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I see Andrew every day. When I fire up my buddy list there is Bodiaz bringing his dose of happy-sad. Thanks, someone, for not turning his computer off. On the one-year anniversary of his death, many folks will speak of

Though we had communicated almost daily via instant message, email, and telephone since my move across the country to North Carolina, this was the first time Andrew Breitbart and I had seen one another in almost nine months.  The occasion

When I was 17 years old, a sophomore at UCLA and the token conservative columnist at the Daily Bruin, I received an odd email. It was from some guy named Andrew, who worked at the Drudge Report. He said he’d

Today is a day when so many are reflecting on the legacy of Andrew Breitbart–his spirit, his strength, his humor, his everything. About several weeks ago, I was given a great honor as well as a great responsibility: I was

I remember how surreal it was to be introduced to Andrew Breitbart. I would bet that, at the time, most people who didn’t regularly follow politics wouldn’t have known who Andrew Breitbart was. But for those of us who did,

On March 1st, 2012, I woke up to a text message from a friend I had lost touch with over the previous year. Naturally, I was intrigued. It had to be something important. And it was not just a single text

Help me, Andrew.  I have a problem that only you can solve.   I’m supposed to write something for the site and I’m past my deadline. I just can’t figure out how to write it.  How many times in the

Many people saw Andrew Breitbart as a general, a man of vision who could see all the players on the field and inspire those around him to engage. He was that, but he also stood on the hill and rattled

I met Andrew Breitbart in person for the first time a few years ago in a Manhattan restaurant. Along with a few mutual friends, we laughed, we ate dinner, and we talked about everything from politics to education to reality

Andrew gathered the editorial team in the center of our former office, a giant warehouse space with a row of desks above overlooking a recreation area below. We were just a few days from the re-launch of the website.  Most

“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” – Lao Tzu The funny thing is, Andrew would give me an endless hard time for quoting Lao Tzu–pretentious, he’d say.  But Andrew did live larger than life–which made

A new study by the Culture and Media Institute of network coverage of Pope Benedict’s retirement reveals constant attacks, ridicule, and repeated allusions to scandals as ABC, CBS, and NBC reported on Benedict’s final days. The study reveals that the Catholic

It’s no secret that the Chicago media is no friend to conservatives, but a recent report from Fox Chicago’s Mike Flannery, where he compares GOP primary winner Paul McKinley to “Spanky the Clown” borders on unhinged animosity. Flannery filed a

With great sadness we announce the passing of Arlene Mae Breitbart, wife of Gerald Breitbart, mother of Andrew and his sister Tracey, and grandmother of seven terrific grandchildren. Arlene passed away from natural causes yesterday in Los Angeles, two days

The ObamaMedia really needs to get its talking points together. Though Woodward never claimed he’d been threatened, Obama’s dishonest media minions are pushing back as though he said he was. Now we have The Week’s Marc Ambinder trying a new

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to criticisms of the White House threatening Bob Woodward by saying that the White House and the Administration is always “respectful” to journalists trying to do their job. Carney claimed that anyone who

UPDATE: Democrat Lanny Davis agrees that Sperling’s email threatend Woodward: Did Gene Sperling effectively handle his interactions with Bob Woodward? Hardly, says friend and former colleague Lanny Davis. “He should know better,” Davis told POLITICO. “Did Bob Woodward get a single fact

NOTE: This post will be continually updated… Also, I’m not including open partisans in this list, like Josh Marshal of Talking Points Memo. Those listed below pose as “objective” journalists. The media stands by its own, at least until one

Lanny Davis, who served under President Bill Clinton as special counsel to the White House, told Washington, D.C.’s WMAL this morning that the Obama White House had threatened the Washington Times over his column, warning that the Times would suffer limited access

The New York Times fears that “austerity” has already made its way to America and is “killing” government jobs, even though federal spending continues to increase. Author Binyamin Appelbaum claims in a February 26 piece that the federal government is “cutting back

Wednesday night on CNN, legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward stated that a “very senior person” in the Obama administration had told him in an email that Woodward would “regret” it if he continued to press the point that President

On Wednesday evening’s edition of Hardball, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews accused critics of former Sen. Chuck Hagel–now Secretary of Defense–of McCarthyism.  He focused on three examples: Ben Shapiro’s Feb. 7 story about Senate rumors that Hagel had received funding from “Friends of

Wednesday night, in the aftermath of the blow-up regarding the White House’s email to Bob Woodward suggesting he would “regret” his reporting of sequestration, White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe took to twitter to bash Woodward as a past-his-prime hack:

Arkansas Business editor Gwen Moritz has apologized for posting the names of concealed carry permit holders online.  Written in op-ed fashion, and titled “My Learning Curve,” the apology begins thus: The professional and personal lessons I have been taught during

On Tuesday, conservative scholar and firebrand talk radio host Mark Levin blasted the mainstream media and Republicans alike. Chuck Hagel was narrowly confirmed as Defense Secretary once Republicans deferred to President Barack Obama in voting for cloture to move his