Remember me as I’d want to be remembered.
Taibbi’s post on Breitbart will demonstrate which conservatives are competent readers and which aren’t. Glenn Reynolds is clearly among the incompetent, as is Jim Treacher.
Feel free to keep a running tab in the comments. Not that we don’t already know who’s proven themselves worthy of being ignored, but it couldn’t hurt to have a list for future reference.
Also: I never got around to formally retracting my argument in this post. Life intervened. But I did mean to and now I have.
I think this entry by torture enthusiast and all around scumbag James Delingpole takes the cake. Delingtwat rights
About a guy who started attacking Kennedy literally HOURS after his death. Its like they think hypocrisy and doublething are GOOD qualities…
That’s kind of reasonable, though. Breitbart would have loved it, and he would have argued that it confirmed everything he’d always said about the left, without being even the slightest bit concerned about hypocrisy.
Exactly. How sad.
And yet he’s still dead, and we’re still not, so fuck him.
I’m afraid I’ve got to agree. Its remarkable how difficult it is to find any aspect of Breitbart’s career that wasn’t horrifically malign and socially destructive. Jesus, even Rumsfeld had a few good ideas about military reform. But even the stuff Breitbart did that WASN’T related to his empire of paranoid-fascism (The Huffington Post) is awful.
All the obits are pointing out ‘he was such a nice guy in private’ and hey that may be true, and if so kudos to him. But we write obits for public figures based on their public lives, and his was the public life equivalent of rectal cancer.
BEAUTIFULLY said.
And to think that Breitbart killed only one fewer people than Kennedy did. Otherwise the parallels are simply incredible.
I bet if we look hard enough we can find where he said something bad about McVeigh as well.
Of course Breitbart impoverished thousands and Kennedy enriched millions. But yeah.
If one believed anything Breitbart said, then one must know he is not laughing from Heaven, since he did not believe in God
Why would anyone ever believe anything Breitbart said?
Heaven would be hell for Breitbart – all unconditional love, forgiveness and understanding.
Though an atheist, my poetic vision of heaven and hell is that they are the same place. The people who deserve hell just hate it.
Delingpole also once asserted Rachel Carson was a mass murderer on the level of Stalin.
Wait, is Reynolds a goof for mistaking an insult combined with a series of backhanded compliments for a straight-up insult? What am I not getting here?
I thought the title would give away the game, but in case it didn’t, John did.
Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it. Breitbart would take far more pleasure in a reaction that he could (hypocritically) deploy as an example of liberal vileness than in a respectful eulogy. Therefore, in a back-assward way, Taibbi is showing greater “respect” to who Breitbart was than any amount of falsely respectful condolences.
Or maybe I shouldn’t be giving away the joke. I never was very insightful about these sorts of things.
Glenn Reynolds is clearly among the incompetent,
Heh. Indeed.
More ideology, less there to read for me.
Words as bad as guns
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Ugh. Please no direct links to Reynolds or the Daily Caller.
You should click. It’s filled with unintentional humor(all as links):
“a very moving tribute from Greg Gutfeld.”
and,
“We Are All Andrew Breitbart Now.”
as well as,
“An Army of Andrew Breitbarts?”
and last but not least,
“Thoughts from Dan Riehl.”
I did click and instantly regretted it.
Bless you, Clark. It has been years since I have read anything as funny as those gems.
“We Are All Andrew Breitbart Now.”
Did they all drop dead on a sidewalk, then?
No, everyone screamed “stop raping people” in unison.
As a tribute, they all dropped winebottles off camera.
You couldn’t hear Althouse’s, because her winebox was glued to her straw.
I’ve often wondered if one of the marks or even causes of the conservative mind was a severe reading comprehension problem. Even mild conservatives like Sully are surprisingly unsophisticated readers.
It seems that conservatives can be divided in two groups: those who can not comprehend what they read, and those who will not.
I have a theory about why they are poor readers. It is because they are too busy arguing with those who they’ve already decided to disagree with. It is the same thing that makes many people poor listeners. They aren’t reading carefully, they are reading through a constant monologue of hate running through their brain. It prevents them from getting the real meaning of even halfway complex sentences.
Jonah Goldberg admitted, on Fox, that Breitbart fed off of the hatred that sane, rational people had for him. What he neglected to mention was that Breitbart also fed off of his own ahtred for anyone and everyone who disagreed with him. I’m willing to speculate that this is what led to his early death. Someone who builds his very existence on hatred is bound to be unhealthy.
I keep hoping this is going to kill Scalia, but nothing so far, alas.
Scalia feeds off of hatred, but his hatred is a much lower stress kind of hatred that doesn’t involve screaming for minutes on end at complete strangers in the street or binging on alcohol several nights a week.
You just haven’t seen the portrait that Scalia keeps hidden in his attic.
Are you kidding? He’s like Palpatine in SW3 “UNNNNNNNNNNNNNLIMITED POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
I imagine that the health issues involved with hatred are really more about frustration and stress. People like Scalia, who successfully implement their hatred effectively, probably don’t suffer as much.
Jesus, why are you wasting all these electrons? The world has – briefly – one less utter tosspot in it. He’s not worth remembering, let alone discussing.
I think we’re going about this all wrong.
As of today, we never have to think or talk about Andrew Breitbart ever again. This is a wonderful thing.
I’m starting…now.
But how are we going to talk about future situations this ban affects, like if a female illustrator created a particularly radiant portrait of a Simpsons character?
. . . oh my god I’m so sorry. I’m going to go lie down.
It’s like a do-not-feed-the-troll pledge, taken to a whole ‘nother level. I’m with joe.
I commend him for doing the right thing for the first and only time in his short, bitter, wasted life.
But Katie Couric is the real gotcha journalist!!
Oh, Lord, that was funny.
That vicious, penetrating Katie Couric. “So, whatcha been reading?”
Check out Tbogg and the spate of tough-guy tweets for Breitbart and especially for the hilariously over the top eulogy from Ace O’ Spades. What’s tickling me is, knowing the lunatic fringe of the right wing as I do – which is pretty much all of the modern American conservative movement – they’ll have their collective knickers in a twist several times over something incredibly stupid by this time next week and won’t have the froth to spare. First time Obama does, well, pretty much anything, they’ll collective lose their shit and will forget all about Breitbart.
Yes, but think of the poor little ratf*ckers, like James O’Keefe, now that The King Ratf*cker is dead.
What will they do?
They can’t ALL work for CNN like Dana Douche.
Or, can they?
The rush of comments over at Rolling Stone were both darkly funny and stomach-turning. The level of Manufactured Outrage was almost as great as the Self-Righteous Hypocrisy level. There are an awful lot (and I mean that in every sense of the term) of people around who could really benefit from actually reading the Bible (or almost any religious book, really, or at least the collected works of Dave Barry. or Mark Twain). This was about Breitbart? There’s a simple test of your humanity there – if you think Breitbart was anything much more than the vilest, lowest form of human stench, then you really ought to examine your soul (assuming you can still find it).
I don’t think anyone completely missed the point of Taibbi’s post. He lays it out pretty clearly when he says “[Breitbart] also had enough of a sense of humor to appreciate why someone like me shouldn’t bother to pretend I’m sad he’s dead.” But even if the post is to be taken with a grain of salt, it’s still unsettling and inappropriate. The fact that he actually really doesn’t care, even if you remove the statements added for shock value, is disturbing.
Maybe, but compared to the festering hatred of all difference and dissent revealed in the comments there, and widely elsewhere, it really hardly matters. US ‘conservative’ culture is, if I can sound like a Trot for a moment, objectively fascist in the deepest, darkest sense of the term, and is revealed as such in this incident, as so often elsewhere.
Plus 1,000,000 to the power of infinity. Just about the only policing of discourse the US media does is rote enforcement of Godwin’s Law, even when one of the parties is ginning up angry mobs outside the Capitol to intimidate lawmakers to abdicate their democratic mandates.
Breitbart is dead and I really don’t care. He was a douche.
Dead asshole is dead.
Why is that disturbing? This refusal to punch back against even the most feeble and yapping of opponent does liberals no credit.
“Turn the other cheek” was a phrase coined in a time where resistance had to be carefully managed to avoid hideous reprisals. That’s not the case here, and making a large show of appreciating the beauty and humanity of your below-the-belt-punching well-funded attacker is counterproductive.
It’s not disturbing at all. Over a quarter million people die every day. Almost everyone doesn’t care about any of them.
Breitbart had some measure of fame, infamy, more accurately. When he died, we heard of it. Should we care that he’s dead just because we heard of him? I can see legitimate arguments against rejoicing in his death (and their converse), but there is no good argument that it is wrong to not care. Taibbi’s job entailed writing about the death of someone he didn’t mind dying. What he wrote seemed perfectly appropriate to me.
If you look at the leading Liberal blogs, most of them are treating Breitbart’s life and death with far less vitriol than any Conservative blogs treated Ted Kennedy.
Well, in fairness, a) Breitbart wasn’t a Senator for decades– see, there is a God!– and b) he didn’t drive off a bridge in Chappaquidick.
He only drove other people to drive off bridges.
… which is entirely predictable and that’s why I say that liberal blogs shouldn’t give a fuck. Breitbart was a rotten fuck who wouldn’t hesitate to say how he felt about David Brock or Kos if they died.
It’s not really about being “better than them”, since they don’t care.
Remember when Reagan died? Everyone said that it’s time to “put politics aside.” Democrats heeded that but Republicans sure didn’t. We got treated to weeks if not months of how Reagan was the greatestpresidentever and changedamericawithhisbrilliantpolicies and is a genius that destroyed those dirty libs. Democrats couldn’t respond because that was “making this about politics.”
Fuck ‘em.
When Reagan died, Jeffrey St. Clair reflected on his environmental policies in an article titled “Will the Earth Accept His Corpse?” which was a small breath of fresh air during the otherwise nauseating around the clock media coverage of the Reagan Death Tour.
[...] post by Scott Eric Kaufman at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to Matt Taibbi’s acerbic sendoff to the late Andrew Breitbart and suggests it will [...]
The Conservitard dudes felt they could interfere with how Democrats memorialized their dead (Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy), so they can just STFU now.
Me, I just hoping that a security tape of Beitbarts last moments shows up, so that it can be “edited” to show what “really” happened.
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten around to reading this site before I saw a link to this, but please add me to the list with Jim and Glenn.
Dude, really? You’re exploiting a man’s death for a cheap bump to your web hits?
And they call me stone-cold…
Well done. Recognising your own incompetence is the first step. I wish you all the best on your journey.
What I got out of Taibbi’s piece is that he admired Breitbart for his e-peen:
That, and praising the ACORN pimp sting videos for their “inspired humor.” It’s easy and cheap to accuse Taibbi of wanting to be another Hunter S. Thompson–pretty much anyone who writes politics for Rolling Stone has to labor under the shadow of gonzo–but all you have to do is compare HST’s obit of Nixon to this thing to see how much Matt falls short; he comes off, in fact, as being exactly one come-to-Jesus moment away from becoming Breitbart.
Yeah, that bit about ACORN really rankled me.
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I seriously doubt that Taibbi actually saw any of the “raw footage,” since that bullshit was exposed for being bullshit a long time ago. No ACORN people were charged with or convicted of any crimes. The whole thing was a scam from start to finish, and it accomplished its goal: destroying ACORN.
Shit, I’d forgotten just how epic HST’s obit for nixon was
Sean/Jim Treacher’s inability to not troll sites is about as surprising as my lack of sorrow at Breitbarts demise?
Jim/Sean is such an amazing douche. You guys should see what he wrote at Charlie Pierce’s site….and brought his flying monkeys with him
who can forget matt taibbi’s incessant pleas for more decency and civility?
Tabbi updated his blog. Apparently the deep thinkers hacked his Wiki page and they’re shaking their tiny internet fists in the air promising retribution, which means they’ll just whine louder.
You liberals fuckers have to own this now. Forever.
I’d type “Yawn,” but at this point, I’m tired of Jeff not realizing that there’s no way to prevent one WordPress blog from sending a trackback to another that’s linked in the post. If it makes him feel important that we still mock him, though, I regret inability to circumvent technology.
This would be a funny trackback.
Calling Ted Kennedy the worst sort of human filth the day he dies: compulsory
Making jokes the day Jack Kevorkian dies about him wanting one last handjob before he goes and saying he woulda shot himself in the head if he weren’t a pussy: perfectly ok
Talking about Breitbart in death as he was talked about in life: shocked outrage
Imagine a boot stepping on a face spouting hypocritical gibberish . . . forever.
I don’t think I posted anything in the thread for that dude to quote, but I’m happy to. Just cause a fuckhead dies doesn’t make them any less of a fuckhead.
There’s some rightists I’d feel more compassion toward, figuring they were nice guys, if wrong. But that sure as hell isn’t Breitbart.
I like how your moronic commentors are so stupid that they can’t stay on track hating us and just start screaming about Ted Kennedy.
He was murdered I tells ya, and Obama forged Breitbart’s death just like he forged his own birth certificate
http://zencomix.blogspot.com/2012/03/obama-forged-breitbarts-death.html
That’s forged Breitbart’s death certificate. Jeez, way to step on the punch line.