Why hadn’t Breitbart seen a doctor in the past year and why were there no prescription drugs in his body?
I have no clue who Adam Baldwin is, but I know that the claims made by Breitbart’s friends sounded frantic - continuously getting worse (ranging from him having heart troubles and not listening to his doctor on lifestyle choices, to him moving his office so he wouldn’t have to walk so far because he was in such poor health, to him having a massive heart attack that hospitalized him for 2 weeks) - and that the hard evidence we had didn’t support any of those claims.
The shenanigans with the coroner’s office - with the technician being poisoned on the day before Breitbart’s autopsy came out (and dying the day the autopsy came out) and the police changing their stories to implausible ones in mid-stream (the doctors let the technician go on the first visit because they suspected a perforated bowel, which is a fatal condition if untreated so letting him go would be negligent medical homicide) - intensify my evidence-based belief that something wasn’t right.
Because he is a guy. We have to see blood and a bone sticking out before we go to the doctor.
My condolences and prayers to Chris Kyle’s family. He was a true American hero.
Off Topic:
Butter have you seen this article dated Nov 30, 2012? A little over two months ago?
This the first time I’ve seen it. Seem they are pushing the suicide angle pretty hard. Yeah right. Suicide by arsenic poisoning.
No Answers in Death of Technician Linked to Andrew Breitbart
A right-wing media star drops dead… a coroner’s technician dies weeks later… right-wing blogs erupt! Seven months later, we know the technician died from arsenic poisoning. But who did it? And why? Christine Pelisek reports.
In the early afternoon of April 18, 2012, Michael Cormier, an autopsy technician at the Los Angeles coroner’s office, drove himself to Kaiser Permanente Hospital complaining of heart and stomach pain and diarrhea. The doctors suspected a heart issue or an ulcer and recommended he follow up with his regular physician. Two days later, Cormier asked his wife to call 911. An ambulance took him Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, where he died several hours later from massive organ failure.
While he was at Providence St. Joseph, an unidentified family member called and recommended that the hospital check Cormier for poison. A screen test found a significant amount of arsenic in Cormier’s system, and the hospital contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. In the early stages of the investigation into Cormier’s death, the police wouldn’t rule out an accident, suicide, or something more nefarious, and the coroner deferred the cause of death pending further toxicology results.
In all, it was not a remarkable set of circumstances, but Cormier’s death made national news when numerous right-wing blogs linked it to the death of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative media juggernaut and Tea Party hero who had died on March 1 at the age of 43.
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Last Monday, the coroner’s office released its findings on Cormier’s official cause of death: he was indeed killed by “extremely high amounts of arsenic in his system,” said Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter. “He had a history of heart problems, but it was the arsenic that killed him.”
Still, neither the coroner nor the police can figure out how so much arsenic got into Cormier in the first place. “We don’t know if it was given to him or self-ingested,” Winter said. “We can’t prove he took it himself, or we can’t prove someone gave it to him.” His autopsy report is scheduled to be released in the next few weeks.
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Remember this old article?
Police Debunk Theories Linking Breitbart, L.A. Coroner Tech Deaths
Cormier was first hospitalized on April 18, complaining of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. Doctors suspected he had a perforated bowel but released him anyway, though not before Cormier told them he thought someone had tried to poison him.
The following day, Cormier’s stomach pain continued, and he was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s, where he suffered three heart attacks, according to a law-enforcement source. When an initial toxicology test proved “questionable” and Cormier later died, the hospital notified the coroner’s office.
Adam was with him the night before and they talked about the need for Breitbart to slow down, and you simply don’t know what you’re talking about. I knew Brietbart and his friends, none of whom were “frantic” or scared.