Love him or loathe him, Andrew Breitbart made a big impact over the past few years.

News broke early Thursday morning that the conservative blogger, a disciple of Matt Drudge, had passed away overnight from "natural causes," at his Hollywood home. He was 43.

With so little news about how or why he died, the political/media industry will ruminate on his legacy today. We're not sure what we can add to that, but CL wrote a profile of Breitbart after we attended a speech he gave for the James Madison Institute at a Tampa hotel back in August of 2010.

Read below to read that piece.