Tag: andrew breitbart

#weinergate … well, now. Weiner’s naked torso.

DOOM.  And a 4 PM press conference!

[FURTHER UPDATE] If you missed that, then you have missed the most epic Wait, What? in recent political history.

[UPDATE]: Here’s the live feed for the press conference… which has been apparently taken over by Andrew Breitbart.  Wait, what?  Did Weiner run?

This would be where the deep hurting starts: Big Journalism released another photo from now-officially-beleaguered! Rep. Anthony Weiner to a second, as-yet-unnamed* woman.  Not only is said photo as explicit as the one that sunk Chris Lee’s career (essentially, naked male torso a go-go), there’s also this gem:

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Rep. Weiner sent an email to the young woman from that same Yahoo! email address that included the now-infamous grey underwear photograph (attached to the email as “package.JPG”):

And apparently there’s at least one more picture, which Big Journalism will apparently not be publishing, as it is too graphic for a family internet. Rep. Weiner’s going to have a 4 PM press conference: it should be a sockdolager of a show, not to mention riveting television.  Check it out.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Note: ‘as-yet.’  Greg Sargent (in full teeth-grinding mode) heard that ABC News has the name of the woman in question; let us just say that there may be more than a name involved, there.

The Righteous Indignation Book party.

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! is, of course, Andrew Breitbart’s latest book; and I had the opportunity to schmooze meet up with folks from The Daily Caller / Americans for Tax Reform at a book party that they threw for Andrew yesterday.  I finished  the book itself today: it’s very accessible, and while it told me a lot of stuff that I already knew (from both an outsider’s and an insider’s perspective*) it should be a good deal of help to people who want to get into the political arena and start swinging.  And, incidentally: “go out there and start swinging” (in a purely metaphorical sense, of course) is the central message of the book.  Good advice, too.

Videos below the fold: the first is Andrew’s general speech (which has some profanity in it, so be prepared), and the second is the minute I was able to gouge out of his time to get him to answer a question for RedState.  It was a busy book party for Andrew, in other words. Continue reading The Righteous Indignation Book party.

#rsrh Video footage of Andrew Breitbart tomorrow…

…he did a book signing/event today for his new book Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!, and I’ve got some video of his speech and a quick minute of question-and-answer regarding why people should buy it (it was a busy book signing/event, and Andrew’s a bit, ah, enthusiastic).  I’m about halfway through my copy now; it’s fast, engrossing reading – and there’s a certain not-quite-nostalgia going on.  I mean, the First Blogosphere War (2003-2004) sucked. It purely sucked.  By the time it was over I was having screaming nightmares.  And yet, it’s interesting to remember events from back then; it’s amazing how much bile got stirred up over the Democratic base simply not getting the seats that it expected to in a midterm election…

Anyway: processing and reproducing tomorrow.  Some pretty good stuff in Andrew’s speech.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Time to revisit Wondermark…

…and its absolutely brilliant observation: “It’s a good life, having idiots hate you.”  Latest example?  This winner, driving up Andrew Breitbart’s royalties for Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!:

…because, apparently, people seem to think that authors get their cut of a book sale when the book is sold to a consumer.  Erm.  No.  Costco purchases books ahead of time – like they would any other product – then they resell those books at a profit.  Throwing those books in the trash merely decreases the number that Costco has available… which means that it hastens the point where they have to order more books in order to keep a proper inventory.  Which is I believe the point where Andrew Breitbart racks up a bit more in commissions.

Put more simply: the result of this binge of civil disobedience?

KA-CHING!

Moe Lane

PS: Writers write because we have to.  Writers publish because we care about getting paid.  To paraphrase Robert Heinlein: the greatest, most poetic phrase in the English language is Pay to the order of…

Continue reading #rsrh Time to revisit Wondermark…

#rsrh A quick reminder on ad hominem.

As Ben Domenech noted on Twitter, if you’re a blogger it’s important to get your ad hominem insult up and public today if you want to guarantee that you’ll be keeping off of the Huffington Post’s front page.  Background on this absurd story here: the short version is that the Arisian mind-lords over at HuffPo flailed about like lobotomized geckos to find an excuse to throw Andrew Breitbart off of their front page after they invited him on it, and came up with the novel excuse that he had ad-hommed elsewhere.

Hi-jinks, as they said, ensued.

But let’s be clear about something about ad hominem arguments, because the term is horribly misused on the Internet: it is not the same as a direct insult.  Ad hominem is when you bring up a person’s character or actions in order to try to invalidate the person’s argument; put more simply, it attempts to suggest that being wicked means that you can’t ever happen to be right about something.  Which is of course absurd.

So: if I write, say, that  Arianna Huffington is wrong about health care rationing because she’s an easily-scared poopyhead… well, that’s an ad hominem argument.  After all, her recto-cranial inversion has nothing to do with her (I assume) blind support of Obamacare, and it would be highly illogical of me to suggest that it did.  But if I write that Arianna Huffington is a miserable person because she’s an easily-scared poopyhead… well, that’s a direct insult and a mean thing to say – but it’s not an ad hominem.

I hope that this clears things up for people.

QotD, Maureen Dowd edition.

Yes, Maureen Dowd.

We may not have a “nation of cowards” on race, as Attorney General Eric Holder contended, but we may have a West Wing of cowards on race.

Although I’m somewhere between Holder and Dowd on this one: we have a national political party of cowards on race, and it’s the Democratic one.  As we’ve just had Andrew Breitbart graphically, if perhaps not quite deliberately, demonstrate. Continue reading QotD, Maureen Dowd edition.

Breitbart: 100K for the Journolist!

I believe that it was Tom Clancy who noted that (back in the Cold War era, at least) the CIA was always prepared to spend real money when purchasing treason. Apparently, would-be agents simply assumed that the decadent capitalist Western spy agency would offer money as a matter of course, and the CIA didn’t argue with them; it wasn’t as if Communist subjects ever had a really good idea of what the actual market value was for the intelligence that they were selling, and the American public at the time wasn’t really inclined to quibble. Or even care. And so we paid, if not top dollar, more than most for useful information.

I mention this because Andrew Breitbart decided to have him some fun:

I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public a unique insight in the workings of the Democrat-Media Complex, I’m offering $100,000 for the full “JournoList” archive, source fully protected. Now there’s an offer somebody can’t refuse.

That is, unquestionably, the most diabolically clever thing that I’ve seen all week. And I’m preemptively including the rest of this week, too: this will be hard to top.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

More video of the Carson/Lewis affair.

What I tell you three times is true: get a camera. Get a camera. GET A CAMERA:

For those without video, the above (courtesy of Andrew Breitbart) shows an alternate view of Rep. Andre Carson and Rep. John Lewis’ infamous walk out of the Cannon Building, on the day that the two Congressmen claimed to have been taunted with racial slurs. As Andrew put it: Continue reading More video of the Carson/Lewis affair.

What Hath Breitbart Wrought?

This sentence from the latest PPP Brown/Coakley poll jumped out at me:

Overall 25% of voters in the state think ACORN will mess with the Senate election while 38% don’t and 37% are unsure.

Tom Jensen’s been making a good-faith (and I think, largely successful) effort to keep his own political bias out of his firm’s polling, so I don’t blame him for not pointing out that this means that almost 2/3rds of the population of Massachusetts is willing to believe that ACORN could be planning election fraud.  In Massachusetts.

Mr. Breitbart, take a bow.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.