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Jewish Blogger Andrew Breitbart Died at Age 43

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Andrew Breitbart, a Los Angeles born Jew who became one of the faces of new media in America, died early Thursday morning according to a report on his website, Biggovernment.com.

“We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. 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,” read a statement on the site.

Breitbart started Biggovernment.com because he believed the major media outlets in America were too liberal.

“If these traditional media outlets can’t be shamed into telling the truth, diverted for doing the wrong story, for simply running defense for one party, and mocked away from creating journalistic rules that only hold those on the right accountable, then it puts us in a position to do more than we’ve done in the past with talk radio and web aggregation,” he told Mediaite in late 2009.

Breitbart was the first to publish lewd pictures of former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, leading to Weiner’s resignation. Just weeks ago, while in attendance at CPAC in Washington, he met with the leaders of Young Jewish Republicans, expressing his support for their goals.

He was 43 years old.

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17 Comments

  • Shocking!

    It smells very fishy to me. The world’s most powerful anti communist journalist (and Drudge’s media partner) despised by the world’s ultra powerful communists such as Soros, Acorn etc. is on the phone with friends, two hours later he is dead on the sidewalk from ‘natural causes’. Sounds suspicious to say the very least. He may have indeed died of natural causes, but there is at least an equal chance of foul play, in my estimation.

  • MisterMagoo

    Stam L’hoir, Breitbart is of Irish descent, his adopted father was Jewish, and his adoptive mother was a giyores shelo k’halacha.

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Baroch Dayim Ha’emes

    He was a great fighter, a worrier and a great inspiration, he will be missed!

  • Guy

    He isn’t jewish, he was adopted to a family where mother was a convert not sure if according to halacha

  • to all......just kidding

    NOT. probably drugs just like the rest of these types of ppl!

  • Shocking!

    I just found perhaps the smoking gun of why the commie left wanted him dead. Breitbart recently announced that he has his hand on some videos of Obama from his college days and was on a crusade to find more of them and release them in time for the election that Obama should be educated this time around about the true Obama, as opposed to the media’s reinvention of him:

    http://www.youtube.com/watc…

  • Milhouse

    Boruch Dayan Ho’emes. He was a beacon of blunt honesty in a dirty world of political journalism. He was one person prepared to tell the truth and fight for it. However, I’ve never heard that he was mishelonu.

  • DeClasse- Intellectual

    For any one to pass away at such a young age is a tradgey, The world has lost two figures (Hitchens and Brightbart} who challenged the established poltical thought spectrum and demanded that we look at ourselves and understand our role in this world. Fortunately we have the Torah and the wisdom of the Sages as a quide, but have we really used this wisdom for the better? Given what has occurred in 770 and elsewhere, we have a long way to travel. And, this was ther3e message to us and the challenge of the gauntlett that they threw down.

  • Shocking!

    To #9:

    You helped prove my theory. My theory is that the left had an interest in silencing the most feared [by the left] investigated journalist in the country, hence I speculated that it seemed peculiar that he died of a ‘heart attack’ in the same manner that all the major dissidents in Russia mysteriously all die of the same ailments at young ages. Breitbart was in his young 40s and a few drops in his wine while he was in the bar that night could have done the trick. I am not a very feared person, I’m not even on any leftist radars yet you are trying to silence me by demeaning me through questioning my sanity. Is it such a stretch that the far left’s [arguably] most feared man suddenly dies hours before he was to release the Obama college tapes that could have potentially derailed Obama’s reelection chances? It can’t be that the left wanted to silence him? I guess Yushchenko’s face turning more wrinkled than an Esrog was probably also a natural occurrence with no sinister hands involved.

    By the way, why do you say in davening three times a day, “v’chol hachoshvim alai rah, meheirah hofeir atsosum vkalkel machshivoysum” (“and all those who conspire against me, hasten to annul their counsel and derail their plans”) if there is really no such thing as conspiracies? Oh right, only citizens can be evil but government has full immunity from that and only consists of planet earth’s greatest tzadikim.

  • N/A

    He was of Irish American decent. He was adopted by a Jewish father and gentile mother (who converted). So, even though he may have practiced Judaism, he was not really Jewish.

  • Shocking!

    I meant to write: “the most feared [by the left] investigatIVE journalist”