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BuzzFeed News originally posted a transcript beginning 90 seconds into the then-
Breitbart News chairman’s remarks because microphone placement made the opening
mostly unintelligible, but we have completed the transcript from a video of the talk on
YouTube. You can hear the whole recording at the bottom of the post.
Here is what he said, unedited:
Steve Bannon: Thank you very much Benjamin, and I appreciate you guys including us
in this. We’re speaking from Los Angeles today, right across the street from our
headquarters in Los Angeles. Um. I want to talk about wealth creation and what wealth
creation really can achieve and maybe take it in a slightly different direction, because I
believe the world, and particularly the Judeo-Christian west, is in a crisis. And it’s really
the organizing principle of how we built Breitbart News to really be a platform to bring
news and information to people throughout the world. Principally in the west, but we’re
expanding internationally to let people understand the depths of this crisis, and it is a
crisis both of capitalism but really of the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian west in
our beliefs.
It’s ironic, I think, that we’re talking today at exactly, tomorrow, 100 years ago, at the
exact moment we’re talking, the assassination took place in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand that led to the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of the bloodiest
century in mankind’s history. Just to put it in perspective, with the assassination that
took place 100 years ago tomorrow in Sarajevo, the world was at total peace. There was
trade, there was globalization, there was technological transfer, the High Church of
England and the Catholic Church and the Christian faith was predominant throughout
Europe of practicing Christians. Seven weeks later, I think there were 5 million men in
uniform and within 30 days there were over a million casualties.
That war triggered a century of barbaric — unparalleled in mankind’s history — virtually
180 to 200 million people were killed in the 20th century, and I believe that, you know,
hundreds of years from now when they look back, we’re children of that: We’re children
of that barbarity. This will be looked at almost as a new Dark Age.
But the thing that got us out of it, the organizing principle that met this, was not just the
heroism of our people — whether it was French resistance fighters, whether it was the
Polish resistance fighters, or it’s the young men from Kansas City or the Midwest who
stormed the beaches of Normandy, commandos in England that fought with the Royal Air

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