1 The Spirit Carries On

2 He will be missed

3 Breitbart was the Jackie Robinson of the new medial. He took the bile, bitterness, venom and hatred and in the end it killed him. But not before opening the floodgates and tearing down the barriers of those who used to control what we were supposed to think and feel. What a difference he made. What a hell of an American. RIP

4 AB was certainly an inspiration, but I wouldn't even know where to start to drive the narrative on my own

5

So you are saying there are social issues that are intertwined with fiscal issues?

 

Be careful here, because you may unwittingly be treading into a minefield.

6 Hi Andrew!

7 AB will be missed. Not many have the courage and strength to stand up to the tyranny of big government and the socialists who want to "remake" America.

8

Very nice, Truman. .....Very nice.

 

And, glad to see you've dropped that 'Axe Cop' thingy......your regular nic is great, and I for one would miss seeing it. ....That was some good advice you got last night on the ONT about staying cloaked. ....AB was protected in a way, by his own notariety...until you have something like that going for you, it's best to keep fighting the way you are.

9 Excellent Truman!!! Excellent!!

10 I still can't believe he's gone.

I have a friend you lost her youngish husband suddenly a little over a year ago.  She called me a  few weeks ago when the f-i-l died. 

She said it took her a year to come to grips with the reality her husband was gone.  She's still hurting terribly, but the shock has worn off and she's into acceptance.

Poor Susie Breitbart and kids.  I can only imagine.

11

We really don't have to worry about issues like freedom or social decline anymore since our party has decided to care only about minor tweaks to the economy and unemployment rate.

I guess we are the Tories now and we will like it.

12 Some of Sir Thomas More's most famous words (also a line from A Man For All Seasons) were, "This is not the stuff martyrs are made of," when referring to himself.  He of course turned out to be wrong.  Despite the entreaties of his entire family he persevered to the end, since his conscience would not allow him peace otherwise.  I'm not comparing Andrew directly to More, but there was probably a similar internal compulsion in him that ultimately may have contributed to his own death, a self-giving to his righteous cause.  It's also instructive for all of us who may have sentiments similar to More's --and while few if any of us will ever be called to such a momentous decision, we may find it in us to make significant sacrifices nevertheless.  For this reason, I predict --and hope-- there will be a lot of civil disobedience, especially Gandhian passive resistance, is the latest wave of tyrannical mandates start to set in.  There may be no direct human toll, but (for example) a lot of businesses, churches, and other conscientious organizations may have to experience "white" martyrdom.


Pardon the length.

13

Government Motors shuts down Volt production line.

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Why not run it in reverse?  Have them bring them back, dismantle, organize back into the tubs of parts, and bury the shit.

14 6 So you are saying there are social issues that are intertwined with fiscal issues?

Be careful here, because you may unwittingly be treading into a minefield.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 03, 2012 12:53 PM (sJTmU)

Yes, social issues matter. However the political class seems to think that the only social issues involve church and sex.

The most pressing social issue is, however, self-respect.  And that can only come from self reliance, and the ability to fail.  When government takes those away, they steal the very essence of what it is to be free.

15 If you haven't watched it yet, go youtube Breitbart at CPAC this year. The RINOs, true cons, and everybody in between fretting over these shitty primary candidates, arguing over whether or not Rush should call some idiot cock-holster a slut, or whatever the MFM narrative of the day is need to take a deep breath, unbunch their panties, and think about what really matters in the fights ahead this year. Breitbart knew what the goal was, don't disappoint him.

16 >>AB was certainly an inspiration, but I wouldn't even know where to start to drive the narrative on my own

Commenter Stuck On Stupid has a great story about what he did, prompted by AB. It starts in the LA Area Meetup thread and carries over into the ONT. In a nutshell, some guy at work wore a Che t-shirt, SOS politely asked him not to wear it again, Che wearing weany took it to HR and SOS got to go all Breitbart on them with facts.

17

6  So you are saying there are social issues that are intertwined with fiscal issues?

...Be careful here, because you may unwittingly be treading into a minefield.

 

Well yeah....of course it's a minefield. That's the tyranny of it, isn't it? ....The tyranny of how they've been intertwined in order to make it 'antisocial' to protest the insane unfiscally sound and unsustainable social spending.

 

I took this as being the point that Truman was trying to make.

18 Has anyone watched Bill Whittle's tribute video to Andrew Breitbart? Interesting and very personal. I agree with it because I always thought it was all about the media. I believe nothing can be done with the government until the media is dealt with.

That's why I despair without Andrew. The  Fluke Fiasco has been a perfect example of how we let the media define everything on their own terms while we get the vapors and squabble amongst ourselves. Andy, we hardly knew ye.

19 I'm in love with ace! I long to feel his mighty cock ravage my squeakhole!

20 Before we all go off re-making Breitbart in our own image (not you, T.N., but others better heed this), think about what Weinergate was about. It wasn't the economy, it wasn't some larger, noble purpose. Breitbard (AND ACE!) saw a lying sackweasel try to get away with something sordid (it was about sex!!), and they didn't let him do that. Those of you who want to accuse Rush of being untoward with his use of terms for Fluke and her cohorts on Capitol Hill and in the White House, pay attention: Breitbart would be right there in the middle of this, making the left answer for all of it. The lies about who this woman is, the absurdity of demanding we pay for her birth control, and yes, the suggestion that her sex life is spread wide open for us to see! Don't invoke his name while you're telling Rush and others to shut up about it. It borders on blasphemy.

21 I didn't read the post. 

22 Damn, AP is reporting that there have been more US Soldiers killed since Feb. 1 by Afghan soldiers than have been killed by the Taliban.

23 Time to nuke Afghanistan crime space, robtr.

24 Andrew's enemies didn't kill him.  He loved his life and he loved his work.

The Good Lord took him for His reasons.

Let us continue the work.  When our time here is over, let us go to the Lord joyful that we were where we needed to be.

25 Errr crime = from. Thanks Autocorrect!

26 Excellent post, Mr. North, but don't sell yourself short.  The war will be fought with many weapons and surly one of them will be anus jokes.

27

May we all be inspired by Andrew Breitbart's defiance.

 

May we keep him alive by letting his defiant spirit course through our veins, helping us to overcome our reluctance to speak out against the daily injustices that we are being subjected to.

 

Andrew showed us that it's 'okay' to resent what is being done to us and to our beloved country.....and that the best way to rail against it, is to mock it.

 

Rest in Peace, Andrew. ....Thank you for all that you did. .....We'll take the fight from here.

28

Afghanistan already kind of looks like it has been nuked from space. I'm not sure there's much more we can do to it.

 

I'm fairly certain there are mutant cannibals up in those mountains.

29 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand we have ergtard checking in.

30 Ricochet Podcast: Andrew & More http://tinyurl.com/6oss9nc

31 Excellent, Truman. I'm going to have to learn to get in people's faces when they spout liberal idiocy in my presence. I haven't been very good at that, and tend to ignore them and look the other way.

32 31 Ricochet Podcast: Andrew & More
http://tinyurl.com/6oss9nc

Posted by: Miss80s at March 03, 2012 01:15 PM (d6QMz)

--Thank Gaia there was enough Liberace trivia to adulterate all the Star Trek talk.

33 prayers with ur family and friends Andrew. Hope we can do you proud..

34 Wake Up!

http://tinyurl.com/7mym6w8

35 Obama's kiss of death. He got to sit in a band new chevy volt even thought the secret service wouldn't let him drive one. 3 days later they shut down production on the Chevy Volt.

36 Just a thought- Andrew got in people's faces with charisma but didn't belittle them. As bad as many of our people want to fight, in order to advance the ball, we have to sell our stance. We have the facts on our side, but we don't get people nodding with us by being a scold. There are a bunch of different ways to get there, but at this point, it seems to me that the Dale Carnegie approach is in order... something that Andy had the ability to do in spades.

37 I'm very fast beginning to think we should hand A-stan off to the Chicoms.  Let them deal with the 7th century twats since they actually want to mine the rare earch minerals.  

38 I prefer the term "ruling class" to "elite". Elite implies they deserve their position. And they don't. Elite athletes really are the best athletes. Obama didn't get into Harvard because he was smarter than everyone else. Michelle Obama admits her test scores were so low, nobody thought she'd get in. They don't deserve to be called "elites".

39 @39 ^^^ THIS. One of the myths perpetuated in our world today is that people who are in elected office are smarter and better-informed than everyone else. I offer you Sheila Jackson-Lee and Hank Johnson as rebuttal.

40 I also find a good attack line is call the left bigots. You don't have to clarify exactly what group they are bigoted against. They recoil cause they are so used to being able to throw out the racist, sexist, homophobic line. Lines like, "I'm not gonna be lectured by a bigot like you." "Obama and his band of bigots." "Typical leftist bigot."

41 And call them intolerant.

42 I also think "ruling class progressive trash" has a nice ring to it. It's right on the verge of being vulgar, but doesn't cross the line into cursing. I'm mean, though.

43 @40: and Joe Biden.

44 Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 03, 2012 01:27 PM (ZPrif)

I'm sorry, but it's just not done that way. We have our self-respect and dignity to maintain.

Now if you will excuse me I have cocktail party to attend at the ambassador's residence.

45 He showed me that the ruling class has attempted make itself indispensable to greater and greater numbers, in order to ensure its perpetuity, by incrementally re-making and re-defining culture.

Thanks, Truman, for pointing out the issue. This, as ever, is the modus operandi for every fascist, totalitarian regime. Control, power, and the rationales given at the beginning are forgotten. Control and power.

46

39.....They don't deserve to be called "elites".

 

Absolutely. .....That's why I call them "elitist scum" instead of simply 'elites'. ....There is a difference.

 

Being 'elitist' is just snobbery, without any real basis or measure of achievement to support it.

47 >>We have the facts on our side, but we don't get people nodding with us by being a scold. There are a bunch of different ways to get there, but at this point, it seems to me that the Dale Carnegie approach is in order... something that Andy had the ability to do in spades.

Good point, and Matt Labash illustrated it in his piece about AB when they had dinner with Bill Ayers, a guy most of us would probably have trouble speaking to in a civil tone. AB used knew how to handle it though:

"As it happened, Breitbart was on his best behavior. “I’m here to learn,” Andrew said facetiously. It was part of the pleasure of keeping company with him. He wasn’t just a friend, he was a co-conspirator. Once we arrived at the apartment, much to Andrew’s and Ayers’s chagrin, they got along famously. Just two guys having dinner, finding commonality, even if Andrew regarded it his hidebound duty to passive-aggressively heckle Ayers as he served us plates of hoisin ribs and farmhouse cheeses. (“This is the bomb, Bill,” Breitbart said to the former explosives-rigger.)

When Ayers asked me what I was reading right now, I told him “Moby Dick,” which actually lived up to its billing. Ayers agreed, though added, as any good academic would, “You’ve picked up the gay subtext?” Breitbart nearly choked on his tofu and quinoa. “You mean in Moby Dick?” Andrew asked. “Or at this dinner?”

48
>>This, as ever, is the modus operandi for every fascist, totalitarian regime. Control, power, and the rationales given at the beginning are forgotten. Control and power...


With the broad and deep attack on our values and Constitution by the Administration and its handlers, we must restore our armor against the snares of the evil that swirls through our halls of government. Oaths to uphold and protect the Constitution are laughed at and Judeo-Christian values vilified. More than politics, itÂ’s spiritual warfare!

Here are a few simple observations that a few of us might grasp and try to understand:

The Declaration of Independence sets the spiritual, moral and philosophical base of the Constitution. It also warns of “pretended legislation” and the “sending out of agents to eat out the peoples’ substance.”


Political Correctness is AcademiaÂ’s contribution to arrogance and ignorance. Free speech and free exchange of ideas are lost. There is nothing in PC that exudes love, only a failed attempt at sensitivity and compassion to control critical thinking and true charity.


The Principles of Subsidiarity and Solidarity must be applied together in all legislation to prevent selective privilege and demeaning dependency.


No House or Senate Bill should cover more than one subject area. Any bill over 50-100 pages is likely “pretended legislation.” The  dust-up over 3,000 page Obamacare with Catholic institutions is a classic example of the implantation of “poison pills” and bureaucratic license by drafters and imposers with ill-intent.


The Federal Government has no competence in Health, Education and Welfare, primarily community, church and state responsibilities. By definition, central government control of individual lives and communities violates subsidiarity, imposes selective privilege and creates dependency.


By ignoring Subsidiarity, local rule is passed to the central government, which encourages formation of radical, despotic and corrupt entities that covet power and control. Andrew lived that rule by NOT ignoring it.


Debt-based money as in our Federal Reserve System is actually “Tribute” paid by every productive and creative work of every person and business entity. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary: (b (1): an excessive tax, rental, or tariff imposed by a government, sovereign, lord, or landlord (2): an exorbitant charge levied by a person or group having the power of coercion) The nation’s full faith and credit can back “tribute-free currency” easier than “debt-based currency.” High Finance is ideally a medium of exchange and productive investment – the servant, not the master. When used as a tool for societal control or gaining wealth and power through currency manipulation and monetary speculations, it is “the root of all evil.” Enuf said.


The challenge of Islam will be met with a special kind of love. After all, Mohammed held the Blessed Virgin Mary as the most important woman in Islam and that her son Jesus was virgin-born. Ultimately this widely ignored truth will have beautiful unifying consequences for all people of faith and good will. God is not mocked.


We have received from God the self-evident truth of inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We are also empowered to meet todayÂ’s challenges.  We must act!

49 I jumped in to the comments to say how funny the joke about human anus jokes was (still laughing) and read this in comment 21:

Those of you who want to accuse Rush of being untoward with his use of terms for Fluke and her cohorts on Capitol Hill and in the White House, pay attention: Breitbart would be right there in the middle of this, making the left answer for all of it. The lies about who this woman is, the absurdity of demanding we pay for her birth control, and yes, the suggestion that her sex life is spread wide open for us to see!

I think Rush is mostly self-promoting in this, but that is a pretty astute observation.

50 Well done.  Thanks.

51 Bravo Truman.  I hope we can collectively learn and apply what AB taught us.

52 My own tiny attempt to be like Breitbart.  I made a poster with "Mr Obama, stop trying to bribe me into inviting the government into my sex life.  I am perfectly capable of buying my own contraceptives.  You are not fooling anybody with a functioning brain."   

Results so far:  One conservative friend brought up Fluke (not Rush but her appeal to congress)  One went Huh?, and I filled her in on the Obama mandate and that Fluke is an activist trying to force a Jesuit univ. to provide abortifacients.   And one like from someone who has also liked posters about how Komen shouldn't pull money from PP etc, so putting it out there in simple terms before a liberal photo poster was circulating  may have cut the legs out from one MFM/DNC meme for one person.   This illustrates to me that we can educate folks. 

 If everyone who admired Breitbart does whatever little thing they can do to try to fill the gap he has left, we may yet win this war to save our treasured Republic.   No one of us can begin to replace him, but in aggragate, if we all do more because he is not around to do it for us we can make a difference. 

53

Thank you all for your kind and thoughtful words.  You're right about "ruling class" rather than "elites" particularly.  And while I'm a libertarian/conservative I understand that there is a difference between liberty and license.  Being allowed to keep your own money is libertarian; demanding someone else pay for your is licentious. 

The battle over creeping licentiousness is at this moment in time being fought on the battlefield of the church versus sex, but that's not the only place that is has ever been or will be fought.  That's why I onlyy tangentially refer to "social" issues when talking about the larger picture which I refer to as "cultural" issues.

 

If you didn't read Ace's editorial from yesterday about conservatives disagreeing without being disagreeable, please go do that.  It speaks to the issue of what is and what isn't important for us to agree upon in the galaxy of conservative thought.

54

The challenge of Islam will be met with a special kind of love. After all, Mohammed held the Blessed Virgin Mary as the most important woman in Islam and that her son Jesus was virgin-born. Ultimately this widely ignored truth will have beautiful unifying consequences for all people of faith and good will. God is not mocked.

 

HuH?

55 I read the first chapter of  Andrew's book the other night, and from what I can tell, his war was primarily to expose the lying, partisan media. I am hoping it will be a guide to the new media and the way for us to continue the fight. Andrew's motivation was brought home forcefully today by an AP story about how Obama "shares the outrage" over Rush's slut comment. The entire article was a tissue of distortion and outright lies from beginning to end.

56

Since Sandra Fluke has been an 'activist for sexual freedom'.....I wonder if she has ever participated in one of those Slut Walks.

 

It would be great to find a picture of her participating in one of those.

57 Andrew was not obsessed with the petty, he stayed focused on the big picture. Indeed, this is a lesson for all of us. Lets not simply say this man was great, let us carry on his fearless pursuit of the truth.

58 55 The challenge of Islam will be met with a special kind of love. After all, Mohammed held the Blessed Virgin Mary as the most important woman in Islam and that her son Jesus was virgin-born. Ultimately this widely ignored truth will have beautiful unifying consequences for all people of faith and good will. God is not mocked.

HuH?

Posted by: Havedash at March 03, 2012 01:48 PM (JfvbF)

--It's true.  Which is why that aspect of Islam puzzled me: How in hell can you believe that Jesus was conceived of a virgin but that at the same time he's not even the greatest prophet, never mind divine?

59 Most excellent piece Truman.

60 Is the block a quote from Breitbart?  Or from yourself?  or some class of beast?

61 --It's true. Which is why that aspect of Islam puzzled me: How in hell can you believe that Jesus was conceived of a virgin but that at the same time he's not even the greatest prophet, never mind divine?

Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2012 01:59 PM (ykSKg)

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Logic is a stranger to them and cognitive dissonance doesn't exist. How can burning paper with ink on it justify murder?

62
>>Lets not simply say this man was great, let us carry on his fearless pursuit of the truth.


Terrorists take lives of 3000, politicians take rights of 300 million.

The Founders would undoubtedly be both shocked and dismayed that the American people have yet to make good use of the 2nd Amendment rights these great men were so careful to reaffirm in our Constitution.

63 Anthony Weiner, the douche that keeps on douching--NYDailyNews, today: Shortly before his sexting scandal forced him out of office, then-Rep. Anthony Weiner passed on reports to the FBI that Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm extorted an influential rabbi for campaign cash. ... The disgraced Democrat confirmed that he passed along the tip about his colleague to the feds. “I don’t know the truth of the allegations the rabbi made, so I am not going to repeat them. But I can confirm that I did the right thing at the time and reported the allegations to the FBI,” Weiner told the Daily News. This is not the first time Grimm, A REPUBLICAN, has been accused of strong-arming the rabbi’s E. 58th St. congregation, Shuva Israel, which is based heavily in Jewish mysticism. ------------ That Weiner, a real stand-up guy...Goes to the FBI to pass along a rumor about a REPUBLICAN colleague. I'm sure he'd do the same for Dems...

64 Nicely reviewed, Truman North.

Also, we cannot allow ourselves to be shouted down while being shouted at. Stay focused and stay vocal in whatever manner suits you; but do not be cowed. As a corollary do not let a colleague and ally get shouted down either. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

Few have the charisma that Breitbart had, but we all have our minds and throats. I submit a great many minds mingle among the horde. They just need to be honed a la Andrew to optimal effect.

The Army of Davids must spawn an Army of Andrews.

65 Just finally read Labash's remembrance.  Excellent.  Andrew reminds me of my older brother a little.

66

55   Maybe I'm missing the meaning of what you guys are saying.  If so, forgive me.   But I do not regard islam as a religion.  I think it is a cult.  Cults take a snippet of real truth, such as admitting that Jesus was born of a virgin, then bastardize that truth to serve the needs of the cult.  Islam is the anti-Christianity "religion".   It was created to directly oppose Christianity.  Therefore, I don't agree that islam will eventually be unified with Christianity.   The whole purpose of islam is to conquer or inslave all who won't submit to it.

 

67 ..The Army of Davids must spawn an Army of Andrews.

Let's roll.

FUCK THE COMMIE LEFTARDS

68 Oh and for you BookFace people, insty has a link under March 2 about 1 million Breitbarts to become part of Andrews Army.

You may have already talked about this.  You expect me to read everything?

69 Logic is a stranger to them and cognitive dissonance doesn't exist. How can burning paper with ink on it justify murder?

Posted by: real joe at March 03, 2012 02:02 PM (w7Lv+)

--Even if you're a hardcore atheist and think *all* religions start from illogical premises, you still have to understand at a basic level that a religion has to have a basic internal consistency and logic to it.  I think it is these contradictions, the fact that Islam is a hastily contrived dog's breakfast of tribal paganism, long-discarded Christian and Jewish heresies, and Arabian militancy that made it good for rapid conquest and conversion but poor as a blueprint for long-term civilizational success.

70 Posted by: logprof at March 03, 2012 02:14 PM (ykSKg)

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Not only that, but look at the substance of each religion's precepts - Christianity based on "do unto others" and "love your neighbor." Buddhism as a quest for enlightenment.
Islam? Submission. Conquest by the sword. Founded by a murderous pedophile.
I would classify myself as agnostic, but Christ did warn of false prophets.

71 Outstanding post Truman.

For those of you following my own little saga, the emails in my personal account have grown to 56.  I wasn't able to check my work email from home, I cannot access the account.  I'm not certain if my account has been suspended, if it's just a technical glitch, or if I'm going to be handed a pink slip Monday morning.  No clue.

As expected most of the people emailing me have done so more out of curiosity than anything else, though I was a bit surprised that there were more than a few folks that emailed from work and told me that they supported me - though many of them asked me not to make there support public for fear of reprisals.

I did hear from one source today that they walked by my cubby and someone had gone in at some point and painted the word "Racist" on my monitor with fingernail polish.  I haven't seen it yet myself, not sure if they'll replace it before I get there Monday or if I'll have to report it myself.

We will see how it all plays out I guess.  If nothing else I have my resume ready so if necessary I'll start job hunting on Monday. 

72
>>but poor as a blueprint for long-term civilizational success.

Hence the scimitar to the neck if you try to convert away. It's their "Berlin wall" so to speak.

73
From Insty:

One way that the Dems silence the GOP is by spreading the idea that itÂ’s somehow bad manners to criticize them on their chosen issues. Part of Andrew BreitbartÂ’s secret to success was that he didnÂ’t care about that. For the non-Frumish GOP, thereÂ’s a lesson there.
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Unfortunately, that lesson has also been lost by many of the non-Frumish, including lots of people who frequently post here.

74

In doing a little searching around on SlutWalks.....apparently, there was a big slutwalk event that happened on August 13, 2011. ....I have found referrences to it on other sites, some of them 'swinger' sites, heh.

 

There is a link that is referrenced as well......'slutwalkdc-dot-org'. ....So, there was a SlutWalkDC organization. .....As I said upthread, since this Sandra Fluke has been an activist for this sort of thing, for a long time.....what are the chances that she was active in this event? .....Pretty good, I would think.

 

I haven't been able to access the SlutWalkDC site. ....Maybe it has been scrubbed?

75 OT: HA has an interesting piece that says Santorum stands to lose a significant chunk of delegates in OH because his campaign didn't meet the various requirements. 

Man, that establishment does get around.

76 StuckonStupid
If the worst comes to be on monday, you should look into legal options for wrongful termination, hostile workplace, etc.
It would be cool if they could track the computer monitor vandal by nail color.

77 Logprof, if I may add to your analysis at 70, it's been pointed out to me that the Old Testament is for all intents and purposes a book of public health (lepers, pork, et cetera), the New Testament is a bit more story and philosophy, and that the Koran is fundamentally a book of war. As you pointed out, it's an amalgamation of a lot of bad ideas that ultimately beat the drums for conquest. As an extension to that, with most of the lefty scientists (particularly the bioethicists) that I encounter, they're usually the evangelical atheists. They tend to excuse Islam while attacking Christianity and Judaism aggressively (more as a slap at Western civilization). The place where it's fun to get after them is explaining religion and science as yin and yang- science existing to explain that which we seem to understand; religion existing to handle that which we can't explain. Why is it worth getting into with these guys? Simply, this is where the attack on faith happens in academia. The attempt is being made to replace faith with science, and most of these bio guys I encounter actually roll over when you lay out the confluence of science and religion, and the fact that they need each other.

78 I did hear from one source today that they walked by my cubby and someone had gone in at some point and painted the word "Racist" on my monitor with fingernail polish. I haven't seen it yet myself, not sure if they'll replace it before I get there Monday or if I'll have to report it myself.

We will see how it all plays out I guess. If nothing else I have my resume ready so if necessary I'll start job hunting on Monday.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 03, 2012 02:20 PM (R5yLq)

Wow....the left uses the 'racist' slur for every.effing.situation!   WTF?

79 Damn, my cooter looks like an Edvard Munch paining this morning.

80

@72, Stuck...

 

If your monitor is gone when you get in on Monday....you should demand to see it....and know why it was removed.

 

And kudos, man....for speaking up about the Che t-shirt. ....You actually have them by the balls right now, as others have mentioned. ....Document this saga though, as they will try to 'sanitize' the whole thing.

81 StuckOnStupid@72,

Actual, bonafide courage. Kudos to you.

It amazes me that any HR dept. in the US would consider hearing the lamentations of a pinhead who promotes a homicidal revolutionary Commie.

It just goes to show us the rot from within and the long war ahead.

82
Ripped off from Townhall, and worthy of a great hoot!

At 1402 bryceagain wrote, "[N]o matter how you slice it, this debate comes down to one action after another by the Right with the ultimate goal of restricting women's reproductive rights."


"Lefties won't reproduce unless others subsidize them? That's it! They're too cheap, lazy, or stupid to breed without help. All we have to do is stop paying taxes, and lefties will become extinct. My God, the solution has been right before my eyes all along, and we've been too preoccupied to see it."

83 My saddest emotion is obviously for his family.  But my selfish emotion is that with AB on our team, I always had confidence that we would win.  Now, I'm not so sure.

84 Good Job Truman.  I have argued your point about AB's main points for awhile now with others I interact with;  it's about rejecting the MSM; the leftists; the politician's PREMISES....   they set an absurd premise and usually, the conservative ends up arguing the crap-sandwich argument to their premise instead of rejecting the leftist BS premise at the get-go.  Miss you Andrew...  I hope you're receiving of our admiration and our grief in losing you so soon.  You will be missed... and with work, you will live on through others. 

85 I knew it, you hate Che because of his skin color, not because of all the innocent people he killed. Man this racism thing works for everything.

86 Wow stuck. Becareful Nice job Truman

87 75 In doing a little searching around on SlutWalks.....apparently, there was a big slutwalk eventthat happened on August 13, 2011. ....I have found referrences to it on other sites, some of them 'swinger' sites, heh.

There is a link that is referrenced as well......'slutwalkdc-dot-org'. ....So, there was a SlutWalkDC organization. .....As I said upthread, since this Sandra Fluke has been an activist for this sort of thing, for a long time.....what are the chances that she was active in this event? .....Pretty good, I would think.

I haven't been able to access the SlutWalkDC site. ....Maybe it has been scrubbed?

Posted by: wheatie at March 03, 2012 02:20 PM (UOOK1)

--Little Miss Spellcheck hinted that she may know of Ms. Fluke's, uh, "presence" in the lesbian community in DC (NTTAWWT).  I hope if LMS knows anything leakable she does so.  This goes beyond any code of a Sisterhood in importance.  Again, NTTAWWT, but if Fluke does prefer chicks over boys it puts the lie to her claims to need oodles of birth control.

88 Stuckonstupid, I have somehow missed this whole thing.  What is the issue they are talking about termination for? And are you in a "right to work" State?

89
StuckOnStupid:

Welcome to funemployment. At least you can ride the wave for 2+ years nowadays.

90 Wow, Stuck. Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!

OK, seriously...document, document, document. It sounds like you are more than willing to leave so fight as if you aren't. I wouldn't suggest such to any other bits of 1s and 0s in my computer because it's sort of arrogant. Your job is a pretty big deal and I would not fault a person for folding. There are usually other lives involved.

BUT if you really are cool with going, then be prepared to make it a fight they'll remember.

I raise my glass in your general direction and may the Breitbart spirit be with you.

91 Che was white. Apparently being a commie mass murderer is a "race" nowadays. Either that or lefties are brain dead.

92

72: So disliking Che Guevera (who was an Argentine of Spanish, Basque and Irish decent ) makes you racist? You must be African American or Native American.

I know the Left isn't rational but it's still a surprise to see their lack of logic..

93 "If your monitor is gone when you get in on Monday....you should demand to see it....and know why it was removed. "

Downside is the production floor doesn't allow cell phones or cameras of any sort, I work for a financial services company that has contracts with the federal government so they are very particular about information security.

As a result my friend wasn't able to document the vandalized monitor, not sure if it will be there Monday or not.  Lol.. truth be told I'm not even sure I'll be allowed on the production floor come Monday, they may just shuffle me off to HR and hand me my walking papers. 

Regardless of what happens from here though it will be worth it.  Andrew was right - last night was the best night's sleep I had in years.

94 Really well done Truman.
I was going to link Codevilla's American Spectator piece on The ruling Class because it dovetails with Truman's essay, but pixy finds it too irritating even with no spaces between graphs.
It's worth searching out if you haven't read it and have about an hour.

95 Trying it this way: http://tinyurl.com/3ph495f

96 "BUT if you really are cool with going, then be prepared to make it a fight they'll remember."

I'm cool with it.  I'm divorced, so the only person who really depends on me for income is me.

I've got a small fund tucked away for a rainy day, and fortunately even though the economy isn't great at least unemployment in my area of the country isn't nearly as bad as most.  So if I have to suffer the loss of my job, well, I'll muddle through.

But I decided that no matter how hostile it gets, I absolutely will not quit.  I won't, as they say, go quietly into that good night.  They are going to have to do what they did to Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hill's cop - have 6 guys cart me out of the building and throw me out the window.. lol..

97
A poster noted on another thread that lesbians take birth control for protection against pregnancy from rape.  Sounds more like a head trip with bragging rights.

98

 StuckOnStupid at March 03, 2012 02:34 PM (R5yLq)

 

I am sure Laura Ingraham and other conservative talk show hosts would be very interested in this drama.  Good on you, by the way.

99 Just posted this in the thread below, but we just had a near-miss by a tornado.  Have been hunkered down in my husband's walk-in closet with sirens going off.

When the Weather Channel mentions your island and tells you to seek shelter immediately.....

.....heart is still racing.  Ugh.

100

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 03, 2012 02:20 PM (R5yLq)

I bet your workplace has cameras.

101
>>All we have to do is stop paying taxes, and lefties will become extinct.

I like it.. Cause it's true.

+10

102

Enjoyed the piece, especially the end, talking about Andrew.  But more toward the beginning where the author said "it wasn't easy in the beginning."  Taking things from others in order to redistrubute them, that is.  But it was easy.  And I think we have to acknowledge it. 

It was easy for the government to take things from those who posessed them and give them to others.  We took the land.  And we redistrubuted it.  And the people were happy.  We also took labor, by force and without compensation.   And we redistrubed it.  Only when these things ran out did the government begin taxing the income of the citizens for redistribution.

It's correct to acknowledge these things.  They help us to understand that government taking and redistributing is more fundamental in the history of our nation than than we conservatives generally care to admit.  The conduct is not of as recent an origin as we generally assume.

We've got our work cut out for us in terms of education, which is the only real solution.  But first, we have to be as honest with our own thinking as we can be.

103

95.....Regardless of what happens from here though it will be worth it. Andrew was right - last night was the best night's sleep I had in years.

 

I know what you mean there, Stuck. ....I have done the same thing on many occasions. But usually on a social or family level. ....It takes more courage to speak out as you did, at your workplace, where the retaliation could cost you your livelihood. .....Again, kudos!

 

Since the Left has made 'being offended' into a protected state.....this protection should apply to everyone. .....They have created a monster, really. ....A monster that they never thought would bite them in the ass. ....If we follow Andrew's lead, we can take the reins of that monster and use it against them.

104 Want to drive a narrative... "kayfabe"... or however its pronounced... use that to describe the histronics of the Obama campaign... the fainting spells, the plants, make people question it all.

If Breitbart did anything he took the attack based on evidence and the chain of people twisting events... don't let them get away with it and call BS when the obvious is being twisted... when events are recontorted to service the meme.  Destroy their frame-shifting.  Make them own up to facts, to events, to the habitual lies when they lie about the evidence before your eyes.  That's what he did... that's why he documented everything and kept everything clear.  People will eventually notice when there is dissonance between the obvious and the rhetoric.  Move people out of phase... make them think "wait a minute".

That's how you win... the only way to break the spell is a bucket of water.  We are the water throwers and we have plenty of buckets.

105 SoS, reading up on your ordeal....good on you.

Anyone wearing a stupid Che shirt is as big a dumbass Occutard as someone parading around in a Lenin or Stalin shirt.  They wouldn't last walking in the door at my husband's business.

If you get canned, you need to get some conservative TV/radio talk show host on it stat.

106

 

@101....Woah, glad it missed you guys, Jane. .....I know that feeling, living in central OK. .....Which is why I am waay too superstitious to mention how close they have come to our homestead.

 

Hope you don't have a lot of wind damage to clean up .....that always sucks.

107 Stay safe, Jane. This seems like a complete rerun of last year when my son missed a tornado by a few miles, on the same day my mother missed one by a few miles in another state.

My prayers for the many who have lost lives, family, homes, churches and schools in the path of these monster storms. Drudge is heartbreaking---a baby found ten miles from her home in a field? Unreal.

108 We dodged a tornado bullet once again.  Jeebus.  Can't wait for hurricane season.

And we've been praying non-stop for the victims of the tornadoes across the south and midwest.  Wonder when Sir Golfsalot will be calling them offering sympathy?

109

Well done Truman!  You had me at; "I'm not satisfied until you're not satisfied" remark to your wife a bit ago.  Absolutely hilarious.

110 you need to get some conservative TV/radio talk show host on it stat.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 03, 2012 02:46 PM

*****

Ditto. If you have a politically active local one he/she will be easy to reach. THAT person may have the ability to get you in touch with the national Big'uns.

111 someone had gone in at some point and painted the word "Racist" on my monitor with fingernail polish Sorry, this has me fuming SoS. I can only tolerate liberals when they are not acting illiberal. Which is rare. The mixture of gall and ignorance it takes to do something like this to another person is jaw-dropping. If it's you that gets fired and not the graffiti artist, or the tolerant intellectual in the Ché shirt I hope you make it public and painful for that idiot HR dept. and the company. I want some butts. I want some butts!

112 Yikes, Jane! I'm so glad that you're ok! SOS, fight like hell. Use their rules. Tell them that you felt intimidated by the picture of a mass murderer.

113 >>But I decided that no matter how hostile it gets, I absolutely will not quit. I won't, as they say, go quietly into that good night.

I don't like putting words in the mouths of other people but in this case I can't help but think AB would be proud of you. I am.

114 SOS, fight like hell. Use their rules. Tell them that you felt intimidated by the picture of a mass murderer.

Posted by: Lauren at March 03, 2012 02:54 PM (9piWm)

 

THIS!!

115 Jane, let's see what happens with hurricane season this year. We're still in a mild La Nina, which usually steps on the gas for hurricane season, but there are some indications that it's slowing down and that may signal some good news. La Nina tends to intensify certain climatic phenomena... for instance, if February is usually wet where you are, La Nina tends to make it wetter.

116 The TEA movement has been born. Its vilification by elites of both parties and the media hints at the threat it is to the power of politicians who self-perpetuate by means of transferring wealth—from those who are creating it now, and from those who are yet to be born—to a growing class of dependents.

Bingo.

117 SoS.....you went Breitbart on the Che lover's ass.

Andrew smiles.

118 "If you get canned, you need to get some conservative TV/radio talk show host on it stat."

If so I'll be walking a very, very fine line there - I had to sign a lot of non-disclosure agreements when I got hired due to the nature of the work I do, so I'd have to be extremely careful and have a lawyer look over all that before I could say word one.  While I am more than willing to lose my job over this if necessary, I'm just not in position to take on a huge multinational corporation defending myself against the kind of legal pressure they can bring to bear by violating any of the non-disclosure agreements I signed.

But again I'm really not certain where I stand just yet, I won't really know until Monday and possibly later.  While I cannot, at the moment, access my work email that may or may not be related.  It could just be a technical glitch, it has happened before though it's not common. 

From the sounds of things I'm probably in for an earful and then some from at least a few of the principals involved - and it sounds like they've already vandalized my cubicle.  As to how the company will respond, as of yet I have no idea.  I'm hoping they won't follow the HR Director's example, but it's possible they might.

Either way I'm not going to hand them ammunition they can use against me, but on the other side of the coin I'm not backing down from the fight either.  If the leftist loons are going  to bring politics into the workplace then from now on there will be at least one voice of dissent there to greet them.  If they will agree to leave there politics at the door, then so will I. 

But regardless in memory of Andrew I will not go quietly, nor will I sit quietly by anymore.  I think it was Edmund Burke who said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Well, I'm not going to do that anymore.  The nothing option is now off the table.

119 Beautiful, thoughtful piece, Truman, thank you!

120 Just had my own brush with death.
Had to climb a ladder to clear an ice cake from my Dish.
After 20" of snow in the last week and an ice storm this AM, all this tornado talk really seems like I'm on the other side of the planet.

121 Don't know if anyone's said this yet; it just occurred to me. Andrew Breitbart, rest in Big Peace.

122 OK, I found the post from last night. Obviously you are in a heavy blue State if the HR people have no idea who Che was and what he did.  If it is a blue State it is not a right to work State so they can not terminate at will for any reason.

Termination of someone for being offended at a t-shirt honoring a mass murdering communist revolutionary is not grounds for termination. 

Most likely the liberal commie will make up some lies to turn in. If they are a member of what senior management often refers to as "protected specie" they will be taken at their word.

123

88....Again, NTTAWWT, but if Fluke does prefer chicks over boys it puts the lie to her claims to need oodles of birth control.

 

And moreover, it's the 'having-it-both-ways' thing that the Left does so much they don't even seem to see that they are doing it when they are doing it. .....Hypocrisy, really.

 

They've been doing these SlutWalks....even wearing the word 'slut' across their chests....with the intent of making the word 'slut' into a badge-of-honor. ....But now they've got their collective panties in a wad, because Rush used that word?

 

I wonder if the JEF will be marching in the next SlutWalk? .....As, you know, a show of solidarity and all. ....It is an election year, after all. Heh. 

124 Can I get some Facebook help? I went to the OneMillionBreitbarts page and would 'friend' it/them but don't see how to do it.

I only have a FB page so see pix of my niece's baby so I'm a moron about how to use it. TIA.

125 One thing I do find odd about this.  If this contract company is working for the DOD just who do they think terminated Che.  Do they think right wing reactionaries terminated him simply because he was a communist?  Aren't they afraid this kind of thing would get their contract terminated?

126 Retread, go here http://tinyurl.com/6o3wbrr and click 'like' in the upper right hand corner.

127 126 Can I get some Facebook help? I went to the OneMillionBreitbarts page and would 'friend' it/them but don't see how to do it.

I only have a FB page so see pix of my niece's baby so I'm a moron about how to use it. TIA.

Posted by: Retread at March 03, 2012 03:04 PM (joSBv)

--At the top of the page there should be a thumbs-up "Like" button.

128 Oh sorry....meant to say you can't 'friend' that page....just 'like' it.

129 "OK, I found the post from last night. Obviously you are in a heavy blue State if the HR people have no idea who Che was and what he did."

Actually no, the state I live in is not a blue state, however the company I work for is a very large one and the HR director is not a native, she is in point of fact originally from Canada and has only been living here in the states for maybe 3 or 4 years.

As to having no idea who Che is or what he did, from the emails I've gotten the vast majority of people who asked for information had no idea who Che was or what the historical facts were.  Many of them had commented that they had seen the T-Shirt, but had no idea who it was and they were actually surprised to find out the shirt's origins and meaning.  To most of them it was just an ugly T-Shirt with no further significance.

Granted it's a sad comment on the state of our educational system, but apparently it's true. 

130 130 Oh sorry....meant to say you can't 'friend' that page....just 'like' it.

Posted by: Tami at March 03, 2012 03:08 PM (X6akg)

--Yeah, you can as a general rule only "friend" people, not organizations or causes.

131 http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=122670

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132 Thanks Tami and logprof. I 'liked' it. They're only at 3325 now, get over there morons and help them out.

133

I remember seeing a pic of some lib protester somewhere.....wearing a Che t-shirt, and holding up a sign that said "Fascists!". .....Oh, the irony.

 

Che....that's the guy who would just shoot anyone who didn't agree with him. ....He was fascism personified.

134 134 Thanks Tami and logprof. I 'liked' it. They're only at 3325 now, get over there morons and help them out.

Posted by: Retread at March 03, 2012 03:12 PM (joSBv)

--Already done!  Even when you just "like" a page if your settings are correct you can see updates; I don't care to see every wall post, but any posts by the organizer may be worth catching.

135 >>get over there morons and help them out.

Reporting for duty, Sir!

Done!

136 Sarah, Palin has "liked" the One Million Breitbarts page, but should I be spooked that Andrew Breitbart "likes" it as well?

137 Humberto Fontova writes of Ché: Che Guevara was monumentally vain and epically stupid. He was shallow, boorish, cruel and cowardly. He was full of himself, a consummate fraud and an intellectual vacuum. He was intoxicated with a few vapid slogans, spoke in clichés and was a glutton for publicity. But ah! He DID come out nice in a couple of publicity photos, high cheekbones and all! And we wonder why he's a hit in Hollywood. Full read at my name.

138 >>and a fist full of jokes about the human anus.

You got that backwards, buddy.

139

wwabd?

now we ask - what would andrew breitbart do?

140 After watching Bill Whittle's tribute, I almost want to shake AB. Having a heart attack at 42 is a serious danger sign--men that young who have heart attacks are more likely to die. I so wish AB would have taken better care of himself. We're going to feel his loss for a long time.

141 BTW, if anyone wants to go troll-busting, Andrew's own FB page is a great hunting ground.

142 Nice writing, Truman.

I'm still trying to figure out what form my Breitbartness will take.

143 Che' Guevara was a shitbag and a poseur.  Too bad the CIA did not get him earlier.

144 From what I understand the CIA didn't "get him". It was special forces who went in and got him.

145

142  After watching Bill Whittle's tribute, I almost want to shake AB.

 

I didn't like that 'tribute'. .....Whittle couldn't resist mentioning his own little "I tried to tell him to take care of himself" story...and comes across as rather self-serving in doing that.  ...It was creepy.

 

Andrew Breitbart lived his life the way he wanted to.....fighting the way he wanted to. .....He was probably so wired over the daily, constant battles, that his health was the last thing on his mind. ....I won't scold him for that. I salute him for his selflessness.

146 " From what I understand the CIA didn't "get him". It was special forces who went in and got him."

Reports vary on this, a lot - from most of the information I've been able to gather it was actually neither, but rather Bolivian army regulars who were at the time trained by our Green Beret's (A common mission for them at the time) that killed Che.

Some reports say he was captured first and then executed, others say different - some say Green Beret's were involved, some claim the 2nd Ranger battalion was there, many state the presence of a CIA officer, many claim he wasn't there at all.

So it's a little difficult to determine exactly what happened.  From most of the reputable sources I can find it would appear that it was indeed the Bolivians themselves who first captured Che after an encounter with a band of his rebels.  According to the best information I have, a small force of the Bolivian army lead by a Captain Gary Prado acted on a tip from a Bolivian peasant engaged Che and a small group of rebels in combat.

From all accounts this was the first time Che had ever actually engaged in combat himself, I'm guessing only because they were caught by surprise and he had little other choice.  Che was wounded and captured, and they held him over night before executing him the next day on orders from then Bolivian President Rene Barrientos.  Rather ironic, considering how many people Che had executed himself without the benefit of a trial.  Of course most of those people were from the Cuba, and there only "crime" was being guilty of having been wealthy or upper-middle class folks with an education that had belongings or possessions that Che and his thugs wanted.

From the research I have done the CIA was made aware of all of this, but weren't really directly involved to any great extent.  To be fair though reports on this part of course vary widely so it's difficult to be certain exactly what role they played.

147 Writings I have read from people familiar with the SF community said it was SF with some locals who did the capture. It was then laid out that Bolivian SF did it.

148 "Writings I have read from people familiar with the SF community said it was SF with some locals who did the capture. It was then laid out that Bolivian SF did it."

Admittedly it is very possible - there are about 300 different versions of the story of how he was captured and then executed.  The revolting part is how many of them use the descriptor "Christ like" to describe how he looked after the fact.  There was absolutely nothing Christ-like about this dirtbag.

 

149 While his mortal shell has expired, you can't kill the Big Idea that Andrew taught us, not really. You can only allow it to die, by doing nothing.

You know, he's not really dead as long as we remember him

150 So you are saying there are social issues that are intertwined with fiscal issues? Be careful here, because you may unwittingly be treading into a minefield. Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 03, 2012 12:53 PM Yep. I was surprised to read this post here, since it was pretty evident from the comments to the posts this week regarding Sandra 'the slut' Fluke that most (if not all) of the bloggers here as well as the 'true conservatives (read fiscal conservatives, social liberals)' in the comments completely disagree that social issues have anything to do with fiscal issues.

151 While his mortal shell has expired, you can't kill the Big Idea that Andrew taught us, not really. You can only allow it to die, by doing nothing. Nice sentiment, but what is the "Big Idea"? And who actually bothers to take up his sword and run with that "Big Idea"? It seems every election, we scrap the "Big Ideas" and principles and policies and simply focus on things such as "electability", "anyone with an R next to his/her name" and "this is not the hill to die on". Take, for instance, illegal immigration. In 2006-2007, it was THE big thing that was going to destroy the nation. Then, in 2008 (McCain) and now again in 2012 (Perry), when that idea is brought up, people just went "meh, who cares, we just gotta get a R in office". So I really don't know what 'our side' even believes in anymore. Principles and 'big ideas' seem to change based on which politician is the most popular at any given moment.

152 But regardless in memory of Andrew I will not go quietly, nor will I sit quietly by anymore. I think it was Edmund Burke who said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Well, I'm not going to do that anymore. The nothing option is now off the table.

 

Posted by: StuckOnStupid

 

 

You got plenty of guts.  Most of us do lead lives of "quiet desparation", to quote Thoreau.  To stand up over something like this doesn't always seem like "the hill to die on".  But the slow and relentless pressure to conform and the daily debasing of our culture and politics turns us all into ....something that we just don't want to face.

 

Breitbart wasn't an 'everyman', by no means.  It took him years to take up this battle, to work himself up to this.  But sooner or later, all of us are going to have to either personally stand up and say "No More!" or else slink off and accept our eventual doom.  And die a little every day, inside.

 

My tinny advice is to stay factual, stay cool, and start to think about getting a lawyer, even if you think you can't afford one  (thinking is free, afterall).  By all means, as you yourself said, don't quit.  Make them fire you, if it comes to that.

 

Living the life of a truly free man is not as easy as it sounds or should be.  But that's the way things are today.

153 You know, he's not really dead as long as we remember him Posted by: Dr Leonard McCoy at March 03, 2012 04:39 PM Damn you, Spock! http://bit.ly/amyJRb

154 Errr, McCoy.

155 My husband has recently been awakened to find the dismal state of the nation politically.    Up until recently, he was content to pursue his career and his serious hobbies.    Obama changed that.  

And Andrew Breitbarts death has punched him in the guts.  My man doesn't weep for many.  He wrote this:

AndrewÂ’s death strikes me with fear

While down my cheek runs many a tear.

IÂ’m the silent type, there in the background

Wanting to speak but making no sound.

No one who knows me would call me weak

But in politics, IÂ’ve always been meek.

Not wanting to offend friends on the left,

My political action has been, well, bereft.

Whether we find it is death with a cause,

It is time to stand, and without pause.

LetÂ’s find truth and justice if we can

ItÂ’s the best tribute for such a great man.

This is for Stuck on Stupid (better change that nic, you're officially my hero, dude).

156 Wow. sorry about that.  What's up with the hamsters?

157 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

158 Breitbart's behavior at the Ayers-Dohrn dinner recalls an earlier time when champions of opposing sides might have a drink or take a meal together on the eve of a great battle, during which they would try to annihilate each other.

159 Before we all go off re-making Breitbart in our own image (not you, T.N., but others better heed this), think about what Weinergate was about. It wasn't the economy, it wasn't some larger, noble purpose. Breitbard (AND ACE!) saw a lying sackweasel try to get away with something sordid (it was about sex!!), and they didn't let him do that. Those of you who want to accuse Rush of being untoward with his use of terms for Fluke and her cohorts on Capitol Hill and in the White House, pay attention: Breitbart would be right there in the middle of this, making the left answer for all of it. The lies about who this woman is, the absurdity of demanding we pay for her birth control, and yes, the suggestion that her sex life is spread wide open for us to see! Don't invoke his name while you're telling Rush and others to shut up about it. It borders on blasphemy. Posted by: BurtTC at March 03, 2012 01:05 PM THIS. A-freaking-men. And the issue with this slut (lying to Congress (and the nation) about the cost of contraception, politically active to force Catholic institutions to go against their beliefs, politically active to force taxpayers to pay for her lifestyle choice) is MUCH bigger than the issue with Weiner.

160 God I feel like crap. He is the same age as me and he died before his time and has accomplished more in 5-6 years than i have in a lifetime.  GO ANDREW!

161 @25: AMEN!

162 For the record, I've read every comment here, and I couldn't be more gratified by your praise and criticisms.