The Daily Signal Presents "The Signal Sitdown" - The Man Who Laid the Groundwork for the Rise of Trump and the Death of the Media | Larry O’Connor

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Subscribe to The Signal Sitdown wherever you get your podcasts: ⁠⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376⁠⁠ It’s Andrew Breitbart’s world, we’re all just living in it. Tragically, Breitbart himself is not. He died suddenly on March 1, 2012 at just 43 years of age. In his life, ⁠Breitbart⁠ was always a pioneer, pushing media and politics to the edges of the map only to open a completely new frontier. There’s something fitting to him exploring the frontier of eternity just a little before the rest of us in his earthly death. Breitbart spent most of his career at the confluence of Hollywood, media, and politics. He was one of the first men on the right to clearly see the complete picture. “Celebrity is everything in this country,” Breitbart once said. “Media is everything. It's everything.” After listening to a radio interview with Breitbart, Larry O’Connor, then a show manager for Broadway productions, contacted Breitbart and wanted to write for his blog Big Hollywood. O’Connor found Breitbart, but Breitbart also found ⁠O’Connor⁠. Now a radio host with Washington, D.C.’s WMAL, probably the most influential political radio station in the country, and author of a new book titled “Shameless Liars,” O’Connor joined ⁠"The Signal Sitdown"⁠ to discuss how Andrew Breitbart saw the rise of Trump, and the efforts to take him down like the Russiagate hoax, coming. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.dailysignal.com/email⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7AFk8xjiOOBEynVg3JiN6g⁠ The Signal Sitdown: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL2026390376⁠ Problematic Women:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL7765680741⁠ Victor Davis Hanson: ⁠https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9809784327⁠ Follow The Daily Signal: X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=DailySignal⁠ Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Truth Social:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Hi, Bradley Devlin here, politics editor of The Daily Signal, and I'm excited to share this
0:35.0	episode of my show with The Daily Signal, called The Signal Sitdowndown with you. The Signal Sitdown is one of the Daily Signal's other podcasts,
0:43.0	and each show I bring you inside the biggest battles in Washington, D.C., with some of the
0:48.8	biggest names in politics. So if you like what you hear today, make sure you subscribe to
0:53.5	the Signal Sitdown
0:54.4	for weekly episodes. We'll see you there. At one point, because he talked about the media
0:58.9	whenever given the opportunity, he asked everybody in the crowd to hold up their smartphones.
1:03.2	And everyone holds up their smartphones. He goes, you are the media. Before Elon Musk was saying,
1:07.5	you are the media. He got that from Andrew Breitbart. He said, you are in your pocket right now, you have more video and editing and audio power than a television studio did 20 years ago.
1:18.6	With your smartphone and with technology the way it is right now and the independence of voices,
1:23.6	breaking through the gatekeepers, this is how media changes.
1:26.6	This last election proved that out.
1:28.7	Trump beat Biden, and then he beat Kamala Harris, and then he beat the legacy media, and made them
1:34.1	irrelevant.
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