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The Breitbart Experience

By on 3.2.12 @ 6:09AM

Hanging out with the man who led a New Media revolution.

Last Friday, at 10:30 p.m., Andrew Breitbart sent me a two-word text message: “Where y’at?”

We were both in Troy, Michigan, that night. He was scheduled to speak at the next day’s Americans for Prosperity forum. I was in town to cover the Republican presidential primary campaign. Knowing he would be in town, I’d called him earlier, to find out where he would be hanging out, and when he texted me, I called again and learned he was at Morton’s steakhouse, down the road from the Marriott Hotel where the AFP conferees were staying. Soon I joined him at Morton’s, where we talked a while. He said he had become bored with the GOP presidential race. Instead, he was focused on new angles of attack on the Left. We went over to the Marriott, where Breitbart joined a dozen or so people hanging out in the lobby bar.

Hanging out with Breitbart was an experience that hundreds of his friends and allies had the pleasure of sharing over the years and, when the shocking news of his death came Thursday morning, those people began sharing their stories of a man destined to endure as a legend in the history of the conservative movement. His high-profile public life as a daring provocateur — who exposed the dirty secrets of the Left and then leveraged his own celebrity to pour the gasoline of publicity on the fires he kindled — was the tip of a massive iceberg of hard work, generosity, and inimitable genius.

Breitbart was a man of impressive intelligence, possessed of a deep and intuitive understanding of news, politics, and culture. Some of the most talented and experienced journalists of my acquaintance were awed by Breitbart’s genius. Long before he’d gained nationwide fame for his work in exposing ACORN and the Anthony Weiner sex scandal, Breitbart was already admired by those who knew of his pioneering work in the development of online New Media, as the former sidekick to Matt Drudge who subsequently helped Arianna Huffington develop the Huffington Post.

The first time I met him was at the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference. It was near midnight when he came through the hotel lobby with conservative journalist Joel Mowbray. They were on their way up to their hotel room to have a few beers, and I tagged along. Soon, Breitbart was regaling us with tales of his online adventures including the time he spotted police examining a suspicious vehicle parked near a home that was hosting a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in his Brentwood neighborhood. He posted a brief headline at the Drudge Report, then went into his kitchen to get a snack. As he was walking past his TV on his way back to his computer, he saw that CNN had added the bomb-scare headline to the “crawl” across the bottom of the screen. Such was the impact of this new online medium, and harnessing the power of the Internet to influence news coverage was Breitbart’s obsession.

“Changing the narrative,” as he often described it, was what Breitbart was all about, and he had studied the habits of the news industry so long and so intensely that he knew exactly how they would react when he began striking back at what he called the “Democrat Media Complex.” In the case of the ACORN exposé — with James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles using hidden cameras to catch officials of the left-wing group agreeing to abet a prostitution operation — Breitbart first released one video. When ACORN officials insisted that this incident was anomalous, Breitbart then released a second video recorded by O’Keefe and Giles at an ACORN office in another city, where officials were similarly willing to assist plans to pimp out teen hookers. More denials from ACORN ensued, but then Breitbart released another video, and then another and another and another. Reporters who at first had accepted ACORN’s denials at face value were eventually forced to acknowledge that Breitbart’s young protégés had indeed exposed a willingness of the “community organizing” group to turn a blind eye to criminality. The negative publicity forced ACORN to declare bankruptcy, although the organization lives on in altered form, with various local chapters reconstituting themselves under new names.

The key to the success of that sting was Breitbart’s deep understanding of how the news business works, and how people in the industry think and behave. He employed that understanding to powerful effect, and helped others understand it, too. Yet there was only one Breitbart, and his unexpected death at age 43 leaves a huge vacuum in the world of conservative New Media that he did so much to build. By the time of his death, he had become a hero to millions, an inspirational leader. Breitbart was a popular speaker at Tea Party rallies and other conservative gatherings, and always spoke extemporaneously, without a text or notes to guide him.

The last time I saw him, at the AFP Michigan event Saturday, he arrived at the last minute, unshaven and with his hair uncombed, having stayed until the wee hours hanging out in the Marriott lobby. Without any preparation at all, however, he gave a speech that stirred the audience, telling the Tea Party activists that their victory in the 2010 mid-term elections “freaked the living daylights” out of the Left. He talked at length about the Occupy movement, and its strong ties to left-wing organizations — including labor unions — that made it “Barack Obama’s army.” Referring to the fight for the 2012 Republican nomination, he urged his listeners not to focus their attention on the candidates because, he said: “You are needed more than the candidates.”

Breitbart was a powerful voice, who always sought to empower others and encourage them to join his fight against the forces of the Left, which he saw as attempting to destroy the America he loved. He will be long remembered by those who had the pleasure of sharing the Breitbart experience.

“Where y’at?” he asked in that text message a week ago.

We’re still here, Andrew, still hanging out. But it’s just not the same without you.

About the Author

Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (103) |

Frank Drackman| 3.2.12 @ 6:52AM

I loved Breitbarts work..
That ACORN Video? with the guy in the "Shuggy Bear" Pimp Hat?? Still Cracks me up just thinkin bout it..
And he reminded me of a Conservative Jim Morrison, sans leather pants and psuedo-intellectualism...Seriously, look at a photo of Jim from 70,71, Mountain Man Beard, Paunch, whats the word I'm lookin for?
"Doughy"
And I'm not some health nut, haven't eaten a Vegetable since the Bush(1st) administration, and I've fired employees for saying "Vegie"(Is is that hard to say the entire word and not sound Gay?)
And I've enjoyed a nice Steak now and then, although my limits $20...
But seriously, you know Rush is on thin ice, and we'd probably have a President Chaney if he wasn't so negligent with his coronaries.
Its why I can't vote for Newt, don't give a rip bout his past indiscretions(its a plus actually), ego, short attention span,
Its that LDL/HDL ratio, and Santorum's not much better, you know he's had his share of Perogies...
In fact it's Romney's only real advantage,
he'll live longer.

Frank

Moe Blotz| 3.2.12 @ 7:33AM

Now you have done it Frank, cut and paste putz TPINO will respond to your last line with a quote by his idol from Dormont. (If he reads the article we just did.) Jonah Goldberg would agree with the phrase,"Illigitimi non tatum carborundum" as applying to the late Andrew Breitbart.

LindaF | 3.2.12 @ 8:10AM

Just a few cautionary words:

Jim Fixx
Winston Churchill

They both prove that predicting longetivity based on physical condition is not easy.

Yeah, Newt is old and out of shape. But he has a lively interest in life, a mother with good genes, and, even if he doesn't last the entire term, he'll give his best while he's there.

Just make sure that he picks a conservative VP.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 8:27AM

Oh yeah? well I'll see your Churchill and raise you a John Belushi...
and I'd love to have a 70 year old Jim Morrison performing "LA Woman" in Holiday Inn Express Lounges...
But everytime I watched Breitbart on TV I could see his ST segments rising(thats a Medical thang)...
and I'm not sayin I only want Veggie-tarians, but a current Stress Thallium/Echo/Lipid Panel would be much more useful than how much theyve contributed to Ducks Unlimited...

Frank Drackman MD(mentally deranged)

loulou| 3.2.12 @ 10:55AM

Speaking of mentally deranged--am I wrong to raise this question: Why did every single one of the news reports say he died of natural causes FROM THE GET GO?

I assume he did die of a heart attack but why include the assumption when they don't yet know it for a fact?

I wouldn't have suspected anything but it kept jumping out at me--natural causes, natural causes, natural causes.

It reminds me of when Obama was in Hawaii and his motorcade made a point to drive by Kapiolani Hospital. I remember Steve Centani intoning that this was "the place of his (Obama's) birth". Centani did not know this as a fact so why insert it in a so-called news story? Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, Kapiolani Hospital has changed locations since Obama was born so what the motorcade purposely drove by was NOT technically the place of his birth.

As someone said on Michael Savage--if the tapes come out it was natural causes. If they don't he was whacked.

SUBVET| 3.2.12 @ 7:11PM

Natural causes=Jim Morrison

Butch| 3.2.12 @ 4:12PM

Hey Frank, I was looking for you on the threads for the Hominick article about the death of political correctness. You're the natural; get on over there and bring Buck Ofama along with you. Then I'll go back. Enjoy your stuff, Man.

tm| 3.2.12 @ 4:26PM

Butch, please, you shouldn't encourage too much. I am guessing that you might be new to this site. Oh, Mr. Drackman could write and relate good things and at times he does. But he is 49, married and too often writes things here -- in the middle of a normal work day for most American males -- that are childishly immature. And that is using kind wording.

Please do not encourage him. Yes, you'll see a good insight or two for sure. But he squanders his gifts on gutter talk, gutter thought, gross barbs too often to be taken seriously. He dilutes his messages with the immaturity.

See, I've tried to compliment him and encourage him here, but, just watch. You'll see below a very immature rejoinder where a good man would just take this grain of salt and move on wordlessly.

Dan Mathewson| 3.3.12 @ 8:31PM

The there's Eubie Blake. Jazz pianist. Died at 100. Smoked since he was twenty.

trw| 3.2.12 @ 8:29AM

LindaF, I am with you. (good example with Jim Fixx)

One thing that people need to take into account regarding health. The best medical care in the world is afforded to sitting presidents (and VPs). The team at Bethesda Naval Medical Hospital (now renamed Walter Reed as the Forrest Glen Walter Reed closed) does a superb job. They'd give us a full eight years of Newt.

Any doubters?

Why?

The evidence: Despite some likely reluctance, ole Billary Clinton is still with us, no?

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 8:52AM

Bethesda Naval?
2 Words: Donal Billig
and I know his Manslaughter Conviction got overturned on appeal...
there's a reason Dick Chaney didn't get his work done there...
I know, Barney Frank survived, hey, even Wilt Chamberlain made 50% of his Free Throws.
Ask John Murtha how his routine gall bladder surgery went...

Frank

Moe Blotz| 3.2.12 @ 9:44AM

The Big Dipper also passed away at the age of 61.

scotchieguy| 3.2.12 @ 11:48AM

You forgot Keith Richards.

jomo2009| 3.2.12 @ 9:56PM

Re: Jim Fixx

If I'm not mistaken didn't he suffer from heart disease before he got in shape and began running? Also I think heart disease ran (no pun intended) in his family.

Mike Hawk| 3.2.12 @ 9:15AM

How is Rush on thin ice, Frank, how so, his grandfather lived to 104. As Rick Santorum is Italian decent, where does the Perogies comment come from?? You make almost as much sense as PA. TPINO the mainline bum bandit loves the 76 yr old crackpot, but hey, he can ride a bicycle.

Clint| 3.2.12 @ 9:53AM

Roger Howard Says," Get Stuffed , RINO-CINO Phoney, Hawk,"

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 10:14AM

I remember seein pics of Rush's grandfather, and he didn't weigh 300lbs...
even with todays medical advances, you just don't see many morbidly obese 90 year olds.
Thats why they call it "Morbid".
and don't go all Politically Correct on me, you know Santorum is "connected"
or knows someone who's connected...
and thats not a Slam, I'd love a Paulie Walnuts in the Cabinet...

Frank "The Nose" Drackman

loulou| 3.2.12 @ 10:57AM

Drackman, you're not a homeboy. Pierogies are Polish, not Italian. If you were from Fluffya you'd know that.

Mike Hawk| 3.4.12 @ 9:20PM

Rush doesn't weigh 300 lbs either.

scotchieguy| 3.2.12 @ 11:44AM

Where the hell did you come from? What a great take!! Man, I hope you post more often. Some orginal shit for a change. Cheney, Jim Morrison, Rush and Shuggy Bear pimp hat in one comment. Sweet.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 1:06PM

what can I say, I'm a Renaissance Man...

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:09PM

Whew!! Frank, you're still alive, or a least not minus any vital parts. Thank God.
I guess Mrs. D didn't see yesterday's post.

Betina| 3.2.12 @ 7:21AM

I love him and always will. He made millions of us laugh and live vicariously sharing his antics and his sheer joy of stomping all over the sputtering face of the left. Can you imagine what this country would have been like had he exploded on the scene decades ago? Saw him speak in DC and the crowd adored him. A great big rumpled shaggy bear of a man whose sparkling eyes like lasers focused upon and seared the bullshit of the left. And the joy of it all! You could feel it. And delight in it! Who else is out there that could have done it any better? What a loss. What an icon. He possessed the single most effective weapon in our fight against the left: his delight, his absolute sheer unadulterated pleasure at his ability to get under the thin skinned left wing phony bullshit artists that he skewered in all directions. If you had to get in the arena with the jackals have a blast! Get a laugh. Make others see the way to do it and laugh back at anyone outraged by his nerve and guts. What a terrible loss for our country.

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 10:28AM

Good riddance.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 10:45AM

Oh yeah?
at least Joe Biden doesn't get to be President when a Conservative Icon dies...

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 6:57PM

If Breitbart is a Conservative Icon, you need therapy. Maybe Barry Goldwater or William F Buckley are conservative icons, but trash delver and purveyor Breitbart? OMG, the dumbing down of America is you.

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 8:31AM

Goldwater and Buckley were the types that reasoned with the bullies first, and only got nasty when they felt they had no other alternative. Sometimes what a bully needs is a good kick in the balls right from the get-go. Yes, Breitbart is a conservative icon, and may there come to be millions more to stomp the leftists into the mud like they so richly deserve.

Calvin| 3.2.12 @ 11:38AM

Purp is the lower IQ version of the kind of neo-fascist intolerant that Breitbart exposed so easily. Good riddance to you Purp.

Seek| 3.5.12 @ 6:06PM

Fascists are the kinds of people who kick their political opponents in the balls rather than debate them. They rather resemble the likes of Calvin and PaganTemple.

Boar Hunter| 3.2.12 @ 11:38AM

Lacking any class as usual you remain such a fine example of liberal scum.

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 1:07PM

If you can't take it, don't dish it out. The right-wing loves to trash people they disagree with, and in some cases shoot them (Dr. Tiller), and then have the nerve to complain when they are the focus of a verbal attack... Waa, Waa, any real adults here, or just a bunch of adolescent boys?
Breitbart had no problem stirring up trouble with trashy journalism, and I won't miss him.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 1:59PM

Your just pissy cause Breitbart exposed(literally) your BFF Anthony "Bigun" Wiener.
And howcome your so interested in Adolescent Boys?
And its cool, I made fun of Ted Kennedy's illness on my blog, even had a "Ted Kennedy Countdown Clock", that replaced my "How long Mary Joe Kopeckny's been Dead" Clock.
You remember Mary Joe Kopeckny? the comely young lass that Teddy left to Asphyxiate(NOT Drown, there's a difference) in the front seat of his upside down Oldsmobile?

Frank "Cheap Shot" Drackman

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 6:08PM

Not pissy, just don't care that Breitbart's gone. Can't wait for Murdoch to pass either. It's one thing to hold different viewpoints, it's different when they bribe, cheat, tell 1/2 truths to get fame or manipulate someone. And you know what I mean don't you.

Calvin| 3.2.12 @ 10:35PM

Purp would fit in with his fellow Democrat Fred Phelps' and his so-called church screaming out about dead homosexuals. Your such a moron, purp.

Seek| 3.5.12 @ 6:08PM

Purp strikes me as quite the opposite. Why is that those who generate moral hysteria are precisely the ones who falsely project it upon others? Freud had a point or two about projection.

Seek=TypicalLiberal| 3.12.12 @ 5:35PM

Ironic that you continually project your liberalism with each post.

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 8:34AM

Of course, what you call "trashy journalism" is just the leftist slant on what it really was-the truth.

Dave Williams| 3.2.12 @ 1:16PM

REAL classy, perptwirp....but then, what else could we expect from you? Get lost, troll, and STAY lost.

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 1:19PM

Just giving back as good as y'all give out. You're so polite when it comes to President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And, Breitbart was so sensitive to Shirley Sherrod, Anthony Weiner and the Occupy Movement. Yeah a real classy guy, huh? Right up there with Rush Loudmouth and his latest "slut" remarks ...

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 2:03PM

HAHA, I was just joking about Wiener being your BFF, but seems your quite "attached" to the former Gentleman from New York...
and what's with the "Y'all"?? do you here me droppin a "You'se Guys"??
and Teddie's been dead 2 years, 6 months, 12 days, 8 hrs, 43 minutes, and 15 seconds,
I mean 16,
I mean 17,
I mean 18,

Frank "whats so civil bout' war anyway" drackman

LarryK| 3.2.12 @ 3:41PM

Teddy really was a scumbag of the highest order. Leaving a young woman to suffocate to save his pudgy white azz.

Purp| 3.2.12 @ 6:53PM

Who said anything about the lush Ted Kennedy? See how you trash anyone you don't like? Not sure how you determine "attached", but whatever. You're having a good time in your own mind apparently.

Mike Hawk| 3.4.12 @ 9:17PM

There was a lot to not like when it came to Teddy the Hutt aka The Cape Cod Orca.

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 8:36AM

Why should we be sensitive to Sherrod and Weiner? We're not concerned about their feelings, we're concerned about their actions. How do you expose people like them in a "sensitive" way?

MarkR| 3.3.12 @ 9:17PM

Yea mean old Rush. I mean old Flukey is a case for the ages. If someone wont pay for her sex then what kind of unempathic country of scoundrels weve become. She is similar in aura to the peasants onthe streets of Calcutta where Mother Theresa ministered.

MarkR| 3.3.12 @ 9:14PM

Betina I couldnt agree more. Its been three days and I still get a lousy feeling of quesiness in my gut. I loved that guy.

Rann| 3.2.12 @ 7:37AM

Thank you for this article, Mr. McCain.

Let's do Andrew a service by investigating the cause(s) of his death. In the three years I've seen him on the TV, he never looked healthy. He always looked awful. His face revealed addictions of some sort. All those beers and late night hotel talk sessions surely did not help.

He did not look healthy so it is all the more easy to believe that a 43 year old man collapses. Sure, it can happen, and Andrew needed to apply his creative intellect to how he took care of the resource called his body. That is what men with a wife and four? children are supposed to do.

Let's have a hard look at the autopsy. Let's hope an unbiased lab team does top professional work. Sooner or later people who are engaged in this "New Media" that we like get pushback. Not just in the form of a blistering column or panel TV mouthy put down. Pushback that is more serious, more physical. More tangible.

Surely everyone here must know that when you criticize a top official in our land, no matter where, this land is no different than any other. There are repercussions. There will be pushback. Egos are egos. Careers are careers. Power is power.

Do we really think a person can rage against the machine and temporarily thwart that machine, yet not become a target -- a target for patient, capable 'enforcers.'

There are all kinds of ways to kill a man.

LindaF | 3.2.12 @ 8:11AM

Yeah, that was my first thought. How easy it is to kill someone, and make it look like a heart attack.

Suzie Mitchell| 3.2.12 @ 7:38AM

After hearing the news yesterday, I grieved for the conservative movement and the big hole that Breitbart's death leaves, hoping and praying that there's another out there like him poking at the media and the establishment, helping us to win in November. Then this morning after reading a remembrance in another conservative magazine, I realized there will be, only because Bob Tyrrell was the first 'Breitbart'.
I hung out with Bob and his friends during college at the Establishment for Saturday Evening Club where Bob plotted his jabs at the Left and all it's absurdities such as running a male for Homecoming Queen. However the best was a staged debate between a sociology professor from Columbia University and Bob during Alternative Week debating the Vietnam War. All of a sudden, out of nowhere some kid ran up to the stage and put a pie in the professor's face. The incident made the national news, especially since the same had happened to Clark Kerr not long before. Indiana University was embarrassed and called the next day to apologize to Columbia only to find out there was no such sociology professor. The 'professor' was a 24 year old Vietnam vet and student.
So you see there are "Breitbarts' out there. We just need to recognize them.
Thank you, Bob.

SaraB| 3.2.12 @ 7:48AM

Prayers for his family and for the rest of us it's time to pick up his mantle of Righteous Indignation.

POST American| 3.2.12 @ 7:56AM

As we sit almost on the one year
anniversaries of BOTH the John Wheeler
murder and cover up ---and the Fukishima
world nuclear disaster and cover up.

As we mull the recent lockdown on even
the FAKE 'Right' Fox News

As we note the dismissal of Pat Buchanan
----and, far worse, then the GENUINE voice
of Judge Napolitano

As we remind ourselves that this follows
just months on the dismissal of the --somewhat--
GENUINE Glen Beck---

---AND now, just 2 weeks after Breitbart was
waving incriminating videos of the 'mysterious'
and sealed college years of Obama---. . .

----------------------------------------YOU DECIDE-----

-------------------REMEMBERING----------------------
------the GENUINE voice of Andrew Breitbart------

Ryan| 3.2.12 @ 8:47AM

Ummm....Glen Beck quit...

mcr| 3.3.12 @ 5:50PM

Ummm....no he didn't.

albert constantine jr.| 3.3.12 @ 7:38PM

The Wheeler anniversary was at New Year's, as well.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.2.12 @ 8:56AM

Breitbart was the guy who was constantly either LOOKING for the conservative Hunter S.Thompson, or was BEING the conservative Hunter S. Thompson himself (with a little Mencken mixed in).

Just as Thompson was brilliant (sorry, I LOVED "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), so was Breitbart. But for a different cause. A man who lives hard but gets his job done is always someone I admire. I used to be a chef, for goodness sake. If you know kitchen people, you KNOW that they THROW DOWN.

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."...Churchill

I think Sir Winston would've loved the hell out of Breitbart.

Mike Rogers | 3.2.12 @ 1:28PM

Stacy is the nearest thing we have to Hunter S Thompson, and he does a very creditable job.

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 9:53AM

Breitbart showed us that one man can make a difference. That one man can bring down an army of leftists.
We need to stop whining and take action. There are millions of us, and afterall, it's our future that's at stake.
God bless Andrew, a fearless warrior among sheep!!

PJ| 3.2.12 @ 10:10AM

I think Obama & his minions are so despicable that it's very hard for me not to think of a conspiracy theory for Breibart's death. I sure hope he died of natural causes.

I will miss his provocative & entertaining reporting.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 12:06PM

OK, I know its too soon..
But any chance Breitbart's pulled a Jim Morrison??
I don't mean dying prematurely, I mean faking his death.
Cause I'm not really sure Jim Morrison died, no Autopsy, and listen to that ending of "LA Woman"?
"Mo Jo Risin?"
I won't believe Breitbart's really dead till I see the Enquirer Photo..

Frank

PJ| 3.2.12 @ 12:44PM

No! Breibart was having too much fun living. I mean he has 4 kids. He has to show a little responsibility for the sake of his kids.

And Morrison died & Hitler died too.

Frank Drackman | 3.2.12 @ 1:10PM

I know, but maybe they KNOW he's just playin possum...
with all the illegal immigrants in Southern Cal, wouldn't be too hard to find a beefy 40 something, who recently assumed room temperature.
Morrison died? Really? Show me the DNA...
He'd only be 68, every July 4th I keep thinkin he's gonna run onto the field at a Dodgers game.
OK, I'll give you Hitler, he'd be 120 anyway...

Frank

WMD| 3.2.12 @ 1:01PM

At least we know bin laden and quadafi are dead.
They both recently registered to vote in Chicago.

Brian Mc| 3.2.12 @ 2:23PM

excellent

Anthony| 3.2.12 @ 4:18PM

I like it Frank, and Andrew can come back using Obozo's real birth certificate, the one hidden in the the bowels of the mosque in Chicago.
And I have a CT S.S. # Andrew can have.

Bill| 3.2.12 @ 12:07PM

May his soul rest in peace !

cave man| 3.2.12 @ 12:43PM

The chicago machine is in full speed. RIP Breitbart. We clearly see satan now.

Tommy Frisco| 3.2.12 @ 1:30PM

"Breitbart was a powerful voice, who always sought to empower others and encourage them to join his fight against the forces of the Left, which he saw as attempting to destroy the America he loved."

Mr. McCain,
Are you ready to join the fight against the forces of the Left? Andrew Breitbart should be held up as a martry for all truth seekers. I wish more folks in our conservative media had just half the courage that Andrew, James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Sheriff Joe have put on display.

The Left's true agenda must be exposed. The MSM is not willing to do that so it's up to you and your colleagues to pick up the sword and fight this battle.

trw| 3.2.12 @ 4:45PM

Tommy Frisco, are you familiar with Ann Barnhardt? I have not kept up with her, but when she did her YouTube koran burning (she would read a verse from it, rip it out, explain why it is vile, and then burn the page), she was smokin red hot on fire for truth and truth telling. Her one line in one segment against Sen. Lindsey Graham was worth a ton of plutonium.

She's written three articles for American Thinker. And she has her own active blog.

One might disagree with her on things, but one thing is for sure, she's iron-willed, very opinionated, and perfectly willing to back up everything she says.

Mike Rogers | 3.2.12 @ 1:35PM

We're still here, but not just hanging out. To us is handed the torch: Let us deliver the goods. Onward and Upward, or in a motto some will recognize, "per ardua ad astra"!
Andrew, we'll miss ya, but we won't let ya down!

Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 3:36PM

I'm wondering of what political persuasion are the government employees doing the autopsy...

trw| 3.2.12 @ 4:50PM

Government employees? Are you sure? Like county coroners? (county, city government)
Hopefully someone will up some money to have an independent coroner also take a thorough look.

However, sad to say, but real. I think that whomever examines is well aware that they are are supposed to find that it was just a "natural causes" death.

Your Inner Voice| 3.2.12 @ 5:41PM

Happily, it seems that they did not get the video Breitbart discovered from the Obamunist's commie college days, so their dirty deed may not get anything for them this time, and they managed to create a martyr in the process.

tadcf| 3.2.12 @ 4:45PM

A hero and inspiration, perhaps, to those who thought yelling was a substitute for reasoning.

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 8:42AM

No, Breitbart is a hero to those of us who first came to realize you can never compromise with the Left, and then were blessed with the realization that you never should compromise with the Left.

Clint| 3.2.12 @ 6:07PM

" In a stunning coincidence, It appears Andrew Breitbart suffered his untimely death just hours before he was set to release damning video footage that could have sunk Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

Around three weeks ago on February 9 during the ‘Blog Bash’ event in Washington DC, Breitbart made a prophetic comment that takes on a somewhat chilling nature given the fact that he died in the early hours of March 1st.

Speaking to Lawrence Sinclair of Sinclair News, Breitbart stated, “Wait til they see what happens March 1st.”

It’s almost certain that Breitbart was referring to his plan to release damning footage of President Obama that he had been promising to reveal throughout the month of February.

As we reported yesterday, Breitbart spoke of his intention to release the tape during his CPAC speech last month. The footage shows Obama in his college days appearing alongside former Weather Underground terrorists Bill and Bernardine Dohrn. Observers had speculated that the footage could have derailed Obama’s hopes for a second term.

“I’ve got video from his college days that show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008 – the videos are going to come out,” said Breitbart, adding that Obama would be vetted."

RCV| 3.2.12 @ 8:21PM

Let the conspiracy theories flourish! It will give you guys something new to obsess about.

Realistic Conspiracy Validated| 3.3.12 @ 12:13AM

Truthers are collaborating with Occupiers to foil Breitbart who is just doing all this on purpose because he is going to strike from beyond the grave to destroy The One. You'll see. Just when The One is all set to stimulate the economy too. Right there on page 23 of The One's Budget: "Cutting Waste, Reducing The Deficit, And Asking All To Pay Their Fair Share'. The Truth. Page 23. You'll see. The One is taller and mighter than any two twin towers anyway. With more steel and concrete too. And they took them down like baby seals! Clubbing and clubbing and clubbing! And don't get us started on Polar Bears! Breitbart would never have been able to do it if not for some dirty trick like this. He's planned it all. You'll see. Cutting Waste - Doomed! Reducing The Deficit - Doomed! Asking All To Pay Their Fair Share - Doomed! You'll see. Breitbart! All of Page 23 in all its glory - Doomed! You'll see. It's just the damn economy and the damn wars and that sonofabitch Bush! You'll see. And don't get us started on Reagan! That sonofabitch! You'll see. Breitbart from beyond the grave. That sonofabitch! Over and over and over. You'll see. You'll see. You'll see.

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 8:47AM

Good idea, what we need is a slogan. Hey, I know, how about this-

Obama Lied, Breitbart Died!

Calvin| 3.3.12 @ 11:52AM

Halliburton is running the war. There is a vast right wing conspiracy. The CIA invented AIDS and gave it to blacks. Right wing talk radio convinced a crazy dude to shoot Gabby Giffords. The government was behind 9/11. RCV, you have your own bunch of conspiracy theories you can whine to your fiends about. You are a dishonest putz at every level.

RCV| 3.3.12 @ 12:22PM

I put every one of those insane theories in the same heap as the right-wing fantasies.

Right-Wing Fantasy ?| 3.3.12 @ 3:58PM

Disposable Income
Per Capita
(All Americans):

$32,446

Federal Government Spending
Per Recipient
(All Health, Welfare, College Education, Housing, Retirement, Agricultural)

$32,748

Calvin| 3.3.12 @ 6:09PM

Go properly inflate your tires and go to the 57 th state you arrogant gas bag. You are a functional idiot that ruins things that you touch.

Clint| 3.2.12 @ 8:53PM

Let The Film Speak For Itself, Pathetic Negative Attention Craving Obama Troll, RCV.

RCV| 3.3.12 @ 11:37AM

Ah yes, can't wait to see it, Clint. It will be like the "proof" that Obama was born in Kenya that you were all waiting for last year. Hope springs eternal on this blog!

ThePaganTemple | 3.3.12 @ 1:08PM

I'm more interested in the proof that Obama is a traitorous left-wing scumbag piece of shit, which he demonstrates every day.

Clint| 3.3.12 @ 2:10PM

It Will Show Just What Breitbart Said It Will Show, Shuck & Jive Trash Talkin' Negative Attention Craving Obama Troll, RCV.

POST American| 3.2.12 @ 9:54PM

---------------------FINAL WORD--------------------------

"Remember, GOVERNMENT down thru
the ages has been, by far, the #1 cause of
unnatural death. Some 260 MILLION
were killed by goivernments last century alone
---in 'peacetime'."
-ALEX JONES

TRUE

NOW, as we consider the the unfolding of the
ever more unnatural looking 'natural'
death of whistleblower Andrew Breitbart

----------on this, the first Anniversary of
the memory-holed John Wheeler murder,
which itself came on the eve of the
Fukishima world nuclear disaster and
------------------------------------------cover up.

---STAY TUNED!---to the FREE MEDIA!

POST American| 3.2.12 @ 10:11PM

------------------FURTHER READING---------------------

'WHY Obama CAN Kill Americans'
-Atlantic Magazine
Oct. 3, 2011

---And BTW

------- STILL WAITING for that sustained,
unflinching treatment of the NDAA 1021
coup' d'etat.

---------------------ANYTIME YOU'RE READY

BayouBabe| 3.3.12 @ 8:44AM

"Where y'at?"

Oh Stacy, I loved reading that - it brought tears to my eyes. Like Andrew, I graduated from Tulane and that is a question peculiar to Nawlins. It usually goes thusly: Where y'at, dawlin?" Those who speak that way are called Y'ats.

Many thanks, Stacy.

martin j smith| 3.3.12 @ 12:35PM

RCV and Purp are among the well known trolls who add nothing but an idea of Obama's line is . If you want to post your delusional thinking that is just fine keep it up but that is what is is and most of us know who you are very well.

Marc Jeric| 3.3.12 @ 1:45PM

I think that Breitbart was murdered by ACORN and SEIU thugs - possibly by a taser. Now we will see what happens to those tapes!

RCV| 3.3.12 @ 3:29PM

Maybe with collusion from little green aliens from Area 666?

Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 3.3.12 @ 6:18PM

I don't show a modicum of common sense, much less a shred of intellectual honesty, ever, on American Spectator, and reveal myself to be a sanctimonious and hypocritical pompous ass with every post; but, this particular post, especially, is one for the ages, as far as my posts are concerned matters:

RCV | 10.20.10 @ 7:06PM:

"I don't sign silly petitions on scientific matters"

[the above response, in response to the petition, at petitionproject.com, signed by 31,487 scientists, the 31,487 scientists who provide their names, their degrees, their scientific specialties, the peer-reviewed research, 132 references to the peer-reviewed research, who verified the academic and professional credentials of all 31,487 scientists in response to saboteurs, the 31,487 scientists who debunk manmade global warming, the 31,487 scientists - including Marc Jeric - who signed the petition]

RCV| 3.3.12 @ 6:41PM

Zzzzzz....zz.z...z...

Calvin| 3.4.12 @ 9:56AM

This is RCV in his most functionally intelligent state. When he is awake he is thinking up great ideas for even more Ponzi schemes, unsustainable bullet trains, juicy wind turbines, Solyndra style payoffs and much more. Be thankful when he sleeps. When he awake he is trying to turn your home town into Detroit or Washington D.C. or Chicago or Los Angeles or the various shit holes that make up the Blue American experience. Sorry if I left out your favorite shit hole.

RCV| 3.4.12 @ 1:14PM

So, Calvin, tell us what bucolic heaven you live in.

Ridiculously Clueless Voter| 3.4.12 @ 11:06AM

I don't show a modicum of common sense, much less a shred of intellectual honesty, ever, on American Spectator, and this particular post, in response, is typical, as far as my posts are concerned matters.

RCV | 10.20.10 @ 7:06pm:

"I don't sign silly petitions on scientific matters"

[had he signed the petition, at petitionproject.com, that debunked manmade global warming with peer-reviewed research and 132 references to the peer-reviewed research, the petition would have had 31,488 signatories, 31,487 signatories who are scientists who provided their names, degrees and scientific specialties, and verified the academic and professional credentials of all 31,487 scientists, and 1 signatory who is a pompous sanctimonious hypocritical stupid lying pathetic despicable unChristian unConstitutional reprobate charlatan vomitus idiot douchebag asswipe liberal voter, which would have been ridiculously cluelessly silly]

RCV| 3.4.12 @ 1:13PM

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......

POST American| 3.3.12 @ 9:22PM

---------------------------------------STILL WAITING. . .

albert constantine jr.| 3.3.12 @ 11:31PM

My musical tribute to Mr. Breitbart, which should be sung (or imagined) to the tune of the Don McLean hit "American Pie":

A long long time ago
I can still remember how ACORN really seemed so vile
I thought for us to have a chance
The people need to get a glance
Of what the Left was up to all the while
And from their lies we were released
Their federal funding was decreased
Big Government had vid-e-o
Of some of their bad deeds you know
I don’t think that I shed a tear
But instead I raised my beer
To toast an ally from my side
The day-that Breitbart-died

(and we were singing)

Refrain
Bye Bye Big American Guy
To the Drudge Report
We now resort
To answer the why
Big Hollywood & Government
Will continue to try
To show the world the Left’s Biggest Lie
(to show the World the Left’s Biggest Lie)

When Buckley wrote of God and Man
The liberals broadcast though the land
And the news would tell you so
The government will fill your cup
so pay your taxes and shut up
the media will fill your need to know
while they talk of Sadat and Begin
Carter’s failure gave us Reagan
We had a good eight years
Of watching liberals’ tears
Though as we tore the Berlin Wall
The no new taxes pledge did fall
To Clinton they put in the call
The day that Breitbart died
We were singing

Refrain

At one time we were on our own
PJ O’Rourke in Rolling Stone
Had not announced he was conservative
The Left they owned the network news
And only liberal point of views
Was what an anchorman would ever give
The Fairness Doctrine had to go
To open up talk radio
To give the right its voice
And promote freedom of choice
And now they look back with regret
That Al Gore and his internet
Is now used to reveal the debt
The day that Breitbart died

(Refrain)

From Helter Skelter came Obama
Promising to cut the drama
And to give us all a stimulus
Instead we got more class warfare
And slush funds beat out road repair
So you better shut up and not make a fuss
Or S-E-I-U hale and hearty
Called to beat up the Tea Party
With no belief In God
They sent out a “truth squad”
But with Breitbart’s investigation
He got out the information
We hope that truth’s not on vacation
The day that Breitbart died

(Refrain)

He met a girl who was a looker
And she agreed to play a hooker
And with her pimp they went inside
From ACORN they got tax advice
So to prove it then they went in twice
And showed community organizers lied
And then the streets were occupied
With union thugs who often hide
with fraudulent excuse notes
he filmed the doctors' fake quotes
with three wise hosts to help us win
in Rush and Sean and Mark Levin
it’s not an end if we begin
the day that Breitbart died

(REFRAIN)

Zilla | 3.5.12 @ 6:21PM

Brilliant! Great job, Albert! I wonder if we can get a musically inclined conservative to record this? That would be awesome.

TeaPartyPatriot4ever| 3.4.12 @ 9:20PM

As I contemplate on the life and man named Andrew Breitbart, and the everlasting effects that he has had on us all, I just want pay my most deepest respects to the man who gave and lead the army of conservative average citizens, a voice of example by which to emulate and follow in this world of insidious corruption, intolerance, hatred, and evil.

Andrew Breitbart was a fearless American Patriot, a combination of Patrick Henry and Paul Revere, whose likes cannot be replaced, as Andrew Breitbart went where wise men dare not go, into the liberal lions den of corruption, lies, propaganda, deceit, and utter hatred and contempt for The People, Individual Freedom, Liberty, and the U.S. Constitution, and he fought them fearlessly, and won !

He was truly a once in a lifetime patriotic American conservative General among Generals, who lead by example, of which he always did first. In other words, when Andrew saw an unjust, biased, corrupt firestorm, he didn't runaway from it, he ran straight into it, confronted it and fought them directly one on one, or one against the mob, never veering away even once, nor did he even hesitate for a second, and never backed off his fight for Truth in what he called his "Self-Righteous Indignation" to expose them all for what they really were.. and for all America to see what was Good and Right and the Truth. This he did in and of everything he stood for- his values and principles for which he displayed tremendous courage of conviction in the face of evil. And the weapons he used were only the truth, freedom, liberty, his courage, passion, computer, and the internet.

I can only hope that I, and all the other Tea Party Reagan Conservatives, keep the Andrew Breitbart fight against injustice and media bias for the rest of our lives, as Andrew would have done with the same continued devoted passion.

I send my most sincerest condolences to the Breitbart Family, in this most tragic of hours. I pray for the Family.

Zilla | 3.5.12 @ 6:19PM

What a wonderful and inspiring tribute, Stacy!
I have it linked here:
http://marezilla.com/2012/03/i-fight/

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