The New Yorker is out with a profile of Andrew Breitbart, and out of 7,000 words of bluster from the conservative media baron, this passage caught our eye:
“I like to call someone a raving cunt every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect,” he informed me. ” ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.” Constitutionally adversarial, he enjoys imagining himself paired with an equally combative leftist opponent, such as Sean Penn. “Sort of like ‘Barfly,’ with Mickey Rourke—that’s how I envision it being with me and him,” he says. “I’d hate him, I’d fight him. He’d fight me, he’d get in some punches, I’d get in some punches. We’d drink some more. At the end of the day, we’d agree to disagree. And then I’d punch him again.”
Read the whole thing.
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