I think this article is on to something.<\/p>\n
I knew Andrew well. He was a big drinker. He was up on the drug habits of many people in our life. He talked about encountering journalists high on cocaine.<\/p>\n
From The Fix<\/a>: Breitbart lead a fairly privileged life. Adopted by a well-to-do Jewish couple in LA, he attended two of the city\u2019s most exclusive schools before decamping to Tulane University in New Orleans. According to a 2010 profile in Salon, it was in college that he honed his drinking and journalism skills\u2014as well as his contempt for cultural liberalism. \u201cHis first piece for the Tulane Hullaballoo was a field analysis of Tulane’s most notoriously debauched hookup bar, complete with annotated floor diagrams and submitted on 19 cocktail napkins,\u201d reported Chris Beam. Breitbart recalled, \u201cWhen I told my parents I was an American studies major, they were like, \u2018That’s fantastic! Did you read Mark Twain?\u2019 \u2018No, I didn’t.\u2019 \u2018What did you read?\u2019 \u2018Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer, Michel Foucault.\u2019 \u2018They don’t sound American!\u2019 \u2018They’re not.\u2019” Luckily, said Breitbart, \u201cI was too drunk to be completely indoctrinated by it.\u201d But as C-SPAN noted, Righteous Indignation suggests otherwise. \u201cI thought I could drink when I came to Tulane,\u201d Breitbart writes. \u201cI had some hard-and-fast rules to prevent becoming an alcoholic, such as: don\u2019t drink during sunlight hours. By the end of my time at Tulane, I was going to bed so early in the morning and waking up so late in the afternoon that this rule was almost impossible to break. Thank God I wasn\u2019t developing a drinking problem.\u201d Breitbart also mentions growing into his fraternity brothers\u2019 Hollywood-native image of him as a \u201chard-living, cocaine-fueled man of a thousand lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n But there has been some public speculation that Breitbart\u2019s drug use didn\u2019t end in college. A source close to the blogger told The Fix on condition of anonymity that he’d done cocaine with Breitbart as recently as last October. On the day after his death, Anthony Cumia, of the radio show “Opie and Anthony,” said of Breitbart, \u201cI went out drinking with him, and boy, can he party.\u201d \u201cHe liked to stay awake,” added Anthony. “That\u2019s all I\u2019ll say.\u201d Other friends maintain that Breitbart regularly took high doses of Adderall and other stimulants to counteract his lifelong ADD. (Both cocaine and Adderall, an amphetamine, can increase the risk of a heart attack. The FDA even warns that Adderall can cause \u201csudden death in patients with heart problems or heart defects.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think this article is on to something. I knew Andrew well. He was a big drinker. He was up on the drug habits of many people in our life. He talked about encountering journalists high on cocaine. From The … Continue reading
\nLast May, during an appearance on C-SPAN to promote the publication of his memoir\/manifesto Righteous Indignation, host Peter Slen asked Breitbart what he had learned at college. \u201cI learned to drink,\u201d he quipped. Later, Slen asked Breitbart to describe his current relationship with alcohol. \u201cWhy do you ask?\u201d said Breitbart. \u201cYou write in your book that you had an alcohol problem at Tulane,\u201d Slen replied. Breitbart brushed off the question: \u201cI didn\u2019t have an alcohol problem.\u201d<\/p>\n