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Exclusive Interview: Andrew Breitbart Announces Launch of New “Big” Sites

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bretibartWhen Andrew Breitbart launched Big Government in September, we asked if he was gearing up to be the next Arianna Huffington: An opinion blog rainmaker with a one-stop digital powerhouse, but presented from the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Three months later, hyperbole has become reality as Breitbart is adding to his network of vertical blogs. The newest site to join the Breitbart network is “Big Journalism,” which will launch in January of next year. His target is much bigger than HuffPo — or any other website for that matter. Breitbart is gunning for the institution of mainstream media, or what he calls “the Democratic-media complex.”

In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Breitbart shares his vision for his expanding network of “Big” right-of-center sites:

Though he’s not exactly a household name, Breitbart has long been a power player in the sphere of Internet influence and opinion. While he may be best known for serving as an editor for The Drudge Report, he also served as an early researcher and developer for The Huffington Post. Since setting out on his own, he’s created a number of sites: Breitbart.com is the core site, aggregating countless headlines from dozens of sites and newswires in real time; BreitbartTV performs a similar function with videos; and Big Hollywood and Big Government are conservative group blogs which cover entertainment and government policy, respectively.

Breitbart: “If these traditional media outlets can’t be shamed into telling the truth, diverted for doing the wrong story, for simply running defense for one party, and mocked away from creating journalistic rules that only hold those on the right accountable, then it puts us in a position to do more than we’ve done in the past with talk radio and web aggregation.”

In a phone interview with Mediaite, Breitbart says that his new sites will continue to “fight the mainstream media – New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN — who have repeatedly, and under the guise of objectivity and political neutrality, promoted a blatantly left-of-center, pro-Democratic party agenda.” Each site will focus on a different topic, but will follow the same groupblog-like model, which is currently employed by Big Hollywood and Big Government. Each will have a central editor who coordinates contributions, many from current and former journalists around the world.

Big Journalism will be run by former Time Magazine staffer Michael Walsh, who is also a former journalism professor and film & television professor at Boston University. Walsh and Breitbart met at a casual gathering of like-minded people and hit it off. When Breitbart made the decision to launch a new site covering journalism, he says that Walsh was first person that came to his mind. The fact that Walsh is a media veteran going back to the early 70s didn’t hurt, he said.

Walsh and Breitbart share a similar distaste for the day-to-day work of “institutional journalists.” In an interview, the new editor of Big Journalism boiled down the mission of the site thusly: “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 will be the go-to site for solidly backed-up stories, sharp points of view, and really great writing,” he said. “We are defenders of the First Amendment and resolute enemies of political correctness. That’s the key to the site’s philosophy.”

Breitbart feels that “if these traditional media outlets can’t be shamed into telling the truth, diverted for doing the wrong story, for simply running defense for one party, and mocked away from creating journalistic rules that only hold those on the right accountable, then it puts us in a position to do more than we’ve done in the past with talk radio and web aggregation. The market is wide open to go on the offensive, to tell truths that aren’t being told. The center-right alternative media has been playing a passable prevent defense, constantly saying ‘that’s not right’ for consistently biased reporting. Now we aim to offer more aggressive journalism and to give the mainstream media a little dose of its own medicine.”

So while Big Journalism is the next “big” thing, it’s only one part of what Breitbart hopes will become a much larger empire. He plans, in the not-too-distant future, to unveil new sites as part of his “Big” network, including Big Education, Big Tolerance, Big Jerusalem, and Big Peace, among others. Each site will be a mix of aggregation and group blogging. There will be overlap among the sites’ contributors: For example, if an Israeli politician wants to offer his perspective on a Hollywood film, he will be able to post something on a number of relevant sites.

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  • Jim R

    Good luck with all that, Andrew, and in court for your fabricated attacks on Acorn. There’s definetely an audience out there for what you’re peddling.

  • rmbltmbl

    COOL!

  • Gianrico

    I’ll reiterate what I said three months ago…Breitbart is a blowhard bloviating media-mogul-want-to-be…less interested in truth than self aggrandizement and tapping into the right wing money sucking machine. Targetting the less informed while appealing to their worse baser instincts. At the center, praying on their fears of “them” vs us, their ethnocentrism and underlying racism. If he were concerned with fraud in government or the direction of free-market disaster capitalism at the expense of democratic rights, he’d write about the privatization of the war machine under Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld and the fraud perpetuated on the American tax payers far worse than ACORN. He’ll disguise his rhetoric under the banner of “BIG” and “Faux” patriotism while denigrating anything Obama or Democratic policies while offering neigh a constructive commentary.

  • pavoldi

    Right on. Big Government (dot com) is fantastic.

  • rmbltmbl

    Yeah, I’m a totally stupid imbecile Gianrico! How DID you know??

  • germ

    Ahhh… you’ve got to love the smell of liberal envy in the morning.

    @ Jim R. –

    If you would actually read the truth instead of the Huff&Puff and KosKidsKoalition spin, you would know that Breitbart had nothing to do with the ACORN investigation until it was over. He simply bought the rights to the tapes.

  • ChrisNH

    ‘Big Journalism,’ huh? I can see the message boards now: “You’re DINOSAURS!” “NO we’re NOT!” “Yes you ARE!”

  • TfT

    Great news, I wish Andrew all the success in the world. The public has been so poorly served by the liberal lefties at ABC, CBS, and NBC and the double standards of Pinch and Keller and their cohorts in most of the print media. I look forward to the launch of his new sites.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jaded-Politico/525131131 Jaded Politico

    Andrew Breitbart is going to be the next Rupert Murdoch and Conservatives will have TWO places for the TRUTH instead of the lefties ABCNBCCBSMSLSDCNN and of course the APNYTIMESWASHINGTONPOST etc. It is amazing that I am fortunate enough to be able to see in my lifetime the LEFTIST media being hoisted on its deathbed. Their LIES and DECEIPT all of these years and their dripping contempt for the other political party in this country has disgusted me and there will be a place for ALL THE NEWS thats fit to print and not just picked apart under a liberal editor to “decide” what WE The People can “handle”

    Andrew is a HERO!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-H-Dennis/1039394005 David H Dennis

    Gianrico, I realize this must be news for you, but Barack Obama is now President. This means anything having to do with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield is yesterday’s news. Regardless of your political persuasion, today’s news is about those who are now in power.

    ACORN helped make Barack Obama President, and he has strong ties to them. As a result, ACORN’s transgressions are genuine news.

    I think it’s heartening that Breitbart is funding genuine journalistic efforts that many thought were vanishing thanks to the decline of newspapers. I’m sure that if I asked you about them, you would be complaining about their ethics. But I’d bet that you would be the first to applaud if they were aimed at Rumsfield, Cheney et al.

    I, for one, look forward to more and better reporting from Breitbart. And perhaps the Huffington Post and other lefty folks will do it on the right, and quality investigative journalism will survive on both sides of the political aisle.

    D

  • alwyr

    Gianrico says: “I’ll reiterate what I said three months ago….” Please, DON’T BOTHER. It was drivel 3 months ago, and it still is

  • Belmontian

    Gianrico,
    Your mustachio got my attention, but then I began to read what was on your mind…

  • conservativebabyboomer

    Thank you Andrew!!!! Know this one will be as good as the others. Looking forward to it.

  • Facebook User

    Hey liberals watch anyone can do it… If he were concerned with Inefficiency in government or the direction of colonial expansionism at the expense of royal tax levies and nobility rights, he’d write about the privatization of the war machine under King George, Cromwell and the Hudson Bay Corporation and the lack of representation perpetuated on the Colonial tax payers far worse than the East India Tea Company.
    Lets all play the retro blame game after all “we inherited this continent and its manifest problems”
    OK… everyone think of a historical event we can link by over 70 degrees of separation and verbosely link it to Obamas failure to be remotely adequate.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    @ Jim R says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm
    Good luck with all that, Andrew, and in court for your fabricated attacks on Acorn. There’s definetely an audience out there for what you’re peddling.
    *********************************************************

    What you call “fabricated attacks on Acorn,” the rest of us call “undercover videos.” Grow up already. And yes, there’s an audience for what Andrew is heroically doing – and they ain’t watchin’ the mainstream media anymore.

    Is it safe to say I think I’ve actually found one of Olbermann’s viewers? Or, HEY! Is that you, Bertha? Bertha/Jim?

  • Jim R

    I lean towards what the State Attorney General said about that, MsUnderestimated, and his depiction of the “creative splicing” in the video/audio.

  • rouths3@msn.com

    Congrats, Andrew on all of your ground-breaking reporting, and I wish you much success on all future endeavors. I come to your sites before I go to any news source when I log in in the mornings. You are the best at what you do. Continue to break news and Godspeed.

  • rmbltmbl

    Did you see the cookies at the Christmas party, Jim? You really think those kids are the ones in the wrong here?

  • misanthropicus

    Good news – the MSM is bent to controll the information and to inflict the liberal agenda by any means. A perfect example is just now on Fox, about a Maine journalist who was fire after the election in Nvember for responding in harsh terms to a pro-gay marriage group. Fired! Gon, kaput, no more – these are Stalin’s times – link bellow -

    “Anti-Gay Marriage Reporter Fired/”
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579947,00.html

  • insidecat

    I can’t wait for BIGEDUCATION – it’s been a scourge on America.

    Go Andrew!!

    Libs – go read your KOS and your Huffpo and whatever else you call NEWS

  • Yephora

    Ha! The Western Civilization hating socialists are already gnashing their teeth.
    Go Andrew!!

  • steadyjohn

    Gianrico: Btw, it’s “preying on their fears”!

  • mjdzfun

    “…Breitbart is a blowhard bloviating media-mogul-want-to-be…
    Targetting the less informed while appealing to their worse baser instincts.
    praying on their fears of “them” vs us,
    their ethnocentrism and underlying racism.
    He’ll disguise his rhetoric….denigrating anything Obama or Democratic policies while offering neigh a constructive commentary…”
    TRANSLATION: Americans are stupid, knuckle-dragging neanderthals that is the bane to we highly educated Blue State elites.

    Ah, I love the smell of Saul Alinsky in the morning as well as the next but is there any other tool in your toolbox, maybe another page in the playbook you could turn to save looking down your nose and snuffling out elementary school name calling to decent hard working Americans?

  • Nexialist

    Outlaw public employee unions and quit funding groups that want to destroy America.

  • Jim R

    Yes, let’s quit funding groups that want to destroy America.

    Starting with Halibutorn, who electrocuted at least 18 of our troops by hiring hack electrician subcontractors just to increase their already bloated profits.

    Then moving on to Blackwater/XE, who besmirched America by wantonly executing innocent civilians on Iraq.

    Need I go on? Public unions? Please.

  • stargirl

    mr breitbart’s first task should be to stop using the term “mainstream media.” they are NOT the mainstream.
    after some thought, i suggest we call them the “”minor media.”
    this is an apt description of people whose minds are as small as the number of people in this country whose views they represent.

  • disgusted

    We’re ALL with you – as long as this isn’t a “publicity” stunt – like the wwh!

  • marquis

    Jim R douche of the year??
    “Then moving on to Blackwater/XE, who besmirched America by wantonly executing innocent civilians on Iraq.”
    America…always the villian in the minds of the liberals…ever notice how they love that word “besmirched”…whinyass beeyotch is all this dude is.

  • ImNotBlue

    Jim R says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Yeah those, “fake hidden camera” things he did… which caused ACORN to fire people… were all phony, even though they really fired those people.

    Gianrico says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Great point… I wish more people lived by the “if you didn’t complain about the things important to ME under Bush, you shouldn’t be allowed to say ANYTHING now!” Of course, you should also remember that for this to work, it should only be applied to folks on the right. If we start applying it to EVERYONE… well, then a lot of people (Keith “I was against FISA before I was for it” Olbermann) wouldn’t be talking.

    Oh, and thanks for pointing out the “racism” angle too. I was worried someone wouldn’t figure out how to apply race to this non-racial story.

  • justinwalter

    Andrew and those at Big Govt and those who post here frequently say Adrianna who? Andrew knows good journalism starts with investigation, sources and truth. Where MIZ Huffington loves her “say the lie often enough and it will be come the truth” form of “journalism”.
    Tea Bags

  • B2slim

    Learn to spell Breitbart,

    I predict 2012,

    the guy is clean as the pure driven snow

    Conservative

    and knows how to “FACT” check everything, knows where he stands legally
    and knows all about all of the issues.

  • B2slim

    HOW about BIG LIARS

    JOHN EDWARDS comes to mind

    AL GORE comes to mind, earth interior is 2 million degress, giggle giggle giggle giggle and his
    illiterate ga ga parasites believe his ___________C

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Stephen-LaBelle/1385348097 Mark Stephen LaBelle

    Hey Gianrico….. your mom wants you in now, its getting late. Don’t worry the adults will continue the conversation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Stephen-LaBelle/1385348097 Mark Stephen LaBelle

    Andrew, most Americans cannot wait for you to get this up and running. We need real honest news for a change. There are so few of you left. God Bless you and all Americans seeking truth…

  • Snipzor

    @Mark

    Yeah, because that’s exactly what we need. A carbon copy of every other right-wing political website out there, because we’re totally in heavy need of it. Another scientific illiterate, gay hating, constitutional ignorant, fear mongering, website. Great.

  • chicharrone

    Once in a bizarre outburst, Mr. Brietbart insulted my attire at a dinner party in Pacific Palisades (and he has a way to go in this department himself, regardless of the rudeness he exhibited out-of-the-blue in a friendly social setting).

    That evening he admitted he blew events out of proportion in “Hollywood Interrupted” to hype sales, and that he did not endorse some of his critiques, that it was part of his shtick. It is OK to write something nasty in a book, and speak warmly of the same public figure to a small circle of friends? Hypocrisy speak thy name!

    And how about this encomium for his book, “Hollywood Interrupted”: “This book blew me away. It’s more than I wanted to know, but I couldn’t stop reading it.”—Orson Bean, actor

    Gee Mr. Brietbart, Orson Bean wouldn’t happen to be your father-in-law, would he? No need to go the full-disclosure route, that is for MSM hacks, not pithy, erudite olympians such as yourself. On publishers row its called “logrolling.”

    I shudder for the republic I used to call home~

  • Killing Hours

    Snipzor says:

    “Yeah, because that’s exactly what we need. A carbon copy of every other right-wing political website out there, because we’re totally in heavy need of it. Another scientific illiterate, gay hating, constitutional ignorant, fear mongering, website. Great.”

    Yep… what we really need is another common sense lacking, straight hating, constitutionally retarded, fear mongering (i.e health crisis, h1n1 crisis, financial crisis, climate crisis), intolerant (think religion) website. Don’t have enough of those hanging around the net or on t.v.

    Seems you can’t even rub enough brain cells together to formulate an argument based in “facts”. Maybe it’s time for you to go back to the Nick Jr. website and continue playing the spongebob games,… Leave the grown up matters to the adults younglin. Run along now.

  • changemonger

    @gianrico:

    Its funny you should mention the “misinformed”. With CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, HLN, NYT, LAT, and YOU— all here to serve mankind—yet there are still “misinformed” people???? Simply Amazing!

    Save your compilation of NPR words, lightly strung together in a manner you weren’t even sure of. It reaks of blowhardedness. Yeah, I said blowhardedness.

    It also amazes me that anyone with a home, a car, clothes, and food would criticize capitalism. The very luxeries you use to spew your contempt (computer / internet and all facets therein) are only there because a capitalist made it possible. Capitalists innovate, capitalists produce, capitalists employ, capitalist pave the roads with tax dollars, and capitalism is why we have the wealth to help the nations we do. But you’ll focus on the few big companies that get national attention, while ignoring the neighbor down the street who can’t hire anyone because the current admististrations about to regulate the hell out of is industry.

    And finally… heres why Obama is not going to get elected again. The first time voters did their part… some got out of bed that day, some skipped Judge Judy, some left the shelters, and others got out of line at the welfare office to go vote for him. They voted for hope, they voted for change….but the checks never came. Do you really think they’re going to do that again? No. Theyre going to go back to bed, jump back in line, and brace themselves for another decade of blaming someone else.

  • Snipzor

    “Yep… what we really need is another common sense lacking, straight hating, constitutionally retarded, fear mongering (i.e health crisis, h1n1 crisis, financial crisis, climate crisis), intolerant (think religion) website. Don’t have enough of those hanging around the net or on t.v.”

    Point me in the direction of a straight hating populist blog. In the middle of that, point to a “fear mongering” populist blog that doesn’t have scientific/documented sources for many of their claims. While doing that, show me how the Christian religion has been attacked unfairly despite majority share they hold and the thousands of years of complete bigotry they have pushed themselves. When done with all of that, don’t come back with a lazy Ad hominem attack, it makes you look stupid.

    /I would have bothered with the other claims you’ve made, but it would have been semantics

  • Paul_D

    Kudos to Breitbart on the new endeavor. There was no way that only two blogs provided enough room for conservatives to blame their failed careers on others.

  • campbell62

    This is the best news I have received in months. I love both Breitbart’s websites and visit them often, and now there will be more, yahoo! Imaging black conservatives will have a site to promote their ideas; they have to be the group receiving the most prejudice in America today. I have wondered how we can ever take back our schools, now I know, parents will be empowered to stop the brainwashing of our children with the likes of our present so called Safe School Czar and the Soros group. Breitbart you are an American Hero!

  • Frank-Malvern PA

    Andrew you rock! Judging by some of the comments from the libs, they are upset with your new venture. They can continue to watch the big mouth (C.M.) with urine running down his legs or the other loud mouth (K.O.) who is afraid to have any guests with an opposing pov, or Rachel Madcow, the K.O. look a like.
    The fact that the libs are so upset tells me a lot about their lack of intellectual curiosity and depth.
    We all need to unite to make sure that Obama and his ilk are defeated at the next election.

  • Facebook User

    And Breitbart is doing all this in a free market CAPITALIST system!
    He’s not using Soros or Taxpayer money- as Obama is!

    I support Andrew in all that he does- and this NEWEST concept is nothing less than another stroke of genius!

    Old, party line Democrats (especially Jews) need to realize that the machine currently in power now- is NOT their Grandpa’s Democrat Party. They are Left-wing, Liberal Statist, Marxist, Communist Ideologues who are bent on destroying MY GREAT COUNTRY.
    They need to be educated.

    Right there with Andrew and his colleagues- and I hope to see MILLIONS of like-minded, intelligent people there as well.

  • OldMediaType

    Go for it Andrew! As a former reporter with 15 years experience in Washington, my blood boils at the liberal slant in the MSM. From phony poll methodology to the misrepresentation of poll results to the “stacking of facts” in support of a liberal “narrative,” the MSM is no longer a watchdog but an administration lapdog. The work those kids did on ACORN restored my faith that there can be a new generation of journalists who will dig up dirt, force people to resign in disgrace while sending others to jail. And continue to shine a bright light on the media’s failure to do its job. So many of my old news colleagues in Washington still don’t get it. Go get “em!

  • campbell62

    Andrew you have changed America. Your ACORN story has educated America on just what corrupt enterprises were being funded with our taxpayer money. And now the courts are saying that we have to honor the contracts. Let’s see if congress takes the right road and makes sure that ACORN does not receive any more contracts, and finds legal ways out of the ones left!

    And now we learn just who Obama has put in a powerful Czar positon to keep our school safe. Is there anyhing more despicable than this evolving story? How long until he is gone? It won’t be soon enough. Kevin Jennings has to go, he should be in prison, this is pedophilia at its worst.
    I cannot wait until the new sites are up and running. Thank you, thank you , thank you!

  • Facebook User

    Andrew,

    I wish you much sucess! Taking on the MSM is a daunting task, I know because I haver been trying the same thing on my site (regarding economic conditions) but I get attacked for going against the MSM, too many people have already been ‘programmed’ I guess.

    At times I feel that the people of the USA are simply being programmed (indirectly) into what to buy, what to think, and to feel good about the Government in spite of the yet still growing economic calamity facing the nation. Once again Andrew, good work and best of future sucess to you.
    Chuck
    RebelTraders
    http://blog.rebeltraders.net

  • doug

    You right wingers should read “American Fascists” by Henry Wallace, Vice President, 1944.

    Right wingers say “Government is corrupt!” Yet they never ask who is corrupting our government? Where is the money coming from and why?

    Right wingers like to complain that the media is unfair to the likes of Sarah Palin for pointing out her lack of depth and education, for making fun of her family, etc. Yet they never object when Hannity refers to websites like WND.com who regularly question the very Americanism of Obama. They question his religion and pass around emails depicting watermelons on the white house lawn and Michelle Obama as a Guerilla. Not a thing to say about that.

    Right wingers have NOTHING TO SAY about 8 years of Bush and 12 years of Republicanism, as if it has NOTHING TO DO with today. No, forget about that, the answer is that Obama has destroyed the country! Let’s give the power back to Republicans!

    Right wingers salivate over Reagen. Trickle down! Trickle down! Still think that works? Really? Oh, I guess Sean Hannity said so, it must be true!

    Right wingers LOVE to describe themselves as defenders of free market capitalism. But they never acknowledge that ANY system in it’s extreme form can become dangerous whereby a few private citizens through corporations can control the”free” market, corrupt our political systems and directly impact our daily lives. At least we can vote out politicians. WE THE PEOPLE are sitting ducks to bloated, powerful, unaccountable corporate thugs.

    Right wingers think that the Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh are telling the truth. Do they ever question these people? Do they know who they work for and how much they are being paid? Or are they just simply not interested in discovering lies and hypocrisy as their pupils blacken with hate and rage in response to the carefully constructed narratives being downloaded 24/7 into their softened brains.

    Teabagger American Fascism continues to be virulent. But your numbers are dwindling as purify yourselves in a bath of homogeneous rhetoric uttered by the likes of a Beauty Queen and a Recovering Alcoholic.

    You have nothing we want.

  • Frank-Malvern PA

    Dear Doug:
    Of course we have nothing you want, because freedom, justice, the truth, honesty and integrity are all we have to offer. So my left wing friend, stay away and continue to wet your pants with your pal Chris Matthews and puff up your chest with the intellectual midget, Kieth O.
    It is said that empty cans make the most noise and your comments prove it..

  • doug

    Yeah that’s it. I don’t want freedom, justice, truth and honesty. You really made a point there. And then you throw in a cliche. How effective. Looks like you got it all figured out. Screw intellectualism. Let’s all be dumb. The cave men were free, right?

    Right wingers always yell about how Democrats are socialist and want to destroy America. Yet they get mad when we call them Fascists. They don’t debate the point at all but rather yell about Keith Olbermann.

    Right wingers love to yell about freedom, justice and truth without really knowing what they are saying. What freedom have you lost exactly? Did your freedom go up or down during Republican rule? Justice and Truth? You think Republicans and the Australian Rupert Murdoch are going to give your that? What if, just if, Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh are shills for corporate America who are skilled at pushing a narrative that is meant to create fear in YOU, divide US for the benefit of their corporate masters? Is that so impossible to comprehend?

    Or could it be TRUTH you see dearly seek?

  • honeyd

    Wonderful news.

  • Frank-Malvern PA

    Dear Doug:
    I think that you’ve been brain washed my friend. You certainly have it all figured out, don’t you. What puzzles me is why you keep hanging around here. If our views are so repugnant and wrong then why are you so threatened by them?
    What if, just if, your “thought leaders” are wrong and are just leading this country down the road to socialism and perhaps communism.
    The mo for the modern progressive is nothing more than: From each according to their ability and to each according to their need! Have you got that comrade?
    Doug, please wake up before it’s too late. After being a liberal thinker for about 45 years, the turning point for me was 9/11. I had a epiphany. I finally realized that neither the Ds nor the Rs speak for me. I subscribe to a conservative, libertarian philosophy. We need more Ron Paul types to run this country.

  • Brumby

    Dear Doug,
    First, let me thank you for the reading assignment. Wallace DID have some interesting things to say about American Fascists. Here’s a quote we all might like:

    “The really dangerous American fascists,” Wallace wrote, “are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those.
    “The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
    “The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
    ” With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”

    Hmmm–that last sentence sounds an AWFUL lot like Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al., doesn’t it? Let’s use the news media, as well as our bully pulpit, to grossly exaggerate, distort facts, and outright lie about the state of health care provision in this country so we can–guess what?–get more money and more power. Let’s shut down any discussion, scientific and otherwise, that raises legitimate questions about AGW–let’s say “the science is settled” while we tell apocolyptic tales of what will happen if the brave, uber-smart politicians can’t get in there and save us at the last minute. Why? Oh yeah–so we can get more power and more money. Let’s exaggerate about the economic situation so we can go in and take over theauto industry and get our foot (substantially) in the door of the banking industry (a VERY fascist thing to do, I think you would agree–oh wait–I know you won’t). And why do these things? Oh yeah–to get more power and more money. And as an added bonus, we can quadruple our debt and thus prepare the way for an avalanche of new taxes on the American public. And why? Oh yeah–more power and more money!

    At least as a left-winger you have admitted what many of us have been saying for months–Obama is a fascist!!

  • Brumby

    Dear Doug,
    As long as we’re just chatting here, why don’t I address your last post too? You had some very specific points and asked some very poignant questions, and Im sure you’re just waiting with bated breath for those answers. Surely you’re not the type that assumes you already know the answers to the questions you ask of others are you? So let’s see:

    “Right wingers always yell about how Democrats are socialist and want to destroy America.” I have 2 responses to this. The first is the rather sophomoric (but nonetheless valid) argument of “So? Left wingers always yell about how Republicans are fascists and want to destroy America” (which you actually kinda sorta do in your next sentence). Second, we pretty much HAVE to yell–what with the left essentially OWNING the media (NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, BET, Comedy Channel, NPR, Time-Warner, Gannett, etc., etc., etc.), our only choice IS to yell, just to be heard above all the noise.

    “Yet they get mad when we call them Fascists.” See above. Also see my first post, where it appeared that you agreed with me that Obama IS a fascist. Nonetheless, fascism can actually be defined loosely as “state control of private enterprise”, or, as Mussolini preferred, “Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” It is actually more of a LEFT-wing concept than a right–remember, we’re the ones who DON’T trust the government. And Obama sure DOES like those auto companies and those banks. So if we get mad, it’s probably just because you mislabelled us.

    “They don’t debate the point at all but rather yell about Keith Olbermann.” A). There is no point to debate–see above. Today’s left wingers have both socialistic AND fascistic tendencies. B). I RARELY see posts about Keith Olbermann, although the web is LITTERED with derogatory posts about Hannity, LImbaugh, and Beck. After all, look at YOUR post.

    “Right wingers love to yell about freedom, justice and truth without really knowing what they are saying.” Why yes, we DO love to yell about freedom, justice and truth. We just wish YOU would love it, too. Don’t know what you mean about not knowing what we’re saying–despite what you left wingers think, they’re actually fairly simple concepts.

    “What freedom have you lost exactly? ” None YET. But in the not too distant future, I stand a VERY GOOD chance of losing my ability to choose my own health insurance, not to mention my own doctor, and I will lose the ability to decide (between my doctor and me) what my plan of care will be. And I’ll have the pleasure of paying out the A$$ for that loss of freedom. I will lose a lot of my freedom when the government confiscates more and more of my salary to pay for bloated and corrupt government programs. I will lose even MORE freedom if Copenhagen and Cap And Trade get passed–not just monetarily, but limits will be put on ALL of us re: travel, purchasing of various consumer goods, etc.

    “Did your freedom go up or down during Republican rule?” Let me guess–Patriot Act, right? (Which Obama is essentially keeping intact, by the way.) Well, my freedoms stayed just about the same. And unless you were a terrorist or were colluding with terrorists, your freedom would have remained the same too, leftist propaganda notwithstanding.

    “Justice and Truth? You think Republicans and the Australian Rupert Murdoch are going to give your that?” Actually, I don’t trust ANYONE to giveme justice and truth, especially politicians (remember that “not trusting the government” thing?). But I sure as hell trust Republicans and Rupert Murdoch more than I trust the Democrats and George Soros.

    “What if, just if, Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh are shills for corporate America who are skilled at pushing a narrative that is meant to create fear in YOU, divide US for the benefit of their corporate masters? Is that so impossible to comprehend?” Not so hard to comprehend–it’s just that I have never seen a single SHRED of evidence to support this oft-repeated claim. And you dare accuse them of fear-mongering and divisiveness? Have you ever even HEARD Obama, Pelosi, or Reid say ANYTHING? If they’re not trying to scare us to death, they’re ACTIVELY trying to turn people against each other–rich vs. poor, black vs. white, doctor vs. patient, old vs. young, male vs. female–you name it.

    “Or could it be TRUTH you see dearly seek?” Why, yes, it is. You ought to try it sometime!!

  • I Vote

    Hooray for Breitbart — Tip those rocks over and let’s all have a good look at those “fat cat” unions such as SEIU and NEA (you know, the union that lists Alinsky as recommended reading). I look forward to learning more about the EU, and can’t wait to see what’s under the hood at Big Tolerance.

    Liberals’ heads have just got to be spinning, because their image is SO busted. I’m looking forward to news for adults.

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  • Magus

    Brumby: No, that does not sound anything at all like “Obama, Pelosi, Reid, et al.” It sounds far more akin to the right-wing propaganda machine that Breitbart is such an enthusiastic contributor to. It has always been the right that’s relied on deception to gain power. For example, you bring up global warming. The actual deception is firming on the part of people like you who LIE to claim the science is unclear, when in fact it IS settled. But I would never expect honesty from someone who claims that there’s a liberal dominance of the media, when nothing could be further from the case..

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