At the Raccoon Inn, we covered the death of PC David Rathband.
But there was another sudden death yesterday – Andrew Breitbart, a US Conservative blogger-campaigner, who had worked for Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington in the past, before starting his own operation.
Breitbart was 43.
Others have done obituaries – such as The Huffington Post, and others are dancing on his grave.
I don’t usually follow American politics in great detail, but there was one incident I want to remember, and I’m a little surprised that no one has reposted the video.
This was when Senator Anthony Weiner had been tweeting pics of his gorgeous manhood to a young lady, as some do, using his personal twitter account (idiot, for that alone), and did it publicly by mistake. Breitbart caught the picture, and events lead to Weiner lying about what he’d done, then falling on his political sword.
How many British politicians have we seen embarrassed when they don’t put strong enough firewalls when they start using Twitter, to prevent them causing themselves unintended embarrassment?
Sion Simon, anyone?
Breitbart breezed into Weiner’s own press conference, and held court before the audience who were supposed to be listening to Weiner’s account.
Before that he had done more than his fare share of deception and political mugging., and I haven’t had a lot of time for Breitbart’s poke-’em-in-the eye political tactics, if necessary creating an artificial eye first, but this is brilliant opportunism.
Matt Wardman blogs at The Wardman Wire, on media, politics and technology, in addition to writing at the Raccoon Arms. Follow me on Twitter.
{ 7 comments }
I’d never heard of this guy, but the Twitter comments were quite unreal ~ lefties really are just plain nasty.
(Also is it just me, but if a young bloke has a beard, he seems invariably to be a leftie).
Being impressionistic – there are many varieties of beards.
“Yoffy” beards – Steve Jobs.
“Garry Glitter” beards – bald tops with an exaggerated goatee or anyone one is *really* trying to wind up.
Goatee beards which obviously require a Vajazzle – see The Joy of Sex, female half.
And that’s without going for left/right beards.
It goes on, but this is none of those, but seems quite common in films.
And I’ll leave that one there, I think.
And then you have beards that make you a Gianni Versace lookalike, to name another individual who died long before his time, albeit, admittedly, under very different circumstances. “Different circumstances,” unless, that is, you give any credence to the Tinfoil Hat Brigade who are already speculating on the demise of Andrew Breitbart.
PS: Matt, Weiner was a “Member”[sic!] of the House of Representatives, not a Senator; not that that makes a difference, particularly, for the purposes of discussing what he did, but you know the lefty types, they’ll seize on anything to say “AHA! Matt Wardman doesn’t know what he’s talking about! This is the sort of thing you can expect from him and Anna Raccoon!”
He was a conservative …
Yes, but not young in the sense I meant it. I was talking about the bloke in the link to the abuse.
Alas, I was not familiar with his work. He seems a decent guy from what I have read. Meanwhile “Weiner-Gate” was one of the funniest and most ironic stories for some time…
Well… let’s see if Breibart’s Obama video makes it out eh?
Reputedly historical home movie showing POTUS hanging out with some fairly full on American domestic hard left revolutionary (Weathermen) types.
There’s also the nagging question – and it *is* a big question as to why some blithering idiot (or cunning media manipulator in POTUS’s staff) put a fake Obama birth certificate on the whitehouse.gov web site a week before UBL reputedly went to meet Allah. It was/is a fake – no doubt in my mind – I loaded the pdf into Adobe Suite (from whitehouse.gov) and there are 9 layers and multiple unmatched bitmaps – clumsy doesn’t get close.
Why doesn’t a stupid but well meaning White House intern fall on their sword or something?
It’s all rather odd. I believe in coincidence – really I do.