I think it is pretty safe to say that at least half of the people who are currently writing here at RedState were inspired by the late Andrew Breitbart in how they view the media and, in turn, how the media influences the world in general.

I know I was.

As I wrote a couple of years back on the anniversary of Andrews's death, he had a great impact on me — and many others that I know.

From that article

Requiem for Andrew Breitbart: Shine on, You Crazy Diamond - 10 Years Later

I’m sure you had no idea what an impact you had on so many people, how could you? Of course, I imagine you had glimpses at times and had many people tell you but how does anyone really ever know what type of impact they have while alive? So here today, 10 years after your passing, people will commemorate your passing and once again recall with fondness and laughter — so much laughter — the things you did, and the respect you commanded from so many people.

Respect that you earned every minute of every hour for the short time that you were a public figure. Your friend and often partner in crime, Larry O’ Connor, a couple of years ago mentioned that you were not in the public eye for very long, maybe less than five years. Yet in that short amount of time, you taught so many of us to stand up and have our voices heard and even though we might be nervous or scared to do it, the encouragement you gave reassured us it could be done.

You destroyed the book on how to take the beating from a media narrative, nuke it, and turn it back on those arses, and to do it with the zeal of a leftist hack calling anyone whom they do not agree with a racist, homophobe, etc. That you helped give countless people that confidence is something any normal person would be thrilled with as a legacy. Yet I think it is pretty safe to say, in addition to you being a Husky male model, being normal was not your style.

Your roadmap on fighting the media and also, by extension, those on social media has had a decade-long impact — and continues to show the way.

So I guess it's not surprising that when you've been heavily influenced by somebody, you sometimes recognize their fingerprint on other things that you see around you. After writing and doing a quick audio hit about what Dave Portnoy did to the Washington Post reporter who reached out to him for what would become a hit piece on his Pizza Festival last Saturday, a little bell began to ring in my head. This reminds me of something that Andrew Breitbart once did or would have done.

Just a quick recap here of my story.

LISTEN: Duke Over America - 'Dave Portnoy DESTROYS the Washington Post' Edition

Here is another one of those times when I can sit gleefully by and not give a flying hoot in hell about the politics of Dave Portnoy or anyone who can pull off a maneuver like Dave has here. 

As I said in my show above, this is simply a TEDTalk or an 'Andrew Breitbart lobby in a bar' class, that was put on here and it is magnificent. You do NOT allow the media to set the ground rules for "journalism" when the method they use lacks common sense and involves waiting until the last minute to talk with the feature of the post to set them up. In just under a 12-minute video post, Portnoy shows everyone how it is done with a calm and cool demeanor and anyone in media should take copious notes on how to do this at the drop of a hat.

Dave Portnoy handled this situation in just about the best way one could. 

He didn't sit on his hiney after he was tipped off the Post was working on a hit piece. He called up the reporter and politely asked her what was the point of sending loaded questions, making him sound like a villain to sponsors of their Pizza Celebration. As you can hear in the audio I posted above in my previous piece, the reporter was not prepared to face off with the subject of her soon-to-be-published piece in this manner.

The way Portnoy handled this is almost as epic as the way Andrew Breitbart handed the Anthony Weiner tweeting his "junk" story back in 2011.

Almost.

If you don't recall the Breitbart - Anthony Weiner Twitter tussle, here is a brief breakdown given to me by Andrew himself a week before he died in 2012.

Andrew was on vacation with his family, and he came across a tweet that I believe somebody had DMed him or he saw in the public timeline of a picture of someone's private parts. He then was alerted that this was possibly a congressman accidentally sending a picture of his package on the public timeline and then rushing to delete it after he realized his mistake. 

When the congressman was called out on it, he immediately claimed that his account was hacked, and he started to blame numerous people or organizations. One of the people he called out was Andrew Breitbart and his sites. 

Andrew, of course, did not take kindly to this.

He went on the offensive and started demanding that Congressman Weiner take his claim to the FBI that he was hacked as such a hack — particularly one of a sitting United States Congressman — was a federal crime. If the Congressman were being truthful, then the Federal Bureau of Investigation would, of course, take up the investigation to find out who hacked this poor innocent slob's account.

Of course, as we found out later, there was never any hacking, and that's why Weiner never filed a complaint — because filing such a complaint when you know it is false is also a crime. 

In the 15-minute video below, Andrew, who had just arrived in New York to do some Fox News hits, I believe, was alerted that Congressman Weiner was going to be holding a press conference to discuss all of this. While he was sitting in the back of the room, reporters who recognized him started asking him questions, and he finally was asked to go to the front podium so that everyone in the room could hear him.

So Tony Weiner had to sit in the back in the waiting room for his own press conference while the person who had exposed the truth about his tasteless photos of his manhood on Twitter held a press conference explaining why he was right in that matter and Weiner was wrong. 

Andrew told me that it was the most surreal moment in his life, and he doubted he would ever top such a chain of events. Unfortunately, he was right about that.

I have no idea if Dave Portnoy knows who Andrew Breitbart is or if he followed the Breitbart - Weiner Twitter scandal over 12 years ago. However, the way that Dave handled this, going on the offense and not waiting for a bogus story to drop, was very Breitbartian.

I truly hope we see more of this in the future.

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