Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart
Born	February 1, 1969 Brentwood, California
Died	March 1, 2012 Los Angeles, California
Spouse	Susannah Bean Breitbart
Religion	Judaism

Andrew James Breitbart (pronounced BRIGHT-bart) (b. February 1, 1969 - March 1, 2012) was one of the most outspoken conservative journalists in America.

Biography

He is the founder of Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, BigJournalism.com, BigHollywood.com, BigPeace.com, BigGovernment.com and, BigEducation.com. His weekly columns appeared in the Washington Times and he was formerly a protégé of Matt Drudge's Drudge Report. He co-wrote a best-selling attack on celebrity culture called Hollywood, Interrupted. Breitbart worked with Arianna Huffington for a time and helped create the Huffington Post. Breitbart was a very visible member of the conservative media, constantly going after the liberal power structure and the mainstream media and was responsible for bringing ACORN to its knees with undercover journalism. Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award at CPAC in 2010.

In 2011, Breitbart authored the book Righteous Indignation. Opening rank on Amazon.com #10 and #14 on the New York Times.

Early Life

He was born on February 1, 1969, and raised in Brentwood, California, by adoptive parents Gerald and Arlene Breitbart. In his book Righteous Indignation, he described his life growing up. His parents lived in an elite neighborhood, which he fondly recalled more like the neighborhoods of E. T. or The Brady Bunch. He described how his parents did not agree with the over-the-top, leftist beliefs that they were surrounded with in their neighborhood. Breitbart noted that his family did not succumb to celebrity worship. His dad Gerald in particular would always say "All of my customers are the same. I don't care about those things."

As a teenager, he worked as a pizza delivery boy at a local shop, Maria's, that he describes as "the greatest job I have ever had", which allowed him to deliver pizzas to some of the most famous people in the world. He was a fan of Alternative rock, including acts such as the The, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Style Council, and Depeche Mode.

In 1991, he graduated from Tulane University.

Personal Life

In 1997, he married Susannah Bean, who is the daughter of Orson Bean and Alley Mills Bean. He and his wife Susannah have four children, Samson, Mia, Charlie, and William.

Career Accomplishments

ACORN

Main article: ACORN

His greatest success was undercover journalism performed by his employees James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles against ACORN. His associates filmed ACORN giving advice on setting up brothels involving underage prostitution trafficking as well as tax evasion tips at four ACORN offices around the country. In a brilliant strategy, he would release one tape which ACORN would dismiss. Then other tapes to stir the pot. A fourth tape was released that turned into a national firestorm which bypassed the corrupt media who refused to cover the liberal-aligned group. The outrage that followed forced Congress to defund ACORN and Breitbart is credited with having them removed from partnering with the Obama Administration on the 2010 Census. Wade Rathke, ACORN founder, and Bertha Lewis, his puppet CEO had to change the name of the organization because Breitbart's work had sullied their image. State affiliates reorganized under new names in New York and California, others were banned from operating in Ohio and Maryland. Breitbart put ACORN on the defensive which is still reeling from his work and has announced it's closing business, bankrupt. .

2010 Annual NAACP Conference

The day after the NAACP issued a statement calling the Tea Party movement racist, Breitbart showcased the power of conservative media by releasing video footage showing Shirley Sherrod of the USDA addressing a past NAACP conference about how she acted in a racist manner to offer very minimal help to a bankrupt farmer because he was Caucasian. The video went viral and the White House got involved to make Sherrod resign.

CPAC 2010

Breitbart was video taped going after liberal columnist Blumenthall, calling him a "despicable human being" for writing lies, treating James O'Keefe as racist, a now common liberal media attack weapon. He was not afraid to confront dishonest journalists and their corrupt reporting. He gave speeches talking about the mainstream media saying "The Gig Is Up - You’re Not on the American Team."

CPAC 2011

Major conservative groups are backing out of the annual conference to protest the inclusion of the gay group GOProud. Breitbart defends their inclusion and he planned to throw a party for gay conservatives at CPAC. "I'm working on getting a venue," he said. "The first annual Roy Cohn CPAC Breitbart Homocon Welcoming 80's Extravaganza. I'm thinking of DJ-ing."

CPAC 2012

A major speech from Breitbart with many revelations. First, he wants the public not to be afraid to call Barack Obama a "Radical". Next, he described his dinner with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Third, that he has video tapes from Obama's days at college. Breitbart will expose the radical Obama and his radical ties that the Lamestream media knowingly suppressed from the public.

Congressman Weiner

Liberal Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner used Twitter to send lewd photos of himself. Breitbart exposed this act, dubbed WeinerGate. Weiner tried to deny it was him, blamed he was hacked by conservative vandals and stated in public that Breitbart was lying. As the story went nationwide, Weiner was pressured to step down. Weiner arranged a conference in New York. Weiner was late to the conference, and Breitbart showed up and took the microphone to denounce Weiner, demanding an apology. Weiner showed up and announced he had lied and was retiring. Also, he apologized to Breitbart.

John Lewis, n-word Confrontation

After a series of effective town hall protests, Tea Party activists were labeled as racist by journalists and Representative John Lewis made a claim that he was called the n-word by someone in a crowd. Breitbart stepped up and challenged them, and offered a reward of $100,000 dollars for proof that such a thing was said. That reward was never claimed, no proof was ever offered.

Breitbart wrote: "Nancy Pelosi did a great disservice to a great civil rights icon 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."

Death and legacy

On March 1, 2012 it was announced that Breitbart had passed away during the night at the age of 43, from heart failure. He was well liked, and was known for having a good sense of humor and being a prankster.

Breitbart is Here

Since Breitbart's passing, he has become something of a martyr for those who would challenge the journalist establishment and seek to engage in "citizen journalism". His likeness has become an image that is seen around the internet under the heading of "Breitbart is Here",, and shortly after his passing, Bill Whittle, who was a close personal friend of Andrew's, proclaimed that "We Are All Breitbart Now, which is an attempt to fill his shoes now that he is gone. Whittle says that it would take more than a thousand to fill the void that has been left behind.

Posthumous release of 'Obama Harvard Tapes'

Despite Breibart's tragic death on March 1, 2012, the video he had from Obama's college days at Harvard were released on Hannity on March 6th. Commonly known as the 'Obama college video', it depicts Obama speaking at a rally in 1991 held for liberal Professor Derrick Bell, a longtime racist who built an academic career out of accusing the majority of Americans of being racist and discriminatory to him with no evidence for his accusations. In the course of the rally, Obama praises Bell's views and commitment, and then embraces the "Jeremiah Wright of Academia" . Liberals seeking to cover up the mounting evidence of Obama's hatred for America and conservative values led a massive smear campaign against Breitbart and attempted to portray the tapes as a non-issue.

Hating Breitbart

On October 19, 2012, the documentary Hating Breitbart was released. The documentary focuses on what Breitbart called the Democrat-Media Complex. The documentary recaps the many accomplishments in the last few years of his life, including his work assisting Lila Rose with work on early undercover videos of Planned Parenthood, the sting on ACORN which ultimately took that organization down, defending conservative activists against false allegations involving the use of the "n-word", and Breitbart's many, many efforts to help conservatism on the ground from support at rallies and other efforts to stand up to bullies who were so used to getting away with it. Underneath the singular yet repeated accomplishments there is a clear shift that has occured from the old media to the new media, and the documentary does a good job of highlighting that shift.

Quotes

• "I only have two speeds, jocularity and righteous indignation."
• "The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing."
• "Feeding the media is like training a dog - You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over and over again until it learns."
• "Stop raping people! Stop raping the people! You freaks! You filthy, filthy, raping, murdering freaks!" - after reports of sexual assaults at Occupy Wall Street protests.
• "I stand by what I’ve done. The NAACP in our time has absolutely changed its methodology and its mission and has become a military, militaristic, Saul Alinsky arm of the Democratic party. What they do and do not do to conservative black people in a shame on America and a pox on their organization.... They’ve created an entire paradigm to invent racism on the right in order to intimidate people into silence."
• "I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies."
• "The thing is that Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that 20 years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democrat Party."
• "I must say, in my non-strategic... ‘cuz I’m under attack all the time, if you see it on Twitter. The (unclear) call me gay, it’s just, they’re vicious, there are death threats, and everything. And so, there are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’
  Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns. (laughter) I’m not kidding. They talk a mean game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re dealing with.
  And I have people who come up to me in the military, major named people in the military, who grab me and they go, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing, we’ve got your back.’
  They understand that. These are the unspoken things we know, they know. They know who’s on their side, they’ve got Janeane Garofalo, we are freaked out by that. When push comes to shove, they know who’s on our side. They are the bullies on the playground, and they’re starting to realize, what if we were to fight back, what if we were to slap back?"

Videos

• Andrew Breitbart Shuts Down Max Blumenthall at CPAC
• Andrew Breitbart CPAC 2010 Speech PART 1 (1 of 2)
• Andrew Breitbart CPAC 2010 Speech PART 2 (2 of 2)
• Andrew Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award at CPAC
• Andrew Breitbart confronts David Shuster lies from MSNBC
• Full Speech: Andrew Breitbart at CPAC 2012, The Right Scoop

See Also

• Saul Alinsky

External Links

• Breitbart.com
• Breitbart.tv
• BigHollywood.com
• BigGovernment.com
• BigJournalism.com
• BigPeace.com
• Washington Times - Andrew Breitbart
• Facebook -Andrew Breitbart
• Twitter -AndrewBreitbart (Warning: Liberals leave vulgar messages)
• Breitbartbook.com