Two years after the death of Andrew Breitbart, a man who helped reshape the media and political world, the makers of the biopic “Hating Breitbart” released a clip of Breitbart explaining his approach to protecting sources.
Never B4 seen @AndrewBreitbart: “Your Peril Will Be My Peril” http://t.co/19XyNGki3V#RIP#HonorBreitbart#BreitbartArmy cc @gatewaypundit
— Hating Breitbart (@HatingBreitbart) March 1, 2014
In the clip, Breitbart talks about a conversation with Doug Giles, the father of Hannah Giles, the 20-year-old woman who posed as a prostitute in the sting operation by James O’Keefe and published by Breitbart.com that destroyed the liberal front group ACORN. He assured Giles he would protect Hannah like she was his own daughter.
Breitbart was as good as his promise. As Doug Giles wrote in a column published days after Breitbart’s death:
Every step of the way, through vicious, non-stop media attacks, death threats to our family, and multiple lawsuits, Breitbart kept his word to me and ran interference for Hannah and the ACORN story like a champion.
It’s the same approach he took to his work before dying of a heart attack on March 1, 2012: the conservative fight was his life’s fight, and it would only have a chance to succeed if he put it all on the line.
The staff at Breitbart.com, the conservative website Breitbart founded, summed it up in a statement on Saturday.
He was a new media pioneer. But perhaps he is best remembered as a fighter. He fought alongside us. He fought when we couldn’t. Justice. Accountability. Freedom. An even playing field. Those were the fights of his life.
Though Breitbart’s life ended, the struggle still goes on — and the front gets wider. On Feb. 16, the Breitbart News Network launched operations in Texas and London.
And as these Twitter posts from Saturday make clear, his memory is still fresh.
RIP Andrew Breitbart Two years ago today we lost a great man & powerful voice for Conservatives. #WAR pic.twitter.com/OYP6fj7kYU
— Nat Shupe (@NatShupe) March 1, 2014
Two years ago today, we lost a true fighter for freedom and against the leftist bully culture in Andrew Breitbart. Remember. And soldier on.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 2, 2014
Andrew Breitbart passed away two years ago. My thoughts written then in Politico’s Arena: http://t.co/l5pcegAbf2
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) March 2, 2014
Or, as the staff of Twitchy.com, the conservative aggregator of Twitter postings put it:
‘We fight on’: Andrew Breitbart remembered on second anniversary of death http://t.co/vBol6OojkS
— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) March 1, 2014
We fight on.
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