Inside the Collapsing Media Empire of Deceased GOP Sleaze-Peddler Andrew Breitbart
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Thursday, December 1, 2022 00:12
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In the year after Breitbart's death, his heirs have produced a string of grotesque episodes that have embarrassed even their own impossible-to-shame allies on the right.
In the immediate aftermath of Breitbart's death last year, at age 43, the Beltway media reflexively whitewashed and glorified his work and legacy, canonizing a reactionary circus barker as some kind of American Icon, a gonzo iconoclast, a conservative punk rocker, or a "Zany, Magnetic Media Hacker," as Wired's Noah Shachtman.
Breitbart, of course, had nothing in common with the comedians whose anti-establishment spirit he claimed to embody. Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce came up from poverty and overcame anti-Semitism and entrenched, violently enforced racism to wield their wit against powerful forces. Bruce was hounded throughout his career by the FBI, local cops and eventually blacklisted from nearly every comedy club in the United States. Whereas Breitbart collaborated with the FBI and New York police to spy on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Perhaps the only thing Bruce had in common with Breitbart, who spent his career in a mostly uncritical national limelight, was his untimely death at age 40 while in the throes of paranoia and emotional collapse.
Breitbart, the adopted son of a wealthy West Los Angeles restauranteur, used his privilege to immiserate the most marginalized, impoverished, widely demonized groups of Americans. He was a faithful errand boy for rich, Scrooge McDuck tycoons like Peter Thiel, Foster Friess, and the Koch Brothers, wielding smear journalism against anyone or any interest that threatened their power — usually African-Americans or groups like ACORN, serving impoverished, neglected inner city communities.
There was nothing innovative or new about Breitbart's smear operation. Indeed, he walked a trail blazed by the now-forgotten snitches and smear artists of the McCarthy era – quasi-eccentric figures like Matt Cvetic and Henry Matusow. Cvetic drank himself to death a few years after McCarthy's fall; while Matusow recanted, was jailed for perjury, and spent the last decades of his life begging for money and working as a clown for children's parties. Breitbart, for his part, collapsed on a sidewalk outside his home in Brentwood at the tender age of 43.
While pundits gushed over Breitbart's provocations, ignoring race-baiting blunders like the Shirley Sherrod affair and whitewashing his increasingly unhinged behavior – "Stop raping people!" he bellowed at Occupy Wall Street protesters shortly before dropping dead — as a form of "political performance art," no one bothered asking what would come next. Who would take the reigns of Breitbart's websites and how would they preserve whatever undeserved credibility Breitbart managed to maintain in the eyes of the media, which proved to be easy prey to his bullying tactics?
Breitbart's Doomsday Machine
By now, it has become clear that in the months before his death, Breitbart had constructed a journalistic Doomsday Machine and programmed it for an apocalyptic episode of self-destruction. Perhaps it was convenient that Breitbart's heart exploded when it did; as a martyr, he did not have to witness the implosion of his media empire or bear the responsibility he deserved for its rapid demise.
In the year after Breitbart's death, his heirs and associates produced a string of grotesque episodes that have embarrassed even their own impossible-to-shame allies on the right, including:
•Spreading the lie that Chuck Hagel took money from a non-existent group called "Friends of Hamas." What began as a New York Daily News reporter's burlesque joke-hypothetical question to a Senate staffer was recycled by Breitbart.com editor-at-large Ben Shapiro [see below] and reported as fact from "Senate sources." From Breitbart, the reporter's joke traveled onto the Senate floor and nearly sank Ha
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Originally posted by Niki2:
not so much a media business as an asylum for fringe-right degenerates
HA! A widely applicable term these days.
**looks pointedly in the direction of certain RWED posters, including the new sock**
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To the Left, being honest and telling the truth = 'sleaze-peddling'.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
Resident USA Freedom Fundie
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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National Police Chiefs’ Council conference in London
‘Stop Debating Gender on Twitter’ and Solve Real Crimes, Braverman Tells Police Chiefs
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/10/stop-debating-gender-on-tw
itter-and-solve-real-crimes-braverman-tells-police-chiefs/
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Sounds like a real Semi-Fascist to me.
There is no debate on gender because there is no such thing as gender.
I'm a pony. My pronouns are It/Them/Pony/Ponykin.
Respect my pronouns or you will lose your job and have the police raid your house.
Here's what I look like:
I'm a Unicorn because I still have a wiener.
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I'm a Democrat now. Let's erase history, burn everything down and start over. China's going to end up owning everything anyways.
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Parents Angered Over School Class Trip To Makeshift Migrant Camp
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/30/parents-angered-over-schoo
l-class-trip-to-makeshift-migrant-camp/
Bitcoin Booster Peter Thiel Takes a Hit in BlockFi Bankruptcy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-booster-peter-thiel-takes-a-hit-i
n-blockfi-bankruptcy-11669661422
What is going on with Curtis Yarvin
https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/what-is-going-on-with-curtis-yarvi
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