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Breitbart’s Last Laugh
Weekly Standard ^ | 3-1-12 | MATT LABASH

Posted on 03/02/2012 4:00:17 AM PST by radioone

I woke up this morning to about ten emails from journalist friends asking if our mutual friend, Andrew Breitbart, was really dead. “Really” was the operative word. Some meant it in the traditional sense: Is it possible for the human inferno that Breitbart resembled to have actually been extinguished at age 43, leaving his elegant wife Susie and his four beloved children behind? Several, however, meant it as in: Is Andrew really dead? Many of us didn’t know if we could trust the announcement, thinking this could be another Breitbart caper, as he always had two or three in his back pocket.

By way of greeting, I used to ask Breitbart what kind of evil he was up to.

“Most kinds,” he’d say, gamely.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: andrewbreibart; breitbart; labash; politics; tribute; weeklystandard
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1 posted on 03/02/2012 4:00:19 AM PST by radioone
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To: radioone

Sad , he made a difference in this world.


2 posted on 03/02/2012 4:08:48 AM PST by scooby321
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To: radioone

I think he was so effective that he was murdered... and there are those that openly wanted him gone.

LLS


3 posted on 03/02/2012 4:10:35 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

There are some touchy Hussein Heads here, too. There is an alleged freeper who made it personally about me yesterday because I remembered the November 2001 plane crash in NYC was IMMEDIATELY declared an accident.


4 posted on 03/02/2012 4:18:52 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: treetopsandroofs
touchy Hussein Heads

Does that translate to Obama supporters? And just who would they be?

5 posted on 03/02/2012 4:22:32 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: Hot Tabasco

This freak made it all personal and continued to JUST me after this post.

Andrew Breitbart collapsed while walking near Brentwood home
Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:35:53 AM · 15 of 94

kcvl to treetopsandroofs

Please stop with the conspiracy theories. His father-in-law and the medical center would have to be a part of it.

He had a history of heart problems as his family and friends have said. He was doing a grueling book tour besides his other work.


6 posted on 03/02/2012 4:31:15 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Hot Tabasco; All
Does that translate to Obama supporters? And just who would they be?

Yeah, name 'em and shame 'em and call the kitties!
7 posted on 03/02/2012 4:33:52 AM PST by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what e.coli is to an all-you-can-eat salad bar. NO ROMNEY!!!)
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To: radioone

This column really was a nice remembrance, it really gives insight into what made him tick. The insight about the school clock is very revealing into how he saw things.


8 posted on 03/02/2012 4:37:00 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: treetopsandroofs
This freak made it all personal and continued to JUST me after this post

So that makes him an Obama supporter, or "Hussein Head" as you put it....

...and nobody here has the right to believe that maybe, just maybe, Andrew may actually have died from natural causes such as a heart attack.

9 posted on 03/02/2012 4:38:33 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: treetopsandroofs; kcvl

kcvl is hardly a “freak” or “Hussein Head” (whatever that means) and you should know by now that it’s a FR courtesy to ping fellow FReepers that you bring up in discussion.


10 posted on 03/02/2012 4:42:48 AM PST by Nickname
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To: mkjessup

NPR (National Propaganda Radio) morning edition did not mention A.B. neither of the last 2 mornings. Ignoring, lest they have to mention the bad news on the way for the Kenyan , which they will downplay when the koran hits the fan.


11 posted on 03/02/2012 5:07:30 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: mkjessup

NPR (National Propaganda Radio) morning edition did not mention A.B. neither of the last 2 mornings. Ignoring, lest they have to mention the bad news on the way for the Kenyan, which they will downplay when the koran hits the fan.


12 posted on 03/02/2012 5:09:50 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: mkjessup

NPR (National Propaganda Radio) morning edition did not mention A.B. neither of the last 2 mornings. Ignoring, lest they have to mention the bad news on the way for the Kenyan, which they will downplay when the koran hits the fan.


13 posted on 03/02/2012 5:11:36 AM PST by Surrounded_too
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To: radioone

so much depends
upon
a red wheel barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens
******************

Do you suppose Breitbart is the red wheel barrow? He wasn’t the chicken that most of the press is.


14 posted on 03/02/2012 5:18:32 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Surrounded_too
NPR (National Propaganda Radio) morning edition did not mention A.B. neither of the last 2 mornings.

You are right, except for the fact they spent 4 minutes and 30 seconds on the story yesterday. I know because I heard it...and was surprised.

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/01/147721196/conservative-publisher-breitbart-dead-at-43

15 posted on 03/02/2012 5:24:05 AM PST by Diverdogz
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To: Nickname; treetopsandroofs; kcvl

Nickname, What you said :)

Calling kcvl a “freak” or “Hussein Head” tells the rest of us you have no idea what it means to be a freeper.

Taking it to other threads is childish.

Taking it to other threads without a courtesy ping is low.

This comment:

“I was flattered and encouraged when one alleged freeper talked down hard to me today for my merely mentioning that the November 2001 plane crash in NYC was immediately judged to be an accident.”

from this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2853199/posts?page=9#9

puts you in the probable poser/troll category.


16 posted on 03/02/2012 5:35:49 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: radioone

This article really captures some of the personality of Breitbart that none of us would know. He sounds like a really good guy. One you would want to hang out with. I hope his wife and kids are well provided for.


17 posted on 03/02/2012 5:37:39 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: scooby321
I agree.
His efforts and voice will be hard to replace, if it can be
replaced at all in today's times.
18 posted on 03/02/2012 5:38:01 AM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Surrounded_too
.. when the koran hits the fan

Bravo !!   lol

19 posted on 03/02/2012 5:52:48 AM PST by tomkat (FU.baraq)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Whatever. I don’t need to kowtow to what other people tell me to do here.

I have done nothing offensive. Keep telling me I have, if it makes you feel better.

Call me a poser/troll if it makes you feel better. Read my posts if you care. I certainly don’t.

The freak picked MY post among hundreds suspicious of the circumstances of AB’s death and made it about me personally and talked down to me just for commenting about the November 2001 plane crash that was immediately declared an accident.

The fact that he has knee-jerk supporters bothers me none.

Call me childish and talk down to me if it makes you feel better.

Again, please don’t think I care about your admonishments.


20 posted on 03/02/2012 6:15:16 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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