Andrew Breitbart is the MAN!
I expect that Shirely Sherrod will soon be returning to the private sector.
I checked, Breitbart's only 41 and he is already making big waves .... we can expect a lot more from this man.
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Andrew Breitbart
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Andrew Breitbart
Born February 1, 1969 (1969-02-01) (age 41)
California, USA
Education Tulane University
Occupation Journalist, Columnist
"[Left-leaning Hollywood personalities] are uninteresting, they’re vicious, they’re vitriolic, they’re really, really not good people. I’m willing to say that on the record. You could probe them scientifically and anthropologically and prove that they’re not good people....[The Hollywood left] is a stale group of people who are recycling the same old bad ideas that don’t work. Why else would those people go to the stinky side?"
Meet Andrew Breitbart, self-proclaimed rebel-king of L.A.'s underground conservative movement (interview), 2008[1]Andrew J. Breitbart (pronounced /'bra?tb?rt/; born February 1, 1969) is an American publisher,[2] commentator for the Washington Times, author,[3] and an occasional guest commentator on various news programs. He may be best-known for serving as an editor for the Drudge Report website. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and was employed by her as "the primary developer" of her website, the Huffington Post.[4][5] He currently runs his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other sites: breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.
[edit] Origins and personal life
Breitbart grew up in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Both he and his sister Tracey were adopted.[6] His biological father was a folk singer.[6] His adoptive father was a restaurateur, his mother a banker.[7] He worked as a pizza deliveryperson and car washer.[8] He graduated from Tulane University in 1991.[9] He says he "grew up in Brentwood a secular liberal Jew" who celebrated his bar mitzvah and "has the tape to prove it," but had "an interesting epiphany" during the Clarence Thomas hearings. He now describes himself as "a Reagan conservative" who has "sympathies towards the libertarian side of issues."[2]
His early jobs included a stint at cable channel E! Entertainment Television, working for the company's online magazine, and some time in film production.[7]
In 1995 he saw the Drudge Report and was so impressed that he emailed Matt Drudge. "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do."[5] Matt Drudge introduced him to Arianna Huffington, when she was still a Republican,[7] and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a "Progressive", in creating her website.
He is married to Susannah (Susie) Bean, the daughter of actor Orson Bean, with four children.[5][10]
[edit] Contributor
Before the launching of Big Government, Breitbart's highest profile venue was the Drudge Report. Breitbart, who once described himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch,"[11] selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Mr. Breitbart has guest-hosted the Savage Nation talk radio program on several occasions. He also regularly fills in for Dennis Miller as host of Miller's nationally-syndicated radio show.
[edit] Author
Breitbart co-wrote Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon with Mark Ebner, a book that is highly critical of U.S. celebrity culture. The publisher's description says, "celebrities somehow believe that it's their God-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell.... And we're not going to take it any more."[12]
Breitbart's work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and the Weekly Standard Online, among others. He writes a weekly column for The Washington Times, which also appears at Real Clear Politics.
[edit] Commentator
Breitbart has appeared as a commentator on Real Time with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. In 2004 he was a guest commentator on Fox News Channel's morning show and frequently appears as a guest panelist on Fox News's late night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Breitbart also appeared as a commentator in the 2004 documentary Michael Moore Hates America.[13]
On October 22, 2009 Breitbart appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He gave his opinions on the mainstream media, Hollywood, the Obama Administration and his personal political views, having heated debates with several callers.[2]
In the hours immediately following Senator Ted Kennedy's death, Breitbart called Kennedy a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard,” a “prick”[14] and "a special pile of human excrement."[15][16]
In February 2010, Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award during the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C. During his acceptance speech, he responded directly to accusations by New York Times reporter Kate Zernike that Jason Mattera, a young conservative activist, had been using "racial tones" in his allusions to President Obama, and had spoken in a "Chris Rock voice." (Because Mattera is from Brooklyn, he was actually speaking in his own dialect.) From the podium, Breitbart called Zernike "a despicable human being" for having made such allegations about Mattera's New York accent.[17]
[edit] Breitbart.com
Breitbart currently runs his own news site at Breitbart.com; it is frequently linked to by the Drudge Report and other websites. It features wire stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, PR Newswire, U.S. Newswire, as well as direct links to a number of major international newspapers. Its Blog & "Network" links tend to run to the right within the U.S. political spectrum (e.g., National Review, Instapundit, and Townhall.com). The site also features a search engine powered by Lingospot and a finance channel powered by FinancialContent. In 2007, Breitbart launched a video blog, Breitbart.tv.[18]
[edit] Big Hollywood
In 2008 Breitbart launched the website "Big Hollywood," a "group blog" driven by Tinseltown, with contributions from a variety of writers, including entertainment-industry professionals who politically lean right.[19] John Nolte is the editor-in-chief of Big Hollywood. Other contributors include Greg Gutfeld, Mike Wilson, Adam Baldwin, Gary Graham, and Iowahawk (Dave Burge).
The site, an outgrowth of the column "Big Hollywood" that Breitbart wrote for the Washington Times, addresses issues facing conservatives who work in Hollywood.[1]
[edit] Big Government
Andrew Breitbart gave notice that he would produce a new blog, entitled "Big Government," to premiere on September 10, 2009.[20] He hired Mike Flynn, a former government affairs specialist at Reason Foundation,[21] as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government.[22]
Further information: ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy
The site started by airing footage of ACORN staffers in Baltimore who gave unethical advice concerning underage prostitution and tax-evasion on-tape to Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe. Within 24 hours of the video's release, the two women featured on the hidden camera were fired by ACORN over the incident. After the release of the second in the tape series, which targeted the Washington D.C. ACORN office, the U.S. Census Bureau severed its connection with ACORN, which had been scheduled to assist in the 2010 census. Five "sting tapes," with Hannah Giles portraying the "prostitute" Kenya, and O'Keefe acting as her boyfriend/pimp, have been released; these feature the ACORN offices in Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and both San Bernardino and San Diego, California.
Breitbart has vowed to "continue exposing"[citation needed] the ACORN organization; on November 22, 2009 he broke a story on Burbank's KFI AM radio about a "document dump" by the National City, California ACORN office. His story claimed that thousands of allegedly incriminating documents were thrown in a public dumpster in the wake of California Attorney General Jerry Brown's investigation of ACORN, only to be recovered by local private investigator Derrick Roach.[23] Breitbart said that he intended to "drip" the documents out in a serialized story, in a fashion similar to the O'Keefe videos. Brown's report released on April 1, 2010 found O'Keefe's videos to be "severely edited" and did not find evidence of criminal conduct on the part of ACORN employees, with the Attorney General commenting "things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality."[24] On March 22, 2010 ACORN announced that is was disbanding due to insufficient revenue, attributable in great part to the effects of the controversy ignited by Breitbart's investigations.[25]
[edit] Controversy
In a January 26, 2010 interview with Hugh Hewitt, Breitbart stated that he pays James O'Keefe a "fair salary", but denied that the James O'Keefe 2010 arrest at Federal Building was associated with Big Government or Breitbart.com.[26]
[edit] Big Journalism
In January, 2010, Breitbart launched Big Journalism. He told Mediaite:[27]
Our goal at Big Journalism is to hold the mainstream media’s feet to the fire. There are a lot of stories that they simply don’t cover, either because it doesn’t fit their world view, or because they’re literally innocent of any knowledge that the story even exists, or because they are a dying organization, short-staffed, and thus can’t cover stuff like they did before.
Big Journalism is edited by Michael A. Walsh, a former journalism professor and Time magazine music critic.[27] One of Breitbart's aims for the site is to shame "traditional media outlets ... into telling the truth." [27] In 2010 some of this has been conducted through posts by a supposed alpaca, "Retracto, the Correction Alpaca," whose bio claims it is "a Senior Fellow at Breitbart.com".[28] The alpaca's true identity remains unknown, but it does have its own theme song. It specializes, of course, in demanding corrections from mainstream news media sources.
[edit] Big Peace
BigPeace.com debuted July 4, 2010, with eight blog posts. The site covers military operations of the world.
[edit] Activism
Breitbart often appears as a speaker at fiscally conservative Tea Party movement protests across the U.S. For example, Breitbart was a keynote speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention at Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville on February 6, 2010.[29][30][31][32]
When Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver claimed Tea Partiers had hurled racial abuse at them, including the word "nigger", as they walked through a protest outside the U.S. Capitol on March 20, 2010,[33] Breitbart stated that the Congressmen had videoed their walk but not produced any videos of the alleged abuse, suggested they were trying to "manufacture the false appearance of" racism and offered to donate $10,000 to the United Negro College Fund if Rep. Lewis provided any evidence of his claims.[34] Later he raised his offer to a $100,000 donation "for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled at Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson" and said that Nancy Pelosi also walked through the crowd "looking to provoke a negative reaction. They didn’t get it. So they made it up."[35] He added, "Nancy Pelosi did a great disservice to a great civil rights icon [Lewis] by thrusting him out there to perform this mischievous task. His reputation is now on the line as a result of her desperation to take down the Tea Party movement."[35][36]
On April 13, an Associated Press report[37] claimed that "Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who is white" had also heard the slurs and that Breitbart was relying on a video shot at least an hour after the walk. The AP report regarding Shuler was quickly corrected: "Shuler was not walking with Cleaver and did not hear the 'N-word'". Shuler did hear the slurs made against Barney Frank.[38][39] Breitbart says he "was not relying on the one video for proof", and says he emphasized that to the AP writer.[40] Breitbart also says he was relying on the fact that two people with the Democrats had video cameras held over their heads during the walk but have never produced any footage of racial abuse.[34] David Weigel, blogging for The Washington Post, noted that Breitbart and others appear to have won a new media victory about whether the slurs happened, concluding "that the March 20 story will be remembered by conservatives as evidence of how the media accepts attacks on conservatives without due diligence".[41]
In April 2010, he delivered the keynote address at The Sammies, an annual awards show honoring the country's top free-market activists, hosted by the Sam Adams Alliance.
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