Conservative Babylon

Over the years, we have wrestled with the question of whether or not to honor right-wing troublemaker Andrew Breitbart as a Conservative Babylonian, and we always came to the same conclusion: We couldn’t, simply because Breitbart, who was a lot of things (none of them good), never struck us as a hypocrite — and hypocrisy is the number-one criterion for inclusion in ConBab. The one thing that really sends the ConBab Hypocrisy Meter into the red was missing: a sex scandal, especially involving an actively homophobic right-winger bleating about the “sanctity” of opposite-genital marriage, and then getting caught cheating on his or her spouse.

It turns out we were looking for the wrong thing. (more…)

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