Andrew Breitbart passed away last night at the age of 43. With the news the right has instantly started talking about the rabid comments from the left on Twitter. Of course most of the names they are pulling out are names we never even heard of. But does the right even know who Andrew Breitbart was?
Early this morning, news broke that Sen. Ted Kennedy had passed away after serving in the U.S. Senate for nearly 50 years. Soon after, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart began a sustained assault on Kennedy’s memory, tweeting “Rest in Chappaquiddick.”
Over the course of the next three hours, Breitbart unapologetically attacked Kennedy, calling him a “villain,” “a big ass motherf@#$er,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.” “I’ll shut my mouth for Carter. That’s just politics. Kennedy was a special pile of human excrement,” wrote Breitbart in one tweet.
It seems like the left is giving Breitbart the kind of wake he would have wanted and the right doesn’t have any idea who he really was. The world’s most famous troll is dead now and if it would have been a big name progressive blogger, you can bet your ass Andrew would be firing out the insults on Twitter and the same people on the right whining today would be retweeting and laughing their asses off.