From NPR’s “All Things Considered”:
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Conservative Blogger Faces Criticism Over Protege, by DAVID FOLKENFLIK
The conservative online news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart is, for the moment, doing little to dispel stereotypes about bloggers. During a recent visit to his home on the west side of Los Angeles, Breitbart, 41, is working from his own basement. Barefoot. At the beck and call of his own kids.
But that basement is light and airy, with a decent view of the city. A young assistant works there with Breitbart to help funnel wire service stories to Breitbart.com, his main news aggregation site. And his reach, thanks to a brawling rhetorical style and a protege who taped the undercover ACORN videos last year, is only expanding.
Over the past year, Breitbart has hired editors to run a new network of conservative blogs called BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com and BigJournalism.com. No matter the focus, the media are a prime target throughout.
“They want to control the narrative,” Breitbart says. “I’m saying, ‘No more!’ The new media has freed it up. I’m sorry, mainstream media. It’s over. Your ability to control the narrative is over.”
New Fodder
He can talk that way for hours — and finds fresh grist all over. The media have devoted intense coverage to the late-January arrest of James O’Keefe, the 25-year-old videographer and conservative provocateur. He was charged with trying to get into Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s federal office in New Orleans under false pretenses to commit a felony. And O’Keefe is also under contract to write for BigGovernment.com.
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Following that logic then a true conservative was a Father Coughlin fan and a member of America First or the German-American Bund. No thanks I think I'll stick to the conservative principals of the Constitution and ignore the racists and the anti-Semites.
You wouldn't know "Zionism" if it came up and bit you in the ass. STFU anti-semetic troll
Please refrain from engaging the TROLL…Just a waste of time and space…
You know you're over the target when the NYT even acknowledges you……Gettin to 'em Andrew…
Go, Breitbart!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze! I cover my eyes, and my ears!
Could you seduce the likes of Matt Taibbi to write, join you, focus you? …..Lady in Red
Andrew! You rockin' the WHOLE house, little daddy! I actually root and cheer when I see you on the tube. You the reaper. You the nightmare. You the danger. You the nemesis.
You da chit.
under false pretenses "to commit a felony" !!!????
Did miss something in my understanding of what the police are saying and not saying?
they have no evidence of felonious intent, do they?
Wow, NPR does a token reporting on Andrew, just to say he exists. Nice.
They're forced to recognize his influence on media.
Good.
The msm have done a great job of making themselves completely irrelevant!! They have no idea of how to win an argument…kind of impossible when your argument is the sum total of LIES!!! Great job Andrew!!
May our numbers continue to increase..I have watched for years as the Progressives took control of the media..it is increasing pleasant that some have stepped forward to tell the 'other' side of the story. I only hope that they continue to be factual and honest. Long live FOX news, Limbaugh, Breitbart and the others..it's about time..
This is the first time I am really really proud of my country we are all finally awake, Thanks George Soros for putting people like Axelrod,Rahm,Obama in our face, We didn't pay attention and took for granted our freedoms for the last 100 years.
The Police are now only trying to cover their tails. James O'Keefe will be let off scott free in exchange for more damning ACORN video he'll hand over to the FEDS. Get the popcorn.
Wow people, behonest says it best. The ushering in of the Neo-Marxist Obama and the temporary seating of his Chicago thugs has truly shown America where the roaches have been living all this time. I used to like Chicago. I traveled there for work alot and never knew the freaks of America lived there, like Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farakan, Father Pflager, and others. Yes, we have taken our freedoms for granted.
“TheFonz” is a complete ignoramus. Henry Winkler, the actor who played the Fonz, is Jewish.
Too bad there isn’t a real Ombudsman at NPR and PBS to force retractions of lies and to deride propagandistic practices of their reporters.
Actually, my local rag needs one for the same reasons.
Not interested since there is nothing there. I would like to see NPR follow up on the story by Judicial Watch of their corrupt list. Now, that would take some guts.
That last sentence says more about the clueless nature of NPR than anything else: "His sites rely heavily on it [MSM], even as they tear it down."
Brietbart, Drudge, AM radio, and other conservative outlets *point out* the rickety condition of the MSM's tower of Babel, none of them them have started to lean on it yet. ….hopefully soon. Beck's dissection of Huffington is a good start.
Pull the public funding for NPR and PBS — let's see their opinionated smugness compete in the free market.
Report all Fonz posts with that kind of crap in them. BB doesn't need anti-Semitic trash on the site. Thx.
I like your troll remark. it is baiting people. You see it all the time on TV. The use of this tatic is to not hear one side or the other and to prevent free speech
They don't want to have a discussion or learn anything….They just want to "drive-by" and take pot shots at the really thoughtful and bright people who comment here.
These thoughtful and bright people waste time throttling them. It's somewhat entertaining, but usually off subject, and in the end, a waste.
Please stay on topic. This is a story about NPR and Andrew Breitbart, not about Israel.
Appreciate your work Mr Breitbart.
Andrew Breitbart is a true AMERICAN HERO. This man is a trail-blazer. To accomplish "brand-status-power", it is an immutable rule: it or s/he MUST BE TRUSTWORTHY – TRUSTED; to this end, BREITBART is a BRAND like none-other!
When Andrew speaks, I listen. Today, there are very few in the business of "news" distribution that qualify for this [or for that matter, ANY] level of respect, let alone trust. With this TRUST-BEING-ACTUALITY, Breitbart is my BRAND of choice.
I do not ever turn on the TV for news or information. I always [get on the internet and] go direct to Breitbart to find out what is 'really' going-on.
I do not ever turn on the TV for news or information. I always [get on the internet and] go direct to Breitbart to find out what is 'really' going-on.
That's awesome,I knew this would happen,when I got online early in the '90s.
I almost responded to him. The relised a conversation with him is pointless.
They know who will pay the bills in Nov. The BBC blows in the wind too.
Now you're catchin' on Tootsie…!!!
Pull the public funding for NPR and PBS — let's see their opinionated smugness compete in the free market.
Are you nuts?
Curious… using the moniker "The Fonz"… considering Henry Winkler is Jewish…
BigKudos to all the BigSites that Andrew has brought to us. Learn something new everyday here, grateful to the Mighty Breitbart.