I come to bury Breitbart, not to praise him.

[Pab Sungenis]

They say not to speak ill of the dead. That's very hard to do in the case of someone like Andrew Breitbart, since he made his career of off saying nothing but ill of other people.

Andrew Breitbart was a petty little man who used lies, distortions, and a well-funded media megaphone to make people's lives miserable. He was a megalomaniac who destroyed the lives of many people, both public and private figures.

My sympathies to his loved ones. There must have been some aspects of him that you saw that we did not. I hope you make these facets known in the coming days. And I hope that he may finally find the peace that he denied so many others at long last.

[malaise]

1. Ditto and fugg him

Still I'm not popping champagne just yet - I'm waiting for Cheney

[EFerrari]

13. It's Breitbart. I want to see the body.

[malaise]

15. Please verify that it's him

[EFerrari]

19. To commemorate Breitbart in his own medium, we should have a thread

where everyone posts the most vicious, malicious lie that they can think of about an opponent.

[Pab Sungenis]

25. WHERE'S THE DEATH CERTIFICATE?!

WE NEED TO SEE IT.

[corkhead]

27. I suspect he may be at the BFEE compound in Paraguay with Kenny Boy

and other convenient, timely departures

[MADem]

2. I am curious as to how he died. It wasn't in his sleep, apparently, unless he was in the habit of

sleeping at UCLA medical center.

Natural causes at age 43? And he was an old looking 43, if you ask me.

The last time I saw him in action was on that infamous video screeching at the OWS people, yelling "Rape" or something like that. He looked drunk off his ass.

He was a very mean and cruel man. He radiated hatred. He delighted in being unkind and intolerant. That kind of shit will eat you up, I'm sure.

[riverwalker]

6. AP had some more details.

He went "out walking" after midnight, with his father-in-law. He collapsed and they called 911, taken to hospital and they pronounced him. The article said he had "a history of heart problems last year". (but that could mean anything)
I find it odd that in the middle of the week he is out walking after midnight, maybe did some cocaine and couldn't sleep?

[MADem]

8. Yeah, I saw all that later on--I was shocked that his father in law is ORSON BEAN.

I never pegged the Beans for wingnuts.

The way I read it is that he died after midnight, after being transported to UCLA med center--not that he was necessarily walking after midnight (shades of Patsy Cline). He might have been walking the dog before or after the late news and been struck down then.

We'll know more in time, I'm sure.

Old looking guy for 43. Unhealthy looking, too.

[anti-alec]

9. Orson Bean is a conservative idiot also

Supported Prop Hate.

[MADem]

10. I didn't know that--in fact, I thought the guy was dead! Last I remember seeing him was on a black

and white television set on one of those afternoon game shows. The Vietnam War was a staple of the nightly news back then....

[zappaman]

30. Orson Bean lives down the street from me

Nice guy, always friendly and down for a chat.
Also active in the local playhouse.

[MADem]

31. Friendly ... for a wingnut, apparently! nt

[tech3149]

12. I had never seen him until last week

I've got better than a decade on him and I saw in him the worst parts of my life a decade ago. He just looked like the poster child for pulmonary problems.
I won't miss him, he barely got above my radar. I never did any cocaine but I could understand that it could be a factor in his death. I have been known to go walking after midnight but it is because physical effort helps boost my melatonin and relaxes me to the point I can go to sleep.

[lastlib]

3. I promise I won't piss on his grave...

...that's an honor I'm saving for George Bush and Dick Cheney.

[hobbit709]

4. I'm just going along with Clarence Darrow's comment.

[lastlib]

28. "I've never killed anyone but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

his is high on that list.

If there is a just god, Rush Limbaugh would soon follow.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Very well stated, PS, and quite frankly, way more classy than anything

I would have posted regarding the creep.

[Sheepshank]

7. So they say it was his heart?

Perhpas a little free Obamacare annual check up may have saved his sorry ass.

[Bake]

11. Oh shit! He's DEAD???

Excuse me while I go piss on his grave.

Worthless bastard and waste of human flesh ...

Bake

[Liberal In Texas]

14. His final Twitter message:

According to http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1139090--conservative-publisher-activist-andrew-breitbart-dies-at-43?bn=1

...Twitter, the medium where Breitbart confronted his critics with often abrasive messages. Indeed, Breitbart’s final message called a follower “a putz.”

How fitting for his last twit (or whatever you call it). The guy choked on his own bile. The world is a better place without him.

[MADem]

29. Wow--fitting epitaph indeed--he calls someone a putz, he putzes around and then he plotzes.

For good!

[Ganja Ninja]

16. Thank God for Natural Causes!

[Erose999]

24. Well, I would hesitate to thank god for Syphilis. But it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. Very well said.

You mirror my sentiments. My heart goes out to his family, but on a personal level I feel no negative emotions.

He dedicated his life to spreading hate and disinformation. I feel no loss in the passing of a person of such him. Even though I can feel sympathy for his family.

[MurrayDelph]

18. At times like this, I remember the great Jackie "Moms" Mabley quote

"They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!"

[EFerrari]

22. "They say we shouldn't speak ill of the dead. They say we shouldn't speak ill of the dead.

But if we don't, who will?" -- Harold Bloom

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. Death is a lot harder on the survivors than the deceased

Brietbart's troubles are over. It's his family who now has to carry on. I'm not going to do any grave-dancing over this. The Republicans showed ZERO CLASS when Ted Kennedy died. I'm not going to give them the satisfaction of sinking to their level.

[Bake]

22. Let me know where you bury him.

I've got to take a leak ...

Bake

[yardwork]

26. The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones