Monday, March 15, 2010

Big Psychologically Disturbed Dildo

Hot poop from Slate on what a dick Andy Breitbart is.

Cheap psychological shots portion:
Breitbart wasn't always conservative. He wasn't even always a Breitbart. He was adopted at 3 weeks old in 1969 by Gerald and Arlene Breitbart, who raised him in Brentwood, an upscale neighborhood in Los Angeles. His father owned a restaurant, his mother was a banker—which by Brentwood standards made them working class. His sister, Tracey, a year younger, was also adopted, as were many of his friends. "Adoption was a big thing before Roe v. Wade," he said. "Trust me on that one." (Breitbart said he once bribed someone in Sacramento $500 to show him his original birth certificate. His birth father had listed his occupation as "folk singer.")

His parents raised him Jewish—his mother converted in order to marry his father—but the faith didn't take. Especially when he realized Mom and Dad weren't exactly frum. One day, he fell and chipped his tooth. "I said, 'Jesus Christ,' and my mom said, 'Don't use the Lord's name in vain.' I was like, 'I'm Jewish, Jesus is not the Lord. I was just Bar Mitzvah'ed. You were there.' " When their rabbi defended Jesse Jackson after his "Hymietown" comment, the family left the synagogue. Breitbart remembers his upbringing as otherwise apolitical. But in 1980s Los Angeles, apolitical generally meant liberal by default. More important was celebrity culture. His friends' parents would send his parents pictures of themselves in Beverly Hills society magazines. "My dad would be like, 'Why are they sending us this?'"

Breitbart didn't do well at the Brentwood School, one of the top private schools in L.A. He was friends with most everyone in his class—"My sense of humor saved me"—but did not distinguish himself in academics or extracurricular activities. His football coach, Pat Brown, said he was always screwing up the plays: "Things like not knowing the assignment. Maybe hitting someone too late. I always said there's a fine line between aggressiveness and stupidity."
Here's a good-to-excellent example of how stupid BB is. He went to Tulane, f'rcryinoutloud, & seems to have confused the school w/ "The South."
College was also when Breitbart began to question liberalism—or at least its judgmental, humorless coastal variant. He'd come back home to Los Angeles to find friends skeptical of the South. "I said, 'You won't believe it, these are people who are actually normal, actually funnier than us[sic], and they're not as uptight, it's really weird. They're not snobs.' And they're like, 'You're wrong about those people, they're ignorant and they're horrible.' So I go, 'There's something wrong with this picture.'"
Get some help, Andy. And see if you can find a brain.

5 comments:

Mendacious D said...

Is there any publication he considers objective? "Playboy," he said.

I don't think that needs more comment.

M. Bouffant said...

Ed. Types:

We had to shower to get the filth of reading that off (& for various other reasons) & came up w/ more trenchant analysis of BB while scrubbing w/ the steel wool.

You're right (& we're lazy) so we won't add anything.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

I don't think that needs more comment.

Less than 4 hours Left, Lieberals!
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Substance McGravitas said...

God damn it that clock is region-keyed. I still got six and a half.

M. Bouffant said...

TIME Editor Types:

Oh, gee fucking whillikers, forgot the COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING!!

We betcha BB's forgotten already. If one of his flunkies remembers, it won't be until tomorrow a. m. anyway.

Patience.