Andrew Breitbart, Cocaine and Hypocrisy
Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart, a right-wing Tea Party activist and hate merchant, died in Los Angeles yesterday of natural causes, aged 43. Unusual though – how often do 43 year olds die of natural causes?
Let’s deal with this using the “journalistic” style perfected by Breitbart himself: Andrew Breitbart was a coke-head. His cocaine addiction was often mentioned. In fact look, I’m mentioning it right now. You don’t think Breitbart was a coke-head? Do you have any evidence of that? So you can’t prove that Breitbart wasn’t a cocaine addict then? I rest my case.
OK, sometimes it’s fun to adopt the smear tactics of the moronic right – Breitbart chief among them – but let’s be serious for a moment: there’s no strong evidence that Breitbart was a coke addict. However, when this video was brought to my attention a few days before his death, I did remark that he looked like he was on coke. Other commentators think he was merely drunk. You decide:
Let me now make clear that I’m not anti drug-use; in fact I believe the war on drugs is the greatest attack on personal freedom that mankind has ever devised or experienced. Powder cocaine isn’t a particularly dangerous drug, although frequent use, coupled with alcohol use and a weak heart, can lead to problems. To put in perspective, although cocaine is a very popular drug, and is the white middle classes’ illicit stimulant of choice, only 235 coke-related deaths were recorded in the UK in 2008 (and this was a peak year). Compare this to 9,031 deaths directly attributed to alcohol in the same year (which doesn’t include deaths caused by alcohol-related violence or car accidents) and you’ll see that the scare stories over cocaine are vastly exaggerated by the media.
So I, for one, wouldn’t judge Breitbart if he did use cocaine (even if it did make him act like a dickhead). Cocaine is a crude drug. Unlike many others, it doesn’t make people more loving, empathetic or thoughtful; it doesn’t build close bonds between people or help them appreciate music and art better; it just makes people feel more powerful and interesting than they really are. Cocaine, therefore, is the egotistical moron’s illegal drug of choice. London’s more upmarket bars, and in particular London’s financial district, are awash with cocaine. If the police were to raid any upmarket bar in the capital on a Friday night, they’d recover plenty of the stuff; of course, the police don’t raid upmarket bars full of white people, so boring, egotistical babbling coked-up wankers can continue snorting, free from the fear of interruption. Cocaine, in summary, is a conservative drug.
Interestingly, our friends at Fox News have chosen to deal with this death quite differently from the recent death of Whitney Houston. While the Fox site is full of fawning nonsense about Breitbart’s life, when it came to Whitney they were far more interested in guessing about the cause of her death, as this video shows:
So was Breitbart a cocaine user? I don’t know, nor do I care. What I do know is that Breitbart was a bigot and a liar, who knew how to raise his profile by stirring up bigoted angry morons. He knew how to create false smear stories that would resonate among morons. He was a deeply hateful, nasty individual, and if not a racist himself, certainly knew how to stir up the racist moronic masses.
Andrew Breitbart, RIP. The world is a better place without you.
I love the way he keeps shrieking “behave yourselves” in the video when he’s the one who’s clearly out of control.
Glinda
3 Mar 12 at 3:45 am
Surprised to hear he was only 43, he looks 63 in the video. Dunno if he was coke fueled, but he was certainly Koch fueled.
Alan G.
3 Mar 12 at 4:50 am
He does seem a lot like a coke head. Probably normal people don’t make a living the way he did.
Bob Hooker
3 Mar 12 at 9:39 am
Anthony from Opie and Anthony clearly hints that he was doing cocaine:
John Standos
4 Mar 12 at 3:10 am
Go to 2:54:03 in the above clip to hear.
John Standos
4 Mar 12 at 3:11 am
He was an evil little man who contributed nothing to society. The world is a better place without Andrew Breitbart. Let’s hope that they find coke in his blood stream during the autopsy. Hey Andrew please invite Rush and Bill O’Reilly to your party….Cheney and Rupert too
TFORD
4 Mar 12 at 6:22 pm
I thought it prescription downers.
Prescription opiates are a white, middle-aged drug of choice, too.
I like your take on this; really original and really well written.
Besides, I agree with you. About coke being a conservative drug. I personally know that back and front.
WarHorse
4 Mar 12 at 6:24 pm
So using your logic, everyone on is a cokehead unless they can prove they are not? You’re an idiot.
You're an idiot
4 Mar 12 at 7:04 pm
I agree that the drug war has not been a case of the law serving the good of the nation, as the test of law should be that it serves and benefits people, not harass or persecute.
I am against hard drug use. I’m against infidelity. I’m against many things, but I know that people must be free to make their choices lest everyone just hide everything and our reward system stop functioning.
At least when people do things out in the open, I am free to not associate with them. I say knock yourself out, I’m not here to judge anyone, just make my own choices with my own freedom, and reap the consequences and rewards of what I sow in life just like everyone else.
I wish you all well, and believe the better we all do the better everything is.
Humanzee
4 Mar 12 at 9:32 pm
Dear “You’re an idiot” – To make his/her point, MoronWatch sarcastically employed the technique used by Breitbart. You really are an idiot.
suzy
7 Mar 12 at 5:47 pm
Andrew Breitbart was not a coke addict, he was recovering from opium addiction though. One of the wd symptom of opium addiction is elevated blood pressure that apparently did him in. He was on Subaxone for three years prior to his last attempt to quit. He started the process in December 2011, posted over 100 posts on an addiction web site under presumed name and his postings stopped the day he passed away.
tony palermo
26 Apr 12 at 3:26 pm
Interesting, Tony – has this info reached mainstream media? Do you mean opium or opiate?
moronwatch
26 Apr 12 at 3:38 pm