# Andrew Breitbart Dead: Conservative Blogger Dies Suddenly At 43 **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/21 "2012-03-01T17:57:07Z")
Does this mean he wont see Obama’s 2nd term? Darn it! ---
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/22 "2012-03-01T18:04:09Z")
> [@Baracus](#): > > Dude didn’t exactly look like a gym regular, so a heart attack at 43 is not at all surprising to me. Yeah, he was also apparently a chain smoker. So not really a picture of perfect health. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/23 "2012-03-01T18:14:26Z")
And so [the crazy](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/people-who-think-president-obama-killed-andrew-bre) begins… ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/24 "2012-03-01T18:19:51Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > My first reaction was: WTF? 43, natural causes? Does not compute. I’m pretty sure this phrase just means that it wasn’t a homicide or accident. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/25 "2012-03-01T18:41:23Z")
> [@Chicagojeff](#): > > Shirley Sherrod called to l say go rot in hell Actually she gave public condolences. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/26 "2012-03-01T19:00:09Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > My first reaction was: WTF? 43, natural causes? Does not compute. “Natural causes” includes things like heart attacks, strokes, sudden cardiac arrest, cancer, etc. FWIW, my wife’s coworker recently had a relative who died of a heart attack at age 27. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/27 "2012-03-01T20:02:32Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > 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. To his wife and children and [del]Bilbo Baggins I[/del] Orson Bean perhaps. I’m none of those so I don’t pretend anything warmer than “I’m sorry he won’t be alive for the Sherrod trial”. There are already Freepers and other wingnuts claiming in comment sections he was murdered by the Obama administration to squelch some big story he was working on. You’d think any notion he was the target of an assassination conspiracy spearheaded by Democrats would be disproven by the fact he’s dead. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/28 "2012-03-01T20:03:55Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Actually she gave public condolences. Then pulled over to the side of the road to retract them. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/29 "2012-03-01T21:22:59Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > My first reaction was: WTF? 43, natural causes? Does not compute. It certainly does happen. Obviously rare but nothing to indicate otherwise. I have during the course of my work had to deal with younger seemingly healthier people drop dead of natural causes. > [@Duke](#): > > 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. I’m 44. My thoughts exactly. One thing that drives me from this site periodically is the assumption of evil for anyone that is on the right. Long before this I heard several radio hosts that I listen to that are by no means on the right, state with no reservations that they liked the guy quite a bit. A little stiff and too much of a straight arrow but seemingly genuine and friendly. He worked with plenty of lefties before striking out on his own. He worked closely with gay Republican organizations in support of gay rights. Nothing I have seen suggests anything other than he was a good family who leaves behind 4 kids and a wife. I did not agree with him on everything but the glee I see people writing about his death really discourages me. Except in the Death Pool. Anything goes there. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/30 "2012-03-01T21:35:11Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Then pulled over to the side of the road to retract them. I want to get this joke but I don’t. Li’l help? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/31 "2012-03-02T00:48:40Z")
But there’s heart attack guns, y’all! HEART ATTACK GUNS!!! ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/32 "2012-03-02T00:53:09Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > But there’s heart attack guns, y’all! HEART ATTACK GUNS!!! My favorite theory in the link in post #23 ascribes the death to the “Bush/Clinton clan”. And people say bipartisanship is dead, I guess they’ve never heard of Heart Attack Guns either. ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/33 "2012-03-02T00:58:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > One thing that drives me from this site periodically is the assumption of evil for anyone that is on the right. > … > I did not agree with him on everything but the glee I see people writing about his death really discourages me. He deserves anything that comes his way for many reasons but two stand out: 1. In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, Breitbart called Kennedy a “villain”, a “duplicitous bastard”, a “prick” and “a special pile of human excrement.” 2. Even after his malicious and fraudulent defamation of Shirley Sherrod was exposed he never apologized and never admitted that what he did was wrong. On top of that went on a ridiculous rant that his “real target” was NCAAP. Karma is a bitch never sounded so sweet. ---
**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, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/34 "2012-03-02T01:01:22Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I want to get this joke but I don’t. Li’l help? It’s not a very good one. When the Sherrod fustercluck incident was happening she gave a statement via cell phone while driving that the clip was out of context and she had no intentions of resigning. A few moments later she got a call from her superiors at the Dept of Agriculture telling her, literally, to pull over to the side of the road and text her resignation (or else be fired). ---
**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, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/35 "2012-03-02T01:05:57Z")
> [@newcomer](#): > > He deserves anything that comes his way for many reasons but two stand out: > > 1. In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, Breitbart called Kennedy a “villain”, a “duplicitous bastard”, a “prick” and “a special pile of human excrement.” > > 2. Even after his malicious and fraudulent defamation of Shirley Sherrod was exposed he never apologized and never admitted that what he did was wrong. On top of that went on a ridiculous rant that his “real target” was NCAAP. And then there was his involvement in the highly doctored ACORN matter. (I wonder if O’Keefe has another sugar daddy.) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/36 "2012-03-02T03:19:34Z")
Good riddance! I hope it was painful. He destroyed lives, lied about it, was a dick about other people’s deaths, and caused a lot of innocent people to suffer. I hope Obama did have him killed, it would be totally deserved! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/37 "2012-03-02T04:18:09Z")
> [@newcomer](#): > > On top of that went on a ridiculous rant that his “real target” was NCAAP. The National Colored Association for Advancing People? ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/38 "2012-03-02T05:55:32Z")
Rejoicing about the death of a person is never good. So I’m sorry for his family and friends. 43 is too young to die. …his “work”, though. Ugh. Hateful and deceptive. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/39 "2012-03-02T06:01:20Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > He never did find the Whitey Tape. A legacy unfulfilled. Well, there are apparently _other_ tapes, [these of Obama in college,](http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/01/stephen-bannon-well-release-the-tapes-breitbart-has-of-obamas-college-years-in-the-next-10-days/) that _will_ be released. Wonder what that’s all about? ---
**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, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446/40 "2012-03-02T07:40:41Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Well, there are apparently _other_ tapes, [these of Obama in college,](http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/01/stephen-bannon-well-release-the-tapes-breitbart-has-of-obamas-college-years-in-the-next-10-days/) that _will_ be released. I don’t think I’d be threatening to release those. What part of “healthy 43 year old has fatal heart attack walking down the street” did those idiots not get? (Though I think Lord Obama is blameless- Michelle is actually his Livia.) I’ve been thinking of [Lee Atwater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater) today, whose famous [deathbed repentance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#Conversion_to_Catholicism_and_new_outlook) of debated sincerity was a matter of some newsworthiness a couple of decades ago. If Breitbart had lived and suffered for a while instead of dying suddenly, or if Beck or Limbaugh or Coulter [back before she made her last couple of horcruxes- she’s too far gone now] or Hannity were to be diagnosed with a painful terminal illness, I wonder which if any of them would be most likely to have a deathbed apology phase. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andrew-breitbart-dead-conservative-blogger-dies-suddenly-at-43/614446.md?page=3)