Motus Mentis

14 Comments

1. the one eyed man says

   Immediately after Ted Kennedy died, Breitbart tweeted his delight that this “villian, big-ass motherfucker, duplicitous bastard, prick” was dead. Since Breitbart ignored the practice of not speaking ill of the recently departed, there is no reason why the same courtesy should be extended to this vile and malevolent individual.

   Andrew Breitbart rose to fame – or infamy – by using deceptively edited and deliberately misleading videos to engage in character assassination, without a whiff of concern for the innocents who he slandered. It’s regrettable that he died before Shirley Sherrod’s civil case came to court, depriving her of the justice which she richly deserves. The world is a much better place without him.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 11:46 am | Permalink
2. Malcolm says

   Needless to say, reactions are mixed.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 11:52 am | Permalink
3. the one eyed man says

   This is true. On the other hand, we can all mourn the passing of Davy Jones. Sic transit gloria mundi.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
4. Malcolm says

   I tried to get Mary Jo Kopechne on the line for a comment, but for some reason I couldn’t reach her.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 12:02 pm | Permalink
5. the one eyed man says

   You won’t be able to reach Joanne Bucci for a comment either. Fatal car accidents are something which haunt the survivors all of their lives, whether it is Ted Kennedy or Jon Gray.

   I believe in redemption and forgiveness. Breitbart’s tweet was not only inexcusable, but it shows him going for the cheap shot, which is all he was capable of doing.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
6. Malcolm says

   Hardly. But I won’t deny the man had a flair for the sensational. They say you can know a man by his enemies; he certainly made plenty of them. (Los Angeles D.A., take note.)

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 12:42 pm | Permalink
7. Dom says

   I think it is now long enough after Kennedy’s death to point out, not disrespectfully, that Kopechne did not die in a simple car accident. She was his mistress, and Kennedy ran away and lied about it afterwards for that reason alone. Also, even Kennedy’s friends, who thought it spoke well of the man, admitted that he told Mary Jo Kopechne jokes long after her death.

   The Sherrod story is a little confusing. Breitbart tried to show that the NAACP laughed and applauded when she told a story about abusing her office because of her ill-feelings towards white people. He edited off the ending, in which Sherrod admitted she was wrong to do so, but this was not his point. She didn’t deserve to be fired, but the behavior of her audience was pretty despicable.

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 1:13 pm | Permalink
8. the one eyed man says

   What a day: Brietbart is dead, Snooki is pregnant. What’s next? A letter in today’s mail inviting me to compete in the Master’s Tournament next month?

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 1:49 pm | Permalink
9. A Nonymous says

   “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

   Posted March 1, 2012 at 1:52 pm | Permalink
10. Malcolm says

    All I can say is that anyone who could send the Left into impotent paroxysms of vexation the way he did had to be doing something right. I’ll miss him.

    Posted March 1, 2012 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
11. Severn says

    Since Breitbart ignored the practice of not speaking ill of the recently departed, there is no reason why the same courtesy should be extended to this vile and malevolent individual.

    Because were it not for this the left would be their usual urbane and civilized selves, but since Breibart said this about Kennedy, they are, just this once, going to let themselves indulge in some emotionalism.

    Who’s kidding who here?

    Posted March 2, 2012 at 12:51 am | Permalink
12. Severn says

    Fatal car accidents are something which haunt the survivors all of their lives, whether it is Ted Kennedy or Jon Gray.

    Kennedy’s car accident was not fatal, to him or to his passenger. What was fatal, to her, was what he did after the car accident.

    As I’m quite sure you already know, what he did was rescue himself and go home and go to bed, without even a phone call to the police, leaving a young woman to drown. Explaining how these actions constitute an “accident” will tax even your formidable bs-ing skills.

    Posted March 2, 2012 at 1:03 am | Permalink
13. TheBigHenry says

    “Since Breitbart ignored the practice of not speaking ill of the recently departed, there is no reason why the same courtesy should be extended to this vile and malevolent individual.” [emphasis added]

    There is no reason? Really? Does that mean that your code of honor, assuming you have one, only applies to those individuals whose own code of honor includes those elements that you also espouse? Does such relativism also extend to your ethical standards, if you have any?

    How do you deal with individuals whose personal conduct is not known to you? Do you give them the benefit of the doubt, or do you behave toward them as a vile and malevolent individual?

    Posted March 2, 2012 at 3:47 am | Permalink
14. Dom says

    A tweet from the leftist Matt Yglesias:

    “Conventions around dead people are ridiculous. The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead”

    A comment on this tweet from the libertarian Russ Roberts at CafeHayek:

    “Somebody dies whose politics are different from yours and you conclude that the world is now a better place?

    I am sympathetic to the idea that my views on how the world works are the right ones. But dear God, please spare me from hubris that says people who look at the world in a way that is different from my own make the world a worse place and their passing is a plus.

    Maybe these really are uglier times than usual.”

    It will be less ugly when … no, I can’t bring myself to say it. I’m a libertarian.

    Posted March 2, 2012 at 9:50 am | Permalink