I’d like to take you on a brief journey to hell.
When I tell people on the right that my friend Andrew Breitbart is consider ‘to be ‘Satan’ by people on the left, they laugh. They know that Breitbart isn’t the most popular guy to liberals – but do they really know? I mean, do they read left wing sites? Get down into the comments? Highly doubtful.
The #Weinergate scandal has provided a good look at how the liberal blogosphere and the mainstream media react to a fishy story from a Democratic Congressman. And it’s been a lab experiment to see the writhing hatred they have for Breitbart. Take a look…I’ll give you some sample although the strong of stomach will actually go and read the site. I dare you.
This article by Stranded Wind quickly turns into an orgiastic victory wank about how the (totally discredited) DailyKos Kommunity has stopped Breitbart in his tracks!
This follows a fairly typical pattern for Breitbart. Some fakery is done, either on his order, or due to some individual taking initiative, and then it promptly runs on his trash news site, Big Government.
Only this time, unlike ACORN, instead of elected officials cowering before the media they met … us. You, me, Ministry of Truth, stef, and a bunch of other people who are just sick to death of Breitbart’s bullshit.
We took this ‘scandal’, we ripped it to shreds, and then we rammed the jagged fragments right down Andrew Breitbart’s throat. This is what a healthy media would have done to him long ago, but they’re as rotted as any institution in this country. Without us they’d have gone for titillation and serving the long term goals of their corporate masters over honest reporting and the public good.
The pud-pounding continues and it eventually turns creepily sexual, too…
Here’s another thing the media won’t touch: Indict Breitbart. The crimes against ACORN in Baltimore City’s jurisdiction are crystal clear and the only reason there wasn’t a grand jury investigation long ago is the city’s battered financial condition.
We won’t get financial recovery until we get good policy, we won’t get good policy if we’ve got assclowns like Breitbart trying to bump off a ferocious advocate for the people like Anthony Weiner, and something has got to give.
We need to turn all our will to Baltimore, and to its newly elected City Attorney, a nice Jewish boy who ran on the Democratic ticket, until the threat to our democracy that Andrew Breitbart represents is removed.
The evidence is clear. Breitbart, and his accomplices O’Keefe and Giles, will plead out rather than face a jury of Baltimore citizens. They’ll get some small amount of jail time, then probation that will keep them offline until well after the next election. The voter disenfranchisement that was the destruction of ACORN isn’t going to matter – we’re going to carry 2012 in a tidal wave.
Breitbart will get back online eventually, but he’ll be an irrelevant has-been like G. Gordon Liddy, catering to a small fringe audience. And America will be better for it.
Come on guys, rec this up - I want to see Dana Loesch, she of the pretty, pouty lips, saying my name on PJTV again. No photoshop, this, I’ll happily share the whole video
Another example — on this diary they do some articulate media criticism of the New York Times. Here is one paragraph from what the Times reported about the Weiner story…
The episode unfolded Saturday night when it was reported on the Web site biggovernment.com, run by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. It played out all day Sunday on the Internet, with Mr. Weiner, a Democrat who represents part of Brooklyn and Queens, addressing the matter on his own Twitter and Facebook accounts, and with bloggers from the left and the right arguing about whether this might be the start of a scandal or an example of how easy it is for political rivals to harm each other’s reputations using new technologies.
So – there is the New York Times, doing a sort of boring factual piece. Not sure what’s controversial in there…oh! Wait! They mentioned Andrew Breitbart. You think YOU don’t like the NYT? Here is the response from DailyKos auteur fromer…
And I quote…
Fuck you NYT and Fuck you MARIA NEWMAN.
Not one word on Breitbart’s lying sack of shit past. Not one word about his infamous role in the Shirley Sherrod lynching.
Nope. The fuckheads at the NYT just "report" that "Neither Mr. Weiner, an outspoken defender of liberal positions, nor Mr. Breitbart returned messages requesting comment on Sunday night."
FUCK YOU you pathetic excuses for "journalists." You give more column space to the lying shit-stirrers, and present all of Rep Weiner’s facts as "he says" or "he claims."
What’s your real agenda NYT? Reporting the news, or perpetuating the psuedo-conflicts of the rightwing so no one notices the economic warfare being waged on 99 Percent of the country. Warfare you DON’T report on.
FUCK YOU.
That incisive commentary has over 400 tips in the comment jar. All that because the Times mentioned the fact – a fact, mind you – that Breitbart broke the story.
The Kommunity at Kos is sick beyond words. Toxic, stupid and hateful – it’s a mob of savages who sully the name of political debate. These are the people who attack Sarah Palin for the Arizona shooting. They are taken seriously by the media.They need to be exposed, often. They are worse than people know…
How did they reach the point of being taken seriously by the media in the first place? Why would the media care now? I don’t know the background to any of this, so those are non-rhetorical questions.
The media takes them seriously because the media agrees with them. Not much anyone can do about that. The deck is stacked.
“That incisive commentary has over 400 tips in the comment jar. All that because the Times mentioned the fact – a fact, mind you – that Breitbart broke the story.”
And the folks doing it do see anything remotely wrong with their objection, although if you were a warehouse manager that employed someone who had spent some time in jail for a petty crime a few years ago, and always introduced that worker as: “My criminal employee here, who stole some stuff and end up spending three years in jail for it . . . ”
Although, of course, Breitbart was reporting on Sherrod with a point of view, something that’s fine when the left does it, just not when Breitbart does.
I remember being a 14 year old liberal, and getting angry over CNN talking about Reagan without always saying Reagan was a horrible, evil man who wanted to blow up the world and was a war monger and hated poor people.
Of course, I thought like that because I was 14 years old. And not a terribly mature 14. That’s not reportage, it pointless negativity, it’s huge editorial bias, and there’s an obvious problem with Kossack fantasy: NYT has accountable to some people, and they don’t want to have to field constant complaints that they don’t refer to Bill Clinton and serial-philanderer-alleged-rapist-Whitewater-real-estate fraudster, Bill Clinton. That person could have been fretting over the NYT not saying lots of negative things about Pelosi or John Edwards, and the reality would be the same: that’s the spoiled, self-centered, whining complaint of someone who doesn’t have to operate in the real world. That’s not how any newspaper-not even the New York Times-can afford to editorialize in every report about every thing. There’s not enough room in the paper to give a paragraph of background information on every person mentioned in the story, and it’s bad writing to do it when that background is irrelevant.
I thought KOS had officially jumped the media shark when Moulitsas book comparing Conservatives to Islamic terrorists was widely panned by pretty much everyone. I’m still stunned that he managed to get kicked off of MSNBC permanently.
The real answer Lee is that we have pretty thick skin when it comes to these dirt bags this isn’t anything new. We expect them to angrily lie and hate that’s all they’re capable of. It’s all they’ve ever been capable of. This is just another in a long line of smears. The truth is our weapon as it comes out more and more they’re forced to scrub more and more of their web site.
If people are just now discovering that MarKos and his merrye crewe are a bunch of assholes, I’m amazed. They haven’t exactly been hiding this fact for a number of year.
Just the other day Markos refused to edit out the names of two minors who ended up being dragged into la affair Weiner:
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/06/03/daily-kos-founder-refused-to-protect-identity-of-underage-girls/