I guess when I first heard of Andrew Breitbart, it was when O'Keefe & Giles made their underage prostitution bust of Acorn. The way he promoted it, flat out, with no reflexive nod to progressive sacred cows, no obeisance to political correctness, and a full out in your face laughing FU to those who expected him to, it was a thrill that ran up far more than just your leg, it charged all of our spirits, nationwide.
Big time.
There's been much said already, and deserved, about Breitbart's mastery of the New Media, but IMHO what was truly different about Andrew Breitbart was that he didn't try and pander to the Tea Party - he didn't need to, he got it, he felt it and he believed it too.
Note: I'm not saying that he believed IN the Tea Party, but that he believed WHAT makes the Tea Party what it is, that we all have a right to live our own lives, and no one has a right to take that away from us. He didn't believe in a movement or in something that was interesting new news, or the latest political happening. Instead he did what he did because he too had been someone who understood it, and, like the rest of us, was a believer before there ever was a movement to get behind. It was because of that part of Breitbart that is in all of us, that the movement caught fire in the way it has, from the healthcare battles and on down to today, and because of that, he knew exactly how to communicate it, rally it, and affirm it, with one or both of his two emotional settings: jocularity and righteous indignation.
From the first scene of Hating Breitbart, I, and everyone else in the theater, was laughing, cheering, shaking our heads in disbelief at those in the media and politics, who are so oblivious to their own statist bias, and then laughing out loud again as Andrew showed them to themselves in full out and glorious Breitbart style. Such as the part where he takes apart a 'journalist', Max Blumenthal, by feeding him his own words back to him. With aggravated faux calm and self righteousness, the leftie says "I never called anyone a racist.", and then Breitbart feeds him back his own words and headlines, forces him to admit that he did do just that, and then just fillets and destroys the punk, in public, with his own words.
Or the part where ABC Nightline's... Terry Moran, I think it was, repeatedly tries to get him to call Congressman Lewis a liar. He realizes that's what they want, but holds back, again and again, until finally he says it 'He's a liar!', but he doesn't leave it there. Because at that point, as he expected, the reporter, after pestering on that point all morning, finally moves on to another issue. Breitbart will have none of it. He calls him on it. Calls him on his attempt to produce the story he wanted, calls him on his cheap tactics and explains to him exactly how his 'reporters ethics' had been used to do nothing but pull off a cheap, dirty, trick. And he was caught at it.
The old media, caught by the new media, to be unworthy.
That same quality of journalistic ethics was on display during a screening of the film, by one of those exposed in the film, for the biased and unethical twit he was... and a dim one at that. I mean, you'd think that a person might grasp from the title, that the act of "HATING BREITBART" was one of the means of jocularly furthering Breitbart's Righteous Indignation... but this tweeting twit from the Daily Koz and HufPo, continued on with his hatred of AB, by blathering it on so loudly in the theater that he had to be ejected from it.
Yep, that's just how bright they aren't. PR firms are paid big bucks for ginning up that kind of 'free' publicity, but this dingbat did it all for free:
"...Ryan Clayton, a far left contributor to DailyKos and Huffington Post, was escorted out a Friday night showing of the documentary, Hating Breitbart, in Arlington, Virginia, for his outbursts during the opening minutes of the film."Gotta love it. The old media falling to the new... By Breitbart, from beyond the grave. ...Clausewitz said that War is the continuation of politics by other means. Well Andrew Breitbart's new media, is certainly politics by other means, and our old media journalists are simply new names on a long list of casualties to be.
After the showing, thanks to JD Wilson, we stood for pictures of our whole crew, with (Center Row, l to r) Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), Myself, Doug Edelman (above me), Virginia Kruta (Live from the Catacombs (below me)), Becky Noble (The Conservative Cauldron (center in red)), Dana Radio intern Amy Grace (in white), Dana Loesch (CNN contributor, 97.1 FM Talk, The Dana Show (center)), Chris Loesch, Jeremy Segal (Rebel Pundit (in green & hat), Adam Sharp (SharpElbows.net) in red Elmo hat top right, (lower row, 3rd from right): Martin D. Baker, Adam "Bad to the Bohn", and the invisible Patch Adams (Poed Patriot, who couldn't make it) and other non publicity seeking friends.
... and what do the well dressed bloggers do after attending a glamorous movie premier? Bacon and waffles of course!
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