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Andrew Breitbart Moments: 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Edition

Posted on | March 3, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Mr. Pinko at iOwnTheWorld brings tears to my eyes with this bit from the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party, which starts with me demanding Big Fur Hat come to CPAC11, and then segues to AB:
The irony here is that neither BFH nor I made CPAC11. His reasons are unknown to me, but this Tea Party was no sooner over than I was whisked off to a cornfieldgravel-strewn FOB in Afghanistan. And now Andrew stands promoted.

Recall, ObamaCare, that colonoscopy using a telephone pole, had just been passed, and Andrew was betting 100 large that no one could show any racial epithets. This clip, from probably right after the Andrew bit above.

Then he spoke. Here he is, saying ‘God bless Clarence Thomas’, a sentiment anyone with a shred of American spirit can support. (Our friend Bill Quick is encouraged to do a little s/God/PointerToWhatever/, as necessary.)

God rest Andrew Breitbart, and God bless Clarence Thomas, and the rest of the Americans who grasp that this country is about liberty and the individual, not slavery and Progressivism. Tonight’s memorial to Andrew Breitbart, which I’ll be attending with Stacy, promises to be a tear jerker, but slightly at variance with Qoheleth. Cooler people than me will speak, but here is a little eulogy:

Ecclesiastes 7:

  1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
  2. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
  3. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
  4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  5. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

 

Breitbart’s name is good, and will be as celebrated by the good Americans as it is reviled by the bad. A litmus test. Andrew was by no means sorrowful, though: he understood that Progressivism is, at its heart, both cowardice and the projection of cowardice upon others.

Progressivism/Socialism/Communism is passive aggression writ large. Confronted with a Breitbart, they could do nothing but howl.

He laughed all the while he put the screws to those miscreants, and reminds us, in his passing, to conserve ourselves physically. Stacy.

Truly, Breitbart rebuked the media with the wisdom of truth. Reality. Sophists sing the song of fools, for, in their indiscriminate commitment to foolishness as the new wisdom, they think we’re all as stupid and tractable as they.

Who am I? Who are you? Those who have ears will recall John 16, where, to paraphrase so as not to seem overly evangelical, the carpenter was making a point: the previous iteration must end before the next begins. While the Left may rejoice in Breitbart’s demise, they will truly howl as 10 more replace him.

I’d prefer to have Andrew back, but truly honoring his life involves stepping into the breech and telling the Left to return to their hell just as much as Breitbart did.

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Blogging

Comments

6 Responses to “Andrew Breitbart Moments: 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Edition”

  1. higgins1990
    March 3rd, 2012 @ 10:21 am

    So Andrew died of natural causes.  In Russia, when an opposition journalist dies, it is called something else.

  2. JeffWeimer
    March 3rd, 2012 @ 10:23 am

    5 minutes before that last Video, Breitbart stated “I have no idea what I’m going to talk about”.

    He did that off the top of his head.

  3. JeffWeimer
    March 3rd, 2012 @ 12:59 pm

     That almost sounds like a Yakoff Smirnoff joke.

  4. Wombat_socho
    March 3rd, 2012 @ 1:48 pm

    This what you had in mind, Jeff?

    “In Putin’s Russia, government does hit piece on journalist!”

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