>> greg: andrew breitbart died this morning. 43. publicist, activator and commentator. that says nothing. he was a bar your. perhaps the most jovial warrior i've seen. the least angry guy i've ever met. though he embraced the battle for conservative principles, he did it with joy and humor. every action, opinion or motive came from a place of love. he loved his wonderful life. he loved his friends, he loved his crazy life and he loved america. everything he did he did because he thought it was right. for those who didn't know him, man, you missed out. even though who disliked the ideas, within five minutes of meeting him loved him. he was a big kid who treated the opponents like humans. it was never about people. always, always about principles. i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for andrew breitbart. i met him when he ran the huffing top post and we bonded instantly. we shared the same humor, same music and the same refusal to take most things seriously. we played the fool proudly. he was the one who told fox news about me. so you can blame andrew for me being here today. more importanters he was the spiritual leader of the modern conservative movement. today we lost our toughest general. his biggest contribution to make it okay to call b.s. to push back on perceived wisdom. a rebel who took on enormous forces because he believed they were sapping our freedom. what guts this guy had. >> he grew comfortable in a role that electrified people. no telling where he might have taken it. the left has their andrew breitbarts but the right never had such a thing until andrew came along. that is a true test of a visionary. someone who reminds us of nobody else. is it rude to wonder who can replace him? because we need more breitbarts. this country needs them. i know it's not me. i'm not brave enough. even i'm out here swinging but i don't have his guts. so our biggest tribute to him is to continue his fight, but adopting his fearless manner with love, with wit and with joy. he inspired more people than he will ever know. it's now our turn to return the favor. if i can be selfish he was a great, great drinking buddy. unbelievably smart and mischievous. partner in crime and andrew, thank you for everything you did for me and for us. i kind of screwed up there. i meant to say he loved his wonderful family and his wonderful life. he had a fantastic family. suzie and the kids were amazing. and it's a shock. and for them and for by condolences go out to them. they are amazing group of people. eric, i know you had him on your show in the past. he is one of those characters cs that you love having on the show because he is equally intense. and funny. and you can't find that in everybody. >> eric: not only equally intense and funny, hearse the same on-air as off-air. as you probably spent time with him outside tv, too. great guy. when you think of acorn you think of andrew. when you think of the tea party patriots, immediately you think of andrew. when you think of cpac or occupy, taking on occupy, andrew breitbart name and face shows up in your mind. one man, one voice. he was powerful and he led the path for other conservative voices. i. i'm a tiny voice and he was a big warrior general type of voice. he blazed the trail for a lot of people who want to live in the conservative world. can i just very quickly, a couple other on curvesive voices on his death. sarah palin called him a warrior who stood on the side of what was right. rush limbaugh called him a bulldog. matt drudge said he was constantly a man filled with energy, passion and commitment. those are big names and important people who saw andrew as i guess as important as we all do here. >> greg: yeah. dana, this guy, he wasn't like a lot -- he wasn't what you call a typical conservative. he was something new and something different. >> dana: well, he lived in los angeles. let's start with that. one of the things i found today in reading some of the commentary, let's set aside the ridiculousness of some of the left, we can talk about it later if we want, an amazing number of people, including young women who said i felt like he gave me the comfort to be okay with what i believe. and to be able to stand up proudly and say it. for a lot of people that have conservative views, they sort of tiptoe around the offense, or work in an industry that won't be popular so they never say anything. you can come to fox or go to biggovernment.com and you can find out, find people who thought the way you did. that was comforting. >> greg: yeah. well, he was always the outsider. i think -- that's why we bonded. i worked the media magazines and he delivered pizza and brats wurst. you're always the odd man out. that is how you bond. did you ever have run-ins with him? >> kimberly: no. i'm friends with him and i was very sad this morning when i found out what happened. he was the singularly bravest individual i met that worked in television and journalism. i admired him every day for the courage to say what he thought no matter what anybody thought. he was so strong. he didn't even let it get to him. when he would see what people would do and say horrible things, i would get so offended by what they'd write or say on twitter because they were afraid of him. he would retweet them. how great is that? yep, call me whatever you want. le tweet it out, kind of with glee. a strong man. especially his children should be so proud of him to have a father that was so brave. and courageous. it teaches them the lesson that there isn't anything in life that can be said about him or happen, that won't have the inner strength for who they come from. >> greg: bob, you on the other side of the political spectrum, but one thing about you, and andrew that you have in common, it goes out the window. >> -- -- >> bob: yeah. i was going to say i listened to all of your testimonies about him. the greatest testimony i can be, be on the other side. i got the hell beat out of me from the other side. the loving and kind not about people thing may well be your view of it. those of us that took the receiving end of it, i tell you one thing, it felt differently. i took him on over what i thought and will say again despite his death was the shar rad tape. he let me have it right away. he never let it linger. he came right at me. he and i finally, hannity brokered a meeting between the two of us and we went on for four hours and realize we drank in the same places in new orleans and any number of other places and we told raucous stories about our extracurricular activities. i like the guy a lot. he's a good friend of my brothers, because he is in los angeles. my brother is a conservative as you know. he and breitbart and a group of them get together to meet. >> dana: in secret? >> bob: yeah. i saw, i think he did lose a warrior in the sense that i always noticed about conservatives that in the younger conservative leadership seems to be more, you know, in writing or cerebral. only one that got in your face but i didn't think that ann coulter did not serve you well. in breitbart's case, he did. you are missing a general. good way to put it. >> eric: can i relate one of my fondest breitbart's stories and nothing to do with anything he did here. when he broke the anthony weiner stuff, the pictures of the congressman on the cell? everyone was waiting on edge for weiner to make his announcement. everybody line up at the new york hilton hotel. podium there. nothing going on. next thing you know, literally, every media outlet is there. next thing you know, andrew breitbart says look, he just grabbed it and said all the pictures are true. weiner will come out and tell you he was lying. andrew at his best. >> kimberly: how great was that? at fox news, went down the street. >> dana: the other thing about him i think is worth pointing out from a younger conservative perspective, it's conventional wisdom that conservatives were well behind the curve with new media. in the 2004 and 2008 election. liberals and democrats really taken the ball and run with it. he was a visionary and not afraid to take risks as we established. he did it with his business as well. showed, you know, sort of blazed a trail for other new media types. and conservatives to be able to have a choice on the internet. now i actually think that conservatives have caught up with liberals on that part. it's helped them tremendously. >> kimberly: they found courage, right? >> dana: to share information quickly amongst each other. >> greg: he started at drum and helped launch adrianna huffn post and now he has a hollywood empire. i hope it keeps going. other thing about new media is the idea of the phrasing pop culture. i said this before, you know, pop culture represents america to the world. conservatives in general shy away from pop culture. we don't like those bands or those tv shows. breitbart said that's where you got to go. you have to get your kids to join a band. you have to go to the movies and do this stuff. you forgrit that to the other folks you lose that. >> kimberly: for no good reason, yeah. >> greg: he was there. we have a montage here. some of the early reaction on hearing the sad news. take it away. >> what a huge loss. certainly for the conservative movement. >> as intense as he was in his arguments, he was able to see what people will really like beyond their politics. >> i have known very few people in my life that lived life to the hilt the way andrew did. >> he lived his principles out every day, 24/7. what you saw is what you got. champion of freedom. >> he was one of the most fearless people i ever knew. it's hard to -- >> dana: interesting to me, that was jonah goldberg who is also one of the most fearless people i know, who lives in a similar way to be able to say i don't care what you think about me. i'm going to tell you what i think and write beautifully and let the chips fall where they may. >> greg: breitbart is one of the few people i know that lived without a safety net. he never thought about his health, he never thought about money. he thought about life and going out and fighting. >> bob: funny you say one of the things, the last time i saw breitbart was the night of the concert, holiday concert. he and i were back talking about drinking stories and other things. he said, i said you and i both need to lose some weight, buddy. we run -- in a lot of ways, this is how i related to the guy. i don't have a filter. he may not have a safety net. as you know, i have no filter. on my side of the aisle i'm known as the person that will not, don't take prisoners. andrew was like that, too. the difference with him and the rest of them, conservatives get up on the stage and they're angry, in many cases it looks ugly to me. in this case it looked jovially ugly. you look back and said that guy, he's all right. i don't agree with a thing he says but i like the fact he has the guts he has got. on your side of the table, you have a lot of think tank people. you have a lot of people. frankly, a lot of boring people. he was not boring. i'll say that. >> kimberly: some of the candidates could do well to take a page from his book. >> bob: look at every one of the testimonies. >> kimberly: dynamic individual. you can't have a bad time when you are with him. it hung out with him and ann coulter on hannity. interesting. >> greg: this guy went to a counterprotest. not sure if it's in nevada, maybe it was southern california. encountered tea party protest. he showed up on roller blades. it took the protesters. the liberal protesters to applebee's for lunch. that was the kind of guy he was. he generally liked people who were active and interested in life. included those who hated him. they would walk away going i can't hate this guy. >> kimberly: smart. >> greg: goes for the stuff on the internet you see things like this jackass saying he is glad he's dead. the guy from "rolling stone." this is cowardly. go on to this enormous world and these things. he would never have the cojones to said that. >> bob: let me say that. i spoke to several people on another topic today that i'm still working on. the conversation came up about andrew breitbart, not a bad word said about him. if you brought up other people prominent names like the other person you went drinking with that night, you'd get firm comments, none of him which would be allowed on tv. i didn't hear, it was, in a way the left is going to miss jousting with the guy. he did scare us. i wouldn't say i got scared. but we're the same size. but he did intimidate a lot of people on the left. frankly, many, you don't have to scare -- you don't have many conservatives to scare us. you just don't. >> kimberly: grrr. >> greg: we got to go. i'm still hoping this is a hoax. i just hope that it's some elaborate plan created by andrew breitbart. i wouldn't anything past him. >> kimberly: walk through the door. >> greg: i know. we'll be back in a minute. please stay with us. ♪ ♪ [ dentist ] chris thinks the best way to live life is to dig right in. but as his dentist, i know that to do that, he needs to use the brush more dentists use. oral-b. trust the brush more dentists and hygienists use. oral-b. life opens up when you do. ♪ ♪ >> eric: heads up, palinistas. new web hit the internet. sarah palin fires back at hbo and makers of "game changer," the movie. when i first watch it, i got chills. here is a clip. >> well, i'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. >> a feisty, strong, tough and straight-talking governor. >> 80% approval rating. >> i'm not going to washington to seek their good opinion. i'm going to washington to serve the people of this great country. >> eric: you know, kimberly, sarah palin has always had "it." that little video i like there it goes on for two-and-a-half minutes and it highlights, it brings you right back to win mccain picked her as the v.p. runningmate. she had it. >> superdynamic. if you meet her in person you can't help but like her. she has tremendous personality and courage. like breitbart. she is not afraid to say what she thinks or feels. you may disagree with her, but everybody knows she is formidable opponent. >> eric: what do you think, greg? >> greg: the most interesting thing is how the left treats her and how the hbo movie was made. it's almost like a science fiction movie, where she is the space alien that came out of somewhere. in a way, the way the left views people who aren't like them. or are middle american conservatives. they like to make fun of these people. the people that shop at wal-mart, the people that live in alaska. she represents that. they go at her like a frog in a lab trying to figure out what she is. i love that. i love that she drives them crazy. >> does it seem like the portrayal of the hbo movie? >> dana: no one has seen it, indon't think. including the former aides who are defending sarah palin in this, saying they haven't seen it. saying it's balanced portrayal. hbo says it's a balanced look at the campaign. from where i sit, and communications strategy, balance is always in the high of the beholder. i'm sure that hbo does think it's fair. i'm sure if you are the other end of it and it's about you, you think it's not fair. this is just three years ago. nobody could name the governor of alaska. nobody. then she coms on the stage and now an hbo movie about the campaign that did change america at the end. >> bob: well -- >> dana: because obama won. that is my point. >> bob: i see. instead of -- be careful about painting the entire left as demonizing the middle of the country and wal-mart. that is not exactly the way we look at it. the thing about sarah palin is -- i have now subsequently met her. she is a nice, nice person. no question of that. i think her politics are way right. represent relatively small percentage like you, eric. by the way, it brought -- i'm sure it brought a tingle up your leg when you saw that. >> eric: easy there, beckel. >> dana: you did say that. >> kimberly: yeah. >> bob: she does -- i am trying to think of someone equivalent who brought the wrath down among democrats that she has. remember her first and biggest critics are republican operatives who work with her. this is not coming from democrats. >> eric: can we talk about her for a second? >> dana: wait. that's true. >> eric: go ahead. >> dana: isn't that true? >> eric: listen, the book? i read the book. i don't think it's a fair portrayal of what went on. >> bob: fair, it came from the republicans who work with her. >> eric: who are also the ones who took a beating because john mccain lost so badly. >> bob: let's not blame democrats here. this has very it will to do with us. this has a lot to do with the visions about sarah palin. >> greg: if you look at the pop culture, there aren't a lot of republican comedians going after palin or republican film-makers going after palin. that is all the left. >> dana: there was a lot they could have written or done in the book that had to do with the 2008 campaign that didn't have to do with sarah palin because of the tremendous fight between obama and clinton, especially in the primary that really changed -- that was a huge fight. the battle of the heart of the democrat party came down in that primary. that could have been interesting. >> kimberly: she is iconic figure. anybody who tries to deny it isn't being honest. >> eric: do you remember her speech? remember her speech at the convention? >> kimberly: powerful. >> eric: she united the base, the far right. she had "it." you have to admit whether you like her politics she has the ability to rally the base. >> bob: i don't deny her ability. she is a good speaker and got to be a better speaker. she has done a remarkable job of staying in the public limelight. she has done extremely well. i don't deny her that. my only argument here is that this is somehow, the hbo thing is a product of the left. it is not. >> kimberly: eric, geraldo had me dress up like her for him one time. >> eric: the glasses. we got to leave there. coming up, gasoline hitting a march 1 high today. what is president obama's solution anyway? raise taxes on oil companies. that is brilliant. bob fights his way out of that corner next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bob: all right. this is bob speaking. this is normally, this would normally be eric's segment because he wants to talk about the gas prices going up again. it is true that gas prices went up again. and the republicans are once again blaming president obama for events that happened in the middle east. but there have been a controversy even mock democrats on this. i will say that -- controversy even amongst democrats on this. bill clinton came out and said obama ought to approve the infamous pipeline. he got that and the right's response to it. do we have that? >> i think we should embrace it and develop a stakeholder-driven system of high standards for doing the work. >> he is a very smart man. but unfortunately, he's not bound by the laws and regulations any longer of the united states to make decisions that follow a certain procedure. and that is what we have to do. >> bob: what you have just seen is the beginning of the trial balloon for barack obama coming out in support of the pipeline before the election. and instead of the republicans getting credit for it, bill clinton will get credit for it, for bringing obama around on this. >> kimberly: look how happy he looks. >> bob: you make headway on this all the time. it will drop gas prices down. leaving that aside, it is an interesting thing that bill clinton -- he did not come out and do this on his own, i assure you of that. it was the beginning of a plan to get it done before the election. >> dana: were you on the conference call this morning? >> bob: no. >> dana: they have conference calls every day. democrats are very good at this. >> eric: the point about upstaging obama, the