# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/61 "2012-03-01T18:52:18Z")
Died of natural causes apparently. Well smoking and bozing. He died far too young and I liked that his articles shook things up. People aren’t as gullible and stupid as many on this board would like to think they so he wasn’t as influential as he or his enemies would like to think. ---
**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, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/62 "2012-03-01T18:57:37Z")
Yeah…ACORN totally wasn’t destroyed as an organization by his sponsorship of James O’Keefe’s deceitfully edited “expose”. And Shirley Sherrod totally wasn’t fired because of Breitbart’s deceitful editing of video. Congress and the President himself…not influential at all… ---
**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, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/63 "2012-03-01T19:01:07Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > 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! An article on Forbes clarified. Apparently “flash” is the term Drudge and Breitbart used for talking to each other IM. Unless that’s common and I’ve just never heard of it, it seems odd use it with a general audience. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/64 "2012-03-01T19:02:12Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > The articles seem very mum on cause of death. Fox News calls it “unexpectedly from natural causes”. How can someone die from natural causes at 43? Heart attack, stroke, embolism. It’s happened to lots of people. Baseball pitcher Darryl Kile died of a heart attack at 33. Blue Jays broadcaster and former pitcher John Cerutti was the same age as Brietbart and was found dead from a heart attack. He was the picture of health, at least they thought so, but one night his heart decided not to work anymore. Such is life. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/65 "2012-03-01T19:10:31Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Heart attack, stroke, embolism. It’s happened to lots of people. > > Baseball pitcher Darryl Kile died of a heart attack at 33. Blue Jays broadcaster and former pitcher John Cerutti was the same age as Brietbart and was found dead from a heart attack. He was the picture of health, at least they thought so, but one night his heart decided not to work anymore. Such is life. \ " Breitbart’s heart shrank three sizes that day" ---
**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, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/66 "2012-03-01T19:37:54Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > \ " Breitbart’s heart shrank three sizes that day" I wonder if the LA County ME charged the rental of the electron microscope to his family… ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/67 "2012-03-01T20:13:29Z")
It weirds me out that he’s my age. I thought he had to be 10 years older, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/68 "2012-03-01T20:21:24Z")
I understand his heart had been atrophying from disuse for years and years. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/69 "2012-03-01T20:24:27Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > 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. If he really wanted to sell the conspiracy he should have arranged for O’Keefe’s death too. Well, I suppose it’s not to late, so long as O’Keefe dies in the next couple of weeks. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/70 "2012-03-01T21:36:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Heart attack, stroke, embolism. It’s happened to lots of people. > > Baseball pitcher Darryl Kile died of a heart attack at 33. Blue Jays broadcaster and former pitcher John Cerutti was the same age as Brietbart and was found dead from a heart attack. He was the picture of health, at least they thought so, but one night his heart decided not to work anymore. Such is life. So what you’re saying is that this conspiracy goes deeper than we ever imagined? ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/71 "2012-03-01T21:42:58Z")
Breitbart was _ **walking** _ in _ **L.A.** _? :dubious: ---
**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, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/72 "2012-03-01T21:48:54Z")
Seriously…every single one of you who brings up that freaking earworm of a song gets a curse put on them, dammit… ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/73 "2012-03-01T21:53:33Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > Breitbart was _ **walking** _ in _ **L.A.** _? :dubious: Thus, any resulting death must be classed as “natural causes,” what else would you expect if you walk in LA?! ---
**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, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/74 "2012-03-01T21:55:43Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I have a totally falsified report that the Mormons have baptised him. It won’t be false for long. ---
**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, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/75 "2012-03-01T22:19:59Z")
> **[Archive blogs](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/)** > > Los Angeles Times blogs that were published between 2006 and 2013. > [@](#): > > “There was no stopping Andrew Breitbart from fighting the good fight with every fiber of his soul,” said Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) in Congress. “Goodbye and God bless, Brother Andrew. You are loved and mourned and ever remembered.” I weep for my country. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/76 "2012-03-01T22:45:24Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Seriously…every single one of you who brings up that freaking earworm of a song gets a curse put on them, dammit… I know - it’s like these people just don’t listen. I mean, what are words for, when no one listens anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/77 "2012-03-01T23:18:19Z")
For once, I look forward to the presence of the Fred Phelps crew protesting at a funeral. ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/78 "2012-03-01T23:44:00Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [Archive blogs](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-memorialized-on-floor-of-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29) > > I weep for my country. Well, I hope somebody in the gallery at least had the decency to heckle. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/79 "2012-03-01T23:50:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, I hope somebody in the gallery at least had the decency to heckle. No, it’s kosher to heckle the President of the United States, but not dead assholes. Didn’t you get the memo? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/80 "2012-03-02T00:12:10Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > [Archive blogs](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-memorialized-on-floor-of-congress.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29) > > I weep for my country. _You_ weep? That particular nutbag is my representative! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=5)