Comments on: Devastating news: Andrew Breitbart dead at 43

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:38:35 +0000

The only people in this nation that are capable of fighting the Left effectively is probably defectors from the Left. Which sorta means most conservatives and Republicans are… in an interesting bind.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:33:02 +0000

I wasn’t serious about Chavez, though if you go out there and take a look, there is people saying it.. one of them being Chavez… 🙂

http://www.thejournal.ie/chavez-wonders-if-us-hatched-cancer-plot-against-latin-american-leaders-315907-Dec2011/

the point was that they were going to say it, not that it was true… you missed that totally… despite the large paragraph…

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:02:36 +0000

Don Carlos: I crafted that sentence carefully in an attempt to avoid readers misunderstanding it. I used the word "politically" to modify "conservative" to describe Breitbart in the political sense. When I then mentioned the media cutting-edge stuff in a way that indicated it was not "conservative," I thought it would be clear I was then using the word "conservative" in a different sense---its non-political (i.e. more generic) sense, as in definition #4 here, for example, "conventional in style or type." That is exactly what Breitbart most assuredly was NOT, although he was conservative politically.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:47:11 +0000

Neo wrote, ‘I could call him “conservative”–but only politically, because he was innovative and on the cutting edge in terms of the use of media.’

Sounds to me, just a little bit because I know she knows better, that statement can be read to say only Progressives innovate- they are progressive, after all- while Conservatives are rooted, mired in the past, those dullards.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:49:38 +0000

cornflour: thanks. I had quite a few typos in this piece, actually. I think they’re all fixed now.

By: cornflour

cornflour — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:47:42 +0000

Hello Neo,

You have a typo in the headline for this piece. A syllable has been lost from “devasting.”

As always, I enjoyed reading the article. Thanks.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:53:34 +0000

@ armchair:

First, I think the association with Wright DID hurt Obama, just not enough to do him in. Second, there was plenty of videotape of Rev. Wright, but none of it showed Obama clapping and cheering during Wright’s anti-American rants. It’s certainly conceivable that a videtape of Obama saying or applauding some deplorable thing would hurt him, if such a tape existed.

Another thing: In 2008, Obama’s defense to the Wright Stuff (I am clever, no?) was that Obama really was a post-partisan, centrist unifier, and guys like Wright and that other crazy pastor didn’t really reflect Obama’s true political sentiments. That would be a tougher sell today because of the way he has overned as president. People now realize to a much greater degree that Obama is in fact a committed leftist, so videotape evidence that he was a radical from way back could really seal his fate with independents.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:20:56 +0000

On one hand Breitbart didn’t mess around; his scoops brought results. On the other hand, short of showing Obama beheading puppy dogs, what could the tapes contain that could be more damaging than, for example, the fact Candidate Obama faithfully attended the church of a screaming racist loon who preached I Hate Whitey every Sunday? Didn’t hurt him one bit; his MSM body guard made sure of that.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:16:17 +0000

Art, I regret to say that taking people out by causing cancer “but (not) over a long time” flies in the face of oncologic knowledge. Your thesis also assumes such cancers cannot be cured. The radio-isotope murders you reference, specifically Litvinenko’s, are due to bone marrow wipeout.

Chavez perhaps has a pelvic sidewall sarcoma (rare, utterly unknown causation), usually impossible to resect completely, even by those mahvellous Cuban surgeons,

By: ConceptJunkie

ConceptJunkie — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:09:09 +0000

There’s one thing you can say in defense of the liberals dancing on this poor man’s grave in jubilation, something that should surprise no one. The worst, the absolute worst you could possibly accuse Breitbart of was treating liberals the same way the liberal press has treated conservatives for decades.

Breitbart brought a lot of energy and fire to his work, and while I think he did, in fact, do some questionable things journalistically, it doesn’t significantly dilute the fact that he was a force for truth in a media so dominated by lockstep groupthink and political thuggery.