Andrew Breitbart, Great Communicator
Andrew Breitbart, the 43-year-old conservative media entrepreneur who was laid to rest this week after experiencing a sudden heart attack, rose from an unknown to one of the leaders of the conservative movement in just a few short years. I am proud to have called him a friend.
The swiftness of his rise and his popularity among conservatives, provide a lesson for anyone wishing to understand how to win in the game of politics and media in the 21st Century.
While Andrew was one of the Right's most innovative media entrepreneurs and personalities, creating a slew of highly read websites and helping build a modern, social-media-savvy journalism infrastructure for the Right, the secret to his rise had as much to do with something very offline and analog.
One of Andrew's last public appearances before a large crowd was just a few weeks ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which annually attracts thousands of conservative activists to Washington for three days of speeches featuring a slew of A-list conservatives in politics and the media. At this year's conference, in early February, his 20-minute speech was one of the most well-received, generating some of the largest and loudest cheers and applause.
While no one was running decibel meters, few speeches received as much loud applause and cheers, and more than a few people attending the conference listed Breitbart's speech right up there with Sarah Palin's roof-raising keynote as being among their favorites.
Why?
Andrew was a success because, as his long-time friend and business partner Larry Solov put it, he was a happy warrior.
Like Ronald Reagan, Andrew knew how to use the media of his day to wage ideological war against the Left, but also knew how to do it with humor and grace. In the current era, there are many conservative politicians and media personalities who know how to marshal the facts and make cogent arguments, but Reagan and Andrew had the more rare talent -- the ability to attack and parry with grace and humor, and to attract and inspire people, even if they didn't agree with everything being said.
Andrew was a warrior for the conservative cause -- and a great communicator. That big response he got when he spoke to conservatives at CPAC and other events was because conservatives are hungry for leaders who have the courage to fight the Left -- and the ability to do it with a genuine smile on their faces.
Doing that is an art, not a science and one which demands the use of the full array of artistic implements available. In his day, Ronald Reagan and his skilled team of assistants pioneered new ideas in event management, local media outreach, and direct mail which have since become universally implemented.
Since that time, however, there has been an unfortunate ossifying among many center-right leaders who continue to mistakenly cling to outdated perceptions of media which have led to the much more nimble liberals running circles around them. The McCain campaign's monumentally stupid decision to unveil newly selected vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Katie Couric's television show is but one example of this, the Bush-Rove decision to simply ignore the liberal media's constant hate campaign against them is another.
This was a particularly sore point for Andrew Breitbart in my conversations with him. As he saw it, too many conservatives and libertarians were content to continue doing the same old thing, never bothering to realize that we live in an age where not only can you fight and defeat someone who buys ink by the barrel, you can also beat city hall and even the president.
Andrew understood this point and he lived his life trying to not only persuade fellow conservatives to get with the new media program, he also put his money where his mouth was.
His untimely death is a great loss but thanks to the wonderful team of tireless workers he put in place before his passing, I don't think we've even begun to see the scope of the legacy that Andrew has left us. He will be missed but not forgotten.
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Andrew
Submitted by mmilesll on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 5:48pm.
RIP
RIP
Submitted by tcm14 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 6:17pm.
.
It's hard to describe what a huge loss this is. He was exactly what we needed on the right and now we've been robbed of him at least 20 years early. I can't imagine what he could have accomplished if this hadn't happened.
Thank you, Matt
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 7:00pm.
AB was a lion (and a cuddly lion cub at the same time).
He will be sorely missed.
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RIP
Submitted by BondPlainBond on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 7:06pm.
A wonderful and fitting tribute, Matt.
I will miss Andrew greatly. He will continue to be my inspiration to fearlessness. I will REALLY miss his appearances on Red Eye with Greg and TV's Andy Levy. Just hadda say it that way.
I still can't quite wrap my head around this.
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 7:57pm.
It made me wonder if this was truly just a random act of nature or the type of divine intervention meant to "test" rather than "save. " In the end I decided it really didn't matter. Andrew is still gone...hopefully his influence is just beginning.
Make Andrew Proud
Submitted by Coulter Culture on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 9:54pm.
Watching Breitbart Editor Joel Pollak dismantle Soledad on CNN gave me great joy knowing how proud Andrew must have been watching from above. It has given me great comfort reading all the articles from friends and colleagues in remembrance of him. What has given me the most comfort is having greater insight into the character of the people Andrew hired and renewed dedication that each one has to carry on his work of exposing the enemy within.
Mr. Breitbart..
Submitted by USMC8411 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:38pm.
Is proof that the liberal ideology instilled in lifelong liberal democrats can be conquered. He was a great admirer of ElRushbo whose philosophy is to quit only when everyone agrees with him. Mr. Breitbart was one of those converts we were happy to embrace, and follow into the arena of ideas, not agendas.
His legacy will haunt liberals at the very core (corpse?) starting with the head of the snake, barry soetoro.
WGBH, a Boston branch of PBS, filmed barry's embrace of the racist Bell. The Charlie Rose Show is broadcast on PBS. Let's go back to October 31, 2008 via ElRushbo. Please note what they (Rose and Broke-jaw) say about soetoro's "people advising him," - "who his heroes are" - "what his world view is" - and finally, "what books he's read"...
What didn't they "know" and when didn't they know it? WGBH/PBS had this video! Rose and Brokaw either lied,or they damn lied!
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2008/10/31/brokaw_rose_who_is_obama
The video is out there if you wish to find it. Thank you Andrew. Godspeed.
RIP, Andrew~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:44pm.
He was a brave man who made a difference. It's hard to believe he's gone. May his impact bring others courage.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
How could you not love a converted Liberal?
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 11:56pm.
I will probably name my next child Andrew! RIP my friend! :-(
If your next child is a girl name her Andrew anyway...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:23pm.
and not Andrea. Andrea Mitchell has pretty much ruined that name.
Breitbart, the Happy Warrior?
Submitted by Jer on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:04am.
There are several reasons to mourn--and I do mourn--the passing of Andrew Breitbart: A wife and four young children in a blinding, wrenching flash were robbed--by all accounts--of an extremely devoted husband and loving father. That his fearless heart stopped beating at the age of forty-three is a stark reminder of my mortality--having faced cardiological challenges myself--as well as the stabbing remembrance of having lost two friends to heart attacks in the past eighteen months, neither of whom had reached the age of fifty.
But I must take issue with Matthew's praise of the professional persona of Andrew, the described "Happy Warrior", exuding the "grace and humor" of Ronald Reagan. While there may have been an ebullient quality to his personality justifying such pleasant associations, allow me to be blunt: Ronald Reagan would never, EVER have reacted to the death of Ted Kennedy, or any politician of any party, by publicly calling him a prick and a bastard. (And it would be extraordinarily rare for a journalist then or during previous eras to respond to the passing of an Andrew Breitbart with the stunning vulgarities dished out by the likes of Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi.)
Surprisingly--to me at least--there are those on the left who actually view the Breitbart style as a positive force in modern journalism. Here, for example, is a tribute to Andrew penned by Steven Weber [the former Wings co-star], a committed progressive and frequent HuffPo blogger, whose lefty political essays would probably propel 95% of NB members into paroxysms of outrage:
MY FRIEND, ANDREW BREITBART
Maybe the takeaway, politically speaking, from the sudden death of my friend Andrew Breitbart is that once again we are all reminded how brief our time is on this planet, how precious our relationships are, the importance of our gestures and how frightening life -- and loss can be.
Andrew was a badass, defiant and audacious. For those who supported his views, he provided the physically imposing presence to literally go face-to-face with the forces and personalities he and others perceived as being villainous; to his detractors, it was this same brazenness that shocked and enraged them.
In the end, and despite the controversies that trailed virtually all of his political activity, he probably did more good to bring certain issues to the fore than the more traditionally polite discourse did -- a plus for those on either side of the argument.
Except for an arguable lack of romanticism, his persona evoked a kind of frat-boy Don Quixote, tilting at windmills and fighting "the fight", something alternately thrilling and disappointing. He impacted his environment in a way that was both inspiring and terrifying and it will be fascinating to see if that impact will be taken up as a gauntlet by those who shared his vexed vision of the world or by others who would try to reapply that preternatural focus of his and use it to build coalitions rather than demolish them.
Say what you will about Andrew, for all the rankling he may have incited for those of us on the left or the enthusiasm he certainly inspired for those of us on the right, he made the whole damn thing pretty fucking exhilarating. And that's better than it was.
Pardon me if I am acutely unexhilarated by the trend--one which I consider pernicious, divisive and an existential threat to an orderly, co-operative and productive society. Vigorous debate is healthy, but most liberals and conservatives seem to be in accord on the one point which puts them at cross-purposes: Each side believes it for too long has surrendered the field of battle to the adversary and that it is time to hit back just as hard as it has been taking punches in the past. And that is a recipe for disaster.
It's well and good that Weber and Breitbart were friends, and that, from what I understand, Ann Coulter and Bill Maher enjoy an affable relationship. But it's not so good their personal congeniality failed and keeps failing to dilute the ideological toxicity which is being injected into the nation's political bloodstream with no end in sight.
Jer
~Jer
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:53am.
I'm calling BS. Breitbart didn't hit back liberal-syle; he didn't make an ideological opponent's name synonymous with the by-product of homosexual sex, for instance. He didn't use gay as a slur, like your side does, he didn't make up foul lies about anyone, and he went EASY on Ted Kennedy when that dirty old sexual predator went to his just desserts.
I'm not advocating the use of dirty tactics, as any puerile liberal would assume from a mere defense of Breitbart; I'm pointing out that there IS a difference between the way Breitbart fought for his side, and the way his liberal counterparts fight for their side.
And sure, there are plenty of 'conservatives' who live in the gutter as much as liberals do, as the fact that yesterday on this website I was told to go get f*(ked and called a cunt 13 times will attest. Breitbart wasn't one of them, He didn't stoop to those tactics, and he didn't stand by and watch it happen, either.
I now return you all to your regularly scheduled Sound of Crickets.
Wrathful Bru...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:36pm.
Setting aside the occasional indelicate rhetoric of a few commenters at this website, are there any notable conservative pundits, journalists, spokespersons, talking heads, etc. whom you would place at or near the same ignoble level of their "liberal counterparts?
It seems to me you merely confirm--albeit with your customary eloquence--my observation of the typical reaction from both the Left and Right, viz., We rarely sink to their depths, but if and when we do it is to tell the truth about them while they lie about us.
As far as webster's remark below, well...trolls troll. It's who he is and what he does.
Jer
PS: What do you mean by the "regularly scheduled Sound of Crickets"?
~Jer
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:52pm.
It seems to me you merely confirm--albeit with your customary eloquence--my observation of the typical reaction from both the Left and Right, viz., We rarely sink to their depths, but if and when we do it is to tell the truth about them while they lie about us.
When you have two contradictory statements, like your example italicized above, only one conclusion can be drawn. One of those statements is a lie.
When Breitbart stood before reporters at Weiner's press conference, he asked them to list one provable lie he'd told, to back up the "Breitbart lies" meme. Crickets, Jer. They had nuthin'.
The Left is jam-packed with liars and hypocrites, it's proved beyond doubt every day on this website alone, and if you can't see that, there's no point in having a discussion.
.
Jer~
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:08pm.
It is so out of control on the Left that if you don't see that, there is just nothing anyone can do to convince you. I don't mean that as an insult, truly. But it gets so tedious and discouraging. When someone on the Right finally stands up and says "Enough with the bull" and brings out the facts and hypocrisy...and then the Left reacts like it's monstous...
Well, I just give up; it's an empty pit.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:32pm.
You know, or should know, I have absolutely no hesitancy in condemning the verbal slime oozing from the mouths of cretins like Maher and Malloy.
Will you likewise condemn the filth that a Michael Savage peddles, e.g. Madeline Albright should be hanged for treason:? I don't know about Maher, but Malloy has an audience of thousands. Savage has an audience of millions.
Jer
Jer~
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:57pm.
I condemn anyone who acts like a jerk. Period.
Again, just tired of all this lopsided criticism when the Right has had enough of the crap.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
~GG
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:06pm.
It's all part of the Left's attempt to level the playing field by annihilating the rules of the game altogether.
Bru~
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:19pm.
Yep. And if the majority of Americans don't see through this crapola by Nov., God help us.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
~We might be too far gone to pull back
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:21pm.
Since even a Republican president doesn't protect the country against an illegal immigrant invasion and out-of-control government growth and expenditure. *sigh*
I hear ya~
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:31pm.
It is pretty depessing. Well, maybe we can pull it back far enough not to turn into....uh...Greece? It's hard to come up with countries to use as an example of where NOT to go...that's how screwy so much has become in America. So sad.
Yep. Big sigh.
P.S. Politically Incorrect Statement of the day: quit cheating and lying your way into our country, people!
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
~We need
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:31pm.
a little cheering up. :-)
~A charge of treason
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:58pm.
is either demonstrably true or demonstrably false. If true, saying it isn't 'filth', it's simply a truth that those on her ideological side of the aisle don't want to hear.
No it's not...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:33pm.
but making the charge and proclaiming guilt based on wild conjecture, tissue-thin and manipulated facts; and motivated by ideological differences, personal animus, and a penchant for incendiary rhetoric and self-promoting notoriety--followed up with a demand that the traitorous Secretary of State be convicted and hanged--is stunningly reckless, and indefensible, un-American filth.
Jer
~I'd have to hear his case
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:34pm.
I'm not familiar with the guy.
So, how does all this stack up to Leftists' calling for Rush's death simply for expressing his political opinions?
Savage is the third or fourth most listened to talk show host
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:41pm.
in America.
On the other hand, virtually NOBODY listens to Malloy. But NB makes sure practically every repellent word the guy utters is heavily publicized as being "typical" of liberals.
Jer
~Never heard of either one
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:51pm.
till I started reading NB.
I don't get why liberals think, "But no one listens to our guys anyway" is a valid defense.
Who claimed it was a defense.
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 3:22pm.
Malloy is about as low as they come, and, if it were up to me, he would be relegated to handing out leaflets on a street corner or blogging from his basement on some obscure website.
Savage doesn't quite swim in Malloy's cellpool, but he is notable for exceedingly inflammatory statements and reckless accusations. Just for the sake of argument, let's assume his and Malloy's rhetoric were equally offensive while the respective audience shares were grossly disproportionate [the latter case being true]. Who would wield the greater influence and therefore the capacity to more negatively impact society? That's where the numbers reached--and not just the sludge peddled--become meaningful.
Jer
As for Rush, I don't even agree with the demand that advertisers
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:49pm.
cancel, much less that Rush be banned from broadcasting. It's ridiculous. I haven't heard any calls for his death, but if there have been they are shameful and contemptible.
Jer
~Wanda Sykes
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:54pm.
wished he would get kidney failure and die and Obama laughed. Oh, that's right. It was a "joke". I'll bet she's really a big fan of his and was just horsing around for laughs.
Well, if we're getting into the "joke" category...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 3:27pm.
We can add Coulter about Justice Stevens and Coulter about the NYT editors, and Nina Totenberg about Justice Thomas, and Maher about Cheney, etc., etc.
Jer
W B...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:23pm.
When you have two contradictory statements, like your example italicized above, only one conclusion can be drawn. One of those statements is a lie.
Not necessarily. It's possible that one side could be lying and the other side telling the truth, or that both sides could be lying, or that one side could be mistaken, or that both sides could be mistaken.
The Left is jam-packed with liars and hypocrites...
I read the same stuff about the Right at the Lefty sites. But assuming your claim to be true, I'll again ask the question [rephrased]: Do you believe the Right is even loosely or sparsely packed with liars and hypocrites?
Jer
~Yeah Jer, it's all one big misunderstanding
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:02pm.
>.<
I believe that both sides are packed with politicians, and politicians as a general rule are both liars, and hypocrites.
Here's the difference. Conservatism is based on reality, liberalism is based on wishful thinking.
Jer, Why is it that when
Submitted by Liberallies on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 10:56am.
Jer,
Why is it that when the Left is proven to be full of uncouth liars, hypocrites, vile and disgusting political and social commentary talking heads countless of Leftists, such as yourself, attempt the moral equivalency argument?
1) I have heard of Michael Savage and I personally do not like his style or how he says things. However, to compare him to Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes, or any Left wingers on radio today or Bill Maher is beyond ridiculous! he has never received a visit from the Secret Service, like Rhodes did, for saying that Bush's head should be blown off while making the sound of a shot-gun! Imagine what the Left would do if someone on the Right did this to Obama!
the Left hates Michael Savage's guts because he has taken on the Mooooselems, as he says. He has also called out the gay militant community on their hate, their horrific actions like attacking Catholic Churches and parishioners during Mass celebration. He has taken on pro-murderers of babies NOW, Planned Parenthood, NARAL. Great Britain, a nation where free speech no longer exists, banned him from traveling there for what these imbeciles deemed hate speech.
Do I like his style, how much anger it seems he has inside? no, not at all. I prefer optimistic warriors. He is way too close to Left wingers on how he presents his ideas, all doom and gloom.
2) Again, hard to take your "outrage" seriously when you have gone all over NB in many occasions in the past supporting Al Gore, President Clinton and President Obama. All individuals who either by omission and/or action support the type of radicalism in the media which you claim to abhor.
Example? How about Obama phoning Sandra Fluke, oh the poor, poor victim. Such "horrible" words were uttered about her...oh the poor 30 year old child.
When's the last time this joke of a President phoned Sarah Palin and showed her support. he could have easily phoned her and siad, "Ms. Palin, I disagree in political and social issues, but no woman should be put through what my left wing supporters have put you and your family. My condolences and I apologize for the hateful people who support me."
Obama has never asked his Super Pac to return the $1 million dollars from Bill Maher, a boy who has called Sarah Palin and countless of Conservative women deplorable, vile and disgusting names.
If you dislike so much the type of media that exists today from the Right or Left, where is your call to President Obama that he publicly denounce Bill Maher, as he has done with Rush Limbaugh, and that he demand that the Super Pac which supports him who received the $1 million dollars from Bill Maher be returned?
As so many times, your outrage seems rather slanted against the Right. While your words say one thing, your actions say another, as so many times Jer.
Liberallies...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 11:07pm.
--My words, to the extent they appear in the comments I have posted at this website, speak for themselves and are available for scrutiny by you as well as any other interested parties. Actions are different. Generally unknown and unobserved they may of course be the subject of speculation which invites the question just how you--a non witness--have concluded my actions are inconsistent with my words.
--My criticisms of Malloy and Maher have been far more frequent and more trenchant than any I have directed against conservatives, including Savage. So much for your moral equivalency charge.
--I don't hate Savage's guts. I don't hate conservatives at all. I married one. My parents are conservatives. Most of my friends are conservatives. As I've said before, I save my hatred for the real historical evildoers such as Hitler, Stalin, and others of their monstrous ilk.
--Let's see. I'm a registered Democrat who, while supporting a number of Republicans at the state and local level over the years, has indeed voted for Democratic nominees for president including Clinton, Gore, and Obama. I regret you find that troubling.
Jer
Jer, I am sorry, it is very
Submitted by Liberallies on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:02am.
Jer,
I am sorry, it is very hard to take your post seriously when you support President Clinton, President Obama, V.P. Al Gore, ALL individuals who support the type of media which you claim to abhor.
These three individuals have done as much as anyone else no the Left and Right whom you decry to add to the ideological toxicity which is being injected into the nation's political bloodstream with no end in sight.
By the way, as it was already said, Breibart's tactics are completely different from the Left's. The Left makes it personal, hateful, vile. They lie, speak in half-truths, they don't go after the story, the facts, they go after the person, your character.
Clinton, Gore, Obama are MASTERS of the toxicity that you speak of. Yes, I know, you will claim otherwise.
Good morning Jer
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:07am.
Nicely worded misleading liberal propaganda. Kennedy was a despicable person not deserving of any praise. How does what Reagan would have said redeem Kennedy from being exposed for the degenerate that he was? Andrew was a true newsman who exposed the truth ignored by the liberal press. The truth to a liberal is like a cross to Dracula.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Good afternoon, cocodrie...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:57pm.
I'm not nominating Ted Kennedy for canonization--there were character flaws to be sure, and occasions over his lifetime reflecting inexcusable judgment and behavior on his part--but why don't you see if you can locate a single Republican among the many hundreds who served with Kennedy during his years in the senate who will proclaim him a "despicable degenerate".
Orrin Hatch is a man of impeccable integrity and was a dear friend of Ted Kennedy. I refuse to believe Senator Hatch would have maintained such a close and warm relationship with a 'despicable degenerate'.
Jer
~Jer
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 1:55pm.
You just described a politician as having 'impeccable integrity'.
Ain't no such animal.
My best guess is, most people on this web site don't bother...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 1:08pm.
reading Jer's long-winded liberal comments because it didn't take long for them to realize "Jer" is simply short for "Jerk".
IMHO, he is the Alan Colmes of NewsBusters.
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:49pm.
Are you attempting to dazzle NB and conservatives yet another day with your trademark, long-winded, start-with-the-backhanded-compliment, I'm-always-the-fair-guy, eloquently written clap trap?
Why, yes, you are. Steadier than a Rolex.
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Shy...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 2:53pm.
You know I do it just to smoke you out of semi-retirement.
Works every time.
:-)
Jer
Busy Shy
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 3:11pm.
Semi-retirement? No, I have been in the studio recording for my next release, due out soon on a record label in Italy. And I'm heading to Morocco next week for a photo shoot with my beauty queen girlfriend, for that release.
Oh, you meant semi-retired from NB? :)
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Do you need a roadie to tend to Ms. Goncharova and her camel
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 3:37pm.
while you're busy with all that promotion stuff?
My schedule is wide open.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:14pm.
"My schedule is wide open."
I think we're all aware of that around here, Jer. :)
In The Bahamas, I needed several sticks to beat off all the men hitting on her. One guy, a bus driver, proposed we swap -- his wife for my girlfriend. :p
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I'm wondering what the average Bahamian bus driver's wife
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:30pm.
looks like. And how often they get thrown under the bus.
I suggest taking a scooter.
Jer
Please Mr Shy*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:35pm.
Show Jer your enviro friendly scooter...;-)
Jer & Cajun2
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 8:46pm.
Shy and his girlfriend's enviro friendly scooter in The Bahamas.
Yep, we really did scoot. :) Wild that you guys joked about it, I know. That swapping offer was our first day on the island, after we walked five miles aimlessly and gave up and hopped a bus that was about to go off-duty. The next day, I rented a scooter for the remainder of our one-week stay.
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Love your shoes.
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 8:55pm.
.
Personally, I like the tie.
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:02pm.
Personally, I like the tie.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
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Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:29pm.
Thanks all :)
Funny, I just took that tie in to the dry cleaners today, for our next adventure. As for the shoes, they're getting on in years -- and that yellow suit barely makes it around my ever-expanding frame these days.
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Ever expanding frame.
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:32pm.
Must be the workouts. Pecs getting bigger eh?
And please, don't reply. I don't need any more illusions shot down.
Rad79
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:39pm.
"Must be the workouts. Pecs getting bigger eh?"
Sure, we'll go with that one.
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And boys...
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:36pm.
Will be boys.
I like you both, but enough already!
^_^
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Gosh..what have I done THIS time?
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:42pm.
"-(
Jer
Oh Jer~
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 7:47pm.
If you don't know, there is no reason to feel badly. You're a guy. It happens. ;)
Forget it. You know I like ya. :)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Andrew Breitbart
Submitted by spepper on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:18am.
...is now a true immortal American Patriot, spoken of in the same breath such as with Samuel Adams (the original Son of Liberty, not the beer) and Paul Revere. May his soul be at restful peace.
In 10-15 years, Breitbart will be mainly forgotten
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:23am.
I liked and admire Andrew Breitbart. His impact on contemporaries -- both friend and foe -- is significant, but as time moves on, future generations will not know who he was even if we do remember.
He's certainly more important than Paul Revere, who is also largely forgotten.
But the only way that his name will be spoken in the same breath as that of Samuel Adams is if someone brews a beer called Andrew Breitbart.
Somehow I think he'd like that
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 12:31pm.
Andrew Breitbart, Beer for Conservatives.
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