Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World

by Andrew Breitbart

Luckily, the cameras were still rolling, protecting me against false charges (and against violent activity, because who wants to be videoed pounding on an unarmed Tea Partier?), so I wasn’t fearful. Then the Reid supporters tried to block the cameras by holding up their signs.

But what I had just experienced was astroturfing at its worst—outside agitators from God knows where dropped in to intimidate and harass a peaceful, legal gathering. It was reminiscent of 1930s-style labor coercion.

I once again released the video to the media, and even Jon Stewart, who regularly mocks the Tea Partiers, was appalled. After he rolled the video we shot (which clearly depicted one of Reid’s supporters holding an egg) on his show, Stewart shouted to the camera: “You’re not helping!”

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Walesa came to Illinois to support a Tea Party candidate. Why? “The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations,” he said. “There was the hope that whenever there was something going wrong in the world, you could count on the United States. Today we’ve lost that hope.” Walesa and others like him—people who have felt the oppression and the totalitarianism of the state at a fundamental level—understand that America is the beacon of freedom and liberty.

tactics. Do you think the GOP will win if its strategy is to apologize for every media-manufactured “right wing” outrage? It will not.

avoid. HuffPo’s structural weakness was that it was built upon people who were writing on any subject under the sun, often repetitiously. Mostly, that constituted, “Bush bad, Bush Hitler, Iraq War bad, blah blah blah.” Under the amorphous banner of the Huffington Post, people wrote about whatever they wanted.

The American bourgeoisie was finally having its 1960s counterrevolution—and with a month left before the midterm election, people were starting to have fun.

From the beginning, the Tea Party was certainly not anti-immigrant! (In fact, at many subsequent Southern California Tea Parties, I would often run into some of my biggest fans—the Orozco family, who have a family coffee bean and espresso company and have indulged me with some of their finest beans!)

And the most important target? You guessed it: the mainstream media. And it is going down, slowly but most surely. Its decline is evidenced by George Soros’s last-minute, preelection cash infusion into NPR ($1.8 million) and Media Matters ($1 million).

I noticed that in many pieces by the “objective” mainstream media, I was described as “ultraconservative” or “überconservative.” But I bet these people can’t even tell you what my position is on most political issues. Were they intentionally marginalizing me by calling me über-and ultraconservative without any clue that I voted for Proposition 19, which was an attempt to legalize marijuana in California? Were they labeling me in order to discredit me without even finding out that my agnostic sensibilities cause me to waver on the tectonic issue of gay marriage?

I co-created the Huffington Post and the Big sites as part of a grander strategy to knock down the false edifice that is the mainstream media, that is built upon the false proposition of “objective” journalism and the grotesque anti-American proposition of political correctness.

cycle. Whether people read the Huffington Post on the left or my Big sites on the right, everyone is now disillusioned about the media. Nobody is fooled into believing that most reporters are objective, straight-down-the-middle truth-seekers.

accountable. It’s going to be about holding accountable the president of NPR, who capitulated to the exact same forces who attacked me when she canned Juan Williams and attacked his character in the process. It’s going to be about holding George Soros and his Hungarian nut squat squad at Media Matters accountable. It’s going to be about holding Arianna Huffington and Christiane Amanpour and Contessa Brewer and Katie Couric and Pinch Sulzberger accountable.