In his new book Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World, conservative crusader and new media pioneer Andrew Breitbart has plenty to say about the mainstream media (the Left controls it), Republicans (many are spineless), Democrats (America is the bad guy), academia (Marxist at heart), the Tea Party (real and relevant) and, of course, online “citizen journalism” (it could save America, if not the world).
But it is clear throughout the story of his transformation from liberal slacker to passionate conservative and his unplanned plunge into the new media tidal wave on which he is now riding high, that Breitbart thinks Hollywood and its pop-culture-promoting celebrities have more political clout than a multi-million dollar ad campaign.
“When Lady Gaga tells her flock that she is for a certain political position, she affects people with the wave of a pop-culture wand far greater than 10 million dollars in political advertising can do at the height of political season,” Breitbart told CNSNews.com by telephone from his not-too-far-from-Hollywood home in Brentwood, Calif.
After all, he says, if Gaga and Defense Secretary Robert Gates walked into Starbucks on Main Street U.S.A., who would be more recognizable–the man in charge of fighting America’s enemies or the woman who caused a buzz because she donned a dress made entirely of raw meat?
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