"he also had enough of a sense of humor to appreciate why someone like me shouldn't bother to pretend I'm sad he's dead. He wouldn't, in my place. So to use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, cocksucker.* Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
* See the following Breitbart quote: "I like to call someone a raving cunt every now and then, when it's appropriate, for effect... 'You cocksucker.' I love that kind of language."
UPDATE: Well done, Breitbart fans, well done! In less than 24 hours you've hacked into my Wiki page, published my telephone number on Twitter, called the Rolling Stone offices pretending to be outraged "advertisers" (anonymous ones, who hung up before we could figure out which "ads" to pull), and then spent all night calling and texting my phone with various threats and insults, many of them directed at my family. "Better grow eyes in the back of your head," was one; "I'm going to take a shit on your mother's grave," was another; a third called my wife a "piece of shit like you," and many others called me a "pile of human excrement."
Those last ones to me were the most interesting because that quote is lifted directly from Breitbart's own obit of Ted Kennedy, which like me Breitbart ran just hours after his subject died. So that means the writers of these letters knew that what I did was exactly the same as what Breitbart had done, and yet they still found a way to be unironically outraged on Breitbart's behalf. I thought: "These people don't even get their own jokes."
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."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301#ixzz2xSikOsQf
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On Sunday, March 30, 2014 1:47:10 AM UTC-5, lookinatlife wrote:
strawman bullshit by jiggielew...........
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:46:29 AM UTC-5, jgg1000a wrote:and helped the winning Democrat... Must be a GOP plot...
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/03/27/ South-Texas-Voting-Machine- Complaints-Head-to-Grand-Jury
>>>In a special meeting of the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court on March 21, the commissioners debated over what to do about the machines, according to ValleyCentral.com. Precinct 4 Commissioner Joseph Palacios offered concern about opening "Pandora's Box" by allowing the issue to press further, according to the report. After the debate, the commissioners were unable to come to a conclusion and deferred the matter until March 25 where they eventually voted against hiring a forensics analyst, according to local press. The Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra has now referred the matter to a grand jury.
Election's Administrator Yvonne Ramon has not returned calls to Breitbart Texas for comment, however, ValleyCentral.com quotes her from a report prior to the March 4th election where she claimed, "All the security measures are done by the state so they run these machines through the gamut and make sure they have internal measures that are secure."
Precinct 1 Commissioner A.C. Cuellar stated he believes the machines have not been tampered with. He deferred the matter to law enforcement and advocated letting federal or state investigators look into the matter, according to local press.
"We have to address it whether we want to or not. There is too much commotion in reference to the machines and the voting process," DA Rene Guerra said. "We give the machines full faith and credit like we do the American currency."
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