It's unfortunate, but they don't go away if you don't pay any attention. Breitbart has more than enough means at his disposal to gain attention, and he's actively cruising for it.
The diary is right about one thing: don't give him what he wants, which is people like us flipping out and getting angry. He's just trying to be provocative, so he can get that precious video he wants of liberal nuts. He's not going to present your side of the story, he's not going to air the justifications for your anger and whatever else, he'll simply skew the story to make you look crazy.
Instead, I recommend that if you go to the Netroots Nation getup this weekend, what you're going to want to do is have some nice, calm questions ready to ask Breitbart which are nonetheless designed to ask his accountability for the things he's done and said. What we want is for him to have a meltdown, for him to be be the one running from the cameras
The Conservative Media has more than its share of space for people like Breitbart for them to distribute their nonsense. Put plainly, they won't go away. And they'll keep on bothering us, keep on provoking us. Inevitably, somebody will feel like rising to Breitbart's bait.
So what I propose is pretty simple. We need to formulate the questions that Breitbart doesn't want to answer, and the follow-ups that will force him into an uncomfortable position. We need to force him, on camera, to answer for what he's done.
And we need to do it with steely calm and patience. If he runs away, we follow, and get video of him running away. If he lies to us, or pushes some sort of point, we get that, and we post videos featuring the refutations of it. If he loses his temper, we catch the blow up. If he slugs the person with the camera, we catch that.
In short, we put the very arrogant son of a bitch in a situation where his self control is tested, while we maintain our self control.
We need to make his trollery backfire on him, and leave him entirely to blame for whatever controversy. We need to have him on the run, him have something to hide.
We need to take his tactics, and turn them on him. To do that will take patience, self-control, and a little planning. But I think we can expose this troll for his true ugliness, and he will cooperate with us in doing that.