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==Public life==
==Public life==
===Authorship, research and reporting===
===Authorship, research and reporting===
In 1995, Breitbart saw the [[Drudge Report]] and was so impressed that he emailed [[Matt Drudge]]. Breitbart said, "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do."<ref name="huff" /> Breitbart described himself as "Matt Drudge’s [[bitch]]"<ref name="biyatch">{{Cite web|url=http://www.reason.com/news/show/122048.html|title=Lists: What's Your Source for That? Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information.|accessdate=2008-10-01|publisher=ReasonOnline.com}}</ref> and selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Later, Matt Drudge introduced him to [[Arianna Huffington]], when she was still a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]],<ref name="wsj"/> and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a [[American Liberalsim|liberal]], in creating [[HuffPo|her website]].
In 1995, Breitbart saw the [[Drudge Report]] and was so impressed that he emailed [[Matt Drudge]]. Breitbart said, "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do."<ref name="huff" /> Breitbart described himself as "Matt Drudge’s [[bitch]]"<ref name="biyatch">{{Cite web|url=http://www.reason.com/news/show/122048.html|title=Lists: What's Your Source for That? Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information.|accessdate=2008-10-01|publisher=ReasonOnline.com}}</ref> and selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Later, Matt Drudge introduced him to [[Arianna Huffington]], when she was still a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]],<ref name="wsj"/> and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a [[Progressivism|progressive]], in creating [[HuffPo|her website]].


Breitbart guest-hosted the ''[[Savage Nation]]'' [[talk radio]] program on several occasions.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} He also regularly fills in for [[Dennis Miller]] as host of Miller's [[nation]]ally-syndicated radio show.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} Breitbart's work has been published in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', [[National Review Online]] and the [[Weekly Standard|Weekly Standard Online]], among others. He writes a weekly column for ''[[The Washington Times]]'', which also appears at [[Real Clear Politics]]. Breitbart also co-wrote the book ''[[Hollywood, Interrupted|Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon]]'' with [[Mark Ebner]], a book that is highly critical of U.S. [[celebrity culture]].<ref>[http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471450510.html Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon—The Case Against Celebrity], [[John Wiley & Sons]]</ref>
Breitbart guest-hosted the ''[[Savage Nation]]'' [[talk radio]] program on several occasions.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} He also regularly fills in for [[Dennis Miller]] as host of Miller's [[nation]]ally-syndicated radio show.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} Breitbart's work has been published in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'', [[National Review Online]] and the [[Weekly Standard|Weekly Standard Online]], among others. He writes a weekly column for ''[[The Washington Times]]'', which also appears at [[Real Clear Politics]]. Breitbart also co-wrote the book ''[[Hollywood, Interrupted|Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon]]'' with [[Mark Ebner]], a book that is highly critical of U.S. [[celebrity culture]].<ref>[http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471450510.html Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon—The Case Against Celebrity], [[John Wiley & Sons]]</ref>

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Andrew J. Breitbart (pronounced /ˈbraɪtbɑrt/; born February 1, 1969) is an American publisher,[2] commentator for the Washington Times, author,[3] an occasional guest commentator on various news programs who has served as an editor for the Drudge Report website. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped launch her website, the Huffington Post.[4]

He currently runs his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.

Origins and personal life

Breitbart grew up in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Both he and his sister Tracey were adopted.[5] His biological father was a folk singer.[5] His adoptive father was a restaurateur, his mother a banker.[6] He worked as a pizza deliveryperson and car washer.[7] He graduated from Tulane University in 1991.[8] 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.[6]

He is married to Susannah (Susie) Bean, the daughter of actor Orson Bean, and has four children.[4][9]

Public life

Authorship, research and reporting

In 1995, Breitbart saw the Drudge Report and was so impressed that he emailed Matt Drudge. Breitbart said, "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do."[4] Breitbart described himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch"[10] and selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Later, Matt Drudge introduced him to Arianna Huffington, when she was still a Republican,[6] and Breitbart subsequently assisted Huffington, after she became a progressive, in creating her website.

Breitbart guest-hosted the Savage Nation talk radio program on several occasions.[citation needed] He also regularly fills in for Dennis Miller as host of Miller's nationally-syndicated radio show.[citation needed] 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. Breitbart also co-wrote the book Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon with Mark Ebner, a book that is highly critical of U.S. celebrity culture.[11]

Commentaries

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.[12]

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”[13] and "a special pile of human excrement."[14][15]

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." From the podium, Breitbart called Zernike "a despicable human being" for having made such allegations about Mattera's New York accent.[16]

Activism

Main article: Tea party movement

Breitbart often appears as a speaker at 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.[17] Breitbart later became involved in a controversy over alleged racial and homophobic slurs being used at a March 20, 2010 rally at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. by offering to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund "for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled"[18][19][20][21]

Websites

I'm committed to the destruction of the old media guard. And it's a very good business model.

— Andrew Breitbart, quoted by the Associated Press, August 3, 2010[22]

Breitbart has launched a number of websites, including Breitbart.com, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, and BigPeace.com.[citation needed]

Breitbart launched his first website as a news site; it is frequently[quantify] 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.[23]

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.[24] The site, an outgrowth of the column "Big Hollywood" that Breitbart wrote for the Washington Times, addresses issues facing conservatives who work in Hollywood.[25] In 2009, the site used audio from a secretly recorded conference call to accuse the National Endowment of the Arts of encouraging artists to create work in support of Barack Obama's domestic policy agenda.[26][27]

Breitbart launched BigGovernment.com on September 10, 2009.[28] He hired Mike Flynn, a former government affairs specialist at Reason Foundation,[29] as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government.[30] The site premiered with hidden camera video footage taken by Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now offices in various cities, attracting nationwide attention resulting in the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.

In January, 2010, Breitbart launched Big Journalism. He told Mediaite:[31] "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.[31] The site has a fictional contributor named "Retracto, the Correction Alpaca" who posts items requesting corrections from the traditional media.[32]

BigPeace.com debuted July 4, 2010. The site covers topics such as international issues and foreign policy, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, Islamic extremism, espionage, border security, and energy issues.[citation needed]

Controversies

Main article: Resignation of Shirley Sherrod

On July 19, 2010, shortly after the NAACP had expressed concern to the Tea Party movement for alleged racism, Breitbart posted two short videos showing brief excerpts of a speech by Shirley Sherrod at a NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2010 in which (according to Breitbart) Sherrod made racist statements.[33] In the following controversy, Sherrod was forced to resign from her position at the United States Department of Agriculture. The NAACP and Breitbart posted the complete 40-minute video of the speech the next day, revealing that Sherrod made the comments in a broader story about how she rose above racial considerations.[34][35] The NAACP stated that the video excerpts aired by Breitbart were deliberately deceptive and had "snookered" the group.[34][36] Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, later apologized to Sherrod and offered her a new job.[37]

Main article: ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy

Breitbart was also involved in the 2009 ACORN video scandal. He employed Hannah Giles[38][39] who posed as a prostitute while James O'Keefe clandestinely videotaped interviews with ACORN staff.[40] As in the Shirley Sherrod case, these videos were edited in such a way as to cause maximum embarrassment for ACORN,[41] and were instrumental in the group's demise.[42][43][44] Breitbart then provided a forum for O'Keefe on his BigGovernment.com website[45] and defended their actions on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel program.[46]

References

  1. ^ a b Beam, Christopher (July 22, 2010). "Breitbart's Back: The man behind the Shirley Sherrod shakeup". Salon.
  2. ^ a b c Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com Publisher C-SPAN, October 22, 2009. Breitbart referred to the "Democrat-Media complex" several times (from 14:45); demanded the host disconnect one caller, calling him a "creep" because he claimed that he witnessed Clarence Thomas renting pornography (from 16:00); defended the ACORN videos he published (from 18:15); stated conspiracy theories can be used to convince the poor that "the white man is out to get you" (23:15-24:30); said he is a limited government, low-tax conservative, sympathetic toward libertarian views, with a "libertine soft-spot" on issues of consensual behavior among adults (from 24.45).
  3. ^ Chideya, Farai. "Semper Fi Media", National Public radio, September 14, 2007. Accessed January 18, 2009. "The other person on the panel was Andrew Breitbart, who runs Breitbart.com, a news aggregator. That basically means that he culls what he considers the best of the news and puts it on one site. As it turns out, it's a profitable business. He's also an author, a blogger,"
  4. ^ a b c "Breitbart.com has Drudge to thank for its success". Cnet news. 2005. Retrieved 2009-07-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  5. ^ a b "Big Breitbart: Andrew Breitbart is messing with you. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine". www.slate.com. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
  6. ^ a b c "The Weekend Interview With Andrew Breitbart: Taking On the 'Democrat-Media Complex' - WSJ.com". online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  7. ^ Rice, Ned (2009-06-01). "Can Andrew Breitbart Save Hollywood?". Townhall. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  8. ^ McCain, Robert Stacy (2007-05-29). "'News addict' gets his fix". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  9. ^ Orson Bean (2005). "Sgt. Curtis Massey Was 41". Cnet news. Retrieved 2009-07-29. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "Lists: What's Your Source for That? Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information". ReasonOnline.com. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
  11. ^ Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon—The Case Against Celebrity, John Wiley & Sons
  12. ^ "National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)". www.nationalreview.com. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
  13. ^ "Not all Kennedy critics hold fire". Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  14. ^ "Compromise: what Pennsylvania lawmakers could learn from Ted Kennedy" (editorial), The Patriot-News (Pennsylvania), 28 August 2009. Accessed 24 September 2009.
  15. ^ "Opinion: Ted Kennedy, the liberal adversary to the conservative movement". www.digitaljournal.com. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
  16. ^ Benson, Guy. The New York Times Owes Jason Mattera an Apology, Big Journalism, February 19, 2010.
  17. ^ Breitbart Keynote Part 1 of 4, Nashville, February 2010 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
  18. ^ Breitbart, Andrew (April 2, 2010). "Barack Obama's Helter-Skelter, Insane Clown Posse, Alinsky Plans to 'Deconstruct' America". Big Journalism. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. ^ Alexander, Andrew (April 11, 2010). "Allegations of spitting and slurs at Capitol protest merit more reporting". Washington Post. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  20. ^ "Tea Party Protesters Dispute Reports of Slurs, Spitting Against Dem Lawmakers". Fox News. March 22, 2010. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  21. ^ Kane, Paul (March 20, 2010). "'Tea party' protesters accused of spitting on lawmaker, using slurs". The Washington Post. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  22. ^ Blood, Michael R. (August 3, 2010). "Breitbart: Enemy of the left with a laptop". Associated Press.
  23. ^ Owen, Rob. The next wave: Ex-WTAE anchor Scott Baker changes channel to run Web news site, Post-Gazette
  24. ^ "Breitbart's Conservative Alternative to Left-y Celebrity Blogs". Retrieved 2008-11-04.
  25. ^ "Hollywood Infidel". The New York Observer. March 16, 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
  26. ^ "'The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasuion". Big Hollywood. August 25, 2009.
  27. ^ "'Yosi Sergant Resigns". ABC News. September 24, 2009.
  28. ^ "New Political Blog 'Big Government' Launches Tomorrow". http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/. Retrieved 2009-06-14. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  29. ^ "Introducing Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, Edited by Mike Flynn", Nick Gillespie, reason.com, September 10, 2009
  30. ^ Author page for Mike Flynn Editor-in-Chief of Big Government
  31. ^ a b Exclusive Interview: Andrew Breitbart Announces Launch of New “Big” Sites Colby Hall, Mediaite, December 10th, 2009
  32. ^ Author page for "Retracto, the Correction Alpaca" at Big Journalism
  33. ^ Breitbart, Andrew (July 19, 2010). "Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism–2010". Big Government
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  34. ^ a b ""Anatomy of a Smear Campaign"". CNN. 2010-07-22.
  35. ^ "NAACP 'snookered' over video of former USDA employee". CNN. 2010-07-21.
  36. ^ "NAACP 'snookered' over video of former USDA employee". CNN. 2010-07-21.
  37. ^ Jalonick, Mary Clare; Evans, Ben (July 22, 2010). "Ag secretary offers Sherrod 'unique' position". Associated Press. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help)
  38. ^ http://biggovernment.com/contributors/
  39. ^ http://townhall.com/columnists/HannahGiles
  40. ^ Taylor, Andrew (September 14, 2009). "Senate votes to deny funds to ACORN". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
  41. ^ McDonough, Molly (2010-03-02). "NY Prosecutor Clears ACORN Workers in Pimp and Hooker Incident". ABA Journal. Retrieved 2010-03-02.
  42. ^ "House Votes to Strip Funding for ACORN". Fox News. 2009-09-17. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  43. ^ Lorber, Janie (December 11, 2009). "House Ban on Acorn Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional". The New York Times. p. A12. Retrieved February 1, 2010.
  44. ^ "ACORN disbanding because of money woes, scandal". 2010-03-22.
  45. ^ http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/11/on-why-i-dont-return-phone-calls-from-an-intrepid-cnn-producer/#
  46. ^ "Where Is Mainstream Media on Undercover ACORN Videos?". {{cite news}}: Text "2009-09-15" ignored (help)

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