Andrew Breitbart - Righteous Indignation

Copyright 2011 by Andrew Breitbart

Weinergate Copyright 2012 by Andrew Breitbart

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Andrew Breitbart is an invaluable asset to the Commonsense Conservative cause. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and call-to-action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions. Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our countrys future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

Sarah Palin

RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION starts off where many conservatives are born: after college, when liberalisms theoretical utopia begins to clash with the real world. Gen X slacker Breitbart transforms himselfwith a little help from yours trulyinto a cultural warrior, a New Media powerhouse, and one of the conservative movements most ferocious fighters. Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent, Breitbart and his Big sites put liberals on the defensivewhere they belong.

Rush Limbaugh

[Weaves] a narrative that will remind many readers of their own lives. Even if you dont share all of Andrews political beliefs, you will find yourself identifying with at least some of his story and conclusions. The book is part biography, part history lesson, and part manifesto, and it flows with clarity of purpose from one page to the next. It subtly draws you into a narrative, strung through the whole book, where he meticulously makes the case against the media and pop culture, which, he argues, help spread and normalize the liberal agenda. He also explains how to combat that agenda.

DailyCaller.com

Right smack in the middle of this volume is where Mr. Breitbarts narrative takes off like a rocket.

Washington Times

To my dad, Gerald Breitbart, and Clarence Thomasboth decent men who inspired me to act

In June 2009, I didnt know much about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). My attitude toward it was a generic conservatives attitude: I knew that the lack of interest the mainstream media were showing in ACORNespecially with all the accusations leveled against it regarding its illegal voter fraud and ties with the Democratic Partymeant that there had to be something really, truly horrific about it. Whenever theres smoke and the leftist media arent calling 911, that means theres a huge fire raging out of control somewhere.

But beyond that, I had read only what everyone else had read every election cycle. I had read that ACORN acted as a kind of street army on behalf of Progressive interests, working to get Democrats registered for voting, working to get people on public assistance in the name of social justiceand I had read that because of its goals, ACORN was granted absolute protection under the cover of law and the medias willful blindness. I knew that Barack Obama had put ACORN in charge of large swaths of the Census. My e-mail tip box was always filled with questions from readers asking, What are we going to do about ACORNs Census involvement?

In 2010, the White House announced that for the 2010 Census, ACORN would recruit 1.4 million workers to go door-to-door counting every person in the country. This in spite of the fact that ACORN had been linked with severe voter fraud in states ranging from Washington to Pennsylvania.

So people were worried. But ACORN was not my number one target by any stretch of the imagination.

Then a young man named James OKeefe walked into my office.

He showed me a set of videos.

My jaw dropped.

After I watched the videos, there was silence. Then he turned to me and said, Were going to take down ACORN.

No, I replied. Were going to take down the media.

The September 10, 2009, launch of BigGovernment.com did something President Obama couldnt: it created the first and only bipartisan vote of consequence of his presidencythe congressional defunding of ACORN, a social and economic justice advocacy organization key to the electoral infrastructure of the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party and a menacing and destructive community organizing group central to Barack Obamas postHarvard Law years. Within a week of an unorthodox, strategically crafted, staggered release of a series of five videos depicting ACORN workers aiding and abetting a fake pimp and prostitute trying to set up an elaborate sex slave operation, Congress voted unanimously to defund ACORN.

That momentous week changed my life forever. And I believe it helped instigate a winnable New Media war against the Progressive movement and its standard-bearer, President Obama, as well as the vast left-wing media apparatus that rigs the national narrative in the pursuit of partisan politics.

The incredibly courageous work of James OKeefe (The Pimp), then a twenty-five-year-old investigative journalist-cum-Borat of the right, and Hannah Giles, not yet twenty-one at the point of launching the caper, acted as a catalyst for a demoralized conservative movement.

The Hope and Change had begun to wear off in the latter part of the summer of 09, and the Tea Party movement had already begun. But the conservative movement lacked a clear victory to rally the troops around. The ACORN videos became the rallying point of a resurgent conservatism and served as a wake-up call to millions of patriotic Americans that individuals can make a huge difference, especially now with an empowered, media-savvy, Internet army.

Thats right, an army.

Make no mistake: America is in a media war. It is an extension of the Cold War that never ended but shifted to an electronic front. The war between freedom and statism ended geographically when the Berlin Wall fell. But the existential battle never ceased.

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the battle simply took a different form. Instead of missiles the new weapon was language and education, and the international left had successfully constructed a global infrastructure to get its message out.

Schools. Newspapers. Network news. Art. Music. Film. Television.

For decades the left understood the importance of education, art, and messaging.

Oprah Winfrey gets it. David Geffen gets it. Bono gets it. President Barack Obama gets it. Even Corey Feldman gets it.