Thursday, March 1, 2012

R.I.P. Andrew Brietbart

From the LA Times:The Los Angeles County coroner's office will review the death of conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who collapsed and died Thursday while taking a nighttime walk near his Westwood home.
Given his young age -- he was 43 -- and the unexpected manner in which he died, authorities will conduct an autopsy to help determine a specific cause of death.
Breitbart's father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, said in an interview with The Times that Breitbart was found collapsed near his home about 12:30 a.m. Paramedics took him to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, but doctors were unable to revive him.
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"We're devastated. I loved him like a son," Bean said. "It looks like a heart attack, but no one knows until" an autopsy is done.
Breitbart, a star of the tea party movement, was a Hollywood-hating, mainstream-media-loathing conservative, according to a Times profile.
After 10 years as editor of the Drudge Report and helping to launch the Huffington Post, Breitbart launched in 2005 his news aggregation site Breitbart.com, which was designed to counter what he described as the "bully media cabal" that he said ignored stories at odds with prevailing liberal orthodoxy. His goal, he often said, was to "destroy the institutional left."
His big splash came in 2009, when he posted an undercover video in which a pair of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend asked employees of the community group ACORN for help with a brothel that would house underage Salvadorans.
ACORN was embarrassed when some of its workers seemed too helpful; Congress responded by defunding the organization. 
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-death-review-coroner.html
Breitbart was on the leading edge of blogger journalism.  He helped Drudge when Drudge first started and then he went off on his own and was successful at that.  He had 20,000,000 viewers each day.
And while Breitbart is associated with the right, politically, he also ran pieces against conservatives or for liberals.
43 is way too young and he leaves 4 kids and a wife.  Just before he died, he had just tucked his children into bed.
And I hope that the LA cops and coroner takes a very close look at what happened on the night he died.

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