Stunned. That was how I felt this morning when after reading that Andrew Breitbart was dead. He was so courageous it's hard to imagine how anything could bring him down. But I guess a bum ticker can lay out even the bravest of men.
It was such a delight to hear Breitbart debate his opponents. They just couldn't win. Little wonder the left is cheering his demise.
Most people have heard his story -- I heard him tell it on a podcast now lost in the world wide web. He was a typical lefty when he grew up in Los Angeles. But attending Tulane University in New Orleans he came to realize that those Southerners the lefties always ridiculed weren't the bigoted yahoos the lefties portrayed them as. When he returned to LA and tried to enlighten his friends, they closed their minds and rewarded him with ostracism.
Among his accomplishments was a stint at the Drudge Report which he left to start the Huffington Post. But the accomplishments for which he'll be most remembered is the website BigGovernment.com and its spinoffs. BigGovernment.com was where the videos of James O'Keefe and Hanna Giles exposed the Acorn organization to sunlight as O'Keefe and Giles pretended to be a pimp and hooker applying for help setting up a brothel with underage girls. Hilarity ensued.
A guy like Breitbart doesn't come along very often, and we should be grateful to have had him while we did. So here's a solitary blogger's salute to a brave man. Adios Andrew. We'll miss you. Thanks for setting such a good example for the rest of us.
So you think Breitbart was a hero? That is just sad and pathetic. And, no, I'm not a liberal, I have no dogma whatsoever, but I know a con artist when I see one.
Posted by: Loye | March 23, 2012 at 04:31 AM