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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP22: Hour 3 - Leaving Breitbart Behind

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The right is abandoning Andrew Breibart's motto that culture is upstream of politics for a more populist government centered approach, Congress Jody Hice joins the program to talk about Biden's bad economic numbers plus most politicians are only interested in campaigning on issues not solving them.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show across the nation.

0:05.3

I feel like I got to apologize to Gail again. If she's still listening, I cut her off very abruptly while she was talking.

0:11.1

I ran out of time and I got to the last 30 seconds and had a hard time.

0:18.3

Her voice got dimmed as the countdown was coming in my ear. I couldn't really hear her and had to cut her off. And I feel bad about it because I liked what she was saying. More of that, please. In any event, what she was referencing is a piece I wrote. And I guess I'll talk about it here. Since Gail is the one who brought it, I wasn't going to

0:38.7

bring it up, but I might as well bring it up. So I wrote a piece the other day. Let's, well, this isn't

0:49.1

anything about what I was going to talk about, but I might as well talk about it. So I got interviewed by Reuters.

0:57.3

They're doing a piece on CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is going to do a

1:04.0

CPAC conference in Hungary and Budapest.

1:08.7

And there's this enamoring of Victor Orban on the right.

1:14.6

Tucker Carlson made it very prominent.

1:17.3

My buddy Rod Dreher has written about Victor Orban and Hungary

1:21.2

and the use of the government to sustain the cultural conservatism of Hungary, even fighting back about the European Union.

1:33.4

What's going on here is what isn't said, but is happening, you should probably understand, is that there is a portion of the right who is abandoning Andrew Breitbart.

1:48.7

There's a portion of the right that is leaving Andrew Brightbart's ideas and worldview behind.

2:01.6

Now, I assume most of you know who Andrew Breitbart is.

2:06.0

The stories about Andrew are legend.

2:08.8

I one time had that guy.

2:10.0

I've still got his cell phone number.

2:11.1

He's been dead a number of years now.

2:12.5

God rest him.

2:14.1

Andrew Breitbart was in Hollywood,

2:16.3

and he was a brilliant mind.

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