# Andrew Breitbart dead at 43 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447 "2012-03-01T15:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/21 "2012-03-01T16:03:28Z")
I am sorry for him and his family. I am not sorry that the sort of crap he used to spew will now cease. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/22 "2012-03-01T16:09:03Z")
We are richer for having lost him. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/23 "2012-03-01T16:09:30Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > It turns out being completely full of shit is fatal. I’m stealing this. I’d like to think that in general I don’t celebrate the deaths of people I don’t like, and I feel bad for his family, but I’m finding I just can’t muster up any sad upon hearing this. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/24 "2012-03-01T16:10:42Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > I am betting “unexpectedly from natural causes” is some sort of code phrase for “meth overdose while having sex with his illegal immigrant rent-boy after supporting abortions by buying Girl Scout cookies”. While walking down the street in his neighborhood? That takes some talent. And they only called the cops _after_ he collapsed. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/25 "2012-03-01T16:15:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > BTW, anyone demanding a bit of respect-for-the-newly-dead here should review [the things Breitbart wrote after Ted Kennedy’s passing](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/26/57997/breitbart-kennedy-twitter/?mobile=nc) before you stroke a single key. Yes, but Andrew Breitbart is not someone to emulate. I feel bad for his family. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/26 "2012-03-01T16:19:01Z")
Condolences to family and friend. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/27 "2012-03-01T16:20:56Z")
I feel bad for his children. I don’t think much of the kind of woman who’d have married Andrew Breitbart, the kind of parents who made him, or the kind of people who’d call him friend. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/28 "2012-03-01T16:23:49Z")
Considering he claimed at CPAC that he had some sort of smoking gun about Obama that he was going to release before the election, even I would think the conspiracy theorists were falling down on the job if they didn’t start freaking out. There’s a video where he seems to genuinely lose it while screaming at Occupy protesters. It made me uncomfortable to watch it. I’m assuming he was drunk or high or… something when he did it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/29 "2012-03-01T16:37:21Z")
It couldn’t have happened to a nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/30 "2012-03-01T16:41:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > BTW, anyone demanding a bit of respect-for-the-newly-dead here should review [the things Breitbart wrote after Ted Kennedy’s passing](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/26/57997/breitbart-kennedy-twitter/?mobile=nc) before you stroke a single key. I find it ironic that Carter outlives him. > [@Lobohan](#): > > It turns out being completely full of shit is fatal. We would lose about a quarter of our congressmen and a third of our senators if that were true. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/31 "2012-03-01T16:43:25Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I find it ironic that Carter outlives him. Yes, what was that about only the good dying young? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/32 "2012-03-01T16:54:52Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > The[Freepers](http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index) are WAAAAY ahead of you. Wait a minute… > [@](#): > > His father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, told the Associated Press that a neighbor saw Breitbart fall and called paramedics. Bean also said Breitbart had suffered from heart problems in the past. Orson Bean was his father-in-law? Is that true? What a weird bit of trivia. For what it’s worth, Wiki makes the same claim. > **[Andrew Breitbart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart#Personal_life)** > > Defunct > Newspapers > Journals ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/33 "2012-03-01T16:57:02Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > I feel bad for his children. I don’t think much of the kind of woman who’d have married Andrew Breitbart, the kind of parents who made him, or the kind of people who’d call him friend. Ironically enough, his wife’s grandfather was George Frederick Burrows, who co-founded the ACLU. Her father is the actor Orson Bean, who does NOT share his father’s progressive views (he supported California’s Proposition 8, for one thing). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/34 "2012-03-01T17:03:31Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Wait a minute…Orson Bean was his father-in-law? Is that true? What a weird bit of trivia. > > For what it’s worth, Wiki makes the same claim. > [Andrew Breitbart - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Breitbart#Personal_life) Bilbo Baggins? That’s astounding. Condolences on the loss of your in-law, Mr. Baggins. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/35 "2012-03-01T17:06:26Z")
When I read the headline, my thoughts went in this order: 1. What?!?!?!? 2. I guess being full of hate is fatal. 3. OMG, the conspiracy theorists are going to go nuts on this! Nice to know that I’m right, sort of. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/36 "2012-03-01T17:21:43Z")
Drudge currently has this up on the site (bolding added): > [@](#): > > DEAR READER: In the first decade of the DRUDGEREPORT Andrew Breitbart was a constant source of energy, passion and commitment. We shared a love of headlines, a love of the news, an excitement about what’s happening. **I don’t think there was a single day during that time when we did not flash each other** or laugh with each other, or challenge each other. I still see him in my mind’s eye in Venice Beach, the sunny day I met him. He was in his mid 20’s. It was all there. He had a wonderful, loving family and we all feel great sadness for them today… MDRUDGE Is there some meaning of “flash each other” I am unaware of? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/37 "2012-03-01T17:23:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ironically enough, his wife’s grandfather was George Frederick Burrows, who co-founded the ACLU. Her father is the actor Orson Bean, who does NOT share his father’s progressive views (he supported California’s Proposition 8, for one thing). It seems like Bean has been all over the map politically, and is, or at least was at one time, into some quack medicine. > **[Orson Bean | Personal life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Bean#Personal_life)** > > Bean was married three times. His first marriage was in 1956 to actress Jacqueline de Sibour, whose stage name was Rain Winslow. Sibour was the daughter of French nobleman and pilot Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife Violette B. Selfridge (daughter of American-born British department-store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge). Before their divorce in 1962, Bean and Jacqueline had one child, Michele. > In 1965, he married actress and fashion designer Carolyn Maxwell, with whom he had three children:... > [@](#): > > Bean was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s for attending two Communist Party meetings, but made numerous appearances on television and in the theater. A conservative Christian, he came out in support of the Proposition 8 ballot initiative in California. He was father-in-law to the late Andrew Breitbart and jokingly describes his own children, who are all married, as “little communists”. He was once a proponent of Orgone therapy and published a book about it titled Me and the Orgone. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/38 "2012-03-01T17:23:09Z")
[25 people who already think Obama (or someone in the government) killed Andrew Breitbart](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/people-who-think-president-obama-killed-andrew-bre) Ah, the magic of Twitter. Gets your crazy ideas out in the open so much faster. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/39 "2012-03-01T17:30:05Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > The[Freepers](http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index) are WAAAAY ahead of you. [QUOTE=a Freeper] Very suspisious.There are so many untraceable bio toxins which can cause such a heart attack. The timing is just too convenient for the one. I have a hard time ruling out foul play.We do have a fascist in the WH.Believe it. [/quote] I’d laugh, but I honestly feel bad for this person, if this is the world they believe they live in. I had a taste of government paranoia back in the Bush years and it was not comfortable,(my sister was living in Indonesia and Morocco for a time, and for all we know, her phone calls home [were listened to](http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5987804&page=1#.T0-xP_Egd95)) but these people seem to have it worse, as they’re believing stuff that isn’t real but you can’t prove or disprove. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/40 "2012-03-01T17:36:31Z")
This is going to be like the Clintons and Vince Foster. No amount of evidence, and no lack of evidence, will ever convince them that this wasn’t murder. I guess in the overall scheme of things this doesn’t matter, since these are people who would never support Obama anyway, but I hate seeing the birth of another crazy conspiracy theory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=3)