The Rush to Join Breitbart
The news of the death of right wing agitator and serial liar, Andrew Breitbart, made me happy, like getting an unexpected gift and I am not ashamed to admit it. Breitbart reveled in death. He celebrated other people's misery. He slandered the dead before they were embalmed and he didn't give a whit whether their families heard about his vile comments, in fact, he probably enjoyed thinking about how what he said would compound their grief. He seemed angry every time he was captured on film, always on the verge of violence against those with whom he disagreed. Why should I mourn a bully bastard like that? The truth is, I don't. I am glad he is gone and the world will no longer have to be exposed to his hatred.
The worst part about "Andy" is that I think he did what he did mostly for financial gain. He profited from ruining other people's lives. I say mostly because, while money must have been a huge motivating factor, he seemed to receive actual joy from causing misery. Nothing made him light up more than inflicting damage to the famous , or more reprehensibly,the innocent bystanders he ruined to further his political agenda. Just ask Shirley Sherrod.
Yeah, he was a father and a husband but so was Ted Kennedy, who Breitbart referred to as a "a special pile of human excrement," "a prick," and stated that Kennedy should "rest in Chappaquidick" a day after his death. He also mocked Michael Jackson's funeral in real time via his electronic baseball bat, twitter. So forgive me if I don't feel his untimely death is due any more reverence or solemnity.
The folks who decry the same treatment he dished out lost their right to shocked outrage when they sat by and did nothing or even cheered his hurtful comments towards others in the same situation. The river they cry now is sucked into the parched desert of their own hypocrisy.
We've been taught to cheer the end of bad guys, monsters and villains. It's as American as houses dropped from the sky, predator drone attacks and the lethal injection.
I believe Breitbart's anger and unquenchable hate helped to end his life early, at least I hope there was some sort of Karmic quickening at work. If there is, recent days must be stomping the sands through another hate filled, overweight, right wing media buffoon's hourglass. And as a another wicked person once said, "That's how much longer you've got to be alive. And it isn't long, my pretty. It isn't long."
Ding dong indeed.
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