RIP Andrew Breitbart

[kronus]

I think we should all review this thread.

The whole "ted kennedy doesn't count cause he killed a lady" argument is bullshit and you know it.

[BraveUlysses]

you are a repugnant ass for this reply, but so fucking typical of the left in america. equating breitbart or any american politician with bin laden is exactly how the left works with their "tolerant" politics. tolerant until you have the moxy to disagree and disrobe the left for all to see. bush is hitler etc. just so fucking typical.

congrats to making it to the top of the asshole list

criticize for intolerance while being far more intolerant? brilliant!

[herbivor]

you are a repugnant ass for this reply, but so fucking typical of the left in america. equating breitbart or any american politician with bin laden is exactly how the left works with their "tolerant" politics. tolerant until you have the moxy to disagree and disrobe the left for all to see. bush is hitler etc. just so fucking typical.

congrats to making it to the top of the asshole list

I wasn't trying to equate Breitbart to Osama. Osama was probably a kinder person than Breitbart. He was on the level of Ann Coulter evil. Not many of those people exist nor shouldn't.

[smooth]

I don't have any respect for this guy and I'm glad he's dead. I wish others like him would die like this more frequently. Actually, I wish people would kill people like him but it works out even better when they just fall over dead on their own.

Hopefully he passed whatever bad genes he had to his offspring if they inherited any of his personality traits so they'll die early, too.

[110stx]

Any negative comments ITT about darkbart would pale in comparison to anything darkbart might utter about a liberal like, say, Ted Kennedy or, since her name came up ITT, Nancy Pelosi.

I'm pretty sure he would spew whatever the hell bile he felt like spewing without the slightest regard for compassion, others' feelings, or the protests of cooler heads. (In fact, that's what he's done.) Does that make it right? No, but ...

Why the hell should anyone worry about being offensive when commenting on darkbart's demise? Live by the harsh judgment, die by the harsh judgment.

If you pursue his game to its logical conclusion, then we all wind up bleeding in a tub ...

[jrobie79]

one of these days I'm gonna say "I told you so" until then.... live in your fairytale land

[Kershaw]

^ lol!

the replies in the this thread sicken me

[mrsleeve]

kershaw why are you dragging me into this????


as to the teddy comapro, one guy exposes corruption the other was a poster child for it. huh seems straight forward to me

ehhhh no care either way really

[jrobie79]

say good riddance for someone who knowingly was involved with the death of someone else is not the same...it just isnt, keep thinking it is, and there were no derogatory names thrown around (by me at least) it was simple comment, saying no more needed to be said

[110stx]

Live by the harsh judgment, die by the harsh judgment.

Why does darkbart deserve any fucking quarter? The answer, he doesn't. He's just another dead guy now, like I'll be someday. Like you too.

That said, it makes these machinations all the sadder and increasingly pointless.

[jrobie79]

http://www.libertynews.com/2012/03/04/why-some-liberals-danced-on-breitbarts-grave/

Since my post the other day about left-wing activists across social networking sites celebrating the death of someone whose only offense against them was his political beliefs, a number of friends and acquaintances have contacted me claiming that, in essence, I’m being disingenuous. It’s not fair, I was told, to portray “liberals” as celebrating a man’s death when most of liberalism’s prominent spokesmen had nothing but kind things to say: Andrew Sullivan, for instance, or Arianna Huffington. Random people on Twitter shouldn’t be used to paint the left with a broad brush.

But it was never my intention to paint the left with a broad brush, nor was it to say that this sort of thing is emblematic only of liberals. If Michael Moore were to die tomorrow, I’d be equally disgusted by what would surely be an outpouring of glee from plenty of conservative activists. There’s a real sickness running through contemporary political activism, and it’s called ideology. The rise of new media — for all the good it’s done — has enabled it by allowing people to surround themselves only with other people who already completely agree with them. The more detached you become from different people, the easier it is to strip them of their humanity: when the other side is just an idea and no longer a group of individuals, we forget that our political opponents can also be our friends. The other day, we saw this demonstrated by rank-and-file left-wing activists, and it deserved to be pointed out.

This isn’t a plea for “civility” such as that we heard after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. I’m a strong advocate for irreverence, snark, and even vulgarity. But such tactics don’t preclude the need for decency. Anyone whose political opinions have become all but a pathology — that is: if you cannot assess another human being except through the lens of his political opinions — has a deep problem and needs to step away from politics and connect with others through something else: music, art, philosophy, sports — anything will do. The aim of good politics is to make politics unimportant. Sometimes I get the sense that the lives of many political activists I know would be empty if the world’s problems were actually solved to their satisfaction. That’s not conservative, and, more importantly, it’s not conducive to health or happiness.

There is more to life than politics, and sometimes all of us who work in the field need to be reminded of that.

[110stx]

I do appreciate your more nuanced explanation of your point.

The rub with this guy is that he didn't care to show much compassion to his targets, gladly lying and misconstruing the truth as a self-styled journalistic hitman.

For what it's worth, characterizing Ted Kennedy as merely a person "who killed somebody" does your point no service.

And if you allow yourself to enjoy such truncated viewpoints, then why not people who are offended by this darkbart?

I realize, you don't see any equivalency here, but I do. They were both humans, badly flawed humans. Ever met any that aren't?

[mrsleeve]

please be careful you might fall from your high horse, you might get badly hurt.

[KenC]

I'm not going to celebrate the death of an individual, but to assert that this man contributed anything to quality and/or constructive political discourse is laughable at best.

[Kershaw]

sleeve, sorry, my intention wasnt to drag you into this. it was to point out jrobie getting into a huge huffy in this thread, but prior had said something just about the same in another thread. it was to point out his hypocrisy.