5 Feet of Fury

‘And thusly I tweeped: ‘I wrote Spartacus, and #IAmAndrewBreitbart”

Carnivale screenwriter Daniel Knauf:

But last night, something snapped.

12 years of silence. 12 years of cowardice. 12 years of humiliating self-censorship. 12 years of hiding what I think, who I am and what I believe in order to protect my livelihood.

And Andrew Breitbart is dead.

It all just started bleeding out of me, white hot, 140 characters at a time. All my rage. All my indignation. Like the jetting pulse from a slashed carotid, for the whole world to see.

Then came the emails. And the Follows. 1,000 in about an hour. My jaws clenched, tears blurred my vision as I typed (as they blur them now as I type):

My hero is dead. Andrew Breitbart is dead.

Long live Andrew Breitbart.