Without being overly reductionist, the dissonance and habitual defamation of Lee Stranahan can be understood in two tweets. Here he is second-guessing Michele Bachmann’s McCarthy-like conspiracy theory about Huma Abedin:
Confession: upon further research, I think it was a mistake for @MicheleBachmann to tie Hillary assistant Huma Abedin to Muslin Brothergood
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) November 10, 2013
But Stranahan is hardly being fair or truthful. No, he has his own, even better conspiracy theory that is at least twice as improbable and insane. The only “correct” permutation of any given conspiracy theory is the one Lee invents himself:
What @MicheleBachmann should have done was make the much clearer connection of Huma Abedin to an Al-Qaeda front group
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) November 10, 2013
We could never make Lee Stranahan up. Despite his recent separation from Breitbart.com, he still tweets about his claim to Saint Andrew’s memory.
Andrew didn't really tell people what to do. He let people like me @Liberty_Chick @DLoesch @brandondarby @JamesOKeefeIII etc just kick ass
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) November 10, 2013
“Yes, gather around me, children, and hear me witness why Andrew should be beatified: because he recognized real geniuses like us.”
I'm just telling you the truth about the right; here's what you lost when Andrew Breitbart died; the guy who mentored me, @BrandonDarby etc
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) November 10, 2013
And Andrew FOUGHT for Dana, James, Brandon, Mandy — on and on. And kept people together, too. Hard to express in words.
— Lee Stranahan (@Stranahan) November 10, 2013
When Andrew died, Nagy, Darby, and Stranahan were already trying to find new jobs because they did not like the changes he was making. Nagy had been cut from salary to pay-per-post. Stranahan began moonlighting at TheTrenches.us two months after Andrew’s death, but his time there was brief. His podcast partner Brandon Darby is still a hero to the sort of people who get their news from Breitbart.com, but when Andrew died Brandon had already shown he was too much of a loose cannon to be trusted with leadership of the franchise. By December of 2012, Dana Loesch was suing Breitbart News to get out of her contract. Now Stranahan says these same people are Saint Andrew’s greatest legacy.
We also find Stranahan’s Islamophobic turn emblematic of his style. Having lately returned from a half-hearted and dubious visit to the Middle East, his latest fundraising project is a “documentary” about the Islamic caliphate. Assuming his project actually gets made, we expect his take on this well-worn bugaboo to be vague and derivative, yet offered with the certitude and righteousness of the true believer he never was. He once lived to lick Andrew’s boots; now, Stranahan wants us to look at how shiny his master’s boots were.
He’s like Prof. Harold Hill from the Music Man, only without the talent or the brains or the compassion. He’s an opportunist without conscience, a scam artist who will shamelessly take your money, give you nothing, then blame you for being so easily fooled. He is a poor excuse for a human being and there is nothing on this Earthly realm that could happen to him that would be too horrible for him to deserve.
Not even exile to Detroit? (I kid, I kid…no one should ever be forced to visit Detroit.)
I eagerly await the confluence of random factoid ‘dots’ and paranoid theorists that will connect them all into one coherent superstring theory of creeping quantum Sharia, raining down all across America via an ever changing chemtrails mixture.
Breitbart was only forty three and he had SHOCKING revelations about Obama coming out the very next week. A proper autopsy would have revealed the use of one of the CIA’s shellfish toxin darts as the means of his assassination. And everyone KNOWS the agency is in bed with the House of Saud.
Ignore the fact that half of the leadership of Project VIGILANT are Jewish, the rest are clearly not Muslim, and they’re hosted by a company owned by a former American Israel Public Affairs Committee trustee. This is obviously some sort of front for Iran.
It’s all so OBVIOUS to anyone who knows how to CONNECT the various DOTS. We’re doomed, doomed I tell you …
We must CONNECT the OBVIOUS Muslin Brothergood DOTS.