Andrew Breitbart
American conservative writer and publisher (1969–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrew James Breitbart (/ˈbraɪtbɑːrt/; February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American conservative journalist[1] and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.
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_(cropped).jpg) 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, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Tulane University (BA) |
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| Years active | 1995–2012 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Susannah Bean (m. 1997) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | www |
After helping in the early stages of HuffPost[2] and the Drudge Report,[3] Breitbart created Breitbart News, now a far-right[4] news and opinion website, which has been described as misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist by academics and journalists.[5]
Breitbart played central journalistic roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the firing of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.[6] 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".[7][8]