# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/81 "2012-03-02T00:26:38Z")
Snooki is pregnant. Andrew Breitbart dies. The universe maintains balance and all is at peace. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/82 "2012-03-02T01:00:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Now of course is when the various religious groups will all claim that he was struck down by God for his blasphemies and support of the wrong side of politics, right? > > Right? > Bueller? Well, I might, but the Christians probably won’t no. ---
**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, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/83 "2012-03-02T01:16:41Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Snooki is pregnant. Andrew Breitbart dies. > > The universe maintains balance and all is at peace. No! Don’t you see? Snooki is going to give birth to the reincarnation of Andrew Breitbart! If there was ever a candidate to be the Antichrist, I think that’s it right there. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/84 "2012-03-02T02:15:34Z")
> [@Pashnish\_Ewing](#): > > I know - it’s like these people just don’t listen. I mean, what are words for, when no one listens anymore? Life is so strange when you don’t know. How can you tell where you’re going to? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/85 "2012-03-02T02:27:41Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > I have a totally falsified report that the Mormons have baptised him. Do they use Holy Water? Did it catch fire? ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/86 "2012-03-02T03:29:14Z")
He was 43? That’s it? I would have pegged him as at least 55. Whoops, did I say something about pegging him? Sorry, not with someone else’s dick. My bad. All the news sources I’ve seen reporting this story say he died “suddenly”. Really? Because every time I’ve seen him on various news programs, ranting away and spewing bile like the jerkoff that he was, he always looked like he just rolled out of a whorehouse bed. Seriously, did the man ever shave? I ain’t sorry. The man was a pig. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/87 "2012-03-02T03:32:14Z")
If the Freepers are right and Obama really _ **is** _ killing rabid right pundits and making it look like natural causes (probably a combination of rogue CIA technicians and his Kenyan blood magic) then tell the truth— Doesn’t that make you just want to serve him all the more? He really is the Dark Lord… We’ll know for sure if soon Tucker Carlson “accidentally” hangs himself in a bow tie accident, then Ann Coulter “accidentally” chokes to death while devouring her monthly rabbit, and Rush Limbaugh “accidentally” switches up his Tic-Tacs and his Oxycontin. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/88 "2012-03-02T03:33:01Z")
You know, for the sake of balance, its about time somebody said something nice about him. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/89 "2012-03-02T03:40:22Z")
And Orson Bean… you full-of-shit-old-fuck. I didn’t realize he’d gone from Sexual Yoga and promoting alternative hippie schools (neither of which I have any more respect for than most right wing activities) to speaking out against Prop 8 (didn’t make much news at the time- because he’s Orson Bean). I did know he spoke lovingly of Breitbart on interview shows, but I figure that was a combination of 1- The man’s the father of his grandchildren 2- Who somebody is at home can be different than their public persona 3- He was probably supporting the old dick (who really hasn’t done much since _Dr. Quinn: Spiritual Surgeon Squaw_- I think his wife [Alley Mills] has worked more in recent years than he has) Speaking of, I always hate when a bastard like Breitbart dies and people talk about what a loving husband and father he was. If true then that’s good and I certainly understand why his wife and children will always mourn him and I would never disrupt the funeral or mock them for their grieving, but aside from that I really don’t give a flying fuck if in private he knitted sweaters for homeless burn-victim kittens, I know him from his public image and that was as a vicious lying life-destroying lying cum-marinated-shitstain Shroud of Reagan. If there’s a Hell they’ve probably already nailed the sorting hat onto his head to deduce whether the closeted homophobes in McCarthy House or the Jewish neoNazis in Sea Monkeys Hall have the greatest claim on his twisted soul, and I’m going with split custody. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/90 "2012-03-02T03:41:34Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > For once, I look forward to the presence of the Fred Phelps crew protesting at a funeral. Oooh, preach it, Brother… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/91 "2012-03-02T03:44:41Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You know, for the sake of balance, its about time somebody said something nice about him. I’ve heard he didn’t stink too bad when he wasn’t drinking and smoking. And that he always fluffed the pillow til it was good and soft before he shoved his wife’s face into it and screamed ‘Take that Bieber!’ during sex. ---
**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 2, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/92 "2012-03-02T03:52:26Z")
[This](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/andrew-breitbart-freaks-o_n_1270390.html) isn’t the action of a calm, rational man. He almost pops a blood vessel right there. As a side note: Apparently I can’t just be embarrassed in silence. I kept thinking “Orson Bean? He’s not old enough to be his father in law and to have done all of these things people are saying! He’s in his fifties. Maybe even his late forties!” And I had an extremely clear picture in my head of who Orson Bean is and… suddenly… I realized that I was picturing Orson Hodge, a character on “Desperate Housewives” played by Kyle MacLachlan. Who is 53. For the record, they are not the same person. (Today’s adventure in bad memory was brought to you by an irrational number and by the letter to Santa you wrote when you were six.) ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/93 "2012-03-02T03:52:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > You know, for the sake of balance, its about time somebody said something nice about him. He one of the best dead guys of our time. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/94 "2012-03-02T03:53:09Z")
Well, that’s enough balance! Here’s Matt Tabbibi, in Rolling Stone: _Death of a Douche_ [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301?fullpage](http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/andrew-breitbart-death-of-a-douche-20120301?fullpage) > [@](#): > > For instance, it would be dishonest not to tip a hat to him for that famous scene when he hijacked Anthony Weiner’s own self-immolating “apology” press conference, and held up the entire event by standing at the lectern and congratulating himself at length, before Weiner could let the humiliating healing begin. > > For that one, brief, shining moment– still one of the most painful-to-watch YouTube spectacles of all time, right there with Mitt Romney’s priceless attempt at singing “Who Let the Dogs Out?” with a group of black voters in Florida in 2008 – Breitbart could legitimately claim to have the biggest, hairiest balls on earth. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/95 "2012-03-02T04:17:23Z")
Amusing how people celebrate the death of someone who was just a political opponent with very little criticism while I get a ton of shit for celebrating the deaths of truly evil people (ie Bin Laden, that traitor in Yemen, Kim Jong-il)… ---
**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 2, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/96 "2012-03-02T04:28:03Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > As a side note: Apparently I can’t just be embarrassed in silence. I kept thinking “Orson Bean? He’s not old enough to be his father in law and to have done all of these things people are saying! He’s in his fifties. Maybe even his late forties!” And I had an extremely clear picture in my head of who Orson Bean is and… suddenly… I realized that I was picturing Orson Hodge, a character on “Desperate Housewives” played by Kyle MacLachlan. Who is 53. Strangely enough, Orson Bean has also been on Desperate Housewives, as Roy Bender, Mrs. McCluskey’s boyfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/97 "2012-03-02T04:36:24Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Amusing how people celebrate the death of someone who was just a political opponent with very little criticism while I get a ton of shit for celebrating the deaths of truly evil people (ie Bin Laden, that traitor in Yemen, Kim Jong-il)… Oh don’t go easy on him, Brietbart was evil. He prospered lying to the idiots on your side of the aisle. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/98 "2012-03-02T04:51:12Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > For once, I look forward to the presence of the Fred Phelps crew protesting at a funeral. Leeches don’t feed on leeches. ---
**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 2, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/99 "2012-03-02T04:53:37Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Strangely enough, Orson Bean has also been on Desperate Housewives, as Roy Bender, Mrs. McCluskey’s boyfriend. I would love now to be able to claim that I knew that but… I didn’t know that. ---
**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, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/100 "2012-03-02T05:56:40Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Amusing how people celebrate the death of someone who was just a political opponent with very little criticism while I get a ton of shit for celebrating the deaths of truly evil people (ie Bin Laden, that traitor in Yemen, Kim Jong-il)… Link to any number of posts where you got slammed for celebrating the death of Bin Laden or Kim Jong Il; first, we’ll weigh them and see if there’s actually a ton, and then we’ll cross-reference in this thread to see if it’s any of the same people who are pissing on Breitbart. If it’s not, will you consider taking to heart the adage “you can’t please all of the people all of the time”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=6)