Believe it or not, the best thing about this story isn’t that Patriot Depot was charging 4K for it (it’s Andrew Breitbart, for those not sufficiently familiar with his piercing blue eyes and ruddily handsome Celtic features):
It’s that they had to stop selling it due to copyright violations.
Rock on, wingers. You amuse me a lot more than the centrist pundits ever will.
Keith
I am somewhat surprised the “painter” didn’t include a codpiece.
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
It doesn’t help that it looks like a medieval bobblehead. Look at the head to body proportions! He looks like freakin’ Prince Farquaad!
The Dangerman
“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
Wow. That’s just plain sad. It’s hard to believe just how badly Breitbart wasted his life. Even from beyond the grave, he’s wasting his life.
chopper
@Keith:
he could have put obama in the back burning the constitution, but then he’d get another cease-and-desist.
Forum Transmitted Disease
I understand Andrew’s favorite weapon was the bottle, not the sword.
ruemara
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik: Its a stolen body from a game character where the tilt on the camera caused serious shortening. Good technique in modeling, terrible figure skills and no imagination. Bad Artist.
shortstop
Mmmm, dessert.
TR
Good Lord, that is sadder than a basketful of drowned kittens.
Metrosexual Black AbeJ
@shortstop:
Thanks, I fixed it.
eemom
That is fucking hilarious.
“Coming to your e-mo-tional res-cue….”
Amir Khalid
They wanted FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS for this bad Photoshop job? ::rolls eyes:: Given the price was actually $3,999.95, at least the customer would get his Nickelback.
Cacti
Sir Andrew’s airbrushed visage looks grossly out of proportion with his bod.
redshirt
The Breitbart Imp!
Hungry Joe
@The Dangerman:
“Joey … ” for the win.
Svensker
Who knew Andy had flippers instead of arms? Also, too, an enormous head.
I love that Townhall had to take down their post about “powerful art” like this which would SO undermine OWS should those rapist leeches see it! But most of the post lives in teh Goog:
Bwahahahaha
MikeJ
Do you know what other movement painted their leader as a Teutonic knight?
mouse tolliver
$4,000?! It’s not even leather! It needs some bows or something.
Alexandra
Talking of copyright violations, don’t Republican presidential campaigns usually involve the use of theme songs that the recording artists haven’t granted the rights to use?
BGinCHI
Mullet?
pat
Check out TBogg’s site for a hilarious photoshopping contest.
gypsy howell
@The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:
Tyrion Lannister
(though Peter Dinklage is AWESOME, Breitbart not so much)
Keith
@Forum Transmitted Disease: I would have figured it to be a rolled up dollar bill, but the autopsy said I was wrong.
scav
@mouse tolliver: oooo. Black Velvet.
harlana
NO. just NO.
Svensker
Doug, you neglected to mention that Patriot Depot is offering a real deal on Herman Cain is Able to Beat Obama bumperstickers! Two packs for $1.00 — you save $18.95!
MikeJ
@Alexandra:
Generally speaking, as long as you pay ASCAP you can play any of their licensed music in public, like at rallies. You don’t have to pre clear every piece of music.
That’s not to say that the artists aren’t right for not wanting to be associated with them, but the use of music at a rally is probably perfectly legal. Once you start talking about something like a theme song in a commercial, then you would need pre clearance, generally at a much, much, much higher rate than the pennies ASCAP will collect.
Stuck in the Funhouse
I guess Gipper worship is losing the rush after so many years, though Reagan didn’t drop dead at 43 from obvious librul plots. Adds to the Mystaque.
Jewish Steel
Molly Hatchet album cover.
Ash Can
From the link:
A hacked-together Photoshop job that has been shitcanned due to copyright violation, yet. As fitting an epitaph for Breitbart as could ever be written.
Yutsano
@Svensker: Hey you never know: Hermie could run again! Suck it libtards!
SatanicPanic
@Cacti: Those baby arms are just creepy.
Amir Khalid
@Alexandra:
I’ve noticed that the only artists who complain about Republican politicians doing this are all Democrats. And you Democrats complain about partisanship … ;)
NancyDarling
I prefer Bluegals version, Breithilda, courtesy of TBOGG’s photoshop contest.
http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/06/breithilda1.jpg
beltane
@Svensker: I wish I were more artistically gifted because it would be fun to make something with a few hundred of those bumperstickers, maybe a giant LOL collage.
MattF
Man-boobs encased in forged steel armor… well, chacun à son goo, as Baby Leroy says.
Cacti
@Svensker:
Which part of the painting depicts intellectualism? Just looks like your standard fascist/militarist fap porn to me.
Ed Drone
I’m surprised it’s not painted on velvet.
Ed
The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@ruemara:
I know that much, but look at the original. The head on that is like half the size, WITH a helmet. At least it looks somewhat proportional with that pose, leaning away.
@gypsy howell:
But Farquaad is both comical and loathesome.
SatanicPanic
@Svensker: There’s some great stuff in there. Bachmann/Palin bumper stickers that say Babes in the Whitehouse 2012 also marked down from $29.95 to $1.99.
Alexandra
@MikeJ:
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification. I expect it to happen again this time around. For my sins, I have this indelible memory of delegates at the end of Palin’s convention speech rocking out to Heart’s ‘Barracuda’…
FSM knows what Romney’s campaign theme tune will be, although I’m sure that many here could offer some suggestions.
stuckinred
@Svensker: He’s taking over for Neal Boortz when the jerk retires on inauguration day.
Valdivia
original was so much better.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
This hysterical, the luzer drinks himself to death at 43 and they want to remember him as Conan the Barbarian.
BGinCHI
@Jewish Steel: Flirtin’ With Disaster definitely an alt title.
jayjaybear
@Alexandra: Pink Floyd’s “Money”
jayjaybear
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: At least the guy painted Breitfart’s face as sufficiently alcoholic-puffy.
Ash Can
@pat:
@NancyDarling:
Both pics were funny, but that Breithilda slayed me dead. It’s a perfect ‘Shop, and I can just hear the Wagnerian bombast blasting from his mouth in off-key falsetto. Magnificent.
Culture of Truth
You know what this means? The few existing copies are now priceless!
Villago Delenda Est
The cretinous stupid of the wingtards. It burns!
Linda Featheringill
That whole story is so utterly . . . funny? sad? twisted?
You know, they could have just painted a picture of the dude. Somebody would have bought it.
The Ancient Randonneur
Doug Giles, the author of the now removed Breitbart post at Townhall is the father of the young woman who, along with James O’Keefe, made the doctored ACORN videos. This whole fucking family is nothing but a bunch of right wing grifters.
Linda Featheringill
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
You’re right. It was wasted. Hopefully, he was good to his children. Or did he scam them, too?
People can have interesting lives without being superstars and without massive amounts of dishonesty. They really can.
flukebucket
@NancyDarling:
LOL! Should be captioned, “BEHAVE YOURSELVES!”
Amir Khalid
@Linda Featheringill:
But who was there to do it? Remember, the Rembrandt of the American right, Thomas Kinkade, has himself recently passed on.
Villago Delenda Est
@Alexandra:
The Oompa-Loompa song.
Of course, you recall that Heart made it very clear that they did not want their song associated with the Wasilla bimbo.
I’m sure that whatever song the Rmoney campaign selects, they won’t bother to secure the rights to it.
slag
@BGinCHI:
Tucker in front, O’Keefe out back.
rlrr
A list of people who actually bought this abomination needs to be published as a public service.
LanceThruster
@mouse tolliver:
Needs more cowbell.
Interrobang
You just know that one of these idjits is reading this post right now and going Oooooooo those libtards are MAKING FUN of us!
Apparently they can’t even find an ethic or two in “pathetic.”
Jennifer
Eh….no. The best thing about this “artwork” is that it inspired this contest at TBogg’s, as well as this truly awesome p-shop by Substance McGravitas.
And also, the huge melon-head and tiny tiny T-Rex arms. You’d think that they’d at least have tried to get the proportions right.
Comrade Dread
The only surprise is that he’s not standing in front of a polling place guarding it with a fiery sword while a couple of panthers slain at his feet, while James O’Keefe leads a black man away in chains in the background.
Yet another glimpse in the fetishism of the conservative mind. They certainly love them some authoritarian strongmen with hints of homoeroticism imagery.
Yutsano
@Interrobang: And of course the reasoned centrists are furiously hunting for a liberal accused of something similar. Joe Biden plagarized, so both sides do it, opinions differ, etc.
cckids
@Svensker:
Holy crap, that is screamingly funny. Andrew Breitbart was an intellectual warrior the way my Pomeranian is a Triple Crown winner. He wasn’t in the same universe as “intellectual”.
Jennifer
@Amir Khalid: How about Jon McNaughton?
He’s a wingnut, he’s a bad painter, and he’s a Mormon. That’s like a trifecta or something.
rlrr
@Jennifer:
Calling his work “Fine Art” must violate some truth in advertising statute somewhere…
cckids
@Alexandra:
I vote for Adele’s “Rumour Has It”. At least one line is pitch-perfect . . . “just cause I said it, don’t mean that I meant it. . .”
It’s Romney all the way.
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Dread:
Hence their lust for 300.
Historical adviser: Victor Davis Hanson.
Once again, the stupid, it burns.
David
That’s a poster from the upcoming musical Breitbart on Ice. From the waist down he is wearing velvet stretch pants and silver skates.
dewzke
Absolutely loving this thread.
AliceBlue
@stuckinred:
I expect he’ll lose most of Boortz’ audience. The redneck wingnuts down here like the idea of black Republicans, but they aren’t going to listen to them. (Nor are they going to vote for them. That’s why Herman Cain isn’t the junior senator from the great State of Georgia.)
shortstop
@Metrosexual Black AbeJ: But I still want dessert. Trying to avoid refined sugar and it’s not as easy as they make it sound.
Zaftig Amazon
Miniscule quibble: Breitbart is not a celtic name, but rather germanic. Therefore his features would be ruddily Teutonic.
kth
@Forum Transmitted Disease: uh, more like a mirror and a rolled up dollar bill…
Jennifer
@Stuck in the Funhouse: As I noted over at roy’s, the lionization of Breitbart offers a simple example of the devolution of the right over the past 20 years. Back in the early 90’s, they were trying to force Reagan worship on all of us, with attempts to rename everything after Reagan, put Reagan on coins, and etc. Fast forward 20 years…now they’re trying to force on us worship of a guy whose tox screen just came back 6 weeks ago, who’s not even been in the ground but 3 months, and whose greatest accomplishment in life was securing and distributing a picture of a congressman’s cotton-knit-covered schlong.
Everything you need to know about the rightwing, right there in this example.
mdblanche
Even in death only the great and wonderful Andrew Breitbart can save us from Barrack Obama’s wicked personality cult!
@Svensker:
That’s an awfully
FrenchFreedom-y pronunciation.cckids
@Comrade Dread:
That would have required more than 30 minutes to be spent Photoshopping the thing. Or, you know, hiring a high-school art student or something. They’re only getting $4K for it, for Pete’s sake, they can’t be spending time/money like its water on quality or anything.
shortstop
@SatanicPanic: You know who else had baby arms? Tyrannosaurus rex, that’s who. Apropos of Breitbart, would it surprise y’all to know that they now think T-rex was a scavenger, not a terrifying hunter? No, I thought not.
@dewzke: It is a particularly good one. The 101st Chairborne’s simpering mancrushes are always the tastiest thread fodder.
shortstop
@Jennifer: Well, when you put it like that, I don’t admire them as much as I did five minutes ago.
Villago Delenda Est
@mdblanche:
The wingnuts project like the octoplex down at the Mall showing The Avengers over Memorial Day weekend.
Amir Khalid
@Zaftig Amazon:
Ah, but you see, Andrew Breitbart was adopted by a Jewish family. So for all anyone knows, maybe his “ruddily handsome” features were indeed Celtic.
Ben
Kinda reminds me of this.
harlana
@Ben: is that supposed to be Fred Thompson?
jayjaybear
@Villago Delenda Est: Nah. The Avengers was 3-dimensional. These guys barely register one.
WereBear
What it is a beautiful illustration of is the concept that some people have more money than sense.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid:
Good G-d Almighty, haven’t the Jews suffered enough?
Helena Montana
Looks like Adolf Hitler’s Aryan dream boy.
danielx
@Ed Drone:
That’s where the marketing plan for selling this creation went all wrong. They could have reproduced it on black velvet and sold it for $39.95 instead of $3,995.95 and they would have sold a shit ton of them to folks who lack taste as well as intelligence.
Until the copyright violation appeared…
Villago Delenda Est
@Helena Montana:
Blond as Hitler, svelte like Goering, with the rugged handsome features of Goebbels.
Jennifer
Again, if you haven’t seen Substance McGravitas’ take on this, you don’t know what you’re missing.
flukebucket
@AliceBlue:
I made the mistake of chortling about Herman Cain as a substitute for Boortz on a wingnut site that I frequent and boy did I catch hell. One guy told me that Neal Boortz and Herman Cain were two of the best minds out there.
That show won’t last a year with Cain at the helm. And good riddance Neal Boortz.
Nancy B
It’s not a copyright violation. It’s Brett Kimberlin stealing their First Amendment rights, again.
Villago Delenda Est
@Nancy B:
In a thread full of win, this may be the winnest of all.
dmsilev
@danielx: If I remember correctly, they did actually do this. There were a bunch of different version of the painting available at a wide range of price points. The $4K one caught most of the attention because of the pure absurdity of it, but there were cheaper options.
SatanicPanic
@Jennifer: I’m disappointed about the lack of coffee mugs in the gift shop. Woulda made for good laughs at XMas.
Jennifer
@SatanicPanic: I’d have a hard time passing those up if they were available.
I’m gonna have to get around to writing something about McNaughton for my blog. When Thomas Kinkade croaked, the post I had written about him – a year and a half before his death – got over 10,500 reads the first day the news broke (post title – Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Shite). Due to the demand, I followed up with “Painter of Shite Dead at 54.”
Citizen_X
@mdblanche: Nice. A bad p-shop job is a “digital painting.”
Villago Delenda Est
@Jennifer:
Some guy did a Lovecraftian riff on McNaughton’s tripe, and it was, naturally, vastly superior to the original.
slag
@Jennifer: I just noticed the disturbing similarity between this scene and this scene. Ahhh wingers…They much prefer to Kneel for Change.
Bubblegum Tate
@Svensker:
Anytime I see quotes like that, I always wonder if the people who say/write them truly believe it in their heart of hearts. because, come on, nobody could actually believe the artist “knocked it out of the park,” right?
danielx
@SatanicPanic:
Now there is the idea of a person who knows marketing. I’d have bought one of those cups in a heartbeat just so I could customize it with a permanent marker.
@Nancy B:
You’re probably right, stealing being among the least of his many sins. It’s fun to watch wingnut freakouts about Bret Kimberlin, but he really is a slimy little shit. I met him once about a million years ago in a vegetarian restaurant he owned at the time and even at that time he struck me as a genuinely sociopathic little fuck. He was and I have no doubt still is the kind of person who makes you want to wash your hands after you shake hands with him, I don’t care how rehabilitated he’s supposed to be.
Mike in NC
@Villago Delenda Est:
Because (1) paying for intellectual property rights offends wingnuts, who think everything should be free, and (2) Willard is actually a cheap penny-pinching bastard, like most people with obscene wealth.
Villago Delenda Est
@slag:
They’re natural serfs, the lot of them. Utterly unworthy of the freedoms and liberties so many have fought, bled, and died for, because they’d give them away in a heartbeat for a pat on the head from their imagined betters.
SiubhanDuinne
@mouse tolliver:
Ooh, megaprops for Working Girl ref!
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC:
Mike, I’m not sure if it’s even paying for it that’s the issue. It’s asking permission, which is all most artists really want, and the inevitable response from the artists, which is that they don’t want their work associated with Rmoney.
I mean, look at 1992, and the use of “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” by the Clinton campaign. They went to Fleetwood Mac and asked permission, and got it. Not to mention the enthusiastic support of the Macs.
No Republican can command that sort of reaction from a popular artist with a few outliers…and the outliers are guys like Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jr. Washed up has beens who never really were.
Atlas2000
Was this modeled after Tyrion Lannister?
quannlace
Wow, that website is pretty funny and not a little pathetic. Looked at their bumper sticker page and really… Still selling Herman Cain stickers? And anybody still whinging about Acorn is just a fool.
And how come no Romney stickers yet?
patrick II
I think the painting is a wonderful piece of art — dishonest, tasteless, and self-delusional — it is the perfect homage. Only an artist with similar gifts could see into the essence of Brietbart’s soul so completely.
SatanicPanic
@danielx: There may be a good market for spoofs out there. Nah, you’re right, it’s more fun to personalize.
bemused
@Villago Delenda Est:
Speaking of Ted Nugent, disgusting Nugent is doing robo calls for Gov Tommy Thompson. I’m amazed but probably shouldn’t be that Nugent is still considered an asset to rightwinger’s campaigns.
quannlace
As far as the popularity of Kinkade- eh. As a starving illustrator, I’m all for anybody managing to make a good living with their artwork. I just wish he was a little better at it. The man couldn’t draw- don’t take too close a look at some of those cottages (expecially the later paintings), they’re about ready to tumble into the charming inlet. And he couldn’t draw people for shit. One time he did a Norman Rockwell like Christmas street scene, and the people looked like melting wax figures.
****
But going back to this digital ‘painting.’ Were they really asking 4 thou for a print? I guess it was on gen-u-ine canvas.
SRW1
Just a guess, but the copyright violation concerns a depiction of Sir Lancelot, am I right?
shortstop
I missed the beginning of the Kimberlin thing and decided to ignore it, figuring that by the time I bothered to learn what was going on, it would be old news. But it doesn’t seem to be going away. Can anyone point me to a source that encapsulates the drama? Thanks in advance.
R Johnston
@Alexandra: Romney’s campaign theme song.
PurpleGirl
@harlana: That’s from Ghostbusters 2. It’s the portrait of Vigo the Carpathian which Dana is restoring at work. Vigo’s spirit has taken over her boss and wants him (the boss) to find a body he (Vigo) can take over.
SatanicPanic
@shortstop: He has a wikipedia page which pretty much outlined it. Shorter- he’s filing a bunch of nuisance lawsuits and possibly calling the cops on right bloggers. He sounds like a scumbag.
The Red Pen
@Svensker:
Better to read it on Free Republic where it’s annotated with hilarious commentary!
Actually, most of the Freepers hate it, and they picked up on the Hitler comparison.
alicia-logic
@Villago Delenda Est:
Washed-up has-weren’ts?
Sinister eyebrow
Andrew Breitbart died and went to Narnia?
Jennifer
@SatanicPanic: There’s a bit more to it than that, plus no evidence that he or anyone associated with him was responsible for the SWAT calls. I mean, it’s not really all that hard to believe that there might be more than one person who dislikes Patterico or Erik Erikson enough to make those calls. And so far he’s prevailed in all of those “nuisance” suits.
I think it’s more a case of people who are used to bullying getting bullied in response, and of course they don’t like it. That doesn’t mean that I agree with Kimberlin’s approach necessarily, nor that any of the rulings that have gone his way will or should stand up to appeal, but the rightblogger reaction? It’s classic “schoolyard bully gets the crap knocked out of him with a baseball bat.”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Doug Giles art
Curiously he seems a bit better than a photoshop hack like Breitbart piece. Then again his stuff doesn’t have that romance novel cover look that sells well in Wingnut land. He kind of does hotel lobby art, sort of looks nice, nothing to really upset anyone.
Now if he had REAL talent he would have The Ascendant Breitbart Warrior Angel trampling on the a metrosexaul anti-colonist while a tearful Lady Liberty thanks him for saving her. Ultimate the picture is a disappointment over what it might have been.
PurpleGirl
@Jennifer: Also there are claims that Kimberlin has cronies trying to hide his criminal past while Kimberlin has written himself about it and admits to having one.
SatanicPanic
@Jennifer: It sounds like a group of people who deserve each other.
Tod Kelly
It’s like my mom always taught me: If you’re a good conservative when you die you spend eternity in Heaven. But if you’re a very good conservative when you die you spend eternity on the side of a van circa 1977.
Yutsano
@Tod Kelly: OMG. You do realize you just invoked Rule #34 there right?
Paula
He has a mullet. That’s weird looking with the fantasy medieval flipper armor.
Seriously, that’s so out-of-proportion that it’s monstrous-looking.
Stuck in the Funhouse
@Tod Kelly:
Before ED, After ED
Stuck in the Funhouse
deleteed
Tod Kelly
@Yutsano:
Did I? What is rule 34? I assume it’s not some variation of how I can’t talk about Fight Club?
LanceThruster
For the record and my own understanding, it would be “fair use” up until that point they started charging for it, right?
What a bunch of maroons!
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
They should have ‘shopped Deadbart’s face onto the Demoman from Team Fortress 2, it would have been a much better depiction; a drunken Scot with one eye running around with explosives blowing shit up while carrying a bottle of booze to swill from. Every time he’s able to blow something up he lifts his kilt and flashes Mr. Happy in triumph.
Sounds just like him, right?
Roy G.
Where have you gone, Thomas Kinkade? ‘Winger Nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Just ‘shop Deadbart’s face on to this cartoon-like character and call it a winner.
The Other Chuck
@Tod Kelly:
Rule 34 of the Internet: If you can imagine it, there is porn of it.
Comes from http://xkcd.com/305/
Yutsano
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Too blah. You’d be ripped apart for heresy in no time.
Tod Kelly
@The Other Chuck: awesome
and thanks
g
Riding across the desert on a fine Arabian charger
Nay (neigh!), ’tis upon a dressage horse!
Jebediah
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Like the “political cartoonist” for the Onion – cant remember teh name.
Anne Laurie
@Zaftig Amazon:
As Amir Khalid said, Breitbart was adopted. He said he’d met his birth father, who was “a Celtic musician”. The ruddy-Celtic-features trope was very popular among a certain class of fReichtards who aren’t… how to put this politely?… one hundred percent certain that “Christians” should embrace the “Judeo” prefix. On the other hand, as another Ruddy Irish Celt, Breitbart’s ADD-assisted ragegasms did remind me of all the worst family occasions of my misspent youth.
Nick
The arms make him look like a thalidomide baby.
maus
@quannlace:
You’re actually very incorrect. Kinkade was an excellent painter and illustrator, prior to his career making schlock. He dumbed it down, he made terrible things. Why? Because fuck his customers and investors. This is what they want, he’s going to give them their terrible art, and the worse he makes it, the more they love him.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I know this thread is dead but for any stragglers who want to see what The Bug has to say about his ‘creating’ his ‘masterpiece’ depicting Deadbart, check this story of his out.
He never set out to make money from it…lol! Fucking LIAR.
John M. Burt
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: To be fair, Conan the Barbarian quite possibly drank himself to death at 43 also.
Just weeks after screeching at a crowd of slaves demanding emancipation to “behave yourselves!”