Andrew Breitbart on the Liberal Media, Education, and the Tea Party — Transcript

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1. 0:03[Music]
2. 0:06we're in the Groen room today with
3. 0:08Andrew Breitbart author of righteous
4. 0:10indignation I'm Rob Louie your host
5. 0:12Andrew thanks for joining us thank you
6. 0:14very much Rob I want to begin talk about
7. 0:17your transformation you talk you write
8. 0:19in the book about how you were uh a
9. 0:21liberal um with liberal Tendencies how
10. 0:24did you become a conservative well I'm
11. 0:26I'm ashamed to say that unlike David
12. 0:28Horwitz uh who's tale of apostasy was
13. 0:32incredibly deep intricate and helpful to
14. 0:35the uh conservative movement something
15. 0:37that we've spunked for years and and it
16. 0:40looked into the anthropological
17. 0:42background of the entire institutional
18. 0:44left I was just a Dopey kid from West
19. 0:47Los Angeles I call myself I called
20. 0:50myself or I call myself now what I was
21. 0:52then a default cultural liberal but
22. 0:55there's so many people in this country
23. 0:57who who fit that bill because the
24. 1:00problem with the conservative movement
25. 1:01is it's focused too much on politics the
26. 1:04left on purpose through intellects who
27. 1:09went you know who come from the academy
28. 1:11figured out that we needed to infiltrate
29. 1:14they needed to infiltrate the cultural
30. 1:15institutions the cultural marxists did
31. 1:18so they did so in Academia they did so
32. 1:20in Hollywood they did so in the
33. 1:22mainstream media and I say this over and
34. 1:25over but uh politics is Downstream from
35. 1:28culture and and that's what I was I
36. 1:32didn't think I was I just thought what
37. 1:35everybody around me thought in Hollywood
38. 1:37who made films who were involved in the
39. 1:39cultural process uh and I just had an
40. 1:43epiphany uh that was based upon the
41. 1:46Clarence Thomas hearings and it it was
42. 1:49as profound an epiphany as a human being
43. 1:51can have it haunts me to this day when I
44. 1:54watched this good and decent man
45. 1:56attacked by the mainstream media and I
46. 1:59didn't understand understand why the
47. 2:00NAACP and the Urban League weren't
48. 2:02coming to his defense and I didn't
49. 2:04understand why Tom broot and Peter
50. 2:07Jennings and Dan Rather were part of
51. 2:10this attack now you write in the book
52. 2:12that um New York and holw Hollywood pose
53. 2:15a real bigger threat than Washington why
54. 2:17is that well I just came from uh New
55. 2:20York where I just got into a battle with
56. 2:22Martin Basher I went to New York because
57. 2:25I have a book to promote so I now have
58. 2:27to go to Media Row in order to promote
59. 2:29it to go into hostile territory where I
60. 2:32where I'm attacked for my my my my world
61. 2:35view New York media is everything I say
62. 2:38that in the book media is
63. 2:40everything to those Republicans who are
64. 2:43languishing at 1% and 2% in the polls
65. 2:46who are hovering in this exploratory
66. 2:49committee uh Purgatory wondering why am
67. 2:53I not catching fire yet Donald Trump
68. 2:56Rises through the ranks in a nanc media
69. 2:59is everything that's the message in my
70. 3:01book explain your war against the media
71. 3:05well you just heard how I describ the
72. 3:08the the uh what I call the Democrat
73. 3:10media complex the natural Alliance not a
74. 3:13conspiracy per se there's some
75. 3:16conspiratorial aspects to it I have
76. 3:19friends at ABC and CBS and NBC some of
77. 3:22them happen to be conservative some of
78. 3:24them are just good and decent people and
79. 3:26they tell
80. 3:28me it's possible to be in here and try
81. 3:31and Pitch an idea that doesn't go uh
82. 3:35against their point of view it's
83. 3:36impossible with the acorn videos uh you
84. 3:39know I I did that uh you know I I went
85. 3:42to ABC and they said I can't touch this
86. 3:45because of the politics behind it as
87. 3:47long as that exists as long as those
88. 3:50bullies within The Newsroom who feain
89. 3:52objectivity yet use the media as a cudle
90. 3:55to attack conservatives as racist sexist
91. 3:59homophobe
92. 4:00they're the bullies on the playground
93. 4:02and I don't even think it's a metaphor
94. 4:05my goal is to destroy the Democrat media
95. 4:08complex Andrew our next question uh is
96. 4:11coming from uh Suzanne Everett of Ohio
97. 4:13and she writes as an educator who is
98. 4:15about to graduate college and begin to
99. 4:17search for a career in teaching how do
100. 4:19you plan to take on the education system
101. 4:22I've had to silence myself and my views
102. 4:24on the education system for far too long
103. 4:26any chance we'll be seeing a big
104. 4:28education anytime soon big education is
105. 4:30the next site that we're doing at The
106. 4:32Bigs the first one is the model big big
107. 4:35Hollywood that was the first one we
108. 4:36launched we launched it about three
109. 4:39years ago and here's what its net effect
110. 4:42has been John Niti is the conscience of
111. 4:44the big sites unbelievably smart has an
112. 4:47unbelievable Soul decent man and a
113. 4:51warrior what we have done is put
114. 4:53Hollywood on notice that the propagate
115. 4:56attacking of conservatives in films the
116. 4:59propagate attacking of conservatives on
117. 5:02the John Stewart show the Cole be show
118. 5:04the bill Mah show the vew ETC well
119. 5:08there's a checks and balance now and so
120. 5:10between breart TV and big Hollywood
121. 5:12we're there immediately to Fight Fire
122. 5:15with Fire and what's happened since this
123. 5:18celebrities who have unbelievable thin
124. 5:20skin are starting to mellow out
125. 5:23realizing there are repercussions and
126. 5:25the studio execs are sending the message
127. 5:28hey we can't it's it's not the the same
128. 5:30way that it was because the talk show
129. 5:32hosts are now paying attention to
130. 5:34Hollywood just as they're paying
131. 5:35attention to uh uh Washington DC apply
132. 5:40the same model to education um New Media
133. 5:45video cameras those horrific Tales of
134. 5:49you know students in college sitting
135. 5:51there in a in a math class being
136. 5:54inundated with the the teachers Bush as
137. 5:57Hitler you know or Sarah Palin is a trog
138. 6:00adite that type of stuff videotaped put
139. 6:03on the internet and that teacher is now
140. 6:06subject to scrutiny that school is
141. 6:08subject to scrutiny and I I'd like to
142. 6:11send a me make a mechanism so that the
143. 6:13people who donate to those schools are
144. 6:16aware of what's going on in in their
145. 6:18classroom looking ahead to the Future
146. 6:20are you optimistic about the
147. 6:21conservative movement and the role of T
148. 6:23party activists I'm beyond optimistic I
149. 6:27I have really gone from being a defender
150. 6:31of the Tea Party against the media taxs
151. 6:33to really feeling that I am a member of
152. 6:36the tea party and I'm not a joiner
153. 6:38that's the thing about conservatives
154. 6:39they tend to be individualists who don't
155. 6:41like to join things and I'm I've I've
156. 6:44put everything into the uh the pool I'm
157. 6:48I'm completely invested into into the
158. 6:50Tea Party Movement you would not have
159. 6:53had the success in Wisconsin that you
160. 6:55just had if you did not have this
161. 6:57psychic energy
162. 7:00uh and the physical even the physical
163. 7:02presence of of tea party activists at
164. 7:04events and the organizing that is
165. 7:06happening this is an election uh this is
166. 7:09an off election year uh Scott Walker was
167. 7:13heroic he was the test for can you stand
168. 7:16up to this Andrew Breitbart thank you
169. 7:19for joining us in the green room today
170. 7:21yeah thank you very much I'm Rob Louie
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