http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ feedback.pdxradio.com Topic: Breitbart dies early this AM in L.A. en Wed, 22 May 2013 17:32:25 +0000 http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-123388 Mon, 21 May 2012 16:15:55 +0000 Andy_brown 123388@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>He had a .04% BAL (enough to get a CDL holder in trouble nationwide).</p> <p>He was loud and arrogant. </p> <p>Can't find his height and weight, but a screaming asshole such as he often kill themselves through a lifetime of being just that kind of person. It's not "medical" but it is common. Call it type A syndrome if you will. He had suffered a heart attach shortly before his death according to a friend of his. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-123363 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:37:08 +0000 Alfredo_T 123363@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>I had been wondering what killed Andrew Breitbart. According to Wikipedia, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office reported cardiomegaly (an enlarged heart) as the cause of death. My curiosity was peaked by certain posters on this forum who have recently been posting links to Breitbart's site. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-111370 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:23:07 +0000 Andy_brown 111370@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Kudos to Paul Farhi of the Washington Post (3/2/12) for talking about the obvious deceptions and inaccuracies in right-wing publisher Andrew Breitbart's work:</p> <p>News organizations found, for example, that the ACORN videos--which purported to show a young Mr. Breitbart ally named James O'Keefe posing as a pimp seeking advice from the organization about how to establish a brothel and evade taxes--actually presented a heavily edited account of what had happened.</p> <p>An investigation by the California attorney general's office concluded that O'Keefe had added footage of himself and an ally dressed in flamboyant costumes that they had not worn to ACORN's offices. By then, it was too late for ACORN: Outraged conservatives in Congress stripped the organization of federal funding.</p> <p>The Sherrod and NPR videos also misrepresented key parts of those stories. In the former, Mr. Breitbart presented only a brief clip of a speech in which Sherrod acknowledged that she had discriminated against a white farmer when she was a state agriculture official in Georgia. The subsequent uproar in 2010 prompted the Obama administration to seek her resignation. By day's end, however, the full video of Sherrod's speech emerged, revealing that she had gone on to condemn her own actions and to seek justice for the white farmer. An embarrassed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized and offered Sherrod her job back.</p> <p>The NPR "sting" showed two fundraisers for the media organization making disparaging comments about conservatives during a lunch in Georgetown. Among other things, the edited tape presented one of the NPR executive's more incendiary comments as his own when, in fact, he had been quoting others. NPR's chief executive, Vivian Schiller, resigned a day later as conservative lawmakers intensified efforts to deny federal funding to public broadcasters. (That effort failed.)</p> <p>As many have pointed out, these lies live on. An ABCNews.com piece on Breitbart--since corrected--referred matter-of-factly to how he "broke the ACORN child sex trafficking scandal."</p> <p>Which brings me to a weakness in Farhi's piece--his explanation of Breitbart's ability to get his work into the mainstream media:<br /> He exploited a flaw of the contemporary news media: that in the rush to attract online traffic, news sources sometimes cast aside context and basic fact-checking. Many outlets reported Mr. Breitbart's "revelations" only to discover that the story was not as it had initially seemed.</p> <p>Attributing Breitbart's success in getting media attention to a desire for "online traffic" is strange. Old media outlets like the Post and the New York Times gave his work a huge boost. If there's a media flaw here--and there most certainly is--it is the willingness to let a right-wing activist get a free pass. It might be the fact that media outlets who are relentlessly, falsely battered for being "liberal" feel compelled to disprove the bogus charge by giving right-wing voices more ink and airtime.</p> <p>The most interesting admission in the piece comes from Rich Lowry of the National Review:</p> <p>Lowry said Mr. Breitbart "wasn't a journalist in the traditional sense of dotting every i and crossing every t." As such, his journalistic lapses "didn't damage him on the right. He wasn't playing by the traditional media rules."</p> <p>That's a fairly damning assessment of the right, from the right.</p> <p><a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/03/02/how-breitbart-got-away-with-his-lies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/03/02/how-breitbart-got-away-with-his-lies/</a> </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-111364 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:51:08 +0000 fairandbalanced 111364@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>"All I can think of at the moment is what Andrew meant to me as a friend, starting from when we worked together — his passion, his exuberance, his fearlessness. And above all, what I’m thinking of at the moment is his amazing wife Susie and their four beautiful young children. My love and thoughts are with them right now.</p> <p>--Arianna Huffington</p> <p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/03/01/huffington-drudge-and-beck-on-andrew-breitbarts-death/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/03/01/huffington-drudge-and-beck-on-andrew-breitbarts-death/</a> "</p> <p>Nice to see a classy comment from the left for a change. I don't think she thinks his children are relieved that daddy dropped dead.</p> <p>RIP Mr. Breitbart. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110966 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:33:19 +0000 Valerie ring 110966@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>How 'bout the fact that this guy ( I won't say the scumball's name) is Orson Bean's son-in-law. If you're younger than 40 google him. Boy I bet dinnertime was different. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110928 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:30:25 +0000 LurkingGrendel 110928@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Broadway,</p> <p>Did you even READ the opinion article you linked? LOL</p> <p>Irony fail. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110888 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:16:31 +0000 kennewickman 110888@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Yeah he better watch his back. </p> <p>Me wonders whos got the papers and the videos now on Breitbarts big revelation about Obama? </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110883 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:06:36 +0000 Valerie ring 110883@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Hummm.. Is it true Rush Limbaugh drinks red wine? </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110875 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:38 +0000 kennewickman 110875@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>YEAH...good catch, I didnt even think of that.. </p> http://feedback.pdxradio.com/topic/breitbart-dies-early-this-am-in-la#post-110874 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:00:02 +0000 Amus 110874@http://feedback.pdxradio.com/ <p>Brentwood!?</p> <p>OJ did it! </p>