Crowder: Remembering Breitbart

Words are so frequently useless. As a writer, these are the moments I hate. As a human, too.

Breitbart's War

Andrew Breitbart talked fast. Exceptionally fast. His words compounded like layers in a hoagie sandwich. Any one speech, one book, one project, one interview, one soundbite was meaty enough to feed a family of five.

For life.

But somehow he always had more in him. More to say. More poignancy and relevancy and guts and all of it slathered with wasabi. His words could clear the sinuses right up.

This is what I thought about in 2008 when I had the chance to interview him. He was sitting somewhere backstage of the Republican National Convention, somewhere with lots of noise and people and questions being barked in the background - an atmosphere that followed him everywhere, it seemed.

He took my call without breaking a single stride. What did I want to know? He was ready to talk. Always, it appeared, ready to talk. Primed to fire off eloquence with rapidity, and then follow it up with a quick jab of cutthroat crudeness.

All together, his points were made. Each of them wedged into the moist areas of your brain so that you never forgot them.

 That's what I realized during our interview. That, and the fact he spoke faster than I could record in my wayward shorthand. He had so much to say. So very much. It was a terrible shame to lose even one word.

Sadly, I never got the chance to speak to him again. It was a shotgun kind of crossing. Lots of noise loading, lots of noise when fired. Job done. So I've admired his fighting stance from a distance. He had zeal when so very few do.

People keep calling him a warrior. I can think of no better term. He was schooling the rest of us on how to fight. Then walking into the battlefield, waving his hands wildly so the enemy would put him in the crosshairs, and screaming, "FIGHT THEM LIKE THIS!"

He never wavered, never backed down. It was a fearless, in-your-face technique with such courage that he often made me wonder if, somehow, he could see the end of the war already. As if he knew the devastation coming if conservatives didn't give it their all.

So he led by example.
That's what leaders do.

 Near the end of my interview, Breitbart began talking about American exceptionalism, about the loss of Americanism in American films, about the overtaking of Hollywood with foreign money and foreign influence. He spoke like a Colonel eying a map of the battlefield and marking off the territory lost and the territory still left to defend.

"A lot of Hollywood actors and Hollywood writers and directors are starting to ask," he said, in his notable juicy speech, "did we give it all away?"

If they did, Breitbart was determined to get every inch back. And the battle isn't even close to over.

Rest in peace, Andrew. Our warrior.

Now THIS is an apology

I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry that this woman isn't running for office. Yet?
Found her! She's Kira Davis. And we're going to be BFFs.

VIDEO: Two Visions of America

One pinches my heart. The other makes me pinch my nose. 



Yes, why shouldn't we believe that? Happy 101st Birthday, Mr. President! Here's to a revitalization of independence, of individual empowerment, of hope, and always, always, of freedom.

PIC: Santorum "tebowing"....

....with supporters.

Neighbor, how long has it been since you had a cool, conservative, conscientious man as President? Well, that's too long!

VIDEO: Bill Murray. The funny one.

Because it's....well, you know what day it is.

"I'm just trying to talk like normal people talk. Isn't this how they talk?"

VIDEO: spOILed

I'm all about keeping things natural. I eat unprocessed food, I wear all-natural fabrics, and I burn fossil fuels as if they burst forth from the very ground beneath my feet. 

Oh. That's right. They do.

A new documentary is explaining a facet of our lives most of us don't fully understand: where the energy comes from. No one else is saying it. How do I know? Because they want him to stop saying it, too. 

Meet Mark Mathis. And meet Mark Mathis' project, "spOILed."

If “SpOILed” debunks just one media meme, Mathis hopes it’s the notion that we can move away from oil in the near future.
If only that were the case.

“That’s a profoundly ignorant and dangerous statement,” he says. “It is impossible for that to happen. I fully expect 40 years from now we may be even more dependent on oil then we are today.”

Want to know more? Of course you do.