Andrew Breitbart, Political Controversialist
At the Raccoon Inn, we covered the death of PC David Rathband.
But there was another sudden death yesterday – Andrew Breitbart, a US Conservative blogger-campaigner, who had worked for Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington in the past, before starting his own operation.
Breitbart was 43.
Others have done obituaries – such as The Huffington Post, and others are dancing on his grave.
I don’t usually follow American politics in great detail, but there was one incident I want to remember, and I’m a little surprised that no one has reposted the video.
This was when Senator Anthony Weiner had been tweeting pics of his gorgeous manhood to a young lady, as some do, using his personal twitter account (idiot, for that alone), and did it publicly by mistake. Breitbart caught the picture, and events lead to Weiner lying about what he’d done, then falling on his political sword.
How many British politicians have we seen embarrassed when they don’t put strong enough firewalls when they start using Twitter, to prevent them causing themselves unintended embarrassment?
Sion Simon, anyone?
Breitbart breezed into Weiner’s own press conference, and held court before the audience who were supposed to be listening to Weiner’s account.
Before that he had done more than his fare share of deception and political mugging., and I haven’t had a lot of time for Breitbart’s poke-’em-in-the eye political tactics, if necessary creating an artificial eye first, but this is brilliant opportunism.
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March 2, 2012 at 17:06 -
I’d never heard of this guy, but the Twitter comments were quite unreal ~ lefties really are just plain nasty.
(Also is it just me, but if a young bloke has a beard, he seems invariably to be a leftie).
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March 2, 2012 at 19:55 -
He was a conservative …
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March 3, 2012 at 10:47 -
Yes, but not young in the sense I meant it. I was talking about the bloke in the link to the abuse.
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March 3, 2012 at 09:29 -
Alas, I was not familiar with his work. He seems a decent guy from what I have read. Meanwhile “Weiner-Gate” was one of the funniest and most ironic stories for some time…
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March 4, 2012 at 01:47 -
Well… let’s see if Breibart’s Obama video makes it out eh?
Reputedly historical home movie showing POTUS hanging out with some fairly full on American domestic hard left revolutionary (Weathermen) types.
There’s also the nagging question – and it *is* a big question as to why some blithering idiot (or cunning media manipulator in POTUS’s staff) put a fake Obama birth certificate on the whitehouse.gov web site a week before UBL reputedly went to meet Allah. It was/is a fake – no doubt in my mind – I loaded the pdf into Adobe Suite (from whitehouse.gov) and there are 9 layers and multiple unmatched bitmaps – clumsy doesn’t get close.
Why doesn’t a stupid but well meaning White House intern fall on their sword or something?
It’s all rather odd. I believe in coincidence – really I do.
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