{"id":184619,"date":"2012-03-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/04\/makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-a-wimp\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T20:00:00","slug":"makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-a-wimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/04\/makes-matt-taibbi-look-like-a-wimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Makes Matt Taibbi Look Like a Wimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ws0ZA.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ws0ZA.jpg\" width=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>\u201cIf you sit quietly at the edge of a river, eventually you will see the bodies of your enemies float by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Mark \u201cChopper\u201d Read<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Matt Taibbi called Breitbart a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301\">Douche<\/a>, but his former partner at the Russian newspaper <i>The Exile<\/i>, Mark Ames has a <a href=\"http:\/\/exiledonline.com\/mark-ames-1-andrew-breitbart-0-exiled-editor-does-dirty-chicken-dance-on-breitbart%E2%80%99s-grave\/\">truly evocative take-down of said douche<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Last autumn, Andrew Breitbart picked a fight with me. Breitbart bragged to the world about how he was going to destroy me. Breitbart went after me on behalf of the Koch oligarchy, who\u2019d launched a multimillion-dollar PR counter-offensive to smear journalists who investigated them, including Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. Breitbart got the contract on me, and he had no doubt in his little pea brained mind he was going to destroy me. Breitbart was so sure he was going to ruin me, he bragged about it to everyone. He even told a journalist to tell Taibbi, \u201cBreitbart is about to destroy your former eXile partner Mark Ames.\u201d He was gloating in-advance. Then the very morning he attacked me, I hit back. And he tucked tail and fled like a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>Now Andrew Breitbart is dead. Gee, whod\u2019ya think won that little war?<\/p>\n<p>Tough question: Maybe we should ask Breitbart what he thinks. Oh shit, dang, turns out I can\u2019t ask Breitbart. He\u2019s, well\u2014he\u2019s not doing well, dealing with those \u201cnatural causes\u201d and all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the first 3 &#8216;graphs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you sit quietly at the edge of a river, eventually you will see the bodies of your enemies float by.\u201d \u2014Mark \u201cChopper\u201d Read Matt Taibbi called Breitbart a Douche, but his former partner at the Russian newspaper The Exile, Mark Ames has a truly evocative take-down of said douche: Last autumn, Andrew Breitbart picked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,994,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-obituaries","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}