Category Archives: New Media

May 19, 2012

Video: Andrew Breitbart on his Legacy “I want the left to know they screwed with the wrong guy!”

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“And I want the Democratic Party and liberalism; I want my professors at Tulane in the Humanities department, to know: they tried to brainwash me to side with liberal Democrats in order to attack those that disagree.” Andrew Breitbart


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May 1, 2012

Citizens: the new voice in the media

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Citizen journalism is rewriting and recasting the traditional mainstream news narrative. The effectiveness and success of citizen journalists are apparent, as the media now incorporates and responds to their content almost daily.

As news organizations try to adapt to the ever-changing media landscape and one-up competition with creative methods of breaking news, some of their contenders now have nowhere near the resources, training or wherewithal, yet are still having an impact. Where citizen journalists may lack in finances and formal instruction, they’ve made up for in originality and conviction.

Despite their pedestrian status and lack of conventional credentials, the endeavors of citizen journalism shouldn’t be undercut because they’ve influenced meaningful change and gained traction within the traditional media; look at bloggers, WikiLeaks, Occupy Wall Street videos or Andrew Breitbart’s takedown of Anthony Weiner. This new form is groundbreaking because it empowers the average person to potentially dictate or even overturn the news narrative once exclusively directed by traditional media. Where the media may fall short, everyday folks can now whip out a camera, recorder or cellphone and broadcast whatever they want over the Internet, unfiltered by decision-makers who may have otherwise not seen the initial value or even known about an incident.

In their eyes, citizen journalists pick up the slack where traditional media fails. Because the media, based on its own judgment, may have not picked up a story or angle, citizens who feel a story is important enough to make known can now do so. A citizen journalist’s interpretation of the traditional media’s effectiveness and credibility is that it is somewhat imperfect, which it, of course, is. After all, nothing is entirely perfect, and pretending there’s an uncontaminated purity is misinformed.

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April 24, 2012

The Future of Breitbart with Joel Pollak (Video)

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Now that Andrew Breitbart is gone, what is the future of Breitbart.com, the new home of all the “Bigs”? Breitbart.com’s editor-in-chief is the latest darling of the Conservative movement, when he totally schooled an anchor at CNN.


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Breitbart’s Last In-Depth Interview: MSNBC Plot to Paint Obama Foes as ‘Bigots’; Sharpton Hired to Help Mount Attack

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Media Matters, Breitbart said, is “a radical left-wing 501c3 that gets millions of dollars from George Soros and other radical left-wing organizations, including the SEIU, the organizations that are the foot soldiers for the Obama administration.“


Before he died, the conservative new-media maven was readying a defense from attacks he expected from MSNBC, Media Matters and the White House.

Audio of interview available here.

During an exclusive recorded interview with The Hollywood Reporter four weeks before his March 1 death, Andrew Breitbart alleged a plot between MSNBC and Media Matters for America — perhaps even in coordination with the White House – to paint detractors of PresidentObama as bigots.

The conservative firebrand suggested the strategy included pressuring advertisers (Rush Limbaugh’s recent trouble keeping sponsors seems to fit the bill) and silencing conservatives (he cited Pat Buchanan, who has since been fired after 10 years as an MSNBC contributor). Essential to the strategy, Breitbart said, was hiring the Rev. Al Sharpton as a full-time host at MSNBC.

Sharpton premiered as host of PoliticsNation With Al Sharpton on MSNBC in August. He was hired, according to Breitbart, because accusations of racism against the Tea Party and other conservatives have more heft coming from him than they do from hosts Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Lawrence O’Donnell.

Breitbart said that having Sharpton, as well as such other prominent, left-wing African-Americans as Cornel West and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, appear only sporadically on cable news shows wasn’t sufficient to smear Obama opponents. Sharpton’s task is to identify the allegedly coded language of the right – which Breitbart called “dog whistles” — that Sharpton can translate into something racially insensitive.

“Every single day, he and his team get to do that, as opposed to dropping in and saying, ‘Hey did you hear that dog whistle?’ ” said Breitbart.

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April 18, 2012

Video: Why Do Liberals Hate Andrew Breitbart?

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EPISODE of PolitiChicks, honoring Andrew Breitbart with guest Andrew Marcus, who directed the upcoming film Hating Breitbart. Marcus followed Breitbart for years filming hundreds of hours of footage; this is one of my favorite PolitiChicks episodes, dedicated to one of our greatest Conservative warriors.


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April 12, 2012

Breitbart’s Last Laugh

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Our party arrived at our economy hotel, which sat next to a highway in the ghetto. It smelled of failure and water damage. Breitbart showed up late, letting me know he was on the grounds by sending a text which read: “We have to score some heroin before we head out….Wait, I think there’s someone outside my hotel room who can help.”

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I tried to calm Breitbart down several times, to no avail. A few years back, he told me the doctor said that he needed to decelerate his stress levels. Consequently, he wanted me to teach him how to fly fish. Then he thought better of it. The problem, he admitted, was, “Every time I see a tree, I just want to kick its ass.”

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Our friend, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson, had won the Ayers dinner at an Illinois Humanities Council auction, and had brought us along. Tucker and I were a little worried that we had in our possession a human grenade in Breitbart, though if we were being honest with ourselves, that’s precisely why we brought him. With Andrew, every day was anything-can-happen day.

As it happened, Breitbart was on his best behavior. “I’m here to learn,” Andrew said facetiously. It was part of the pleasure of keeping company with him. He wasn’t just a friend, he was a co-conspirator. Once we arrived at the apartment, much to Andrew’s and Ayers’s chagrin, they got along famously. Just two guys having dinner, finding commonality, even if Andrew regarded it his hidebound duty to passive-aggressively heckle Ayers as he served us plates of hoisin ribs and farmhouse cheeses. (“This is the bomb, Bill,” Breitbart said to the former explosives-rigger.)

When Ayers asked me what I was reading right now, I told him “Moby Dick,” which actually lived up to its billing. Ayers agreed, though added, as any good academic would, “You’ve picked up the gay subtext?” Breitbart nearly choked on his tofu and quinoa. “You mean in Moby Dick?” Andrew asked. “Or at this dinner?”

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April 8, 2012

Video: Andrew Breitbart Memorial – “Man Against The Mob”

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“You’re here because the Unions told you to go here. And he’s organizing you. You are not an individual, you are a mass and he’s organizing you. You do not have free will in the United States, you want to be led.” Andrew Breitbart


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April 4, 2012

Video: What is New-Media Journalism?

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“It’s a priveleged position to be able to reflect on what is happening around you, most people are just having to live it.” Susan Fleischmann, Executive Director, Cambridge Community Television


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April 2, 2012

Washington Salutes Andrew Breitbart (Video)

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This past week, DC media and political luminaries came together at the Newseum in Washington, DC to celebrate the life of Andrew Breitbart.

Speakers included Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Steve King (R-IA) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI); as well as Citizens United’s David Bossie, National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, conservative activist Sonnie Johnson, and Breitbart.com CEO Larry Solov. Also in attendance were Representatives Mike Pence (R-IN) and Jeff Fortenberry (NE).

The program lasted a little over an hour, and was filled with deeply moving and personal accounts of Andrew, to whom Congressman Louie Gohmert so aptly and eloquently attributed the following trait: “Testicular Titanium.”

There were common themes throughout the evening: Andrew’s jovial and larger-than-life personality; his innate ability to connect with people, and to connect those people with others; and, most importantly, the passion and love he exhibited for his family, friends, and colleagues. All the speakers shared a profound commitment to continue Andrew’s work, and issued a challenge to those in the audience to do the same.

Congressman Gohmert put it this way:

The greatest memorial that could ever be constructed for Andrew Breitbart is what we do from here. It can’t just be lip service. We go after truth. We go after bullies. We set the record straight.

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March 28, 2012

Tony Katz: The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart (Video)

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“His legacy starts from the idea that no one gave him permission. Because nobody gets to tell you whether or not you get to report the truth. You decide if you want to report the truth. ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times; they do not get decide for you. You decide for you.” Tony Katz

Tony Katz, host of The Tony Katz Show, was a featured speaker at the Defending the Dream Summit in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sponsored by Americans For Prosperity.


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