Friday, September 13, 2013

Who is he with, really?

"Like almost everyone else in the crowd of fellow travelers and detractors who come out for and against him — sometimes both — [Brandon] Darby is more unreliable narrator than cynic. Certainly he comes across as a grandiose believer in his own propaganda, whether as the founder of the militant grass-roots aid movement Common Ground, created as a response to support survivors of Hurricane Katrina, or as the disillusioned turncoat and FBI plant who egged on, then turned in a group of young hotheads plotting to disrupt the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis."

Informant - Documentary 
According to a former associate, it was Darby's savior complex that moved him to rush south to aid a Katrina-imperiled friend, then stay in New Orleans to help out other survivors and found the Common Ground relief collective. And perhaps his difficulty with father figures caused him to tell a police officer who asked what he was doing in the area that "I'm trying to foment social change" — then later bond so deeply with an FBI handler that he readily sold out an amateur cell of would-be terrorists trying to rig up Molotov cocktails using tampons.
To his mostly embittered associates on the left, Darby is variously a fallen hero, an attention-seeking egomaniac and a full-on Judas. Absolutist that he is, Darby now excoriates the FBI for insufficient vigor in prosecuting child prostitution. Today he's a Tea Party darling and a passionate columnist for the website Breitbart.com.
Alt title of NPR article: Ravish My Wrinkled Hippie Body, You Disgusting Virile Tea Party FBI Rat http://t.co/9FLVKcDhsw #PagingDrFreud

8 comments:

Amartel said...

Typical lefty tactic: Pathologize what you do not understand.

Bonus lefty tactic: Sex fantasies about The Other.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Spike Lee 'Do the Right Thing' features a theme song by Public Enemy...

"Fight the Power" begins with a vocal sample of civil rights attorney and activist Thomas "TNT" Todd, speechifying in a resonant, agitated voice, "Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. Matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would rather switch than fight". (bold emphasis me)

Is that a stretch to associate 'civil rights' radicals with radical leftist like that?

I want to do the right thing.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

My sense is that they are/were closely aligned.

Black radicalism might be on hold while Obama is president.

rhhardin said...

Tony Abbot said it best : nobody is the suppository of all wisdom.

Methadras said...

How many illustrations need to be made that these leftists are bat shit crazy? By the way, when did Austin go lefty. I haven't been there in a long time, so I've clearly been behind the times.

KCFleming said...

It's very possible he's for nobody but himself. I'd bet he's the hero in his own movie, he's the star, and we're all merely supporting cast and crew.

The 'difficulty with father figures' is a clue to simple narcissism. I dunno, but I wouldn't doubt he betrays Breitbart or the Tea Party next.

We'll see soon enough. Narcissists get bored quickly.

XRay said...

Never heard of him until now. Could have done without.

Breitbart should be more discerning.

Aridog said...

XRay said...

Breitbart should be more discerning.

Just my opinion, of course, but Breitbart without Breitbart (RIP) is not Breitbart.

I no longer trust their facts, and visit rarely now.