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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. READ MORE
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