Andrew Breitbart, and others, have taken offense to the way he was portrayed in my Ann Coulter post.
While I am not concerned what Ann may think of me, I am sorry for the small inaccuracies and the apparent inference of racism that could be read into what I said about Andrew. Though it was not intended as it was taken, I think I assumed a level of sarcastic familiarity that was not earned. We live and learn, and I have learned. It was a flippant piece, and I never meant to wrong him and am sorry that I have, in any way.
Blogging is a self-correcting phenomenon, and had I known in advance what the perception would be, believe it or not I would have written it differently. Consider this the correction.
“Tree climbing” versus “wall-falling” was truly an honest mistake, too. And if Andrew knows of any military base where they need balloons blown up, I’d be happy to take him up on his suggestion.
Would this be a good time, or a bad time, to remind everyone that LYT is a racist?
Sorry, but I personally don’t think you owe an apology to a man who calls you a “clown” and uses the words “leftist indoctrination festival” without a modicum of irony.
I do have to say I love the guy calling you out on your journalistic credibility when his biggest moment in the spotlight was making fun of Michael Moore’s weight on “Fox News”!
Well done, Andrew – Looking forward to your talking head moment in the next Michael Wilson opus (surely there’s SOMETHING in production?) – maybe you’ll have some witty barbs about Al Franken’s body odor or something!
Ben,
You….you….
Wait a second, Fritz. Get a hold of yourself. Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t feed the trolls.
Ahhhh…. Much better.
No, Fitz – let’s have it! I’m a regular here. I’m not trolling for anything.
Well, admit it, Ben, you are trolling for something, in a big sense, but nobody here has it god knows, and it ain’t trolling in the classic internet sense. I found a man that hangs out at the Shelter on Fountain near the Scientology center that may have it though. He is a super hero and he rides a bike.
It’s kinda fun that this place did turn into a zoo! I have a big red clown nose on my peter and am extremely embarrassed but its so dang nervy and titillating.
I am all puffed up on self importance too. We are friends! God, we are one. It hurts. My laughs are cover for tears, but the ruse has worn so thin of late. And I wish to apologize to everybody and everybody else.
Justin, if you are making a sly reference to the time I was “seen” trolling for Cub Scouts in the parking lots of the outlet malls in the La Canada/Flintridge fringes, I’ll remind you that all of the evidenciary photographs came out blurry and deeply underexposed. Thankfully we live in a country where a little more is required of such trotted-out, tarted-up “proof.”
I do go back and forth, you know? My smarter half (the one that’s also thinner, and that quit smoking 10 years ago, and that doesn’t weep hysterically throughout each episode of “Animal Cops” I stumble on) tells me to log right off of the internet when I see hateful, arrogant nonsense being spouted. The other half (a hideous creature by any account) plays right into the bullshit and dignifies the spew by commenting in response! “How can I sit back…?!” and all that. But I always end up upset that I bothered. Nobody wins.
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I think the internet is destroying america. Never before have we been exposed to so many of the opinions of our fellow americans, and never before have we been so convinced that they are all idiots.
I can’t wait to wash up on the first row of the New Beverly tonight and bake in the cinema lights until I’m something bone dry and better.
Somebody pleaseplease come save me.
Geeze, what abuncha goths.
Nothing wrong with opinions, as long as the people expressing them are unafraid to also be vocal and/or bare some cajones with actual presence where and when it really counts – despite what your beliefs are. In those cases, a difference *can* be made, for better or for worse… it’s pessimism, self-defeat, silence, indifference, back-tracking and self-censorship which shows that a lot of people aren’t as informed, brave, or committed to *any* particular thought as they think they are. And *that’s* idiotic when you live in The United States in 2006.