Earlier today Larry O’Connor and Stephen K. Bannon spoke with Keith Appell, a key Republican political strategist, who suggested that “the establishment of the Republican Party” might “try to get somebody else in the race…”.

It’s true: The establishments in New York and Washington, D.C. ought to be nervous. After all, Romney has never won more than 50% of the vote in any race, anywhere he has ever run. He has never won a primary in the South. He has never won a majority of the white working-class or the evangelicals that make up the party faithful.

Appell is correct that the establishment wanted other candidates: Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, and Paul Ryan (unmentioned by Appell).

Each of these candidates, though admirable, was flawed in his own way (just as every candidate, just as every man is). Mitch Daniels said he wanted a “truce” on social issues; Chris Christie  had very little experience in elective office; and Paul Ryan, who has very little elective experience, would have had to defend his proposals to reform entitlements.

Over the summer I attended many Republican events in New York City and nearly everyone spoke highly of those three candidates. “Can’t we get someone other than these clowns?” a Republican elitist told me, referring to the candidates already running.

It was a common sentiment, indicative more of the cynicism and jadedness of its articulator than of any real understanding of the issues.  In its presentation, it indicated contempt for the primary voters who couldn’t understand that Romney was a sure thing against Barack Obama. At one point,  the establishment even flirted with Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi, who has since gone on to pardon 62 criminals, including murderers and rapists.

To such elites, the conservative grass-roots voters are “hobbits,” the little people, who show up and pull the lever like we’re supposed to.

Well, the joke is on the elites. The hobbits have struck back.

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Live, from Charleston, SC, Breitbart News presents exclusive election night coverage starting tonight at 6:00 PM ET.

From their special election desk at the Tea Party Patriots Conference, Breitbart.TV Editor Larry O’Connor and KABC talk radio host Stephen K. Bannon will host a live broadcast featuring exclusive interviews with political experts, news makers, media personalities, politicians and the Breitbart editorial board including Andrew Breitbart, Dana Loesch, Mike Flynn, Peter Schweizer, Joel Pollak and Alex Marlow.

Watch the broadcast right here at Big Government and join the live chat room moderated by Breitbart Associate Editor Meredith Dake where she will be taking your questions and comments throughout the evening for a truly interactive and unique experience exclusively available to the Breitbart News audience.

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In an exclusive with Larry O’Connor earlier today, Governor John H. Sununu called on Newt Gingrich to release the records pertaining to a 1990s congressional ethics investigation, in a move to defray attention to Romney’s decision not to release his taxes.

“Three out of four Republicans had to vote against him [on the ethics panel]. Whatever Nancy Pelosi knows, Barack Obama knows.” Sununu worried about the “October surprise” potential of whatever is in those documents.

Governor Sununu Tells Gingrich to Release Records

Newt Gingrich and J. C. Watts

After Newt Gingrich’s electrifying performance at the Monday night G.O.P., former congressman J. C. Watts of Oklahoma has defended Gingrich from the scourge of racial accusations in an exclusive with Breitbart.tv’s Larry O’Connor.

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The left-wing commentariat, Chris Matthews especially, has assailed Gingrich and called him racist for the fact that under President Obama food stamps have grown and paychecks have withered. (Former president Jimmy Carter also accused Gingrich of having “that subtlety of racism.”)

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In an interview today with Larry O’Connor of Breitbart.tv, Governor John Sununu attacked Newt Gingrich and his backers for being anti-capitalist. Newt Gingrich has “gone anti-free enterprise,” Sununu told O’Connor.

“What I’m shocked at is someone like Mr. [Sheldon] Adelson, who is a smart, free-enterprise guy” using his money to attack free-enterprise. “Those attacks… are on the investment community of this country.” Newt’s “defining himself in the Obama corner.” (Sheldon Adelson is one of America’s richest men and a casino mogul in Las Vegas.)

Gingrich and Sununu have long disliked each other, with Sununu calling Gingrich “not stable” in early December. Conservatives have often bristled at Sununu’s politics. The former governor-turned white house chief of staff had a controversial tenure that led to him getting George H.W. Bush to appoint David Souter to the Supreme Court.

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Politico March 26th:

“The strategy that we had had toward Fox was basically a strategy of containment,” said Brock, Media Matters’ chairman and founder and a former conservative journalist, adding that the group’s main aim had been to challenge the factual claims of the channel and to attempt to prevent them from reaching the mainstream media.

The new strategy, he said, is a “war on Fox.” [emphasis mine]

Do you think a war on Fox is where it will end? Let’s say that Media Matters succeeds and Fox News goes off the air (that won’t happen – ever – but just for argument’s sake, stay with me). Will Media Matters just pack up and go home? Is Fox News the only outlet that Media Matters covers? Certainly not. They cover Rush Limbaugh incessantly as well as make numerous posts about what happens on Big sites (like this one) and cover a whole array of other conservative outlets. The “war on Fox” is not the end, it’s the beginning.

Frankly, I don’t care that Media Matters declared a war on Fox News. I don’t care that they simply use their site as an outlet to regurgitate talking points from the White House under the guise of “fact checking” conservative media. I DO care that they do this while being considered a tax-exempt charitable organization. Media Matters enjoys a comfy 501(c)(3) status which not only is a vehicle for them not to pay taxes, it gives them a “charitable organization” status and allows others (like Soros) to give large amounts of money while being able to make a deduction on their own taxes.

This war won’t end here.

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Has the conservative movement become a champion of gay rights? Is gun-owning, lesbian singer Sophie B. Hawkins of “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover” fame a liberal in bed and conservative in the head?

Last night, Reason’s Michael Moynihan dropped by the Big Gay Party, a celebration of the role of the conservative movement in advocating for gay rights, which was hosted by conservative gay group GOProud and new media mogul Andrew Breitbart. The party was part of the festivities surrounding the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which was boycotted by some conservatives because of GOProud’s participation.

The video features interviews with Army Lt. Dan Choi, Gay Activist; Andrew Breitbart, Breitbart.com; Fred Smith, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute; radio host Guy Benson; Evan Coyne Maloney, the director of Indoctrinate U; Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee chair; Liz Mair, GOProud Advisory Council; Bruce Majors, libertarian blogger; Richard Grenell, Capitol Media Partners; Larry O’Connor, Breitbart.tv; and singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins.

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Chuck Johnson is at it again. He must be out on a weekend pass. I was compelled to answer the Little Green Monster after I saw him go after James O’Keefe with that same tired wet noodle of a charge he has leveled at so many, calling him a white nationalist. Johnson claimed in an LGF post that “according to a group called ‘One People’s Project,’ ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled ‘Race and Conservatism.’”

Sounds terrible, right? Sure, until you get the facts that Johnson doesn’t tell you. When it became clear that it wasn’t a “white nationalist conference,” Johnson tried to slither out of responsibility for his words by saying in a new post: “It’s very clear that I attributed the ‘white nationalist conference’ claim to One People’s Project; that’s what the words ‘according to’ mean.”

Busted! As if it weren’t obvious that in his original post, he was approving of and endorsing what One People’s Project said. But this is typical of Johnson’s weaselly hit-and-run smear tactics.

Meanwhile, Larry O’Connor at Big Journalism uncovered the truth about O’Keefe’s supposed participation in this conference:

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As a frequent contributor to Big Hollywood and Big Government, I was so proud to read Andrew Breitbart’s full-throated correction posted front and center at Big Government the other day.  I was not proud that we had made an error that required correcting, but I was proud that we treated it up front and loudly for all the world to see.  It is a stark contrast to corrections in the New York Times that are hidden somewhere between the crossword puzzle and the obituaries (which soon will include the Times, itself).

But, the more I thought about the story that prompted the correction (the fact that our headline stated that ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis visited the White House but it appeared that it was a different Bertha Lewis), the more I kept thinking to myself:  “What are the odds?”  You see, it isn’t just Bertha Lewis who has a name doppelganger out there.  The White House also claimed that the Jeremiah Wright who visited there was a different Jeremiah Wright.  And, even more credulity-defying, a different Malik Shabazz visited the White House this year as well. (more…)