Andrew Breitbart has died...

He had some really good stories and some really bad ones. Overall I don't think he was a great journalist. Not sure why this is making such big news.

RIP.
 
For the same reason that the today show devoted a half hour to Davy Jones passing and the state of New Jersey lowered the flags to half mast because alcoholic/drug addict Whitney Houston popped too many pills and drowned herself in a bath tub.

Our media has very warped priorities.
 
"Our media" has a lot of time on its hands and needs to "cover" something so stuff like this goes out so the public can be "informed."

Most of what is news is of no importance at all but people will watch it and will not watch a detailed analysis of how aggregate demand works or how tax policies affect investment in inventory or other matters of like import.
 
Too bad. He deliberately try to ruin lives. I'm just sad that Shirley Sherrod's defamation suit is now going to be halted. He was going to be forced to pay her a lot of money.
 
Even when someone dies you can't help yourself, classless, completely classless......
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Used the leftist media tactics back at the libs. Doesn't make it right, but anyone on the left spewing vitriol at him is likely a hypocrite.
 
Muckrakers often rub people the wrong way. Roaches scatter when you turn the lights on. Breitbart turned the lights on to a lot of roaches. Good for him. RIP.
 
I'm as conservative as they come but if Breitbart really said that about Kennedy - regardless of factuality - then one shouldn't get upset when the tables are turned.

I'll miss him and his influence. He was one of the few conservatives that seemed to try to help his side rather than spout venom in the name of the GOP.
 
One of the few conservatives willing to jump in the sewer with libs and use their own tactics against them to root them out of their hiding places - something which had to be done, no matter how distasteful some may find it.

Interestingly, Breitbart used to be a liberal and actually worked for the Huffington Post. So he learned most of these tactics from the leftists themselves.

This is a crushing blow in the fight against leftist corruption.
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He didn't so much work for the Huff Po as much as he helped created it. As I understand it, he had already crossed over to conservative thought by that time, but he had worked with Ariana Huffington and was still on good terms with her.

Ariana approached him and asked for help to put together the site, which he did. For all the name-calling and criticism (some of which was valid), Breitbart believed that everyone should get a forum for their viewpoint, and he was even willing to help a raving liberal set it up.
 
Some clarification on the Sherrod thing:

Accusations that Breitbart hid or denied Sherrod's change of mind are false. Breitbart in his own writings with the initial video release pointed out that she did have a change of attitude toward the farmer in question. Regardless of whether that part was included in the video, he never hid that it took place.

The NAACP took it upon themselves to act - even though they had hosted the event and presumably knew exactly what was said. Why they didn't take it upon themselves to investigate or even ask her what happened before firing her is a mystery.

Breitbart may or may not have been the person who did the editing on the clip - I wouldn't be surprised if he did. But I don't know if that was ever actually established - and since as mentioned, he acknowledged from the beginning her eventual willingness to help the farmer, the idea that he tried to hide it or deny it happened is simply false.

The point of the video, to me, was always the positive reactions her comments received and the confirmation that there are many on the liberal side of things that do in fact view their job as a chance to "get back" at groups they dislike. Whether she changed her mind or not, it doesn't change the fact of her initial attitude and the issue that it reflects.

COuld he have handled it better? Yes, I think so. But to blame him for her firing is ridiculous.
 
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