A giant lost

My “interesting news” I was planning on running today just doesn’t seem as interesting anymore.

Instead, I’m going to write about a man I didn’t know, had never met personally, and whose website I rarely link to and don’t visit all that often. Yet it’s that larger-than-life personality he had which merits this post.

There’s no question Andrew Breitbart was very brash in his assessment of liberals. I don’t know if he would have called himself the Rush Limbaugh of internet news – perhaps he may have called Rush the Andrew Breitbart of talk radio – but there are some similarities in style between the two. Like Rush, Breitbart infuriated critics because not only was he right, he seemed so damn self-assured about being so.

It’s interesting that I wasn’t really on top of this because I didn’t get a chance to read my e-mail this morning. I had what I thought would be a long day and my laptop has been acting up, so I took a cursory glance at what was on my cel phone’s e-mail list and went about my outside job. It wasn’t until I returned home that I found out the news.

In reading the story, I didn’t realize Breitbart was as young as he was – I was already a lad of 4 1/2 when Andrew came into the world. So the news is doubly sad because he had young children. That’s not to say that his death is anymore tragic than those of other men who had families with mouths to feed, but it points out something often missed about people in the public eye – many are parents and when their father dies at a young age it leaves just as much of a void in the lives of the children. Celebrity doesn’t discriminate in that respect.

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