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Matt Taibbi: The Final Word on Andrew Breitbart

   March 2, 2012

Fabulous… Matt Taibbi nails it…

For instance, it would be dishonest not to tip a hat to him for that famous scene when he hijacked Anthony Weiner’s own self-immolating “apology” press conference, and held up the entire event by standing at the lectern and congratulating himself at length, before Weiner could let the humiliating healing begin.

For that one, brief, shining moment– still one of the most painful-to-watch YouTube spectacles of all time, right there with Mitt Romney’s priceless attempt at singing “Who Let the Dogs Out?” with a group of black voters in Florida in 2008 – Breitbart could legitimately claim to have the biggest, hairiest balls on earth.

Watching Weiner apologize to Breitbart later in that same event was certainly chilling for a number of reasons (if I were Weiner, I wouldn’t have apologized to that fucker even under torture) but it was hard not to appreciate the deliciousness of the scene from Breitbart’s point of view. Watching Weiner pause, swallow hard, and make the extraordinary decision to plant his lips squarely on the loathsome Breitbart’s ass on national television, that was like the ultimate Mona Lisa masterpiece of right-wing media provocations. That the outrageous Breitbart was standing right there, looking gorgeously gassy in his unbuttoned shirt, bloated Joey Buttafuoco cheeks and splendiforous silver half-mullet, made the humiliation of the trim and neatly-groomed Weiner even more abject.

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14 thoughts on “Matt Taibbi: The Final Word on Andrew Breitbart”

  1. If anything, Taibbi took it a little easy on Breitbart. I bet FOX does live coverage of the funeral. His epitaph:

    Live fast, die young and leave an ugly corpse.

  2. Make sure you don’t let him get cold in his grave before you tear him apart. Typically how the left treats its recently departed enemies.

    1. Another stupid, knee-jerk comment from Wingnut. What a surprise.

      Whatever people have to say about Breitbart is fair game. I doubt that Breitbart would disagree.

      In the hours after the death of Edward Kennedy was announced, Breitbart posted a series of Twitter messages in which he called Kennedy a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.”

      So, shuffle off, old man, and STFU.

      1. Can’t understand why you were allowed back on here after you were found to be posting under all your other personalities. When anyone starts getting the best of you, you go put a dress on, come back to your computer and start posting as Professor Lawson.

          1. Wingnut: “Can’t understand why you were allowed back on here after you were found to be posting under all your other personalities.”

            (*laughing*) If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you must have just dropped some acid because you’re hallucinating like a m*therf*cker. Either that or dementia is starting to set in.

            In any event, you’ve never gotten the best of anyone, anywhere, anytime, old man.

            You’ve always gotten your ass handed to you on a regular basis around here. This comment thread is a case in point.

            Quit while you’re behind, fool.

    2. You obviously didn’t read the Taibbi article to the very end, idiot.

      The really crazy thing is that I was sort of trying to be nice to Breitbart – the obit was at least half an homage. Not that I liked the guy, but he did have a few attractive qualities, one of which being the fact that he got a kick out of the nasty things people said about him. He even once had a plan to set up a website encouraging anti-Breitbart abuse, and was going to let it ride for a while, even spending six figures to hire an Obama p.r. flack to make anti-Breitbart posters, until finally revealing that he’d sponsored the whole thing. Would a person like that really expect someone like me to send flowers when he croaked? No way: he’d be insulted if I didn’t give him one last kick in the balls on the way out the door.

      But I guess no homage is complete without a celebration of the whole man, and the whole man in this case was not just a guy who once said, “It’s all about a good laugh,” but also someone who liked to publish peoples’ personal information on the internet, hack into private web sites, tell lies in an attempt to get his enemies fired, and incite readers to threats against his targets and their families, including death threats. I left all of that stuff out of my obit, but now, thanks to you readers, that’s all in there as well, leaving, for posterity, a much more complete picture of the man.

      1. Wingnut is nothing if not an idiot.

        Well, he IS also a legend in his own mind. Just ask him.

    3. He is getting much more respect than he offered Ted Kennedy when he died…..Shirley Sharrod is still waiting for the apology for the lies Breitbart told to cost her a job. HeII is too good for him.

  3. Oh jeez guys. You’re giving Wignut far too much consideration here. It’s apparent from his comment that he not only did not read Matt Tabli’s article, but he know not of what he speaks.

    ’nuff said.

    1. There’s a history with Wingnut, CJ, with which you may be unfamiliar.

      I administered an ass-whooping to Wingnut on another comment thread months ago from which he has apparently still not recovered. He sees me comment, can’t seem to help himself, and gets weirdly personal.

      Here, rather than substantively respond to my rebuttal comment, he conjured up an odd fantasy with the obvious intention of disparaging me personally (and in that effort, he reminded me a great deal of Notalib). I responded because what he said merited a response. The addendum to what Phil had to say? Okay (*laughing*). Now, THAT was gratuitous. Right on the money, BUT gratuitous. (*laughing*)

      You are right about Wingnut, though. Just another low-information, emotion-driven wingnut who couldn’t argue his way out of a paper bag.

    2. Hey CJ,

      I got to thinking that it might help to post a “primer” of sorts on what Wingnut is all about. His comments above are fairly exemplary of his distorted sense of what “civil discourse” is.

      Here’s some footage from a “debate” that Wingnut had with King Arthur back in the day:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

      A more recent example of how Wingnut deflects, uh, I mean, “debates” can be found at:

      http://www.bloggingblue.com/2011/07/13/dont-worry/

  4. Wingnut reminds me of notalib too.

    Thanks for the backround info. Easy to pick out the nutjobs.

    Still….I hate to feed the trolls. 😉

    1. I hear ya, CJ.

      Your counsel never falls on deaf ears here, and your point was well-taken.

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