According the the Los Angeles Chief Medical Examiner Lakshmanan Sathyavaglswaran, 43 year-old Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure and “hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with focal coronary atheroscerosis”, which is thickening of the heart muscle and hardening of the arteries for those who don’t speak Sathyavaglswaran-ish.So, if you had “killed by space toxin developed at Area 51 and delivered by Kenyan blow-dart” in your office pool, you might want to put off that road trip to Vegas because “I’m on a hot streak”.
Under normal circumstances this would put the whole Breitbart saga to bed but these are not normal times and since the LA Coroner has too goshdarned many ” a’s ” in his name and is therefore not to be trusted, let’s nut-pick through theories developed by the nuts at Breitbart.com, because nothing is ever as simple as a person dying from the single largest killer of men and women in the United States.
I mean, really, what are the odds?
Take it away, nuts:
putridleft
i dont think he died naturally. Dont cross the obama gang or you might end up like donald young and bill gwatney~~~
WhiteGuy2
Heart attack gun? It is real, it does exist and congress knows about it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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IambicPentaMaster
Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran?Unwritten rule that any MD with a name which exceeds nine syllables may only examine expired patients.
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HuntingMoose
>Call me sceptical but i will not be surprised if one day it is discovered that something else happened.It doesn’t matter. His death is the start of many breibarts following his example.
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justin1776
ummm.. i am in the health care field. one does NOT die acutely, out of the blue, of heart failure! i mean did he show signs and symptoms prior to this event? fluid overload, shortness of breath, repeat hospital admits?? i hope the brietbart people investigate this…this doesnt smell right.~~~
sigint
This report proves nothing. Govt. agencies have methods that look exactly like this w/o a trace. Also, other than the Harvard tape, where is the rest of the information that will foil the election for Barry? Surely all the hype could not have been just about the Harvard connections? Has the Breitbart crew been co-opted under the very real threat of death?~~~
woohooman
The heart attack drug is undetectable.~~~
Stella Nova
Exactly. There could be a cover up for national security reasons, or Obama’s re-election security. I am not a conspiracy type person, but a heart attack at that young age, in 2012 ?
My favorite:
Brian
I find it suspicious that all the famous people dying lately do so mostly in Commiefornia: Dick Clark, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Steve Bridges the comic who made fun of Obama, Andrew Breitbart and even Mike Wallace. And a reminder the Coroner is elected. Wonder what Party holds the office? Read about communists – eliminating icons of society is something they do…they are the new saviors, they want people to forget the past.
Calmer heads address the issue and are promptly dealt with
DamascusGate, Defeat Obama 2012
The conspiracy theory posts really need to stop. As does the mind-set behind them.Andrew was not murdered. He had a bad heart. A medical condition that took his life early.
It’s sad. And he will be forever missed and loved by so many of us.
There is absolutely no evidence to support possible murder in the death of Andrew, and even the coroner’s office has now said as much. True, Coroner’s can be wrong, but they aren’t in this case. They were thorough, and even waited until toxicology was back before beginning to publicly announce their findings.
People go through many stages in the grieving process. Denial, bargaining, anger. Part of bargaining can even be attempts at rationalization. Attempts to make sense of something that appears to be so senseless.
Part of that bargaining (or rationalization) can even be attempts to place blame where none is found, nor where none can be applied. This tends to lead to conspiracy theories when the deceased person is someone as well-known and loved as Andrew was.
Evidence, fact, and logic never support the grieving person’s irrelevant thoughts. But, the grieving person can find weight in their emotional appeal en masse.
Andrew is gone. It’s hard to accept, but accept it we must.
His work, however, lives on. And we can all honor Andrew by continuing his work. That will prove to be more fruitful to the evidence of his life and legacy than anything else.
~~~
iSpike
Says a Communist Rat.
Also, too, Andrew Breitbart died for our sins:
nadacommie
Andrew was fearless and I guess God needed him more. Wish it wasn’t so though cuz we need him and a whole slew of others just like him. RIP Andrew, you’ll ALWAYS be remembered.
AppalachianHeathen
Ask yourself, what would God have needed him for? If God created the heavens and the earth, God doesn’t need us for anything. Your statement makes no sense. If God exists then God used him. In the short time that I became acquainted with Andrew Breitbart, he left us a great gift, the citizen journalist movement and the citizen vetting process. RIP Andrew Breitbart!James Jonas
Maybe there is a parallel in the Bible. Jesus’s death for us purchased life. In no small way Mr. Breitbart has inspired many. I had not even heard of him until after his death. Now I understand the battle we are in.
Andrew Breitbart is the new Jesus. Pass it on…





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I hope you were wearing a hazmat suit when you waded into those waters . . . the depth and breadth of the delusion on display is frightening, also too.
TBogg, I suggest you put that toast up on eBay because every one of those fools would bid on it.
Maybe Breitbart was killed by Anthony Weiner’s vengeful penis.
How soon before AB’s minions start claiming that he visited them and imparted divine revelations?
His death is the start of many breibarts following his example.
I sincerely hope so. Not only will it improve our political discourse, it will provide and economic boon to the funeral industry.
I just LOOOVE this comment! To be “in the health care field” can mean he denies care because he works for an insurance company, or he may have the more exalted job of washing the hospital’s floor.
Having said that, and having read the rest of the comments, I’m now going to go and take a shower with a wire brush and drink some Clorox.
First thought: justin1776 has learned a lot while mopping floors and cleaning toilets in a hospital.
Second thought: hell, having spent an hour a week at the podiatrist’s for the past six months, I’m in the health care field, too…
Beat me by 30 seconds…
Cleaning the men’s room floor in Purgatory?
And here I thought that God squashing Breitbart like a bug was evidence that God actually was awake for a change. Silly me. As for Brian, he seems a little paranoid about “commies,” doesn’t he? That’s like being convinced that the dastardly minions of George III are plotting against us. C’mon Brian, catch up!
Breitbart’s mother-in-law, Alison Mills Bean, called Breitbart “one of the most genuine people I’ve met in my life. … He always spoke the truth of his heart, and no matter what people agreed or disagreed with him, he never wavered.
I hope, if and when family members who were major assholes die, I can refer to them in such kindly terms. Good for you, Alison.
nadacommie writes: Andrew was fearless and I guess God needed him more.
Lucky God.
Drat. I had self asphyxiation by sphincter for $20.
I’m going with God did a cosmic recall on Breitbart’s number. Still, I find it hard to believe there wasn’t a passing reference to 20 years worth of cocaine abuse.
Wait, if God needed Andrew he couldn’t just make another one? Or ten, or a million?
ULP. Sorry, the image just
scuse me
Agreed. Breitbart was the Ford Pinto of our time.
A lame try for credibility but the rest of his comment shows he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. A 40-something, overweight, heavy drinking, rageaholic can and often does die suddenly of heart failure. I’ve known a couple. One on a golf course, another in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn.
Not to mention that seemingly very healthy, correct-weight, eat correctly, work out regularly, non-drug using types of folks die very quickly from heart attacks *all the time,* including a friend of my roommate just the other day… at the age of 42.
Oh wait, I live in Commiefornication!! Ergo, said person must’ve been “shot” with the invisible heart-attack-death blow gun of the KenyanNaziShochulistDeviantbutAllPowerfulInvidiousONE!!11!!!! even though this person happens to be a registered Democrat & voted for Obama.
In short: I blame Obama.
Can I rent your heart attack gun?
The laugh out loud irony in all this:
‘Sathya-vag-ishwaran’, literally means, in its original sanskrit:
” God (ishwara) whose word (Vak) is always the Absolute Truth (satya)”
No, I am not making it up and yes, I do know Sanskrit.
Unless it directly shows up on the toxicology report, I don’t think the Coroner can speculate about that. Could lead to law suits.
Not to say that Breitbart’s cocaine abuse didn’t play a role; most likely it did, along with a particularly unhealthy life style on all levels.
But, but, but of course “God” has a special “role” for Breitbart and has now consigned him to the 9th circle of hell, where he belongs. Oooops, the devil must’ve made me say that…
Oh Jesus Christ on a crutch. Now all the NRA types are going to say the framers of the Constitution meant to include heart attack guns in a well regulated militia.
Hardening of the arteries. Hmm, back in the 50s when my parent’s elderly relatives would get weird as they got older it was explained to me that the reason they seemed so crazy was that they had hardening of the arteries.
yeah yeah but you’re talking about the wrong “God.” Sanskrit??? EEEK: cooties!
PS I know some Sanskrit, too, and confirm that you’re correct. Not that it would matter one whit to Breitbart’s slavering minions with their fevered dreams of complete victimization to the Kenyan Overlord.
Forgive me. I’ve been putting together a big ol’ iron bed and I’m pretty tired. First – teh wine. Then, teh Coroner’s Report!
Guns don’t kill people: Heart-attack guns do!
Bacteria don’t cause Montezuma’s Revenge: Exploding-diarrhea guns do!
I always liked Orson Bean. It’s good to know that both the Beans are exceedingly kind.
Overweight rageaholic dies of a heart attack in early 40s … not particularly remarkable. You know what would be really cool? A health system where people could be checked for health conditions and given advice by doctors on what kind of things they can do to improve their overall health.
The real heart attack gun is the double gutbuster burger at the fast food place. And I’m pretty sure Andrew got shot with it pretty often.
I want to see the fonts on that report.
They’ll have to pry my Obama Heart Attack Gun from my cold, dead fingers.
Q: What do Jonah Goldberg and Andrew Breitbart have in common?
A: Nothing. Yet.
Heh. Mediate took down their comment thread. I think it was because I posted a series of well-reasoned, profanity-free (and you know how hard that is for me) comments about why no one should think they have to pretend that Breitbart was a good guy now that he’s dead. Then went on to enumerate the things that showed he wasn’t a good guy, and responded to the right wing trolls who launched personal attacks rather than rebutting the facts (ACORN tape – heavily edited, investigation found no laws broken; Shirley Sherrod – heavily edited, lawsuit ongoing; attempt to rebut black congressmen’s claims of being spat upon and having racial epithets yelled at them by teapartiers with a tape made the day following the alleged incident) by noting that they weren’t even attempting to dispute the known facts; that Breitbart seemed to only be interested in showing that black people were cheats and crooks, and because he couldn’t find evidence of that he manufactured it.
Yeah, I know, I should know better than to comment at a place like Mediate. At least it wasn’t the Huffington Post. I won’t even go there; it shaves points off your IQ every time the page loads.
There probably isn’t much mystery here. Cardiomyopathy is often caused by excessive alcohol abuse. I have a couple of friends in recovery that still deal with such heart problems from their drinking days.
His level of stoopid is pretty high. I know of people who were killed by their first heart attack – and they didn’t have warning signs that anyone was aware of.
Get ‘em together in a group like that and they become vicious little beasts.
Piranha-esque even.
Too Soon! Too Sooon!!
Who is Andrew Breitbart?
A: Nothing. Yet.
I love this!
~ Harry R. Sohl
Actually, the key words in the M.E.’s report are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HOCM). This is a specific pathology (usually congenital) in which the fibres of the heart muscle are abnormally arranged, giving rise to a propensity to have spontaneous ventricular fibrillation (arrhythmic arrest) rather than infarction (‘heart attack”). Sudden, lethal arrhythmia is the commonest cause of death from those who have HOCM, but it’s usually missed until the PM is done, and undiagnosed HOCM is the commonest single cause of sudden unexpected cardiac death in young people. Stimulants, like cocaine, can precipitate VT arrest but would usually show up on a PM tox screen. In other words, Breitbart had it coming, but I’d still like to know what he was doing on the street at 23:00 .
You can’t make these people up.
Geez, way too many brain cells called into play in your post. Had to shift gears after reading the BreitSparks up above and my head almost asploded.
“but I’d still like to know what he was doing on the street at 23:00 .”
My guess would be trolling for hookers.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Hey, what did the Pinto do to you?
If you said that horrible Chevy Vega, I might have agreed, since most of their engines overheated and warped. ;)
(I loved my Pinto).
I am finding it very suspicious that all these famous people are dying. Especially Mike Wallace. Don’t famous people live forever? If not, what is there left to live for if our celebrities also face mortality.
Plus there could be heart attack drugs, and nano-drones that target inspirational leaders such as Breitbart. All tee vee detectives ask the same thing. Who profits the most from the deceased being deceased? The answer in the case of Breitbart: President Obama!
My Chucky autographed bible is now on the auction block.
Or he could be flat-out lying, which is also possible. A lot of these mokes are so messed up they will say things they know are lies yet believe them anyway.
I really loved that one.
Where can I get me one of them?
Yes. I hope you did not waste too much time….clorox would be more of a treat….Look for ya’ tomorrow.
I hope Breitbart died for my sins, at least the sonofabitch will finally have done something worthwhile. It’s a lengthy list.
Dude needed to make it to the gym.
And not do mountains of coke. That would have helped too.
I a pharmacist, I would gladly filled a written Rx, providing if it was for a rag stuck up His rectum it was taken him sooner to his sweet Jesus. So he what happen if you fell to shake out a use come out a used condom.
¿Que?
Did no one point out to the conspiracy theorists that Steve Bridges was mostly, if not solely, known for his George W. Bush impersonation?
Just shut up, that’s why!
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Chris, you think that is “kind”? Well, I guess it is the kindest way someone could express the thought, “He was a pigheaded jerk who never admitted he was wrong about anything, no matter what the evidence was.”
James Jonas
“Maybe there is a parallel in the Bible. Jesus’s death for us purchased life. In no small way Mr. Breitbart has inspired many. I had not even heard of him until after his death. Now I understand the battle we are in.”
Wow. Talk about lowered standards.
Heart attack drug? They must have developed that at the same place they made the “No Brains” they injected into the Oklahoma bombers.
Also, the toasted ‘bart? Funniest fucking thing ever. Now let’s not ever have to look at his bloated mug again.
Which, by the by, he’s still fucking dead.
Either the telekinetic powers I’ve been praying for for fifty years finally kicked in or Breitbart simply died of embarrassment.
No at this time. I lent it to the Kenyan usurper in the WH.
For the record, I was not present in either case. Miles away.
Did Mike Wallace die in California? Why do I remember Connecticut?
Yes, New Canaan, Connecticut.
That’s pretty far from California.
im a miserable type-er and im not vain enough to run all comments through spell check..but damn…
This heart attack gun … kills fascists.
Apologies to Woody Guthrie.
How the hell does Shakira move like that?
Not to burst your bubble but you might like old Orson a little less if you looked up some of the screeds he’s posted at BigHollywood. ;-)
Why on earth would I do that?
I find it suspicious that all the famous people dying lately do so mostly in Commiefornia: Dick Clark, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Steve Bridges the comic who made fun of Obama, Andrew Breitbart and even Mike Wallace.
Never mind that Dick Clark lived in Los Angeles, there’s something about an 82 year old man dying after being hospitalized with a chronic illness that strikes me as suspicious.
I believe that those are the kind of moves you learn in belly-dancing.
I believe that glycerine is involved somehow.
The Breitbart Toast is fuckin’ awesome! Does the flip side say ‘Breitbart Lives!’ It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
Yeah, cocaine a helluva drug! Booze, too. Just about all my friends in recovery have health problems from sins past. My liver & lungs are about shot, but the rate of deterioration has slowed quite a bit- 30+ years clean can do that for you. Looks like Andy just couldn’t put down the devil’s dick or the nectar of Satan quick enough. I opt for scoring some good rock around midnite explains his wander about late in the PM. I had ‘cocaine overdose’ for $ 100, it was a crowded field, and the odds weren’t so nice, like 5 to 7 or some such dreck. Plain ol’ heart attack went at 3 to 1. Should always bet with my head, not my heart! (yowch!)
Pete Seegar, actually. Friend of Woody, I’m certain. But a different guy.
But if I had a banjo, it would probably have that written on there.
I didn’t lay odds on it one way or the other, because as I kept reminding myself, it didn’t really matter what killed him – the important thing was that he’s dead.
putridleft @ breitbrat.com:
I for one will have no problem if it becomes a common belief among Republicans and the mainstream press that Democrats are tough sumbitches who will cut a motherfucker if you cross them.
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Well, AB didn’t die of shame, but everyone around him should.
Nonsense.
Watch out, wingnuts, the Obama Heart Attack Gun isn’t the only weapon in the liberal arsenal.
I can reveal that our reality-based weapons research facility has been working on a new Pinocchio Death Bomb Pill.
Our agents will simply slip it in your coffee: you can’t taste it, but it stays in your system until you try to pull the next fact out of your ass and then—- BOOM! Your ass explodes!
“Obama is a Kenyan!”— BOOM!
“Tax cuts for the rich help everybody!”— BOOM!
“Global warming is a myth!”— BOOM!
Thanks to this post I get to see my lunch a second time.
No, Pete Seeger’s banjo had “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It to Surrender.” Woody’s guitar had “This machine kills fascists.”
When all is said and done, the Big Sad is wingnuts believing Breitbart was assassination-worthy.
President Obama: deadly incompetent.
Remember breitbrat was killed for his upcoming blow the doors off the hinges story that would bring down the tyrannical dictator in DC.
Yes, there are far too many “coincedental” things happening. The rw fevered brain requires an outlet. Why oh why couldnt the kenyan usurper have sent breitbrat to the reeducation camps?
My mistake. Thanks for the correction.
Hmm… I believe (sans evidence) that Lakshmanan Sathyavaglswaran is a common Islamo-Kenyan name. Coincidence? I think not!
OMG! Do you remember when that one fat, bloated, rich, conservative white hack died of a heart attack?
No, not Russert.
No, not Falwell.
That other one.
It was shocking. Why, he was just the picture of good health!
~ Harry R. Sohl