Salon On Breitbart’s “Predictable Dumpster Fire”

Salon’s Gary Legum says the enjoyable meltdown still underway at Breitbart was predictable. He writes:

If there is one bright spot to this angry, vicious primary campaign, it is watching in real time the immolation of the trash heap that is Breitbart News. But what really brings forth the crocodile tears for the reprobates who spend their working lives pushing out poison for Breitbart News is their sudden discovery that the site they work for is not a “journalistic enterprise” but a “propaganda organization” working “in direct opposition to limited-government conservatism.” Breitbart employees seem to genuinely believe they were rebels fighting the good fight to speak truth to liberal power, when the reality is they have been instruments for every grifter, blowhard, and paranoid lunatic the right has vomited up over the last decade, used to inject an IV full of venom directly into the American bloodstream.

As constituted, Breitbart has always been a clearinghouse for right-wing rage over every perceived slight to the self-described “real Americans” who make up the conservative movement. Every conspiracy theory about Barack Obama, Democrats, liberalism, Muslims, terrorists, the intellectual lives of politically correct college students, and every other conservative bugaboo you can imagine has found a home on the site at some point. It didn’t matter how often a Breitbart “scoop” was revealed to be a pernicious lie, because there have always been enough credible suckers to keep reading.

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