Just a really good post from beginning to end. Kudos, T.

(Sweet merciful Jesus, there is a big yellow ad for concealed carry permits RIGHT ABOVE the comments! Yeah, I know. Still: shameless, even by algorithmic standards.)

As for Big RigorMortis, I think we’re going to see the whole Largeness franchise turn to stone before long: Sarah Palin is running around the blogosphere saying she is Andrew Breitbart, and he is here (or something). Once Mrs. Palin blesses something with her anti-Midas touch, its demise is pretty much a forgone conclusion (see also: Newt).

Baby Jeebus? He’s a cryin’

PSA campaigns are theft!!!

I got out of the boat and went to BigRottingCorpse. I read this from someone or something in the comments section: “There is no such thing as a moderate democrat nor Islamos that are just folks without guns. Yes they are Social Democrats that hate the Jews with American ”partial” Jews leading the charge.” And then, “We must ALL be
Breitbart now or we will get run over by these people and then the terrorists (E.H., B.O., et al) will win.”

They’re so funny! What a bunch of kidders those Breitbart readers…they really had me going there for a minute.

What?

Ya damn kids. Get off my intertube nets.

Scary, chilling stuff.

♪ He’s a complicated maaan ♫
♪ but no one un-der-stands him but his preznit, ♫

Eric Holder!

That doesn’t even make sense!!

So, is this congenital, accidental or self-inflicted brain damage?

Overexposed to Breitbarton radiation. These heavy, slow particles are created by the radioactive mechanism of Breitbart Decay.

Exactly. I think what we really need are more gun-owning citizens, carrying their weapons on the streets of America’s cities. Especially the black, young male citizens.

I sure as hell wish Trayvon Martin had been packing.

War. Get some, bitches.

(Actually, no I don’t. I am so saddened by the death of Trayvon Martin. As the mother of a young man close to his age, I grieve for his family. Fuck vigilante assholes like Zimmerman and all the Breitbartian fantasy warriors.)

As I usually don’t, I followed the link and watched the whole 4 minutes of video footage from Breitbart’s site.

There’s a really good reason why the word “‘brainwash’” is rendered in quotes.

It’s never used, either implicitly or explicitly, by Eric Holder.

Older Holder (ca. 1995) is promoting advertising to change people’s minds, like “don’t drive while intoxicated” and “don’t smoke.” Or “buy a Mazda, because we go zoom-zoom,” if you want to take it to the logical extreme.

But he’s black, and a Democrat, and watches, occasionally, “Fresh Prince of Belair,” so q.e.d., he’s against “freedom.”

Brainwashing Advertising sucks, unless it’s corporate brainwashing advertising, in which case it’s ok.

Obama…Who once hugged a black guy.

I also heard he fathered two black children.

As awful as Tim Geithner, Janet Napolitano, and Arne Duncan are, one can make a good argument that Eric (“9/11 Changed Everything”) Holder was the absolute worst appointee to the Obama Cabinet.

As AG, Holder is several orders of magnitude worse than Janet Reno, and he’s drifting into A. Mitchell Palmer territory.

Nicely done. I was wondering how to phrase that but I overlooked the obvious reference.

I keep wondering what it’s going to take to actually start a conversation about the overabundance of guns in this society. We’ve had shootings at middle schools and high schools, with children randomly gunned down by people who had easy access to guns. We’ve had abortion providers gunned down by erligious zealots. We’ve had Congresspeople and their constituents shot and killed. We’ve had people in museums killed by Neo-Nazis. Now we’ve had a black teenager who wasdoing nothing other than walking through a neighborhood gunned down by “neighborhood watch” vigilantes.

I remember watching “Bowling for Columbine” and thinking that we had to be approaching that moment, where we finally, as a country, had decided that this was something that needed to be debated, and addressed. That movie came out in 2002. So, ten years later, and we still have politicians on all sides of the ideological divide totally cowed by the NRA. And gun restrictions are still not only not being discussed, they’re not even in close earth orbit to being discussed. I give up.

You’re so right. Oh, for the days of John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalez and Michael Mukasey, not to mention Edwin Meese and John Mitchell. Now there were giants among men.

True that!

Primary O’Bummer!

Bring on President Santorum’s Purity Squad Justice Department…

went to a gun fight last week and lo an behold they were all packin political views.

My hometown of DC used to be known as the murder capital of the world, right around the mid 90′s. You cold step over the border into lovely conservative gun-friendly Virginia, buy some guns, then come back into DC and murder some kids.

So yeah, Breitbart fails yet again. Is this truly the best the conservatives have? Really?

I remember, back in the day, when William French Smith was the gold standard for AG’s. Course, back then we wore onions on our belts, which was the style at the time

In 1992, Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot considered naming Smith, “who’d been dead for a couple of years,” as his vice presidential running mate, according to Perot’s campaign manager Ed Rollins.[1]

What could have been. Also, too:

During Smith’s tenure, the Justice Department shifted its position on a number of issues, including Abortion, Civil Rights, and antitrust laws. Adhering to his conservative political views, Smith urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reassess its rulings in earlier abortion cases and to accord greater deference to states that wished to restrict abortions. The Justice Department also placed less emphasis on Affirmative Action as a means of addressing past racial discrimination and on mandatory busing as a means of creating integrated public school systems. Although Smith maintained that he vigorously enforced civil rights laws, his critics argued that the department filed fewer cases in the areas of housing and educational discrimination than it did under previous administrations.

In creating antitrust policy, Smith contended that bigness in business is not necessarily bad and that the government should be concerned only with grossly anticompetitive behavior. He was instrumental in developing a more tolerant policy toward mergers. This shift in the federal government’s antitrust position has been credited with contributing to the wave of Mergers and Acquisitions that occurred during the 1980s.

He would have been a perfect AG for Romney. Too bad he’s been Breitbarted.

Dimbart Junior has a point. After forty years I am still traumatized by the brainwashing I received from those jack-booted thugs at Keep America Beautiful!

The Vetting – Holder 1995: We Must ‘Brainwash’ People on Guns

Isn’t it pathetic how they think, like that guy dumping out garbage cans in the park to encourage trees to grow, they are providing a public service?

There’s a really good reason why the word “‘brainwash’” is rendered in quotes.

It’s never used, either implicitly or explicitly, by Eric Holder.

I hate to be That Guy, but Holder does indeed use the word “brainwash” near the end of the video (at about the 3:10 mark), but only a paranoid fool like Pollak would think Holder meant literal brainwashing.

Oh, and I was listening so hard, too! :-)

You see, Real Constitutional Patriots want to encourage inner city kids to have lots of guns and to express themselves with those guns accordingly

Well, Holder has his Gunwalker when he’s not using his secret police to spy on Muslims.

With a black woman, no less! Oh, and did I mention she was black?

There’s a really good reason why the word “‘brainwash’” is rendered in quotes.
It’s never used, either implicitly or explicitly, by Eric Holder

Aside from what Ogami Itto says @24 – I hate to be the OTHER That Guy, but the use of quotes around “brainwash” would be correct if it did occur in Holder’s speech.

19fucking95 and just now being brought into the naked light of day? Sure has been effective, yeah? Talk about a stealth campaign…

I would hope and expect that the Republican convention is a safe zone for concealed carry. Surely, it these laws are good for the general public, they are doubly good at Republican conventions. Every conventioneer should be allowed to carry and drink as much as they want, too, also. It would make for a valuable and instructive social experiment to see what happens after a bunch of firecrackers go off during the 1st ballot nominations.

19fucking95 and just now being brought into the naked light of day? Sure has been effective, eh? Talk about a stealth campaign…

I know! “Only you can prevent forest fires?” Fuck you, Smokey! Stop telling me what to do!

Eh? Don’t get off the canoe, kimosabe, or you’ll read lotsa “nice” comments (and very recent, I might add) about how horrid it is that some, gasp shudder, Native ‘Murkin is telling whities what to do!!11!!!

Clearly that tearful Indian is *still* traumatizing the libertarian-conservative-racists out there in the hoo-ess-aaay.

True. They were so smart, they probably even knew the difference between “due process” and “judicial process”.

I remember that.

How McCain managed to not strangle Rove with his own necktie after that is one of the great mysteries.

Brace yourself, onit: If you’re talking about that “Native American” who sheds a tear by the side of the highwaay as somebody flings a load of litter at his feet, then you’re talking about an Italian guy named Espera DeCorti, the son of two Italian immigrants, who moved to Hollywood from Louisiana in 1924, changed his name to Iron Eyes Cody, and worked in nearly two hundred films, always playing a Native American.