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Thursday, August 30, 2012

2012 / Film God Saved Me from a Breitbart Documentary

Posted by on Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:09 AM

Yesterday, I attended a free screening of Hating Breitbart, a hagiographic documentary about Andrew Breitbart. The theater was about a quarter full, but it was packed with enthusiastic teabaggers, eager to cheer on proud conservative comments, especially those that mocked education. Brietbart's father-in-law shrugs off Breitbart's origins as a liberal by saying "he went to college, you see." The theater hooted and cheered. They booed and sneered at a Columbia School of Journalism professor. And they loved the fact that the first forty minutes or so of Haitng Breitbart was an account of James O'Keefe's anti-ACORN stunt journalism. The end of ACORN is a proud conservative moment.

The problem is, I don't know if Hating Breitbart ever gets around to explaining O'Keefe's weird attempt to seduce a CNN reporter on a ship stuffed full of dildos and pornography and his other failed attempts at transcending one-hit-wonderdom. And I don't know how Hating Breitbart ends. Because the bulb blew out in the projector forty minutes into the film. I am an atheist, but I can only conclude that this had to have been the act of a merciful God. As a PR person ran into the room and apologized for her inability to show the rest of the film, but encouraged us to get together and talk about how we can make the film into a big hit, I practically skipped out of the theater, knowing that I wouldn't have to watch the rest of the movie. It was the best thing to happen to me all day.

 

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Urgutha Forka 1
They mock education and then when their technology fails, they don't know how to fix it.

Fitting.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 30, 2012 at 10:51 AM
2
I can't believe what you're putting yourself through just to bring us these reports. You deserve hazard pay for this!!
Posted by DannyG on August 30, 2012 at 11:16 AM
knobtheunicorn 3
@1 they should have read "Anthem".
Posted by knobtheunicorn on August 30, 2012 at 11:22 AM
blip 4
First Breitbart drops dead at 43, now this. The universe is trying to tell us something.
Posted by blip on August 30, 2012 at 11:31 AM
scary tyler moore 5
the lord moves in mysterious ways, her wonders to perform, paul bobbeh.
Posted by scary tyler moore http://pushymcshove.blogspot.com/ on August 30, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Frank Blethen's vodka distiller 6
Breitbart died stewing in his own bile.
Posted by Frank Blethen's vodka distiller on August 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Urgutha Forka 7
@3,
They'd have to learn how to read first.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on August 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Cato the Younger Younger 8
I haven't had to think of Breitbart for several months....until just now. THANKS Paul for ruining my day
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on August 30, 2012 at 12:30 PM

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