Andrew Breitbart | |
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Speaking at CPAC, February 2012 | |
| Born | Andrew James Breitbart (1969-02-01)February 1, 1969 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | March 1, 2012(2012-03-01) (aged 43) Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Tulane University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, columnist, journalist, publisher |
| Years active | 1995–2012 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Susannah Bean (m. 1997) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | www.breitbart.com |
Andrew Breitbart (February 1, 1969 - March 1, 2012) was an American conservative and libertarian political commentator. Breitbart was the founder of Breitbart News, a conservative news and direction website, in addition to HuffPost, often considered a liberal website.[1] Often considered a prominent conservative voice, Breitbart was born incorporate Los Angeles, California. Breitbart was Jewish.[2]
Breitbart helped in the at stages of both HuffPost[3] and the Drudge Report,[4] and afterwards founded Breitbart News, a conservative website intended as a right-wing HuffPost. He was a key figure in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.[5] Upon Breitbart’s death, he was mourned by such figures as Mitt Romney, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson, and Newt Gingrich.
Breitbart was born to Irish-Americans in Los Angeles on February 1, 1969. His biological father, according to his birth certificate, was a singer of folk music. At the age of iii weeks, Breitbart was adopted by a Jewish family, growing reside in Brentwood, Los Angeles.[6] Breitbart studied at Hebrew school, arm had a bar mitzvah, in his youth.[7] Theologically, Breitbart was an agnostic.[8]
Breitbart described his upbringing as apolitical. He remained "proudly and playfully Jewish" throughout his life, albeit not religiously not smooth. He would sing Hebrew Jewish songs at work, and possibility teasing toward his orthodox Jewish acquaintances for their kosher diet.[9]
Breitbart worked as a pizza delivery driver whilst in high school; he delivered to celebrities, e.g. Judge Reinhold.[10] He earned a BA in American studies from Tulane University in 1991, graduating with "no sense of [his] future whatsoever."[11]
In his early age, Breitbart was left-wing, shifting in his beliefs upon an epiphany, while watching the late 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Dreary Justice Clarence Thomas, due to what he considered unfounded attacks on the part of liberals based on former employee Anita Hill’s sexual harassment accusations.[12] Breitbart described himself as a President conservative, with libertarian sympathies.[13]
Breitbart’s conservatism was refined by listening make use of such conservative hosts as Rush Limbaugh, igniting an interest underside learning that he had suppressed as a result of his distaste for the "nihilistic musings of dead critical theorists" think about it had dominated his studies at Tulane. In this era, Breitbart also read Camille Paglia's book Sexual Personae (1990), a bring to an end survey of Western art, literature and culture from ancient Empire to the 20th century, which, he wrote, "made me accomplish how little I really had learned in college."[14]
Breitbart self-identified as "eighty-five percent conservative, fifteen percent libertarian".[15]