It so long and detailed, with so many clickable links within it, it took us this long to get through the entirety of a brilliantly written post mortem on the life, havoc and “malicious career” of Andrew Breitbart, as written by mobutu and Gen. Ze’evi at Gawker earlier this week.
The piece is as much about the unforgivable failure of the corporate media who fell, repeatedly, for Breitbart’s scams as it is about Breitbart himself. That failure, of course, is the only reason, as we noted in our own “obit”, that The BRAD BLOG ever even bothered to step into the toxic swill of his particularly poisonous pig pen of fear, loathing and cruelty towards his fellow man.
The article offers several nods to our months-long tangle with the New York Times and others in the “liberal media”, over the “maliciously, fabricated hoax” that was the phony ACORN “scandal”. An historic reminder of our occasionally successful attempt at trying to shake the compliant lapdog media out of their stupor to explain how they had fallen embarrassing victim to little more than a series of cheap, partisan con jobs. For example, the story notes how Breitbart’s own lies about the ACORN hoax were “definitively debunked on factual grounds several times over” here at The BRAD BLOG and elsewhere.
The entire thing is worth a read — if you’re feeling dirty — if only for its exceedingly smart prose and unabashed truth-telling about the realities of the shameful moment in American history when a huckster and dishonest profiteer such as Breitbart was able to both flim-flam and expose our once-great Fourth Estate for the utter — and deadly — embarrassment they have now become.
Here’s just one snippet from the piece to give you an idea…
You can, and should, read it all here.
P.S. So long as we’re wading through this particular muck today, see also The Fix’s Maer Roshan and Hunter R. Slayton’s similarly smart take, and very fine reporting, on “What Really Killed Andrew Breitbart? The Likely Cause of Death the Mainstream Media Ignored”, as published at Alternet on Thursday. It documents, among other things, how, even in his death, Breitbart still has the mainstream corporate media shuddering in fear of the mighty reach of this ultimately very small man.
I don’t believe the majority of the media “fell for” the blatant bald faced lies. They simply agreed with the bald faced lies and purposely helped spread them as propaganda.
Remember about 90% of the entire media is Reich wing, there is no such thing as the “Liberal Media”.
If they actually fell for it they would all be ignorant beyond belief.
NunyaBiz wrote @ 1:
Uh, yeah. Well, there ya go.
Note typo “post mordem” –> postmortem in very first sentence. Loved your many pieces about this sorry dude and the Acorn non-pimp thing after I finally understood that he never portrayed himself as a pimp at ALL to Acorn.
The media: accessories after the fact.
Here I thought that he likely died from HIV. Not only was he ridiculously prematurely aged, but his resignation as an adviser to CPAC’s GOProud when it began raising too many eyebrows seemed suspect. His attempt to bring in a coalition that his conservative movement finds repugnant and undermines at every turn appeared over the top.
Here’s Breitbart not too long before he died, he looks like a raving madman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o
Brad #2
Well true enough, but really all the media cant be THAT stupid right?
Sure some of them are, but I still think the majority did it solely to spread Reich wing propaganda that they knew damn well was totally false.
At very least several spread it by allowing the lies to go totally unchallenged, never corrected.
Which is the same as agreeing with it.
I read the article on AlterNet. Thanks.
Also noted, AlterNet is running a piece from Agence Press in France on the threats from electronic voting machines in the U.S. Nice to know at least the French are clued in. Gave you a plug in a comment.