Every year on March 1, we remember the life and death of Andrew Breitbart.

He was larger than life.

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Andrew Breitbart died 6 years ago today. We have remembered the anniversary of his death each year since then.

You can read our March 1, 2012, report, Andrew Breitbart dead:

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BuzzFeed and journalist Jason Leopold are suing the FBI claiming that their FOIA requests for “all records” related to Andrew Breitbart was not sufficiently met.

The Hill reports:

BuzzFeed News and journalist Jason Leopold are suing the FBI, claiming that the agency failed to adequately respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...

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:

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By now you know about the bombshell that the FBI has reopened its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

But wait, there’s a connection to Anthony Weiner. The New York Times reports that new emails were discovered curing the FBI’s investigation of Weiner’s sexting scandal (the latest one, not the original). Assuming the...

The NY Times has a story on how Breitbart News has become a center of political attention this year, and how its traffic and influence is at an all time high.

That was the focus of the article, but there was one paragraph that jumped out at me (emphasis added):

Before Mr. Breitbart...

Andrew Breitbart died four years ago today:

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.

I really can’t add a lot to what I wrote the day of his...

Shirley Sherrod sued Andrew Breitbart, Larry O’Connor and others over a video of Sherrod giving a speech before an NAACP group, in which she recounted how in the distant past when she worked for a state agency, she had discriminated against a white farmer. Breitbart’s widow was substituted as a defendant...

When it comes to the 2016 Republican nomination, one man is currently sucking all the media oxygen out of the room.

Erick Erickson of RedState blames Donald Trump’s rise on a failure of leadership in the Republican Party. Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon has a similar take.

When it comes to...

The failure of the Occupy movement was epic in its crash-and-burn in the wake of “occupiers” pooping on cop cars, establishing rape safety tents, displaying food privilege, and being infested with

On March 1, 2012, Andrew Breitbart died. My post upon hearing the news tried to capture what many of us were feeling, including reactions from friends and foes, Andrew Breitbart dead. We’ve tried our best to remember his death each anniversary:

• One year ago today, Andrew Breitbart died

Yesterday was Andrew Breitbart’s birthday.

It’s amazing to me to see how that man’s legacy has lived on, even as the conservative movement has changed so much over the past few years....

We have written many times about the Shirley Sherrod case against Andrew Breitbart (now his wife is substituted as defendant) and Larry O’Connor over an “edited” (abbreviated)  video which Sherrod alleges unfairly depicted her as racist leading to her firing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Sherrod’s claim, repeated

We have written many times about the Shirley Sherrod case against Andrew Breitbart (now his wife is substituted as defendant) and Larry O’Connor over an “edited” video which Sherrod alleges unfairly depicted her as racist leading to her firing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Sherrod’s claim, repeated mindlessly by the media, is...

On this second anniversary of Andrew Breitbart’s death, Legal Insurrection and others are remembering Andrew.

Some of Andrew’s enemies in life, however, continue their efforts in his death. I seriously thought about not calling attention to such people, but that would be a cop out.

At...

Two years ago today, Andrew Breitbart died.

The entire conservative blogosphere was in shock, and even some opponents of Andrew, such as Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, paid their respects.

There’s not much I can add, two years later, to my post, A personal note on the death of Andrew Breitbart:

I only spoke...

We have examined several times the false claim that the original edited videotape released by Andrew Breitbart of Shirley Sherrod’s  speech to a local NAACP group was misleading in that it allegedly failed to reveal that Sherrod overcame her negative feelings towards a white farmer when she was a state agriculture official.

In...