Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone is a lowlife piece of crap!

 

Andrew Breitbart's Fans Mark His Passing With An All-Out Assault on Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi

 

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Andrew Breitbart's posthumous revenge

The initial obituaries written about Andrew Breitbart were exceedingly mild given the conservative commentator’s controversial tactics and the many, many people he angered over the years. Hanna Rosin’s “good riddance” to Jan Berenstain in Slate on Monday was more cutting than most of what was said about Breitbart yesterday. How could it be that a woman who wrote about a kindly group of somewhat boring bears would be criticized more harshly upon her death than a man who was recently caught on tape maniacally calling a group of GOP protesters animals and freaks?
One journalist did decide to spill vitriol upon Breitbart’s coffin: Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone, who wrote, “Good… I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead,” in “Death of a Douche.” Despite the title and intro, Taibbi’s obit was actually somewhat admiring; he wrote that he “kind of liked Andrew Breitbart” and “respected his shamelessness,” and then listed off some of his greatest hits: exposing the online dalliances of Anthony Weiner (literally) and then hijacking his apologetic press conference; publishing undercover Acorn and Planned Parenthood video exposés that led to the undoing of the former and funding threats for the latter; and seeking to shed light on Occupy Wall Street by publishing their internal e-mails.

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But it’s fair to say that the tone of the piece — celebrating, for example, Breitbart’s having a certain body part that is the “biggest, hairiest” on earth — was not exactly respectful.
Many of those writing about Breitbart praised him for “grokking” the ways of the Internet, and knowing how to unnerve his targets and enemies. His fans and supporters learned well from him, marking his legacy and his passing by punishing Taibbi for his piece using Breitbartian Internet tactics and subterfuge. Taibbi updated his piece today with this:

Well done, Breitbart fans, well done! In less than 24 hours you’ve hacked into my Wiki page, published my telephone number on Twitter, called the Rolling Stone offices pretending to be outraged “advertisers” (anonymous ones, who hung up before we could figure out which “ads” to pull), and then spent all night calling and texting my phone with various threats and insults, many of them directed at my family. “Better grow eyes in the back of your head,” was one; “I’m going to take a shit on your mother’s grave,” was another; a third called my wife a “piece of shit like you,” and many others called me a “pile of human excrement.”

via Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche | | Rolling Stone.

As Taibbi notes, some of these messages quote, intentionally or not, from Breitbart’s remarks about Ted Kennedy when he died in 2009.
Taibbi contends in his update that Breitbart would have been “insulted if I didn’t give him one last kick in the balls on the way out the door.” But Breitbart would also probably be happy to know he’d managed to lash out in return, even from beyond the grave