Dan Riehl Rides to Andrew Breitbart’s Defense
The dim bulbs of the right wing blogosphere are working hard to throw up (and I mean that literally) a thick coating of BS as cover for Andrew Breitbart. It’s a perfect storm of willful denial, and totally expected.
Earlier we took note of hateblogger Jim Hoft, who didn’t even slow down when the full video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech was released; he just kept the smears going as if nothing had happened.
Now sub-subgenius Dan Riehl joins Pat Buchanan as a contributor to right wing site Human Events, weighing in on this important issue with the wisdom for which he’s famous.
To his credit, Dan actually seems to foggily realize something happened, even if he doesn’t know what it is (apologies to Dylan). So he springs into action by parroting all the excuses Breitbart has been making for himself the past few days: In Defense of Andrew Breitbart - HUMAN EVENTS.
If you’ve been paying attention to Breitbart’s clumsy fumbling around for talking points, none of this is new: the audience was laughing (they weren’t), Sherrod really is a racist (she isn’t), Sherrod really is a Marxist (snort), Andrew Breitbart deserves a medal for exposing the reverse racism of the blah blah blah *headdesk*.
Dan Riehl is an especially good spokesman for the right wing blogosphere in this one; he has experience with these issues. Just last year he related a tale of riding on a Washington DC Metro bus after the September 12 Tea Party demonstration; as he told it, Riehl encountered some “black kids” who were “talking loudly” with “poor diction,” dissing John McCain and praising President Obama. This caused Dan to drift off into a racial revenge reverie (imagine some harp glissandos here), in which he put a serious beat-down on these uppity youths who were messing with his tea-fueled buzz: Dan Riehl’s Imaginary Black Kid Beatdown.
Riding out of DC on the Metro, 9/12, there were some folks from South Dakota and also another Mid-West state I can’t recall in the same Metro car. We were talking, nothing special, really - politics, of course.
In the back were maybe ten or so black kids taking up that section of the car. There was no confrontation, just one or two of them talking loudly enough to make sure they’d be heard.
Without resorting to the poor diction it was along the lines of, these are the people who think Obama is the anti-Christ. That McCain he wasn’t chit. Obama’s going to be president as long as he wants, so these people better get used to it, etc. It went on but not really to a level that was so loud, or so confrontational that it needed to be addressed.
We just ignored them without much trouble at all.
Yeah, they were technically thugs. But the reality was they were still wannabes really, pretty young, not that big, or many. And if the several adults there for 9/12 actually needed to do something about it, the kids wouldn’t have lasted very long. Maybe if they were bigger, or more numerous, it might have been worse. Or it may not have happened at all. Who knows?
This is why there’s no better person to get out there in front of a right wing race-baiting scandal than Dan Riehl.
Frank says: