Andrew Breitbart died last Thursday and conservatives can thank him for empowering a new generation of activists and conservative media to question authority and expose the answers–if they weren’t already doing it. But his friends say there was no murder. No conspiracy theories. See below.

As many knew, Breitbart announced at the CPAC convention in February that President Obama would be getting the vetting he should have had the first time he ran for President. He claimed he had tapes of the President while a student at Harvard. See his CPAC speech below:

On the day he was to release the first part of his expose he died.
Many people thought the untimely death and the bizarre timing spelled a conspiracy. One wonders how many of the President’s own acolytes considered the possibility that one of their guy’s Chicago or union buddies had a hand in Breitbart’s death.

An autopsy will reveal what killed him but his friends say there’s no conspiracy theory. They say Breitbart was sick and they knew it.

Best selling author and Breitbart friend, Brad Thor, told me on the program here
that the conservative provocateur had been suffering from a serious ailment and had been getting back in shape to prolong his life. His own father in law, Orson Bean, says Breitbart had heart issues.

As Thor told me,

“I knew for quite some time that Andrew was sick and he asked me not to tell anybody. So I want to put the kibosh on any conspiracy theories that somehow somebody got to Andrew, blah, blah, blah. That didn’t happen. The people around him knew that Andrew had been wrestling with some health issues. He’d lost weight, he’d been getting into shape, uh, looked fantastic at CPAC, never lost an ounce of his energy or courage and it’s unfortunate that we’ve lost such a great voice, but aren’t we as lucky to have had him for as long as we did?” 

I naturally asked Thor what Breitbart had been suffering from and he referred any comments on that to his family.

Let’s not get sidetracked on a conspiracy theory that may take us away from the real issues of the day. You should check out Breitbart.tv today. There’s a blockbuster story up there. I’ve linked to it in a nearby post.

And think about this: there’s not one story on his own websites about Breitbart being murdered. You’d think they’d have the exclusive on that one, wouldn’t you?  But let’s wait for the autopsy, raise a glass of scotch (Thor told me wine and scotch were Breitbart’s favorites) to his memory, wipe our mouths with the backs of our hands, sigh and carry on.

There’s much work to be done.