Clarence Thomas

This week my new film, " Hating Breitbart ," about the life and contributions of the late self-described conservative "middle class" media mogul Andrew Breitbart, opens in theaters across the country.Like many, in his youth Andrew didn't self-identify as a conservative. He grew up in a very liberal section of a very liberal city inside a very liberal state: Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, respectively -- an ideological trifecta that does a pretty thorough job of eliminating any competition of ideas.One of the key scenes in "Hating Breitbart" comes when Andrew's father-in-law Orson Bean, describes the genesis of Andrew's political transformation from typical Brentwood liberal to a warrior for the conservative cause and a tireless critic of the left-wing media.Bean recounts how Andrew scoffed at him for having a book by Rush Limbaugh on his desk. "You have a book by Rush Limbaugh?" Andrew incredulously asked.In what would prove to be one of the transformational moments of Breitbart's...

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