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Andrew Breitbart has died.

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Widely read conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart has died, his attorney confirms.
The websites he founded ran a statement Thursday morning announcing that Breitbart, 43, died "unexpectedly from natural causes" in Los Angeles shortly after midnight.
"We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior," the statement said. "Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love."
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Breitbart was a prolific commentator who founded several websites devoted to covering politics, entertainment and everything in between. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Drudge Report before breaking off to start his own outlets -- including Big Government, Big Hollywood and Breitbart.tv.
The statement on his sites quoted the concluding passage from his book, Righteous Indignation.
"I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and-famously-I enjoy making enemies. Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I've lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I've gained hundreds, thousands -- who knows? -- of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night," he wrote.
The statement ended: "Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us."
Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood shortly after midnight Thursday when he collapsed, his father-in-law Orson Bean said.
Someone saw him fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center, Bean said. Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.
"I don't know what to say. It's devastating," Bean told The Associated Press.
Those who knew and worked with him described Breitbart almost uniformly as "fearless," sharply intelligent, witty and devoted to his work.
"He was the modern conservative iteration of a 1960s radical," conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg told Fox News, minutes after Breitbart's death was reported.
"When I say he was the most fearless guy I ever knew, it really is true. I mean, he truly loved the fight," he said.
Goldberg recalled how one of Breitbart's favorite past-times was to retweet the nasty things other people said about him. "He considered it a badge of honor," Goldberg said.
Breitbart's final tweet, posted shortly before he was reported to have died, typified the combative and blunt tone he took with his online debaters. "I called you a putz cause I thought you were being intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize," he wrote to the individual he had been arguing with.
News of Breitbart's death reverberated on Capitol Hill and on the presidential campaign trail. Rick Santorum said he was "crestfallen."
"What a powerful force," Santorum said. "What a huge loss, in my opinion, for our country and certainly for the conservative movement."
Breitbart is survived by his wife Susannah Bean Breitbart, 41, and four children.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.



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"Unexpectedly of natural causes". Dang. What a shame. Honestly sounds like he was ready to crack another scandal if you ask me.
 

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Funny how a lot of whistle blowers die of "natural causes". Anyone remember the 90s and the Clintons? The CEO of Enron?
 
hickslawns said:
"Unexpectedly of natural causes". Honestly sounds like he was ready to crack another scandal if you ask me.

Jeremiah Johnson said:
Funny how a lot of whistle blowers die of "natural causes". Anyone remember the 90s and the Clintons?
There's no such thing as "natural causes"...by the terms of mother nature, at the ripe old age of 43. Ofcourse, if a man takes a bullet to the head, while driving a car and the car runs off of the road...into a ravine, well, naturally he's going to die.

In these cases, it depends on what the coroner is being paid to write on the death certificate. :smiley_chinrub:

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hickslawns

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Surprised? I know nothing about it other than the fact he was about to present some information in the near future and suddenly died of "natural causes". I only know what I read on the links on this site. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to make this speculation. Sad if it is true.
 

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Just another page from the Clinton playbook....

We've got our pick of the election. If it's Romney, it will be class warfare. If it's Santorum, it will be a culture war.
 

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Sad News No Doubt. He had to be working on this video with somebody.......Hopefully, it will still surface and help lead to THE TRUTH.