Posted on 03/01/2012 9:32:22 PM PST by STARWISE
Andrew Breitbart, the 43-year-old conservative writer who died Thursday morning, was found collapsed on the sidewalk near his Westwood home while taking a nighttime walk, his father-in-law told The Times. Breitbart was found about 12:30 or 1 a.m.
"He was walking near the house somewhere.... He was taken by paramedics to UCLA and they couldn't revive him," said his father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, who spoke with his daughter, Susannah Bean Breitbart, about what happened. "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.
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Breitbart's mother-in-law, Alison Mills Bean, called Breitbart "one of the most genuine people I’ve met in my life.... He always spoke the truth of his heart and no matter what people agreed or disagreed with him he never wavered.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
>> I have always thought that he looked more Irish than Jewish <<
Maybe somebody now will go thru all known photos of Irish folksingers, with the goal of identifying Andrew’s biological father. Probably will turn out to have been a flaming communist or anarchist. But no matter. We can just be thankful that the biological parents didn’t choose to abort.
Orson Bean was also the voice actor for the Rankin-Bass animated production of “The Hobbit.” EXTINGUISH ME!
Yeah, I just saw that Twilight Zone episode, “Mr. Bevis,” last week, too! I had no idea Orson Bean was Andrew’s Father-in-Law. Of course, I didn’t even know that Mr. Bean was still alive! LOL!
Cheers
That’s right .... there were years there when
he was always on the tube. Quite a guy. In
the Rush interview with Andrew for the Limbaugh
Letter that Mark posted, he said he was working
as a waiter and Bean was a customer he met. They
began talking, and Orson became a mentor to him
and ended up being a huge influence on him ultimately
... so much so, that unbelievably, Andrew ended up
marrying one of Orson’s daughters.
God’s hand... and the circles and cycles of life ...
Didn’t know Andrew was burned by Glenn Beck. Funny, I was such an avid afficionado of Glenn’s when he had his TV show, and really did educate me a lot about our Founders, history, etc.. Now, I don’t give him a thought, and actually think he’s gone off the deep end.
Andrew Breitbart: Glenn Beck “Screwed the Pooch”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_HX3KR4fXg&feature=related
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Andrew Breitbart Goes Off On ‘Coward’ Glenn Beck: ‘He Is Dead To Me’
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Glenn Beck is very much not a fan of Newt Gingrich. If anyone didn’t yet know that from this interview, he made it very clear Saturday on Fox Business Network when he alleged that Gingrich was so similar to President Obama in his “progressive” ways, that the only reason Tea Partiers would like him over the President would be because of his race.
Unsurprisingly, this has caused some anger. Even less surprisingly, one of those angry voices is Andrew Breitbart, a man who is very much not a fan of Glenn Beck.
Breitbart appeared on the Victory Sessions podcast and slammed Beck for, as his BigGovernment site put it, “pulling the race card” on the Tea Party. However, the Beck/Breitbart beef goes back a far way and one could tell this had as much to do with a heated, longstanding grudge as with the Tea Party comment..
In fact, Breitbart only discussed that comment briefly before moving on to a list of the many slights he feels he’s received from Beck. He accused Beck of throwing him under the bus during the Shirley Sherrod scandal and trash talking him in private while poaching employees to create rival website The Blaze).
This was clearly personal.
“I don’t know what to say because I know it makes me look like a bad guy and I know Reagan’s 11th Commandment, but how many times can you have a baseball bat taken to your rib cage by a gang that have GBTV on your jerseys before you stand up for yourself?
…
This guy has always been about himself. You know, while you’re sitting there watching him talk about the food shortage stuff, he doesn’t tell you this ties to the Mormon Church. He doesn’t talk to you about his investors. He doesn’t tell you that they’re paying for him to create a crisis.
He always talks about Cloward-Piven and how Rahm Emanuel said ‘Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,’ but creating a hysteria that there’s going to be food storages because of chaos that is coming – he is profiting off this as well.
There is a financial stake for him with food storage companies that advertise on his site. This guy is a huckster. He’s always been a huckster. It was only a few years ago that he was a shock jock, that he was a morning zoo guy. And he’s been taking people’s content for years and not crediting it.”
At the end of the interview, the podcast’s host Stephen K. Bannon put it explained that this seemed to be something that “comes from [Breitbart’s] heart” and that might be an understatement.
Listen to the segment from The Victory Sessions below:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/andrew-breitbart-goes-off-on-coward-glenn-beck-he-is-dead-to-me/
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