Andrew Breitbart died 5 years ago today

Andrew Breitbart died 5 years ago today

It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 years since Andrew Breitbart’s death.

I remember that day, March 1, 2012, Andrew Breitbart dead:

Very sad news to report, just breaking.  Andrew Breitbart is dead.

Via Big Journalism:

Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.

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.

… There are few people who are irreplaceable, but Andrew may have been one of those few.

I wrote A personal note on the death of Andrew Breitbart that day:

I only spoke once with Andrew Breitbart. He reached out to me, and we spoke by phone.  The topic is not important, but I was shocked that he even knew who I was; but as I’ve come to learn, Andrew seemed to know who everyone was in the conservative blogosphere.  He was just that way.

Since my wife called this morning to let me know of Andrew’s death, it has been hard to focus on anything else.  In her words, we don’t have that many bright media lights, and to lose him hurts.

Andrew lived in a world without restraints.   He could be who he wanted to be, a luxury few bloggers have, particularly those who blog under their own name and work for others.

I live in a world of restraints, and I envied Andrew’s freedom more than you can know.

Andrew is irreplaceable, but we would serve his memory well to aspire to more freedom of thought and more freedom of action.

I’ve often wondered where to go with this blog.  I now know.

So much has changed, but not the core fight.

I’ve tried to do my small part in honoring his legacy by fighting the relentless battle to set the record straight that he did not misleadingly edit the video of Shirley Sherrod:

• The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not “False”
• Dissecting Shirley Sherrod’s Complaint Against Andrew Breitbart
• Saturday Night Card Game (Repeat after me: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading”)
• The myth of Andrew Breitbart’s “deceptively edited” Shirley Sherrod tape lives on at Slate.com
• NY Times perpetuates myth of Andrew Breitbart’s misleading Shirley Sherrod video
• Shirley Sherrod case settled, now put to bed myth that Breitbart’s tape was misleading

This is still my favorite interview of him, by Prof. Glenn Reynolds and the Instawife:

When I think of Andrew, my mind also runs to Mandy.

I miss them both.

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