Charlie Kirk or Andrew Breitbart? "Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.” Blast from the past (2012): The Left has "established this notion that, somehow, it's impolite to call them on their bullshit"

As I was doing research for a report I came across a rather telling post from March 11, 2012, i.e., 10 days after Andrew Breitbart's untimely death and eight months before the 2012 election. A lot of what was said then explains the Left's reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk (besides much much more).

Still, I had somewhat forgotten to what extent Andrew was despised by the Left's drama queens, almost forgotten about what Jonathan Rubinstein called "The outpouring of ghoulish and sophmoric hatred at the death of Andrew Breitbart … The disgusting comments are not a tribute to the decline not of civility — there has never been much in America — but the complete disintegration of self-respect.”

As you read the following excerpts from the post of March 11, 2012 (apart from half of the post which I have removed, the only changes from 13 years ago are the highlighting of a couple of sentences), do take a moment to thank God for Donald Trump (and for Sarah Hoyt too, while you're at it):

Andrew didn't fall for the notion that, somehow, it's impolite to call the Left on their bullshit; And neither should you

Andrew Breitbart

“Why is it that the left is allowed to throw around the dangerous accusation of racism without any evidence as a means to malign half the country, yet if I want to use the word ‘socialist’ I have to go to the D.N.C. and get a notary public to sign it for me?”

Or, as Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds testified during the gathering of Conservative bloggers to pay tribute to the late Andrew Breitbart (see 6th video of 9, at 02:32): 

…one of the things that the Democrats and the Left really have down — and they totally have gotten inside the minds of most of the GOP politicians and media — is they've established this notion that, somehow, it's impolite to call them on their bullshit. That if you call them on their bullshit, you have farted. You have done something that shouldn't be done in polite society and if you did it, you should at least act ashamed and look the other way for a few minutes. Andrew didn't fall for that. And neither should you.

Ed Driscoll quotes Jonah Goldberg on Hugh Hewitt's radio show: 

One thing that he [Andrew Breitbart] and Bill [Buckley] shared was this basic contempt for the premise that the mainstream liberal elite institutions in the United States are in a position to judge and adjudicate the worth of conservatives. That they are in a position to judge our souls. That if we disagree with liberals, that proves that we are somehow wanting or lacking in compassion; lacking in humanity. That is a fundamental thing that enraged Andrew, this idea that if you disagreed about public policy, if you disagreed about how to organize society, that proved you were a racist. That proved you were a fascist. That proved you were a homophobe. It was the fundamental bad faith of the leading liberal institutions that controlled the commanding heights of this culture that infuriated him. And he refused, at the most basic level, to give them that authority over him or his ideas, and that is was fueled his Righteous Indignation, as his book title called it.

This is why, from the very beginning of when I started to blog, I have always said the basic message to pass is to point out that self-declared position of liberals' morality and authority in as clear as possible a way.

It serves little purpose, in my opinion, it does little good, to simply state, say, the official positions of the Republican Party, if the opposition has already falsifié les règles du jeu — by predetermining that all Republicans, or that most Republicans, are simple-minded, greedy, hypocritical, treacherous, lying, racist, neo-fascist, war-loving, capitalist pigs.

 …/… Remember: The left asks us — and Europeans ask us — to be polite and decent, and then… But listen to Instapundit quoting 

Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone: “Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.”

Remember this stuff the next time one of these people tries to play the “Have you no decency?” card. As I said, even in death Andrew is exposing them.

Reminds me of the Frenchwoman I almost dated until she said, when she heard of American and British soldier deaths in Iraq during the summer of 2003, "Bien ! Ah je suis contente ! Bush l'a dans le cul ! Blair l'a dans le cul !" (That ended that romance in a hurry!)

More from Ed Driscoll:

At National Review Online, former Breitbart colleague Michael Walsh describes Andrew as “the Right’s Achilles:”

There was no combat in which [Andrew Breitbart] would not engage, no battle — however small — he would not join with glee, and no outcome acceptable except total victory. His unexpected death last night at the young age of 43 is not the end of his crusade, but its beginning. 

No figure on our side was more despised in the whited sepulchers of the media/academic/political Left, and Breitbart wore their loathing as a daily badge of honor. His refusal to grant even a glimmer of moral absolution constantly enraged them, and his very existence was an affront to their carefully constructed — to use one of Andrew’s favorite words — “narrative” of moral superiority. Naturally, they are already dancing on his grave, with the manic joy of being suddenly and miraculously delivered from one of their most potent enemies.

… Confrontation was his métier, and he routinely and gleefully waded into groups of lefties to challenge them face to face. Puckish humor was his stock-in-trade, and he would often disarm opponents with his boyish, goofy side.

Again: …/… we do need to stop letting the left, and the Europeans, have the monopoly on the dialogue!

Update: Bernie Marcus, Home Depot co-founder, on "the rules of the game" (0:41): 

…the Republicans play the rules of playing golf. In golf, if you miss a putt or you touch the ball, you call a shot on yourself. We're playing the game of golf. The Democrats are playing ice hockey. It's a killer game. And that's the difference in politics.

Tim Walz…

ICE: Gestapo.
Trump: bastard
Elon Musk: dipshit.
Trump: son of a b1tch.
Trump Supporters: fascists.
Etc

Walz wants to play the victim after he called us all kinds of names.

And violence always comes from the Left not the right.

Continue to mock him. He deserves it.

— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 5, 2025

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