Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies in LA
Michael R. Blood, AP:
Andrew Breitbart used the Internet relentlessly to ignite political scandal and expose what he saw as media bias, even if he sometimes had to edit the facts to do it.
The fiery online publisher and blogger … collapsed and died Thursday at 43…
Breitbart died after collapsing shortly after midnight during a walk near his home. He was rushed to the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Breitbart suffered heart problems a year earlier, but his father-in-law, actor Orson Bean, said he could not pinpoint what happened. Larry Dietz, watch commander at the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, said an autopsy was likely.
Blood’s piece does a good job of recapping some of Breitbart’s more prominent moments, including the Anthony Weiner scandal (about which he was correct) and the Shirley Sherrod “scandal” (about which he was manipulatively incorrect).