I’m all for giving people space to mourn the dead, but it’s been a year and this is so maudlin that I couldn’t stop laughing. I wonder if K-Lo knows how ridiculous she seems to the secular mind.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Sounds like Andrew ran with a shady crowd. Last year anyway.
Wasn’t your original title "Andrew" instead of "Breitbart"? It took me a minute — I was going "Andrew who?" so it must have been.
I’m so (self-)sheltered from the bad things in life, LOL.
This woman writes likes she’s 14.
“I do remember the first time we finally met. It may have involved one of the only “party crashing” moments of my life. At the time, the weekend seemed endless. Looking back, it’s hard not to have the thought: “If only.””
Hard to get my head around that she was writing of a guy who, hours after Ted Kennedy’s death, referred to him as “a ‘duplicitous bastard’, a ‘prick’ and ‘a special pile of human excrement'” at least according to Wikipedia. But then I remember that we’re talking about K-Lo and it all fits.
Hard to get my head around the fact that she gets paid for writing. And “like a 14 year old” is generous. College is wasted on some people.
I forgot he died.
I hope that doesn’t make me a bad person.
I forgot he had ever been born.
I didn’t forget. A huge waste of space. A great day when he died.
I just threw up a little
That is serious journalism these days? I expect that level of crap from Breitbart.com, but from something with at least a sliver of Buckley’s DNA?
She sounds as much of a non-serious, self important, self referencing drunk as Andrew. And yes about as evolved as a 14 year old, which is when she and Andrew started drinking.
We’re talking NRO. Who said anything about journalism?
Yeah well there was a time when Buckley actually made you work to debate him.
’twas certainly work to listen to him.
It has it all. Me-tooism, name-dropping, drippy nostalgia, lover’s regret, the friggin’ Cayman Islands, a drawn-out explanation of Instant Messaging serving no purpose but to deflect attention from her me-tooism, group telephone prayer, more prayer, a pilgrimage, the bit on taking communion at the freaking Calvary altar in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the lovely “We’ll never IM again.”
And all in the remembrance of one of the most dishonest assholes to ever grace this planet.
Yeah, I laughed real hard with that “We’ll never IM again” thing. Classic! But how about the very next thing in this wildly inappropriate weepathonic honorarium:
“He’ll never stretch my ability to stay awake trying to solve all the problems of the world again.” Was that what he was doing, solving the problems of the world again, when he screamed overandoverandoverandover again at Occupiers, “STOP RAPING PEOPLE!”?
Finally, she wrote “My friend was a fan of victory.” Well, OK. He certainly wasn’t a fan of truth, or honor, but he did worship at the altar of VICTORY! And don’t forget his love of YELLING!!!
Well, you’re dead now, so shut up!
Tragically a 15 year old kid here in the high school died in January of the flu. He was hugely popular. I am good friends with his dad. 800+ people in this small community came to his funeral.
Better written and more thoughtful stuff was put on Facebook pages by 9th graders that that crap on NRO. Without debate.
But they had a better subject to work with I guess.
You neglected to mention the sweetest plum of all: the obligatory “Al Gore invented the internet” joke.
Is it a new weekend ritual to go trolling for K-Lo’s screeds?
And yeah, I forgot that racist loudmouth died…but it’s been all over — not just right-wing outlets, either.
Who gives a fuck about Andrew Breitbart? Even when he was alive, I didn’t think he was that influential; I thought most people treated him like Alex Jones (or was that just me?).
he pretty much destroyed ACORN…you know, my old outfit.
No, the weak-kneed Democrats destroyed it. They fell for his shenanigans because somehow he was given more credence than Alex Jones.
Oh boy. I am not clicking on that link.
One of those people who pre-composted himself. In remembering Pat Robertson’s comment that one must be careful at garage sales because there can be demons in the sweaters I’m thinking I would steer clear of any garage sales in front of Breitbart’s house.
“pre – composting”
I like that.
Why all the hysterics over the date his body stopped functioning?
His humanity died long before that.
“the least surprising conspiracy theory of the year”
ahh, good times.