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Two examples of conservative failure (CPAC, rap, Crowder, Reynolds, V. Jackson) - 02/11/12
... post [1] about a Friday event at CPAC ("Conservative Political Action Conference"):
Yesterday, John Hawkins and TeaParty.net staged the first ever CPAC Blogger Awards, which John organized and emceed in part. The awards recognized a number of excellent bloggers, such as Pamela Gellar, Jim Hoft, Emily Zanotti (to whom I presented the award), Glenn Reynolds (twice, with one award accepted on his...
Occupy CPAC is incredibly dumb and might be fake (Occupy Wall Street, OWS) - 02/07/12
... Street folks is called "Occupy CPAC" (CPAC is the annual "Conservative Political Action Conference"). OccupyCPAC will consist of, per this, "[creating] as much non-violent resistance as possible, and make this a conference the attendees will never forget".
Based on how OWS has done things in the past, that translates into shouting down speakers, throwing glitter on people, street theater, and so...
Mitch Daniels' incredibly ironic CPAC speech (no immigration, but invasion) - 02/11/11
... governor Mitch Daniels spoke at CPAC earlier today and gave a speech that's received rave reviews from such fellow worthies as Mary Katharine Ham of the Daily Caller (full text here). The speech concentrated on (no big surprise) spending rather than issues that are actually more important and more fundamental such as immigration. The speech didn't mention immigration at all. But it did include...
Andrew Breitbart unintentionally exposes the right (Max Blumenthal confrontation) - 02/21/10
... Max Blumenthal at the recent CPAC event, and Breitbart's performance has received rave reviews [1]. However, the confrontation and the response it's received shows, once again, how much of the rightwing commentariat is just a few steps up from Jerry Springer and profession wrestling:
1. First, as an indication of the low state of that commentariat, I have to point out that this isn't a defense...
ThinkProgress lies for Obama (Cliff Kincaid on knowing where Obama was born) - 02/28/09
... 26th, Cliff Kincaid appeared at CPAC and said among other things:
back there in the 1980s at least we knew that our president was born in the United States
The ThinkProgress blog - run by the Barack Obama-linked Center for American Progress then lied about what he said, uploading a video with that quote under the false title "Cliff Kincaid Says President Obama Not Born in US" (link).
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