Andrew Breitbart Dead At 43; Liberals Celebrate News…

Weasel Zippers  "Liberal scum celebrate on Twitter upon hearing the tragic news. (HT: Charlie Spiering)"

Quoting Washington Free Beacon:

"Economics and philosophy expert Matthew Yglesias reacted with glee Thursday morning at the news that conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart had died.

"“Conventions around dead people are ridiculous,” the Slate correspondentwrote on Twitter this morning. “The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart [sic] dead.”

"“If you think @AndrewBrietbart’s [sic] opponents shouldn’t be glad he’s dead, you’re not taking his life’s work seriously,” Yglesias added."

Rick Moran  Astonishing outpouring of hate toward Breitbart by the left  "I guess referring to a human being as "loathesome" doesn't qualify as "a bad thing" to say about them. No matter. Anyone this oblivious to their own stupidity deserves some recognition.

"There are thousands more like the above. The bad spelling, mangled syntax, and errors in grammar from most of them reveal the tweeters to be ignorant twits. But the mindless hate directed at Breitbart is also a tribute to his impact on the political conversation."

Jack Cashill: Do What Breitbart Did  "He started out as Hollywood nihilist and turned himself into a Tea Party knight errant.  His is an extraordinarily American tale of self-creation, one on which other young conservatives should and ought to fashion their own life's journeys.  If our Beltway allies had half his courage, Obama would not be president today."

MSNBC, naturally:  Cartoonists remember Andrew Breitbart  "Surprisingly, political cartoonists weren’t too kind to his style of journalism, but everything I read suggests that Breitbart welcomed his haters." 

(Video) Andrew Breitbart - Taking Down the Corrupt and Biased, Leftist Mainstream Media

Below: Andrew Breitbart Destroys MSNBC's Failed, 3rd-Rate Liberal Smear Merchant Martin Bashir

Combating Media Manipulation: Just Say ‘No’

Barry Rubin  "I don’t understand — and I haven’t seen anyone even try to explain it — why the Republican presidential candidates keep subjecting themselves to politically partisan, hostile journalists being in control of their debates. These journalists have been highly partisan previously, seem to shield President Obama from criticism, and go on the offensive to try, for example, to turn the whole debate into the pretense that these candidates want to make birth control pills illegal."
...."It is absolutely clear that critics of this president, his policies, or the ideas behind those policies will be blacklisted and smeared by many journalists, programs, and networks. If the highly politicized media cannot ignore a person, they will try to make them look bad or twist their words. Why should people keep playing along with this strategy and falling into these traps?"


Can you believe someone would actually make this argument?


Romney ‘Shoe Shine’ Photo a Hoax, Left-Wingers Push Story Anyway   "The meme began from a photo by Getty showing Romney sitting in a chair on the tarmac with his foot up and a red-jacketed worker attending to the candidate’s footwear. The left immediately assumed that Romney was getting his shoes shined before getting on a “corporate” jet. This story was made up out of whole cloth because in reality what the picture shows is Romney getting his shoes wanded by an explosive sniffing device wielded by a TSA agent before being allowed to board the plane.

"The photo seems to have appeared early on the blog of the MSNBC smear show The Ed Schultz Show with the headline, “Romney Creates Another Job.” "

A Guide to the Liberal Mind

Victor Volsky   "As a great fan of Jeff Foxworthy, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to use his hilarious you-might-be-a-redneck comedy routine in an attempt to characterize the liberal mindset (tweaking Jeff's formula a bit to convert it from the suppositional to the unconditional).  So, with apologies to the wonderful country comedian, here are some of the notable features of the liberal's mental landscape:"
Here is a small sampling of what the author lists in his article:

....If you believe that the 1^st Amendment separates church from state, but not state from church, you are a liberal. ....If you believe that the results of progressive programs are irrelevant and that only good intentions count, you are a liberal.....If you believe that a decades-old drunk-driving episode in George W. Bush's biography comes under the "people's right to know" doctrine while the entire past of Barack Obama is protected by his right to privacy, you are a liberal.....If you believe that your choice of a car affects the planet's climate while sunspot activity doesn't, you are a liberal..... If you believe that the anarchists, hoodlums, and hobos who make up the Occupy movement are noble idealists who truly represent the 99 percent of America while the Tea Partiers are Nazi troglodytes and of course racists, you are a liberal. .... If you believe that the Palestinians sincerely want an accommodation with Israel and that only the stiff-necked Jews' obduracy stands in the way of Middle East peaceful settlement, you are a liberal.

Hat tip to Neal Boortz who commented: "Caution … here is a guide to the liberal mind. Here’s the article we covered yesterday on the program talking about how incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it"

(Updated) Breaking story: Two more American troops killed today

ISAF.NATO.INT:

For Immediate Release
KABUL, Afghanistan (Mar. 1) – Two individuals, one believed to be an Afghan National Army service member and the other in civilian clothing, turned their weapons indiscriminately against International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Security Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing two ISAF service members.
It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. For questions regarding ANSF casualties and involvement, please contact the Afghan Ministry of Defense

"ISAF spokesman Brian Badura declined to provide the nationalities of the service members who were killed. "Those responsibilities reside with the respective host nation," he said in an email to Morning Defense."

From CBS: Afghan gunmen kill 2 U.S. troops
"Clark reports that, while the angry protests which drew thousands of Afghans into the streets in the days after the Koran burning was made public have died down, targeted attacks against U.S. forces by their supposed Afghan military partners seem to be on the rise.

While Crocker and Gen. Allen insist the U.S. mission continues unabated, Clark notes the prospect of increasing hostility from their partners in Afghanistan poses a serious challenge to U.S. troops - whose entire mission is pinned on the idea of living with and fighting with, not against, the Afghan security forces they're training.


Now wait just a pea-pickin' minute here. OK, we're told that Christians showing Muslims texts about the Christian faith must use  a clean, unmarked Bible or the Muslim will not respect them as serious and devout. We're told a Muslim will not hold a Koran below their waist out of reverence for the book.
What about when these books are manufactured? Don't they run off an assembly line? Aren't Korans packaged into boxes, loaded onto pallets and fork-lifted onto trucks for delivery to the local outlets? What happens to the truck driver when he rolls his truck and spills his load of Korans all over the Mohammed Freeway?
Just asking; inquiring minds want to know.


World Net Daily reports this:  AFGHANS: QURAN-BURNING SOLDIERS TO FACE TRIAL
"Clare Lopez, a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, said if the statement by the Afghan government turns out to be true, it would be an unprecedented betrayal of our men and women in uniform.
" “I can’t imagine we would ever do this, what would we charge them with? Are we going to try Americans for crimes committed under Shariah law? I cannot believe our government would go that far,” she said."  Hat tip to Don Standlee, Arlington, TX
Here's a great place to rerun this cartoon:

Koran burning: Cartoon shows Obama kissing tush of amused symbolic Afghan Muslim
In Catalino's recent cartoon, Barack Obama -- who of course regularly makes obsequious comments like "Islam has always been a part of America" -- is shown being overindulgent to an extreme in apologizing for the accidental burning of (U.S. taxpayer-funded) Korans in which Taliban prisoners had been writing incendiary messages.

[Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch] "said that whether the soldiers end up being turned over to the Afghan government or face court-martial, either decision would set a dangerous precedent.

" “It would be unconscionable either way,” he said. “If they turn them over to the Afghan government for trial then we are endorsing the applicability of Shariah law to non-Muslims in the U.S. military. If they court-martial them then they are adopting those norms as part of the UCMJ*. Either way it’s frightening.”

"Lopez said that while U.S. officials have made large concessions to appease Muslims, turning the soldiers over to face trial would be over the line."  (Emphasis added)

*Uniform Code of Military Justice


From Jihad Watch: Afghanistan: "NATO officials promised to meet Afghan nation’s demand of bringing to justice, through an open trial"

Two Bibles 'containing terror codes' found in Bin Laden compound -- will apologies and riots ensue?