It was just a little over a year ago that Andrew Breitbart met an untimely end at the tender age of 43. I’m persuaded that he didn’t die of old age, but that’s a topic for another day. He left behind a thriving news aggregator called Breitbart.com which,
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Mutt and Jeff? Laurel and Hardy? Crosby and Hope? Preibus and Bannon?
- Thursday, 17 November 2016 06:43
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This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, November 16, 2016:
The Mutt and Jeff comic strip began in 1907 and lasted until 1983, with Al Smith drawing them for nearly 50 years. The slapstick comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy played to audiences from 1927 to 1950 while Bing Crosby and Bob Hope made seven “Road” films starting in 1940 and ending with “the Road to Hong Kong” in 1962. An eighth “Road” film was planned in 1977, “The Road to the Fountain of Youth,” but it was canceled when Crosby died of a heart attack that year.
Question: how long is the “co-equal” partnership of Reince Preibus and Steve Bannon likely to last?
Guerrillas in the Freedom Fight
- Friday, 16 November 2012 17:51
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(Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)
Kurt Schlichter is a free-lance writer whose articles have been published in many national publications, liberal and conservative. Here he gives conservatives a much-needed boost:
Right now, there is one strategy that offers us hope of turning the leftward tide. Insurgency…
Insurgents survive and win by avoiding decisive engagements until a time and place of their choosing…
First, we need some perspective on the freedom fight:
The first thing we need to do is get out of our head the notion that this fight will be over if we just pull off a victory in 2014 or 2016.
This is not just a single political battle but a political and cultural campaign. America did not go from a nation of stalwart, self-reliant achievers to a country full of couch-dwelling moochers in just four years, and we won’t change it back in the next election, or the one after that, or even the one after that.
Our role models, the patriots of 1776, didn’t drive the redcoats out until 1783. Our strategic end is long-term – an America where free market values prevail, where all of our liberties are respected, and where a limited government spends within its means and only within the bounds set forth in the Constitution.
He treats the freedom fight as a war, and rightly so. Some of Sun Tzu’s tactics are
New Evidence that Obama Was Born in Kenya is Explained Away
- Sunday, 27 May 2012 04:21
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When Joel Pollak, a columnist for Brietbart.com, exposed his findings that a biographical sketch of Barack Obama in 1991 stated that he “was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii,” senior management deemed it prudent to distance itself from the “Birther” issue with this disclaimer:
Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.” In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961…
[The biographical sketch that we discovered] is evidence—not of the President’s foreign origin, but that Barack Obama’s public persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.
The sketch, contained in a 36-page promotional booklet along with those of 89 other authors, was designed to target interested persons in the publishing industry about upcoming books by the authors. Obama at the time was promoting a book entitled Journeys in Black and White that he failed to complete. But the booklet remained in the public domain from 1991 until April 2007 when it was “corrected.” In another release by Brieitbart, the original language of Obama’s bio read:
Feisty, Brash Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Lightning Rod, Dead at 43
- Thursday, 01 March 2012 14:27
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Within minutes of posting his last tweet at 11:25 p.m. PST on Wednesday night, in which he apologized for calling one of his followers a “putz,” Andrew Breitbart was dead of an apparent heart attack at the age of 43. Most of Breitbart’s followers adored his energy, his brashness and his courage. Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online said “He was one of the most fearless people I ever knew.” Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller agreed with Goldberg: Breitbart “was completely fearless…he thrived on the brawling.” Terry Moran of ABC News said “I’ll remember his enormous, brawling passion…” Rick Santorum added: “What a powerful force. What a huge loss.”
Ned Ryun, president of the American Majority and a personal friend of Breitbart, was thoughtful in his mourning:
The conservative movement has lost a powerful voice in the fight to protect our freedom. Andrew was a pioneer in using social media and digital technology to bring a courageous conservative message to America’s grassroots.
He did something many in the conservative movement are afraid to do — go right at the left and not back down. He served as an example to the rest of the conservative movement of how to fight for our values without apology or compromise.
In one brash moment Breitbart’s fearless and relentless personality was on display. Following his publishing of improper photos of former Congressman Anthony Weiner last May on his website, BigGovernment.com, Weiner was forced to appear at a press conference to confess. Breitbart was there and jumped in front of Weiner, grabbed the microphone and shouted:
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