Posted on 07/04/2010 5:55:55 PM PDT by STARWISE
A little less than a year after announcing it, in front of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other American foreign policy elites at Frank Gaffney’s “Keeper of the Flame” Award Dinner in October 2009, we are finally launching Big Peace.
It took nine months because this site has to be done right, and with Hoover Institution Research Fellow and bestselling author Peter Schweizer, we found the perfect editor.
Because I am not a foreign policy or military expert, I needed to create a core editorial unit that represented the highest-end understanding of policy while at the same time bringing, at a time of war, a “boots-on-the-ground” perspective.
Frank Gaffney, the Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy provides over thirty years of expertise in national defense including as stint as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Ronald Reagan. Jim Hansen and the mil-bloggers at Black Five are bringing years of cutting edge reportage from the front lines of multiple wars.
For the last 10 months, Big Government has been the “Big home”” for these stories but Big Peace is now their proper venue. For instance, bestselling author Brad Thor broke the story two months ago that Mullah Mohammed Omar had been captured by Pakistani ISI. That story was also confirmed by Lt. Col. Oliver North and Baba Tim. Notice the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have not officially denied this story. We also broke the story about the Obama Administration’s decision to move Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Thompson Correctional Facility in Illinois.
These major stories and more now have a natural home at Big Peace. Journalists, former Pentagon officials, foreign policy officials, foreign dignitaries, members of the armed forces, elected officials, and assorted insiders will use the dynamic “Big Group Blog Template” to make American and international security front page news once again. And, of course, you, our readers will be able to contribute to the discussion through our dynamic interactive comments section on each post.
As the site’s resident skeptic of main stream media accountability, I have noticed that the amount of reporters and media outlets covering national security and the war has dwindled and skepticism over American military commitment has waned now that there isn’t a Bush or a Republican in charge. The war beat is getting short shrift. Big Peace was created to fill this void and to provide biased coverage.
The site is pro-freedom, pro-liberty, and pro-American but will not be an outlet for false information or propaganda.
The unique mix of Schweizer, Gaffney, and Blackfive and our collective reputations will provide a check and balance.
When I told American artist Steve Penley, a close friend, about the idea of Big Peace, he was so excited that he offered his brilliant talent to create the banner artwork. I think that it conveys better than my words what this site is all about. Reagan put it best:
Peace through strength.
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How fitting that BigPeace.com is rolling out on the 234th anniversary of the first Declaration of Independence!
For, with the launch of this newest of the marvelous Breitbart web portals, the national security community can finally break the stranglehold the legacy media has heretofore had on what the American people know about the issues that are likely to have the greatest effect on them and those they love.
Thanks to Big Peace, issues of vital importance to our security – including such topics as:
the threat posed at home and abroad by the theo-political-legal-military code authoritative Islam calls Shariah;
the implications of President Obama’s pursuit of a world without nuclear weapons and the defective New START Treaty meant to advance that dangerous initiative;
the menace facing our sovereignty and liberties at the hands of “transnationalists” and their international lawfare;
the opportunities for securing our borders and energy supplies; and many more – will made available to millions of Americans in an authoritative, timely and evocative manner.
And we won’t have to worry about getting it all past the anti-defense biases of editors and reporters at places like the New York Times or NBC.
The timing of this roll-out is particularly opportune as it means there is a chance that the momentous electoral decisions looming this Fall can be made by voters who actually have a clue about the dangers we face – and who will be able to hold accountable incumbents and contenders alike with respect to their views on the appropriate responses.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never has better information been more needed by so many.
It is a privilege for me and my colleagues at the Center for Security Policy to be with Andrew and the Breitbart enterprises team, our terrific Editor-in-Chief, Peter Schweizer, and Jim Hanson and his fellow milbloggers at Blackfive.net at the inception of this powerful new force-for-good.
We join them in pledging our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to its success in ensuring that this great country enjoys many more Fourths of July in security, peace and prosperity.
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God bless you, Andrew Breitbart, and your patriot colleagues !
Bump
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Go, Andrew! Gaffney doesn’t pull any punches, I’m glad to see him get the platform.
Thanks STARWISE.
Thanks for the ping!
Big Peace
Ahh. The actual title, for which I searched, was not used
for that thread.
They should add Michael Yon to their staff.
That's OK, they changed their title about half an hour after I posted anyway.
I'm happy that more people get to see it.
I hope that eventually, Andrew builds a large viable media empire that competes with the lefties. And that his success will lead others to do the same.
He’s on fire ... and he won’t be stopped.
It’s like a new set of Founders, thank God.
Michael Yon has made submissions to some of Andrew's other "Big-" sites:
Contributor: Michael Yon - Big Journalismso I'm eager to see more with this new military site.
Glad he's on our side.
Don't think that will be happening very soon. Michael is trying to have them all drummed out of the blogging corps, although its not quite clear how one goes about that.
HOORAY Andrew Breitbart! Thank you, sir.
Excellent ! Thank you.
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MUST see .. “I Fought For You”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTb6qdPu8JE
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“All gave some .. some gave all”
God bless and protect our awesome troops
and vets.
Thanks for the link
Very good news. Congratulations to Brietbart on his new site. Happy 4th.
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