Back in 1947 while squatting down to tee up a ball for his foursome’s “caviar round,” the late conservative scribe William F. Buckley inadvertently pooped out a six ounce nugget of twenty-four carat gold. After calmly appraising his gleaming turd, the future host of Firing Line drew a gun and shot his caddy in the head, remarking with a weary sigh “You just can’t let them know where this stuff comes from.”
I think of that story often these days, especially as I follow the upward trajectory of blogger-turned-journalist Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, as you may know, is a conservative gentleman with a rather large gelatinous head and a certain talent for waggling it before cameras owned by Rupert Murdoch. Breitbart, who has been taking public dumps for years and flinging the results indiscriminately at random passersby, recently launched a genuine Midas torpedo of his own, obliterating the career of a liberal congressman in the process. Suddenly, Breitbart is now taken to be a journalist.
Unlike Buckley, Andrew Breitbart will never have to shoot his caddy in the head. The times have changed. But God help him the next time he has to use a public rest room.
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When I saw the following headline for a post at Powerline, From Buckley to Breitbart, I actually figured it had to be a criticism of Breitbart’s clownish sensationalism when compared to William F. Buckley’s intellectualism.
But, no:
“Considering his esprit as well as well as the splash of his Web sites, it seems to me that Andrew Breitbart may be the Wililam Buckley of the Internet Age — part journalist, part showman, part conservative visionary and ideological entrepreneur. He has an instinctive understanding of the media environment that is the base of the left’s cultural monopoly and he means to do his best to overthrow it.”
To which I can only say: wow. If the best the conservative movement can do in terms of a key intellectual (so to speak) media representative is Andrew Breitbart, then the conservative movement is in even more trouble than I thought it was.
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