- Andrew Breitbart
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quote = " [Left-leaning Hollywood personalities] 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.... [The Hollywood left] 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?"
source = "Meet Andrew Breitbart, self-proclaimed rebel-king of L.A.'s underground conservative movement (interview), 2008"Cite web|url=http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/hollywood-infidel?page=0%2C1|title=Hollywood Infidel|accessdate=2008-10-01|publisher=Observer.com]
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align = rightAndrew 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 conservativeDrudge 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",Cite web|url=http://www.reason.com/news/show/122048.html|title=Lists: What's Your Source for That? Where Andrew Breitbart gets his information.|accessdate=2008-10-01|publisher=ReasonOnline.com] does not write stories on the website, but simply links to other mainstream news wire sources. See "Drudge Report " for more information.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. [http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471661899.html] 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 theWeekly Standard Online , among others.Commentator
Breitbart has appeared as a conservative commentator on talk shows such as "
Real Time with Bill Maher " and "Dennis Miller ". [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620485/] Breitbart took on a higher profile as a commentator during the 2004 U.S. election cycle after appearing inMichael Moore Hates America [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411646/] , 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 onFox News Channel 's late night program,Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld .News site
He now runs his own news site at [http://www.breitbart.com 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 theAssociated 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 center-right 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. [http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=45fc649ca2c6e905&ei=Ttb8Rae3E7yWsgGV9LCnCw&url=http%3A//www.post-gazette.com/pg/07075/769897-96.stm&cid=0]References
External links
* [http://www.breitbart.com Andrew Breitbart's News Page]
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