A Beloved Patriot has Died...
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therightfangirlIn Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)
I am crushed by this news...I didn't even know the man and I am devistated and crying. As someone on twitter stated, "We've lost our Samuel Adams."
Thankfully I am following Steven Crowder for a more optimistic and fighting look at the hate outpouring from the left.
I am crushed by this news...I didn't even know the man and I am devistated and crying. As someone on twitter stated, "We've lost our Samuel Adams."
Thankfully I am following Steven Crowder for a more optimistic and fighting look at the hate outpouring from the left.
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Date: 2012-03-01 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-01 03:49 pm (UTC)I had not heard!
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Date: 2012-03-01 03:52 pm (UTC)Sadly, there's a number of liberal trolls on one of the political websites that I frequent, joking about his death and saying he's in Hell. Not that I've seen this behavior across the board from liberals so far, but...ugh, I think it's time to take a break from going to that site!
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:07 pm (UTC)Already hearing about the horse manure being shoveled at Kos, though. Of course.
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:10 pm (UTC)HuffPo is, so far, full of sympathetic, respectful comments if you can believe it. I don't think I want to know what the troglodytes on Kos are saying, though.
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Date: 2012-03-01 04:11 pm (UTC)(There's something I never thought I'd write . . . )
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Date: 2012-03-01 03:54 pm (UTC)I literally found out less than an hour ago as I was driving to work. I said aloud, "Wait, he's DEAD?!" As sad as Davy Jones's passing was yesterday, he was 66 years old with heart trouble. This was a youngish man with young children. Geez, he was my age!
Keep cheering us on from above, Mr. Breitbart. Your sites will go on and even though I have big issues with Big Hollywood, the rest of your Bigs are in good hands. And others will step in your place.
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Date: 2012-03-01 07:00 pm (UTC)I particularly enjoyed how he threw back all the Left's tactics and hate with a smile (usually, but he was awesome when he was pissed off, too).
James Delingpole at Ricochet had the best take, I think:
http :// ricochet.com/main-feed/Breitbart-Nooooo/
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Date: 2012-03-01 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-01 09:43 pm (UTC)http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/292388/conservatives-react-breitbarts-death-jonah-goldberg
If you haven't seen "Mr. Roberts," see it ASAP. It's a classic. Breitbart was our Mr. Roberts; now it's up to us to be Ensign Pulvers.
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Date: 2012-03-01 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-01 10:00 pm (UTC)James Lileks has interesting personal comment about the toll Breitbart had to deal with, "expressing frustrations about how he was regarded by the establishment right, the difficulty of getting the message through the thick stone walls of the mainstream media, the damned toll of it all sometimes, the discouraging moments when rewards seemed scant."
More importantly, "He could tire, and did; perhaps he had his moments of self-doubt that may have stabbed as deep as any conviction he was on the right path. I remember that conversation, because it was the opposite of everything else he always was - and it made who he was all the more remarkable. "
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Date: 2012-03-01 11:38 pm (UTC)And it's good to hear things like that, because you watch those merry souls like Breitbart or Steyn or Palin and think, "How do they stay so cheery? I never could." But they have to fight some of the same demons and frustrations we do. If they can do it -- maybe we can do it.
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Date: 2012-03-01 10:10 pm (UTC)I'd had some quick conversations with him on Twitter and he'd RTed some of my stuff recently regarding the O'Keefe/Naffe case.
Some of the Leftists aren't so bad. Tommy Christopher from Mediaite wrote a really nice piece (http://www.mediaite.com/online/remembering-andrew-breitbart/). However, Matt Taibbi and Rolling Stone published the most disgusting piece of filth I've read in some time (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301). I haven't purchased a copy of Rolling Stone in years and probably never will again because of that.
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Date: 2012-03-01 10:57 pm (UTC)Also:
http :// cartoonblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10549427-cartoonists-remember-andrew-breitbart
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Date: 2012-03-02 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-02 03:09 am (UTC)Liberals are disgusting, aren't they?
They say they're valid in behaving this way because of Ted Kennedy. Kennedy was a murderer. Oy.
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Date: 2012-03-02 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-02 04:35 am (UTC)How? He seemed to have been in good health. and at 42? That is way too young for a man like him :(
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Date: 2012-03-02 10:46 pm (UTC)But if you're going to die anyway (and we all must) then it might as well be in passionate pursuit of a worthwhile cause bigger than yourself.
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Date: 2012-03-03 12:51 am (UTC)http :// www.city-journal.org/2012/eon0301ak.html
Meanwhile, the WaPo had tried to pat itself for how "nice" liberals have been in light of his death. Ed Morrissey deconstructs that nicely:
http :// hotair.com/archives/2012/03/02/wapo-gosh-arent-breitbarts-foes-being-awfully-kind-to-him-after-his-death/
Also, Patricia Heaton and Robert Davi have a few tender words about him, over at Big Hollywood. Recommended reading, of course. It's the day after, and I still can't believe he's gone. Sighs.