As the editorial toilet bowl at Breitbart.com continues to spin, it’s becoming clear that the shameless right-wing site hates itself about as much as everyone hates it. After editor and racist pissbaby-at-large Ben Shapiro resigned, his former website wasted no time in ridiculing him.

In a semi-coherent, now-deleted post titled “Ben Shapiro Betrays Loyal Breitbart Readers In Pursuit of Fox News Contributorship,” his crimes are enumerated:

LOS ANGELES — Former Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro announced Sunday evening via left-wing Buzzfeed that he is abandoning Andrew Breitbart’s lifelong best friend, widow, hand-picked management team and friends in pursuit of an elusive contributorship at the Fox News Channel.

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Shapiro, a Harvard lawyer and member of the State Bar of California, apparently violated virtually every clause in his employment contract during an appearance on The Kelly Filelast Thursday evening.

It was business as usual for the ambitious conservative gadfly, who is known to live on the edge, courting and then leaving a series of companies over the past several years.

Breitbart’s editor-at-large Joel Pollak later told Politico that the post was his doing:

“The article was written by me as part of an effort to make light of a significant company event, and was published as a result of a misunderstanding without going through the normal editorial channels,” Pollak said. “I apologize to Michelle Fields, my friend Ben Shapiro, and to everyone concerned.”

You all deserve each other.

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