Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: "Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche"
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
POSTED: March 1, 3:10 PM ET
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-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! Fuck 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.
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...and I'm not going to serve up any spoilers, but the FINAL paragraph is LEGENDARY. People are exhibiting thin skins today over the loss of love for Breitbart, but Taibbi gives him the final send-off using Andrew's own, FAVORITE words.
There's a degree of nuance that a lot of people will never see because of the fact that Taibbi didn't write "You know, I didn't disagree with him, but I can see now that he was a great man."
Taibbi wrote about the guy who died today.
Pretty much all of the other "journalists" who have tackled the story seem to be writing about someone else.
...probably don;t even have subscriptions. I just get the feeling that Rolling Stone is not the freepers' magazine of choice.
Thanks Matt 
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.
I have a bit of a problem calling Breitbart and Limpballs a "douche". A douche (or Douche Bag, if you like) actually HAS value. Breitbart and his ilk do not have value. A douche, and the bag used to administer such, can offer relief - maybe even prevent the spawn of a Breitbart or a Limbaugh from taking root in a womb. But Breitbart and Limbaugh only provide misery and toxic divisivness. In fact, even shit has more value than Breitbart offerted - although, if given the chance, I'd like to pinch a loaf on Andy's final resting site. You know - just to pay my respects. 
The two are nothing alike - no one can compare to HST in the political shock style that is "gonzo journalism." You dishonor the memory of HST when you try and make such a pointless statement.
Epic 
