What Really Killed Andrew Breitbart? The Likely Cause of Death...

[Brewman_Jax]

What Really Killed Andrew Breitbart? The Likely Cause of Death The Mainstream Media Ignored

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/154463/wha...a_ignored/

From the article:

Quote:The sudden death of a youngish media celebrity in the early hours of the morning can usually be counted on to provoke a torrent of salacious speculation from LA's ravenous media gossip mill. The passing of Andrew Breitbart last Thursday was no exception.

Breitbart, who died at 43, was a conservative icon—a manic, maddening architect of some of the most explosive political scandals in recent years. He played an outsized role in some of the world's most influential news sites, working with Matt Drudge as an editor at the Drudge Report before helping Arianna Huffington launch the Huffington Post. More recently he started his own successful network of conservative news websites, including Breitbart.com, BigGovernment.com and BigHollywood.com, which draw millions of visitors every month and earned him a hefty salary and a high profile. But he achieved a new level of notoriety in the past two years, after he helped orchestrate a series of crudely-edited video stings that led to the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, a U.S. Dept. of Agriculture executive, and the collapse of the social-advocacy association ACORN. These and other triumphs—including the Twitter-pic takedown of New York congressman Anthony Wiener—turned Breitbart into a right-wing hero, a sought-after speaker on the right-wing lecture circuit, and a regular opinionator on Fox News.

By Hollywood standards, Breitbart's death was relatively undramatic—no bathtub overdose here. Walking back to his Westwood home shortly after midnight, after a glass or two of wine at a local bar, he suddenly collapsed on the sidewalk, a few feet away from his house. A passerby who saw him fall called 911, and paramedics transported him to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:19 am.

The first report of the blogger's demise was posted on his own website, BigGovernment.com, just hours later. Saluting him as a “happy warrior,” the site took pains to note that he had died of “natural causes.” While many journalists wondered privately what natural causes could claim a seemingly healthy 43-year-old man, thousands of mainstream outlets nonetheless parroted the phrase. But LA County Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey told The Fix that “natural causes” is merely “a non-forensic evaluation of a person's death,” meaning that "[the body has] nothing externally visible that would lead them to believe that the death was caused by blunt-force trauma, a stab wound, or so on." As such, Harvey says, it is standard operating procedure for the coroner to perform a full toxicology report to determine whether "drugs, alcohol, poisons or other foreign substances" played a role in Breitbart’s death.


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The rabid RW is projecting, as usual, when it screams of LW or presidential conspiracies to kill Breitbart. The President likely has bad feelings for being punked and getting a face full of egg by him and his edited video that led to the brouhaha of firing former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod and failed attempt to re-hire her. Pres. Obama's avoidance of racial issues aside, that hardly rises to the level of "conspiracy".

Breitbart was hardly a model of propriety, moderation, or restraint. His history with alcohol and drugs was not late-breaking news. The MSM is hardly a model of objectivity, moderation, or fairness, being owned by Big Corp and leaning to the political right in defense of "liberal bias" claims by the rabid RW. The fact that it's giving conspiracy theories actual credence shows the depths that the MSM has sunk. The fact that Breitbart was not a fan of the MSM, yet has garnered so much media coverage and influence also shows the depths that the MSM has sunk.

The worse thing would be for Breitbart, an over-rated, shameless, unethical, lying, political hack with influence far beyond what he deserves, to be considered some sort of "martyr" for doing nothing more than dying before his time.

That is a real shame.

[NJMaverick]

a 43 YO man that hasn't taken care of himself will find that the heart may give out if you indulge like your 20 something

[Treestar]

It takes a while for the report to come out, apparently. Whitney Houston's death isn't settled yet, either. Gives a meantime for nuts to start wondering.

[Brewman_Jax]

(03-09-2012 08:57 AM)Treestar Wrote:  It takes a while for the report to come out, apparently. Whitney Houston's death isn't settled yet, either. Gives a meantime for nuts to start wondering.

True, and when the report is released, I'm sure it won't say "death by Grand Liberal Conspiracy".

[janedrake]

I wouldn't have pegged Breitbart as being a wine drinker. Kool-aid, yes. Wine... that's a surprise.

[Born_A_Truman]

Not surprised he liked wine ...

Weird...picture won't post.

[NJMaverick]

(03-09-2012 10:44 AM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  Not surprised he liked wine ...

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[Born_A_Truman]

(03-09-2012 10:49 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:  [quote='Born_A_Truman' pid='85536' dateline='1331311477']
Not surprised he liked wine ...



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Trying again.

[jaxx]

Was there a funeral? I figured the wingers would all be out with their sorrowful faces telling Breitbart good bye.