Friday May 7, 2010
Andrew Breitbart: 'The Left is, in Essence, the Media'
By Kathleen Gilbert
LOS ANGELES, California, May 7, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The bias of the liberal media is so deeply ingrained that it is an essential part of its structure - one that conservatives must fight hard to challenge effectively, according to conservative new media guru Andrew Brietbart.
"The left, to me, in essence, is the media," said Breitbart an interview with CBN's Matt Brody.
Big liberal names like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, he explained, "possess limited charms." "Their ability to get what they need to get done is because they're carrying the water of the media," said Breitbart. "The media is a left-of-center ecosystem, it's a left-of-center organism. So the media can change the dynamics of what we're talking about."
Known for attacking liberal media bias head-on, Breitbart is a political commentator who owns his own news web site, Breitbart.com, as well as the blogs Big Hollywood, Big Government and Big Journalism. He also serves as an editor for the Drudge Report.
“I aim everything at attacking the media for its biases and holding them accountable for their biases, and the things that they report incorrectly, or the things they fail to report,” he said.
“By aiming everything at the media I’ve pretty much done the one thing they ask you not to do. ‘Please accept the premise that we’re fair, and let’s move on.’ No. I’m not going to accept that premise.
“For these people to tell me with a straight face that they don’t come to the media and their jobs from a political perspective, from a left-of-center perspective, is just a bald-faced lie.”
When facing mistreatment by the media, Breitbart urged conservatives not to play by the rules as defined by the mainstream media. "These people don't fight fair," he said. "The left does not fight fair, and so I'm basically saying to conservatives, you don't have to fight fair.”
“I want to break down this politically correct paradigm. These are rules that tell conservatives: you're not allowed to say this, you're not allowed to think that. This type of Orwellian thought crime crap is what I'm fighting against."
While not strongly religious himself, said Breitbart, the attack on Christians perpetrated by the mainstream media "angers me to no end." "I consider myself to be a Judeo-Christian. ... I relate to the world view that America has," he said. "It's a distinctly Judeo-Christian one and I think that it works."
But Christians, he said, will only exacerbate the problem if they continue to react passively to media slander. "Christian turn-the-cheek tactics do not work agianst this crowd," he said.
Breitbart said he hoped his battle against the liberal media could become "an international movement," and likened the battle to the previous century's battle against Communism.
"This is the same battle that Ronald Reagan and many millions of other people fought in the 20th century, it just has a 21st century new media battleground," he said. "The Cold War is now a new media war."