Andrew Breitbart
American conservative journalist
Died when: 43 years 29 days (517 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
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Andrew James Breitbart (/'bra?tb??rt/;February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist, and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.
After helping in the early stages of HuffPost and the Drudge Report, Breitbart created Breitbart News, a far-right news and opinion website.
He played central roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.
Commenters such as Nick Gillespie and Conor Friedersdorf have credited Breitbart with changing how people wrote about politics by "show[ing] how the Internet could be used to route around information bottlenecks imposed by official spokesmen and legacy news outlets".