Ned Rice on Andrew Breitbart. The title? “Can Andrew Breitbart Save Hollywood?” The whole thing is great but this may be the best part:
But beneath the sunny exterior, behind the eyes some might actually call merry, Breitbart is a man unceasingly obsessed with politics and the daily battlefield reports from a culture war he’s convinced we must not lose.
“I can’t turn it off,” he admits.
Speaking of his wife, Susie, he says, “She didn’t sign up for this. She’s like a military wife whose husband is frequently gone on mental deployments.”
Now, I’ve spent a lot of time reading Big Hollywood. And I still don’t understand what its mission is, beyond making fun of Hollywood. I understand what Breitbart’s personal goal is because he states it clearly:
“The American people need to know that there are thousands of people in Hollywood—people who are liked, admired, people who are hot!—who are also conservative. They’d be surprised to see a group picture of all the conservatives in Hollywood.”
But how does his blog help accomplish this goal?
Is this another example of wingnut reasoning that has grown too complicated for outsiders to follow? Or is there some obvious way in which writing a widely-mocked blog will convince Americans that there are lots of hot conservatives out there in Hollywood?