2012 #18
I didn't see CNN this morning RZM Mar 2012 #20
I heartily endorse this OP. cliffordu Mar 2012 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl Mar 2012 #19
Me Too! HangOnKids Mar 2012 #21
Thank you for all the kind words! backscatter712 Mar 2012 #22
Post removed Post removed Mar 2012 #24
I don't think my gas is higher than Obama. Rex Mar 2012 #25
What have we here Raine Mar 2012 #27
Dam, one post. Rex Mar 2012 #28
Didn't take long. backscatter712 Mar 2012 #29
They ruled 5-1 uppityperson Mar 2012 #31
BEAUTIFUL thoughts ... said PERFECTLY Raine Mar 2012 #26
The Goebbels reference was a nice touch davidpdx Mar 2012 #30

rocktivity

(44,576 posts)
4. Shirley Sherrod was the one Breitbart got fired, not Sherrod Brown.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 04:19 PM
Mar 2012

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

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
11. read he collapsed while taking a walk so suicide seems unlikely
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 04:51 PM
Mar 2012

more likely a heart attack or some sort of hate-filled aneurism.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. You have nailed it.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 04:41 PM
Mar 2012

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)
12. Ain't that the truth!
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:06 PM
Mar 2012

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)
13. I think Keith Olbermann is probably banging his head against the wall at this moment, knowing that
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:12 PM
Mar 2012

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.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
16. The part about 'canonizing' makes absolutely no sense
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:57 PM
Mar 2012

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)
18. He was part of the media.
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:15 PM
Mar 2012

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)
20. I didn't see CNN this morning
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:34 PM
Mar 2012

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.

Response to backscatter712 (Original post)

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
22. Thank you for all the kind words!
Thu Mar 1, 2012, 06:56 PM
Mar 2012

I was certain I'd get some flames, and I still might, but the compliments are awesome!

Response to backscatter712 (Original post)

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
28. Dam, one post.
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 05:15 AM
Mar 2012

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.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
31. They ruled 5-1
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 02:20 PM
Mar 2012

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.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
30. The Goebbels reference was a nice touch
Fri Mar 2, 2012, 09:23 AM
Mar 2012

When I heard the news I posted the story on my Facebook page with the comment "may he rot in hell"

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