Flashback: Andrew Breitbart, at MRC’s ‘DisHonors Awards,’ Accepts in Jest for Chris Matthews
About three years ago, Andrew Breitbart, who sadly passed away suddenly this morning in Los Angeles, joined the Media Research Center at our 2009 Gala, featuring the annual “DisHonors Awards,” where he accepted the “Media Messiah Award” in jest for Chris Matthews.
The MSNBC host “won” the award for his infamous boast about how “I felt this thrill going up my leg” during a speech by then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Audio: MP3 clip
Breitbart quipped “they always forget ‘husky male model’ on my resume” and relayed that a psychiatrist friend observed Matthews’ affliction was “a common side effect of a double dose of lithium.” He described MSNBC as really bad reality TV and urged the audience to expose their friends to MSNBC since its hosts “are manifestly insane.”
Monica Crowley introduced Breitbart at the Thursday night, March 19, 2009 event held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Washington, D.C.
MRC President Brent Bozell issued this statement this morning, March 1, 2012:
Today we have a lost a truly brilliant mind and a tireless warrior for the conservative movement. Andrew was one of the few good guys who knew Hollywood inside and out. He coupled that knowledge with the creativity and passion that has become his trademark, offering it for the cause that he so believed in. The entire Breitbart family will be in our thoughts and prayers. May he rest in peace.
Many more tributes on the NewsBusters post: “In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart”
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I hope that we will still get
Submitted by goldwater89 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 4:49pm.
I hope that we will still get to see those videos Breitbart had of Obama in college!
⇒ Probably not, goldwater
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:04pm.
I don't know if bath houses had cameras back then.
RIP
Submitted by jackl92 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 5:06pm.
He will be so missed.
jackl92
Breitbart's presentation in 2009
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:00pm.
I was there in 2009. When I heard that Mr. Breitbart died, I was hopeful that someone at MRC would have this footage.
Thanks guys!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I was at this event with
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:12pm.
I was at this event with fellow NB'r Unsane. Andrew was actually sitting at the table right in front of me.
I was to new to the conservative blogosphere and really did not know who he was, but believe me in the following years I got to know his work.
He will be missed.
Nice,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:24pm.
I first became aware of AB from a fellow NB Bigtimer, she had the tag:
Doubling down on stupid is not a very good idea,