The ghost of CPAC past... and soon to be present
February 26, 2009 12:08 pm ET by Karl Frisch
With right-wing media fractured, conservatives are descending once again upon Washington this week for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
This year's conference that will include remarks from such GOP luminaries as Joe the Plumber, Roger Simon, Karl Rove, Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN), Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, and Pat Buchanan among others. The conference will come to a close with a speech by Rush "I hope he fails" Limbaugh.
Never heard of CPAC?
Here’s a flashback to some of Media Matters' items about the 2007 conference in which right-wing scribe Ann Coulter called former North Carolina Senator John Edwards a "faggot" and the controversy that followed:
- Coulter reference to Edwards as "faggot" gives rise to questions for media
- Coulter: "I don't think there's anything offensive about any variation of faggy, faggotry, faggot, fag"
- UPDATE: Nine newspapers drop Coulter in the wake of CPAC remarks
- Coulter defended CPAC comment about Edwards: "I wasn't saying it on TV"
I wonder what the gathering's tone will be like this year.
"See, in my world, stars don't come any bigger than Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and Mike Pence (if there were a congressional version of Teen Beat, the Indiana congressman would be on its cover every month). Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee and John Boehner are the Jonas Brothers of conservative celebrity. And all of them will be at CPAC 2009."
Stars! Fun! Hors d'oeuvres! And the racist, sexist, end-of-the-world talk is just icing! The Beltway right and WaPo, which has become its house organ (as opposed to the WaTimes, respresenting the tinfoil hat right), must inhabit their own glittering little world to find this credible, let alone accurate. But William Kristol will be there.
Must be read to be believed. You'll laugh until you can't laugh anymore. And then you'll stop.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/20/AR2009022002163.html
CPAC--Now that is a collection of knuckledraggers. That competes with the RNC--gives it a real fun for it's money. I don't even know how they can hear anything will all of those knuckles dragging on the floor. I have a suggestion, and I though of this a while ago--CPAC knuckleguards. Smooth, so they don't make any noise against the floor when the neanderthal attendees walk, and the frauds up at the podium can more easily give their speeches while secretly laughing inside at the neanderthal suckers that they continue to fool. America truly is great.
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The base of the Republican Party isn't too find of the minorities. Although, Michael Steele is the quintessential token get-ahead-and-don't-care-how man, so they might accept him. Although, about 50 years ago, many of their fathers and grandfathers might have taught him a lesson if he got to uppity. Ironic, really.
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