# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/121 "2012-03-03T20:57:16Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > \*\*Qin \*\*is also known to vehemently oppose the creation of infant vivisection snuff films Fucking bigot. ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/122 "2012-03-03T21:01:04Z")
To further thicken the plot, Obama then got rid of Spock by having him kidnapped and forced to watch a non-stop reel of William Shatner commercials until his head exploded. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/123 "2012-03-03T22:57:55Z")
> [@Tazmanian\_Devil](#): > > Obama hired Mr. Spock to dispose of him with the Vulcan Death Grip. > [@Kolga](#): > > Someone on Obama’s staff knows the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Actually, I think he enlisted the help of the [Ticktockman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Repent,_Harlequin!%22_Said_the_Ticktockman). ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/124 "2012-03-05T04:57:02Z")
> [@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? I worked with a normal apparently healthy 31 year old man (6’2", 175 pounds) who suffered from headaches. I always teased him about his sick day excuses. Turns out he wasn’t faking. Suffered a brain annurism and died within 40 hours. Neighbor died of a heart attack at 39. It happens. For a 43 year old, I thought Brietbart looked more like 55. Overstressed himself for years and it finally did him in. - That’s my amatuer diagnosis. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/125 "2012-03-05T05:11:07Z")
A caller on Michael Savage’s show (where part of the discussion apparently was whether Breitbart was murdered and how) pointed out a surefire way to tell: [ > [@](#): > > If the tapes come out, he died of a heart attack,” the caller said. “If the tapes don’t come out, they whacked him.” ]([Michael Savage: Was Breitbart assassinated? \* WorldNetDaily \* by WND Staff](http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/michael-savage-was-breitbart-assassinated/?cat_orig=us)) Uh huh. Because nobody ever just up and[dies in the middle of a scandal](http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7489238/joe-paterno-ex-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-dies-85-2-month-cancer-fight). ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/126 "2012-03-05T05:45:16Z")
First, Warren G. Harding, and now, Breitbart. Coincidence? I wonder… ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/127 "2012-03-05T06:33:25Z")
You know what this means, right? Gary Condit caused 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/128 "2012-03-05T08:13:51Z")
Just in case anyone thought Matt Taibbi was a bit too kind to Breitbart, there’s always [Mark Ames at The Exile](http://exiledonline.com/mark-ames-1-andrew-breitbart-0-exiled-editor-does-dirty-chicken-dance-on-breitbart%E2%80%99s-grave/): > [@](#): > > For some reason, my fellow Americans are too squeamish, too hooked on false pieties, to openly, honestly gloat about Breitbart’s hilarious death-by-driveway, and stomp joyfully on that rat-fucker’s warm grave. Even the few edgy mavericks willing to admit they’re happy to see Breitbart dead, including my old partner Taibbi, for some reason ruin their gloats by interjecting paragraph after paragraph, tweet after tweet publicly justifying their death-gloat with “He would want it this way” or “He did the same thing”—um, who really gives a fuck about what Breitbart would want? He’s dead. His feelers aren’t hurt. He’s dead and done. And good riddance. And that’s far from the meanest he gets. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/129 "2012-03-05T16:52:26Z")
I haven’t read this entire thread, but I read a bunch. As a hard-core, left-wing, tree-hugging, elitist, snob, I have to say that I’m pretty fucking appalled at my confederates dancing on this guy’s grave. He wasn’t Manson, for fuck’s sake. I’ll be the first to jump on the band-wagon decrying his rhetoric as the foulest bullshit this side of a McDonalds abbottoir, but I didn’t want him dead. Fucking weird is what it is. ---
**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 5, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/130 "2012-03-05T17:09:41Z")
Breitbart posthumous [bombshell](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/05/1071135/-Breitbart-s-bombshell-revealed-Obama-went-to-a-play-about-Alinsky-srsly-?via=siderec)… get ready, because it is really really really really big… It turns out, our President, one Barack Obama, attended a play 14 years ago…ABOUT SAUL ALINSKY!!! Oh dear, get me to my fainting couch immediately! ---
**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 5, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/131 "2012-03-05T18:11:10Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > It turns out, our President, one Barack Obama, attended a play 14 years ago…ABOUT SAUL ALINSKY!!! Don’t be disingenuous…you know full well that the real bombshell here is that Obama subsequently… **talked about the play** (_DUN DUN DUUUUUUuuunnnnnnn_)!! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/132 "2012-03-05T18:42:36Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Breitbart posthumous [bombshell](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/05/1071135/-Breitbart-s-bombshell-revealed-Obama-went-to-a-play-about-Alinsky-srsly-?via=siderec).. Andrew Breitbart died for that?! Life is cheap these days. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/133 "2012-03-05T19:56:32Z")
His certainly was, but he made it that way. Cry for the waste. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/134 "2012-03-05T20:53:51Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Breitbart posthumous [bombshell](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/05/1071135/-Breitbart-s-bombshell-revealed-Obama-went-to-a-play-about-Alinsky-srsly-?via=siderec).. > > get ready, because it is really > > really > > really > > really > > big… > > It turns out, our President, one Barack Obama, attended a play 14 years ago…ABOUT SAUL ALINSKY!!! > > Oh dear, get me to my fainting couch immediately! When the Pubs for a boogeyman bawl They will point, finger trembling, at Saul Whose endowments . . . judgmental Both moral and . . . mental Make theirs look exceedingly small! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/135 "2012-03-05T21:04:35Z")
Saul Alinsky on Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin: “Those guys couldn’t organize a Hadassah luncheon.” ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447/136 "2012-03-05T23:07:23Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > I have $5 on “auto-erotic asphyxiation gone wrong”. Since he died, I’d say the auto-erotic asphyxiation went right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-at-43/614447.md?page=6)