Posted on 04/09/2012 6:00:38 PM PDT by neverdem
Make no mistake - the leftist assault on Andrew Breitbart's reputation since his untimely death has but one explanation: he was effective.
Yglesis and Taibbi... but we don't need to name them further. To my personal knowledge not a single representative of the left made any effort to rise above the vindictiveness of the herd, to find some sense of nobility in the struggle they claim to wage, and express it in the form of respect, as one warrior to another. There are no Alexanders on the left, no Saladins, no Robert E. Lees. They are a bandit movement, vulgar and coarse, and that is all they will ever be.
The two items that most irked the left were Briebart's dismissal of Edward Kennedy and the Shirley Sherrod video. Briebart notoriously referred to Kennedy as "a pile of excrement" on the occasion of his death. This is harsh, and something many of us would not choose to say. (I myself prefer Pope Benedict's handling of the matter. Shortly before his death, Kennedy, facing eternity and aware that he was in no way prepared, sent what amounted to a spiritual begging letter to the Pope, outlining his achievements and good works. The Pope, of course, knew exactly what he was dealing with. The reply, from a minor Vatican functionary, amounted to, "The Holy Father is sorry to hear that and will remember you in his prayers." Punctilious, proper, and damning in its coldness. The rapier as opposed to Breitbart's bludgeon. I'd rather be called a pile of excrement.) This supposedly allows the left to appeal to turnabout in the case of Breitbart. But of course, it does no such thing. Kennedy was a murderer who left a young woman to die amid horrifying circumstances. The fact that he remained...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
An excellent read by J.R. Dunn. Appreciate the post neverdem.
Talk about excrement...is there anything lower than Matt Taibbi? Really?
“The problem with conservatism is that it is a school of political activity based almost completely on nonconfrontation. It is quietist, scholarly, and unassuming, acting very much in the mode of the upper-class William F. Buckley and the reclusive Russell Kirk. This is not altogether a bad thing. Conservatives have always argued — with some justice — that a major goal of the movement is to maintain standards, to avoid descending to the level of the opposition. But like anything else, it becomes a bad thing when it is taken too far, when conservatives allow themselves — as they so often do — to be bullied out of the arena and on to the sidelines and irrelevance. (Buckley, to his credit, and as Gore Vidal well knows, never allowed it to go quite this far.) This is so common that it shocks both sides when it occurs otherwise. Recall the “blue-blazer riot” at the 2000 Florida election recount, with all the staid, Brooks-wearing paleos banging on the windows and shouting, “I say there,” at the vote-counters. Nobody ever saw that before. The problem is, we haven’t seen it since, either.”
Enter Breitbart.....sadly, exit Breitbart WAY too soon.
Excellent article!
I, am Breitbart!
His performance during Borks confirmation was at best disgusting. But you really got to see liberalism un masked. The forerunner for today's politics.
Breitbart R I P
Pope to Kennedy: Uh, yeah....”whatever”
When the far left celebrates “speaking truth to power” or claims that “dissent is patriotic”, they are lying or manipulating. As with all their claimed values, they only hold those beliefs when the claim is expedient. When they are in power and the dissent harms their ability to take and hold more power, they no longer approve of freedom of speech. Andrew Breitbart was exactly what they claim to value - when conservatives are in office - so they despise him.
nor let us forget the shame of a democrat Congress, led by the Manslaughterer himself, which turned off support to Vietnam in ‘75, resulting in millions dead at the hands of the commies and khmer rouge.
I said it here when that vermin died, and I’ll say it again; may the last thing he saw before light dimmed forever from his eyes be a sign with the following words inscribed:
” LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH’ENTRATE “
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