I was about to write my normal post when I saw the news about Andrew Breitbart’s sudden passing. Let’s just consider the mushroom cloud on IMAO to be flying at half height today.
Inevitably, there are a lot on the left celebrating his death. I have trouble understanding that one. The one death of someone I disagreed that I wasn’t civil about was Ted Kennedy. That’s my barrier — you actually have to kill someone to not get my full sympathy. Politics is just too silly to actually hate people over. And the ones joyed by Breitbart’s death are simply exposing their fundamental problem with freedom of speech. They hate to hear anyone disagree when it’s the diversity of opinion in this country that should be celebrated. We keep each other honest. And that’s what Breitbart did; he shined a light where the left didn’t want anything exposed. And having to confront their demons because of him, the left are now better for it.
My prayers go out to Andrew Breitbart’s family.