2/1/14, "February 1st: Andrew’s Birthday," Larry Solov, Breitbart News
Before Gerry passed, he told me something that answered every one of those questions: Andrew had exceeded every imaginable expectation he and Arlene had for him. The nice part is, I was there in person many times when Gerry expressed the same sentiment to Andrew himself.
As for my part, I can speak very personally to what kind of brother and friend he would become: there was no one more loyal, no one more caring, no one better.
As for what kind of man and person he would become, well, there are so many people to testify in this department: a leader, a voice, a patriot; a brawler for truth, transparency, the democratization of news and information, and for the values upon which this great nation was founded and should be guided still.
As to that legacy, we present you the pages of Breitbart.com each and every day and the growth and expansion of Breitbart News… and the unbreakable promise that the fight will always continue.
Despite everything I’ve just mentioned, as anyone who ever spent any time whatsoever with him can attest, Andrew accomplished all that he accomplished with a smile and the fiercest desire to make others laugh. Today and every other day, I am overwhelmed with such memories and thank God for Andrew’s presence--albeit too short--here on Earth.
By the way, he still played an at-best mediocre game of fantasy league baseball. But in fairness, during the last part of his life, he was, after all, more interested in saving the world.
Happy birthday, my friend." image AFP, via Breitbart. via Free Rep.
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3/1/12, "Andrew Breitbart, one of the original Freepers" (Free Republic posters)
"Andrew Breitbart had a long history with Free Republic, from its early days and first FReeper gathering Los Angeles to the present.
Using the screen name andrew, Breitbart joined FR on February 9, 1998 after lurking "long before" then.
Andrew's posting history is captured back to September 8, 2001. His last post on FR was September 15, 2004. Even though he stopped posting to FR, Andrew maintained relations with people he met through FR and always had a kind word to say about the site when FR was brought up.
I wrote for Andrew's Big sites and had limited dealings with him as the editors of the respective Big sites were naturally the main points of contact. But we had met before then and knew of each other.
The last phone call I was on with him about a Big article project he spoke fondly of his days on FR and how active the FReepers were in those days.
Andrew attended the first FReeper gathering, in late spring/early summer 1998 at the Cheesecake Factory in Los Angeles.
As a poster, he commented on the threads much more than he originated them.
Reading though Andrew's comments, one sees that he was the same person he was before he became 'Breitbart.'
On March 9, 2002, Andrew wrote about his conversion from liberal to conservative--a story he has told many times since becoming 'Breitbart.'
To: f.Christian
i was one too. i still pretty much have my same small 'L' libertarian ideals, but in college the left tapped into that and basically implored me to be paranoid that the religious right was working overtime to take away my rights.
all the while campus speeh codes and political correctness were being instituted around me in the name of diversity and multiculturalism. when i graduated in 1991, i had an epiphany, a conversion of sorts, as i watched in horror the clarence thomas hearings. 'those guys are on my side?' i thought as i watched the dems attempt to assassinate a good man. since then my libertarian instincts have been buffered by an attraction to the moral clarity of the conservative movement. happily just voted for bill simon last tuesday here in california.
18 posted on Saturday, March 09, 2002 3:37:27 PM by andrew"...
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