Andrew Breitbart dies of "natural causes"

[Rupert Pupkin]

I was reading some of the earlier posts in this thread. Breitbart was no worse than anyone else. It is extremely common in politics for someone to make a person look bad by quoting something that that person once said. You go over a person's speeches and find something they said that was stupid. This happens every day. And when this happens, the attack article almost never has the whole speech. They just have the inflammatory quote. So often times the quote is taken out of context.

The incident that Breitbart is criticized for the most is the Shirley Sherrod story. In this story, he did nothing worse than what is done every single day by left-wing journalists, right-wing journalists, mainstream journalists, and practically all political operatives. It wasn't like he only played a 10 second clip of her speech. He played at least 45 seconds of her speech. She said what she said. It sounded pretty bad. But if you listened to the whole speech, it didn't sound nearly as bad.

Playing the most inflammatory part of a speech is hardly unusual. This is done every day. This hardly makes Breitbart some sort of evil villain like many of you make him out to be.