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The Spectacle Blog
Last night, I took Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone to task for delighting in the death of Andrew Breitbart.
Well, this morning Clark Stooksbury of The American Conservative (which these days is neither particularly American nor conservative in its outlook) rushed to the defense of Taibbi. Stooksbury complains, “He quotes the nasty part of Taibbi’s obit but leaves out all of the nice parts and whines about how mean liberals are to conservatives.”
Let me remind you how Taibbi paid “tribute” to Breitbart:
Good! F#*k him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.
Once Taibbi unleashed that out of the bag what the hell else was there for him to say? What “nice parts” could he have possibly added?
Imagine if someone delivering a eulogy said, “This rotten bastard deserved to die. The only reason I am here to see that his coffin is lowered.” Unless that person was John Cleese paying homage to Graham Chapman, the eulogizer couldn’t very well go on to say the dearly departed was kind to children and small furry animals, now could he? Needless to say, Taibbi is no John Cleese.
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Con Chef (NB) | 3.2.12 @ 10:01AM
Geez. No one can even insult with class anymore. There are 2 quotes I can think of that convey shadenfreude about people's deaths that are WAY better:
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many an obituary with great satisfaction."...Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved."...Mark Twain
Liberals are so unbelieveable childish. They can't even come up with stuff HALF this good. There again proving the adage that liberalism IS perpetual childhood.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.12 @ 11:16AM
The Cleese/Chapman bit is a classic. A wonderful bit of very good friends taking the piss. (You can be sure Chapman would have approved.)
Jim Woodward| 3.2.12 @ 10:21AM
Con Chef,
I just don't think you understand.
Without F*** and other four letter nasties, Liberals are simply unable to converse. The examples you provide are the products of a thought process; something seriously lacking in Liberals.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.2.12 @ 10:34AM
Given my former profession as a chef & the fact that my Dad was a Navy man, I'm a regular Picasso of Profanity. But "F**k him" is about as 4th grade as it gets.
Bob K.| 3.2.12 @ 10:48AM
This issue reminds me of the old joke about a mean bully, a real SOB who lived in a small town who was hated by everyone. When he died the Preacher said a few words over him at the services. He then asked if some of the few people who attended the services wanted to say something good about the deceased.
There was stone silence. The preacher asked again: "Couldn't anybody say anything nice about the deceased?" Still silence.
Finally somebody in the rear raised his hand and said: "His brother was even worse!"
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 11:02AM
Mark Antony,
" I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones "
William R| 3.2.12 @ 11:17AM
Goldstein keeps confusing Israel with America. The American Conservative is pro-America and conservative. Goldstein is Pro Israel anti American
Mike Walsh| 3.2.12 @ 12:59PM
Thanks for reminding us how the loony left and the loony right find common cause in the perennial enemy of all mankind. One wonders, what would the bastard child of Rolling Stone and The American Conservative look like?
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 2:31PM
Thanks for reminding us how the Israel Firster Smear Bund is a Group Of Neo-Chickenhawk RINO-CINO Boat People. One wonders, what would the bastard child of Bibi and Yo Mama looks Like, Israel Firster Asshat, Micky.
Derek Leaberry| 3.2.12 @ 1:03PM
Goldstein is also strongly pro-homosexual and, I believe, pro-death on abortion. At least his tendencies are socially liberal and anti-conservative.
Screwtape| 3.2.12 @ 11:24AM
Of course Tel Aviv Aaron goes after the American Conservative...it is not a NeoCon rag that promotes the interests of Israel First. Also Aaron is pissed because Stooksbury called him an incompetent reader. So Taibbi attacks Breitbart and Tel Aviv Aaron attacks Stooksbury. Which is worse? Conservatives are just as nasty when libs die. As Breitbart demonstrated by dancing on Kennedy's grave. Hypocrites.
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 12:06PM
The Israel Firster Smear Bund Bibi Woo Girls Lost One Of Their Neo-Chickenhawks.
Gentlemen, A Moment Of Silence.
O.K. , Now, What's For Lunch.
Koozebane| 3.2.12 @ 12:17PM
Actually, I believe Andrew just wanted to hear leftists mindlessly defend a murderer and a treasonous back-stabber one last time. Which they did grandly with much indignant fury.
It seems leftists never could resist any of Andrew's readily apparent intellectual snares.
And thus, the real reason behind their childish misbehaving over his sudden passing. He never failed to outfox them. Not once.
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 3:06PM
He doesn't have to be an "Israel Firster", a racist, lib-tard expression if I ever heard one, to be a typical commie-lib. I don't think I have ever seen a more appropriate handle for a commenter.
martin j smith| 3.2.12 @ 11:31AM
Aaron,Oh Aaron you do not get it. I am going to cry. Oh well-moving on-Let me try to splain; The entire Socvialist LEFT is a hatefilled organization that feeds on hating their opposition. That would be YOU Aaron and me. I will pray daily that one day you wake up and "get it". Its really not that they care one way or another--they would sell their mother and fathers down the river if it was needed. The point is they are a cult and this is their bumper sticker which in tern is propaganda. Do you get it Aaron ?
Ralph Gizzip| 3.2.12 @ 12:04PM
Perhaps Aaron should read Radical Son by David Horowitz. Or if he's already read it he should read it again. It lays out clearly the modus operandi of the Left written by someone who was there.
Derek Leaberry| 3.2.12 @ 1:01PM
From a brief scan of Tabibi's obituary, if that is what you call his vulgar diatribe, and Stooksbury's even briefer response, it is apparent that both Tabibi and Andrew Brietbert were both very much at home in the sewer which is modern American culture. So be it.
Breitbart's focus on computer and popular culture, both stews of pointless You Tube videos and illiterate twitters, meant that he was as relevant to me as Lady Gaga, Oprah, Sean Penn and all the other swill. More important than Breitbart's rise in the rotten popular culture is that he leaves a widow and four young children. They deserve the prayers of any decent person for their hearts must be breaking. Breitbart's family was his greatest success in life. He will be missed by four little ones who couldn't care less about politics.
GreatOne| 3.2.12 @ 1:09PM
In reading Taibbi's column, it appeared he was trying to pay an homage, of sorts, to Breitbart - that Breitbart would find an excoriating tribute humorous, much like Cleese's eulogy of Chapman. However, it takes great skill to do that. Something Taibbi obviously lacks. Very poorly done; delete button should have been used.
Your Excellency| 3.2.12 @ 2:42PM
Goldstein has shown himself to be a man of little substance. Keep him on as the grim reaper.
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 2:59PM
Breitbart was a "good guy" but Rush is a "bad guy"..uh huh. Could someone please tell me how Breitbart was different than Rush, besides once upon a time being a rabid foaming at the mouth liberal, while Rush had nearly two decades of advance movement conservatism going back to Sacramento days when Brietbart was converted?
Your line of logic escapes me, in view of the Rush-hate inciting, Mr. Goldstein. Laughable, to say the least.
Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 3:02PM
That would be "advancing movement conservatism"...maybe Mr G. is covetous of Rush's 23+ MILLION audience. There is something about coveting in the big Ten Commandments if memory serves...
aware| 3.2.12 @ 3:16PM
"(which these days is neither particularly American nor conservative in its outlook)"
In other words, it isn't a nice little "house" conservative publication, shilling for the Warfare State, trying to sham its readers that big government Republicans are "conservative" and playing a Leftist rigged game by Leftist rigged rules?
At least the opinions at the American Conservative aren't lock step echo chamber neoconservatism.
Screwtape| 3.2.12 @ 8:26PM
Preach Brother! Weekly Standard, National Review, AmSpec, not one has a paleoconservative on staff. Only NeoCon chickenhawks need apply.
Upchuck| 3.3.12 @ 3:35PM
Ah, yes: you fascists do stick together regardless of where you're placed on the political spectrum, don't you? Screwtape, why don't you, Hezbollah, Stormfront, Lew Rockwell, the DNC, and CAIR just announce your big merger now? Everyone knows you traitors are all working for the same people anyway.
Screwtape| 3.20.12 @ 5:40PM
Go back to the Promised Land. You make me tired.
MyGirlFriday| 3.2.12 @ 3:16PM
What we have here is the difference between a very big man (Breitbart) and an ever so small man (Matt Taibbi).
Quartermaster| 3.2.12 @ 7:54PM
Taibbi has delusions of grandeur. He thought he was great when he was writing for "Exile" years ago. Now he thinks he can insult in a humorous way (and I have no doubt he was trying to be humorous), but face planted instead. He hasn't changed in the last 10 years.
Short version: the man is a douche bag.
I like TAC because it isn't a Neocon rag. But, just because they have a good political position doesn't mean they can't get things monumentally wrong. Unfortunately, the poster above that said that Brietbart was at home in the cultural mainstream sewer was all too correct.