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CoyoteMike

CoyoteMike

Iowa City, IA
May 2006

MAR 01, 2012 07:06 AM

Fox News.


Reportedly of natural causes.

mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

MAR 01, 2012 07:12 AM

I'll come back to this in a couple of days when it isn't too soon to talk about what an awful human being he was.

Jamila

Jamila

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

MAR 01, 2012 08:03 AM

mydogfarted said:
I'll come back to this in a couple of days when it isn't too soon to talk about what an awful human being he was.



Is it too soon to be happy that Rick Santorum is reportedly "crestfallen"?

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 01, 2012 08:05 AM

He'll be missed.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 01, 2012 08:07 AM

Tucker Carlson: Andrew Breitbart was a 'great guy'

pascipio

pascipio

Irving, TX
July 2002

MAR 01, 2012 09:52 AM

He was a great guy. He will be missed.

I am recalling Iris Chang here.

abbazappa

abbazappa

Sacramento, CA
June 2006

MAR 01, 2012 10:12 AM

He was a brave warrior who enjoyed the fight and shall be missed not only by his wife and four kids but also by the rest of us in the political trenches.

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

MAR 01, 2012 10:14 AM

pascipio said:
He was a great guy. He will be missed.

I am recalling Iris Chang here.



Wait, what?

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 01, 2012 11:10 AM

Otoki said:

pascipio said:
He was a great guy. He will be missed.

I am recalling Iris Chang here.



Wait, what?



My only guess is that she died rather young and at the height of her career. But she died of a suicide.

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." ~Clarence Darrow

Otoki

Otoki

SUICIDEGIRL

Minnesota, USA

MAR 01, 2012 11:41 AM

Roethke said:

Otoki said:

pascipio said:
He was a great guy. He will be missed.

I am recalling Iris Chang here.



Wait, what?



My only guess is that she died rather young and at the height of her career. But she died of a suicide.

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." ~Clarence Darrow



OK, that makes sense. I just focused on the suicide and Nanking aspects. Didn't make the connection between the prime of their life.

Roethke

Roethke

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 01, 2012 11:54 AM

Believe me, I had to think long and hard to figure out why anyone would compare her to that horrible person.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 01, 2012 12:10 PM

PointBlank said:
He'll be missed.



Since some people in this thread are serious about this sentiment, let it be known that this was sarcastic.

He was a douche. Not missed.


Shocking that he died.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 01, 2012 12:23 PM

Good riddance.

Of course, we have to be careful. Given his track record, he could be lying about this, too.

CoyoteMike

CoyoteMike

Iowa City, IA
May 2006

MAR 01, 2012 12:46 PM

Bad joke.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
Maybe he choked on an acorn.

McKenneth

McKenneth

Macedon, NY
August 2005

MAR 01, 2012 12:46 PM

Dead at 43... It's so sad because could have died at 12.
I think it's safe to assume it was a bowel obstruction that killed him... Because he was so full of shit.

DexterMorgan

DexterMorgan

Los Angeles, CA
January 2008

MAR 01, 2012 12:49 PM

motorfirebox said:
Good riddance.



Yes, "good riddance" that his wife is now a widow and his children lost their father, because we may have disagreed with his politics.

whatever

I understand previous posters who said that they will not miss him. Fine. Neither will I. But to take any sort of pleasure in his passing is, to say the least, distasteful.

ChrisSick

ChrisSick

Philadelphia, PA
March 2008

MAR 01, 2012 01:03 PM

DexterMorgan said:

motorfirebox said:
Good riddance.



Yes, "good riddance" that his wife is now a widow and his children lost their father, because we may have disagreed with his politics.

whatever

I understand previous posters who said that they will not miss him. Fine. Neither will I. But to take any sort of pleasure in his passing is, to say the least, distasteful.



Nonsense. He was a noxious blowhard who delighted in demonizing those he disagreed with and never stopped short of using falsehoods to attack his political enemies. No one is cheering that a woman is widowed and children fatherless, but that happens a hundred thousand times a day and no one notices. Brietbart made a conscious choice to become a public figure, his tactics, style, and contribution to the public discourse were all to its detriment. It is good he is gone.

DexterMorgan

DexterMorgan

Los Angeles, CA
January 2008

MAR 01, 2012 01:11 PM

ChrisSick said:

It is good he is gone.



Yeah, I guess it's easier to debate a ghost.

mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

MAR 01, 2012 01:16 PM

DexterMorgan said:

ChrisSick said:

It is good he is gone.



Yeah, I guess it's easier to debate a ghost.



Or just not have to listen to it spew lies and hate.

ChrisSick

ChrisSick

Philadelphia, PA
March 2008

MAR 01, 2012 01:23 PM

DexterMorgan said:

ChrisSick said:

It is good he is gone.



Yeah, I guess it's easier to debate a ghost.



Wow, way to pull that out of your ass, buddy. It's easiest to debate someone who actually engages in debate, which neither you nor Brietbart seem honestly capable of doing.

Shifting goalposts, as you do, is not honest debate. Lying in furtherance of an argument you can't back up with facts, as Brietbart did, is not honest debate.

lil_tuffy

lil_tuffy

MODERATOR

San Francisco, CA

MAR 01, 2012 01:28 PM

DexterMorgan said:

motorfirebox said:
Good riddance.



Yes, "good riddance" that his wife is now a widow and his children lost their father, because we may have disagreed with his politics.

whatever

I understand previous posters who said that they will not miss him. Fine. Neither will I. But to take any sort of pleasure in his passing is, to say the least, distasteful.



I'm sure Breitbart would revel in the bile commentary. He sure liked it in real life.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 01, 2012 01:32 PM

He was a special pile of excrement, a big ass motherfucker, a villain and a prick.


Those are all things that Breitbart said when Ted Kennedy died.


motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

MAR 01, 2012 01:32 PM

DexterMorgan said:

motorfirebox said:
Good riddance.



Yes, "good riddance" that his wife is now a widow and his children lost their father, because we may have disagreed with his politics.

whatever

I understand previous posters who said that they will not miss him. Fine. Neither will I. But to take any sort of pleasure in his passing is, to say the least, distasteful.




Fuck him. That nutbag little facist wanted me dead. His family can suffer along without him the same way he advocated the suffering of the uninsured. There's a point--a point that Breitbart passed a long, long time ago--when it stops being merely political and becomes personal. Breitbart was a dangerous, hateful lunatic who fantasized about killing his fellow Americans in armed revolution. Unlike him, I didn't and don't support shutting him and his ilk up with violence. But goddamn if I'm not going to gloat over his obituary.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

MAR 01, 2012 01:36 PM

Also, "Good riddance that his wife is a widow and his children lost their father" isn't a sentence, and doesn't make any sense.

DexterMorgan

DexterMorgan

Los Angeles, CA
January 2008

MAR 01, 2012 01:39 PM

ChrisSick said:

DexterMorgan said:

ChrisSick said:

It is good he is gone.



Yeah, I guess it's easier to debate a ghost.



Wow, way to pull that out of your ass, buddy. It's easiest to debate someone who actually engages in debate, which neither you nor Brietbart seem honestly capable of doing.

Shifting goalposts, as you do, is not honest debate. Lying in furtherance of an argument you can't back up with facts, as Brietbart did, is not honest debate.



I admire your ability to assess my debate engagement skills and desire to debate based on this one interaction. wink

Let's just say I didn't come here for debate, and was put off by your response, hence the snub in my last post. That being said, I do concede that it was neither indicative of good debate form, nor a fair or mature response to your post. You're certainly entitled to your opinion without me trying to stir the pot any further. I do disagree with the gist of your response however, and I'll leave it at that.

I still stand by my initial post. And here's a quote from one of the blogs I read that I thought summed it nicely:


On breitbart.

Andrew Breitbart is dead. What’s the most appropriate way to feel when someone you’ve loathed is gone?


It’s okay to loathe his legacy. It’s okay to feel good about his new-media empire suddenly losing most of its symbolic capital, but whatever you do, don’t relish that the man is dead.

He was a magnificent asshole, but he was still a human being. The dude was only forty-three. He had a wife and four kids. That situation is incredibly sad.



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