{"id":1117,"date":"2012-06-14T10:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2012-06-20T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:44:38","slug":"andrew-breitbart-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Breitbart: Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbartknight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbartknight650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"965\" \/><\/a>A couple of weeks ago, my comrade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/isisdc\" target=\"_blank\">Isis<\/a> hipped me to this pants-pissing hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/474218\/here-is-a-painting-of-ghost-andrew-breitbart-as-a-nordic-knight\" target=\"_blank\">article in Wonkette<\/a> about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbart fight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">absurdly overwrought portrait<\/a> by David Bugnon, glorifying recently-deceased rightist &#8220;journalist&#8221; Andrew Breitbart as a Nordic knight. Posters and postcards of this hysterical tribute were available for purchase at <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotdepot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patriot Depot,<\/a> your one-stop shop for all your right-wing drama-queen kitsch needs, for the bargain price of $3999.95. (Such a deal! I&#8217;ll take two!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbart fight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbart-fight300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Now, those of you who know me and my work know that there was no way in hell I could ever resist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/ragingbreitbart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">parodying<\/a> this great heaping sloppy slab of fanboy bilge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Confirming my suspicions &#8212; along with those of Photoshop artists and computer gamers everywhere &#8212; it&#8217;s been revealed in <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/474804\/hideous-3999-95-painting-of-andrew-breitbart-is-actually-swiped-from-a-video-game\" target=\"_blank\">a subsequent Wonkette report<\/a> that the aforementioned glorifying painting was, in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/side-by-side-bartknight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a third-rate Photoshop mashup<\/a> composed of an &#8220;official&#8221; portrait of Little Andrew, the knight from the computer game <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed,<\/em> and a stock photo of a glowing, leaden sky. This, of course, pushed the whole story from the absurd over the edge into the gloriously batshit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/breitbartknight\/breitbartknight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">medium-res .jpeg image,<\/a><\/strong> 992kb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, my comrade Isis hipped me to this pants-pissing hilarious article in Wonkette about this absurdly overwrought portrait by David Bugnon, glorifying recently-deceased rightist &#8220;journalist&#8221; Andrew Breitbart as a Nordic knight. Posters and postcards of this hysterical tribute were available for purchase at Patriot Depot, your one-stop shop for all your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[210,436,438,437,178],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-right-wingnuts","tag-breitbart","tag-bugnon","tag-conservative","tag-patriot-depot","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}