Hollywood writer Daniel Knauf brings us this moving tale about his reaction to the passing of his friend Andrew Breitbart, and how he reacted on Twitter to the left’s depravity and glee on the news of his death. The reaction of the left is indeed very revealing of who they are, and Knauf has not backed down in his support of his late friend or his love of liberty, a view kept for so long under wraps. Recommended reading for those of you who think that the left is as tolerant as they claim.
And so I kept my mouth shut. And a funny thing happened: The longer I was forced to withhold my opinions and beliefs, the brighter they burned in me. Funny. Oppression has a way of doing that to the oppressed.
Ask any Soviet defector…
For years, I bit my tongue, nodding and making non-committal sounds while listening to the most virulently noxious Leftist spew imaginable: Explicit rape-murder fantasies directed toward Palin, Coulter, Malkin and Ingraham; blithely expressed wishes of cancer, assassination and mutilation of Bush, Cheney and Limbaugh; the snide denigration of “civilians” (i.e. anyone not in the entertainment business) in the “flyover states” (i.e. everywhere except New York and east of the Golden State Freeway–Pasadena, for instance is a “flyover state”); and, of course, the endless venomous, profanity-laced screes against the Tea Party.
Even more shocking was the rampant hypocrisy, the endemic corruption, the casual thievery–from producers ordering custom built doors and windows for their homes from the construction department, to having their Beemers and Benzos topped daily with gas by Transpo. All on the studio dime.
Meanwhile, any actress or female writer can tell you that the Casting Couch is alive and well in contemporary Hollywood. And it’s absolutely fascinating just how many male producers and execs time their set-visits to coincide with nude-scenes…
I happen to be a big fan of Tammy Bruce. I listen to, and support her subscriber based show. (no advertisers) And one of the things that she says is that conservatives need to understand that the left counts on us not fighting back, not speaking up, not getting involved. Like Breitbart, she was on the left in her youth and over time came to see the evil and corruption that the left stands for. Thus, she has an insider’s point of view and understands the left in a way that many conservatives do not.
It is vital that conservatives not back down. As Tammy says, the left is a house of cards and if you blow on it hard enough, it will collapse.
