The most surprising thing about Jimmy Breslin's article in Harper's Magazine is that he is still around. Who knew? Posted on 09/05/2010 8:27:23 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The most surprising thing about Jimmy Breslin's article in Harper's Magazine is that he is still around. Who knew?
Not so surprising is that Breslin hasn't lost any of his barely coherent rage which seems to be his trademark. This latest example from Breslin is so off the wall and all over the place that it is actually hard to get upset over it. Just mark it up to typical Breslin and savor it for the flat out nuttiness of the proposition that people attending last week's Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D.C. are somehow like assassins. Breslin jumps right into it from the start in which he somehow connects assassinations with free speech with the Glenn Beck crowd. It makes no sense but, hey, that is Jimmy Breslin for you:
There are these sudden loud noises in the hotel kitchen, one, two, three, probably a tray falling, and then there is so much screaming and a hand holding a gun high in the air and Robert Kennedy, who had walked into the gun, is on the floor with his eyes seeing nothing. On this June night in 1968 he has just won a Presidential primary and suddenly he is fit only for a gravedigger’s dirt.
It happens this way when the claws of madness swipe through the sky. In 1919 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called it for all time, and crashingly so today, when he wrote, “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”
...All day on television yesterday you had the aimless babbles of this Beck, who looks like he eats Bibles.
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Some background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin
I just can’t see how I’ve been around for sixty years and as with Hunter Thompson, never found time to read his stuff.
/sarc
Jimmy “Who”?
You have to stuff the mouth full of garlic first, before moving on to the tree-cutting implements and Step Two. People keep forgetting to do that.
Then I guess the democrats have serious problems.
No one but rabid brain dead socialist commies read his stuff, that’s probably why.
So Jimmy, after November are you going to write your sequel “How The Good Guys Finally Lost”?
Someone please post a pic of all the mom and pop assasins!!
Sheeez!!!!!
True American patriotism sure scares the radical libs. Sorry Jimmy, but we will never allow the leftists to put us back in the box.
Jimmy’s just embittered, is all. When all your remaining groupies end up looking like Bea Arthur, at this point... ;)
“They all come with the double barrels of a Low IQ and High Color Fear let loose on cable stations and e-mail, of which yesterday you read in disbelief.”
You’re just so much smarter and such a better man than the rest of us, Jimmy.
Jimmy Breslin is still alive? Who knew?
The Left is so unhinged.
It truly shows that they are the purveyors of racism, hate and intolerance!
It can’t be good for the body to be dropping acid at that age.
Ah, the impotent rage of the left...music to my ears.
What they regret more than anything, I am so sure, is that they can’t ram what they want down our throats at the point of a gun. How they must long for the old killing days of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. Thanks to our wise Founders, you can’t commit a decent genocide in a country with armed citizens.
Don’t you just feel for the whiney leftists?
If anyone would know aimless babbles...
Can't you just imagine Jimmy's editor confronted with this muddled mash, staring in disbelief, holding the red pen aloft, at a loss where to even begin, finally saying, "aw hell, run it as is."
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