Interfectum
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Andrew Breitbart has died
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badcrumble
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I think it's worse to advocate for wars that kill thousands of innocents and smear and destroy organizations that keep people from losing their homes but maybe that's just me.
teruterubozu
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LOL. You should see the cnn & foxnews comments - pretty disgusting.
Meus Renaissance
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Natural causes. That is so over-played nowdays, natural causes this, natural causes that...what next...cause "unknown"? Ahah
Refrigerator
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Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo wrote a poignant piece about Breitbart today - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/03/breitbart_rip.php?ref=fpblg
Like many here I disagreed vehemently with his politics and how he conducted his journalism, but it doesn't detract from the suddenness of his death and the pain in the loved ones he left behind.
Like many here I disagreed vehemently with his politics and how he conducted his journalism, but it doesn't detract from the suddenness of his death and the pain in the loved ones he left behind.
BFIB
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This is a great way to sum it up. I hate both parties when it comes to the extreme, but sadly, it seems you have to be this way at all to get any points across in politics today.
I do feel for his family, 43 it is quite unexpected.
When it comes down to it, Breitbart was nothing more than a windbag. He had no power in government, so to equate his ramblings with somehow actually being responsible for those wars, is crazy.
Natural causes. That is so over-played nowdays, natural causes this, natural causes that...what next...cause "unknown"? Ahah
Haven't read the whole thread. Dying at 43 isn't natural at all. What the fuck did this guy die of? Unless it's some kind of congenial heart defect then nature had nothing to do with it.
sparky2112
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If Ann Coulter weren't the (she)male Ann Coulter, then Breitbart would have been the male Ann Coulter.
Mortrialus
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Not really. Ann Coulter is an intentionally inflammatory troll. Breitbart simply had anger and control issues.
sparky2112
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Point in your favor. Nicely put.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Cocaine is natural
polyh3dron
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You mean to tell me that the James O'Keefe thing wasn't an intentionally inflammatory troll job? Or the manufactured Shirley Sherrod "scandal"?
benjipwns
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Breitbart didn't have anger or control issues. He was not only intentionally but publicly declared he was an inflammatory troll.
Coulter just pretends she isn't.
polyh3dron
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You are drastically underplaying the influence of said windbags on the republican electorate, and even elected republican officials directly.
sparky2112
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The Sherrod thing was just crazy. Whatever credibility he had with whomever he had it should have been ruined, but that whole thing didn't even put a dent in his armor. That just shows how demented things have become.
Dude Abides
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What will be the verdict on GWB? The drunken may or may not apply, but the negligence certainly does. Ok to trash him after his death?
Mortrialus
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The two aren't quite the same. Coulter strikes me as a genuine conservative who plays up the heartless stereotype and vile rhetoric to enrage liberals. James O'Keefe is a man whose life revolves around deceiving fellow conservatives for the political gain. Breitbart has always struck me as an impulsive man who angers easily, but is also happy to deceive other conservatives for political gain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o
Keep in mind Breitbart was just previously drinking just before the events of his lashing out at the protesters.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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What did he do wrong?
Dude Abides
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Negligently failed to do due diligence resulting in a disastrous war that killed thousands.
polyh3dron
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oh you so funny
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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No he didn't
SirButterstick
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You're not very deep, are you? Care to explain?
Mortrialus
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Were you the guy that said that the Bush administration wasn't responsible for any war crimes in that thread about Greece? It's been a while and I've forgotten.
Get a rope.
benjipwns
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lol
Breitbart regularly went out drinking with NYC conservatives when he was in town, him wandering down to OWS and being a dick isn't anything shocking imo.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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el retorno
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critique him? yes. Trash him? no.
Mortrialus
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Breitbart being strung out and easily excited is not a particularly contested fact.
War rape and desecrating corpses are war crimes that happened under the Iraq war are war crimes. Some of them were tried, others weren't.
Edit: Hell we've personally tried, convicted and hanged Japanese during World War II for water boarding, which at the time was considered torture and a war crime.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Certain individual criminal acts, nothing more.
Slurpy2k20
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For those of who you saying people like Brietbart have no real 'harmful effect or power', maybe you should refresh your memory and watch the below video. Just an example of the many fake 'controversies' Breitbart knowingly and falsely pushed with the goal of defamation and hate-mongering, knowing it was a lie but doing it anyway. The clip in question was edited by him publicized in a blatantly deceitful manner, as a smear job with despicable racial intentions, with large repercussions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/rachel-maddow-white-house_n_654134.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/rachel-maddow-white-house_n_654134.html
Mortrialus
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They're still war crimes and you agreed that they have happened.
adamsappel
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Why you gotta bring Laura Bush into this?
Inflammable Slinky
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It is always a good day when a disgusting capitalist pig dog becomes worm food.
But seriously, this guy led concerted campaigns to harm and disenfranchise the poor and marginalized in society. America is a measurably better place with him dead.
But seriously, this guy led concerted campaigns to harm and disenfranchise the poor and marginalized in society. America is a measurably better place with him dead.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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I mean individual criminal acts of certain soldiers that occurred during war, using "war crimes" is a loaded term as it's different than large scale charges that could be alleged against leadership ordered massive acts.
Mercury Fred
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oh SNAP
Mortrialus
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Sorry, that argument doesn't fly with me. Just because you define war crimes as The Holocaust doesn't change the fact that they are legally war crimes. They fall under the definition of war crimes. War crimes occurred under the Bush administration during the war in Iraq. The war in and of itself can be considered an illegal war of aggression. We have previously convicted Japanese soldiers in WWII for waterboarding U.S. P.O.W.s, an act we considered torture and a war crime.
War crimes happened.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Drudge has gone all in now.
Ignatz Mouse
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What?!
Mortrialus
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Laura Bush ran a stop sign and killed a close friend/possible boyfriend when she was 17.
polyh3dron
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y'know, instead of saying "what?" you can google.
It's terribly sad when anyone dies - minus monsters like Qaddafi, Bin Laden.
The guy on one hand was kind of entertaining and amusing. But he really came off like a prick to me. And it's just pretty hard to empathize with him. Sure, Michael Moore is cheaply partisan as well but I don't feel he's as much of an ass. But perhaps that's just my liberal bias preventing me from seeing reality!
Anyway, this is probably what the Oval Office looks like today:
The guy on one hand was kind of entertaining and amusing. But he really came off like a prick to me. And it's just pretty hard to empathize with him. Sure, Michael Moore is cheaply partisan as well but I don't feel he's as much of an ass. But perhaps that's just my liberal bias preventing me from seeing reality!
Anyway, this is probably what the Oval Office looks like today:
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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No it wasn't. Can you show me when the US broke the Don't Invade Iraq Law Congress passed?
and no they didn't.
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