# 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:** 3
**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, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/41 "2012-03-01T17:40:57Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Is there some meaning of “flash each other” I am unaware of? Someone just pointed out to me that he likely meant for that to read “flash each other a smile” or something like that. I should have been able to figure that out myself. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/42 "2012-03-01T17:42:01Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [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. “They” use cancer to kill people? “The Bush/Clinton clan strikes again”? (A big WTF on the “Bush/Clinton” bit.) I can’t tell if I should be losing hope for humanity or not. Technology is making it increasingly obvious how many idiots there are out there, and it is also making it so much easier for them to share that idiocy. We’ve managed to survive millennia with a high proportion of idiots in the gene pool, but that ability to share the idiocy may finally tip the scales against us. ---
**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, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/43 "2012-03-01T17:46:50Z")
Idiocy has always been shared. Just look at history. ---
**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, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/44 "2012-03-01T17:51:16Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > The[Freepers](http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index) are WAAAAY ahead of you. I clicked [the first Breitbart-death thread I could find](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2853069/posts) and, wow, didn’t take long. > [@whitedog57](#): > > Face it. He was murdered. > [@Bizhvywt](#): > > This stinks to high heaven. > > A month after announcing that he has embarassing footage of the Kenyan from his college days and the morning when Sheriff Joe is releasing the results of his investigation of the Kenyan’s eligibilty, Breitbart dies at 43 years of age and his lawyer immediately announces that it was natural causes. How would anyone know if it was natural causes without an autopsy? > > Sounds like a seen from 24. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/45 "2012-03-01T17:53:41Z")
I’m hoping it was severe constipation causing an internal fart embolism that flooded his heart with hydrogen sulfide and starved his brain of oxygen. Probably not medically possible, but so were most of the man’s posts not factually possible. ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/46 "2012-03-01T17:53:57Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > 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: No, no, 3 needs to be “Profit, Opal!” ---
**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, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/47 "2012-03-01T17:55:55Z")
Look, ya wanna talk suspiciously-politically-fortuitous-for-somebody deaths, Breitbart don’t make the Top 5 (among contemporary instances); let’s start with Paul Wellstone. ---
**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, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/48 "2012-03-01T18:00:20Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > “They” use cancer to kill people? “The Bush/Clinton clan strikes again”? (A big WTF on the “Bush/Clinton” bit.) Remember the 2000 Senate race in New York, when Giuliani got prostate cancer and dropped out? What **did** Hillary ever do with her other two wishes? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/49 "2012-03-01T18:00:28Z")
Well good things happen to good people, right? ---
**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, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/50 "2012-03-01T18:01:28Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I can’t tell if I should be losing hope for humanity or not. Technology is making it increasingly obvious how many idiots there are out there, and it is also making it so much easier for them to share that idiocy. We’ve managed to survive millennia with a high proportion of idiots in the gene pool, but that ability to share the idiocy may finally tip the scales against us. The same technology also makes it easier to share wisdom, or to seek it, hence this Board. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/51 "2012-03-01T18:04:11Z")
Sympathies go out to the family who are suffering, but the bottom line is the guy was the worst kind of political loudmouth, dishonest, corrupt and full of vitriol. I am not in the least bit sorry the guy is dead. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/52 "2012-03-01T18:05:07Z")
> [@obfusciatrist](#): > > Is there some meaning of “flash each other” I am unaware of? They would flash their high-beams while driving past one another. Unfortunately for Breitbart, he kept doing it up until the final minutes of his life. Eyewitnesses have stated that minutes before collapsing, he was driving, flashed his lights at an oncoming car driving without their lights on, and was _murdered_ in a GANG INITIATION! Awww yeah…I’m getting the hang of this whole “batshit crazy” thing now… ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/53 "2012-03-01T18:08:06Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > While walking down the street in his neighborhood? That takes some talent. And they only called the cops _after_ he collapsed. Hmm . . . I guess that rules out autoerotic asphyxiation, too . . . ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/54 "2012-03-01T18:11:16Z")
Walking down the street in Los Angeles? Cmon, there’s a limit to what I’ll believe! ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/55 "2012-03-01T18:14:56Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Yes, but Andrew Breitbart is not someone to emulate. I feel bad for his family. True. But you reap what you sow. If someone wanted to go piss on his grave, I wouldn’t hand them a Big Gulp. But I wouldn’t protest either. The guy was a bottomfeeder of the crassest sort. ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/56 "2012-03-01T18:20:23Z")
I confess, it was me. Did it with hate rays. My legal defense fund accepts Pay Pal. Thought I’d mention that. ---
**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, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/57 "2012-03-01T18:26:24Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > Walking down the street in Los Angeles? Cmon, there’s a limit to what I’ll believe! Now that made me laugh–when I lived in LA I met people who were incredulous that I often walked to a Starbucks _three blocks away_. “Nobody walks in LA!” – Missing Persons, “Walking in LA” ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/58 "2012-03-01T18:28:48Z")
I’m beginning to suspect it was all planned from the beginning. It had to be simple to work. 1. Brietbart announces he has damning video of Obama doing something damning while in college - no details, of course, let 'em speculate, but by golly, it’s DAMNING stuff! 2. Brietbart waits a short but appropriate amount of time: enough not to look too urgent, but not so long that people forget that he said he has DAMNING video he was going to release soon. 3. Brietbart DIES - this is the brilliant part; it had to look unexpected, and had to look like it MIGHT be natural causes but with odd enough circumstances to get the people wondering - thus throwing all sorts of suspicion on the Obama administration. Being 60-something would have never worked; that’s just a little too old to be suspect for enough people. And faking it was right out, why risk getting outed later and ruining the whole gambit? No, he planned it just right, and the conspiracy theories and questions about where the (non-existent, of course) videos are will put a damper on the rest of Obama’s campaign. Mark my words, Brietbart is laughing at all of us right now. Or, would be, if he didn’t have to die for his wonderful plan. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/59 "2012-03-01T18:32:21Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > [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. What a shock that one of them is Mancow. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/60 "2012-03-01T18:52:00Z")
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