Posted on 03/01/2012 4:00:00 PM PST by iowamark
Marketing executive Arthur Sando tells THR about his lengthy debate with the conservative activist at The Brentwood; they said goodbye around 11:30 p.m., 50 minutes before Breitbart was pronounced dead.
Andrew Breitbart spent his final hours much like he lived most of his life: passionately talking politics.
Breibart, the 43-year-old conservative pundit and provocateur who died suddenly early Thursday while walking near his Los Angeles home, had stopped into The Brentwood, a nearby bar and restaurant. There, he struck up a conversation with Arthur Sando, a marketing executive who didn't know Breitbart but likely was the last person to talk extensively with him before he died.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Sando says he arrived at the bar in the tony Brentwood section of L.A. around 10 p.m. and soon the empty seat next to his was filled by a man with a familiar face.
"I tried to figure out how I knew him," says Sando, a veteran publicity and marketing executive who has worked at CBS, King World Prods and Turner Broadcasting. "He was on his BlackBerry. And I said 'Andrew?' I told him I had seen his work."
Sando says the duo quickly struck up a conversation that would last a little less than two hours.
"He was friendly and engaging," Sando recalls. "I said, 'You can't be very happy with the slate of Republican candidates' and he said, 'Why would you say that?' I said, 'Well, they're talking about contraception,' and he said, 'The conversation is being framed by the liberal media.' I said, 'Well, the media isn't writing Rick Santorum’s speeches for him.' We had a back-and-forth for awhile until we said we weren’t going to agree on some things."
The friendly debate continued in the bar as Breitbart sipped red wine, says Sando. "We just hit it off, he was delightful. There were other people who sat down and joined the conversation."
Sando also mentioned that he hadn't seen Breitbart as a guest on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher recently; Breitbart told Sando he enjoyed going on Maher's show because it taught him how to deal with a hostile audience and how to react when getting booed.
Breitbart had stopped in for a drink but wasn't there to meet anyone in particular, Sando says. Nor were there any signs of health or other problems.
"He wasn’t drinking excessively," Sando recalls. "He was on his BlackBerry a lot."
After the two hours, Breitbart said he was leaving. "We exchanged contact information," Sando says. "We were going to get together."
Sando says he was "shocked" to read Thursday morning that Breitbart, who had a history of heart problems, had collapsed while on a walk near his home in the same neighborhood as the bar. Breitbart was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead at 12:19 a.m., according to Reuters, less than an hour after leaving The Brentwood.
The exact cause of death has not been revealed but initial reports said it was natural causes.
"There were no signs that anything was wrong," says Sando. "It's very sad."
I've been in many a bar for over 2 hours..and had 2 beers.
You assume like plenty of other FReepers...much.
Twitter... it shows how one posts.. not a news issue, a personal observation.
No wonder OJ moved out.
LOL! I stand corrected.
It is easy to linger with a glass of wine for 2 hours while reading , watching a movie , or engaging in conversation . What’s your point ?
Rush...a skeptic?
We can’t even imagine the pressures...
Still, where was AB’s security detail? Didn’t he have one?
Six bucks for an order of french fries! I’d prefer to die too!
Hey bunnyslippers. Long time, no talk. He was repeatedly harassed by Soros people. His twitter feed was done to show the attacks. He shared it all!! Neal can rot in hell... google twittergate.
What I’ve read is “someone” called 911. Who? Have they been questioned? Are they a leftist?
Good heavens ! Do you even listen to Rush ?
Now that there is funny.
This should be investigated, someone in the area can look into it.
I hope his family and other concerned people got a PI on this immediately.
Chicken Chili...............$7.00
No wonder he had a heart attack.
Per 10k people....
Your numbers are off.....
That said, plenty ( sadly..) of young people have sudden death from heart failure....of one sort or another.
How many journalists has Putin had killed? One he had half killed and then was brazen enough to go back and kill her a different way. Yeah, maybe our communists are more virtuous.
Could be your numbers are off.
Anyway, what’s not off is the principle: the probability of two events occurring is the mathematical product of the probabilities of event 1 and event 2.
In this case, the probability that this is coincidence is very low.
Because it’s wise and considerate to WALK instead of driving to and from a neighborhood bar!
Egads! You people are fools to suggest he should drink and drive anywhere. Living without a care [the punishment for being stopped] in Los Angeles is unthinkable.
i applaude his wise thinking for heaven sakes.
Who said he had anymore than two glasses of wine?
Maybe in OK it is alright to get stopped for drinking and driving. The do not care if you had only one drink. You lose your car and that is no good in LA where you must have one.
I think his judgement is sound. But not yours.
Breitbart: I Have Obama College Films {Complete Video of CPAC Speech}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRQ2lIQ3Lg
I’ve got videos. This election we’re going to vet him”
“To show why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.”
“The videos are going to come out; the narrative is going to come out that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails back in the 1980s like Bill and Bernadine Dohrn, equally radical, who said one day we’re going to have the presidency. And the rest of us slept while they plotted....”
Sounds to me like he met his end “Chicago-style” if you get my drift.
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