Saturday Open Thread: Anniversary Edition
by PubliusToday, two years ago, BigGovernment was launched. What a wild, strange trip its been. Cannot possibly thank you all enough. Much more to come this year. Cheers.
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Thank goodness for the Bigs. Capitalism at it's finest. Since you have come on the scene, sales of Prozac to liberals have skyrocketed. Not sure how we got along without you. Hats off to Andrew, the editors, and contributors.
Cheers!
If it weren't for the Big sites, I would have nowhere to go to vent, and feel like I was in good company! Thanks, is just not enough!
Happy Anniversary, Team BG!
Your Ally,
Reaganite Republican
Wow. Congrats and how time flies. Time for the BGBJ cable network? What a dream that would be. Exposing corruption 24/7 in HD.
To all of you that do what needs doin: Thank You.
What's the cute one been up to lately?
Glenn Beck is starting one in the next few weeks.
Hoping to get it on sattelite.
Congratulations AB and the crew! You put together some of the best journalist around AB. I hope we all have many more great years together.
Andrew thanks for waking up to the RIGHT side of life.
Two years.
Sure have seen some real idiot leftists come and go and change their screen name and melt down and look stupid and…….
A lot of amazing truth has been told here. Not everybody like it…but I did! Thanks.
CONGRESSMAN KING ON ACORN:
http://www.popmodal.com/video/9090/CONGRESSMAN-KI...
I missed the opening salvos of the BIGs war on all that is wrong with our nation, only finding them in early 2010. Now I don't let a day go by without seeing what is being said on the "Breitbart family" of websites. Thanks for all you do to shine light on what is hidden and to bring our attention to those worthy of support and recognition.
P.S. Would love to see Big Education.
UNCLE TOM:
http://www.popmodal.com/video/9172/UNCLE-TOM
NEW DHS REPORT:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11919t.pdf
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BIG GOVT.!!!!
I know I'm not posting as often, but I'm here daily, and listening even when not Posting.
Andrew, to paraphrase Hoffa, "Look, here, this is your army"
I'm ready to roll.
"Let's roll"
'Nuff said…
Happy Anniversary and a huge 'thank you' to AB and staff!
I was here at the beginning and remember feeling that this site was long overdue — a bastion of hope and truth to combat the leftist lies taking down the country.
Happy Anniversary! Keep up the pressure!
Isn't it amazing how petulant they get when their side gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar?
Many congrats. I doubt more than a few of us can appreciate the personal cost that this labor of love has exacted from Andrew Breitbart and his fellow S.O.B.s but we can certainly thank you for carrying the standard into the cultural battle for the soul of America.
Patrick Henry would be proud.
Thank You Andrew Breitbart for giving us all the BIGS. I've learned so much in the past 2 years.
You are a true patriot. Thank you for showing us what one man with courage and determination
can do. Keep it up!
You stated that very well sybilll.
Democrat End Days have come….nothing passes….and what was passed be repealed….and all that were hired are fired….and Democrats and their Marxist Boreworms and Jihading inserts be purged to through criminal courts. Pay it ALL back. Seizure and Forfeiture of all Democrat and their stealing associates assets….every last dime they took be repaid.
How is this for irony!!??
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/glenn-beck-un...
Click on the picture and look to the right….:)
You need a Big Money, something like the NIA, where we can talk corruption and how to profit from it.
You have changed things. The repercussions of James and Hannah's work is being felt today in New York. If they hadn't exposed ACORN for what it is, there's no way the election for Wiener's former seat would be playing out like it is – ACORN would have already "found" enough votes for the demokkkrat to win with a landslide. Don't ever stop!
I am continually STUNNED at the a$$clowns we keep electing. I Just saw on Fox n Friends where Mayor Bloomberg won't allow the firefighters who served on 9/11 to attend…ditto the religious leaders. WTF, NYC???
It is WELL past time to send the Democrat Party packing…their BS has gone waaay too far!
I second the suggestion bteacher99 had for a "Big Education" site. I'd also like to see a "Big Religion" site. For a while I attended a "mainstream" church that seemed to be everything I needed it to be, that is until it started preaching a thinly disguised doctrine that strongly implied that Christ was a socialist.
An interesting link regarding how we the taxpayers are funding radical environmentalism and don't even realize it:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011...
It was so funny, when I finally got around to checking out BG I immediately began to want to comment… to
add my two cents to the conversation. I had been surfing around, reading other sites, but never felt com-
pelled to speak out before I was amongst the crowd at BG. Now I scarcely visit those sites I spent all my
time at pre-BG. I remember seeing Alpha Andy on with Hannity and that other fella, whose name I try to
forget. AB was talking about James and Hannah's "sting" on ACORN and promoting his new site, Big Gov.
What a ride it has been… Thanks!!!
Happy Trails, Y'all!
; )
Agreed, I'm a fairly newcomer at the BIGs, now its a daily visitation, I have it pulled up on my laptop in my workshop, I load 50 rounds, take a look at the site, load some more, check the site, gives me an excuse to take a break now and then.
Its called Obama's cabinet. now go soak your head in formaldehyde.
They are not "politically reliable" therefore must not be included.
To Andrew and ALL the contributors: you guys have exposed what otherwise would've never seen the light. You have made the left marxist-progressives realize that "we the people" will not stand for corruption and will fight you tooth and nail and never again will there be a president in the WH who will try to bring the country down.
Thank you.
Same here, Ms. Pone.
This place just brings out your inner ranter, doesn't it?
Great community, with great commenters – yourself included.
I only hope no one ever forgets the debt of gratitude owed to O'Keefe and Giles.
James, especially, has taken quite a few hits for the team, and I fear many on our side now consider him radioactive.
He deserves a lot better, and it would serve us all a lot better if we defended him whenever and however we can.
Been a lot of news recently where the gubamint is stating possible terrorist threat on 9/11/11. So is it a false flag event all staged by obama, or real? About a month ago, I spotted this post regarding a nuclear threat in several large cities. At the risk of passing on bogus information, this is the link: http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=7237
Big Government has made a difference.
You have changed the paradigm on the old media.
LOL, "… brings out the inner ranter…" YEP, Joe, it sure does, although it seems most of us
have learned to express our thoughts with fewer words, than we initially required. I remember the
first time I read one of your comments, thinking, this guy "gets it", better than most I've read anywhere.
Thanks for your input, I always enjoy reading your contributions. ; )
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Congratulations B I Gs!
The bigs have done far more serious reporting in the last two years than any of the MSM has done combined during that same time. The ABC anchor who tried to embarrass Sarah Pallin didn't know about the ACORN which the bigs broke.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
Congrats BigGov and Company. The Best.
I remember too, 'pone – and I sincerely appreciate you sticking up for me.
I was one who tended to get a bit wordy. (Still do sometimes – usually after a little too much wine…oh well).
What cured me was reading the comments of many others, like you, who manage to make maximum impact with minimum words.
…and realizing no one around here (except the trolls) needs convincing – we've all been convinced for a loooooong time!
Hey, I'm certainly not immune from getting excessively wordy, especially when one of my "pet"
topics comes up… mostly anything to do with agriculture, or food. Funny, a year ago we had
an article on ethanol every Fri or Sat. I remember wondering if the editors at BG were inten-
tionally ruining my weekends with repeated uneducated blather from so many authors they
chose to publish. I felt overwhelmed, and as though I was a salmon, swimming upstream,
but now I have sufficiently honed my arguments that I am able to get my point across with less
than half the words I once required… and the biggest bonus is that people now ''get it", that
big biz (crony-capitalists) like ADM and Cargill get the big benefits from government, not far-
mers. I believe I read recently ethanol production might inflate the price of corn as much as
.03 cents per bushel. That is nothing, since corn is worth over $7.00/ bu now, due to world-
wide shortages in all grains. LOL, see… there I go off on a long-winded spiel … ; )
Happy Trails, Joe!
Wise as serpents; harmless as doves. Well played.
Hey – no sweat…I really appreciate your ag input. That's stuff you never read anywhere else.
And on a related note – I just spoke with my mom, and she informed me that she bought the best corn she ever tasted at the local farmers market.
$4 for a dozen ears!!!
Congratulations, Andrew and to all the fine staff and writers!
Tbe BIG sites have changed journalism as we know it. I am proud to have witnessed this change, as well as contributed (even if it has been small) to its evolution. The BIGS have made a difference and are responsible for keeping the lame stream media's in check……
BIG contributors play a major role in this evolution, and so do the commentors. Be proud……
Thank you for some great stories that the MSN would never tell us about. My favorite editor is John Nolte on Big Hollywood. I love his perspective. Andrew keep moving forward we are paying attention.
That's a good deal, here $4 would only buy her 10 ears.
Around this time, http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/mt...
Acorn was trying to explain away the controversy and embezllement.
Now, as Advcotes and Action. Here is Wade back at it again, with a group of people outside of B of A, probably up to no good as usual. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57168144@N08/5264917...
Is there an updated list of all the new Acorn company names? I can't seem to locate a complete list http://www.advocatesandactions.org/
Some of them. We need to zero in and get these on the radar to watch for the upcoming voter fraud,
In California, ACORN is now the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (“ACCE”)
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, ACORN is New England United for Justice.
In New York, ACORN is New York Communities for Change.
In Arkansas, ACORN has become Arkansas Community Organizations (“ACO”).
In Louisiana, ACORN is “A Community Voice”.
In Missouri, ACORN is Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (“MORE”).
In Washington state, ACORN is Organization United for Reform (“OUR”) Washington.
In Minnesota, ACORN is Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.
In Pennsylvania, ACORN has become the Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change (“PCOC”) and Pennsylvania Neighborhoods for Social Justice, Inc.
In Texas, ACORN is now the Texas Organizing Project.
ACORN Housing Corporation (“AHC”) has renamed itself Affordable Housing Centers of America, Inc.
Congratulations, Andrew and to all that keep this well oiled machine a topnotch website(s). Many thanks to Hannah and James for pioneering video journalism as we know it today AND for Andrew giving them the vehicle they needed to expose the corruptocrats.
Happy Anniversary, indeed!
how about bigfool.com? you could be the star.
happy birthday, Big Guy!
It starts on Monday. I think you need to have Roku to watch it in TV. Otherwise you can pay to become a member and watch it on GBTV.com. I'm doing the latter.
Great ad! So like Beck. And yes, the Aquavelvaman there. LOL!
We really need a better class of trolls.
I can't remember how I found out about Big Hollywood, but I started there almost from the beginning. Then BG and BJ and BP.
And yes, it's a daily ritual to go through all the Bigs everyday to catch up on the REAL news.
Thank you, Andrew, Jim, Hannah and everyone else assocaited with the BIG websites. What a refreshing change from the lying sacks of excrement like Brainless Williams and BSNBC. We, the people will continue to see to it that you will continue as the guardians of Americas freedoms. God bless.
Let me guess TJ-was this "church" a Unitarian or United "church" of Christ? One founded by a leader of the Communist party USA(UCC)?
Happy Anniversary, Andrew and company. You are doing a stellar job at protecting this Republic from complete destruction. We have a ways to go, but without you, we'd be a lot farther behind on that.
Thanks for everything and keep up the good work!
Thank you Andrew…Stay true or you'll get dropped like a hot potato also, like I dropped the mainstream media…I don't listen to anything the LSM has to say anymore. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. THANKS
Bloomturd(whos ILLEGALLY there as mayor now-he had the city charter changed to allow him to basically be mayor-for-life). You have it right-many Amereicans have no clue as to who they are electing-look at NY as an example-Up Chuck U Schumer(anti-american commie) until recently, Anthony the Weiner(who SUPPORTED the MOSLEMS with the Ground Zero shove-it-in-our face "victory" mosque) Gerald "No Nads because im way too fat' Nadler(member of the commie world workers party) Charlie the Rang Ho(better left unsaid). Mr Serrano from Brooklyn-the 2nd best friend of illegals, behind Arizonas Raul Grijalva. Every single ONE of them are ENEMIES of America.
great idea-start with GEORGE THE SOREA$$. Then Buffett, the Sadlers, Stephen Bing , Peter Lewis("progressive" insurance) and all the Hollyweird a$$clowns.
As would George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Todd Beamer- a true AMERICAN HERO on Flight 93. Men who enlisted on 9/11/01 without a recruiter. Won the first battle against the mooselimb slime, decisively.
Amen Brother!
AMEN!
National Institute on Aging?
Two years!? that's all? wow.
To say that The Bigs have re-defined political media is like saying Steve Jobs has been a tolerably successful businessman.
Andrew and the team have re-defined media communication in ways that the mainstream isn't even ready to admit. And it's been anchored in facts and documented evidence – a rather nice change for many of us who live in Realityville, USA..
BigEd would be great.
I would also suggest BigJustice. Considering the current DOIJ (Dept of InJustice), I suggest that we begin considering the wealth of life-time appointed federal judges who are very beholden to political ideology instead of a focus on strict constructionism in regards to the Constitution.
As a final method of hijacking the left's playbook, let me throw out BigBusiness.. And before everyone has a cow over that idea, hear me out.
Why is the White House working so closely with a FEW big biz groups, namely those who are also paying little/no taxes year after year?? Why are we seeing massive disparities between businesses who make it and those who don't?
YES, we need to get government out of business. But we (conservatives, and specifically NEW media conservatives) need to re-write the rules on who is calling the shots about business ethics.
The Right has (for decades) been painted as being in bed with Big Business. Yes, that might be true on occasion.
But in fact it's the left who is often enabling and profiting heavily from sham relationships. OBummers' pet solar company meltdown is a prime example of this – had the Big's been laying this out and hounding for info, it might have been better known that we were simply pouring cash into a bottomless pit.
This is not a new play – the left has been using it for years. I suggest that the Big's hijack, and play it against the left. There are certainly a dozen good plays to highlight over the next 12 months, which would not be a bad method of derailing the lefty mantra, and perhaps undermining 'groupthink' that Big Biz is solely a problem with the Right.
Smarter would be nice.
Breitbart is a website that you know the truth is being told. I have learned so much about our so called leaders from this site, and it has changed my opinions forever. The truth will set you free (and scare you a little). Thanks to all the Breitbart contributors and Andrew Breitbart for this site.
Happy Anniversary, indeed.
Cheers!
gold watches
Thanks for the forum that allows me to vent, learn and listen.
You saved me…… and probably a few federal buildings also.
Seriously though….. Congratulations and keep up the great work.
To all the people who make up Big Government:
Thank you for all that you've done.
Keep up the great work!
Acorn is alive and well and their founders are treated like kings by the Newspaper here in New Orleans. I told all of you that this was not enough and that you can have inditement issued if you listened to me. Acorn and SEIU in New Orleans are well protected. All of us who fought them are in Major danger if OBAMA wins re election.
Like ACORN and the Chicago machine? Like the Democratic Party?
Neither. It was a church from one of the 4 biggest Protestant denominations.
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