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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 25, 2014, 09:37 PM Sep 2014

Breitbart Texas: All Thunder, No Rain

When Breitbart Texas, the Lone Star “vertical” of the right-wing news and commentary site Breitbart.com, launched in February, I was privileged to be one of its first targets. The site ran what I believe it was trying to pass as a smear piece about my abortion politics.

“Ms. Grimes doesn’t just want abortion,” wrote then-columnist and self-described “Breitbart protégé” Lee Stranahan, about my work for the site RH Reality Check. “She wants it freely available and she wants the state to pay for it.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Except when I say it, there tends to be quite a bit more cussing. Perhaps that’s why Breitbart printed the piece—plucked from my extremely public Twitter feed—with this pearl-clutching advisory: “LANGUAGE WARNING: ANDREA GRIMES UNCENSORED.”

Stranahan kindly warned me on Twitter that a storm would soon be brewing about me. He implored his readers to “please treat [me] civilly.” But I heard nary a peep from any of them. I didn’t even get any nice church ladies threatening to pray for me.

Read more: http://www.texasobserver.org/breitbart-texas-thunder-rain/

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Breitbart Texas: All Thunder, No Rain (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2014 OP
I'm confused malokvale77 Sep 2014 #1
Brietbard is a joke Gothmog Sep 2014 #2
Breitbart is dead DBoon Sep 2014 #3
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