Most of the posts in this thread (the later pages in particular) are downright disgusting. I am ashamed of some of you for the surprisingly classless and distasteful comments. This was a young man with a family (okay, bringing us gingers was a bad idea), not Adolf Hitler. And no, I have never paid any of his websites any mind at all.
Ridiculous. A public figure isn't magically afforded respect because they died, and it's not like his family's going to read any of this.
If, like Breitbart did, you considered Ted Kennedy to be guilty of manslaughter, his death was an appropriate time to discuss his legacy, and if you thought that was the defining part of his legacy you could hardly be blamed for not shedding a tear.
I'm not gloating. I'm not going to say I'm
glad he's dead - that implies I care a lot more than I do - but I think the United States is ever-so-slightly improved for scum like Breitbart no longer being a part of it.
Look, I'm aware he had family and friends. They're presumably distraught, and so they should be. They've lost a husband, a father, and a friend. But I didn't, and we didn't, know of Breitbart as any of those things.
When a public figure dies, it's natural that people discuss their legacy. I don't think Breitbart left a positive one.
(this is also a perverse tribute to the man considering that he didn't believe in hagiographic obituaries.)
