# Andrew Breitbart Dead: Conservative Blogger Dies Suddenly At 43
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 1, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446 "2012-03-01T14:51:51Z")
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### Author:  [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/1 "2012-03-01T14:51:51Z")
Can’t say I was a fan, but it’s sad to see someone die so suddenly and so (relatively) young.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/2 "2012-03-01T14:52:55Z")
Anybody know anything more than “natural causes?”
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### Author:  [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/3 "2012-03-01T14:55:06Z")
Forgot to post the links.
[Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-dead-blogger-dies_n_1312944.html)
[CNN](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-well-known-conservative-blogger-dead-at-43/?hpt=hp_t2)
His [site](http://www.breitbart.tv/in-memoriam-andrew-breitbart-1969-2012/).
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### Author:  [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/4 "2012-03-01T15:02:31Z")
At 43(!)
Well, obviously not a beloved figure here, but he was a husband and a father, and surely that’s cause for at least a bit of mourning.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/5 "2012-03-01T15:05:18Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> At 43(!)
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> Well, obviously not a beloved figure here, but he was a husband and a father, and surely that’s cause for at least a bit of mourning.
Anything is possible.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/6 "2012-03-01T15:12:15Z")
You see…you shouldn’t piss off the Death Panel.
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### Author:  [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/7 "2012-03-01T15:19:51Z")
My first reaction was: WTF? 43, natural causes? Does not compute.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/8 "2012-03-01T15:20:55Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> At 43(!)
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> Well, obviously not a beloved figure here, but he was a husband and a father, and surely that’s cause for at least a bit of mourning.
If any of us had known him personally, I’d agree with you. As it is, however, the man is a stranger to us; as with the Death Pool, this means that the bad jokes can begin immediately. Nothing to do with his political beliefs - we’re just a morbid bunch.
Now, if only the free market had responded to Breitbart’s demand for medical aid quickly enough, perhaps he could have been saved. But then, at least the hand of Adam Smith has brought him to His bosum now.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/9 "2012-03-01T15:21:39Z")
> [@brickbacon](#):
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> Forgot to post the links.
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> [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-dead-blogger-dies_n_1312944.html)
> [CNN](http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-well-known-conservative-blogger-dead-at-43/?hpt=hp_t2)
> His [site](http://www.breitbart.tv/in-memoriam-andrew-breitbart-1969-2012/).
I’m glad you posted those first two, 'cause when Brietbart’s site runs with a story alone it’s a good idea to wait for confirmation…
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/10 "2012-03-01T15:26:32Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Anybody know anything more than “natural causes?”
He collapsed while walking near his home and a neighbor saw him fall and called 911.
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### Author:  [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/11 "2012-03-01T15:28:11Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Anybody know anything more than “natural causes?”
OD’d on coke snorted off an under-age boy.
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### Author:  [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/12 "2012-03-01T15:32:17Z")
> [@Terr](#):
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> My first reaction was: WTF? 43, natural causes? Does not compute.
Dude didn’t exactly look like a gym regular, so a heart attack at 43 is not at all surprising to me.
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### Author:  [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/13 "2012-03-01T15:32:38Z")
Shirley Sherrod called to l say go rot in hell
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/14 "2012-03-01T15:34:04Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> At 43(!)
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> Well, obviously not a beloved figure here, but he was a husband and a father, and surely that’s cause for at least a bit of mourning.
It is for his wife and kids, I suppose.
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/15 "2012-03-01T15:40:40Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> OD’d on coke snorted off an under-age boy.
I was thinking it was more likely to be [Elephantiasis](http://www.jerrodshouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/gop-elephant1.jpg)…
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/16 "2012-03-01T15:43:42Z")
He never did find the Whitey Tape. A legacy unfulfilled.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/17 "2012-03-01T15:47:16Z")
Merged two threads on Breitbart’s death and moved the combined thread to MPSIMS.
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### Author:  [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/18 "2012-03-01T17:06:04Z")
I read in the LA Times that apparently he’d had heart trouble in the past year.
I’m no fan of his, but it’s too bad for his loved ones and family. 43 is certainly too young for anyone to go.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/19 "2012-03-01T17:20:32Z")
43 and dead of natural causes. Certainly makes the middle-aged and near-middle-aged among us start thinking of our own mortality. Condolences to his wife and kids; I can’t imagine my own left alone that way.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/20 "2012-03-01T17:45:06Z")
I lost my father to a sudden heart attack when I was 17. It’s not easy.
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