O-Bits: Low….lower….Breitbart Edition

From the “Death Is Too Good For Them” files comes this lovely story. Alex Marlow, who must have done something absolutely awful in a past life because he currently calls the Editor-in-Chief’s desk at Breitbart home, went on his satellite radio show, decided to drop all pretense of humanity, and said this (emphasis added):

“You’re trying to be polite and this is the debate we’re having right now, which is that most people calling on the show are whether or not we should be polite to these 17-year-old pawns, these human shields for CNN and Jeff Zucker’s agenda, or whether or not we should rip them a new one.”

Did he really think he was making some grand rhetorical gesture? Or is he really so despicable that he believes it’s OK to describe students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, people who saw their teachers and fellow students act as literal human shields, as metaphorical human shields? Also, given that the same students saw the shooter “rip” their fellow students a “new one,” is that really the appropriate threat to be making here?

Also, before this, you were trying to be “polite”? People have been sending death threats to the students, probably sent by a couple of idiots egged on by the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, a man who probably slurps the viscera of innocent children like ramen, who and used his CPAC speech to gin up hatred for those who have a different interpretation of the Second Amendment, Dana Loesch, so hungry for Right-Wing martyrdom she made up a story about being attacked at last week’s CNN’s town hall, and  the especially risible John Nolte, a Brietbart editor and writer (who Marlow calls his “godfather”) whose Twitter handle is now “Join the NRA Today!!!” and uses his feed to keep his 152 thousand followers up on his home renovations, bad taste in movies, and how shooting survivor David Hogg is a “little bully” and “hate avatar”  bringing down our republic. There really is no basement when it comes to these people.

Quick question: those folks threatening to shoot MSD students because they have a different interpretation of the Second Amendment good guys with guns, or bad guys? Or like in Charlotteville and there are “good people” on both sides? I’d say we can wait, but we really can’t.

Steven Mirkin

Steven Mirkin’s diverse career has taken him from politics to pop culture to high art, offering him a front row seat to some of the most fascinating events and personalities of our time: writing speeches, fundraising appeals and campaign materials for Ed Koch, John Heinz and independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson; chronicling the punk/new wave scenes in New York and London; interviewing musicians such as Elton John, John Lydon and Buck Owens; profiling modern masters Julian Schnabel, Paul Schrader and Jonathan Safran Foer; and writing for TV shows including 21, The Chamber, Let's Make A Deal, and Rock Star: INXS.