Republican Primaries

[DrRuffleburg]

A lot to agree with in the above, but that applies for the people who stand to benefit. I understand why people vote in their economic self-interest, and why people vote based on their prinicples, and why people in their minds demonize their opponents. But is there a corresponding case of a media personality on the left dying, followed by many people (a least a few of whom are mainstream journalists) writing hateful things? I recall Pat Robertson making some pretty far out comments, but I don't really listen to anything he has to say, so maybe I have a selective filter.

From what I understand the left really fucking hated breitbart, aparently there is a documentary comming out about breitbart titled "Hating Breitbart" (trailer). I guess he really mainstreamed this idea of the liberal media, he was directly attacking and exposing them, and I guess when thier worst enemy dies it gives them cause to celebrate.

[JM3]

A lot to agree with in the above, but that applies for the people who stand to benefit. I understand why people vote in their economic self-interest, and why people vote based on their prinicples, and why people in their minds demonize their opponents. But is there a corresponding case of a media personality on the left dying, followed by many people (a least a few of whom are mainstream journalists) writing hateful things? I recall Pat Robertson making some pretty far out comments, but I don't really listen to anything he has to say, so maybe I have a selective filter.

Im trying to think of a prominent liberal media figure who has died recently and drawing a blank. Anyone in mind Dr Who?

[tertius]

Can someone explain to me the hatred that comes out of the left?


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...DDLETopOpinion

I don't get how that question and that link go together. However, I'll hazard an answer anyway: There are humans involved. The end.

[tertius]

A lot to agree with in the above, but that applies for the people who stand to benefit. I understand why people vote in their economic self-interest, and why people vote based on their prinicples, and why people in their minds demonize their opponents. But is there a corresponding case of a media personality on the left dying, followed by many people (a least a few of whom are mainstream journalists) writing hateful things? I recall Pat Robertson making some pretty far out comments, but I don't really listen to anything he has to say, so maybe I have a selective filter.

For the record, Breitbart was a vicious douche. He himself said a bunch of rather unkind things about Ted Kennedy shortly after Kennedy's death, i recall. Nor was he a particularly ethical guy. He was a propagandist and a "Culture Warrior" and a divisive figure. When that sort of person dies, lots of people are going to piss on the grave. After Hitch died, there was plenty of mixed commentary about him.

[DoctorWho]

For the record, Breitbart was a vicious douche. He himself said a bunch of rather unkind things about Ted Kennedy shortly after Kennedy's death, i recall. Nor was he a particularly ethical guy. He was a propagandist and a "Culture Warrior" and a divisive figure. When that sort of person dies, lots of people are going to piss on the grave. After Hitch died, there was plenty of mixed commentary about him.

Maybe. Hitchens isn't a perfect analogy only because he alienated people all over the spectrum. I didn't know about the Kennedy quotes, which to my mind were out of bounds. Otherwise, I loved the guy for his combativeness.

Another similarity between Brietbart and Hitchens: both said bad things upon the death of someone else. In Hitchens case, about Falwell (google it yourself) ( Falwell is dead?).

[DoctorWho]

I don't get how that question and that link go together.

As for the impotent rage, it has not stopped with Breitbart's death. Charlie Sperling of the Washington Examiner reports on some of the lefty dyslogies on Twitter, starting with a relatively tame tweet from Slate's Matthew Yglesias: "Conventions around dead people are ridiculous. The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead."

Over at DailyKos.com, one "Misteropus1" rants: "He was a piece of sh--. Period. Just because he is now dead does not change that fact. At all. . . . He deserves no respect, not while he's living and certainly not in his afterlife." Later Mr. O sort of apologizes to Breitbart's widow and four children, but adds: "Nevertheless, I still feel strongly about how I feel (obviously)."

Over at Esquire Mark Warren has a moment of restraint: "Terrible news, about Andrew Breitbart, who himself could be terrible. No wife, nor any child, deserves such horrendous news. Four kids will grow up without a father, and that is probably the only thing worth saying today." But he is not even circumspect enough to realize that if you are going to write "that is probably the only thing worth saying today," you should stop there.

Breitbart, Alinskyite to the end, took this sort of thing with great good humor. We followed him on Twitter, where he was constantly retweeting hate tweets. If dead men could use social media, this would be one of the busiest days of Breitbart's afterlife.

Instead, it is left to the Daily Caller's "Jim" "Treacher" to retweet the posthumous hate. Warning: The language is often obscene and the rhetoric hateful. If that offends your sensibilities, don't click through. But if, like us, you appreciated Breitbart's ability to drive his detractors crazy, you will find the Treacher retweets oddly comforting.

[BryanM]

If the media were "liberal" Santorum would be pixelated on TV and his voice bleeped out.

My favorite event this cycle was when Ron said "we shouldn't do to other countries what we wouldn't want done to ourselves" and got booed for it.

Robertson claims on his web site that through training and his "Age-Defying energy shake", he is able to leg press 2,000 lb (907 kg) while others claim he is a liar, pushing a common energy formula.[52] Two-thousand pounds would be an exceptional accomplishment for a world-class athlete, to say nothing of Robertson, then in his seventies. For comparative purposes, when Dan Kendra set the Florida State University record of 1,335 lb (606 kg), the leg press machine required extensive modifications to hold the proper amount of weight, and the capillaries in both of Kendra's eyes burst during his successful attempt.[53] Thus, Robertson's claimed achievement would add 665 lb (302 kg) to the best-ever total of Kendra, a top athlete in his physical prime, who later played in the National Football League and tried unsuccessfully to become a Navy SEAL.

[DrRuffleburg]

If the media were "liberal" Santorum would be pixelated on TV and his voice bleeped out.

Are you kidding, the liberal media LOVES santorum, he is a living, breathing, caricature of the rupublican party.

My favorite event this cycle was when Ron said "we shouldn't do to other countries what we wouldn't want done to ourselves" and got booed for it.

if by favorite you mean most depressing I think it was like a third of the people in south carolina want to outlaw interracial marriage...

[bowdirk]

Are you kidding, the liberal media LOVES santorum, he is a living, breathing, caricature of the rupublican party.

He used to be a caricature of the Republican Party at it's most extreme.

But now he is just a 'regular' Republican, just like Romney.

The Republican Party of today is far different than what it has been in the past. Radical is the word.

[solfish]

Hitchens isn't a perfect analogy only because he alienated people all over the spectrum.

Hitchens isn't a good analogy because his idea of combativeness was writing bilious essays about how stupid and wrong his opponents were while Breitbart's idea of combativeness was literally screaming that his opponents were rapists over and over again.