Andrew Breitbart is dead at 43

[maineiac04631]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

He doesn't look too healthy at 43 in that photo.

He doesn't look a day over 55.

[Sheldonrs]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

To add to infinte shawnee's analysis: It's natural to die after you've been poisoned or shot repeatedly.

It would be unnatural to live forever.

To quote from my favorite movie, "The Lion In Winter" "I never heard a corpse ask how it got so cold.".

[Undertoad]

Andrew Breitbart was a big fan of the Chameleons.

About this matter he was absolutely correct. The Chameleons were remarkable band that should gotten more attention.



He was a rather unique personality. He truly enjoyed going into the lion's den and getting his share of in-person vilification. I find that aspect fascinating. How many of us would wander into a convention of our political enemies just for the sport of it? This is something he did regularly.

Sometimes on rollerblades.

[Ibby]

As someone who through both politics and identity feels literally unsafe leaving certain liberal areas of the country, and feels unsafe even visiting my parents in socially conservative and fiercely authoritarian china, I immensely respect the way he could take the fight to "us" (though I would say that liberals are overall better at being accepting of and civil to those we disagree with... Cause we don't HATE them), and don't celebrate the deaths of political enemies... the guy was a total CUNT.

[classicman]

Ibs, please read the comments here and tell me that you still believe what you just said.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by shel

and we could be rid of a large percentage of the hatred in this world

Nick Gillespie via CNN

...he was no straight-up social conservative: At the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, he protested the banning of the gay-friendly group GOProud by hosting a dance party featuring lesbian singer Sophie B. Hawkins.

oops. guy's dead and the hatred is still here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A live dick becoming dead, is still a dick.

[glatt]

I was oblivious to the guy, but every article I read about him in the last day has mentioned in the first paragraph that he loved the good fight or he was a fighter or he was pugnacious. (Depending on who was being quoted.)

Sound like he was deliberately an asshole, always looking for a fight. The world is better off without guys like that. I'm sure he had loved ones, and every death is a shame, yadda yadda yadda, but we're better off without him, based on what I've read the last couple days. The world is too polarized, and he was working for polarization.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by classicman

Ibs, please read the comments here and tell me that you still believe what you just said.

I don't understand what I was supposed to be having revealed to me by facebook commenters (who're about half a step up from youtube commenters, but thats not saying much)... Yes, I still believe he was a cunt.

[TheMercenary]

Breitbart was great, sad loss to a great news hound who sought to expose the hypocrisy of the liberal media. For a guy who helped start the Huffington Post he came a long way. RIP

[Lamplighter]

If you can't say anything good about the dead, don't say anything.







Andrew Brietbart is dead.
.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Ibram

. . . and don't celebrate the deaths of political enemies... the guy was a total CUNT.

Originally Posted by classicman

Ibs, please read the comments here and tell me that you still believe what you just said.

Ibbie, you just practiced the very thing you preached against, even as you preached it. Bad, incivil Ibbie!

Despite your robust IQ, you are never going to exercise it by reading Righteous Indignation. That omission isn't going to serve your mind well.

[Ibby]

I can think he's a cunt without wanting the man dead, UG.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Don't gimme static; I know more about life than you do, and am not afeared of those parts of the US that are not the Northeast. Read his book instead.

Free Protip: they're not going to notice your being gay unless you outright ask them to. About the only thing that scary They are going to notice right off is, "oriental guy, eating a burrito at the Taco Bell." Republicans are not coming after you with castrating knives and quiche pans.

[Ibby]

Maybe you missed the bit where I came out as a girl... I think They are going to notice that, UG.

It's not Republicans who I think hate me. its bigots. There's a lot of bigots out there, especially in the South and out Utah way. And those bigots that vote vote overwhelmingly Republican, and so you get candidates like Rick Santorum.
Like it or not, he's the face of the Republican Party now, UG. Disown him if you like, but he's what you've got.