Breitbart on the Importance of Media & Culture
by Michael van der GalienIt may strike some readers as rather odd, but it seems that Big Hollywood didn’t spend any time or attention on the speech the founder of this blog, Andrew Breitbart, recently gave at the first ever New Media event at the Union Pub in Washington, D.C., hosted by Americans for Limited Government and NetRightNation.com.
The speech was awesome, if not brilliant and it deserves more curculation than it has thus far received. Andrew said some very important things during the speech; conservatives in the United States and Europe should pay heed.
“I really think that the only way that the conservative movement… people that want limited government, the only way we’re ever going to be able to sell the idea is if we learn that the media is the message,” said Breitbart to an audience of new media personnel of not-for-profit organizations, conservative bloggers, and radio staff.
“We have like a ten to twenty year battle on our hands,” the co-founder of Big Hollywood, the group blog that features contributions from high profile Hollywood conservatives, said he tells GOP Congressmen in Washington, encouraging them to “stop acting like your great, great grandfather, and not be afraid of pop culture.”
You can watch the entire speech below:
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It's amazing, and quite refreshing- just how quickly Mr Breitbart has become a hugely influential force on the new conservative scene. As one might expect, the speech is both informative and funny… looks like a nice pale ale, too-dontcha think?
Who is this "Andrew Breitbart" you mention?
he does a mean Dennis Miller show, that's for sure!
Thaddeus has been on red eye several times. He is a hoot. Gives as good as he gets, and dead pan to the point of pain, however his rapier-like wit is spot on. This guy is going places… now only if he smiled.
Congratulations Andrew B – you are on the frontlines and the message is working.
Powerful message. Nice hair.
I don't know, but I hear that ‘Alexander Hamilton’ hairdo is all the rage in Hollywood circles.
I don't know, but I hear that ‘Alexander Hamilton’ hairdo is all the rage in Hollywood circles.
As an aside, has anybody noticed that Bernie Maddoff has "Thomas Jefferson" hair?
Never heard of the guy. Wasn't he a character in a Goethe novel?
You're thinking of Obamastopheles.
Breitbart speaks much truth, here, and it's a message far too many of us are just not getting.
…He also looks like a hobo in this video. I see what he was -trying- to do, being fashionably unshaven and hip, but with the hair, the scruff, and the drink in his hand he looks like alcoholic Uncle Andy standing up to embarrass everyone at a wedding reception.
Breitbart speaks much truth, here, and it's a message far too many of us are just not getting.
…He also looks like a hobo in this video. I see what he was -trying- to do, being fashionably unshaven and hip, but with the hair, the scruff, and the drink in his hand he looks like alcoholic Uncle Andy standing up to embarrass everyone at a wedding reception.
Thaddeus indeed rocks, I'm quickly becoming a huge fan of his. I loved his story about playing "Free Bird" at one of the White House picnics on Red Eye, and the zinger about getting a life sized replica of Gutfeld to put his drink on was comedy gold.
Yes, yes I had noticed that. I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought it too. LOL
He's a world famous chest grabbing whilst shaking it like a stripper guy…the good (or bad depending on your point of view) thing is that he seems to mostly do it to himself, while on TV. I think he just does it to keep TV's Andy Levy from giving him guff though.
Yes, I said "guff" it seemed applicable what with all the other Federalist references on the thread.
On February 5 an email with a simple "please call" with a cell phone number and a first name, andrew, in small case letters, was waiting for me. It turned out to be the "Andrew Breitbart" and he asked me if I'd post my "A Call To Artists" video on this thing called Big Hollywood. Andrew was the only media (I know it's a bad word) person to take an interest and give me, a regular guy, a forum to reach out to a larger audience. He also gave me a standing invitation to post regularly, this despite my complete lack of experience and my limited writing skills.
Andrew Breitbart walks the talk!!!
My son told me about the site and I thought it was about the "Simpson's" wav quotes.
Very glad to have found it and the people here as well…..LOL
amazing that technology can even penetrate even the backwoods of Arkansas !!!
This has been a gem of a site. And the way it's growing, I think in a year (or less) it will start to be quite influential in some of the right places.
Andrew, you seemed to really drive home the point about distribution being a huge problem followed by left critics. I don't know crap about the behind the scenes industry, but is it possible to produce some of these conservative scripts (sitcom, short film, etc.) for the web? Use, oh, say, this site and get sponsors (It looks like you're getting ad sponsorship on this site) and show them here. Kind of like hulu.com. Build up an archive and a following. Screw distributors and critics. I have a feeling the web is going to be the hub of future movie distribution anyway, just get a jump on it. We would watch. (I'm sure I'm simplistic and naive.)
And can you get Thaddeus on here? Doing something? Teaching classes in how to not be stuffy to conservative congressmen?
Interesting talk – and I think Andrew made some good points. And he is a long term thinker. Interesting comment he made about Bill Maher – (warning the audience that Andrew was a conservative beforehand).
Thaddeus had a column here not to long ago i believe, Suzie…
Especially once we come up with a snappy name for the cabal.
I was thinking Ben Franklin, but now that you mention it, I guess it is a little more TJ. Huh.
I love the fact he doesn't smile. Kinda has shades of Bob Newhart there. McCotter does indeed rock. Several chicks here were wanting to know his marital status after his first RedEye appearance. If I wasn't married, I know I'd be mucho interested. Love a man with a rapier. Uh, wit.
You do just fine with your writing skills, Alvaro! And some of us here love your art, AND your heart.
Indeed. Those people in the audience, much like the ones at The View, and Jerry Springer, are not usually the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree, and have to be told in a pavlovian manner when to clap, hiss, and boo. I do not watch drivel like that, and am embarassed there are people that partake of that mind numbing type of ignorance in this country.
Thanks, Bill. I'd like to see him become a regular.
The difference with the Democrats is that not only do they take advantage of pop culture, they become it. Look at President Obama. He's like the American Idol president. I'm not sure Republicans have the stomach to take that leap. But, you are absolutely correct: The Republicans have to do a better job of using the media and not always playing offense with it.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
I was going to say Albert Einstein.
Handsome AND smart. A great combination.
Thanks for the comments y'all. Yes, Andrew made some important points – which is why I published his speech here and at other places (even at a big Dutch conservative blog). This is about Hollywood and the American media, but it's also about Europe. It's sthe same everywhere: liberals dominate, conservatives are pushed into a corner. As Andrew explained, the only way for us to do something about that is to become aggressive and pro-active. Don't play the victim, take matters into your own hands.
Enjoyed watching AB's comments. Being from the era of RR, I understand the quantum leap, or stumble, in group-dress. Political victory is comprised in winning the mind of the populous as well as their hearts. To do this we must first get their attention. Changing our approach and our outward identity does not denigrate our message or what we hope to accomplish. I think what Andrew suggests is the approach most likely to accomplish our goals.
Well, other than a rather ideological club…
Josh,
I wish it was on purpose because you're rationale sounds like a great premise! I had just landed at Dulles Airport and didn't have time to check into my hotel to shave or to put goop in my hair. And when I got to the event — at a bar — they asked me if I wanted a beer. Hell, yeah! Next thing I know I'm being asked to talk to the group on camera. I had no idea I was supposed to talk. Thankfully I like to hear myself.
Love,
Uncle Andy
Hobo
I live in Asheville, NC and the hippie-ness here is so bad that one fears to leave your car downtown with a conservative sticker. These are a bunch of young, "progressive" liberals that will NOT HEAR a differing point of view. They shut down and start shouting you down or calling you names. I asked one person if they could do one of two things, a) give their opponents a stage to voice their views (if those views are so absurd, people would hear it and avoid them), or b) shut their opponents down so that nobody would hear a different point of view, which would they choose. This person chose b, as well as other "progressives" I asked. Isn't THAT the same facism they accused Bush of? And how do you think we reach or debate these people?
I had a similar experience, Alvaro and thus have gained a whole new perspective on what it means to be conservative in Hollywood. As an actor, I am proud to be part of a group of like minded artists who share many of my values. The added bonus of new friendships as a result of the people I've met through Big Hollywood only
makes it that much sweeter.
I'm not trying to publicly embarrass Uncle Andy up there but yeah…the man's a mensch.
Okay, so now I look dumb, but I am glad my assessment was so far off the mark. I was drawing all kinds of inferences when you were talking about conservatives needing to loosen up.
I'm wondering if the Conservative reticence to jump in to the fray of Pop Culture has to do with the fact that Pop Culture itself has become so coarsened over the years. It's who can out do who — an Outrage-a-Thon. I'm picturing an attitude that prefers to stay 'above the fray' as the degeneration accelerates.
But I'm with Andrew! Let's roll up our sleeves and dive in — up to our red necks! No reason we should abdicate the prize to the barbarians. Screw that — Conservative is the new Cool.
And Andrew… Ya gotta love a guy making a taped speech with a beer in his hand. Ha!
Conservative Cool.
Very good points and I agree. The other thing is Conservative has always been cool, but it's just now some of those mushy middle of the road types are finally starting to realize what we've known all along.
Oftentimes when I get into debates with my liberal friends, and they're whining about this, or that, or the other thing I pull out the Sean Connery quote from "The Rock": "Your "best"!? Losers always whine about doing their best. Winners go home and (screw) the prom queen." Either that or the Yoda one about "Do or do not…" It either makes them rethink things, switches the debate to one about movies, or they shut up and go away. I call any of those outcomes a win.
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