…that they routinely track back here (though strangely, always, it seems, in posts that mention almost by rote how silly are my arguments and how irrelevant are my thoughts), I decided I’d do them the solid of exposing some of the things that pass for cogent commentary from their Very Intelligent Readers (among whom we can count timb, who will prove himself unable to resist his spurned-lover’s urges to run me down once he gets wind of this).
And remember, when you’re reading what follows, that these are the leftist academics and their followers. On the death of Andrew Breitbart:
Erik Loomis says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:32 amYeah, like most of the people here, I am not at all sad by this. In fact, I’d say the world has lost a horrendous human being who caused great suffering on others. Of course, I was happy to celebrate the death of Bin Laden. Not to mention my notorious indifference to Whitney Houston. So I’m just a gigantic asshole.
I’m only sad I didn’t have Breitbart on my death list.
mark f says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:58 pmExactly. I hope he died awake and aware, throwing up blood with his guts twisted in knots. I hope he knew he was dying, and desperately wanted to kiss his kids goodbye and impart a few words, but couldn’t muster the physical ability. And I hope that his kids lacked understanding and he died with them angry at him.
But it was probably quite sudden and painless.
davenoon says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:33 amI suppose his colleagues will have to add “Big Coronary” to their lineup.
ReplyErik Loomis says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:39 amOr, possibly, “Big Cocaine”
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:40 amBigDildoAndDoubleWetsuit
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:38 amKeith Olbermann is curiously silent on this, if his Twitter account is any indication. He was running an ongoing series comparing Breitbart’s BigMeltdown to famous film rages.
proverbialleadballoon says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:09 amolbermann is a well-known liberal with a platform; he has to be careful with what he says lest he makes brietbart into a right-wing martyr.
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:39 amSo what’s his eulogy going to be?
“Breitbart was a carbon-based life form, like the rest of us”
I got nothing beyond that.
Ahistoricality says:
March 1, 2012 at 2:26 pmGloating? No, relief.
I see no moral failing in expressing satisfaction that an ethically vacuous and culturally damaging figure has stopped being active.
Brien Jackson says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:10 amEvil people dying makes the world a better place and, substantive political differences having nothing to do with it, Breitbart was a demonstrably evil person. So I certainly can’t say that I’m saddened by the news.
Breitbart’s last tweet:
I called you a putz cause I thought you werebeing intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize. @CenLamar @Dust92
Apparently, it really DID kill him to apologize
timb says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:46 amI laughed so hard at this, I almost joined Andrew in the great nothingness that awaits us all
BradP says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:41 amBut I am not glad he’s dead. I would have preferred instead that he’d lived long enough to change his mind.
You can’t change the mind of someone who picks his convictions for profit.
Good riddance.
wengler says:
March 1, 2012 at 1:19 pmAs long as he wasn’t raped to death, OWS is in the clear!
Furious Jorge says:
March 1, 2012 at 2:36 pmLate to the party, but I’m not in the least sad that he’s dead. He went out of his way to make the world a worse place, and actively worked to destroy the lives of innocent people whose only “crime” was to be liberal.
I am sorry for his family’s loss. But not for society’s.
SEK says:
March 1, 2012 at 3:55 pmThe best reason not to be uncivil about Breitbart’s death? Because that’s exactly what he would’ve wanted us to be. I didn’t want him to find satisfaction in life, so why would I want him to find any in death?
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 4:54 pmHe was a fucking cartoon, SEK and revelled in his two-dimensional stickfigureness.
I have no problem with slamming him.
ReplySEK says:
March 1, 2012 at 5:19 pmHe’s an atheist who’s now being prayed for, in volume, by the people who comment on his sites. Nothing you or I can say could top that. (Seriously, should I die and someone respond that they’re just happy I’m with Jesus now — or Mormon Jesus, for that matter — I’d be pissed, you know, if I weren’t dead.)
Honorable..BOB says:
March 1, 2012 at 8:55 pmI’ve stayed out of the conversation to allow all of LGM’s commenters to get all of the HATE out.
Hatefule posts.
My first rule is to never speak ill of the recently dead.
ReplyMAJeff says:
March 1, 2012 at 9:23 pmCracker, please.
ReplyFurious Jorge says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:22 pmToo bad Breitbart himself didn’t adhere to your little rule, douchebag.
Furious Jorge says:
March 2, 2012 at 9:24 amAs true as that is, I was more concerned with pointing out Bob’s utter hypocrisy for calling us out when Breitbart himself said some very cruel and revolting things about Ted Kennedy mere hours after his death.
Kennedy was a human being with a family, just like Breitbart … but according to Horrible.Bob’s logic, he forfeited the right to be treated with dignity immediately after his death because he was a Democrat.
Fuck Breitbart, and fuck this Bob troll. Both are completely worthless.
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 9:52 amSad?
I’m hoping they found him in a hotel room with a rentboy and a pound of crack! This is hilarious!
The man was deeply troubled, deeply troubled enough that he took down many fine upstanding Americans in his hate.
Scott, how could you forget so quickly? The world is a happier place this morning.
*popping champagne cork*
Replyfirefall says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:28 am+1
ReplyMarek says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:32 am+2
Replyhylen says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:03 am+3
ReplyDrDick says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:03 pm+ infinity
Replyc u n d gulag says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:10 pmX2
actor212 says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:40 pmY’know, if only the nation had some sort of “health care” that allowed for “preventive” doctor visits and encouraged “lifestyle” changes that could have avert–…
Wait. In this case, that would be a bad thing, right?
Icarus Wright says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:36 amFinally choked to death on his own bullshit.
c u n d gulag says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:03 amAll right, I trying to be nice.
Losing a musical Monkee is far sadder for the world than losing this rabid ape.
ReplyDrDick says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:07 pmPlease do not insult our ape relatives.
ReplyDaverz says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:06 amI’m going to guess that the cause of death was spontaneous combustion.
ReplyAnderson says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:07 amBeginning with his pants.
Replycalling all toasters says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:18 amNot rabies?
joe from Lowell says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:14 amHow many comments were written on this site about it being wrong to express happiness about the death of Osama bin Laden?
ReplyJon H says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:29 amWell, presumably Breitbart wasn’t *killed*, let alone by the military.
I think that was the source of many such complaints: they objected to people celebrating after we killed someone. There probably would’t have been as many complaints, had Osama bin Laden died of a hear attack.
sparks says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:18 amI think at this moment we should dwell on Breitbart’s good points.
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I’m stuck. Anyone?
ReplyJack Malchow says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:20 amHe left us in a timely fashion??
R Johnston says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:46 pmNah, he lingered on about 42 years past any usefulness. He was a bottle of cheap white whine, vintage 1969, left to sit and stew by the radiator all these years, a soured, vinegary sample of humanity who left an awful taste in everyone’s mouth.
wengler says:
March 1, 2012 at 1:22 pmHe was a real piece of shit.
Honestly, next to Dick Cheney this is the greatest departure I can think of.
ReplyRand Careaga says:
March 1, 2012 at 10:20 amAre they going to bother with a funeral, or just pound a stake into his heart?
timb says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:41 amThe lawsuit can still go on against the estate….
ReplyMR Bill says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:54 amGlad to hear it!
Dave says:
March 1, 2012 at 11:13 amBig Obituary
ReplySilky says:
March 1, 2012 at 12:16 pmYeah, my go-to joke when I heard the news this morning was “bigoverdose.com”
Now, to be fair, SEK wouldn’t approve of this kind of post, because calling attention to the way the Left revels in the death of a man with a wife and four kids is, to his way of thinking, opportunistic — and as such, a show of disrespect to the person you’re claiming to stand for. And etc.
Clearly, Breitbart didn’t feel this way, however. He routinely re-Tweeted all the nastiness aimed his way to expose the real character of his detractors.
For people like SEK, as is evidenced in his own comments in the Breitbart death thread, it’s not so much that all this gloating is untoward and vicious; it’s that it may be perceived as such, which necessarily creates a nasty film over the carefully polished veneer of intellectualism he and his cohort aspire to show the public. Plus, SEK knows that Breitbart would have wanted this viciousness exposed — just as I’m doing now — and that the real reason one shouldn’t publicly gloat over his death is that in so doing, they will be giving his memory a satisfaction it doesn’t deserve.
Meaning, SEK’s self-righteous ethics are nothing more than a progressive academic’s very own conspicuous consumption.
They now own these comments. And though they’ll squeal and protest and deflect, they know deep down that this is who they are. And being able to couch their venom in literary allusion doesn’t make who they are any more impressive. It just means they’re pathetic cowards who also probably have lots of school loans that need paying off.
update: related.
When did the Little Green Men of Toy Story start a blog?
AIM has a nice tribute.
Man Against The Mob
Andrew was something these people will never be: Happy.
wow, SEK mucking about the Lizard dung and enjoying it.
Leftism is a brain disease.
(seeing timb among the reptile farts there is no surprise)
Pablo is spot on on why they hated him so much. They hated he was better than them and could look himself in the mirror.
I am feeling low today, but I find watching this helps (a bit)
As for the plan by some Kossacks to get the Westboro Baptist Church to protest Breitbart’s funeral, I am pretty sure Andrew would say: Bring it on! If only that they revealed again how vile they really are. I think he would treat such a protest as a badge of honor.
I wish this was all an elaborate hoax and Andrew Breitbart will surprise us in October with a bunch of great stuff. Sadly that is not the case.
Timb is a lawyer? Doubt it. Even the worst slimeball ambulance-chaser sorts of lawyers have some minimum standards. He’s fetching coffee and felching briefs at most.
The quotation marks on educated pretty much say it all. It really is uncanny how indistinguishable lefties are from one another. Spell check has put their SEIU monkeys on even footing with the English professors in their ranks.
Still teaching shadows on a cave wall to the men held in bondage, are they? Ah, well, of course they are: cardboard placard’s are all they know. For they too are focused on the shadows, lest they be accused of neglecting their business.
Pardon my ignorance, but; LGM?
He seems to have gotten under someone’s skin.
LGM is Lawyers, Guns and Money … a pseudo-intellectual beta male blog.
I would not be surprised if they claimed you were violating copyright by posting their vile screeds.
It’s who they are.
Then I guess it would unhelpful to respond that they should eat a bowlful of dicks? Just curious.
Not to hi-jack, but if you haven’t read Matt Labash’s Tribute go give it a read.
You’ll be glad you did.
And then, of course, come back here.
Mickey Kaus’ slapdown of David Frum is a good read too Lybd.
If the Hindu are right… When I die, I hope in one of my lives I come back in time as a fly. And in the 24 hours of a fly’s short life, I get to light on a wall at that fucking dinner party.
And witness the conversation in the Drake Hotel bar after.
I can’t stop laughing.
sdferr,
Really liked that piece. I know Ace is a sore subject around here lately, but he bitch-slapped Frum like the guy owed him money.
It was well done.
I have my own Breitbart story. Doesn’t matter what it is. But Santorum, or Romney…I have a strong feeling of “Let’s do it for Johnny, man…LET’S DO IT FOR JOHNNY!!”
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Breitbart was a big boy and could take it. A life was never lived more intentionally: he knew exactly what he was doing and saying and why. Crapping On Ted K. when he died was a calculated move. The ugliness it engendered on the right was no small thing, and far from pretty. Plenty of RW twitter kids acted like complete asses, to be candid.
But the Left fails to understand the roots of RW disgust with Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy was broadly reviled on the right not merely for his bitter partisanship, but for the moral underpinnings of the Chappaquidick incident. Let’s face it: it isn’t that the accident happened (plenty of right-wingers drink, drive and mess around), but its context.
Kennedy spent his public lifetime proclaiming the high moral construct of his politics.
Pace Kennedy, if you didn’t agree with him, you were (at least when he was stumping) de facto for the oppression and disenfranchisement of women, children, blacks et al. That’s standard demagoguery, of course, and again, all sides do it–though rarely for nearly 50 years.
But when no one was looking, when there was an emergency and a trapped, helpless woman needed aid–not AFDC–but honest to goodness rescue, he did nothing. When confronted with it, he used levers of power to have it covered up. He never reckoned with it publicly, and only once, in the early 90s, did he reference “public failings” in the wake of that rape case in Palm beach.
In fact, he became even more strident and personally ad hominem. He ran for President and was apparently astounded Chappaquidick was ever mentioned.
Breitbart was a man on a mission and lived his life that way and, as such, earned tremendous enmity on the Left. Kennedy lived his life not caring (seemingly) a whit about a life he played a role in ending.
For Mary Jo Kopechne, his double-dealings with our enemies, and Bork alone, Kennedy should be reviled by the people of this country; instead, he was granted sainthood and protected doggedly by the Left, many of whom still aspire to be just like him.
Oh, come on Jeff!
Everybody remembers that first time they left some poor girl screaming while she drowned in the car you drove off a bridge. It was just… Cracker Jacks!
Then you run home piss drunk, hide, and don’t tell nobody.
Murder is fun, safe, and easy. It’s is like Prom Night…if your a Kennedy. Or a piece of shit (sorry to repeat myself).
Murder is a Kennedy stock in trade for quite a number of generations.
Michael Skakel is the only one that I’m aware of who is actually in jail. And that took 30 years.
Even in death Teddy was still fucking us all.
Don’t forget Kennedy’s creating of HMO’s Apparently, HMO’s were a compromise on ol’ Ted’s attempt to foist single-payer health care on the nation (see 1970s section 4th paragraph, Wikipedia cite, take with a grain of salt)
Mary Jo Kopechne still unavailable for comment.
Isn’t the POS also buried at Arlington?
I thought you had to have served in the armed forces to be buried at Arlington.
Then again, Kennedys are special.
Seeing his name again reminds me of this classic Serr8d post.
As disgusting as the Left’s reaction is, we can confidently say that they have built him the best memorial he could have wished for.
His mission in life was to expose “how the these people think,” and lo, he’s doing it even from beyond the grave.
Zombie Breitbart: Now launching BigDeath.com. First story? “An Interview with Ted Kennedy in Hell.”
Also, the RedEye tribute to him was appropriately jocular and anecdote-filled. Definitely worth a watch.
Let’s not forget No Child Left Behind as a Ted Kennedy legacy, nor his unending efforts to eliminate our borders, nor his desire for transnational progressivism in general.