Alex Marlow, Charlie Kirk and Nigel Farage Honor Andrew Breitbart's Legacy as Conservative New Media Pioneer

[00:00] I guess I'll start I'm Alexander Marlowe

[00:01] I'm the editor-in-chief of right Bart

[00:03] news and I happy to introduce myself and

[00:05] I guess we're gonna have a panel today

[00:07] honoring the legacy who of the man who

[00:10] is the conservative new media pioneer

[00:13] but Andrew Breitbart

[00:14] is a guy thank you Andrew Breitbart is a

[00:18] guy who really led a double life

[00:21] he was this conservative new media giant

[00:23] a guy who will be on the Mount Rushmore

[00:25] of internet pioneers if there ever is

[00:28] one I don't believe there is it have to

[00:29] be digital that'd be very tough to pull

[00:31] off

[00:31] and he was also a husky male model the

[00:37] joke there that Andrew used to make

[00:39] frequently is really that he had two

[00:41] gears and the gears were one was

[00:43] righteous indignation and that's the

[00:46] title of his book his memoir which kind

[00:49] of breaks down his playbook for life and

[00:50] for media and jocularity and you see

[00:53] both about it both of those in the clip

[00:55] there of hating Breitbart the

[00:57] documentary about Andrew and I was the

[00:59] first employee of Breitbart news I met

[01:01] Andrew at a convention very similar to

[01:04] this one at a small reception where

[01:06] Andrew explained that the culture is

[01:09] actually upstream from politics that it

[01:12] wasn't really that the political figures

[01:14] were responding it wasn't really that

[01:16] that the culture was responding to

[01:18] politics it was that the political

[01:19] figures were actually taking their cues

[01:21] from executives in Hollywood and that

[01:23] the next president was going to and at

[01:26] the time Barack Obama was running was

[01:28] going to run a made-for-tv campaign and

[01:31] this is an amazing thing because you

[01:34] might notice that the current President

[01:36] may have used a very similar playbook

[01:38] with a made-for-tv campaign now it's one

[01:40] of these things where that's all we talk

[01:42] about is a ubiquitous idea but it really

[01:44] started ten years ago in the basement of

[01:47] Andrew Breitbart home office in West Los

[01:49] Angeles not in Washington not in the

[01:51] Beltway not in Manhattan with the elite

[01:53] media and this is where Andrew got his

[01:56] ideas because he grew up as this liberal

[01:59] driving around West Los Angeles and

[02:01] while he was there he was trying to

[02:04] break into either the entertainment

[02:05] industry he was a journalist in music he

[02:08] went to Tulane University where he

[02:10] thought of himself as a as a liberal and

[02:12] also a

[02:13] animal knowing he would he would rarely

[02:16] show up for class and had to beg his

[02:18] math teacher to give him a c-minus just

[02:20] so he could graduate and I think the

[02:22] story is when he flew home he didn't

[02:24] have any luggage so he put everything in

[02:26] a plastic trash bag and so that was

[02:28] swinging around the carousel at LAX when

[02:30] he got home and he said it's his goal

[02:33] for his first year out of college he

[02:34] wants to wake up before noon that was

[02:37] that was his goal for the first year how

[02:39] that guy could become the warrior for

[02:42] the right in terms of the culture the

[02:44] tip of the spear for the culture war is

[02:46] an amazing journey and it started with

[02:49] the talk radio it started with him

[02:50] listening to Rush Limbaugh on to Dennis

[02:52] Prager folks you might hear from this

[02:54] week some of the legends of the movement

[02:57] and learning that these ideas are

[02:58] wonderful ideas these are ideas that are

[03:01] valid they have a place in American life

[03:04] and they're not to be frowned upon

[03:05] they're not there to be taken dead

[03:07] seriously and the next component of this

[03:09] which is I think very relevant this year

[03:11] a lot of you guys may have witnessed the

[03:13] Brett Kavanaugh witch-hunt Andrew

[03:16] Breitbart witnessed the same thing with

[03:18] Clarence Thomas where he tuned in as a

[03:20] media fit as someone who is a head of

[03:22] curiosity with media looking for Joe

[03:25] Biden and Ted Kennedy to take out

[03:27] Clarence Thomas who is clearly a

[03:28] predator but what he saw was the same

[03:31] thing he saw the high-tech lynching he

[03:33] saw people trying to destroy a man

[03:35] simply because he had right-of-center

[03:37] values and the Clarence Thomas

[03:39] witch-hunt in a way created Andrew

[03:41] Breitbart which is pretty remarkable

[03:42] because I'm sure a lot of you guys your

[03:44] opinions probably hard and watching the

[03:46] attempted destruction of Brett Kavanaugh

[03:48] this year so Andrews playbook as he goes

[03:51] through in his book righteous

[03:53] indignation it is pretty simple you have

[03:55] two modes it is not that and this is a

[03:57] quote from the book that I love so much

[03:59] it's not that you want to fight it that

[04:02] you were compelled to fight it is a

[04:04] fight that you were drawn to it's

[04:05] something he was in his bones he needed

[04:07] to defend the American people he wanted

[04:10] to fend the individuals who were called

[04:12] racist for no reason without any basis

[04:14] whatsoever he fought against blacklist

[04:17] he fought for freedom of speech and he

[04:19] fought for traditional American values

[04:21] that's all stuff you're going to hear a

[04:22] lot this week and for good

[04:24] reason but Andrews secret weapon was

[04:27] what you saw a little bit in that video

[04:29] is his jocularity that's the other mode

[04:32] righteous indignation jocularity he was

[04:34] the original guy who had fun he was the

[04:37] guy who when he went to the bar he would

[04:39] shut it down with everyone he would hang

[04:40] out with everyone I when I worked for

[04:43] him as his assistant in his basement and

[04:45] I heard him on the phone talking to

[04:47] people he was equally enthusiastic to

[04:50] talk to a United States Senator or a

[04:52] prime-time cable news host as he was the

[04:55] special representative of the local

[04:56] college Republican group he simply loved

[04:58] people

[04:59] he saw that Americans were getting

[05:01] targeted in particular the tea party at

[05:03] the time with unfairness with charges of

[05:05] racism bigotry they're getting lied

[05:07] about by the establishment media over

[05:09] and over again and he was the one who

[05:11] took the slings and arrows he was the

[05:13] original person who stood up and stood

[05:15] in front of everyone and said I will

[05:17] take the bullet so you guys don't have

[05:18] to because I think it's kind of fun

[05:20] I think pissing off the right people is

[05:22] fun that's the lessons of Andrew

[05:24] Breitbart in a nutshell and I'm really

[05:26] excited to talk about it with two people

[05:28] who were inspired by the man Charlie

[05:30] Kirk and Nigel Faraj and my first

[05:33] question I guess goes to Charlie is it

[05:34] Charlie you're someone who's compelled

[05:36] to fight like Andrew what drew you to

[05:38] that attitude well it was actually

[05:41] breitbart.com that gave me the first

[05:43] opportunity to get in the fight so I was

[05:46] a senior in high school and I was

[05:49] flipping through my AP economics

[05:52] textbook has anyone used the Krugman

[05:54] economics textbook still does anyone

[05:56] still use that yeah so I'm one of the

[05:59] pages you'll see it there's just a

[06:01] flat-out falsehood that it says the tax

[06:04] cuts put forth by Reagan did not

[06:06] accelerate economic growth it's just

[06:08] adverse to history and data and so I

[06:12] kind of wrote up a response to this and

[06:14] I started circulating it around and a

[06:15] guy named Joel Pollak found it who is in

[06:17] leadership at Breitbart calm and he said

[06:20] hey Charlie why don't you you write this

[06:21] up and I said really okay I was in high

[06:24] school at the time and wrote up the

[06:26] article and Breitbart was the only

[06:29] website that took it seriously and it

[06:31] went totally viral it got rewritten all

[06:33] over the internet I think it got drudged

[06:35] at

[06:35] which was pretty cool and then from

[06:37] there I got on fox news for the first

[06:39] time when I was in high school and then

[06:41] it kind of fell into this whole idea

[06:43] that maybe there is something that can

[06:44] be started from nothing and so Breitbart

[06:47] gave me that opportunity to get involved

[06:49] and get engaged in the culture war now

[06:51] mind you I never met Andrew Breitbart I

[06:53] never had the opportunity to work with

[06:54] him actually right when he tragically

[06:58] passed aways right when I got into the

[06:59] movement it was almost within a 30-day

[07:01] time period and but I feel as if I know

[07:06] him just from reading all of his work

[07:07] and watching his videos it's a a guy

[07:10] that you could see his per garius larger

[07:12] than life and a lot of his tactics of

[07:15] going straight into the liberal mob and

[07:17] confronting them is something I love to

[07:19] do as many as you know and allowing

[07:23] their extremism and their radicalism and

[07:25] their incoherence to be shown is

[07:27] something Andrew specialized in and my

[07:29] favorite Andrew bright bright bright

[07:30] video ever when he went out to this

[07:32] liberal mob in Chicago and he went up to

[07:34] me said what is your sign say what is

[07:36] your sign say they don't even know what

[07:38] their sign so that's a fun little you

[07:41] know a tool and tactic to use but I'm

[07:43] compelled to fight like Andrew Breitbart

[07:45] in a different way which is I mean I

[07:47] feel like we're losing our country to

[07:48] forces from within and I want to do

[07:51] everything I possibly can to fight what

[07:53] I love about what Breitbart does you

[07:55] know the news the news site is that you

[07:57] understand that you have to fight for

[07:59] every inch you just gets they're not

[08:00] going to give the country back - yes

[08:02] this was a huge lesson of Andrew which

[08:04] is that the media will never like you if

[08:06] you're on the right they will use you

[08:08] against more powerful figures on the

[08:10] right but that's the only time they'll

[08:11] ever give you any accolades so just

[08:13] understand that this is something I

[08:14] always warn young people that you do

[08:17] have to enjoy taking the heat a little

[08:19] bit if you're going to be a part of this

[08:20] fight because the media will never give

[08:22] you those accolades and if they do so

[08:24] it's only under false pretences Andrew

[08:26] was the first guy to point that out and

[08:28] I think one thing charlie keys in on is

[08:30] that we have a legacy of empowering

[08:32] citizen journalists James O'Keefe being

[08:34] the most notable among them but it's

[08:36] really been countless over the years and

[08:38] Charlie was someone in high school

[08:40] writing up content we didn't want to we

[08:43] wanted Charlie to be able to speak for

[08:45] himself to be able to put things up

[08:46] under his own byline and to let the

[08:48] people have

[08:49] voice in the media and not have the

[08:50] media fully controlled by the

[08:52] establishment elite that's the the

[08:54] mission of breitbart.com in a nutshell

[08:56] and that's also the mission in many ways

[08:58] of you Kip and Nigel's cause which is

[09:00] giving a voice to the voiceless yeah I

[09:03] mean he really was a inspiring visionary

[09:06] figure and I think my playbook was very

[09:08] similar to his righteous indignation but

[09:10] lots of jocularity and I said to you all

[09:12] earlier didn't I make it fun smile let's

[09:15] be real people and that's exactly what

[09:18] Andrew Breitbart was I think his his

[09:21] legacy is astonishing the desperately

[09:24] untimely death appalling for his family

[09:26] but I tell you what if he's looking down

[09:28] from up there he'll be very very proud

[09:31] of what he created you know before

[09:33] social media really came along to form

[09:36] our opinions we had to rely on the New

[09:39] York Times I've got a better one than

[09:43] that for you or CNN they're still awake

[09:47] it's all okay add here's the point

[09:50] here's the point that with social media

[09:52] completely different voices that weren't

[09:54] relying on effectively begging for

[09:57] crumbs from the table from mainstream

[09:59] media came along and I think he started

[10:02] something the biggest accolade that I

[10:06] can pay Alex to Andrew Breitbart is I

[10:10] said the day after the 24th of June 2016

[10:14] I said brexit could not have happened

[10:17] without Breitbart and I can't pay a

[10:20] higher compliment to anybody on the

[10:22] planet than that

[10:25] and so the left hates Andrew Breitbart

[10:29] so much they just cannot get rid of them

[10:31] and so here's the amazing example of how

[10:35] Andrew Breitbart won the 2016 election

[10:39] five years later I pulled Alex this new

[10:41] floor and he finds it funny so for those

[10:43] who that remember he was the one who saw

[10:45] in the video shortly that captured

[10:47] Anthony Weiner on on Twitter and he

[10:50] denied it and then went back and forth

[10:51] with which led to his resignation which

[10:55] then led to the schism between him and

[10:57] Huma Abedin who is Hillary Clinton's

[11:00] very close friend and that that whole

[11:04] schism so then that led to an FBI

[11:06] investigation into Anthony Weiner for

[11:09] underage illegal behavior let's just

[11:13] leave it at that

[11:14] so this ongoing investigation was

[11:16] happening into Anthony Weiner but there

[11:19] was also an FBI investigation going into

[11:21] the Clinton emails and so if you

[11:23] remember James Comey came out of nowhere

[11:25] about eight days before the election and

[11:28] he said hold on a second I did not fully

[11:32] satisfy my testimony and the Democrats

[11:34] attribute James Comey statement to the

[11:36] reason why they lost I don't know that I

[11:38] think that's a little generous but I

[11:39] think I probably played a role because

[11:41] it was the number one news story about

[11:42] Hillary Clinton's emails what they were

[11:44] really saying is that they were looking

[11:46] through anthony Weiner's hard drive in

[11:49] that investigation that Andrew Breitbart

[11:51] triggered six years ago which then led

[11:54] to them saying that it gave an

[11:55] incomplete testimony which was a

[11:57] horrible political hit against Hillary

[11:59] Clinton

[11:59] so Andrew Breitbart is still destroying

[12:01] the left six years later even though

[12:03] he's not with us any longer

[12:06] it's amazing and the legacy of Andrew is

[12:11] going to be a generation of citizen

[12:12] journalists a generation of people who

[12:14] not only do we not care if the CIA of

[12:17] the cnn's in the new york times of the

[12:19] world approve of us were genuinely not

[12:21] interested in what they have to say and

[12:23] what they think of us and this is

[12:25] something that continues to confuse them

[12:27] and you see the latest tactic which the

[12:29] left is using now which is the complete

[12:31] anti Breitbart tactic which is

[12:33] blacklisting they're trying to go after

[12:35] advertisers get advertisers to stop

[12:37] advertising and conservative businesses

[12:38] they're refusing to publish

[12:40] conservatives in mainstream publication

[12:42] saying their voices are not valid and

[12:43] we're seeing what's happening in the

[12:46] most ubiquitous left-wing bastion in the

[12:50] Western world which is our campuses

[12:51] where conservative speakers are no

[12:53] longer welcome period and if they are

[12:55] welcome you have to get hundreds of

[12:56] thousands of dollars worth of security

[12:58] to have them this is the left doing the

[13:00] exact opposite of what Andrew Breitbart

[13:01] kid when Andrew Breitbart he stood for

[13:04] his motto was more voices not less

[13:08] now grammatically if you break that down

[13:09] I don't know if that way it is kind of

[13:12] redundant and and I don't think I think

[13:14] it should be more voices not fewer but

[13:15] the sentiment is key the sentiment is

[13:18] that let's have an even playing field

[13:20] let's debate on an even battlefield of

[13:22] ideas and we're confident we'll win so

[13:25] bring us on on a fair playing field the

[13:27] Left refuses to do that they shut us

[13:29] down they want us to get banned they

[13:31] want to shut us the shadow' ban us from

[13:32] social media and this is because they're

[13:35] afraid of you guys they're afraid of the

[13:38] citizen journalists of the young people

[13:39] getting the information from free

[13:41] sources of information and being able to

[13:43] beat them at their own arguments but

[13:45] isn't this the next big battle I mean

[13:47] you know I met Mark Zuckerberg a few

[13:49] months ago and got the chance to

[13:51] question him and he still insists that

[13:55] Facebook is a platform for all ideas now

[13:58] if it is a platform for all ideas Alex

[13:59] we're gonna win because we've got better

[14:02] arguments on the other side of guy you

[14:04] know it's as simple as that

[14:05] yes but the real worry here is the real

[14:08] worry here is without social media no

[14:12] brexit without social media no Trump I

[14:15] mean he is the tweeter in chief globally

[14:18] isn't he

[14:19] without social media no italian

[14:22] coalition government they were doing

[14:24] such a magnificent job in standing up

[14:26] for Italian interests against Brussels

[14:28] they really are wonderfully but here's

[14:30] the problem

[14:31] the great battle we face is and we know

[14:33] it we know what's going on through

[14:36] Google we know what's going on through

[14:38] Facebook we know what's going on through

[14:40] Twitter and they have launched a war

[14:42] against us and I'm I'm somebody that

[14:46] believes in free markets I'm somebody

[14:47] that hates big government I'm somebody

[14:49] that wants to lift the weight of

[14:51] regulation of the shoulders of people

[14:53] but we've got a situation here now where

[14:56] these firms have a virtual monopoly on

[14:58] this market and my passionate hope and

[15:02] belief is that President Trump will run

[15:05] in 2020 on a ticket that says he's going

[15:09] to get a grip of these social media

[15:11] companies make sure there is a bill of

[15:14] rights for social media users so that

[15:16] all arguments get a fair crack of the

[15:19] web because if we don't get that we've

[15:20] got a problem

[15:23] III have a question for Charlie so

[15:26] Charlie this is something that I was

[15:27] thinking about this week and

[15:29] breitbart.com were so grateful for all

[15:31] of you go to Breitbart and encourage you

[15:33] to check us out were that we were the

[15:35] single most influential website on

[15:36] social media in the 2016 election

[15:39] according to a Harvard study just ahead

[15:41] of the New York Times so we're very

[15:42] proud of that and and and and but one

[15:46] thing we're concerned about one thing

[15:48] that we're looking at we're looking at

[15:49] what I was talking about the insulation

[15:51] the closing down of the mind and of

[15:54] speech in the country so and then we

[15:57] learned in Nigel and I talked about this

[15:58] earlier in the day about how now they're

[16:01] advancing truly anti-science beliefs in

[16:03] the UK they're now being taught that

[16:05] eight-year-olds are being taught that

[16:07] boys can in periods too so we're going

[16:10] in the exactly running a far away from

[16:12] science and into this PC political

[16:14] correctness Charlie when is the time

[16:16] that we call on young people to start

[16:17] standing up to their teachers and start

[16:19] volunteering publicly and just saying I

[16:21] don't believe that's true I'm not going

[16:23] to accept that in the classroom and they

[16:24] stand up for yourselves I think a lot of

[16:27] that's already happening and I mean the

[16:30] the stories of students in this room are

[16:32] list of even non-controversial examples

[16:36] of just trying to host campus events and

[16:38] the administration tries to smear them

[16:40] and Alex I did this yesterday and Nigel

[16:42] I want you to see this how many of

[16:43] students here have been maligned attacks

[16:45] targeted you know because you're

[16:47] conservative used grade lowered I mean

[16:48] everyone it's it's it's and the and the

[16:51] media will never report this and it is

[16:54] harder that it's harder than ever to be

[16:56] a young conservative on a college campus

[16:58] these are islands at the Talat arianism

[17:00] they they want everyone to look

[17:03] different but think the same and the

[17:05] greatest weapon that everyone here has

[17:07] is the smartphone in your hands and

[17:09] that's what Andrew Breitbart was

[17:11] beginning to to touch on and really

[17:13] Andrew was even before the explosion of

[17:16] social media we've seen he was at the

[17:18] very beginning stages of Twitter and

[17:20] Instagram and Facebook I mean it's grown

[17:23] a thousandfold since 2011 2012 and so

[17:27] that's one of the big things we try to

[17:28] train and encourage our students is you

[17:30] know film everything and the power of

[17:33] Moving Image the power of video can

[17:35] really expose some of the most

[17:36] entrenched you know leftist biases and

[17:39] there's a reason why the left does not

[17:41] want you to be able to film because they

[17:43] have something to hide they don't want

[17:45] their ideas to be made publicly and that

[17:46] that's why they try everything they

[17:48] possibly can to to go after people like

[17:50] Nigel and Breitbart yeah they're they're

[17:52] so concerned that other ideas can

[17:54] threaten them they don't want to have

[17:55] you know a discussion or public

[17:57] discourse and look what happened at

[17:58] Politico with you Alex I mean when you

[18:00] start to have a discussion with think

[18:01] was April Ryan was it Ryan

[18:03] yeah she's a real gem where you actually

[18:06] cross-examine her yeah she almost I

[18:08] think she stood up or did something yeah

[18:10] great example of she this is a hilarious

[18:14] story and I noticed this YouTube never

[18:15] came out because I don't think it made

[18:17] her look very good she said that we

[18:19] would smear her on a website but we have

[18:20] a parlor trick that we use we try to

[18:23] quote left-wingers verbatim and just let

[18:28] people decide for themselves whether

[18:30] they not whether or not they think it's

[18:31] insane and most of the time people do so

[18:33] it is a great fodder for us which is why

[18:36] Steve Cohen if anyone watched the Google

[18:38] hearing the Democratic congressman was

[18:40] very upset because all of his news

[18:42] coverage is Breitbart because we just

[18:44] quote him

[18:45] very unhappy that we're at the top of

[18:46] his search engine results he's very

[18:48] unhappy about that because we point out

[18:50] all the insane things he says

[18:52] so a per Ryan got in my face with a she

[18:56] accused me of smearing her and I said

[18:58] name one headline give me one false

[19:00] headline about us and she couldn't name

[19:02] one obviously because we don't smear

[19:04] people we quote them verbatim that's the

[19:06] parlor trick that's what we're trying to

[19:07] do and someone about 20 minutes later

[19:10] answer a phone with a headline on it and

[19:13] she goes over picks up the phone from

[19:16] the front row of the audience comes up

[19:18] to me I'm sitting in a chair on the

[19:19] panel puts the phone in my face reads

[19:22] the headline I forgot what it was I

[19:24] think it was that it was something about

[19:26] how a Trump cost or death threats and

[19:28] she says oh yeah yeah I agree with that

[19:30] that was a good point

[19:31] proving my whole point which is that we

[19:33] just quote her verbatim and she got in

[19:35] my face to point that out and she had to

[19:37] rise from her chair and get completely

[19:39] triggered and this is the thing that

[19:41] Andrew Breitbart really has triggered a

[19:43] lifetime of snowflakes I really think of

[19:45] anything if that could be his legacy he

[19:48] was the street fighter before you know

[19:50] anyone else in the modern digital era

[19:52] and he went into the most just hostile

[19:54] liberal environment and and was unafraid

[19:56] to have those kind of conversations and

[19:58] discussions and isn't the moral of it

[19:59] all that Breitbart stood up and fought

[20:02] for what he believed did I've stood up

[20:03] before for what I believed in you've

[20:04] stood up and fought what you believed in

[20:06] Alex you stood up and fought for what

[20:08] you believed in and the really important

[20:12] message the really important message to

[20:14] the young delegates in this hall is you

[20:17] can come along to events like this you

[20:20] can listen to speakers you can learn

[20:21] things you can agree with things but if

[20:24] you go back home and do nothing about it

[20:27] we don't advance the cause if you want

[20:30] to change the world for the better then

[20:32] join us stand up and fight for it at

[20:35] every given opportunity

[20:41] all right thank you guys so much hold

[20:43] you guys you you're back