I'm sure many of you have read Matt Taibbi's less-than-diplomatic but genuinely accurate obituary of Andrew Breitbart.
If you haven't read it yet, you will after reading one of the opening lines.
So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here's what I have to say to that, and I'm sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he's dead.
And in the less than 24 hours since, Breitbart's loyal army of the mindless has taken revenge on Taibbi by doing the following:
Hacking into his Wiki page
Published his cell phone number on twitter
Called Rolling Stone pretending to be advertisers
Spent all night calling and texting his phone with threats and insults
Taibbi closes his update by saying the following:
But I guess no homage is complete without a celebration of the whole man, and the whole man in this case was not just a guy who once said, “It’s all about a good laugh,” but also someone who liked to publish peoples’ personal information on the internet, hack into private web sites, tell lies in an attempt to get his enemies fired, and incite readers to threats against his targets and their families, including death threats. I left all of that stuff out of my obit, but now, thanks to you readers, that’s all in there as well, leaving, for posterity, a much more complete picture of the man.
So there you have it, not only a picture of Andrew Breitbart, but a picture of those people who admire him and his gutter tactics.
So to use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, cocksucker.* Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
* See the following Breitbart quote: "I like to call someone a raving cunt every now and then, when it's appropriate, for effect... 'You cocksucker.' I love that kind of language."