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| '''Andrew Breitbart''' (born February 1, 1969) is a ] author, occasional guest commentator for political news programs and is best known as a part-time editor of the conservative ] website. He was a developer for ] and currently runs his own news portal, Breitbart.com. | '''Andrew Breitbart''' (born February 1, 1969) is a ] author, occasional guest commentator for political news programs and is best known as a part-time editor of the conservative ] website. He was a developer for ] and currently runs his own news portal, Breitbart.com. | ||
| ⚫ | Breitbart's work has been published in the ], ] and the ], among others. He writes a weekly column now for ], which also appears at Real Clear Politics. | ||
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| Breitbart co-wrote ''Hollywood, Interrupted : Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity'' with ]; the book is highly critical of Hollywood U.S. celebrity culture. The publisher's description says, "Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. ''Hollywood, Interrupted'' illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more." | Breitbart co-wrote ''Hollywood, Interrupted : Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity'' with ]; the book is highly critical of Hollywood U.S. celebrity culture, as the authors perceive it. The publisher's description says, "Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. ''Hollywood, Interrupted'' illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more." | ||
| ⚫ | Breitbart's work has been published in the ], ] and the ], among others. He writes a weekly column now for ], which also appears at Real Clear Politics. | ||
| ==Commentator== | ==Commentator== | ||
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Meet Andrew Breitbart, self-proclaimed rebel-king of L.A.'s underground conservative movement (interview), 2008" are uninteresting, they’re vicious, they’re vitriolic, they’re really, really not good people. I’m willing to say that on the record. You could probe them scientifically and anthropologically and prove that they’re not good people.... is a stale group of people who are recycling the same old bad ideas that don’t work. Why else would those people go to the stinky side?"
Andrew Breitbart (born February 1, 1969) is a conservative author, occasional guest commentator for political news programs and is best known as a part-time editor of the conservative Drudge Report website. He was a developer for The Huffington Post and currently runs his own news portal, Breitbart.com.
Contributor
Breitbart's highest profile venue to date is the Drudge Report. Breitbart, who describes himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch", does not write stories on the website, but simply links to other mainstream news wire sources. See Drudge Report for more information. On November 7, 2008, Mr. Breitbart guest-hosted the "Savage Nation" talk radio program. He is also a regular fill in for Dennis Miller on his nationally syndicated radio show.
Author
Breitbart co-wrote Hollywood, Interrupted : Insanity Chic in Babylon — The Case Against Celebrity with Mark Ebner; the book is highly critical of Hollywood U.S. celebrity culture, as the authors perceive it. The publisher's description says, "Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood, Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more."
Breitbart's work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and the Weekly Standard Online, among others. He writes a weekly column now for The Washington Times, which also appears at Real Clear Politics.
Commentator
Breitbart has appeared as a conservative commentator on talk shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. Breitbart took on a higher profile as a commentator during the 2004 U.S. election cycle after appearing in Michael Moore Hates America , a 2004 movie directed by Michael Wilson that is highly critical of filmmaker Michael Moore's documentary creation tactics and editing style. Was also a guest commentator on FOX News Channel's morning show on May 10th, 2004. He frequently appears as a guest panelist on Fox News Channel's late night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
News site
He now runs his own news site at Breitbart.com, with the motto "Just The News." The site is frequently linked to by the Drudge Report and independently run websites. It features wire stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, PR Newswire, US Newswire, as well as direct links to a number of major international newspapers. Its Blog & "Network" links, however, tend to represent almost solely a US right-wing point of view, such as National Review, Instapundit, and Townhall.com. The site also features a search engine powered by Lingospot and a finance channel powered by FinancialContent. Breitbart also launched a video blog Breitbart.TV in 2007.
Big Hollywood
In 2008 Breitbart announced that he plans to start a website called "Big Hollywood" that will be a "group blog" driven by Tinseltown, with plenty of contributions from high profile Hollywood types who lean right. The site will be at outgrowth of a column called "Big Hollywood" that Breitbart began writing for the Conservative Beltway newspaper The Washington Times that addresses that issues facing conservative people working in Hollywood.
References
- ^ "Hollywood Infidel". Observer.com. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- "Lists: What's Your Source for That? Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information". ReasonOnline.com. Retrieved 2008-10-01.
- "Breitbart's Conservative Alternative to Left-y Celebrity Blogs". Retrieved 2008-11-04.