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Right Winger Loves Idaho Sight Unseen

In an article aptly headlined "The Rage Machine," (5-24-10) right-wing Internet entrepreneur and Fox News darling Andrew Breitbart confides to New Yorker magazine staff writer Rebecca Mead, "I just feel like one of these Idaho guys saying, 'You're not taking my land,' -- with a gun, on my porch." Under further questioning, Breitbart reveals he has never gotten closer to Idaho than his browser when he was recently looking up properties in Coeur d'Alene, attracted by the Coeur d'Alene Resort golf course and perhaps fantasizing about a life of rugged LibertarFox ian individualism only with nice shoes and sand wedges. "I saw the golf course there and it had a really cool island," he says in the article. "You do not want to live there. I've been there," his friend, former MTV anchor Kurt Loder says/Kevin Taylor, Pacific Northwest Inlander blog. More here.

Question: What would you tell Fox News darling Andrew Breitbart re: Idaho?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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