A Love Supreme

Far be it from me to rain upon the beautiful bromance between Lee Stranahan (whoever he may be) and Andrew Breitbart, video vigilante and stampeding rhino. If Lee wants to play Sidney Falco to Breitbart's J. J. Hunsecker, lighting his cigarettes and running nightclub errands, it's his pride he has to put to bed at night. But I do draw the line at quivering comparisons of Andrew Breitbart to one of America's greatest junkie saints:



From Lenny, I moved on to learn about other comedy heroes who fought censorship every step of the way - from George Carlin to Richard Pryor to Howard Stern to Bill Hicks. Later, I moved to an interest in other censored artists, mostly photographers like Mapplethorpe or magazines like On Our Backs. This is a consistent position of mine for decades; regardless of subject matter�I oppose censorship of all kinds; by the state, by lawsuit, by bullying.

And that winding road brought me to Andrew Breitbart. Here?s the thing about the people being censored - they often have a small but loyal group of fans but a wide range of detractors. And that?s certainly Andrew.

I get accused of defending Andrew because I work with him. Nothing could be further from the truth. It?s my chosen destiny to be friends with the modern day First Amendment hero. And make no mistake, the establishment wants to shut him up. Lenny Bruce found fewer and fewer clubs he could play in and there?s a similar campaign by the left to cut off Breitbart?s outlets.



"It's my chosen identity to be friends with the modern day First Amendment hero."

Dear God, Gertrude, give it a rest.

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/05/a-love-supreme.html

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