Thursday Open Thread [3.1.12]
Yes, Andrew Brietbart is dead. He apparently had heart issues, and he just collapsed. I can’t and won’t descend to his level, spewing vitriol as he did following the death of Ted Kennedy. But I won’t praise or laud him either. What I will say is that he was only 43 years old, and no one should die that young, especially when he has a young family.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 33, Santorum 25, Gingrich 16, Paul 11
TENNESSEE (Middle Tennessee State Univ.): Santorum 40, Romney 19, Gingrich 13, Paul 11
GENERAL ELECTION — PRESIDENT
TENNESSEE (Middle Tennessee State Univ.): Santorum d. Obama (51-39); Romney d. Obama (47-41); Gingrich d. Obama (45-41); Paul d. Obama (44-41) This is the second poll showing Tennessee possibly competitive in the general election.
VIRGINIA (Roanoke College): Romney d. Obama (43-42); Obama d. Santorum (45-39); Obama d. Paul (45-35); Obama d. Gingrich (48-37)
WISCONSIN (Rasmussen): Obama d. Romney (47-42); Obama d. Santorum (46-41)
GENERAL ELECTION — U.S. SENATOR
MASSACHUSETTS (Mass Insight): Sen Scott Brown (R) d. Elizabeth Warren (D), 52-42. A confusing poll since 49%
said the state needed to elect a Democrat to prevent the chamber from going Republican. That means there is a small percentage of people who think Scott Brown is a Democrat.
Karma.
James Okeef to release video evidence of Breitbart being killed by every woman who has ever taken BC.
Assholes around the world rejoice for they no longer have to be compared to him.
The only tinge of sorrow I can muster is for his poor kids. They done nothing wrong and should grow up with a father.
Now they have a chance to.
I’m just sorry that we didn’t have a chance for him to get old enough to write a tell-all book about how he undermined the United States political system for financial gain and that he regrets it.
That said, I don’t put it past him to fake his death to see what bad things people said about him. What can I say, he has damaged his credibility.
Conservatives are at DEFCON 1 on Twitter. They are whining about liberals being mean during and about their hero’s passing. And they are thinking up conspiracy theories that Brietbart was killed by Obama goons because Brietbart said at CPAC that he has some kind of tape on Obama.
The conspiracy I like:
This Fark thread is hilarious:
@DD “I can’t and won’t descend to his level, spewing vitriol as he did following the death of Ted Kennedy.”
But that vitriol would be a fitting phrase for Briebart’s headstone.
I do wonder how the religious feel about God collecting him early. Do they think that Heaven is a little worse? or that Hell is now a little more fun? Do they really think that God wants to be with this liar and cheat?
If you mean religious right, they will say only the good die young.
If you are just religious, I would think Brietbart has some pennance to work off, and thus the best case scenario is Purgatory.
Brietbart said at CPAC that he has some kind of tape on Obama
The Whitey Tape!
And conservatives at DEFCON1 shouldn’t be a surprise. Giving wingnuts one more situation to be victimized by was the Lovely Parting Gift from Brietbart. Jeez, even Shirley Sherrod was gracious.
The Vatican no longer believes in purgatory. Guess they mini-raptured all those unbaptized babies and folk of questionable backgrounds with one fell swoop once the vicor and men in red dresses signed the papal order.
Pretty powerful ability, to make something turn into nothing by saying so!
Shirley Sherrod has more class than Beitbart ever could imagine.
Mitt Romney has just baptized AB.
Joe Cass wins the comment of the day.
DD thanks for that link to the Fark thread. It is hilarious.
Unfortunately Breitbart will take the evidence of Obama’s birth certificate forgery to his grave.
Sherrif in Arizona is having a new conference to announce his 6 month investigation found that Obamas Birth Certificate and Selective Service card are forgories.
No word on the existence of the time machine that sent Obama back in time to place his birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser.
The Craziness continues.
43 and “natural causes” is tragic, even for someone like Breitbart.
Tragic for who? His kids—not humanity
If he parented like he lived, you could make the argument that Breitbart’s kids just caught a huge break.
The Sheriff’s findings were that the birth certificate claimed that the President was born in Hawaii. It must, therefor, be fake because everyone knows the President was born in Kenya.
Yeah, I love an investigation that starts with the PRESUMPTION THAT THE DOCUMENT was fake and then sought to prove how it was faked. Um, that is not how our AMERICAN system of justice and evidence works. The presumption is that the document is authentic, especially when it bears government seals, signatures and dates. The burden is on the Sheriff to prove otherwise, not presume otherwise.
And they still have not found the TIME MACHINE Barack Obama used to travel back to 1961 and plant the birth announcements in the Honolulu Advertiser.
I want to know how many millions of Arizonan tax dollars have been spent on this. And once we find out that, I want this racist sheriff billed for it, and then impeached.
Oscar Wilde: “I didn’t come to pay tribute, I came to make sure.”
Clarence Darrow: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Mark Twain: “I didn’t attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Darrow’s comes closest to my immediate reaction upon hearing the news this morning.
I read a post at Raw Story regarding Joe Arpio; please let me share part of “hegesias'” hilarious musing:
” I wouldn’t vote for a conservative if he or she were birthed from the vagina of the Statue of Liberty. And, no, I don’t care what a 250 year old piece of paper says about this.”
I haven’t posted much over here for a while, but I have a couple of links of interest tonight:
1- I posted on Daily Kos about marriage equality in MD and DE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/01/1069831/-O-Malley-signs-marriage-equality-law-Now-let-s-keep-rolling-
2- My interview with Sen. Carper will air Friday (tomorrow) at 2 PM on 91.3 FM WVUD Newark (streaming from WVUD.org). The interview is a half hour long and was recorded last Friday evening. I asked him about jobs, youth/young adult and minority unemployment, student loans, poverty, and his role at the center-right Democratic Leadership Council in pushing the Democratic Party away from the Left.
No surprises here
We are just showing him the same concern he had for us and the late Ted Kennedy.
What goes around, comes around.
“Shirley Sherrod has more class than Beitbart ever could imagine.”
And, definitively, far more class than anyone here. Well done, Ms. Sherrod.
Thanks Bill. I’ll have to listen to that interview with Carper. Maybe you can come boack here and give provide your thoughts on his responses.
God takes out a demon every now and then. Rush next on the agenda and I am praying very soon.
The wrathful God of the old testament taking down someone with an irredeemably putrid soul, or Andrew Brietbart’s 20 year coke habit? I’m good with either one.
“What goes around, comes around.”
That’s why I am saying nothing.