Of Jerks And Caricatures
May 18, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
James Wolcott. Ugly American.
Andrew Breitbart writes a fantastic column today owning up to a misguided but well meaning attempt to confront some anti-war protesters. They were, as Breitbart had suspected, anti-war protesters — they just weren’t protesting the Iraq war, or the Afghanistan war, or the war on terror, or the war on drugs. Instead they were protesting the war being fought by the Lords Resistance Army, the vicious guerrilla group fighting a war against the Ugandan government with child soldiers. Mistakes were made, and Breitbart ended up getting photographed flipping the bird to a bunch of kids who were marching against actual tyranny and oppression. The column is very funny, and Breitbart uses his mistake to do some good — directing people to the group’s website at invisiblechildren.com.
Meanwhile, Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott, confronted by a contrite and self-deprecating conservative, strings together a series of self-righteous and ad hominem attacks culminating in an imaginary scene that has Breitbart getting into a “contretemps” with participants in an AIDS walk. And this in the course of asserting a disconnect between the conservative caricature of liberals and reality.
