This goes in a bookmark folder near to my heart. From Chez:
“I use Google Alert for my name to start fights with people in comment sections or on Twitter. It’s clear that Keith Olbermann’s strategy to get noticed was to attack people above him. I have precisely the opposite strategy: to go after the mosquitoes that bite my ankles. I’m not sure it’s a good business model but I’m a petty enough man to indulge them.”
The truth is that Andrew Breitbart is as narcissistic as they come and has no better use for his time than picking fights with strangers on the internet. From a hagiographic WIRED article:
The filet finally shows and Breitbart digs in, ignoring the risk to his mustard-colored sports coat. “The idea is that I have to screw with media, and I have to screw with the Left, in order to give legitimate stories the ability to reach their natural watermark,” he says.
The “natural watermark” is subsumed in the trademark symbol I use in phrases like Teh Librul Media™ and Teh Stupid™ to indicate their origin within the paranoid universe of right-wing politics. But to call his nontroversies “legitimate” is the height of intellectual arrogance. White House Christmas ornaments, microcamera improv games, and Yosi Sergant all turn out to be more of the same OMG Global Socializams™ hysteria. It’s made worse by the wackaloon bloggers he uses.
Back in 1964, this C student would have been drummed out of the movement; his continued presence in the halls of conservative fellowship is a testament to just how far the American right has fallen. Breitbart is a case of diminished standards.
