Andrew Breitbart – 12 Years After His Death, There’s Still No Reason To Apologize
We need to move forward in this new landscape, yet retain the spirit of perhaps Andrew’s most famous line was from his last tweet the day of his death: Apologize for WHAT?
Andrew Breitbart died 12 years ago today. I noted it at the time:
Very sad news to report, just breaking. Andrew Breitbart is dead….
There are few people who are irreplaceable, but Andrew may have been one of those few.
We have remembered him on each anniversary of his death since then, including these posts:
- A personal note on the death of Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012)
- “Wake up, Conservatives: Left is involved in 100% organized class & race warfare & you think you can sit this one out & not fight back?!?!” (March 1, 2019)
- Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes Andrew Breitbart (March 1, 2012): “He was far more effective than he probably ever dreamed” (March 1, 2021)
Last year, Mary wrote about her former boss, ‘Apologize for WHAT?’ We Lost Andrew Breitbart 11 Years Ago:
I don’t know how to write this. Whatever comes to mind I will put it down.
Andrew Breitbart is irreplaceable. I’m honored I worked for him. I’m honored he was a friend, even for a short time.
I’ve made it a point to try to honor his memory by regularly debunking the false and misleading attacks on him regarding the Shirley Sherrod video:
- 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”)(regarding AP and Politico article)
- Repeat after me again and again: “The Shirley Sherrod tape was not misleading” (regarding WaPo article)
- 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
- Myth of Andrew Breitbart’s “deceptively edited” Shirley Sherrod tape resurfaces with Vilsack nomination
Andrew’s friend Larry O’Connor posted this on X today, naming names of some of the people involved with Andrew back in the day:
12 years ago today, on Feb 29, 2012, my friends and colleagues showed up for work at @BreitbartNews in West LA. We had no idea it would be the last day any of us would see our friend, Andrew, alive.
@benshapiro was there. (I think he and I argued about which was a better musical, Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I… I was Team Fiddler.)
@joelpollak was there, writing something smart and insightful.
@AlexMarlow was there, laughing and working harder than all of us.
@meredithdake was there, helping all of us with the brand new back-end we were all learning as the “Big Sites” were being converted to the brand new, @BreitbartNews.
I think @NolteNC was there, visiting from NC and keeping us all focused on the task at hand: Fighting the left.
And, of course, @AndrewBreitbart was there, inspiring us, challenging us, and making us all laugh.
Little did we know, it was the last day Andrew would be there.
I literally think about him every day, but today in particular. Leap day. The last day he was physically with us.
We owe him so much.
Keep laughing, Happy Warrior.
12 years ago today, on Feb 29, 2012, my friends and colleagues showed up for work at @BreitbartNews in West LA. We had no idea it would be the last day any of us would see our friend, Andrew, alive.@benshapiro was there. (I think he and I argued about which was a better… pic.twitter.com/0Obi7NYn6c
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) February 29, 2024
Not only is it easy to miss Andrew today, it’s easy to miss what the conservative blogosphere used to be. The comaraderie. The willingess to link to others – some people still do that, but conservative media has mostly gone corporate and only want to drive traffic to their own sites. Twitter pretty much destroyed the reason to be for small blogs. The sense of shared mission is gone.
You can’t go back in time. That’s one of the lessons of today. We need to move forward in this new landscape, yet retain the spirit of perhaps Andrew’s most famous line was from his last tweet the day of his death: Apologize for WHAT?
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He red pilled me
We were lucky to have him but so unfortunate to lose him
He simply is irreplaceable
My personal favorite; Andrew Breitbart’s Call To Arms: “F**K YOU. WAR.”
Mine too. I post that a lot on some comment boards!!
Godspeed, AB.
Breitbart commandeering the Anthony Weiner press conference was legendary. I’ll never forget it.
AB in Madison was an eye opener for me
F-K You- War
Let’s roll
Within about two weeks of his passing, his website went from great to virtually unreadable and difficult to navigate. Very sad.
Funny, that’s a great description of post-Jobs Apple.
Apple was a company of constantly-changing cables, incompatible file formats, incompatible disc formatting, and other delights during the Jobs era. Mixing and to be different from every other operating system in the world was another “feature” as well. If anything, the file format issue has improved over the years, but still odd-ball unless you are in the Apple environment. I just recently ditched all of my Apple gear but for my iPad and got back into the real world.
Andrew’s death was a big loss for the conservative movement. We could use his talents, today. Andrew was the first prominent conservative to fully grasp that control of media platforms is key to conservatives advancing their agenda and message. He understood that you need to fight fire with fire. “Politics runs downstream from culture” is one of the most true and savvy political aphorisms ever uttered. Andrew is sorely missed, today.