00:00:04.000And then my panel, Remembering the Great Andrew Breitbart, with Alex Marla and Matt Boyle, Larry O'Connor, and James O'Keefe as we remember the great Andrew Breitbart.
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00:00:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:03.000And the people in charge of our government, Hollywood, the media, they couldn't really understand why all of a sudden my dads kept on showing up to school board meetings across the country.
00:02:15.000They couldn't understand why all of a sudden people started to run for precinct committee positions.
00:02:19.000They couldn't understand why the energy of the conservative movement only increased when they controlled everything.
00:02:27.000And what we saw over the last year is the regime controlling every aspect of our life.
00:02:32.000Literally, whether or not and how you can breathe.
00:03:04.000They're bracing for impact for something completely and totally historic.
00:03:09.000But I don't know about you, but I don't just want to win.
00:03:12.000I want to look at what's happening right now.
00:03:15.000And I want to be part of an extinction event for the political woke left to put them into complete and total irrelevancy for the next 20 or 30 years.
00:03:28.000Now, in order to do that, though, we as conservatives must get our priorities right.
00:03:34.000We must be very honest with each other and our leaders must be honest with you about what really matters.
00:03:42.000You see, we're a nation in multiple crises right now.
00:03:56.000So we have to demand from our leaders not just solutions, but direct addressing of what actually matters.
00:04:05.000For example, the U.S.-southern border matters a lot more than the Ukrainian border.
00:04:14.000In fact, I want every Republican leader that comes up on stage the next couple days to call what's happening on the southern border an invasion because 2 million people waltzed into our country this last year.
00:04:29.000I'm more worried about how the cartels are deliberately trying to infiltrate our country than a dispute 5,000 miles away, cities we can't pronounce, places that most Americans can't find on a map.
00:04:43.000Now, I'm not defending the actions of dictators halfway across the world.
00:04:47.000What I'm saying, though, is when your own country is falling apart, I don't want to hear lectures about why we need to send our troops halfway across the world when we are being invaded.
00:05:20.000These are smokescreen tactics to try to distract us from the fact that we lost over 100,000 people to drug overdoses in this last year.
00:05:29.000They don't want you to talk about how the generation that I speak to, college and high school kids, they are being priced out of the housing market.
00:05:38.000They're being told to go to college to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist, to borrow money they don't have.
00:05:44.000Everything costs twice as much in most of the metropolitan areas of Phoenix and Dallas and Orlando, Miami, Tampa.
00:05:51.000No, instead, our leaders want to talk about systemic racism or climate change.
00:05:57.000The conservative movement must be very clear that we're going to talk about things that matter to our voters, matter to American families.
00:06:05.000And one of the things that we must be very clear about is how the lockdowns, the vaccine mandates, and the mask mandates was generational theft.
00:06:13.000Now, this might, now some people in this audience don't want to hear this, but it's immoral and it was wrong when we decided to deliberately hurt the younger generation to try to protect the older generation.
00:06:27.000It was a moral tragedy on this country.
00:06:31.000And our leaders need to talk about a national recovery program.
00:06:35.000We need to talk about how we can elevate young people who do the three things that create conservatives.
00:06:40.000You want to create conservatives, we all do.
00:06:43.000Make it easier to buy a home, make it easier to get married, and make it easier to have children.
00:06:50.000Instead, we have a generation of renters, a generation of people that are the least married generation in history, having the least children in history.
00:07:00.000And we wonder why they find purpose in Leonardo DiCaprio, Greta Thunberg, climate change type movements.
00:07:06.000We wonder why they want to confiscate the wealth from business owners.
00:07:25.000We could do the Republican Party of old, where we do nothing but talk about corporate tax cuts for the richest people.
00:07:31.000We just talk about stopping socialism and the conversation ends there.
00:07:34.000We talk about how we need to go send our beautiful and amazing armed service members to countries that have no relevancy to our immediate future.
00:07:45.000If our conservative leaders learn something from our wonderful 45th president of the United States and actually decide to not just talk about but deliver some very common sense things, such as representing the muscular class, such as how about this?
00:08:01.000The Republicans should say what happened in Canada and what Justin Trudeau did against those Canadian truckers is a moral outrage and a human rights abuse.
00:08:09.000Where's the Republican Party been on that?
00:08:22.000I want to live in a country that is free.
00:08:25.000I want to live in a country I recognize.
00:08:28.000I want our leaders to care more about you and our fellow countrymen and our fellow citizens than some sort of abstract idea or some sort of undefined GDP number.
00:08:38.000The conservative movement is trending towards a movement that will represent 60, 70, 80% of voters of all backgrounds and all colors.
00:08:46.000It's going to require our leaders and you to make sure they do it.
00:08:50.000The citizen is rising, everybody, and the regime has fallen.
00:08:58.000Please welcome from Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk from Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, from Breitbart News Network, Matt Boyle, and your host, Larry O'Connor.
00:10:07.000I mean, literally, the major story that he was ready to break right after CPAC, leading into the 2012 election, was how Barack Obama had been infected with critical race theory in Harvard.
00:10:19.000Remember when critical race theory became a big story this last election and people went on MSNBC saying, they don't even know where critical race theory is.
00:10:26.000They just, you know, found out about it.
00:10:27.000There's no Andrew Breitbart, as usual, ahead of his time, talking about it 10 years ago.
00:10:33.000We each represent a very different relationship directly with Andrew Breitbart in our own way.
00:10:41.000Andrew plucked me out of the world of commercial theater.
00:10:44.000I literally worked on Broadway, not as an actor, but in management of theater management.
00:10:52.000He took me out of that world and put me into the world of political commentary with my first column at his first site, Big Hollywood, that then eventually morphed into Breitbart News Network.
00:11:04.000So I got to work with him for three glorious years and have a whole new career.
00:11:09.000Matt, you ended up working with Andrew, well, for his company right after his passing, right?
00:11:16.000Yeah, so I was a reporter at Daily Caller, got to know him really well.
00:11:21.000Tucker Carlson introduced me to Andrew, and then Andrew passed away in early 2012.
00:11:25.000After the 2012 election, I came over to work at Breitbart and build out our DC Bureau.
00:11:58.000Along came this brand new site, Big Government, and it launched with a little expose about an organization that no longer exists called Acorn.
00:13:45.000And then Charlie, and I, frankly, I think your representation here is most meaningful because you didn't meet Andrew personally.
00:13:52.000But you represent so many people out there, so many people in this room who were inspired by Andrew Breitbart, who have started a movement on their own because of the inspiration Andrew gave you.
00:14:26.000James, you're continuing the legacy of Andrew amazingly.
00:14:30.000But I was in high school, and I found a textbook that said kind of really incendiary things, at least what would have been considered that 10 years ago.
00:15:08.000And there are a lot of names we could go through.
00:15:10.000But if you look at the kind of roster of people that are now in conservative politics and media, so many of them were kind of nurtured and also kind of given a platform by Andrew.
00:16:35.000And then next thing you know, there's Andrew.
00:16:37.000I wish I would have gave a group text message to us because a couple of us were like, Andrew, are you sure you want to go into the Anthony Wiener press conference?
00:16:44.000And of course, we always second-guessed him, and he was always right.
00:18:40.000So first off, I highly recommend that everybody go out there and watch some of the old speeches because he is pretty funny and you see the sense of humor come through.
00:18:48.000Like that 2012 CPAC speech is probably the best one.
00:18:52.000In it, he talks about going to dinner with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn.
00:18:56.000This was a thing that Tucker, so they, these two lefty Bill Ayers.
00:19:02.000These are the terrorists from the Weather Underground who inspired Barack Obama's political career.
00:19:30.000And so now in this speech at CPAC in 2012, Andrew's talking about how excellent a cook Bill Ayers is, right?
00:19:37.000Like, you know, he made very excellent ribs and succulent squash and everything.
00:19:42.000But then he's like, you know, they were very charming people, but, you know, then he goes, but so was Ted Bundy, right?
00:19:49.000So, yeah, so again, Andrew, very funny guy, and that personality and that fun mentality, that happy warrior mentality, I think, carries through.
00:19:59.000Yeah, and I'm afraid we don't often see that part of it.
00:20:22.000And now, I mean, people in this room, I mean, people hate the mainstream media, but Andrew was able to sort of hack the mainstream media and get them to cover things.
00:20:32.000And right before he died, a few days before he died, he died 10 years ago on, I believe, March 1st, Tuesday.
00:20:38.000It was a leap year, it was the 29th evening to the first.
00:20:40.000A few days before that, you know, we were going through a lot of the time.
00:20:43.000You and I were working together, and I was doing videos, and he said, James, and I'm paraphrasing him, he said, they want us on a leash.
00:20:51.000They want us to dance with them, but we're not going to dance with them.
00:20:54.000He had this very profound, intense way of speaking.
00:20:58.000And he said, and there was a quote that he said, where if you keep running towards the fire, if you keep going, you send a message to other people that are rooting for you, that they in fact can do it too, if you keep going.
00:22:51.000And actually, Charlie, this is important because his humor and his love of life and how the vivacious way he approached all of this stuff as a happy warrior, this attracted young people to him.
00:23:05.000And for God's sake, how many times have we gone to these conferences and we hear somebody who's 90 years old saying, how do we attract young people to the movement?
00:23:12.000How did Andrew attract you to the movement?
00:23:14.000Yeah, I mean, he was authentic and he was willing to push the boundaries.
00:23:18.000It was the videos of him going up to protesters asking them, What does your sign say?
00:24:53.000Brandon Darby and I accompanied Andrew to a protest of America's for prosperity.
00:24:58.000I think it was America for Prosperity out in Palm Desert, California.
00:25:02.000And Andrew says, all right, we're going to go to the protesters, we're going to confront them, we're going to start challenging them, we're going to ask him questions.
00:25:07.000And Larry, you're going to be the cameraman.
00:26:06.000He made conservatives reorient what mattered as well.
00:26:10.000And he wrote about it in his book extensively.
00:26:12.000He said, Look, the arts, the culture, Hollywood matters a lot more than whether or not ours versus he also had this understanding of the institutional flaws of the establishment media.
00:26:23.000So if you listen to people that work at the New York Times or CNN or any of these other places, they claim to be objective.
00:26:30.000They claim that they, here's the problem with that.
00:26:52.000And what's happened in the timeframe since Andrew passed away is: I mean, look, we've built out Breitbart.com and these other institutions, what Charlie's doing at Turning Point, what James is doing, what Larry's doing, what everybody else is doing out here throughout the conservative media.
00:27:09.000I mean, we've literally built these things into a strong institution that didn't exist before.
00:27:15.000And so, I mean, frankly, I mean, just Breitbart in the last three months alone, we beat the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Hill, and Politico combined.
00:27:28.000And I think we're seeing similar stuff from a lot of these other places as well.
00:27:33.000And I think that that, Again, these institutions wouldn't have existed had Andrew not paved the way for all of us beforehand.
00:27:41.000James Charlie just mentioned something very important, too, about the tactics.
00:27:45.000I remember you rolled out a lot of the videos utilizing Sololinsky's Rules for Radicals, remember?
00:27:51.000Like the headline of each new video took one of Sololinsky's rules.
00:27:54.000Because let's be clear, I mean, Sololinsky was a terrible, horrible anti-American communist.
00:27:59.000But that doesn't mean his rules weren't correct.
00:28:02.000I mean, the rules actually are effective.
00:28:04.000The difference was he used their rules against them.
00:28:07.000Yeah, Linsky, Andrew and I, when I met him in his basement with Larry Soloff, Alinsky rule number four, make them live up to their own book of rules.
00:28:18.000And Linsky says in his book, Rules for Radicals, you can destroy them with that because they can't live up to your book of rules, but they have to live up to their own.
00:28:26.000So, I mean, it was, he was a, another story was he was a leader, but he was also very tactical.
00:28:32.000So he would tweet, I don't know how many times a day.
00:29:23.000No, but let's talk this through for a minute.
00:29:27.000Couple names you might recognize, couple memes you might not, because they do vital work behind the scenes as well.
00:29:34.000But we mentioned Alex Marlowe, the new editor-in-chief, or not new, but he's the editor-in-chief of Breitbart and hosts the serious Exxon radio show for Breitbart, Joel Pollock, a vital voice at Breitbart right now, right?
00:30:17.000And oh, and by the way, a guy who had a really obscure four-in-the-morning show on Fox, thanks to Andrew Breitbart's suggestion, who started writing at the Breitbart sites.
00:31:04.000Well, and by the way, I mean, speaking of which, I mean, we've literally hired over the course of the last 10 years that I've been working here dozens and dozens of new up-and-coming reporters.
00:31:15.000I mean, the names that you just rattle off there are a lot of those people are really well-known names, but we've got new and yeah, the next generation.
00:31:24.000By the way, speaking of which, anybody out there that knows anybody that wants to be a reporter, reach out to me.
00:34:38.000I have this kind of story that is about Andrew, not anything I experienced, but that we can all thank Andrew for, which is, so the Clintons hated Andrew because he was really good at what he did, right?
00:34:51.000So Andrew passed away in the spring of 2012, but his work and his legacy lived on for years after.
00:34:58.000So he was able to expose Anthony Weiner for all of his, let's say, illegal activities, let's put it nicely.
00:35:07.000And because of that, there were several federal investigations that were triggered in the years that followed, including seizures of laptops and personal information.
00:35:16.000So allegedly, Anthony Weiner had a relationship with Huma Abedin as his wife or whatever.
00:35:24.000And the FBI came and seized Anthony Weiner's laptop.
00:35:30.000Now, you might remember in the fall, this is all thanks to Andrew Breitbart, by the way.
00:35:35.000In the fall of 2016, boy, October of 16, like a couple days before the election, James Comey issues that famous memo saying that there's still an investigation ongoing into Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:35:50.000He was talking about material that was sourced directly from Huma Abedin, who is friends with Hillary Clinton, and triggered James Comey to write that letter that some people say made Donald Trump win that following Tuesday and Hillary Clinton lose.
00:36:08.000So even after Andrew Breitbart passed, he was still defeating leftists and he helped get Donald Trump right up in 2006.
00:36:19.000Back to the Acorn story, we had broken the story, released the tapes one at a time.
00:36:24.000Of course, the media, it's an isolated incident.
00:36:26.000You know, they got thrown out of the other offices.
00:36:28.000And of course, my phone rang on that whatever day it was in September 2009, some 70 times.
00:37:22.000And I would just say, thinking back on this whole idea of, you know, again, looking back at some of those old speeches, again, the 2012 CPAC speech, other ones out there where Andrew was weirdly prophetic and ahead of his time significantly, we're at a point now where, I mean, I remember back then when Republicans wouldn't fight the culture wars and they wouldn't get, you know, it felt like there were only a handful of us out here willing to ask tougher questions.
00:37:47.000I think that you're seeing more and more people across the movement, across the party, et cetera, really getting engaged on all of these things.
00:37:56.000I mean, it's a central part of the Republican Party now to challenge the defund the police, to challenge critical race theory.
00:38:03.000Before, they wouldn't touch it with a 50-foot pole, never mind a 10-foot poll.
00:38:07.000So I think that if anything, Andrew Breitbart is still winning the war.
00:39:09.000This week, Jen Saki went on Roblo's podcast, because of course Roblo has a podcast, and revealed that what convinced her to get back into politics.
00:39:32.000We have legions of Chardonnay-sipping, Peloton-riding leftists in our American government right now that were inspired by Aaron Sorkin and the West Wing because they think it's real life.
00:39:47.000And they think that this is what our country is about.
00:40:02.000You change it through creating content that has nothing to do with news and politics and theology, but has everything to do with news and politics and theology.
00:40:13.000And there's a lot of moms and dads in this room right now.
00:40:17.000And their kids, when they're 12, 13, maybe getting into high school, they'll go to you and they'll say, Mom, Dad, I want to be an actor.