Andrew Breitbart Dies at 43

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... ingle.html

Perhaps the greatest profile of Breitbart ever written, for those who think the guy was just a ball of rage or something.

http://news.yahoo.com/daily-kos-calls-w ... 11495.html

Ah, WBC...the precise reason why the U.S. should ban religion.

43 isn't too young to die. If it were, then we wouldn't be sending 18-year-olds off to die in wars.

If everyone were to make it very far beyond full retirement age, then retirement systems would be in serious jeopardy. People do die in their forties.

His family will be fine--don't waste any time worrying about them. The children will get social security survivors' benefits until they are 18. The wifey will get widow's benefits when she turns 60. Even if the Repugnicans succeed in destroying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the family will most likely still qualify for Medicaid. A lot of communities have food pantries where they will be able to line up for free handouts every week. Some churches (although probably not theirs) even provide free hot meals on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The children should qualify for free or reduced-price lunches at school. They might even qualify for food stamps or welfare.

It probably would have been more cost effective if President Obama had arranged for the whole family to die together--for example, in an airplane crash. Allowing the Breitbart family to continue to live on government charity (and other handouts) is a rather ironic end to things.

Here is what bugs me, Newt Gingrich cheats on his first wife while she's ill with cancer, wants an open marriage when the second one gets sick, yet he is on the morals and values crowd.

Weiner on the other hand, sent some pictures of himself, but he didn't physically have sex with anyone, yet he had to resign. Elliot Spitzer was a single guy who slept with a hooker and he had to leave, yet Larry Craig solicited sex in an airport bathroom and he gets to finish his term.

Why is it that democrats need to leave office while republicans don't?

Breitbart was instrumental in getting ACORN defunded. That was useful.

ruveyn

Okay, he was a ball of rage with self-indulgent humor.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

That Ball of Rage took down ACORN nearly single handed.

ACORN was a quasi-criminal organization. By rights RICO charges should have been brought.

ruveyn

I'm just puzzled by the world view of people who thought ACORN was in some way nefarious.

From the Wiki article:

ACORN was shut down in the wake of the September 2009 release of selectively edited videos by two conservative activists including James O'Keefe using a hidden camera to elicit damaging responses from low-level ACORN employees that appeared to advise them how to hide prostitution activities and avoid taxes.[9]

As I said, RICO prosecution was in order.

ruveyn

I think Christopher Hitchens statement on the death of Jerry Falwell is quite apt for Breitbart as well "If you gave him an enema, you could have buried him in a matchbox"

Selective editing is right. ACORN had never been prosecuted because it was found that the workers were in fact responding to different questions not pertaining to prostitution asked by that little weasel and his girl friend - who actually never showed up dressed as a pimp and prostitute.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Any familiarity with the saying "Vote early and vote often"? They were essentially one of 'those'.

Hahaha, that's awesome. I might have to raise you Michael Moore while we're at it though.

I think the reason the right hates Michael Moore so much is because he's pretty much the only left-winger using the same kind of manipulative tools as they are. While some of his documentaries are quite good, "Bowling for Columbine" and "Capitalism: A Love Story" were quite good, others used dodgy rhetoric and manipulative tricks a lot more.

I once had a 15 minute conversation with Michael Moore. The man is totally devoid of intellectual integrity. He is a willful liar.

ruveyn

But the same doesn't apply to Republican propagandists?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer