It came as a shock to learn that Andrew Breitbart has died:
Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.
We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.
Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.
43 is so young to die. We take life for granted and then BOOM! It’s over.
What a shame.
Breitbart is irreplaceable. His type of small-l libertarian conservatism is what the Republican Party needed more of, not less.
MORE: I am not alone in being shocked by the sudden, untimely nature of this news. Stephen Green (who is the same age as Breitbart) can hardly believe it:
Will Collier sent me the link. And my first response to him was, “Is this a hoax?” Not because I believed Andrew is capable of such a thing, but because it’s just so sudden, unexpected, and unbelievable.
I’m still hoping this is some sort of horrible prank, but I’m certain it isn’t.
No, it isn’t. It is a reminder that we’re all going, ready or not. And none of us are ever really “ready.”
Mortality sucks.
MORE: As Michelle Malkin notes, the oh-so-tolerant Left is rejoicing.
If he were here, he’d be retweeting all the insane tweets from the Left rejoicing over his death. Even in death, he succeeds in exposing the hate-filled intolerance of the tolerance poseurs.
The hateful comments which are springing up everywhere (the ones at CNN are typical) are a testament to the enormous value of his life and work.
The fact that his enemies are so glad he’s dead means, simply, that he did a damn good job.
AND MORE: If this Fox News report is accurate, it appears that the cause of death was heart-related:
Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood shortly after midnight Thursday when he collapsed, his father-in-law Orson Bean said.
Someone saw him fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center, Bean said. Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.
I suppose it could have been a stroke, too, but what a shame.
It could happen to any of us.
MORE: Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of reactions, including this:
Retweet all the nasty stuff they say — it’s what Andrew would have wanted. He liked to expose these people for who they were, rather than who they pretended to be. He continues to do that even in death.
Comments
7 responses to “Andrew Breitbart, R.I.P.”
I was just going to do a post. Thanks for getting this up so quickly.
Here is yahoo/ABC:
http://gma.yahoo.com/publisher-author-andrew-breitbart-dead-142631336–abc-news.html
I miss him already.
Then there was Michelle Malkin’s description of Olympia Snowe as a RINO rat bastard; if she had died instead of deciding not to run it might be different?
I felt like I had been punched in the gut when I read the news. The small-l libertarian movement has suffered a grievous blow… I just hope we have the will to recover from it and soldier on.
I’m working with a bunch of OFs on a project. I’m in loose collaboration. We all do our business as if any one could drop out of the loop in an instant. It keeps you straight to have death as a close friend.
Meh. The fans are focusing on his laudable accomplishments and dressing him like a god, the foes are focusing on his sketchy accomplishments like “wut? lol u say he attacked media bias but he was super biased like when he edited that sherrod video to imply the exact opposite of what she said”, the fans are like “why are you so hateful?”. etc, etc. Pretty predictable partisan reactions on both sides.
December 3, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle:
Dr. Daniel J. Kliman, an Alameda physician and one of the Bay Area’s foremost pro-Israel activists, stepped into an open elevator shaft by accident last week and died.
And as a single gay man, Kliman campaigned against Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that voters approved Nov. 4 to ban same-sex marriage.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/02/BAVE14GCD6.DTL#ixzz1nvelxFay
Now Andrew Breitbart has a what, heart attack? — after his speech at CPAC.
How convenient. And will the videos now disappear?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-andrew-breitbarts-fiery-cpac-speech-i-have-college-days-obama-videos/
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