Branching out in 2009, he launched Big Government, Big Journalism and Big
Hollywood, reflecting the three areas of American life which he regarded as
institutionally liberal and unreflective of most Americans’ view of life.
“Most conservatives are individualists,” he told Time. “For years, they’ve
been pummelled by the collectivists who run the American media, Hollywood
and Washington. The underground conservative movement that is now awakening
is the ecosystem I’ve designed my sites to tap into.”
He quickly courted controversy with a story by conservative student activist
James O’Keefe purporting to show employees of the Acorn housing agency
giving tips on setting up a brothel to undercover reporters. Its veracity
was later questioned when it emerged that clips of O’Keefe dressed as a pimp
had been inserted after the event.
Breitbart outraged the Left even further with a heavily edited story about
Shirley Sherrod, a black, mid-level official at the department of
agriculture. The story gave the impression that Mrs Sherrod admitted in a
speech to refusing to help a white farmer 20 years previously whose views
made her uncomfortable.
She was duly sacked but the full content of her speech to the National
Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the country’s main civil
rights organisation, soon emerged, showing she had in fact worked to save
the white man’s farm.
His biggest scoop was the scandal that led to the resignation of Anthony
Weiner, a rising star in Democratic congressional ranks. One of his websites
was the first report that Weiner had sent obscene images of himself to women
over the Twitter. As Weiner issued strenous denials and suggested his
Twitter account had been hacked, Breitbart stood firm and was soon
vindicated.
A tribute to Breitbart on Big Journalism read: “We have lost a husband, a
father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.”
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