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L.A. Coroner’s Report Says Andrew Breitbart Died of Heart Failure

Andrew Breitbart, editor and founder of BigGovernment.com political website, speaks at a "Cut Spending Now" rally at the conservative Americans for Prosperity (AFP) "Defending the American Dream Summit" in Washington on November 5, 2011.   AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

No, the Conservative Blogger Supreme was not murdered or poisoned by a vast left-wing conspiracy. He did not die of any scandalous drug overdose (prescription or otherwise). He barely even registered a blood alcohol level, and that was from the red wine he'd sipped just moments before collapsing on March 1, after striking up a conversation with a liberal-leaning marketing executive at a nearby L.A. bar. The final cause of death for the man who brought down ACORN and set off Weinergate (and who, we have since learned, had a history of heart problems) was listed as heart failure in the coroner's just-released autopsy report. 

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