Andrew Breitbart dead at 43

This one of those surreal deaths that's not only untimely, but also that of a controversial and divisive person. I don't like most of what he said and did of late, but he was a fascinating and tenacious political commentator and pundit. He was a key partner at Huffington Post (when it started), and easily one of the few on the right who could actually run sleek and effective websites. I've seen condolences already from a left-leaning defense blog at Wired, who noted he was both a key source and sparring partner. I guess if Bill Maher died suddenly (especially of that would of occurred years ago) it'd be a similar reaction from those on the other end of the ideological spectrum. I'm sure some harsh stuff will follow here on WATMM, and again, I'm not a fan myself, but nonetheless condolences to his family and friends.

http://latimesblogs....n-la-at-43.html

Also, my title fucked up and repeated, but oh well. I'm posting this on the fly between work. I'll just claim it's an aesthetic choice.

Yet Limbaugh trucks on. As far as I can tell, he said pretty bad things and generally pushed the discourse towards the mud.

"Died naturally in his sleep at 43" sounds odd to me, but whatever.

comment section is refreshing.

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:59 PM, Gary C said:

"Died naturally in his sleep at 43" sounds odd to me, but whatever.

Yeah I'm curious. If it was nonstop working, ideological-driven stress and his abrasive personality that pushed him to the brink it should be a lesson for us all.

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:42 PM, azatoth said:

Yet Limbaugh trucks on. As far as I can tell, he said pretty bad things and generally pushed the discourse towards the mud.

Pretty much. I started the thread mostly to get my polite comments out first. It's hard to respond to deaths of those who've said such visceral things and influenced so many in a negative manner, yet aren't straight up evil (dictators, mass murderers, etc). It's interesting to see how his colleagues and rivals on the left have responded...

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:02 PM, vamos scorcho said:

comment section is refreshing.

The one Huffpost comments are (or were) especially polite. Nice to see civility when it's not the easy thing to do.

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:59 PM, Gary C said:

"Died naturally in his sleep at 43" sounds odd to me, but whatever.

I don't know anything about Breibart and I generally try not to concern myself with American politics and the silly slander and paranoia that surrounds it, but here's a twitter compilation of crazy people:

http://www.buzzfeed....lled-andrew-bre

  On 3/1/2012 at 6:04 PM, Gary C said:

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:59 PM, Gary C said:

"Died naturally in his sleep at 43" sounds odd to me, but whatever.

I don't know anything about Breibart and I generally try not to concern myself with American politics and the silly slander and paranoia that surrounds it, but here's a twitter compilation of crazy people:

 

http://www.buzzfeed....lled-andrew-bre

lol, buzzfeed's best contributions to the internet are these lists

this tweet might be quite relevant for many here...

https://twitter.com/#!/anthonyjeselnik/status/175257398729129984

who dis

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:59 PM, Gary C said:

"Died naturally in his sleep at 43" sounds odd to me, but whatever.

He actually had been walking around midnight near his house. He collapsed, someone called the paramedics, and they couldn't revive him.

He apparently had heart problems the year before, so probably not much of a conspiracy.

It's the Kenyan socialist nazi ursupers secret mooslim assassin squad!

  On 3/1/2012 at 5:42 PM, azatoth said:

Yet Limbaugh trucks on. As far as I can tell, he said pretty bad things and generally pushed the discourse towards the mud.

The devil takes care of it's own...

it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

  On 3/1/2012 at 8:43 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4od4QQVK1o

^troll hard, die young

STOP RAPING PEOPLE

Gavin McInnes on Andrew Breibart

  Quote

It’s stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was different. He relished his enemies and laughed when they threatened him. He wasn’t scared of conflict. He thought it was fun. He was, as Greg Gutfeld put it, “The bravest person I ever met.”

 

When I was on Greg’s show Red Eye with Breitbart we were asked what we thought of Trump sponsoring a GOP debate. Greg and I had the knee-jerk reaction of scoffing at the whole thing. When Breitbart asked us what was so funny we said, “Well, it’s obviously just some rich guy showboating.” Then he taught me a word I never really paid attention to before: “So?”

 

This word defines Breitbart to me more than any other. At a bar one night I was whining about the allegation that all libertarians are funded by the Koch brothers. “So?” he replied. Andrew didn’t play the PC left’s game. Libertarians don’t get magical checks from the Koch brothers, but so what if they did? George Soros spends billions paying people he likes. There’s nothing wrong with that, either.

 

Another evening we were both arguing with someone who still believed government can create jobs. She was from Madison and like all liberals there, she saw Governor Scott Walker as a union-busting thug who hated the working man. I explained that Walker’s privatization created way more jobs than the government did and she said, “Yeah, but they were all just tourism jobs.” Breitbart ended the whole argument with, “So?”

 

What a word. It’s only two letters but it shows the PC left they’ve never thought past the silly hysteria that surrounds their accusations. Oil companies have had record profits this year. So? That’s what they’re supposed to do. Up in Canada, my father has been fighting with the local schoolboard because they are hiring fundamentalist Muslims as guidance counselors. The trustee in charge of the program said my father’s comments could be construed as anti-Islamic and I was surprised to see him explain why they are not. “You need to learn Breitbart’s magic word,” I said in an email. “When she calls you anti-Islamic, say, ‘So?’” This was yesterday.

 

I once asked Andrew where it all came from. Where did he get the hubris to take on the whole world? “I woke up one day,” he told me, smiling with a drink in his hand (despite accusations, he didn’t do drugs), “and I said, ‘What Would Andrew Do?’ From that day forward I did whatever I wanted and said exactly what was on my mind.” His boldness was contagious. Days after meeting him you catch yourself strutting down the street with your chest puffed-out yelling, “So?” at everyone who has a problem.

 

This is precisely why he was so popular. He made us all feel fearless. For all the petty enemies who called him everything from a homophobe to a faggot, there were a hundred supporters inspired by his bravery. I never saw him even slightly bothered by accusations and even flattery left him unfazed. Once, when a sycophantic colleague parroted Breitbart’s feelings on some random subject, Andrew shrugged and said, “And? You want me to say something glib now?” This made me laugh so hard I convulsed and hit my head on the table because it was totally unexpected. Who calls bullshit on flattery?

 

The only time I saw him care what anyone thought was when his daughter was mad at him. He was in trouble because he left on a business trip without telling her exactly when he was leaving and exactly when he was coming back. That was one of her rules and he had broken it. “It’s different being in the doghouse with a kid,” he told me before calling her to beg for forgiveness. “With an adult, even your wife, you think, ‘Yeah, go ahead be mad at me, I don’t care.’ Even when you’re wrong. You can’t be like that with a kid.” Then he left the room and talked to his daughter for so long I almost left. When he came back, I asked him how it went and he said, “I think we’re good” while pensively staring at his phone.

 

Thomas Paine once wrote, “He who dares not offend cannot be honest” and as far as I’m concerned, that’s what Andrew Breitbart was all about. When a journalist accused him of carefully editing an NAACP speech to make a black woman look racist, Andrew relentlessly hammered the guy and proved it was the media who had cherry-picked the quote. When the liberal media was hemming and hawing about rape accusations at OWS, Breitbart ran up to the protestors and screamed, “STOP RAPING PEOPLE” in their faces. You don’t forget a guy like that.

 

I was on an anarchist hippie farm this summer and was surprised to see Oriana Fallaci books on the shelf. She was a conservative, but she was also a crusader for truth. Henry Kissinger famously said talking to her was “the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press.” It’s not her politics that has her sitting on bookshelves four decades after that interview, it’s her courage. I talked to Breitbart about this on Dennis Miller’s radio show and we both agreed history best remembers the ones who had it worst. I told him he would be remembered forever because he made sure he had a tough time. He ended the interview with, “I hope you’re having a tough time, too,” and I’d like to add that I hope we all are. If there’s one thing we can learn from this man, it’s that the tough have to get going. He inspired us all to stop living in a culture of fear and fight for what’s important: our families, our country, and our culture. I am proud to have known Andrew for the brief moment I did, and his children should be proud of the legacy he left in such a short time.

 

Tonight, I’m not going to mourn him. I’m going to go out with friends, get drunk, and talk about all his accomplishments. You don’t act defeated when someone such as Andrew Breitbart dies, you fight.

Andrew Breitbart died.

So?

that article is pretty facepalm.

  On 3/1/2012 at 10:18 PM, Gary C said:

  Reveal hidden contents

Gavin McInnes on Andrew Breibart

 

  Quote

It’s stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was different. He relished his enemies and laughed when they threatened him. He wasn’t scared of conflict. He thought it was fun. He was, as Greg Gutfeld put it, “The bravest person I ever met.”

 

When I was on Greg’s show Red Eye with Breitbart we were asked what we thought of Trump sponsoring a GOP debate. Greg and I had the knee-jerk reaction of scoffing at the whole thing. When Breitbart asked us what was so funny we said, “Well, it’s obviously just some rich guy showboating.” Then he taught me a word I never really paid attention to before: “So?”

 

This word defines Breitbart to me more than any other. At a bar one night I was whining about the allegation that all libertarians are funded by the Koch brothers. “So?” he replied. Andrew didn’t play the PC left’s game. Libertarians don’t get magical checks from the Koch brothers, but so what if they did? George Soros spends billions paying people he likes. There’s nothing wrong with that, either.

 

Another evening we were both arguing with someone who still believed government can create jobs. She was from Madison and like all liberals there, she saw Governor Scott Walker as a union-busting thug who hated the working man. I explained that Walker’s privatization created way more jobs than the government did and she said, “Yeah, but they were all just tourism jobs.” Breitbart ended the whole argument with, “So?”

 

What a word. It’s only two letters but it shows the PC left they’ve never thought past the silly hysteria that surrounds their accusations. Oil companies have had record profits this year. So? That’s what they’re supposed to do. Up in Canada, my father has been fighting with the local schoolboard because they are hiring fundamentalist Muslims as guidance counselors. The trustee in charge of the program said my father’s comments could be construed as anti-Islamic and I was surprised to see him explain why they are not. “You need to learn Breitbart’s magic word,” I said in an email. “When she calls you anti-Islamic, say, ‘So?’” This was yesterday.

 

I once asked Andrew where it all came from. Where did he get the hubris to take on the whole world? “I woke up one day,” he told me, smiling with a drink in his hand (despite accusations, he didn’t do drugs), “and I said, ‘What Would Andrew Do?’ From that day forward I did whatever I wanted and said exactly what was on my mind.” His boldness was contagious. Days after meeting him you catch yourself strutting down the street with your chest puffed-out yelling, “So?” at everyone who has a problem.

 

This is precisely why he was so popular. He made us all feel fearless. For all the petty enemies who called him everything from a homophobe to a faggot, there were a hundred supporters inspired by his bravery. I never saw him even slightly bothered by accusations and even flattery left him unfazed. Once, when a sycophantic colleague parroted Breitbart’s feelings on some random subject, Andrew shrugged and said, “And? You want me to say something glib now?” This made me laugh so hard I convulsed and hit my head on the table because it was totally unexpected. Who calls bullshit on flattery?

 

The only time I saw him care what anyone thought was when his daughter was mad at him. He was in trouble because he left on a business trip without telling her exactly when he was leaving and exactly when he was coming back. That was one of her rules and he had broken it. “It’s different being in the doghouse with a kid,” he told me before calling her to beg for forgiveness. “With an adult, even your wife, you think, ‘Yeah, go ahead be mad at me, I don’t care.’ Even when you’re wrong. You can’t be like that with a kid.” Then he left the room and talked to his daughter for so long I almost left. When he came back, I asked him how it went and he said, “I think we’re good” while pensively staring at his phone.

 

Thomas Paine once wrote, “He who dares not offend cannot be honest” and as far as I’m concerned, that’s what Andrew Breitbart was all about. When a journalist accused him of carefully editing an NAACP speech to make a black woman look racist, Andrew relentlessly hammered the guy and proved it was the media who had cherry-picked the quote. When the liberal media was hemming and hawing about rape accusations at OWS, Breitbart ran up to the protestors and screamed, “STOP RAPING PEOPLE” in their faces. You don’t forget a guy like that.

 

I was on an anarchist hippie farm this summer and was surprised to see Oriana Fallaci books on the shelf. She was a conservative, but she was also a crusader for truth. Henry Kissinger famously said talking to her was “the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press.” It’s not her politics that has her sitting on bookshelves four decades after that interview, it’s her courage. I talked to Breitbart about this on Dennis Miller’s radio show and we both agreed history best remembers the ones who had it worst. I told him he would be remembered forever because he made sure he had a tough time. He ended the interview with, “I hope you’re having a tough time, too,” and I’d like to add that I hope we all are. If there’s one thing we can learn from this man, it’s that the tough have to get going. He inspired us all to stop living in a culture of fear and fight for what’s important: our families, our country, and our culture. I am proud to have known Andrew for the brief moment I did, and his children should be proud of the legacy he left in such a short time.

 

Tonight, I’m not going to mourn him. I’m going to go out with friends, get drunk, and talk about all his accomplishments. You don’t act defeated when someone such as Andrew Breitbart dies, you fight.

Meh, I enjoyed it. Obits on controversial people are usually pretty interesting.

i will note this for future reference.

  Quote

http://www.buzzfeed....lled-andrew-bre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Should be interesting to see what comes of this, though.

Obama in a ninja costume killed this geezer.

http://www.lsnewsgroup.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-wait-til-they-see-what-happens-march-1st/

“B as in boy R… I do not have anyone by that name having been here.” We then began spelling “Breitbart,” when she stopped us and said, “like I said B as in boy R, I am looking at our records which are in alphabetical order and we have had no one by that name in the last 72 hours brought into our ER.”

  On 3/1/2012 at 10:27 PM, Dan C said:

Andrew Breitbart died.

 

So?

/thread

  On 3/1/2012 at 10:12 PM, Awepittance said:

STOP RAPING PEOPLE

that's seriously the only thing i knew him for