On Thursday, Larry O’Connor, Charlie Kirk, Hames O’Keefe, and Matt Boyle held a panel at CPAC discussing the legacy of Breitbart founder Andrew Breitbart among conservative culture nearly 10 years after his death.
In the panel, titled "War: A Tribute to Andrew Breitbart," they talked about Breitbart being a key person in making "viral" content.
"I want to say one other thing about Breitbart and Andrew, which is we take for granted this kind of idea of making things go viral, right," said Kirk.
"And so for some of the younger people here, if you're in high school or college, you might not know how good Andrew was it that he was the pioneer. He invented this," he continued.
"Andrew lives on in more ways than one. He was the first person that mastered the viral medium, getting a video in front of millions of people. And we take that for granted," Kirk said.
"He was a pioneer, not just for the media, but certainly for the intersection of media politics and culture," O’Connor added.
O’Connor goes on to talk about a story regarding Breitbart and a MSNBC party, in which he had drinks with network host Rachel Maddow.
According to O'Connor, Breitbart crashed the MSNBC party at the White House Correspondent’s Association in 2010. Breitbart went to the bar, where Maddow was making and serving drinks.
"Rachel Maddow is tending bar, Andrew goes right up there and starts talking to her, and she makes him a drink," said O’Connor. "And they start drinking and laughing together, there’s a picture, it’s a very famous picture of Andrew at the bar with Rachel Maddow and they toasted each other."
"Because everyone loved Andrew, even the people who pretended to hate him," he continued. "And I think that we can take something from that."
O’Connor continued on to say that Breitbart stressed numerous times that "politics goes downstream from culture. "He wrote about it in his book extensively, he said that the arts, culture, Hollywood matters a lot more."
"He would give a speech for young people, he’d say you want a chance in this country, you’re a young conservative with a fire in your heart, you want to make a difference? Don’t move to Washington, DC, they’ll ruin you there, move to Hollywood. You really want to make a difference you move to the Hollywood."
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