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'Hating Breitbart' director Andrew Marcus on Tea Party champion's struggle for truth against the mainstream media
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You it's not 24 minutes after the hour conservative journalists activists and Tea Party champion and her -- hard.
Is gone today but thanks new movie he has not been forgotten.
Seen -- watch here as he clashes with a freelance journalist -- that's.
Accusing a person of racism.
Is the worst thing you can do it does that in Jarrett and I'm not at all -- -- executive and of course I'm not -- it -- that read it -- no doubt you but earlier this year.
What are you talking about and I mean this is an event that's why do you also believe that it.
Lights are genetically superior guilt by association my mom -- angry because you're up -- destroy people.
In the because you try to destroy people's lives when -- -- and you went down.
Buried got a pretty much sums it up -- -- -- struggle.
For the truth against the mainstream media is the subject of the new film that came out over the weekend it's called Haiti and write Bart it -- on Friday here with us now as a films.
Markets this morning Andrew thanks for joining us for Saint Louis this morning hey -- you started out on the road with -- bright art and and your intention was really to cover the Tea Party movement.
How did that -- -- to covering bright part himself.
-- -- -- Covering the Tea Party movement didn't take long before my path crossed with the group re part and -- saw the connection that he made with the Tea Party in the Tea Party.
And Tea Party founder general with the bright -- -- -- found his army with the Tea Party.
When we saw the two of them come together it was very dramatic.
And be a filmmaker I'm looking for drama and so very quickly -- realize this guy is the personification.
Of the story.
Of the media bias.
As it was being covered by Tea Party on -- and Andruw broke par and and you say for those folks who have not seen him in person or did not have a chance during his lifetime to see that person.
He was just -- -- -- -- really rallied the crowds and you say he's once in A generation type.
Spokesperson.
Absolutely -- is -- gentleman who.
Taught an entire movement how to stand up and fight back against as you saw on that earlier clip.
The accusation of racism he's absolutely right it's the -- in the you can save the -- of the in this country today.
In it that it the race cars tossed around with reckless abandon them and tell people that -- not to take it anymore and stand up -- Fight back well and the media certainly came after him in addition to a lot of activists on the other side.
-- -- -- speak to that one for us.
Oh well you know that it -- bright part launched his public career with the acorn tapes is famous acorn tapes.
And because of that you know that the narrative was that acorn helps black people if you would take a -- you must be attacking black people.
I eat your racist in the Tea Party faced very similar criticism.
They were against the policies of the previous administration this president but because they were against the policies of this president he's a black president.
I eat there against a black man I eat they're racists in it it's a disgusting -- Yeah -- do you really taking us back well to a couple years ago and remember all of these rallies.
Where folks would turn out at those town hall meetings with their members of congress and expressed their concerns and frustrations.
With Obama care and remove then that eventually -- members of congress stopped I stopped or started closing those meetings to the public because.
They heard so much that they didn't want to hear it.
Oh absolutely listen.
It did it in remembered that when the when they pass health care.
The Congressional Black Caucus led by John Lewis and Andre Carson the accuse the tea party of using the N word.
Fifteen times fifteen people let it fifteen times.
And the minute that they were challenged on this.
Do meet that anybody demanded to have some evidence that this happened here to -- her put -- that 100000 dollar reward for.
They ran in -- hid.
You know you don't have to push back very hard before their narrative crumbles and that was put -- -- it was about a views about pushing back on that.
Narrative well okay we can see it here in the new film what's called Haiti bride -- it opened on Friday.
Andrew Marcus is the directorate now has an.
PG thirteen rating so Basilan but that and to thank you -- --
