Breitbart's criticisms of mainstream media — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi there this is Brian Monopoly of CBS
2. 0:03News and I'm here with Andrew Breitbart
3. 0:05the bestselling author of righteous
4. 0:07indignation Excuse me while I save the
5. 0:09world uh Andrew thank you for being here
6. 0:10thank you Brian uh so I want to start
7. 0:12this interview by uh for those people
8. 0:14who don't know Andrew and where he's
9. 0:16coming from giving them a little bit of
10. 0:18a sense of the fact that he's kind of
11. 0:19Behind Enemy Lines here at CBS news in
12. 0:21New York he doesn't have a tremendous
13. 0:22regard for those of us in the mainstream
14. 0:24media and I want to read a uh portion
15. 0:26from the book to illustrate that and
16. 0:27then ask him about it um this is from
17. 0:30Andrew uh I'm at war with the mainstream
18. 0:32media because they portray themselves as
19. 0:33objective observers of reality when
20. 0:36there's no such thing they're partisan
21. 0:38critical theory hacks who think they can
22. 0:39destroy everything America stands for by
23. 0:42standing on the sidelines and sniping at
24. 0:44patriotic Americans with all their
25. 0:45favorite slurs they have nothing but
26. 0:47contempt for the American people they
27. 0:49use all weapons that they have at their
28. 0:51disposal to intimidate every one of us
29. 0:53and force us to shut up and not speak
30. 0:54our minds that's from Andrew's book
31. 0:56Andrew do you really uh feel that myself
32. 0:59and my colleagues have nothing but
33. 1:01contempt for the American people I think
34. 1:03in that paragraph and there's a greater
35. 1:05context to it I'm channeling the rage at
36. 1:08the time that I wrote the book and I
37. 1:09agree with every word in there of the
38. 1:11Tea Party in this country when the after
39. 1:14eight years of George Bush being
40. 1:16protested by the anti-war movement which
41. 1:19had uh bumper stickers that said descent
42. 1:21is patriotic the second that the Tea
43. 1:24Party came about the government issued a
44. 1:26report from the homeand security
45. 1:28department warning that these these
46. 1:30people were violent the mainstream media
47. 1:32treated it as if this was a serious
48. 1:34criticism and started to attack it as
49. 1:37guilty of racism G and and it was a
50. 1:41constant refrain from the mainstream
51. 1:43media to take a group of people that
52. 1:45represents tens of millions of people
53. 1:47mainstream people in this country who
54. 1:49are being very plain in what their
55. 1:51argument is for a return to fiscal
56. 1:54responsibility a return to con uh a
57. 1:56return to the Constitution as a road map
58. 1:59I could go
59. 2:00I could go chapter and verse on the
60. 2:02cases in which the mainstream media has
61. 2:04framed the tea party as racist guilt
62. 2:07without the possibility of trying to
63. 2:10prove itself innocent and I've gone out
64. 2:12there I've disproved that the n-word was
65. 2:14hurled at congressman's Carson and Lewis
66. 2:17I've Pro I've shown actual video from
67. 2:19the exact place and time for the
68. 2:21mainstream media and CBS still plays up
69. 2:25that incident as evidence that the Tea
70. 2:27Party is racist even though I have video
71. 2:30that disproves it which should put
72. 2:31Congressman Carson and Lewis in the
73. 2:33mainstream media uh in in a place where
74. 2:36they have to explain themselves but that
75. 2:39is a critique of the mainstream media
76. 2:40and people can debate whether it's a
77. 2:42legitimate critique but you're making a
78. 2:44broader claim you're saying that
79. 2:46reporters hold Americans in contempt I'm
80. 2:48middle Americans from flyover country I
81. 2:51how would I know this I used to be uh I
82. 2:54used to be a default this is classic
83. 2:56Andrew with his phone ringing uh
84. 3:00I used to be a default liberal um in
85. 3:03West Los Angeles there's no incentive uh
86. 3:06in where I grew up to go from the left
87. 3:09to the right what I started to realize
88. 3:11at cocktail parties at at pool parties
89. 3:14around my friends and their family
90. 3:15people who inhabited the mainstream
91. 3:17media who inhabited Hollywood is that
92. 3:19the cocktail parties they would talk
93. 3:21about flyover countries if these were
94. 3:23some type of heathens or that they were
95. 3:25beneath contempt um MSNBC for instance
96. 3:28uh NB C for instance did um you know who
97. 3:32criticizes the acorn Undercover videos
98. 3:36uh to a great extent saying that this is
99. 3:38illegitimate uh this is an illegit for
100. 3:40illegitimate form of undercover video
101. 3:44investigation for dat line went
102. 3:47undercover to a NASCAR rally pretending
103. 3:50to be Muslims why did they do that
104. 3:52because they wanted to get people from
105. 3:53fly over country those people who would
106. 3:56dare like NASCAR to say intemperate or
107. 3:59racist things to the passing Muslims is
108. 4:02that this constant treatment of flyover
109. 4:05country with this Talladega Knights sort
110. 4:08of these people are stupid these people
111. 4:10are idiot these people dress funny
112. 4:12they're not cool I'm an LA dude and
113. 4:15enough is enough I I don't think that
114. 4:18they should be treated with more
115. 4:19contempt uh than than they treat actual
116. 4:23criminals in this country let me ask uh
117. 4:25on a slightly different topic one of
118. 4:27your critiques of the mainstream media
119. 4:29is that that they there's a liberal bias
120. 4:31and therefore they largely can't believe
121. 4:33what they're telling you because they
122. 4:34have an agenda let me just finish
123. 4:37wouldn't that argument also apply to you
124. 4:40who is clearly says he's a conservative
125. 4:44um and is putting a publisher putting
126. 4:45stuff on his website why wouldn't you be
127. 4:47subject to that same critique I I my
128. 4:50point is that's not my point and I'm
129. 4:52glad I have the opportunity here to
130. 4:53clarify that uh I believe we're we're
131. 4:57moving towards the the British model the
132. 5:00newspaper model where you have the
133. 5:02guardian and the independent which are
134. 5:04avowedly left of center newspapers and
135. 5:07then you've got the times of London and
136. 5:09you've got the Daily Telegraph you've
137. 5:10got the Daily Mail which are more
138. 5:12conservative Ling where they're honest
139. 5:14about it what I disagree with is I would
140. 5:17love for CBS to say of course we have a
141. 5:19liberal bent everybody knows that
142. 5:21everybody in The Newsroom knows it and
143. 5:23be more honest about it I created The
144. 5:25Huffington Post as with Ariana
145. 5:26Huffington as an avowedly left of Sen
146. 5:29point of view I believe more voic is not
147. 5:31less but I believe in transparency and
148. 5:34some of the best journalism that I get
149. 5:36is from Le avowedly left of center uh
150. 5:39venues I read The Huffington Post I read
151. 5:42the guardian I read I I read and watch
152. 5:45CBS News I just don't believe in this
153. 5:48concept of objectivity or neutrality so
154. 5:50is the journalism that goes up on your
155. 5:52big big government sites and the big
156. 5:54sites are they is that journalism that
157. 5:56people should take with a grain of salt
158. 5:57because it's coming it's not a it's not
159. 5:59a grain of salt it's that you know where
160. 6:01the person's coming from the person is
161. 6:03admitting where they're coming from
162. 6:05because it's impo I believe it's
163. 6:06impossible I've met a few journalists
164. 6:08who try but I think it's impossible
165. 6:11there's no reason not to be honest to
166. 6:13say where you're coming from the reason
167. 6:16why people created the huffing and post
168. 6:18was because they wanted to shape the
169. 6:20narrative from a left of center point of
170. 6:21view the motivation to get into
171. 6:23journalism often comes from journalists
172. 6:25who will tell you I wanted to affect
173. 6:28social change I wanted to
174. 6:30uh you know help economic justice social
175. 6:32justice fine then just admit it I'm just
176. 6:35admitting I come from a more free market
177. 6:38or libertarian or orientation and take
178. 6:42the facts that I'm giving you and
179. 6:45understand that I'm coming from that
180. 6:46point of view I do respect mainstream
181. 6:49media sources and I do respect I use the
182. 6:51reporting I subscribe to the Associated
183. 6:53Press but I just wish people would be
184. 6:56more honest about where they're coming
185. 6:58from
186. 7:07e