"He didn't care what was going on at L.A. City Hall — he wanted to know what was going on on the Paramount lot," Pollak says. He believed that if you control the poets, you control the state.
Dozens of the fallen provocateur's media friends gathered for a monthly party at an elegant home in Santa Monica Canyon last Friday. Contrary to posthumous attacks by adversaries who proclaimed him "a douche" and "a piece of scum," they talked of a loving husband, an inspirational father to his four young children and an L.A. spirit who fought for the sheer fun of it. Once the red meat had been devoured and all that remained was the wine, TV producer Rob Long told the one about Breitbart schooling a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters:
Breitbart was driving with his kids to a nursery supply store on Bundy Drive, Long said, when he noticed picketers outside KTTV, the Fox affiliate. He walked up to the protesters and told them in that loud, gleeful voice that they probably wanted Fox's network news office, a block east. Their refusal to listen only delighted him more.
Breitbart often took on Occupy protesters, grilling them with constitutional trivia and heckling union leaders. All on tape, of course — including one viral video of Breitbart being dragged off, screaming that occupiers were "freaks and animals" who had raped and murdered America.
As much as he loved talking smack to Bill Maher on national TV, Breitbart never looked happier — or crazier — than when he was going head-to-head with the citizens.
"I feel terrible that L.A. never really reconciled with Andrew," says an emotional Pollak. "But I think Andrew did" — reconcile with L.A. — "in his heart."
One iconic image of Breitbart was taken for Time in 2010 It showed him balancing his laptop above his bubble bath, SoCal sunlight streaming into his upstairs bathroom. Journalist Steve Oney wrote in the accompanying story of holding tight to Breitbart's passenger seat as the rising star raced home "via the sort of shortcuts only native Angelenos know." In that moment, Breitbart said to him, "I feel very alive."
Looking back, Oney now says, "It was phenomenal to be with him as he drove in his Range Rover, zipping along, with the 405 in complete gridlock. It seems a metaphor for the way he lived. There was an improbable speed to Andrew's rise, and to Andrew's untimely death."
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What I loved the most about Andrew Breitbart is the way he could make liberal/progressives heads explode. And even in his death, he is still doing that very same thing.
Hell, read some of these comments. He is laughing his ass off.
I don't think where he is , he is laughing his arse off . I'm sure he was surprised by his own death. Didn't he say Kennedie was a piece of human excrement ( the tweet is online in his own account ). This applies to him as well.
The moment I saw the headline, I knew what Pat Robertson always says, must be true: Eventually God strikes dead and punishes those who work against the Bible. If anyone broke the Golden Rule to Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You, it was the piece of shit that walked the earth for a blessedly short period of time: Andrew Breitbart.
I know its not very Godly to be glad someone is dead, but the fact that God struck down this pathetic, egotistical, money-grubbing, opportunistic, media whore.... well, as they say in some quarters, its a "good thing".
Now we can all return to our lives and Breitbart will soon be forgotten as ever having lived on the planet. It is exactly what that scumbag deserves.
Breitbart was an extraordinary douchebag with about as much talent as Dennis Miller and Rush Limbaugh combined. He fancied himself quite the caustic wit, but in the end was simply a novelty whose tired claims had long ago run their course.
There are plenty of LA natives politically on the right, and most of us know well to sit down and shut up. Thankfully Breitbart wasn't bullied by left-wing fascists. There was a popular bumper sticker in the 60's and 70's when I was growing up, in the Valley and LA wide; so to all those intolerant bigots on the left: "WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA. NOW GO HOME!"
Really great commenters you have here, LA Weekly. At least the author of the piece seemed to appreciate AB. The man was a fighter and the other commenters are cognizant of that but refuse to acknowledge it.
BTW Teddy Kennedy was a piece of shit. Google 'waitress sandwich' if you don't believe me. ;)
His only 'value' as a 'conservative' came from his living in liberal LA - like other Hollywood conservatives, he avoided actually living among his supposed like minded individuals in the Old South, the trailer parks of the Sun Belt, the Nixonland of the OC. He was a fraud, a simple egoist, whose one trick was a 'rebellion' against his birth and upbringing, without giving up in the least any of its advantages.
Breitbart lowered the standards of public discourse to a level which were despicable. He intentionally edited the video of Shirley Sherrod in order to change reality 100% by falsely showing her as a racist, resulting in the NAACP's condemnation and in the Sec of Ag'a firing her. Breitbart did not make an innocent error, but he deliberately and knowingly lied to the entire world about this woman, irreparably harming her career -- and for what? Does anyone know what motive any person could have to single out a wonderful person who explaining a personal error and how she realized her mistake and how she set out to rectify her wrong? Breitbart rewarded Ms. Sherrod's humanity by trashing her worldwide with a doctored video which he knew for a fact was 100% contrary to the truth.
There are times when people who engage in vile behavior are labeled psychopaths, but others will object to the label as it removes the odious moral stench which emanating from the person. As to Breitabrt, he is one person who should not escape moral condemnation by a mental health designation. Certain behaviors are so outside the bounds of human decency and are so under one's control that society needs to express its moral outrage. Breitbart had hours to contemplate the evil he was abut to commit.
Breitbard supported the complete perversion of truth when it came to ACORN with the falsely edited James O'Keefe videos. Breitbart supplanted Truth with Lies -- that was his modus operandi. Breitbart did not redeem himself by dying.
Most of society refuses to do repudiate Breitbart's descent into the gutter and refuse to contemplate how they thereby damage the nation's moral fiber. Many people on the right wing praise him, while at the same time they claim that liberty becomes with responsibilities. How about the duty not to wantonly harm other people? I guess setting out to destroy another person's career for no reason other than his own self-aggrandizement doesn't count. Others in the middle and to the left focus on his passion forgetting that Joe McCarthy had passion. Passion is not a license to destroy.
Societies who glamorize the ignoble and the base do so at their own risk.
He made his name by hunting down African Anericans and lynching them in any way he could find. He was a Klansman without the hood. Good riddance!
This guy called Ted Kennedy a piece of shit when he died.
So I have no problem saying, loudly, good riddance you racist liar.
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