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3/1/2014

Andrew Breitbart Died Two Years Ago Today

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 2:49 pm



I can’t believe it’s been two years.

I don’t think I can top the post I wrote last year. So I won’t try. Rest in peace.

31 Responses to “Andrew Breitbart Died Two Years Ago Today”

  1. Huge loss that can’t be replaced. We can only aspire to keep up his goal of truth telling.

    Dustin (303dca)

  2. He noticed things and warned us and was right about almost everything–especially that we’re fighting a cultural and messaging war against the corrupt media who are as great or greater a foe than our political opponents.

    elissa (a65f5a)

  3. We’ll said, elissa. And it will be hard to emulate a man who truly was one of a kind. A hero to many of us.

    Colonel Haiku (fce587)

  4. You just have to admire someone who was that fearless and cheerful at the same time.

    Former Conservative (6e026c)

  5. Ab is a hero to me. Yet, I fear his faith that the American Experiment would not only survive, but thrive, was counter to all evidence. His was a position of faith.

    The thing of it is, he was correct in that we are called to act as if righteousness shall prevail. I’ve never heard/seen anyone who walked this walk better.

    Me? It seems that St. Breitbart went home and Jesus ain’t coming in our front door anytime soon.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  6. America tends to celebrate junkies with needles in their arms when they die.

    I celebrate a man who had a heart that was too big for the world and too small for the man.

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  7. One Andrew was not enough.
    We need an army of Andrew’s.

    mg (31009b)

  8. Me? It seems that St. Breitbart went home and Jesus ain’t coming in our front door anytime soon.

    G*d helps those who help themselves… waiting for a savior to do the hard part for you is a mugs game.

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  9. speaking of people who’re fighting the good fight where & when they find it, here’s the latest on the BK/AW legal front.

    http://allergic2bull.blogspot.com/2014/02/breaking-judge-titus-memorandum-opinion.html

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  10. 5. ” It seems that St. Breitbart went home and Jesus ain’t coming in our front door anytime soon.”

    Not sure where you get your news but Satan only got his shot at Job. He doesn’t get to sit on the throne.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  11. One day before his death Andrew Breitbart speaking at the CPAC Conference announced he intended to vet Barack Obama, a job the establishment media and the GOP had refused to do prior to the 2008 presidential election.

    I’ve got videos, by the way. This election we’re going to vet him. I’ve got videos – this election we’re going to vet him – from his college days to show you why … racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008,

    Which was also the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in Obama’s birth certificate and his Selective Service card. On the night before he died Breitbart had inverviewed Arpaio.

    The results of Breitbart’s autopsy were released on April 27, 2012 and indicated death by heart failure. That same day, Michael Cormier, a Forensic Science Tech in the LA Coroner’s office died of mysterious circumstances, arsenic poisoning.

    ropelight (cdff5b)

  12. As an Angeleno, Andrew would have had a laugh at the fact that the LA Times editorial board — and it would appear the entire opinion page — has been completely silent about the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Apparently not even they can spin this into a pro-Obama or anti-GOP narrative.

    JVW (709bc7)

  13. 12. Andrew’s laugh would have been a derisive laugh, by the way.

    JVW (709bc7)

  14. Oh leftwing womyn
    your lamentations nearly
    bring tears to mine eyes

    http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/01/lamentations-of-their-women-ucla-leftist-throws-wild-tantrum-when-anti-israel-vote-fails/

    Colonel Haiku (00d3da)

  15. 11. I’m sticking with MD’s diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  16. WAY off-topic, but please consider signing this online petition, which opposes the nomination of a supporter of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to the DOJ.

    http://www.change.org/petitions/members-of-the-united-states-senate-vote-no-to-the-confirmation-of-debo-adegbile-to-the-department-of-justice

    Whitey Nisson (7f2263)

  17. #15, gg, here’s a brief description of HCM from the Mayo Clinic Staff:

    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy often goes undiagnosed because many people with the disease have few, if any, symptoms. In a small number of people with HCM, the thickened heart muscle can cause shortness of breath and problems in the heart’s electrical system, resulting in life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias).

    Fortunately, people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy often lead normal lives with no significant problems.

    ropelight (cdff5b)

  18. 17. ropelight, there is no one around here whose opinion I hold in higher regard than yours.

    There is no there there. I know whereof I speak.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  19. I miss him.

    SarahW (267b14)

  20. 18, gg, thanks for the kind words, I also respect your opinions. But Breitbart’s untimely death the day after he announced he had the video evidence to expose Obama before the 2012 election is just way too of a coincidence to accept at face value.

    It would be like accepting that an attack our outpost in Benghazi on 9/11 was a spontaneous reaction to a video tape. Or that no one in the White House can say where Obama was when the decision was made to withhold rescue efforts and abandon our men to the terrorists.

    ropelight (cdff5b)

  21. 20. Fair enuf.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  22. In the spirit of AB, we need to hit the prog bastards in the mouth, take no prisoners.

    Well, they’ve put us on notice our ticket will be Bush/Ayotte.

    The only name we can agree on so far is Paul, who brings some strengths, like telling the truth, but certainly isn’t a roundhouse blow.

    We need, at the very least, an executive to draw fire. These folk have the money and they fight dirty and ‘fire’ of our own is lacking.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  23. I never met Breitbart, but from my more limited perspective than our hosts and many of the readers and commenters here:

    In the two years since his death, things haven’t gotten much better. The deficit’s somewhat smaller, I suppose; relatedly, the GOP and the courts have managed to keep Obama et al. from another Stimulus or other legislation of quite the disastrous consequence as Obamacare; and there are some encouraging appearances for the November 2014 election cycle. None of that is much more than a silver lining to the grim, grinding, intensely depressing thought that Barack Obama will be President until late January of 2017.

    2017. That must makes me want to weep with frustration.

    But I do not think Breitbart would weep with us if he were here.

    He’d shake his fist with us, surely, yes. Share some piercing, wickedly funny observations with us — even if in the category of “black humor” — yes.

    But he wouldn’t be moping, and he wouldn’t have given up, and he’d be finding and demonstrating a way to wring some satisfaction, fellowship, and inspiration out of even this horrible menu at the Shit Sandwich Cafe in which we’ve been sentenced to live until 2017.

    My challenge for the day, then, in honor and recognition of his memory, is to look for my own ways to do that. It was easier when he was around for inspiration; he’s missed.

    But Breitbart is here.

    Beldar (8ff56a)

  24. We need, at the very least, an executive to draw fire. These folk have the money and they fight dirty and ‘fire’ of our own is lacking.

    Yeah, but if a combative executive is what you are looking for then Chris Christie would be the logical choice, and I don’t think you are intending to go there.

    JVW (709bc7)

  25. Not sure where you get your news but Satan only got his shot at Job. He doesn’t get to sit on the throne.

    The same place where it is said satan will inherit this lousy world.

    It would be nice to conflate our republic with The Kingdom, but it just ain’t so.

    AB’s reward, and yours and mine, lie well beyond. Satan’s and his progressives are making their beds right here as we write.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  26. AB’s reward, and yours and mine, lie well beyond. Satan’s and his progressives are making their beds right here as we write.

    can i put them to sleep?

    O:)

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  27. 23. Well I guess I should have inserted a caveat.

    An executive with a record of success.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  28. Who knew?

    If-You-Got-God-You-Got-A-Friend-Matthew-McConaugheys-Rousing-Oscar-Acceptance-Speech

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  29. 27. Oh, and the executive we’re looking for should not have a tat on his forehead spelled ‘FAIL’.

    NJ, the state with the most underwater budget.

    gary gulrud (e2cef3)

  30. Isn’t that Illinois?

    Sammy Finkelman (c08134)


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