Andrew Breitbart: dead at age 43

Fox News.


Reportedly of natural causes.

I'll come back to this in a couple of days when it isn't too soon to talk about what an awful human being he was.

He'll be missed.

Tucker Carlson: Andrew Breitbart was a 'great guy'

He was a great guy. He will be missed.

I am recalling Iris Chang here.

He was a brave warrior who enjoyed the fight and shall be missed not only by his wife and four kids but also by the rest of us in the political trenches.

Since some people in this thread are serious about this sentiment, let it be known that this was sarcastic.

He was a douche. Not missed.


Shocking that he died.

Good riddance.

Of course, we have to be careful. Given his track record, he could be lying about this, too.

Bad joke.

Dead at 43... It's so sad because could have died at 12.
I think it's safe to assume it was a bowel obstruction that killed him... Because he was so full of shit.

Yes, "good riddance" that his wife is now a widow and his children lost their father, because we may have disagreed with his politics.



I understand previous posters who said that they will not miss him. Fine. Neither will I. But to take any sort of pleasure in his passing is, to say the least, distasteful.

Nonsense. He was a noxious blowhard who delighted in demonizing those he disagreed with and never stopped short of using falsehoods to attack his political enemies. No one is cheering that a woman is widowed and children fatherless, but that happens a hundred thousand times a day and no one notices. Brietbart made a conscious choice to become a public figure, his tactics, style, and contribution to the public discourse were all to its detriment. It is good he is gone.

Yeah, I guess it's easier to debate a ghost.

Or just not have to listen to it spew lies and hate.

Wow, way to pull that out of your ass, buddy. It's easiest to debate someone who actually engages in debate, which neither you nor Brietbart seem honestly capable of doing.

Shifting goalposts, as you do, is not honest debate. Lying in furtherance of an argument you can't back up with facts, as Brietbart did, is not honest debate.

He was a special pile of excrement, a big ass motherfucker, a villain and a prick.


Those are all things that Breitbart said when Ted Kennedy died.

Fuck him. That nutbag little facist wanted me dead. His family can suffer along without him the same way he advocated the suffering of the uninsured. There's a point--a point that Breitbart passed a long, long time ago--when it stops being merely political and becomes personal. Breitbart was a dangerous, hateful lunatic who fantasized about killing his fellow Americans in armed revolution. Unlike him, I didn't and don't support shutting him and his ilk up with violence. But goddamn if I'm not going to gloat over his obituary.

Also, "Good riddance that his wife is a widow and his children lost their father" isn't a sentence, and doesn't make any sense.

I admire your ability to assess my debate engagement skills and desire to debate based on this one interaction.

Let's just say I didn't come here for debate, and was put off by your response, hence the snub in my last post. That being said, I do concede that it was neither indicative of good debate form, nor a fair or mature response to your post. You're certainly entitled to your opinion without me trying to stir the pot any further. I do disagree with the gist of your response however, and I'll leave it at that.

I still stand by my initial post. And here's a quote from one of the blogs I read that I thought summed it nicely: