Comments on: Update III: Remember Andrew Breitbart; Forget Honky Hater Shirley Sherrod (Tease Journalism?)

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:47:42 +0000

When my co-worker called me yesterday to tell me about Breibarts death, we both talked about the possibility of him being murdered. I doubt he was, we were just thinking out loud.

By: sunny black

sunny black — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:00:53 +0000

I think it would be problematic to place Breitbart anywhere on the map with regards to his political bent (i.e. to call him a neocon). His field of battle — where he thrived most — was taking on the (leftist) media hypocrisy. That’s where he excelled.

He was a reformed leftist. He brushed up against the Reason crowd, but at the end of the day I suspect he felt comfortable as a GOP-supporting conservative (a little too comfortable with the (R)’s for my tastes). But, as I said, talking policy was never really his thing.

[A fair assessment.]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:31:57 +0000

Rest in the Angel’s arms Mr. Breitbart, you will be missed.

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:38:20 +0000

A neo-con, but best of the lot by far. Breitbart subbed for Dennis Miller a few times lately, and I always liked what he said; he was at his best taping the lies and hypocrisies of the Left. Also a great anti-lib activist, as witness his takedown of the Weiner. Breitbart will be hard to replace, and will always be missed by those of us on the Right.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:21:42 +0000

Partisan Republican white hack (journalist) takes on partisan Democratic black hack. Admittedly, Breitbart did not suck up taxpayer money while Sherrod lived off the taxpayers…. – but sadly this is the state of politics of the 21st Century.

I recall a very intelligent comment (on a slightly different matter in 2004) – which went something like “our republic has progressed from Adams vs. Jefferson to Eisenhower vs. Stevenson to Kerry vs. Bush – what’s next?”

As for the racist or non-racist Sherrods, why does the US need a Department of Agriculture (did Americans not eat before Abe Lincoln established the Department??).

[See Post Update.]

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:13:18 +0000

It should be remembered that the Sherrod imbroglio, and Sherrod’s entire career at the USDA in fact, was an outgrowth of the Pigford v. Vilsack settlement, one of the biggest, in dollar amounts, racial shakedowns of recent years. The white farmer’s failing was not to have recognized in our contemporary racial order which animals are more equal than the others.