Andrew Breitbart on the need for conservatives to embrace the media
Last weekend, Americans for Limited Government and NetRightNation.com hosted the first of many New Media events at the Union Pub in Washington, D.C. featuring internet entrepreneur, Andrew Breitbart, who spoke about the urgency for conservatives to embrace pop culture to ensure the survival of the conservative movement, and the Republican Party.
Breitbart knows what he’s talking about: he’s one of the founders of the Huffington Post, worked for Drudge and now runs his own news portal Breitbart.com. Although the motto of this portal is “just the news,” it also features a blog about popular culture called “Big Hollywood” (where my musings on this subject also appear).
“I really think that the only way that the conservative movement… people that want limited government, the only way we’re ever going to be able to sell the idea is if we learn that the media is the message,” said Breitbart to an audience of new media personnel of not-for-profit organizations, conservative bloggers, and radio staff.
“We have like a ten to twenty year battle on our hands,” the co-founder of Big Hollywood, the group blog that features contributions from high profile Hollywood conservatives, said he tells GOP Congressmen in Washington, encouraging them to “stop acting like your great, great grandfather, and not be afraid of pop culture.”
You can watch the entire speech, which I believe should be taken to heart by both American and European conservatives, below the fold.
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