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Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - ctipton - 03-01-2012 12:20 PM Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 Published - Mar 01 2012 09:39AM EST PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press (Associated Press) In this Feb. 11, 2010 file photo, conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart is seen during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in Los Angeles. Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner and former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, died Thursday, March 1, 2012 in Los Angeles. He was 43. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Conservative media publisher and activist Andrew Breitbart, who was behind investigations that led to the resignations of former Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York and former U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, has died in Los Angeles. He was 43. Breitbart's website, bigjournalism.com, announced Thursday he died of natural causes in Los Angeles. His death was confirmed by breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, who said he was at the hospital, and by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood on Thursday, shortly after midnight, when he collapsed, said his father-in-law, Orson Bean, a movie, TV and Broadway actor. Someone saw Breitbart fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened. "I don't know what to say. It's devastating," Bean told The Associated Press. Larry Dietz, watch commander at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said a cause of death was unknown and an autopsy was likely. Reaction to his death was quick. "RIP 'O Mighty Warrior!" Texas Gov. Rick Perry said in a message on Twitter, the medium where Breitbart confronted his critics with often abrasive messages. Indeed, Breitbart's final message called a follower "a putz." His online profile, meanwhile, called him a "mild-mannered family guy" and "husky male model." Media Matters, the liberal watchdog that was a frequent Breitbart critic, said the organization's "thoughts and prayers are with his family today." "We've disagreed more than we've found common ground, but there was never any question of Andrew's passion for and commitment to what he believed," said Media Matters' Ari Rabin-Havt. Republican presidential contenders also weighed in. Rick Santorum called Breitbart a "powerful force" after learning of his death from reporters at a rally in Dalton, Ga. "He will be what a huge loss ... for our country and certainly for the conservative movement and my prayers go out to his family," Santorum told reporters. "I'm really sorry to hear it." Mitt Romney posted to Twitter: "Ann and I are deeply saddened by the passing of (at)AndrewBreitbart: brilliant entrepreneur, fearless conservative, loving husband and father." Newt Gingrich tweeted: "Andrew Breitbart was the most innovative pioneer in conservative activist social media in America. He had great courage and creativity." Breitbart's fans have praised him for exposing government corruption and media bias. Sherrod, who is black, was fired from her job as Georgia state rural development director in July 2010 after an edited video surfaced of her making what appeared to be a racist remark. She is seen telling a local NAACP group that she was initially reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm more than two decades ago, long before she worked for USDA. Missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was meant as a lesson in racial healing. Sherrod told the crowd she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer save his farm. Sherrod sued Breitbart, his employee, Larry O'Connor, and an unnamed "John Doe" defendant for "defamation, false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress." A lawyer for O'Connor said Thursday that it is unclear whether the case will proceed for the other two defendants, who were in the process of trying to get the case dismissed from federal court. Breitbart's websites also featured a 2009 hidden-camera video that brought embarrassment to the community group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The videos show ACORN staffers offering advice on taxes and other issues to actors posing as a prostitute and pimp. Those videos triggered a firestorm of criticism, with some ACORN employees appearing willing to support illegal schemes involving tax advice, misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children. An internal review later concluded the videos "feed the impression that ACORN believes it is above the law." The internal investigation and a Government Accountability Office report cleared ACORN of criminal activities. Even so, public pressure led Congress to block previously approved funds from going to ACORN and to stop future payments. Roughly 10 percent of ACORN's funds came from federal grants and the group eventually disbanded. Breitbart also sparked a controversy that ultimately led to the resignation of Weiner, whose problems began on May 28 when Bretibart's biggovernment.com posted a lewd photograph of an underwear-clad crotch and said it had been sent from Weiner's Twitter account to a Seattle woman. Initially, Weiner lied, saying his account had been hacked. But he pointedly did not report the incident to law enforcement — a step that could have led the way to charges of wrongdoing far more serious than mere sexting. Additionally, his public denials were less than solid — particularly when he told an interviewer that he could not "say with certitude" that he wasn't the man in the underwear photo. Weiner's spokesman said the photo was just "a distraction" and that the congressman "doesn't know the person named by the hacker." The congressman denied sending the photo and said he had retained an attorney and hired a private security company to figure out how someone could pull off such a prank. But Weiner dropped that story line on June 6, offering a lengthy public confession at a Manhattan news conference, acknowledging to online activity involving at least six women. Breitbart seldom showed restraint in his vitriol to his critics and seemed to relish in the negative attention his antics earned him. After Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009, Breitbart tweeted "Rest in Chappaquiddick" and called him "a special pile of human excrement." When critics questioned his tone, he tweeted they "missed my best ones!" Breitbart is survived by his wife, Susannah Bean Breitbart, and four children. ___ Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Jack Gillum and Brett Blackledge in Washington, Jeff Wilson in Los Angeles and Ray Henry in Dalton contributed to this report. http://www.rr.com/politics/topic/article/rr/9000/63565245/Breitbart_website_editor_say_activist_has_died RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - SuperFlyBCat - 03-01-2012 12:50 PM Way too young. RIP Andrew. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - beck - 03-01-2012 12:59 PM Very sad for his wife and children, may they find strength. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - BearChatter v2.0 - 03-01-2012 02:27 PM Probably some leftwing sabotage going on here to knock him off. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Bearhawkeye - 03-01-2012 09:39 PM A huge loss to his family and our country. He left us way too soon. Fortunately his passion, courage and sense of humor will continue to inspire the many he influenced. RIP. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Lush - 03-01-2012 10:39 PM i had no idea he was behind all those things. just read a playboy article about him. sad. one of my facebook friends put this up. even though matt taibbi is a douche, this was suprisingly sentimental. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301 Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche POSTED: March 1, 3:10 PM ET So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! **** him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead. I say this in the nicest possible way. I actually kind of liked Andrew Breitbart. Not in the sense that I would ever have wanted to hang out with him, or even be caught within a hundred yards of him without a Haz-Mat suit on, but I respected the shamelessness. Breitbart didn’t do anything by halves, and even his most ardent detractors had to admit that he had a highly developed, if not always funny, sense of humor. For instance, it would be dishonest not to tip a hat to him for that famous scene when he hijacked Anthony Weiner’s own self-immolating "apology" press conference, and held up the entire event by standing at the lectern and congratulating himself at length, before Weiner could let the humiliating healing begin. For that one, brief, shining moment– still one of the most painful-to-watch YouTube spectacles of all time, right there with Mitt Romney’s priceless attempt at singing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" with a group of black voters in Florida in 2008 – Breitbart could legitimately claim to have the biggest, hairiest balls on earth. Watching Weiner apologize to Breitbart later in that same event was certainly chilling for a number of reasons (if I were Weiner, I wouldn’t have apologized to that ****** even under torture) but it was hard not appreciate the deliciousness of the scene from Breitbart’s point of view. Watching Weiner pause, swallow hard, and make the extraordinary decision to plant his lips squarely on the loathsome Breitbart’s ass on national television, that was like the ultimate Mona Lisa masterpiece of right-wing media provocations. That the outrageous Breitbart was standing right there, looking gorgeously gassy in his unbuttoned shirt, bloated Joey Buttafuoco cheeks and splendiforous silver half-mullet, made the humiliation of the trim and neatly-groomed Weiner even more abject. Furthermore, the ACORN videos made by Breitbart and his two young acolytes, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe – it’s hard not to see the inspired humor behind their elaborate stunt. And anyone who’s heard their proposals before ACORN staffers to bring underage girls over the border as part of a white-(or nonwhite-) slaving startup firm, and doesn’t think the ACORN responses (or non-responses, as it were) were shocking, they’re deluding themselves. In the Baltimore office, they ran the whole underage hooker-den spiel past an ACORN staffer, and got the following response: "You are gonna use three of them – they are gonna be under 16, so you is eligible to get child tax credit and additional child tax credit." That is seriously messed up material. Did they edit the videos heavily? Hell yes. Did they make ACORN’s behavior out to be a lot worse than it was? Absolutely. But there’s no way to watch the raw footage and not grasp how totally nuts some of this ACORN "counseling" was. We have to give Breitbart that. Breitbart has written some nasty things about me personally, once contrived to publish my private emails online, and even teamed up with Rush Limbaugh to humorously mis-identify me as a behind-the-scenes marionettist of the "media-Democrat industrial complex" (Breitbart thought I was improperly advising Occupy leaders), but all that’s okay. I think today, it’s safe to stand back and simply recognize that while many people go through their lives without leaving distinguishing marks, Andrew Breitbart definitely had his moments. But he also had enough of a sense of humor to appreciate why someone like me shouldn’t bother to pretend I’m sad he’s dead. He wouldn’t, in my place. So to use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, **********.* Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. * See the following Breitbart quote: “I like to call someone a raving **** every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect... ‘You **********.’ I love that kind of language.” Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301#ixzz1nvX2voG2 RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - beck - 03-02-2012 08:29 AM At the end end of this I feel bad for the fellows family, but I don't see how he is courageous when to me, like all other grandstanders from both sides of the aisle he was a self promoter and an entertainer; nothing more. Let's not get carried away, the really sad thing is that a wife and four young kids that are suddenly all alone; regardless of his political leanings the thought of this happening must have crossed his mind like it does with all families. May he rest in peace. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - SuperFlyBCat - 03-02-2012 11:35 AM (03-01-2012 02:27 PM)BearChatter v2.0 Wrote: Probably some leftwing sabotage going on here to knock him off. He was supposed to release videos of Obama in his younger days, today. Lots of conspiracy stuff going around. "Breitbart told the CPAC crowd last month that the videos would reveal Obama during a time when he was meeting a “bunch of silver ponytails” – referring to Weather Underground terror group members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers and Dohrn reportedly launched Obama’s political career with a fundraiser in their Chicago home. Savage noted that Breitbart had dinner with Ayers and Dorhn three weeks ago at the couple’s Hyde Park residence on Chicago’s South Side, which is near Obama’s home. Breitbart was invited by Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Tucker Carlson, who won an Internet auction for a dinner party with the couple. “I’ve got videos – this election we’re going to vet him,” Breitbart said at CPAC, promising they would show how “racial division and class warfare are central” to the “hope and change” that Obama”sold in 2008.” “He threatened the president at CPAC with video that could derail the president’s campaign,” Savage said" http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/michael-savage-was-breitbart-assassinated/ As we reported yesterday, Breitbart spoke of his intention to release the tape during his CPAC speech last month. The footage shows Obama in his college days appearing alongside former Weather Underground terrorists Bill and Bernardine Dohrn. Observers had speculated that the footage could have derailed Obama’s hopes for a second term. “I’ve got video from his college days that show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008 – the videos are going to come out,” said Breitbart, adding that Obama would be vetted. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to appreciate the downright weirdness of Breitbart predicting a major event to occur on March 1st, only for him to end up dying on that very date. Breitbart was officially pronounced dead at 12:19am. Although the cause of Breitbart’s death was hastily reported to be of “natural causes,” the Los Angeles County coroner’s office have refused to confirm anything until an autopsy has been performed. According to marketing executive Arthur Sando, Breitbart spent his final hour in a bar near his home called the Brentwood sipping red wine and talking politics. After leaving the bar at around 11:30pm, Breitbart began to walk home before apparently suffering a fatal heart attack.http://www.infowars.com/breitbart-wait-til-they-see-what-happens-march-1st/ RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - BearChatter v2.0 - 03-02-2012 02:26 PM It wouldn't surprise me if something evil and conspired went down. 43 years old with mild heart problems? Come on. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Bearhawkeye - 03-02-2012 02:55 PM Try this instead lush: Quote:Breitbart’s Last Laugh RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - b - 03-02-2012 05:35 PM I hope he finds a cool spot in hell. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - rath v2.0 - 03-02-2012 07:55 PM From the guy who went all Whitney was just a victim of an illness? Lovely. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - glacier_dropsy - 03-03-2012 12:19 AM (03-02-2012 02:26 PM)BearChatter v2.0 Wrote: It wouldn't surprise me if something evil and conspired went down. 43 years old with mild heart problems? Come on. You don't need severe coronary artery disease to die from a heart attack. It's not the plaque that slowly builds till it causes a major blockage that usually kills younger folks. It's the plaque that ruptures and forms a clot acutely. Without looking at the recent data, I'm gonna guess that at least 20% of folks that have their first heart attack still die from them, and many of those are people under age 50. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Lush - 03-03-2012 06:09 PM tnx hawkeye. that was a good read. need to read more about him RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Bearhawkeye - 03-03-2012 06:44 PM (03-02-2012 05:35 PM)b Wrote: I hope he finds a cool spot in hell. (03-02-2012 07:55 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: From the guy who went all Whitney was just a victim of an illness? Lovely. Well done rath. Breitbart would've loved it! RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - beck - 03-03-2012 08:08 PM Lighten up, ladies. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - beck - 03-04-2012 09:06 AM I did. No need to **** on, or deify the guy. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - Bearhawkeye - 03-04-2012 04:21 PM (03-03-2012 06:09 PM)Lush Wrote: tnx hawkeye. that was a good read. need to read more about him l thought you might dig it. I love that he told Ayer's that his food was "the bomb". I don't think I'd have avoided a spit-take had I been there. I'm going to have to check out Grandma's Boy soon - it actually seems kinda well-liked at imdb. It looks refreshingly awful and hilarious at the same time. RE: Conservative publisher Breitbart dies in LA at 43 - b - 03-07-2012 11:14 PM So this is the game changing bombshell that they killed him over to keep from going public? FAIL. Hell, it looks pro Obama with no teleprompter and all. Maybe I need to play it backwards or something. Oh well, on to rush limbaugh. |