Andrew Breitbart (1969–2012)
Auteur de Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
A propos de l'auteur
Andrew Breitbart was born on February 1, 1969. He earned a B.A. in American studies from Tulane University in 1991. He became a conservative blogger and journalist. He ran his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big afficher plus Journalism, and Big Peace. He played key roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. He wrote two books: Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World and Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Bablyon - the Case Against Celebrity. He died of natural causes on March 1, 2012 at the age of 43. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Andrew Breitbart speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2012. By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18384494
Œuvres de Andrew Breitbart
Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon -- The Case Against Celebrity (2004) 77 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1969-02
- Date de décès
- 2012-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Études
- Tulane University
- Organisations
- Drudge Report
Breitbart.com
Membres
Critiques
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the… par Andrew Breitbart
I had a lot of preconceived notions about Breitbart (that he was an illiterate troll, boring, etc.); I'm not sure if it's that the state of political discourse in America has gotten dramatically worse over the past few years, or if I was just wrong, but he actually seems like a fairly interesting and sympathetic figure, at least based on his autobiography. I can only wonder what politics would be like today if he were still with us.
The good:
* some real enthusiasm is good
* he's right: The MSM is fucked
* the Tea Party (while not my thing) (1) has been dishonestly slandered (2) is a political phenomena
* good on Andrew for what he did, before suddenly dying at 43 of natural causes a heart attack
* some of this book is a BLAST. Really.
The bad:
* he really claims that the Democrat Party are "hard left"
* makes a big thing about truth . . . except of course attacks 911 Truth and any truth about american wars
* George W Bush was "the great unifier"
* sees "the left" as one pure, uniform whole, with no possibility of variation between any two "left" people.
* absolutely and completely blind to the nearly limitless corruption of the USA corporatist right.
* dismisses as a joke any mention of the Koch brothers' clear, fundamental and necessary support of the Tea Party movement
* lives to attack "the left" but is apoplectic when the corrupt left attack him.
My feeling is that Andrew was not, really, that bright or clever. He had his platform and lots of real criminals and parasites to attack. But he couldn't see outside his rabbit hole: no sensitivity to the larger issues at all.. . .
. . . and the book did kinda tire, between his successive media and social stunts.… (plus d'informations)
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- Membres
- 295
- Popularité
- #79,435
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
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- ISBN
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