Christian Hartsock, 25, is a filmmaker and journalist based in Los Angeles. As a freelance journalist and Breitbart News reporter, Hartsock traveled to Iraq to document the final stages of the war and spent two months investigating union activity in Ohio. His video exposing racist and violent rhetoric against Clarence Thomas compelled members of Congress to petition for a Justice Department investigation into the liberal organization Common Cause. During the Wisconsin Capitol protests, Hartsock exposed doctors committing medical fraud on behalf of unions, leading to an investigation by the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation. His exposure of comical ignorance and shocking anti-Americanism at the U.N. Climate Summit in Cancun earned his video a Grand Prize from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation.
A protege of Andrew Breitbart and long-time collaborator with James O'Keefe, Hartsock produced B-roll footage for the videos that brought down ACORN and directed "Teachers Unions Gone Wild," the video investigations into New Jersey Education Association, earning the accolades of Gov. Chris Christie. He has conducted video interviewswith such MSNBC personalities as Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton as well as several congressmen, senators, liberal professors and labor union officials.
Hartsock was profiled in the CNN documentary "Right On The Edge" as well as a nationally broadcast French documentary on Canal+, and is featured in Steve Bannon's documentary "Occupy Unmasked" and C.L. Bryant's film "Runaway Slave." A traveling public speaker, Hartsock has been a recurring guest on The Larry Elder Show, his writing and video work has been discussed by Fox News' Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin and Greg Gutfeld, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Cenk Ungar as well as in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Slate and several others.
As an independent filmmaker, Hartsock directed the Guns N Roses music video "Sorry," wrote and directed the conservative rap music video "Victicrat" and the James O'Keefe-starring music video "Landrieu Dance." He produced the award-winning feature film "The Lives Of Better Men," wrote and directed the short film "Sycophant," and continues to work on film and television projects. He was born in Oakland, California and earned his bachelor's degree in film production from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. 
At an event held in his support, I approached Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the Democrat nominee for the June 5 recall election against Gov. Scott Walker, asking him a question he manifestly could not wait to be asked. Invoking his tenure as a U.S. Congressman, whereupon he voted in support of legislation preventing school...
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