Thursday, April 19, 2012

Why the Era May Be Over for Blowhard Right-Wing Extremists

Hey Tammy

He's still on the air

More listeners than ever

Maybe if you went to Florida and doused yourself in gasoline and lit yourself on his block it would bring attention to his nefarious plans?

On Thursday, March 8, 2012, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is hilarious!
>
>
> Rush Limbaugh's ratings are tanking!   Yes, Andrew Brietbart's legacy
> of hatred and division continues,
> stronger than ever!
>
>
> The rush to the march of the GOP lemming-sheeple off the cliff into
> the trash bin of History is approaching, Grand Old Little
> Kiethie......You,
> and folks like this daffy goofy dead wingnut Andrew Brietbart are so
> out of touch with America and the American people,  it's actually
> funny!
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2:59 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is hilarious!
>>
>> Rush Limbaugh's ratings are soaring!   Andrew Brietbart's legacy continues,
>> stronger than ever!
>>
>> The rush to the march to utopia is coming to a close Lil' Tommy......You,
>> and folks like this daffy goofy shrew Leslie Savan are so out of touch with
>> America and the American people,  it's actually funny!
>>
>> P.S.: Leslie Savan is who wrote the nonsense above, that Lil' Tommy cut and
>> pasted.....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "Andrew Breitbart's death resonates because it happened now, just as
>> > the right's artillery of outrage seems to blowing up in their faces.
>> > And that may be his real legacy."
>>
>> > Why the Era May Be Over for Blowhard Right-Wing Extremists
>>
>> > The death of Andrew Breitbart and the impending doom of Rush
>> > Limbaugh's career may have prefigured something about the future of
>> > right-wing extremism.
>>
>> > March 5, 2012  |
>>
>> > Even before we saw the below clip of Andrew Breitbart screaming
>> > "BeHAAAVE yourself! BeHAAAVE yourself!" at Occupy protestors outside
>> > the CPAC conference last month, that's how many of us saw Andrew
>> > Breitbart: red-faced, veins popping, eyes like pinwheels as he leans
>> > forward (and not in the MSNBC sense) to spew barely coherent rants
>> > like, "You're freaks and animals!" "Stop raping people! Stop raping
>> > people!" "You freaks! You filthy freaks! You filthy, filthy, filthy
>> > raping, murdering freaks!"
>>
>> > True, he wasn't all exclamation points all the time, but Breitbart,
>> > the conservative blogger/impressario who died Thursday at age 43, had
>> > come to represent the tantrum at the heart of the right wing.
>>
>> > That tantrum will not die with him, but his death—coming within hours
>> > of Rush Limbaugh's "slut" tantrum that he later (and barely)
>> > apologized for—may have prefigured something about the future of
>> > hyperventilating right-wing extremism.
>>
>> > This is not to dance on Breitbart's grave, as many on the right have
>> > been attacking the left for doing (and I say that not just because I
>> > don't want to go through what Matt Taibbi is right now). It doesn't
>> > really matter that Breitbart himself danced on Ted Kennedy's grave
>> > within minutes of his passing, either. No, I actually found
>> > Breitbart's death shocking and strangely resonant. And I wonder if the
>> > hysteria you can see in his eyes in that clip doesn't come from
>> > righteous anger alone but also from a sense of impending doom—and if
>> > something similar doesn't explain the ugly, self-destructive rage
>> > that's been bursting out on the right ever since the election of
>> > Barack Obama.
>>
>> > After all, in the coming months, Breitbart was facing a lawsuit from
>> > former USDA official Shirley Sherrod that he well might have lost.
>> > Sherrod was fired from her job after Breitbart posted a heavily edited
>> > tape of her speaking to the NAACP that made it seem as if she had
>> > treated white farmers with "reverse racism," when in fact the rest of
>> > the speech proved she was actually urging her audience to overcome
>> > such feelings. The suit was sure to win exhaustive coverage and,
>> > whatever its outcome, would almost certainly have left Breitbart's
>> > reputation (such as it was) in tatters and his wallet lighter.
>>
>> > If he had lost the suit and had to pay damages to a civil rights
>> > figure for defamation, he would have found his tweets less trusted and
>> > his websites less believed. For many people, a conviction would have
>> > also shown how dishonest the ACORN videotapes, made by his protégé
>> > James O'Keefe had been all along. The destruction of ACORN is still
>> > Breitbart's greatest media victory (if you don't count destroying
>> > Anthony Weiner, who was headed that way anyhow and just happened to
>> > use Breitbart as his weapon of accidental, career suicide). And in
>> > that atmosphere, who would take seriously the mystery videos that
>> > Breitbartannounced at CPAC would prove that Obama's presidency was
>> > "plotted" long ago in the "salon" of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn?
>>
>> > Breitbart's death doesn't shut down the Sherrod lawsuit; it is likely
>> > to continue against his estate and his aide Larry O'Connor (also named
>> > as a defendant), unless Sherrod drops it. Sherrod hasn't said what
>> > she'll do, but she did issue a graceful if brief statement on
>> > Breitbart's death: "My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart's family as
>> > they cope during this very difficult time. I do not intend to make any
>> > further comments."
>>
>> > Obviously, Breitbart was under a lot of p> >http://www.alternet.org/story/154422/why_the_era_may_be_over_for_blow...
>>
>> > --
>> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> > Have a great day,
>> > Tommy
>>
>> > --
>> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> > Have a great day,
>> > Tommy
>>
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