This is Andrew Breitbart who died of a heart attack today.
This video is from February, so this is not ancient history.
Now a story, and perhaps a small lesson in civics and karma.
You see, "We the People" may end up supporting this man's kids and wife thanks to Social Security Survivor benefits.
It was these same Social Security Survivor benefits that kicked in when a 16-year old by the name of Paul Ryan (now a conservative Congressman from Wisconsin) found his father dead from a heart attack at age 55.
Paul Ryans and his three brothers and sisters were able to go to college because of Social Security Survivor benefits.
Just last year, Congressman Ryan turned around and attacked Social Security saying current and future benefits (i.e. all the money that most senior citizens actually live on) "will transform our social safety net into a hammock, which lulls able-bodied people into lives of complacency and dependency."
Right.
So Paul Ryan is a hypocrite and an ingrate. Surely you are not surprised to find such an animal in Congress?
But never mind. Let us now turn our attention to the wife and dependent children of another very dead young father -- Andrew Breitbart.
Once again Social Security Survivor benefits will step up if they are needed.
Of course Andrew Breitbart's family can go ahead and decline them.
In fact, I hope they do, because God knows Andrew Breitbart never showed an ounce of compassion for anyone else.
In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy's death, for example, Breitbart called Kennedy a "villain", a "duplicitous bastard", a "prick" and "a special pile of human excrement".
And I guess Andrew Breitbart would know. After all, when it came to duplicitous piles of shit, Andrew Breitbart was the biggest load to ever swirl around the bowl.
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4 comments:
Classy guy...
I'll bet it was a cocaine overdose. I feel sad for his wife and kids, though I imagine they'll be taken care of by the rightwing noise machine.
Sorry if it's bad form to reply to a comment, but I seriously doubt the right wingers will care one whit about supporting Breitbart's family. The crazy wagon will roll merrily along right over his cold, dead body.
Seahorse
When he died, Andrew Breitbart was in the middle of losing a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Shirley Sherrod, the honorable and hard-working public official who he publicly defamed and ruined through lies and doctored video tape.
Just two weeks ago, a U.S. District Court issued a six-page "statement of reasons" which accused Andrew Breitbart of wasting "a considerable amount of judicial and litigant resources" on an absurd motion to get the defamation lawsuit tossed out.
My deepest and most sincere wish is that that civil lawsuit now proceed against Mr. Breitbart's estate. Shirley Sherrod deserves to be made whole and deserves every dollar Andrew Breitbart made by destroying her and others.
Let Mr. Breitbart's family live on the Social Security Survivor benefits he demonized in life.
And if his family needs more assistance, let them knock on the doors of an ACORN office, if they can find one. You see, Andew Breitbart also destroyed ACORN which put hundreds out of work and left scores of thousands without assistance while leaving poor communtities across the nation weaker. Again, Andrew Breitbart did this through lies and doctored video tape. On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings on ACORN, by then disbanded. It said that there was NO evidence that the group, or any of its related organizations, mishandled any of the $40 million in federal money which they had received in recent years.
Andrew Breitbart's legacy is the bully tactics of a liar and a cheat who used video and the hysteria of the ignorant and the riotous tendancies of the rabble to destroy. Let us remember him for the vermin that he was.
My deepest and most sincere wish is that that civil lawsuit now proceed against Mr. Breitbart's estate.
According to a friend who is an attorney, it will. I hope they go after all his money with glee and reckless abandon, just as Breitbart did when he "earned" it. I'm curious where this will leave Breitbart's sniveling young protégé, James O'Keefe.
Seahorse,
You're probably right! I'm not sure what I was thinking. :)
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