Links for 2012-03-03

Now available on YouTube: the video for Whisperado's "Teenage Popstar Girl." Song written by Sobel / Nielsen Hayden / Mills. Video concept and direction by Dan Azarian. Whisperado does not normally perform in black suits and ties. Contents may settle during shipping. Contains nuts.

What you are left with is the obvious fact of a human being: confronted with his participation in an immoral act, doubling down on immorality. Accused of deception, he elects to deceive further. Breitbart took many with him down that path. By the end we were left with writers parsing the term lynching so as to further malign Sherrod and score one for the team. That their redefinition would have remanded Emmett Till out of the category mattered little. Anything for the home team. When I heard that Andrew Brietbart had died, I was saddened. It is natural to think of the damage Breitbart did to people like Sherrod by embracing lying as a weapon. But I found myself thinking of the great injury he must have ultimately done himself, for by the end of the Sherrod affair, he was a man lying only to himself and other liars.