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Conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart has died at age 43
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10548738-conservative-firebrand-andrew-breitbart-has-died-at-age-43 ^

Posted on 03/01/2012 8:04:13 AM PST by Altura Ct.

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand and web publisher, has died, according to his Big Government website. In a brief post, the site said he died at age 43 of natural causes.

His death was confirmed to msnbc.com by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office.

According to the Associated Press, Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood shortly after midnight Thursday when he collapsed, his father-in-law Orson Bean said.

Someone saw him fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center, Bean said.

Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breitbart; ripandrewbreitbart; sourcetitlenoturl
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1 posted on 03/01/2012 8:04:18 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

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2 posted on 03/01/2012 8:05:52 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Altura Ct.

I just read this on Drudge.

I am in total shock and greif!!!!!


3 posted on 03/01/2012 8:14:32 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Altura Ct.; potlatch; PhilDragoo; bitt

RIP Andrew Breitbart, man of courage. You were needed for times such as these. I hope his colleagues are able to step up and continue his work.


4 posted on 03/01/2012 8:16:22 AM PST by ntnychik
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To: Altura Ct.

I believe he was about to release some video of Obama?


5 posted on 03/01/2012 8:18:35 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: Altura Ct.
In each report, no matter the source, I have read this passage:

"The edited video appeared to show Sherrod making a racist comment, but the full tape later put the remark in context and made clear that Sherrod was actually talking about bridging racial differences.

I saw the unedited video and it reveals Shirley Sherrod for exactly what she is; A racist.

Why even Fox adds this misinformation to their report baffles me. Breitbart did not take her quote out of context and Sherrod was not trying to bridge racial differences when she made her remarks about the white farmer.

6 posted on 03/01/2012 8:20:04 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

Can’t believe this. Too young.


7 posted on 03/01/2012 8:20:53 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Altura Ct.

He was sick and tired of liberals. RIP


8 posted on 03/01/2012 8:22:19 AM PST by Crooked Constituent
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The DUmmies are having a field day.


9 posted on 03/01/2012 8:23:04 AM PST by Wizdum (My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)
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To: ntnychik
I had just posted on another thread that Drudge had a personal comment across the top of his page. Stunning news for someone as young as Andrew.


10 posted on 03/01/2012 8:24:42 AM PST by potlatch
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I agree completely, and that spin always pisses me off.

The full tape absolutely confirms that she is 100% racist in her thinking. The fact that she decides to help the white farmer in spite of her racism does nothing to dispel the charge.

Every thought process she reveals in that speech is run through the prism of race.

11 posted on 03/01/2012 8:24:47 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Altura Ct.

We have lost a great one. A giant. An inspiration.


12 posted on 03/01/2012 8:25:51 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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Wow!


13 posted on 03/01/2012 8:26:32 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: RGSpincich
I believe he was about to release some video of Obama?

That was my first thought when I read the headline;

How is the NSA involved?

14 posted on 03/01/2012 8:26:46 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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To: Altura Ct.

So when destructive Commie asswipes pass, are they referred to as “liberal firebrands”?


15 posted on 03/01/2012 8:27:17 AM PST by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

This is grievous, isn’t it? I feel very sad as I think about Andy defending me against the Marxist arm of today’s media. Yes, me. Who will replace the work of this brave freedom fighter? Who can defend me now with such dedication, and living his life on permanent offense for the cause of Freedom?

Jonah Goldberg said that Andy’s wife was his rock. They were raising four children. What a woman to be able to keep the home fires burning selflessly for her Type A husband.

He deserves the Medal of Honor for great journalism in the face of crushing forces.

A Freedom Fighter, par excellance.


16 posted on 03/01/2012 8:31:01 AM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Sad news, and shocking! Prayers for his family who must be missing him terribly.


17 posted on 03/01/2012 8:31:06 AM PST by kitkat (Obama, rope and chains)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“How is the NSA involved? “

The tin foil in me makes me wonder if he was taken out by powerful unseen forces?

This is the kind of guy that the left hated and wished would die.

On the other hand, lots of 40 plus men who are slightly overweight drop dead without warning from clogged arteries. That’s why controling weight and exercising hard is so important.

Hopefully one of his buddies has the video tape that he planned to release.


18 posted on 03/01/2012 8:36:50 AM PST by garjog
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Probably related in some manner to the O’Keefe suit against Olbermann and that crowd of Nazi perverts.


19 posted on 03/01/2012 8:41:53 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: C. Edmund Wright; Lancey Howard; fieldmarshaldj; Jeff Head
As I mentioned on another thread, to show you what kind of guy AB was, about three years ago he learned I was coming to LA and offered to introduce me to some Hollywood conservatives. A mixer and drinks would have been plenty---but Andrew hosted a full steak dinner at a nice restaurant, where I got to meet Ben Shapiro, Adam Baldwin, and John Nolte. Andrew paid the whole bill.

The movement has lost a leader, and I lost a friend.

20 posted on 03/01/2012 8:42:21 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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