Yevetha
Commodore
http://abcnews.go.com/US/andrew-breitbart-publisher-author-dead/story?id=15824337
Personally i think he was a scumbag.
Personally i think he was a scumbag.
A. Breitbart Is Dead
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43 is too young to die.
But, yeah, whenever I heard him talk I wanted to kick my television.
But, yeah, whenever I heard him talk I wanted to kick my television.
Sad for his family.
Other than that, he won't be remembered for more than a week.
Other than that, he won't be remembered for more than a week.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. If only he'd taken his little protegee James O'Keefe with him. All good things......
That is WAY too young. I don't think making rude comments in a thread about someone who has died is nice, though. You never know who has family members or friends on an Internet forum who could see it and who would be very hurt by those remarks.
I don't "rejoice" in the death of anyone short of a Bin Laden or a mass murderer, but Breitbart was a total scumbag. He was a liar, a cheat, he ruined people's lives and cost people their jobs, and he lowered political discourse in his own country just to make a buck.
If his family wasn't ashamed by that, I don't think what a few people write on a Star Trek board are going to phase them. I certainly won't shed tears.
If his family wasn't ashamed by that, I don't think what a few people write on a Star Trek board are going to phase them. I certainly won't shed tears.
Yevetha
Commodore
Oh come on, breibart was a rude intelectual bully.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o&feature=player_embedded
This is the real him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o&feature=player_embedded
This is the real him.
As someone said, good riddance. Was a piece of lying human excrement. His dropping dead is almost enough to make me believe in a god. Now if Limbaugh and Savage follow him, we can have the right-wing asshole trifecta.
If I have no respect for a lying scumbag when he's alive, why would I have respect for a lying scumbag when he's dead? That makes no sense whatsoever.
Yevetha
Commodore
I don't know much about this guy, but my thoughts do go to his family. Like him or not, it sucks losing anyone, let alone at that age.
Even Seth MacFarlane tweeted that he was a nice guy to go have a drink with. He was pro gay marriage, pro marijuana legalization, and wanted the Republican party to really make an effort to extend its hand out to the black community. He was one person doing his best to try to address the fundamental issue of corruption in this country, and he wasn't one of the polished pundits like an O'Reilly or Olbermann. He seemed like a genuinely nice person. I can't imagine what his family must be going through right now, or his friends. It's also kind of sad that people think he's a scumbag simply due to his controversiality... Politics is only one part of a person's life.
Also I've seen some people wonder about the "having to say nice things about someone who died" thing, and I guess I just fall under the opinion of "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
Also I've seen some people wonder about the "having to say nice things about someone who died" thing, and I guess I just fall under the opinion of "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
Explained below. If you can't see that point, then I'm sorry for you.
As far as Breitbart himself, I do not think the man was evil or anything like that. Loud and hellbent on accomplishing whatever he was trying to do? Yeah, but not evil.
Screwing over Shirlie Sherrod with a manufactured pile of outright lies enhanced by selective editing was hardly extending a hand to the black community.
Manufacturing a bunch of lies about ACORN, whose mission it was to help urban, innercity families and homeowners was hardly extending a hand to the black community.
I enjoy MacFarlane's animation, but have no idea where he got the idea about "extending a hand to the black community". Unless he meant extending a hand to push the black community over a cliff.
Your assessment is based on the supposition that everything he said was a lie. And clarification: MacFarlane was simply talking about his quality as a person, specifically saying "all politics aside." Everyone who knew him, even those who disagreed with him, liked him. I think that counts for something, at least enough to get the benefit of a doubt from people who've probably never even read anything he wrote.
