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The vermin of the left have been out in force with nastiness and viciousness about Andrew Breitbart since Breitbart’s death. We on the right have quite rightly taken offense. The left claims we do the same thing when a lefty dies. They can’t prove it. As for me, I can prove otherwise. I despised Ted Kennedy for all the reasons conservatives usually do. He never failed to take a demagogic cheap shot, to destroy reputations and thus destroy lives, when it suited his political needs. He also denounced me in person, once in a tirade on the floor of the Senate. Still, when he died, I did not write about everything wrong with Kennedy. I wrote this:
Decent people do not take potshots at others (unless the other is a Hitler or Stalin) in the 24 hours of the other’s death. I have never, literally never, written any good words about Ted Kennedy. But there was one time when I was impressed and in a weird way inspired by him. At the Democratic convention last year, when he willed himself out of the hospital, in a terribly weakened condition, to make what truly was a superbly written and even, despite his ailments, a well delivered speech in support of the man, Obama, who WOULD NOT have been about to be the nominee without Kennedy’s support, Kennedy’s speech — with its deliberate echoes of his 1980 convention speech, “the dream shall never die” — was a triumph of courage and commitment. Sitting in the convention hall covering it for the Washington Examiner, I literally got chill-bumps. In terms of valiance, it was like seeing Willis Reed hobble onto the court in the NBA finals against the Lakers, only to an even greater Nth degree.
In a reckless life spent pursuing the wrong goals through wrong and often vicious means, it was a magnificent moment of grace.
Some decent people on the left, such as Donna Brazile, said nice things about Breitbart yesterday, as I tried to do about Kennedy above. We should not overstate the case by painting all lefties with the same brush. But Lord, so many of them have been so vicious (check all sorts of Tweets and posts, too many of them to list here, for examples) that one wonders if there is some horrible sickness of the soul that infects the ideological precincts where they live.
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irmaladuce| 3.2.12 @ 4:47PM
"The left claims we do the same thing when a lefty dies. They can't prove it."
Brietbart called Ted Kennedy a pile of human excrement the day after Kennedy died.
So, there's some proof for you.
WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:33PM
Rush calls the left's victim of the week a "slut"...
Ted Kennedy drowns one and runs away...
And you are defending Ted Kennedy?
That's because all of you on the left are TRASH.
You are living proof about the left. I don't care what your people are saying about Breitbart...and he surely wouldn't either..
Conservative Not Republican| 3.3.12 @ 11:49AM
Are you defending that fat ass Rush?
Stan Redmond| 3.3.12 @ 4:36PM
I suggest listen to the Rush show on the days in question. It's hilarious how out of context the entire situation has been taken out of context.
WL| 3.3.12 @ 8:59PM
Are you defending that Fat, Drunk, Coward, run away from the drowning girl that he drove off the bridge lush?
Benager| 3.2.12 @ 4:58PM
Mr Hillyer,
When you die - may you lead a long and happy life, before that day comes - your political opponents should indeed follow your example.
When Mr Breitbart passed, suddenly, tragically and prematurely, many of his opponents couldn't help but recall his example, not more than 30 months ago (2,5 years, that is), on the occasion of the aforementioned Senator Ted Kennedy's passing. Mere hours after his death, Mr Breitbart compared him to human excrement, questioned his lineage and accused him of incest, all in much more common and course language than I care to use here.
I believe it was Mr Breitbart's eulogizing of the late senator and not yours, which brought on the uncouth reaction of the leftists you criticize for possessing dubious manners and poor taste.
DRed| 3.2.12 @ 5:12PM
Go read the comments on your own website about the 'slut' that spoke out about contraception. Or go to fox and read the comments to any article about Michelle Obama. I've got a newsflash, Quinn. Being hateful (especially on the internet) has no partisan bias.
Tom| 3.2.12 @ 5:31PM
Regardless of all the liberal whining and crying, a women who parades her promiscuity out in public is a slut.
Bravo, Rush!!!!
DRed| 3.2.12 @ 5:54PM
haha. And it took 19 minutes for some asshole to prove my point. Thank you, Tom. Quinn, can I get your thoughts on the hateful right?
Tom| 3.2.12 @ 6:50PM
It is only because of the warped and perverted principles of the Left that this evil and stupid little girl is now being made out to be some kind of heroine. If standing for standards of sexual decency is now regarded as being part of "the hateful right," then I will gladly oblige any left-wing scumbag such as yourself.
WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:36PM
He's right Tom...as for me...I hate every one of them, and when the day comes that we all just don't care whether they like it or not...we will finally defeat them. These leftists are a MENACE..and need to be ran out of this country...they won't like it...but they are nothing but a hoard of beggars...so if we just don't care if they like it or not...it will be easy.
Stan Redmond| 3.3.12 @ 4:39PM
Not only does she cry about her sex life... But expects everyone else to pay for her sexual supplies. Pathetic. How absolutely pathetic some girl testifies before the US congress about their sex lives. Just sad.
Seek| 3.5.12 @ 4:36PM
She wasn't crying about her sex life. She simply was pointing out that female reproductive system health problems are real -- you know, things like ovarian cysts. Somehow, Stan, I don't think you have to worry about female health. Maybe she does.
Seek| 3.5.12 @ 4:33PM
She didn't "parade" her promiscuity. Indeed, she made no mention of her sexual proclivities at all. Rush is an embarrassment to conservatism.
Clint| 3.2.12 @ 5:53PM
" In a stunning coincidence, It appears Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Around three weeks ago on February 9 during the ‘Blog Bash’ event in Washington DC, Breitbart made a prophetic comment that takes on a somewhat chilling nature given the fact that he died in the early hours of March 1st.
Speaking to Lawrence Sinclair of Sinclair News, Breitbart stated, “Wait til they see what happens March 1st.”
It’s almost certain that Breitbart was referring to his plan to release damning footage of President Obama that he had been promising to reveal throughout the month of February.
As we reported yesterday, Breitbart spoke of his intention to release the tape during his CPAC speech last month. The footage shows Obama in his college days appearing alongside former Weather Underground terrorists Bill and Bernardine Dohrn. Observers had speculated that the footage could have derailed Obama’s hopes for a second term.
“I’ve got video from his college days that show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008 – the videos are going to come out,” said Breitbart, adding that Obama would be vetted."
Oldefarte| 3.2.12 @ 9:41PM
Wait, was he possibly an ISRAEL FIRSTER perhaps, MEDIA MATTERS BOY???????
Clint| 3.3.12 @ 8:27AM
You Are, Shit Pants.
Call Bibi In The Mornin' Sugar Pockets.
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:34PM
No Clunt, what you are is a MEDIA MATTERS [MM originated the term 'Israel Firster' and thereafter has exclusively used it in its commentary; so therefore why are you also the one/only source that I'm aware of who constantly used that same phrase?; MM is politically directly associated with the Obama administration and his socialit administration so why are you also using this term to attack numerous bloggers here? ] FIRSTER!!!!!!!!!!
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:07AM
No RINO-CINO Romney Cunt, Fart Pants.
" Dr.Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Advisor, Michael Scheuer,former CIA Chief of The bin Laden Unit,
On Iran, The President should,
Speak to the American people and tell them to expect to be brutally propagandized by U.S. citizen Israel-Firsters through AIPAC, their ubiquitous media shills, and the men and women they own in the U.S. Congress and federal bureaucracy. Urge Americans to ignore this effort by U.S. Israel-Firsters to get them to send their soldier-children to fight in a religious war in which the U.S. has no genuine national interest at stake, and in which U.S. participation would further bankrupt the country, require the reintroduction of conscription, and put America at war with all of the Muslim world -- Shia and Sunni -- for the foreseeable future."
WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:39PM
CLINT!!!!
I usually hassle you...and will again in the future...but on this one...thank you for having the moxy to put it out there...
There are no coincidences...and this definitely wasn't the first real one.
I sure hope that people see this for what it is...
Highly suspicious.
Clint| 3.3.12 @ 10:38AM
I Have You Trained To Follow Me Around, Israel Firster, WL.
Now, Go Fetch My Newspaper.
WL| 3.3.12 @ 9:01PM
Media Matters and Racist Ron Paul Newspapers still deliver?
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:36PM
Amen, WL....see my above. Clunt's association with MM has now caused him to be forced out of his political closet. Maybe he's a Acorn Firster as well?????????
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:08AM
Once Again, No RINO-CINO Romney Cunt, Fart Pants.
" Dr.Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Advisor, Michael Scheuer,former CIA Chief of The bin Laden Unit,
On Iran, The President should,
Speak to the American people and tell them to expect to be brutally propagandized by U.S. citizen Israel-Firsters through AIPAC, their ubiquitous media shills, and the men and women they own in the U.S. Congress and federal bureaucracy. Urge Americans to ignore this effort by U.S. Israel-Firsters to get them to send their soldier-children to fight in a religious war in which the U.S. has no genuine national interest at stake, and in which U.S. participation would further bankrupt the country, require the reintroduction of conscription, and put America at war with all of the Muslim world -- Shia and Sunni -- for the foreseeable future."
Clint| 3.5.12 @ 7:12AM
You're An Israel Firster Smear Bund Buffoon, WL.
" Written By : Eric Dondero
Fmr. Senior Aide, US Cong. Ron Paul, 1997 – 2003
Campaign Coordinator, Ron Paul for Congress, 1995/96
National Organizer, Draft Ron Paul for President, 1991/92
Travel Aide/Personal Asst. Ron Paul, Libertarian for President
1987/88
I have been asked by various media the last few days for my comments, view of the current situation regarding my former boss Ron Paul, as he runs for the presidency on the Republican ticket.
I’ve noticed in some media that my words have been twisted and used for an agenda from both sides. And I wish to set the record straight with media that I trust and know will get the story right: conservative/libertarian-conservative bloggers.
Is Ron Paul a “racist.” In short, No. I worked for the man for 12 years, pretty consistently. I never heard a racist word expressed towards Blacks or Jews come out of his mouth. Not once. And understand, I was his close personal assistant. It’s safe to say that I was with him on the campaign trail more than any other individual, whether it be traveling to Fairbanks, Alaska or Boston, Massachusetts in the presidential race, or across the congressional district to San Antonio or Corpus Christi, Texas.
He has frequently hired blacks for his office staff, starting as early as 1988 for the Libertarian campaign. He has also hired many Hispanics, including his current District staffer Dianna Gilbert-Kile. "
Floyd Looney | 3.2.12 @ 9:41PM
Yes but the socialists are happiest when they do the killing. Like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao etc etc
rightasrain| 3.2.12 @ 5:42PM
I think that Breitbart might be thrilled at the outpouring of hate from the left. It shows what a great job he did during his lifetime of getting under their skin. When you think about it, being hated by liberals is the supreme compliment.
Screwtape| 3.2.12 @ 8:13PM
In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy's death, Breitbart called Kennedy a "villain", a "duplicitous bastard", a "prick" and "a special pile of human excrement". That doesn't count, though, because conservatives are perfect and would never say anything mean. Get real. Wake up.
WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:40PM
Kennedy did drown a HO and run away...
I mean...HE REALLY DID...
I guess that made him a saint?
You leftist piece of garbage.
Conservative Not Republican| 3.3.12 @ 11:53AM
Who says it made him a saint, dipshit? Breitbart and Kennedy were both crud and both had their graves pissed on. I am okay with that. You are apparently not. You have the problem, not I.
Conservative Not Republican| 3.3.12 @ 11:53AM
Who says it made him a saint, dipshit? Breitbart and Kennedy were both crud and both had their graves pissed on. I am okay with that. You are apparently not. You have the problem, not I.
WL| 3.3.12 @ 9:03PM
So breitbart was supposed to be nice to him just because he died...? Dipshit?
Your crap is weak because you never address the facts. Only some weak little nanny boo boo crap...
The mark of a dipshit.
Seek| 3.5.12 @ 4:39PM
WL. You have no class. No redneck I've ever met does.
I shed no tears over the death of Ted Kennedy. But that fact alone doesn't make Andrew Breitbart a man of any class or substance. Anyone can pick a street fight.
JmsA| 3.3.12 @ 11:22AM
Breitbart was correct, and grossly understated.
Oldefarte| 3.2.12 @ 9:43PM
Quin, respectfully I'll disagree with you on any [except the females] of the Kennedys, sonce all are/were nothing but Irish thugs and dispicable human beings. The fact that they labeled themselves as Catholics further tarnished the Church, as they were all hypocritical bastards IMHO. Sorry!!!!!!!!
WL| 3.2.12 @ 11:41PM
They still are thugs. Murderous Thugs.
Oldefarte| 3.4.12 @ 5:37PM
True, but they are way beyond that IMHO also!!!!!
Bob| 3.2.12 @ 11:42PM
A horrible sickness to the soul is right. They are rotten to the core.
ayrnieu| 3.3.12 @ 3:36AM
The correct response to a charge of hypocrisy from the left (which is to say, the correct response to a full third of what comes out of a leftist's mouth) is to immediately refer to your values, rather than debate by their mock-values. Whether you or your peers or the moon spoke ill of the dead has absolutely nothing to do with whether it's a decent thing to speak ill of the dead. If it's your position that to do so is indecent, and if you have this position for some actual reason, then reemphasize that - that's what actually matters, the reason that one oughtn't do such a thing, or especially oughtn't do it of a particular person -- and not 'hypocrisy', which only ever matters when you're interested in talking about what a fine non-hypocrite you are (and how often is that? Not even the leftist cares, not even as its mouth is reflexly grunting out the charge.)
The charge of hypocrisy is a recrumpled ad hominem, which intends to assert 1. that your reasons for claiming indecency are deficient, or 2. that the act is anyway decent and fine (even though the leftist is already frothing a bit about a horrible person you/some peer must be for having decently and finely cursed a corpse). Neither assertion would pass the laugh test if presently plainly - so force them to present it plainly, by ridiculing the disguised presentation.
martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 10:27AM
Let us also consider that Rush Limbaugh a private citizen not a member of government is being criticized for calling a slut a slut. The Socialists call the Tea Party Nazis ? So I do not get surprised at the LEFT and their behavior. Its when they call the kettle black is when WE should tell them to jump in the lake and keep doing whatever we do. A slut is a slut.
Interested Conservative| 3.3.12 @ 11:40AM
" . . . sickness of the soul . . ."
Do they even think they have a soul? I think that might be a clue.
martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:26PM
The best response to the left is basically--"Who cares what you think. When you stop calling us Nazis or call for the murder of a Republican President or cheer when some one you disagree with dies or when you accuse Republicans or conservatives of all kinds of crap only then will you be taken seriously. Till then: Adios baby.
martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:29PM
One more thing: Fluke is a slut.
However if that is the way she chooses to live her life fine. I support her right to do that but not one penny from me to support her lifestyle choice. That friends is up to her to count her pennies.
Stan Redmond| 3.3.12 @ 4:42PM
You know what's funny. Who is going to hire a woman lawyer from her university. Apperently none of them studying because they were so busy spreading their legs all day.
Stan Redmond| 3.3.12 @ 4:41PM
Fluke goes up and confesses she needs everyone else to pay for her and her friends' birth control because they are having so much sex and she is a hero. A defender of freedom and rights.
A pastor tells a joke about girls to keep their legs closed and he is pilloried as some evil dictator.
What the hell has happened to this country?