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Andrew Breitbart has died
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sparky2112
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Stole this from The Atlantic's blog:
Shirley Sherrod deserves high praise for speaking with such fairness and empathy about Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death on Thursday. "The news of Mr. Breitbart’s death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning," Sherrod said in a statement. "My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart’s family as they cope during this very difficult time. I do not intend to make any further comments."
Now THAT is class.
Edit: beaten!
Shirley Sherrod deserves high praise for speaking with such fairness and empathy about Andrew Breitbart's unexpected death on Thursday. "The news of Mr. Breitbart’s death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning," Sherrod said in a statement. "My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart’s family as they cope during this very difficult time. I do not intend to make any further comments."
Now THAT is class.
Edit: beaten!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
My best friend died at age 18 from a heart defect. It happens.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
He used cocaine. Probably fucked up his heart.
sparky2112
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Is this a for true, or are we just wildly speculating?
polyh3dron
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i don't think anyone here isn't sympathetic to his family and i don't think anyone here wasn't surprised by this. Shirley Sherrod said the equivalent of "water is wet". Also, I don't think "apologist" means what you think it means.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I'm basing it on someone who hung out with him a bunch saying he did.
Anthony, from the Opie and Anthony radio show said it. I'm sure they'll say more about it this week considering how much they love being part of national news.
I certainly was but perhaps there's truth to it.
Incorrect. I was in fact referring to the Breitbart defenders with that post.
Red Blaster
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Insipid fuckstain dies.
*shrugs*
*shrugs*
He leaves behind an embarrassingly awful legacy, and in any fair accounting of his life it's impossible to ignore.
But it's not like he was a mass murderer or rapist or anything, and he was pretty young - condolences to his family. Politics is better off without him though, no doubt.
But it's not like he was a mass murderer or rapist or anything, and he was pretty young - condolences to his family. Politics is better off without him though, no doubt.
PhoenixDark
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He actually ruined part of her life yet she has the grace and class those who never met nor were hurt by him don't have.
This thread is pathetic, as is much of the liberal response I'm seeing on twitter. And as a liberal I'm ashamed at the heartless bullshit spouting from those who pretend to hold the moral high ground
When you put yourself in the public spotlight and do awful, cruel things to people and others, you are going to get sometimes bitter and mean backlash. This guy has helped destroy the modern political arena, and has actively destroyed peoples careers over his backward ass rhetoric and lies.
Although it is right to issue condolences to his family and respect their grieving period, it is also kind of disingenuous to expect that such a visible figure is not going to get the proper post mortem that someone in his position should expect.
Just because someone dies doesn't mean they magically become off limits for criticism. I don't wish him to die, the same I actively wished for, say, Osama Bin Laden to die, but I also think that it's impossible to argue against the world being a better place without him.
These threads are always complicated affairs, but I don't think you lose the "high ground" by continuing to be critical of the life someone led when they die. It's not like his family is going to stumble upon these liberal tweets and threads and be suddenly shocked at what the political spectrum thinks about Breitbart. The man was a political demon.
Although it is right to issue condolences to his family and respect their grieving period, it is also kind of disingenuous to expect that such a visible figure is not going to get the proper post mortem that someone in his position should expect.
Just because someone dies doesn't mean they magically become off limits for criticism. I don't wish him to die, the same I actively wished for, say, Osama Bin Laden to die, but I also think that it's impossible to argue against the world being a better place without him.
These threads are always complicated affairs, but I don't think you lose the "high ground" by continuing to be critical of the life someone led when they die. It's not like his family is going to stumble upon these liberal tweets and threads and be suddenly shocked at what the political spectrum thinks about Breitbart. The man was a political demon.
benjipwns
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And he, based on everything I know, would have loved it.
I think natural in this sense means he wasn't murdered or committed suicide.
Natural could mean a host of things and could stem from previous health problems.
You keep repeating this. So?
If you violate WTO rules and get an adverse ruling, you have violated the treaty and international law, no matter if your action is legal under domestic law or not. This allows countries to start applying tariffs on your goods and not treat your goods with Most Favored Nation status if you don't rectify within a certain period. This has applied to everyone from China to the US, and they have both changed their practices following adverse rulings despite the original practice being domestically legal to begin with.
minor effort
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Everybody, BEEHAAAAVVVEE YOURSELVES.
Byakuya769
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Cannot live long that angry.
David Frum has a pretty amazing eulogy for Breitbart. There will be a million words written about this guy, but no one will nail it like this.
Ignatz Mouse
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OK, so how many people do you think are out trolling for the worst examples of people being hateful so that they can either generalize ("you liberals are all like this!") or else excuse all the shitty things said about other people when they died by conservatives? Or both?
polyh3dron
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speaking of those who pretend to hold the moral high ground...
oh so that was him.
Mortrialus
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This is a quality eulogy.
I liked it except this line:
That's a really sugar coated way of saying what he did.
Ignatz Mouse
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Keep reading.
polyh3dron
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He inspired conservative "journalists" to engage in manipulation and deception in a culture war.David Frum said:
Breitbart's legacy in a nutshell. Now apparently you can be fighting a so-called culture war, engage in manipulation and deception and you can still call it journalism, thanks in part to Andrew Breitbart.
PhoenixDark, I think Frum's talking to you here as well as the rest of the people ITT with their moral outrage who don't want GAF to say anything other than "He died, RIP, this is sad and it's unfortunate for his family."David Frum said:
So yeah, David Frum hit the nail on the head with his eulogy.
Lucky Forward
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I don't know what issues he had, but he did not look healthy for 43.
polyh3dron
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haha oh wow here we go
Obama was not involved. I still want to see those videos, though, assuming they exist.
polyh3dron
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they're probably just as earthshattering as the Michelle Obama "whitey" video.
Big Baybee
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If they existed I'm sure he would have released them already.
Yeah I never seen a picture of him before today. I would of guess he was ~60 by his pictures.
JCreasy
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Oh yeah I forgot about that, LOL
You say that like you think someone did kill him
polyh3dron
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I'm pretty sure Breitbart was the one who started that whole thing too... Not 100% though.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Wait so he was the guy on fox who wore a tux that he looked like he pulled out a trunk that hadn't been open since WW2? Guy looked like a lounge singer who couldn't get work. Lol
43 year old guys usually don't drop dead at midnight walking outside within an hour of having a two hour discussion with someone and appearing completely normal. Could be a massive heart attack or something, we'll know after ther autopsy, perhaps.
A little curare goes a long way, LOL.
Big Baybee
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He was/is hated because of the type of person he was. He literally ruined lives with his lies. I still don't understand why some of you are defending his behavior.
Slurpy2k20
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I don't see any irrational hatred at all. Most of his eulogies, even written by conservatives, put him in a horrible light, and these people have no incentive to do so. The guy was extremely poisonous, and people are calling a spade a spade. I don't believe in the hypocrisy of suddenly just spouting RIP and trying desperately to dig up something positive about a person who built a career based on hate and lies, and who did and said so many horrible things to so many people. I don't see anything to the effect of 'burn in hell', apart of a matter-of-fact assessments of his life. I wish his family well, but can't say the rest of the world or the country is worse off without him. It's not about 'some disliking him'. It's about him proving again and again that he was a horrible person to the core. I don't see how any sane person with a hint of objectivity and a moral compass could deny that, regardless of political leanings. There's no point in white-washing that and pretending he didn't live his life the way he did.
polyh3dron
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I think the majority of us are discussing the impact his actions have had in our politics quite rationally actually. Unless you feel that all we should be doing is posting a bunch of identical vapid "RIP" posts ad nauseum.
polyh3dron
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It's a de facto passive aggressive endorsement of his behavior IMO.
At most he was guilty of the same BS as the rest of the journalism world...providing snippets of the truth without full context. What people really hated about him was that he was one of the few conservative activists in existence who got results. I rarely fully agreed with him, but never saw him as different/worse than the likes of PETA or any other group.
JCreasy
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Can someone whip me up a Christopher Hitchens and Breit Bart mural in the spirit of a Biggie and Tupac mural?
I will throw it in a youtube video with this playing in the background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt1XjVdyJ6o
Thanks in advance!
I will throw it in a youtube video with this playing in the background http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt1XjVdyJ6o
Thanks in advance!
TemplaerDude
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You really shouldn't be surprised considering where the majority of GAF sits on the political spectrum.
polyh3dron
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So what you're saying is that everyone who thinks Breitbart was a bad person for passing off outright lies as "journalism" sits on the left side of the political spectrum, and everyone that supports his brand of "journalism" sits on the right side of the political spectrum.
Duly noted.
And here goes the false equivalence. The difference here is that 99.9% of the time, when these Republicans say they've been taken out of context, they actually weren't.
Can you imagine a similar thread on Obama?
"I feel bad for his family, but Obamacare was a travesty. Our government is better off without him"
I can't even begin to fathom actually hating someone aligned differently so deeply.
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