It is also interesting that the CIA had developed an assassin’s pistol that fired an either frozen or dissolvable dart-like structure containing an extremely toxic shellfish poison that forced a heart attack and was metabolized before leaving any trace.

Sen. Frank Church was shown holding this gun during the CIA hearings in 1975. Church soon died of bone cancer, Sen Tower of yet another unexplained plane crash, and anal retentive and detail oriented Director William Colby decided to leave half his breakfast on the table before canoeing without his lifejacket. According to family, he ALWAYS wore his life jacket in the canoe.
http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Ba-Bl/Biochemical-Assassination-Weapons.html

It’s what one did to hold their job.

Here is someone who got tired of doing just that, and is finally speaking out in spite of the real threat of being blackballed:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/211410.php

Anarcissie, March 7 at 6:50 am
“Well, there is really hardly any Left media outside the Internet.”

No argument there, Any real truth is (or was) only spoken about in small stations, small syndications, and small-time newspapers. I used to love receiving the Rock Creek Free Press every month, but, alas, they too had to throw in the towel, probably due to the influence of the internet. I loved the “Creek”, because you could sit down with someone and actually “show” them the articles without just sending links to people and hoping they grow a conscience. Sigh.

I think we all used to admire Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and other newspeople of that genre, for what we thought was journalistic professionalism, but what has been coming to like, unfortunately, is that they were only parroting the party lines of the day regarding Viet Nam; telling as much of the truth as they could under a veil of lies. It’s what one did to hold their job.

Mike Gravel stood up to that system and, along with Daniel Ellsberg, brought the lies about Viet Nam to the public eye. There have been a number of aspiring candidates with similar convictions ready to allow the people to have more of a voice in their own government. ALL of these candidates opposed NAFTA and have been shut out of providing any real news to the mass of voters. So, what do those voters get for news? Drivel.

Well, there is really hardly any Left media outside the Internet.  I can think of a couple of FM stations, WBAI and KPFK, and a monthly magazine or two, but that’s about it.  No television stations, no daily newspapers, the radio pretty much saturated with rightist material.  Big money at work.

heterochromatic, March 4 at 11:49 am
“BR——Breitbart’ mission was to lie in order to prove that there is no journalistic objectivity….it was, overall, a stupid mission, despite having a grain of truth.”

... and, “I don’t consider Breitbart to have been THE problem, but I consider the way he conducted himself and his enterprises to have been contributions toward worsening the problem that he postulated.”

—————————-

I didn’t follow Breitbart, and while I truly feel that integrity is sorely lacking in the media, he was right about there being no journalistic objectivity. It’s a joke. The Right still blames the Left, the Left still blames the Right, and all their dutiful minions on both sides of the political spectrum are still marching goose step according to their individual party’s ideologies. Meanwhile, while everyone is busy pontificating about how only THEIR candidates are the solution to our problems, those in power are running a steam roller over the Constitution.

It’s too bad Breitbart had to resort to lying to get his points across. He could have gotten further with the truth, although he would have been branded as a tin foil hat wearer by those idiots who thought Bush did a great job or that this Hope and Change crap is actually going to do anything beside drag our ass further into the crapper. Both sides are still sucking down their daily journalistic pablum while our legislature is carving up what’s left of the candy store.

In the following video, German WWII veteran Hilmar von Campe describes how Americans are falling for the same lies that his countrymen fell for some 80 years ago. He basically says exactly what two of my elderly German clients had said during the Bush Administration ....... and nothing has changed, not even with a new administration. But what do they know? We have a whole country filled with Tighty Righties and Leftist Libtards that have a good bead on everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4HDtLZXyEA&feature=share

Tobysgirl, March 6 at 9:47 am:

‘Anarcissie, no, I don’t feel Breitbart’s sickness is my sickness. His sickness is our society’s sickness, but having been a marginalized person, even as a child, ...’

We, at the margins, may suffer all the more acutely from the communal illnesses of the society as a whole in which we inevitably have a part.

Breitbart’s tragedy is partly that he does not seem to have understood the tragedy of being a mere bully.  That is not to say he was not a malign and dangerous character.  So is a dog that has been habitually beaten.  But humans have the chance, through insight, to get beyond their disabilities.  As far as I can tell, Breitbart died in his cage.

Thank you Leefeller, but the quote is a SheZenism and maybe
someday a Roshi will find it worthwhile repeating.  But I won’t
hold my breath (though I know there are some non-liberals who
wish I would).  LOL.  What is the reality between breaths?  In or
out?  Wishing Zen skies to everyone. 

Here is a real Zen (saying: 
“All the suffering of this world arises from a wrong attitude.
The world is neither good or bad.
It is only the relation to our ego that makes it seem the one or the other.”
- Lama Anagarika Govinda

It is much better than mine.  But then that gives me something to stretch
for.

She;

“Envy is a waste of time.  One never has to guard their heart if one is
true to their self.”

Well taken and and good timing, Zen does so well shoving aside nonzense!

Anarcissie, no, I don’t feel Breitbart’s sickness is my sickness. His sickness is our society’s sickness, but having been a marginalized person, even as a child, ...

Breitbart possessed POWER, which he used and abused. I do not lump the powerless, the voiceless, the marginalized, into the same category as war criminals such as our presidents, media whores, banksters, etc.

If we are all guilty, then no one is guilty of anything. And I do believe that some people bear a great deal of guilt for the sort of world we live in. We usually call them successes.

I always aim for depth and to avoid melodrama as much as possible. 
One of my favorite Zen stories is: Goso said: “Suppose you meet a Zen
master on the road. You can’t talk to him. You can’t stand there silent.
What can you do?”
Mumon answered: “Whack him one!”

Envy is a waste of time.  One never has to guard their heart if one is
true to their self.

I have always aspired to sentimentality. 

I once read of a Zen master who went to the store to buy vegetables and came back with some very sorry-looking string beans.  His wife asked him if he couldn’t find anything better.  ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘they were the worst ones there.  I felt sorry for them.’

Usually I am cold and hard of heart.  But I keep that little story in mind to chip away at the icy monolith within.

How I envy you who must constantly guard your hearts against the warmly upwelling gush of sympathy and charity!

She—-excellent comment and answers itself as to why we understand and try not
to be over-harsh with considering the depravity of others…..

some of us have always depended on the depravity of strangers…sometimes

BR——Breitbart’ mission was to lie in order to prove that there is no journalistic
objectivity….it was, overall, a stupid mission, despite having a grain of truth.

As with most everything he did, he took a partial-truth and insisted that it was the
entirety of things….

I don’t consider Breitbart to have been THE problem, but I consider the way he
conducted himself and his enterprises to have been contributions toward
worsening the problem that he postulated.

Maybe I’m projecting my remembrance of what it was like to be a helpless drunk without power of communication .  Be that as it may,  uncontrolled exhibitionistic anger for poor Andrew Breibart seemed to be a shaming perpetual motion device.  That Andrew’s belief that he could suddenly empty the streets of people who were freaks and scum and anybody he disagreed with was delusional.  “They must understand that I am very angry so I’ll shout and swear even more aggressively ” , he apparently thought. 
The angrier he got , the more he came across as hysterically funny .  Furious right wingers have a right to vent their disgusts in their blogs.    Losing control in a   perpetually disgusted diatribe   obviously causes   unecessary heart attacks. 
I feel terrible for his family.  His exhibionistic excesses could have been avoided with the right tweak for tolerance and respect for cultural and historical and individual differences .

It is sentimental drivel.  Why feel pity for depravity?  Other’s, of
course.

One of the reasons to feel pity for Breitbart is that his sickness is ‘our’ sickness.

Not mine, of course.  This is where ‘we’ means ‘you’ or ‘those poor souls over there’.  Right?

I give much credit to Anarcissie and Leefeller for their pity for this horrible man. When I am not thinking about the destruction such a person does—out of their own internal misery—I am working on pitying them. He suffered being himself and he died with no one really caring for him and loving him, which is the saddest epitaph any of us can earn.

No, I don’t accept the common definition of love—“I love you to death.” Love is wanting the best for someone, wanting them to enjoy good health in all ways, wanting them to find peace in this troubled world.

Lee,
I have to admit that you’re statement about Obama’s position along the political spectrum may be accurate, but does it really change anything?

Heterochromatic,
What if Breitbart HAD lied before? Just because Peter had lied about the wolf doesn’t negate the fact that people needed to be warned about the wolf at present; it only meant that the townspeople weren’t perceptive enough to realize when he actually lying. Same goes us for having to deal with Papa Bush, Clinton, Bush the Idiot, and now Obama. They all lie and they lie big. But go ahead and keep thinking that Breitbart was “the problem”. No matter what you think of Breitbart (I was never a fan of his, BTW), what if the films turn out to be
genuine? All I was saying was that I was going to wait on the outcome before taking a chance on making a complete ass of myself.

By James M. Martin, March 2
“Not being bound by Christian metaphysics and superstitions”

Ooohhh, wow - what a freethinking intellectual we have here. LOL

Can you say ‘bullsh.t’???

You see, we are ALL bound by something. For some it’s a narcisstic attitude for others, well..you get my drift, right?

Hate is a waste of energy.  If one is going to hate make sure there
is enough supply to make it worth the expenditure. I never felt hatred for
Breitbart.  He just took a place among those things that I find
nauseating. It is kind of funny that it is going to take weeks to find
out what the prick of a man died of.  Diarrhea of a Pompous Mind
might be a good guess.

One must develop keen sight and insight when looking at the panoply
of politicians.  Too many hallucinators come out of the woodwork
wearing disguises trying to blend in with the body politic.  Egotistical
charlatans who pretend or claim to have more knowledge or skill than
he or she possess appear on the left as much as the right.  Sharpton
frequently reminds me of this kind of wannabe politician.  Also a
Pompous Mind, I often believe in the rights issues he champions but his
melodrama seems to come from a man who wears suits that are three or
four sizes too big.  I don’t think Sharpton is much of a spokesperson for
human rights.  It is our responsibility to sift these kinds of opportunists
out of our consciousness.

She——-In 1998, Pagones was awarded $345,000 (he sought $395 million)
through a lawsuit for defamation of character that he had brought against
Sharpton, Maddox and Mason. The jury found Sharpton liable for making seven
defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two and Mason for one.

Sharpton never paid him a penny, claimed he was bankrupt and had no assets
at all….When Sharpton ran for president in the Democratic primaries on 2003,
he was still lying.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/ballot_box/2003/09/the_wor
st_of_al_sharpton.html

eventually “friends” of Sharpton paid off his debt….. but the stink of it isn’t ever
going to leave him until he can find the decency to apologize.

It seems the Conservative mind works like a broken clock, it never seems to be be right once a day!

Little difference in the mental manifestations of imbeciles and idiots such as Breitbart who would destroy something he immensely disliked resorting to lies to achieve his goals, which reminds me of the well known right wing A.H., McCarthy who attempted to destroy peoples lives, yet one more conservative inflated by self worth festering with a sick obsessive hate!

Go for it Omypoo! Once again but with slight embellishment let me do a repeater here;  ‘Breitbart did not embarrass the left, he personified the consistent stupidity and hate of the right without wearing a red nose and big clown shoes!’ 

Let me be clear, I did not hate Breitbart, rather I actually felt sorry for him, though he appeared quite a dolt which is how most conservatives appear to me here on the left!

BR549, the weak point of your assertion, is in suggesting Obama is a liberal. I do not see him as liberal, more like center to center right in some cases, hence why all the anti Obama flap from the left!

Yeowie Kazowie heterochromatic!  I did not know who Steven Pagones
was!  I was not familiar with the Brawley case.  So I googled and found
the story on WikiP!  Evidence is evidence and there was none!  It is sad
how hearsay taken to the nth degree by overzealous lying can ruin a
person’s life or career.  Pagones’ and Shirley Sherrod’s for example.

I’ve heard Breitbart a couple of times. I found his lather disgusting.

Ozark ... Really?

“That was Breitbart’s objective [to embarrass the media], and not a single one of our brilliant Leftists got it.”

Let me put you in your comfort zone by quoting Breitbart only from Sean Hannity (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597324,00.html)

Breitbart:
“This is about politics. And this is about tarring ... the Tea Party Movement with the false charge of racism…I’m invested in getting the NAACP and the Democratic Party and the Congressional Black Caucus to stop constantly calling the Tea Party racist. That’s my job.  I could care less about Shirley Sherrod, to be honest with you.”

The evident truth is in the first four words.  It’s about politics.  Because otherwise the corporate media wouldn’t have given this drivel air-time in the first place and no-one would be interested.

But AT BEST Breitbart is combatting what he sees as unfair charges of racism by making unfair charges himself and destroying a woman’s career. 

All Class.

She- great ranting. here in NYC we feel just the same
about the three guys who repeatedly lied their rat
asses off about Steven Pagones.

Those who defend vermin like Breitbart are mental nestmates. 
The word vermin originally came from the Anglo-French word
of the same spelling, meaning “noxious animals.”  Rats, mice,
cockroaches, bedbugs, lice, fleas, and weasels are vermin. The
term is also applied to the loathsome, offensive, extremely
unpleasant human form of vermin. 

Was that a catharsis?  Yes it was.

I said: “He embarrased the Left and for that he will never be forgiven…”

DBM responded: “Know what? Breitbart on ACORN and Sherrod only embarrassed the news media..”

That was Breitbart’s objective, and not a single one of our brilliant Leftists got it. This is why you lose… you dont even know what you are fighting over. For you its primal rage and emotional release.

Speaking of trolling, after your accusation I now have the right to challenge you to a real discussion of what Breitbart did. Because I am willing to go over it line by line while you guys just want to hurl insults at a dead man.

Who is the troll now, troll?

BR—-  I guess yeah we should what to see what some
more videos from Breitbart contain before judging him
on all the previous deceitfully assembled videos that
he’s already used to lie about folks…...

yup, no sweat, BR, the guy lied three or four other
times but let’s not be hasty.

Before too many people start trashing Breitbart altogether, perhaps we should wait to see what the Obama tapes will reveal on Hannity’s show.

Personally, I can’t Hannity or Fox, or for that matter what the whole Conservative movement has become, but before I pass judgment on Breitbart ....... I’m waiting for the tapes. And what could it show? It could show that the left is just as toxic to the American people, the Constitution, and our way of life as the right because BOTH have been hijacked through corruption.

Ozark, I know you’re just trolling and trying to get a reaction.  But here’s the thing:

You say “He embarrased the Left and for that he will never be forgiven…”

Know what? Breitbart on ACORN and Sherrod only embarrassed the news media who faithfully jumped on stories their corporate masters wanted to see.  Since ACORN and Sherrod did nothing wrong there was no embarrassment there.

Your targeting of Planned Parenthood with similar tactics (like NPR no doubt) will further expose the willingness of evil schmucks like Breitbart to just make stuff up in order to achieve their ends instead of convincing enough people that their concerns are relevant ... you know, democracy.

Not being bound by Christian metaphysics and superstitions like karma and reincarnation, I think I can safely say Breitbart’s only fitting epitaph is: SCOUNDREL.

——-What would the Right do without its Breitbarts?—-
—

his sort are certainly not exclusive to the right, as
I’m sure you’re aware.

She:

“The worth of a man is if the world would be worse off if he were gone.  The world is not worse off this man took his leave. Breitbart was worthless.”

Ouch!  Succinct, and sadly true.

‘I don’t see how the Sherrod and ACORN/pimp adventures could possibly be called ‘pursuit of the truth’.  They were standard-issue constructions of propaganda against the truth.’ Well put Anarcissie, ... the same kind of attacks perpetuated on Planned Parenthood, women and utilized as distractions to take all eyes off the real issues which are attacking our society.

No! Omypoo, Breitbart did not embarrass the left, he personified the consistent stupidity of the right without wearing a red nose and big shoes!

Breitbart will not be missed, I don’t mean the person because I did not know him, but his public persona was a cartoon character.  He was the one who made middle-class white people feel like they were victims and their prejudice was justified while being a polarizing figure to just about anyone not a white middle-class racist. Toward this end, he was allowed to use liable, fraud, and attempting to tap a U.S. Senator’s phones, and was never held accountable.  His characters reaction to the death or serious illness of any of his “opponents” makes it odd that his fan club would be demanding differently for him and treating anything but praise as an attack.  But there’s no need to miss him, before you know it he will be recast and you will forget poor Andrew just as soon as Scooby Doo gets a new voice.

I will join the ranks in bidding farewell to bad rubbish.

I don’t see how the Sherrod and ACORN/pimp adventures could possibly be called ‘pursuit of the truth’.  They were standard-issue constructions of propaganda against the truth.

As for catching Whiner with his pants down, I don’t think it was very important.  The cognoscenti of New York City politics knew well that Whiner had certain problems (not related to sexting), and many are relieved that he is now unlikely to worm his way into the mayoralty, which seemed to be his next stop.

It seems actually rather pitiable to live and think in the Breitbart way.

What would the Right do without its Breitbarts?

@ Ozark Michael: your comparison of an award-winning
serious (if lefty) journalist like Goodman with a
hack-huckster like Breitbart is silly.  And you know
it.  Grow up and make an adult and cogent argument.

You know, it’s funny.  When Ted Kennedy died, I believe Breitbart’s tweet was,
“Rest in Chippaquiddick…[you] special piece of human excrement.”
Classy guy.

Breitbart must have been one of the nastiest men alive.

@ OZ
“Yep. Count me as one of them. While Breitbart was alive you found it a little harder to get away with it all, so i can understand your hatred, and your relief that he is gone.”
——Who wouldn’t hate a lying POS?
“Showing the underside of ACORN was incredible.”
——Not showing the legions of ACORN receptionists that called the police was the same as lying….so was donning pimp outfits they never wore in the offices…so was selectively editinfg the Sherrod speech…
Yep, we’ll count you in as a liar….

correction; ‘meant’ not meet.consessi

“Lets put it this way, Andrew Breitbart was an ass hole and a despicable person, who meant well in his deluded mind as those who looked up to him, so Breitbart was just one more right wing ...... ‘jock strap’”.

You, know I have heard the same point on people like Andrew Breitbart most of my life from apologists who cover and do not want to admit the person in question is not a good person!  “He meant well”!  Yes the same could be said for any number of right wing conservatives who leave a lasting memory of unpleasantness, ...fill in the blank; _________ “He meant well”

@ Ozark Michael

Please don’t make disparaging remarks about Amy Goodman unless you have some concrete examples to illustrate your point.

When you fuck with Amy Goodman, you are crossing the line. Capiche???

I have always treated you well, have I not???

Anyway, I’m not going to start attacking you or anything. I just wanted to express my love for Amy Goodman.

What a wonderful person she is, truly!!!

Andrew Breitbart did not die,  he lives on in Anthony Weaners shorts!

I would never speak ill of the dead, Andrew Breitbart is doing one more of his publicity stunts.

The fact some people looked up to Andrew Breitbart, seems to show how low some of humanity can go!

Lets put it this way, Andrew Breitbart was an ass hole and a despicable person, who meet well in his deluded mind as those who looked up to him, so Breitbart was just one more right wing ...... ‘jock strap’.

I love how conveniently Truthdig runs its articles together.

On the same day that you prattle about Breitbart, Truthdig runs an Amy Goodman article imploring us to ‘pursue the truth, and not its messenger’. Amy only wants to apply that to certain Leftist people and certain Leftist causes, but anyone can see what a double standard that is… if they want to.

Breitbart had a talent for making you look at the truth whether you wanted to see it or not. He embarrased the Left and for that he will never be forgiven by the Truthdig cicadas.

I don’t feel sorry for his family. They benefited financially from his whoring for the likes of the Koch brothers. If they had truly cared for him, they would have wanted him to be healthy—mentally and physically—and healthy people do not engage in the actions of Breitbart.

Speaking of whoring, NBC referred to him as fearless. I find this sort of fearlessness to be somewhat below the fearlessness of streetwalkers who truly do face risks. What did Breitbart ever have to fear? He certainly wasn’t facing prison for his fraudulent doctored videos.

You know what? (to the likes of OzMi) I’ll believe your passionate convictions when they do not benefit you in any way, particularly financially. In fact, I’ll believe your passionate convictions even more if you suffer for them, e.g., Jesus, Martin Luther King, Joe Hill, ...

OM,

I see from your other comments you’ve added Planned Parenthood and Shirley
Sherod to the list - two more entities trying to ease suffering in the world.  Go get
‘em Captain America.

OzarkMichael,

With all the evil in the world, with all the money grubbing criminals on Wall St and
Capitol Hill, with leaders who shoot fire from the sky and rain death upon civilians
the world over, with all the injustice and inequity and just plain meanness in the
world, why on earth would you focus so myopically on ACORN?  I sure hope, sir,
that you do not go around calling yourself a Christian.

And the sad fact is, there are armies of monsters in the wings just waiting to take his place.

Yep. Count me as one of them. While Breitbart was alive you found it a little harder to get away with it all, so i can understand your hatred, and your relief that he is gone. Hopefully more ‘monsters’ will be willing to stand up to you and take the heat.

The ACORN expose was brilliant but only the beginning. Hopefully Planned Parenthood is next.

Breitbart dared to expose the arrogance and sheer hypocrisy of ‘objective’ Leftists during the Journolist controversy.

In the context of the MSM lying repeatedly about the Tea Party, the Sherrod video actually did a world of good. If the Sherrod video proved one thing, it was that Leftists love to dish it out but they cant take it.

Whew…......and I thought I was the only a-hole who isn’t going to worship at the feet of “decorum” when I say that speaking ill of the dead doesn’t apply to this douche bag….a man with a heart as black as his was never really alive…..just a disgusting, amoral ghoul.

And the sad fact is, there are armies of monsters in the wings just waiting to take his place.

I refuse to celebrate anyone’s death, and I feel for his family, but I will not mourn him either.

He used lies to destroy “enemies”. How low is that?

All the pious BS being spouted now is put into perspective by his comments on Kennedy’s death.
But:
“...(Breitbart)will mostly be remembered on a professional level for breaking the story of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal”, is more pious BS.
That was the one legitimate thing I ever heard of him doing. Much more in character was the taking down of ACORN and the defaming of Ms. Sherrod.
He lived and died as a liar.

You guys know Breitbart was good friends with Huffington and suppository helped her set up Huff and Puff when she was a flaming conservative.

By the way on Huffington, you can only say nice things about this dead pile of dung, everyone of my comments where axed. I cannot believe this guy was only 43, he looked 20 years older, I want to see his fricken birth certificate and I ask was he was a self proclaimed pile Christian, it would appear so, his ignorance was above the call of duty and he happened to promote imbecility as a positive, I suppose people who found Breitbart exceptionally bright, must be imbedded with those upper level conservative sensibilities.

Great guy,espceially as one poster said, if one is into ass holes,  Breitbart was quite the penis exposer, me liberal morals find blackmail despicable, but it seems conservatives and the self righteous perceive blackmail as part acceptable business as usual in their simplistic minds the ends suite the means, especially more so when it happens to not be true.

He was a liar and an asshole.

May he go down in history as such.

My thoughts and prayers go out to his enablers, followers, and all those who’s lives have been touched by this incredibly destructive man over the course of his career.

OZ—- you might be interested to read Weigel’s piece on Breitbart in Slate

The worth of a man is if the world would be worse off if he were
gone.  The world is not worse off this man took his leave.
Breitbart was worthless.

I like Breitbart, and the more I looked at his work the better I liked him. Empowering the little guy to expose the hypocrisy of the Leftist media was just what we needed.

Showing the underside of ACORN was incredible. I suppose someone in the Obama administration might clear ACORN of criminal activity, but nothing will ever clear ACORN’s reputation. And rightfully so.

Watch out Planned Parenthood!

fun read
two encounters with him

http://www.inthesetimes.com/ittlist/entry/12819/my_two_
drunken_encounters_with_andrew_breitbart_rip/

Best (and probably only) known for
circulating pictures of a politician’s
erect penis protruding in his
underwear.  An apt and worthy
epitaph.

Someone, to whom I’m enormously grateful for telling Breitbart to fuck off, writes
about him.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/breitbart/#more-74276

The guy became a vindictive vessel for vitriol but…I do feel for his family.

He was so strident in what he was doing I didn’t suspect him, like I suspect some others, of spewing that right wing garbage because it’s a path to big money, not becaue they actually are foaming right wingers.

After attempting to murder the truth his entire life, Breitbart is gone. I ,for one, won’t miss or mourn him.

best wishes for peace for his family…......

I was very damn far from a fan of his work and methods.

Quoting the article itself:  “Breitbart’s websites also featured a 2009 hidden-camera video that brought embarrassment to the community group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The videos show ACORN staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues to actors posing as a prostitute and pimp.

“Those videos triggered a firestorm of criticism, with some ACORN employees appearing willing to support illegal schemes involving tax advice, misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.

“A Government Accountability Office report CLEARED ACORN of criminal activities.

“Even so, public pressure led Congress to block previously approved funds from going to ACORN and to stop future payments. Roughly 10 percent of ACORN’s funds came from federal grants and the group eventually disbanded.”

A bit of added research reveals that ACORN was “cleared” by Calif. Atty. Gen., by Mass. Atty.Gen. and by U.S.Govt. Accountability Office—all ineffective because the damage caused by the “doctored videos” had already been done.

Usually, even with total opponents, I have some sympathy, but I won’t mourn Breitbart. He caused a lot of damage with lies and total fabrications about which he had no shame or decency. He was still active at the end. The damage he did to reputations, careers and organizations has not stopped nor does his death repair any of it. Unlike Lee Atwater, who know he was on his last, and who was regretful about what he had let loose, Breitbart was going full steam ahead. No mourning here.

Milton wrote that one of the worst levels of Hell was reserved for those who betray other people.

well…