Andrew Breitbart dies of "natural causes"

[hi_im_god]

in a similar vein, did anyone notice that joe arpaio has concluded that he can't rule out obama's long form was faked?

I wonder what it's like living inside that kind of insanity bubble. i imagine it's cramped and smells like cat pee but who knows?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

in a similar vein, did anyone notice that joe arpaio has concluded that he can't rule out obama's long form was faked?

I wonder what it's like living inside that kind of insanity bubble. i imagine it's cramped and smells like cat pee but who knows?

idiocy. he's one of many out there who just know, KNOW, it's all a big conspiracy. sad and ridiculous.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

in a similar vein, did anyone notice that joe arpaio has concluded that he can't rule out obama's long form was faked?

I wonder what it's like living inside that kind of insanity bubble. i imagine it's cramped and smells like cat pee but who knows?

Don't knock Joe's 90-minute-press conference to reveal newfound info regarding Obama's birth certificate, that didn't reveal any suddenly found new results other than the same old half-azzed conspiracy craziness. He's personally forcing Arizona into the Dem column. Just say, "Thanks, Sherrif Joe! - keep up the crazy, dude!"

[Danzig]

coroner says it was heart failure.

[Rupert Pupkin]

I was reading some of the earlier posts in this thread. Breitbart was no worse than anyone else. It is extremely common in politics for someone to make a person look bad by quoting something that that person once said. You go over a person's speeches and find something they said that was stupid. This happens every day. And when this happens, the attack article almost never has the whole speech. They just have the inflammatory quote. So often times the quote is taken out of context.

The incident that Breitbart is criticized for the most is the Shirley Sherrod story. In this story, he did nothing worse than what is done every single day by left-wing journalists, right-wing journalists, mainstream journalists, and practically all political operatives. It wasn't like he only played a 10 second clip of her speech. He played at least 45 seconds of her speech. She said what she said. It sounded pretty bad. But if you listened to the whole speech, it didn't sound nearly as bad.

Playing the most inflammatory part of a speech is hardly unusual. This is done every day. This hardly makes Breitbart some sort of evil villain like many of you make him out to be.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I was reading some of the earlier posts in this thread. Breitbart was no worse than anyone else. It is extremely common in politics for someone to make a person look bad by quoting something that that person once said. You go over a person's speeches and find something they said that was stupid. This happens every day. And when this happens, the attack article almost never has the whole speech. They just have the inflammatory quote. So often times the quote is taken out of context.

The incident that Breitbart is criticized for the most is the Shirley Sherrod story. In this story, he did nothing worse than what is done every single day by left-wing journalists, right-wing journalists, mainstream journalists, and practically all political operatives. It wasn't like he only played a 10 second clip of her speech. He played at least 45 seconds of her speech. She said what she said. It sounded pretty bad. But if you listened to the whole speech, it didn't sound nearly as bad.

Playing the most inflammatory part of a speech is hardly unusual. This is done every day. This hardly makes Breitbart some sort of evil villain like many of you make him out to be.

Nonsense. Breitbart lied and edited the video to make Sherrod sound racist, when the complete opposite was true. He was lying scum. He cost her her reputation and job before his fraud was revealed. And no, "everybody" in media doesn't do that. He financed other fraud with his financing of James O'Keefe and the faked, falsely edited "ACORN does prostitutes" lies that unfairly ruined that organization via his lies. Normally lying to Congress is an offense. Not for Breitbart.

Breitbart cost many people their jobs and livelihoods by his lies and fraud for his own personal political goals and gain. Good riddance.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Nonsense. Breitbart lied and edited the video to make Sherrod sound racist, when the complete opposite was true. He was lying scum. He cost her her reputation and job before his fraud was revealed. And no, "everybody" in media doesn't do that. He financed other fraud with his financing of James O'Keefe and the faked, falsely edited "ACORN does prostitutes" lies that unfairly ruined that organization via his lies. Normally lying to Congress is an offense. Not for Breitbart.

Breitbart cost many people their jobs and livelihoods by his lies and fraud for his own personal political goals and gain. Good riddance.

Your characterization of the Sherrod incident is 100% false. There was nothing "edited". Brietbart simply played a portion of her speech. You use all these words such as "lies" and "fraud". There were no lies and there was no fraud.

The media plays portions of people's speeches every day.

Here is a more accurate description of what actually happened:

"The video clip was posted by right-wing blogger and Tea Party supporter Andrew Breitbart. In it, Sherrod seemingly tells a group she did not help a white farmer as much as she could have more than twenty years ago."

"But missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was a lesson in overcoming racial prejudices. Sherrod tells the crowd that she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer."

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010...sack-tea-party

Breitbart didn't lie. He played about 45 seconds of the video that had been sent to him. He didn't play the whole thing. That is not unusual. That is done every day.

I don't know if you're trying to BS me or what. You can't BS me because I saw the video of Sherrod's whole speech and I saw the part of her speech that Breitbart posted. There was no editing done. He simply didn't play the whole speech.

Here is an excerpt of Shirley Sherrod's speech. Here are her exact words. I'm not "lying". I'm not "editing". I am simply posting a portion of her speech.

"And young people: I just want you to know that when you're true to what God wants you to do the path just opens up -- and things just come to you, you know. God is good -- I can tell you that.

When I made that commitment, I was making that commitment to black people -- and to black people only. But, you know, God will show you things and He'll put things in your path so that -- that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people, you know.

The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he -- he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. What he didn't know -- while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me -- was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him.

I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough so that when he -- I -- I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the -- or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him.

So I took him to a white lawyer that we had -- that had...attended some of the training that we had provided, 'cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him.

That's when it was revealed to me that, y'all, it's about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white -- it is about white and black, but it's not -- you know, it opened my eyes, 'cause I took him to one of his own and I put him in his hand, and felt okay, I've done my job. But, during that time we would have these injunctions against the Department of Agriculture and -- so, they couldn't foreclose on him. And I want you to know that the county supervisor had done something to him that I have not seen yet that they've done to any other farmer, black or white. And what they did to him caused him to not be able to file Chapter 12 bankruptcy."

I think different people would have different reactions to her speech. Some people would think it was reprehensible that she was so prejudice at one time. Other people would commend her for overcoming her prejudice.

Here is a transcript of the entire speech:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...acpfreedom.htm

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Your characterization of the Sherrod incident is 100% false. There was nothing "edited". Brietbart simply played a portion of her speech.

Baloney. Breitbart deliberately edited that video - by not playing all the relevant parts - to deliberately change her meaning, and cost her her reputation and her job. I heard it. He lied to make Shirley Sherrod seem racist, on purpose, when her words revealed she was anything but.

Breitbart financed James O'Keefe, and his edited lies about ACORN, costing that organization it's existence and people their jobs.

You can try to justify Breitbart's deliberate lies and destruction of innocent people's lives for his political goals, but thanks, I'm not buying. His screaming drunkenly at the Occupy protesters pretty well outlines what he became in his profession at the end.

It has nothing to do with his politics, or "leftist sites", and everything to do with Breitbarts repeated public display of his lack of ethics and morals. He cost innocent bystanders their reputations and jobs just so he can make a splash on his media site. You can miss his contribution to the political scene. I sure don't. Good riddance.

And btw: George Zimmerman has given varying and different accounts to the police of what happened when he killed Trayvon Martin. That's called "lying", too.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Riot

Nonsense. Breitbart lied and edited the video to make Sherrod sound racist, when the complete opposite was true. He was lying scum. He cost her her reputation and job before his fraud was revealed. And no, "everybody" in media doesn't do that. He financed other fraud with his financing of James O'Keefe and the faked, falsely edited "ACORN does prostitutes" lies that unfairly ruined that organization via his lies. Normally lying to Congress is an offense. Not for Breitbart.

Breitbart cost many people their jobs and livelihoods by his lies and fraud for his own personal political goals and gain. Good riddance.

There were several liberals out there who knew Andrew Breitbart very well. Lawrence O'Donnell did a whole segment about Breitbart. The opinion of liberals who knew him was totally different from your opinion. Maybe you should consider the opinions of people who knew him, rather than listening to the half-truths that some leftist sites say about him. Here is Lawrence O'Donnell's segment on him:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-...irley-sherrod/

I assume you know that Breitbart helped launch the Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington has nothing but good things to say about him. If he was such a "liar" and so "unethical" and all these things, I highly doubt all these people would have worked with him and been friends with him.

He was a passionate conservative. Just because he had a different opinion than you on most issues, that doesn't make him a "liar". You have a horrible habit of calling people "liar", even when you have no evidence of them lying. If you don' like a person, they are automatically a "liar".

Let me quote you on George Zimmerman. This is from post #146 in the Trayvon Martin thread. Here is what you said about Zimmerman: "He's a ****ing liar, and he needs to be brought to justice."

You have no evidence that Zimmerman is a liar. You have zero evidence. Could Zimmerman be a liar? Yes, he could be. Anything is possible. I personally like to wait until I have have some proof before I call someone a "liar". But that's just me. Call me nutty.