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March 2, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart with Rep. James Comer and Alex Marlow
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James Comer's Investigation Plan 00:10:56
Hey, everybody.
Today on the Charlie Kirk show, James Comer, who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, walks us through the pending investigations and what he hopes to accomplish.
And we remember Andrew Breitbart, an incredibly important segment.
If you don't know who Andrew Breitbart is, you got to listen to it.
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Joining us now is James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Congressman, welcome to the program.
There's a new Axios article.
Maybe you could tell us if it's true or not.
House GOP game plan, investigate everything.
What's the truth, Representative Comer?
The truth is we're going to focus on waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government.
We'll probably have somewhere around 40 or 50 investigations.
If you investigated everything, that would be a million things.
And Axios was being, you know, their typical smart elect self in that headline.
But at the end of the day, we are going to provide oversight for this administration and the mainstream media and the officials in the Biden administration are just going to have to get used to the fact that the voters spoke and there's a change of guard in Washington, D.C.
So no longer will Congress be turning a blind eye to scandals, to wasteful spending, unnecessary spending.
That day has ended.
Now we're going to ask for specific line items of how this administration is spending money.
We want receipts.
We're going to be doing audits and we want people to come testify to the committee to explain to the American people their actions.
So we are going to be very active in our pursuit for the truth.
What is the plan if and when these agencies start to stonewall you or miss deadlines?
Is your committee prepared to vote on subpoenas?
Absolutely.
And in fact, I just have to, I have subpoena authority.
The chairman of the oversight committee has complete subpoena authority.
Obviously, we have to get the counsel for the speaker's office to sign on to it because they'll be representing us in court if the receiver of the subpoena refuses to comply with the subpoena.
But what we're doing is checking the boxes to have a successful subpoena.
If you subpoena someone and they refuse to comply, then it goes to court.
You have to show good faith effort to get that information or that person to come forward.
We've already put deadlines on certain officials requesting certain information.
Just about all of them have missed that deadline.
That's what they did.
We'll re-request it and then they'll start receiving subpoenas if they don't comply with those requests.
I know this might be too many hypotheticals and I don't want to put you in a spot where it's all speculative, but we did deal with this with Eric Holder and we did deal with this with Lois Lerner.
Do you think that the committee has the desire, not the desire, but the willingness to potentially use contempt of Congress?
I'm only saying that because we know how these willpower is what I'm really thinking for.
We know how these people operate and they did it to a lot of people in the last Congress.
What are your thoughts on that?
The good thing about the January 6th committee, if there is a good thing, is that they set a lot of precedents that I think we can use.
They utilize the contempt of Congress folks.
I plan on requesting the leadership with McCarthy and Scalise to do the same thing if we get to that point.
They filmed depositions and then they used pieces of the film in producing videos and stuff to help amplify their message.
We're going to do all the same things that they did.
So they set a lot of precedents that I think will be to our advantage moving forward.
That's a great answer.
And I'm glad to hear that because the fourth branch of government, they do everything they possibly can.
You might remember when there was investigations into the Lois Lerner Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal.
All these emails just disappeared.
And even Paul Ryan, who is not one to get too heated up, he just said, I think you're lying to me.
I don't believe you.
And they were never held accountable for that.
So I'm pleased.
So one of my fears, Representative Comer, and maybe you can alleviate me of this concern, is that there's almost too much to investigate, that it would be spread too thin.
I'm sure you've heard this piece of feedback before.
What are the top priorities?
Because look, Congress is only in session, what, another 100 years, 100 days this year, right?
More or less.
And that's really when you're able to do most of your work.
And they're going to try to stretch out.
And then you have debt ceiling fights and you have foreign policy stuff and you've got things happening in the skiff and you have the weaponization of government.
So what can you say to our audience that might be concerned?
There's almost too much to investigate.
Well, I'm utilizing the staff a lot.
We have a really top-notch staff, a lot of really good lawyers, former DOJ officials.
I mean, we've got the experts that want to do the right thing.
We're sending, we're going to send people to the border to do depositions with Border Patrol agents in our investigation of wrongdoing with Mayorkas.
So we're actually going to send our staff down there to make it easier to where people can do depositions on potential wrongdoing with the Homeland Security Cabinet.
We're bringing people in today.
We've had two people that are closely identified with the Hunter Biden scandals that came in today to meet with our counsel.
We're working every day.
We're working six days a week.
We're going to them if we have to.
So there's a lot that takes place behind the scenes.
I know the committee hearing is when you get the big bang, but we're going to be doing a lot of transcribed interviews.
We're going to be doing a lot of depositions.
We're traveling to them.
We're going to do whatever is easiest to get the information as quickly as possible.
So fortunately, in addition to having a great committee that meets, as you say, we've got about 100 more dates set to meet this year.
We also have a very large staff that wants to do the right thing.
They can all probably make money in the private sector more, and they probably will be in the private sector very soon, but they have something to prove.
And I think we're going to be hopefully very successful in our quest for the truth.
There's some breaking news from just the news in the last couple of hours, couple days.
Former Rosemont Seneca businessman, Eric Schwerin, is going to be a very valuable witness, you say, and he's cooperating with the committee.
Tell us about it.
Yeah, so we're in constant communication now with his attorney.
We requested information from Schwerwin, Jim Biden, and Hunter Biden.
Obviously, we never heard back from Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, but Sherwin's attorneys are cooperating.
So we're getting together.
We're trying to get an agreement on what information is going to be turned over.
That's a very positive sign.
He knows that he could be subpoenaed.
So he's cooperating with us.
And I think that's a positive thing.
All of these people are going to have to come forward at some point.
They're either going to have to sit down for a transcribed interview or they're going to be subpoenaed to do a deposition and or have to sit in front of the committee and answer questions in front of the American people.
But either way, even if they come in for a deposition or interview, because of what the January 6th committee did, people will be able to see this now because they recorded all those depositions.
We plan on doing the same thing.
Can you explain Eric Schwerin's importance?
Why is he so critical?
He's critical because he's the one, if you'll remember the email that was on the laptop where he Sherwin emailed Hunter Biden and said, This is why Joe Biden is vice president.
He said, Your dad's Delaware tax return has come in the mail today.
I've got it.
I'm going to deposit it into his account at the time he's vice president of the United States and then turn around and write a check from Joe Biden to you.
So he definitely had access to Joe Biden's personal checking account.
And one of the questions that we're trying to answer: were all these accounts that were flagged by the banks, were they commingled accounts with Joe Biden?
Because at the end of the day, our investigation is of Joe Biden.
Okay.
I don't think we need to prove Hunter Biden did anything wrong or is a bad dude.
I think that ship sailed.
Everybody knows that.
The question is: is Joe Biden compromised because of all the money that his family took in?
And did Joe Biden benefit?
Did he benefit personally from all these shady business dealings that his family did?
Sherwin can be, he has the ability to answer a lot of those questions because he was in charge of both accounts for Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, as witnessed in the emails.
Representative Comer, there's so much to get into.
So just stay right there.
And I'm really glad you guys are focused on your committee.
You have some great committee members as well.
And, you know, the fourth branch of government, the intel agencies, the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Justice, all of them, they're going to do everything they possibly can to try and prevent you from getting to the truth.
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James Comer demands records on State Department funding group blacklisting conservatives.
I think you're onto something here.
I think this could, based on all public reporting, I think this is a blueprint that is used in the Department of Homeland Security.
I think this is used in the FBI.
And yes, the State Department, where they technically, because we have a constitution, are not able to censor people like Charlie Kirk, but they can fund groups that censor us.
Explain.
Well, anything that pertains to tax dollars is fair game for the House Oversight Committee.
And what we learned, first of all, if you go back to Zuckerberg, the interview he did, and then with our committee hearing with Twitter executives, is the federal government was funding outside groups.
The FBI had the group that no one knew about that censored conservatives on social media.
I know the White House is funding an outside group to attack me and Jim Jordan every day for having the audacity to investigate this white.
Wait, wait, tell me about that.
What do you mean?
I haven't heard about that.
The White House.
They have outside groups, Congressional Integrity Project or whatever that's being funded.
They have a new spokesperson for the White House that Ian Sams that comes out every day and attacks me on Twitter and in a future.
Funded by the government.
Well, Ian Sams is for sure.
We don't know who's funding the, we don't know who's funding the Congressional Integrity Project.
But with respect to what we've seen with the Twitter files, is the FBI was telling Twitter stories that should be suppressed, people they should consider to suppress.
They were being very careful, just like those 51 former intelligence officials.
They didn't say the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
They said, boy, that sure looks like Russian disinformation.
So they were using social media to do what the government thinks.
It's a model.
I think they've gone further.
And I think that what you're going to see is different cabinets.
We think Homeland Security, the State Department was using tax dollars to try to spin a narrative against conservatives.
And you were one of them.
Yeah.
And we're looking at legal action.
We're exploring that too, because the government shouldn't be allowed to shut up its own citizens.
Just kind of a basic constitutional promise.
So you have, we've talked about several topics, the Biden stuff.
Is there any hesitation that you have that too much emphasis on Biden could either get categorized as overly political or just it might not be the best use of time?
Because we haven't even talked about the CDC, the FDA.
So explain that, your calculus here, because as the leader of the oversight committee, you got to prioritize.
I know we talked about this a little bit earlier, but walk us through your thoughts on that.
Well, we have lots of priorities.
The origination of COVID, that's going to be done through the select committee, which is a subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee.
Just recently, we sent out letters to 40 lower-ranking people that had anything to do with sending tax dollars to the Wuhan Lab.
And you know what?
The Department of Energy came out and said, yeah, yeah, you know what?
We decided the COVID originated in the Wuhan lab.
They knew we would get this information out.
Just the sheer fact that we've got the gavel, we have subpoena power, we've identified people to bring in to talk to, then, you know, answers are starting to come out of this government.
We're going to continue to do that.
That didn't take a lot of effort.
We had done the background work for a long time and identified 40 individuals who had anything to do with funding gain of function research and different things that were going to the Wuhan lab.
The same thing with the laptop story.
Once we subpoenaed the Twitter people, they came out and said, yeah, you know what?
We know the laptop's real, which is important because forever the narrative was that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Republicans had altered the contents to try to embarrass Joe Biden.
Now we know that that laptop's real and it hasn't been tampered with.
Everything on it is authentic.
That's a problem for the Biden administration.
So it doesn't take a lot of effort.
This administration has had no oversight during the first two years of Democrat rule.
We're going to be able to prioritize.
We're going to investigate all the things that need to be investigated.
And I'm also delegating.
There's so much, as you mentioned, to investigate.
If it's something that I think the financial services can do related to the Securities and Exchange Commission, then I'm calling up McHenry at Financial Services.
If it's something that I think that G.G. Thompson can do at the Agriculture Committee for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we're doing that.
So we're delegating a lot of things to other committees.
We're making every committee focus at some point on oversight of this administration.
Representative Comer, keep up the great work.
Thank you for being so generous with your time.
You're a busy man.
Our audience backs you 100%.
The emails are flooding in.
Just stay focused on the truth.
And if I were to say one thing, focus more on the fourth branch of government than even on Biden, because that's going to long outlive him.
And I know you believe that the Leviathan is the greatest threat to our liberties.
Andrew Breitbart's Intellectual Legacy 00:16:54
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So 11 years ago, I was in high school, and I was just getting started in my political journey.
I had volunteered on a fair amount of campaigns before that.
I volunteered for the Mark Kirk for Senate campaign.
He ended up being a total rhino, but it was good that he won at the time.
I ended up volunteering for Bob Gold.
That's dulled with a D, not an E, amongst many other campaigns in northern Illinois.
And I started to speak at local Tea Party meetings and really enjoyed that.
And I really was fascinated by this incredible, just magnanimous, just life force of a man.
He was winsome.
He was clear.
He was cutting edge.
And he was everything I loved about where the conservative movement was headed.
It had a rebellious spirit.
It was free thinking.
It was entrepreneurial.
It was in your face.
It was the tip of the conservative sword.
I remember 11 years ago today, I got the push notification on my phone from Fox News.
Andrew Breitbart dead.
I never met Andrew Breitbart, and he was dead at 43.
And it sent shockwaves for good reason throughout the entire conservative movement.
I believe this was the last speech he ever gave, and CPAC is this weekend.
So it's right about the same time-ish.
CPAC used to be earlier in February.
This was one of the last things Andrew Breitbart said publicly, PlayCut 67.
Who our candidate is.
And I haven't since the beginning of this.
I haven't.
Ask not what a candidate can do for you.
Ask what you can do for the candidate.
I will march behind whoever our candidate is because if we don't, we lose.
There are two paths.
There are two paths.
One is America and the other one is Occupy.
Anyone that's willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker.
And if you're not in that bunker, because you're not satisfied with this candidate, more than shame on you.
You're on the other side.
Joining us now is someone who knew Andrew Breitbart personally, worked for him, and continues his legacy to this day.
Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com.
Alex, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, thank you for having me and thanks for doing this for Andrew.
We all appreciate it at Breitbart.
It is a collective effort, a group effort to remember Andrew because he deserves that.
It's so much more than I can do by myself.
And luckily, there's so many people on board with this.
Just last year for the 10th anniversary of his passing, we put together a tribute of dozens and dozens of the top conservatives lending their voice to share what Andrew meant to them.
And it really is a who's who of the conservative movement.
I've never seen such an assemblage of top conservatives do one sort of dedicated task.
It's at the front page of Breitbart.com.
People listening to show live.
It's pretty easy to find.
And Charlie, yours was one of the best ones.
You summed up his legacy so well.
The people who participated, Clarence Thomas, Mark Levin, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump.
You've got Ron DeSantis, Ben Shapiro, Steve Bannon.
Everyone came out, Candace, and shared what Andrew meant to them.
And it just touches me a lot because every day since I've been an adult, pretty much, I've worked for Breitbart.
And it's a huge thing that we're fighting for, but it's not just about politics.
It's about winning the culture and having fun fighting the left.
So Andrew was the best and he deserves everything.
And just the people that directly worked, not the indirect, because I'm an indirect, right?
And but I'm, boy, am I a beneficiary and an inheritor of his courage, his charisma, his vision.
But Shapiro, Bannon, O'Keefe, you, Dana Lash.
I mean, that's just the ones that come off the top of my head.
And just the immediate circle, right, Alex?
I mean, you're talking about a decade later, the all-star team of the right came from this man.
Uh-oh, it's an amazing thing.
The first, I was taking LSAT classes and basically working part-time picking up Andrew's laundry until James O'Keefe walked in with his acorn case, games' first big scoop.
And then all of a sudden, I was leaving the LSAT classes to go put up stores.
And Acorn, we're taking down one of the biggest organizations ever without the New York Times, without the Washington Post.
Thankfully, Fox is on board a little bit, but it was the, there was no CNN coverage.
And then unless they were attacking Andrew, and we took out this leviathan of a left-wing group directly connected to Obama.
And we were doing it, you know, from our laptops outside of our LSAC classes.
And it was just, and Andrew marshaled the whole thing beautifully.
He didn't just take out Acorn, he took out the media.
And that started my career and James's at the same time.
And that's just one example, just one example of the million.
The movie Hating Breitbart is a really good film.
It's super raw.
I mean, it's not overly edited, right?
It's just kind of like a home movie.
And I don't mean that negatively.
It's really amazing.
And I encourage everybody, if you ever use Breitbart.com, if you want to say, like, where did the conservative movement come from?
You cannot build Mount Rushmore of the modern new right without Andrew Breitbart right there.
It's impossible.
And I just want everyone to understand the framework, the mentality, the energy, and the spirit that is just dominant now on the right was so minuscule.
What do I mean by that?
In your face, we're going to fight the left.
We need to understand the funders behind it.
There's a bigger game at play here.
Uniparty.
This language was not anywhere in the conservative movement till Andrew came along, right, Alex?
Yeah, he was really the only people he would ever call to resign or anything like that were always disappointing Republicans.
It was never, it was never that he understood the left was a collective.
And the only people who really got like individual attention through him on the left were the people who were the major power brokers and the funders.
He was really George Soros, John Podesta, the type of people who were.
He was obsessed with Podesta.
That was one of those.
Let's continue.
Yep.
Yeah, no, no, he wanted to do a big Podesta, and he called that one so right because that guy's been just such a cockroach in the sense that he keeps surviving.
It's the, he's in so many scandals, his families had scandals, and then Hillary makes him campaign manager, and then he loses that, and which he, you know, never should have lost that race, and he lost it.
And then he gets revived again by Joe Biden, who's given him hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on climate.
And Andrew knew it.
He knew this was a bad guy and worth focus.
Yeah, and he just knew how important he was to the Democrat machinery.
And that was the other thing: Andrew would always go a level deeper.
And by the way, we've talked about this on air before, Alex, but for some of our new listeners, he took out Weiner.
He took out that whole thing.
He took out Huma Ahmedine.
He literally, Andrew Breitbart, years after his death, directly impacted the 2016 election.
You've heard me talk about that before.
It's one of the most amazing stories about how James Comey comes out, does a press release and says, oh, we found some stuff on the laptop.
Literally, but remember, it wasn't whose laptop was it?
It was Anthony Weiner's laptop.
And the only reason they found stuff on it is because Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, who was friends with Hillary Clinton.
But that kind of whole cabal, and that was only the case because Andrew Breitbart was able to successfully get Andrew Anthony Weiner exposed, no pun intended, and get him to resign.
It's all that kind of cause set in motion years before.
I want to play a piece of tape here of Andrew, just kind of his attitude.
You know, he, again, I feel like I know him, even though I never met him.
He's larger than life, PlayCut 66.
Why are you going along with the mainstream media?
Why are you going along with the administration's narrative to try and make this about race?
This is manufactured.
You are, this is why the American people, a great amount, pulling, this is why so many people can't stand the mainstream media and why there's a hardcore animosity towards the media that is pretty much commensurate or equivalent to the animosity towards Congress.
Alex, everything he talks, he could be saying that today.
Yeah.
That's the thing about Andrew, which blows my mind.
And I was just, you know, it's still thinking about his memory still brings a tear to my eye sometimes because so often do I hear his words ringing when I'm looking at the current news cycle, when I'm looking at the current heroes and villains of our movement, who's really making things happen on our side and who's really making things happen on the left, the bad guys.
And Andrew's words were always so prescient.
He really understood that the cultural battles were the biggest.
He understood that the media has to be the target number one for the conservative movement, figuratively speaking, for you Soros-funded freaks who are monitoring the show, figuratively, when I say target.
But He understood where the movement needed to go, but also the tactics.
And this is what I'm most obsessed with: is that understanding, empowering guerrilla journalists, empowering citizen journalists, rejecting the establishment media, and doing so proudly.
It's not a point of shame.
It's a point of shame if you're relying on the New York Times.
Yeah.
And also, just one of the things Andrew did, though, and that video reminds me: this kind of street vibe that I'm going to meet you in the streets.
I'm going to talk to you wherever you are.
Honestly, it's inspired me.
Like right after this, Alex, I'm going to Santa Barbara, University of California, Santa Barbara, setting up a card table and talking for kids for a couple hours.
I'm largely inspired by that kind of bravado, that kind of gusto of Breitbart.
It's like, yeah, okay, fine.
You're paid Soros organizers, you're union people.
I'm going to go talk to you.
I'm going to film you.
That wasn't common before he came along.
No, and it wasn't.
It wasn't common then.
It won't be common really ever the way Andrew did it.
If you were at CPAC and let's say the top 100 conservatives are there, you know, most of them either won't mingle with the people or they'll have security around them.
Andrew would walk through, sit at the bar and hold court and talk to anyone for hours and hours and hours.
Exactly.
At the height of his powers, he'd do it.
And literally, it would be, you know, Tea Party grandma from Ohio on the right, New York Times reporter on the left, and just, you know, a blogger behind him.
And he wouldn't care.
And he was, what a loss.
But I want to talk about this because this is an important lesson for all people because we're all going to die one day.
I hope and pray that people are inspired to want to leave a lasting legacy the way Andrew left it.
Yes, he died young at 43, but he lived a full life.
And America is a freer country because of him.
Getting a lot of interesting emails of who the fourth on Mount Rushmore should be, the modern new right.
Definitely Andrew Breitbart.
That's done.
Rush Limbaugh for sure, Donald Trump.
Who the fourth would be?
That would be very interesting.
So email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Someone just said, James O'Keefe.
Well, you don't have James O'Keefe without Breitbart.
Alex, tell that story.
You mentioned it in passing.
James O'Keefe, I mean, literally comes in the ragtag type, you know, operation here.
And Andrew immediately takes a liking to him and breaks one of the biggest news stories in American history.
Yeah.
So Andrew got, he had been introduced in Acorn.
Acorn, for those of you who don't remember, is the Association for Community Organizing and Reform Now.
It was an Obama-connected group that was community organizers extraordinaire.
And they would move money around and they would move voters around and they were a really bad group.
My familiarity with them, because we were out in California at the time, and I'm sure Andrew was aware of the same thing.
They were really involved in pushing.
Oh, I'll cut to the chase.
Andrew, James brought Andrew these tapes.
Andrew came up with a drip, drip, drip approach.
He trapped the media into ignoring it.
And then when Andrew defunded it, de-linked them from the census.
Yeah, so it is the, so, so they got defunded.
They got de-linked from the census, all because Andrew not only trapped Acorn with James's incredible reporting with these tapes where he opposes a pimp and a prostitute with a woman named Hannah Giles, who's a journalist, and he got them to actually commit to give money for a child sex trafficking ring, even though it was a fake thing.
And all but one Acorn, he went to like eight locations and all but one location said they were willing to help James get the money and set up the business and then funnel it back into a fake hoax congressional campaign that James was going to run once his child sex ring opened up.
And all these Acorn groups helped James do it.
And then Andrew had all these tapes.
He dripped them out one by one.
They kept saying this is out of context.
The media kept saying this is entrapment.
This is dishonest reporting.
This is, he's not releasing the full tape, but Andrew would release the full audio.
He'd release the full transcripts.
And by the end of it, Acorn lost all this congressional funding they had.
They were supposed to be a part of the census in 2010, and they were delinked from that.
But the best part of it all was it launched Andrew in the stratosphere and James as well.
Yep.
Let's play a couple more pieces of tape here of Andrew and Cut 68.
Andrew Breitbart confronting the front lines, asking the time-old question: What does your sign say?
Play Cut 68.
You don't even know why you're here.
You don't understand why you're here.
What are you here for?
I am here to stop the thing that brings back this.
Like what?
One thing that he said that's hateful.
One thing.
One thing.
One.
One thing that he said that's hateful.
One, one, not 100.
One.
One.
It's a trap.
Truth is a trap.
Truth is a trap.
He invented that.
And now we have a whole genre, Alex, of challenging the left, calling them out.
They're obviously paid protesters.
That was in Rosemont, actually, Illinois, or Schomburg.
And then this is the other thing that I want to just focus on the last couple of minutes we have here is Andrew was a legitimate intellectual.
He read the books.
He understood.
He was talking about Mercuse and Derrida, and he was talking about postmodernism and post-structuralism, critical theory.
Literally decades before anybody on the right took it seriously, PlayCut 69.
My one discovery, my one great epiphany, my one aha moment that I said, I got it.
I got it.
I see what exactly happened in this country.
The Frankfurt School, these guys left.
These guys left Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy to come to California in the 1940s and they lived by the beach and they were depressed by the relentless cheeriness, the productivity, and the capitalism that they witnessed around them.
And they came up with a, they came up with at the end of the day, we could call it cultural Marxism, but at the end of the day, we experience it on a day-to-day basis.
The Frankfurt School Epiphany 00:02:23
And by that, I mean a minute-by-minute, second-by-second basis.
It's political correctness and it's multiculturalism.
Alex, he understood what we were up against.
Yeah, he's got a book called Righteous Indignation that thankfully wrote that before he passed.
And chapter six is all about this stuff, the Frankfurt School and all of those people, Theodore Dorno and Marcusa, coming to Berkeley and Santa Monica and trying to ruin our country and their legacy endures.
And Andrew was the first to flag that one.
And he was also, he used to be on the left, wasn't he?
Yeah, briefly.
Well, but he was just a factory setting default liberal.
I think he basically was, when you grow up in LA and you like partying and music and girls and drinking and stuff like that, then you're going to be that way until he started to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
And he started to, he paid attention to the high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas by Joe Biden in the Senate in the Senate confirmation for a Supreme Court seat.
Those things were what informed Andrew and made him a conservative.
Alex Marlow from Breitbart.com, 11 years ago, we got some tragic news, but 11 years later, his legacy is not just alive and well, it is flourishing, it's thriving.
And in that spirit, I'm going to Santa Barbara to go challenge these apparatches.
Candace Owens is hitting the ground.
You look at all of the amazing tributary downstream effects of Breitbart.com across the movement, right?
The wins, the exposure.
I mean, I don't even know what the movement would be without him.
It'd be boring and it would be like bushy and chainy.
And he just disrupted it with this life force, this energy.
God bless him for that.
Alex, thank you so much.
Thanks for doing this, Charlie.
One of my favorite clips ever is this.
It's so short.
Play Cut 65.
All the people that have gone out there against the mainstream media and said, you're going to call us racist.
You're going to call us potential Timothy McVays.
You.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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