Politics: Meet the Breitbarts

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Politics Meet the Breitbarts Andrew Breitbart created a conservative media machine with a take-no-prisoners style. Can it survive without him? By David Weigel Posted Thursday, Mar 22, 2012, at 12:11 AM ET After the funeral, on March 6, Andrew Breitbart's successors drove back to the office. Breitbart.com world headquarters sits in an unincorporated part of Los Angeles. (It's not really part of any city. This is a selling point.) Ten of the website's editors filed out to the alley. They arranged themselves side by side in their best Reservoir Dogs poses. Click. Dana Loesch, the Tea Partier, CNN contributor, and editor of Breitbart's Big Journalism vertical, stood in the middle of the frame. She put the picture up on Instagram. The caption was a Twitter hashtag: #war. "We took that picture to say, 'Hey! We're still here,' " said Mike Flynn, the editor of Breitbart's Big Government vertical, when I talked to him this week. "We're going to carry out Andrew's vision." Left side of the photo: Joel Pollak, Breitbart.com's editor in chief, who slowly took over that role after coming in as a legal counsel. Right side: Ben Shapiro, a conservative columnist who'd become the site's editor at large. Larry Solov, Breitbart's best friend and business partner, thought the pairing was hilarious. "You're looking at our two Orthodox Jewish, Harvard Law-grad bookends!" he said when I showed him the photo. The bookends were not famous people. They were soft-spoken; Breitbart really, really wasn't. But the day after the photo was taken, they were on Fox News, promoting a scoop—a 1990 video of Harvard Law student ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate George Zimmerman Reportedly Used Racial Slur on 911 Call Before Trayvon Martin Shooting Even the RNC's Rule 40(b) Will Not Stop Gingrich From Making Mischief at the Convention A Jets Fan on Tim Tebow's Trade to New York: Noooooo!	Advertisement
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