In an ideal world, leading conservative media mogul/attack dog Andrew Breitbart would have had the decency to slink away from politics after the Shirley Sherrod fiasco.
He didn’t, of course.
Now what are we to make of this paranoid and disturbing ramble by Breitbart? I’d be inclined to believe he’s half-kidding, expect that he says, “I’m not kidding.”
“I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’ Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns… I’m not kidding. They talk a mean game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re dealing with.
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“And I have people who come up to me in the military, major named people in the military, who grab me and they go, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing, we’ve got your back.’“They understand that. These are the unspoken things we know, they know.”
Perhaps some of our rightwing readers can help me out. Is this now standard, acceptable talk on the Right, or has Breitbart (as it appears to me) gone over a psychological edge?
