Thom Hartmann: Andrew Breitbart - The Bell Tolls for Thee...

[thomhartmann]

Andrew Breitbart - the guy you were just watching - died last night at the age of 43. Andrew lived in a paranoid, libertarian, I-got-mine-and-screw-you world. Andrew was the perfect right-wing front man. I know - he was on my show many times over the years - and never failed to push that cruel, Libertarian line that anybody who couldn't claw their way to the top didn't deserve any help from the rest of us in any way. It's really quite sad that Andrew never realized that we're all in this together - that every individual clod of humanity is part of the continent of humanity. As John Donne wrote in 1624 in his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions...
Perchance he for whom this [funeral] bell tolls may be so ill that he doesn't know that it tolls for him
No man is an island, Andrew, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Andrew, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a house of your friend's, Andrew, or of your own were
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
Therefore, Andrew, don't ask for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for thee.

God bless and good journeys...

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[calimary]

1. What a jolting week for CONS.

They lose andrew breitbart, quite literally, and they're damn close to losing limbaugh too - at least his megaphone. Son-of-a-gun. Whooda thunkit?

[90-percent]

2. Thom and Lawrence

Two thoughtful and sincere eulogies from two great liberal journalists.

Us liberals got empathy by the bucketloads.

I must learn more about the development of empathy. My wife, who watches Dr's Phil and Drew, tells me that it is the last emotion the brain develops, at around 25 years? Worth looking into.

The cause of empathy deficiency is also worth a look.

-90% Jimmy

[ailsagirl]

3. A class act. Thank you for posting.

[ScottLand]

4. I don't take pleasure in any man's death.

But it also doesn't change how I feel about the things this man did and said. He had no problem using lies to accomplish his goals.